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Iran president presents proposed cabinet to parliament

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Former Central Bank governor Abdolnasser Hemmati has been proposed as the economic minister and former deputy foreign minister and top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi is expected to take the helm of the foreign ministry.

Esmaeil Khatib will be reinstated as intelligence minister and former culture minister Abbas Salehi will be designated for the post once again, in case of getting the parliament’s approval.

Mohsen Paknejad, with a history of developing gas fields as a senior advisor for the oil industry, is Pezeshkian’s pick for the oil ministry.

Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, a former Deputy Chief of Staff for the Armed Forces and a veteran pilot has been introduced as the defense minister.

The only female candidate on the proposed list is Farzaneh Sadegh for the ministry of roads and urban development.

The other picks for the ministries are as follows:

  • Ministry of Education, Alireza Kazemi
  • Ministry of Communications Technology, Sattar Hashemi
  • Ministry of Health, Mohammadreza Zafarghandi
  • Ministry of Labor, Ahmad Meidari
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Gholamreza Nouri
  • Ministry of Justice, Amin Hossein Rahimi
  • Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade: Mohammad Atabak
  • Ministry of Science, Hossein Simaei
  • Ministry of Interior, Eskandar Momeni
  • Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Mohammadreza Salehi Amiri
  • Ministry of Energy, Abbas Aliabadi
  • Ministry of Sports, Ahmad Donyamali

The parliament has a week to study the proposed cabinet members and will hold the public vote of confidence sessions from Saturday next week.

UN says Israel committing genocide in Gaza using Western arms

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IFP Media Wire
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On Saturday, Israel bombed the al-Tabi’in school in the al-Daraj neighborhood east of Gaza City, leaving more than a hundred people dead and many more injured. The genocidal crime has drawn global condemnation.

Later in the day, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, strongly condemned the appalling massacre, describing Gaza as “the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st century”.

“Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one ‘safe zone’ at the time, with US and European weapons, and amid the indifference of all ‘civilized nations’. May the Palestinians forgive us for our collective inability to protect them, honoring the most basic meaning of international law,” she wrote on X.

Israel bombed the al-Tabi’in school as the citizens were performing the dawn prayer.

Local media reports, citing witness accounts, said there were about 250 people inside the prayer hall at the school when it was struck by Israeli bombs while displaced people were performing the dawn prayer.

Witness accounts suggest many of the dead and injured are women, children and the elderly.

Separately, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, called for an end to the “horrors unfolding under our watch”, referring to the school massacre.

“We cannot let the unbearable become a new norm. The more recurrent, the more we lose our collective humanity,” he wrote on X, reiterating his call for a “ceasefire now”.

UNRWA is the primary source of humanitarian aid not only to Gaza but also to Palestinian refugees throughout the region. Still, several countries say they will resume funding UNRWA.

Back in March, Albanese had stressed in a report that there were “reasonable grounds” to determine that Israel had committed several acts of “genocide” in its brutal war on Gaza.

Israel unleashed its brutal war on Gaza on October 7 last year after Hamas carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have since been killed, most of them women and children, and upwards of 91,000 others injured in the merciless Israeli aggression. More than 1.7 million people have been internally displaced as well.

The Tel Aviv regime has also imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.

Ukraine pushing war into ‘aggressor’s territory’: Zelensky

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IFP Media Wire
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The statement marks Zelensky’s most public acknowledgement of Ukraine’s cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

“Today, Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi has already reported several times, on the front-line situation and on our actions to push the war out into the aggressor’s territory,” Zelensky said.

He added, “I thank every unit of our Defense Forces that makes this happen.”

Ukrainian troops launched a surprise attack against Kursk Oblast, which borders Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy Oblast, on Aug. 6. Russia’s Defense Ministry acknowledged the incursion on Aug. 9, admitting its forces were fighting the Ukrainian army on the outskirts of the town of Sudzha.

Russian authorities on Aug. 10 announced a so-called “counter-terrorism operation” in bordering Kursk, Bryansk, and Belgorod oblasts in response to the incursion.

Ukrainian soldiers on Aug. 10 then reportedly entered Russia’s Belgorod Oblast, three kilometers away from the Ukrainian border.

Kyiv has largely maintained a policy of silence on the incursion, despite the ongoing fighting and Ukraine’s continuing advance. Zelensky has previously alluded to the move, saying on Aug. 8 that “Russia brought war to our land, and it should feel what it has done.”

While Zelensky did not mention Kursk or Belgorod oblasts directly in his Aug. 10 remarks, he acknowledged that the Ukrainian military is taking action to bring the war back to Russian soil.

“Ukraine is proving that it really knows how to restore justice and guarantees exactly the kind of pressure that is needed – pressure on the aggressor,” he added.

Iran freestyler wins silver medal in 2024 Olympics

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IFP Media Wire
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Zare could have won gold after coming back from 10-1 down to 10-9 but failed to win the match after the time was over.

He had defeated Aiaal Lazarev of Kyrgyzstan, Canadian Amar Dhesi and Turkey’s Taha Akgül on his way to the final.

Earlier in the day, Akgül and Azerbaijan’s Giorgi Meshvildishvili had won bronze medals.

Biden calls on Iran not to attack Israel, issues ‘Don’t’ warning

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IFP Media Wire
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Joe Biden

In a video circulating on social media, Biden is seen bombarded with questions by reporters as he exits a church.

One of the questions is “What’s your message to Iran?”

In response, Biden appears to mouth the word “Don’t,” before entering his vehicle.

That word was famously used by Biden to warn Israel’s enemies days after the October 7 Hamas onslaught, and again to warn Iran in April ahead of its direct missile and drone attack on the occupied territories in retaliation for the regime’s raid on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.

Haniyeh, who was in Tehran to attend the new Iranian president’s swearing-in ceremony, was martyred in an Israeli attack in late July.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned the Zionist regime of a “harsh response” for Haniyeh’s assassination, calling it Iran’s duty to avenge the Palestinian resistance leader’s blood.

Iranian young Taekwondo athlete snatch gold medal at 2024 Olympic

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IFP Media Wire
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Salimi defeated Caden Cunningham of Britain 2-1 in the final match of the Men’s +80kg.

Salimi, 20, had defeated Uzbekistan’s Nikita Rafalovich, Mexican Carlos Sansores and Ivan Šapina of Croatia on his way to the final.

Cuban Rafael Alba and Cheick Sallah Cissé from Ivory Coast had won bronze medals earlier in the day.

Iranian female taekwondo athletes Nahid Kiani in the -57kg and Mobina Nematzadeh in the -49kg had won a silver and a bronze medal, respectively. Mehran Barkhordari had also won a silver medal in the men’s -80kg.

Iran calls on UNSC to invoke Chapter 7 of UN Charter against Israel

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Strongly condemning Israel’s attack on Al-Taba’een School in Gaza’s al-Darj, Nasser Kanaani said the raid “once again proved that the apartheid Israeli regime does not comply with any of the rules and regulations of international law nor does it respect moral and humane principles.”

More than 100 people including women and children were killed and dozens wounded in the Israeli strike on the school-turned shelter on Saturday morning. Officials say the death toll will likely increase.

Without providing evidence, the Israeli military said its air forces struck a “command and control centre” of Hamas.

Kanaani said the cruel act is a flagrant instance of genocide, war crime and crime against humanity, and also a clear example of a threat to international peace and security.

He added that the only way to deal with this cruel regime is for Muslim and freedom-loving nations to take firm and decisive action to support the Palestinian people and their legitimate struggle and resistance against the Israeli occupation and aggression.

Kanaani demanded that the UN Security Council take immediate and effective action by invoking Chapter 7 of the UN Charter to counter the Israeli regime’s crimes against Palestinians.

Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter sets out the UN Security Council’s powers to maintain peace. It allows the Council to “determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression” and to take military and non-military action to “restore international peace and security”.

MP: Iranian president to present proposed cabinet to parliament Sunday

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Alireza Salimi, a member of the parliament’s Presiding Board told IRNA news agency on Saturday that, “The list of ministers proposed for the administration will be submitted to the parliament on Sunday.”

“Reviewing the plans, goals and views of the ministers proposed for the administration is on the agenda for all specialized committees of the parliament,” Salimi said.

All ministerial nominees will be present for talks with all parliamentary committees and the final report of the committees will be presented to the Presiding Board, the lawmaker explained.

He added the parliament is scheduled to hold an open session next Sunday and the voting for the qualification of the proposed cabinet members will take place on two shifts.

Pezeshkian, who won the snap polls to replace deceased president Ebrahim Raisi on a platform of reformist slogans, has vowed to form an inclusive cabinet and push forward national consensus objectives.

Hamas official killed in Israel attack in Lebanon

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IFP Media Wire
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An Israeli drone raid in the coastal city of Sidon on Friday, about 50km (30 miles) from Lebanon’s southern border, killed Hamas official Samer al-Hajj – who was based in the neighbouring Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp.

The attack also injured two civilians, according to Lebanese media outlets.

Hamas hailed al-Hajj as a “martyr” on Friday. The Israeli military described him as a commander who was responsible for attacks on Israel from Lebanon.

Lebanon National News Agency reported that impromptu protests broke out in Sidon on Friday to denounce the killing of al-Hajj.

Israel also carried out attacks in border towns and villages, including in Kfar Kila and Meiss el-Jabal, Markaba.

The Israeli raids come as Hezbollah officials say that the group will respond to the assassination of Shukr, who was killed along with several civilians in an Israeli air strike in Beirut late in July.

Iran is also expected to launch its own retaliatory attack against Israel for the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

At the same time, Hezbollah has continued its near-daily clashes with Israel across the border.

On Friday, the Lebanese group claimed several attacks against Israel, including targeting buildings used by troops in the northern Israeli town of Dovev and al-Manara and launching rockets against a military base in Kiryat Shmona.

Hezbollah started attacking military bases in northern Israel the day after the outbreak of the war on Gaza on October 7 in what it says is a “support front” to back Palestinian groups.

The hostilities have been largely confined to the border region, forcing tens of thousands of Lebanese and Israeli residents to flee the area.

But the assassination of Shukr in the Dahiyeh suburbs of the Lebanese capital have fuelled fears of escalation between the two sides.

Hezbollah maintains that it is not seeking an all-out war, but that it is ready for one should it break out.

Last week, the group’s chief Seyyed Hasan Nasallah said Israel crossed red lines by attacking Beirut, stressing that the retaliation for the killing of Shukr is “inevitable”.

The assassination of Shukr was the second Israeli assault on the Lebanese capital and its suburbs this year. In January, an Israeli air raid in Dahiyeh killed Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri.

The killing of al-Hajj far from the border on Friday is likely to further fuel tensions between Hezbollah and Israel.

UN says 2/3 of Gaza buildings damaged or destroyed during war, social fabric torn apart

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IFP Media Wire
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Gaza War

Citing the latest data from the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), Lazzarini highlighted the extensive destruction in Gaza, emphasizing that the damage goes beyond physical infrastructure.

“Every day this war goes on, the destruction of a whole community continues,” Lazzarini said in a post on X.

“Beyond the brick and stone, these are people’s homes, schools, markets and places of worship.”

The UNRWA chief expressed concern about the impact on Gaza’s social fabric, stating: “The once closely-tied society and kinship are being torn apart day after day, under our watch.”

Lazzarini stressed the urgent need for both a cease-fire and efforts to rebuild community ties. “With a ceasefire comes equally the urgency to rebuild the social fabric and community ties,” he added.

Israel has continued a devastating military offensive in the Gaza strip since an Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 91,700 injured, according to local health authorities.

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