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Iran marks national Journalist’s Day

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian Reporters

Mordad 17 on the Persian calendar, which this year fell on August 7, has been designated as the Journalist’s Day to honor Iranian journalist Mahmoud Saremi who was killed along with eight Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan’s Mazar-e-Sharif in 1998.

The Iranian president congratulated journalists and reporters in Iran on the occasion.

In a message on Wednesday, Massoud Pezeshkian said, “The essence of journalism is to sympathize with people and to deeply understand their concerns.”

Pezeshkian also held his first press conference later in the day, promising he would help the media better relay their messages.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry also released a statement to felicitate the day.

In his message on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani honored the memory of the victims of the 1998 tragic incident perpetrated by the Taliban, and praised journalists for “sacrificing their lives in the most difficult working conditions and dangerous environments” to deliver their messages.

Hamas says to continue Gaza ceasefire talks under Sinwar

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IFP Media Wire
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Yahya Sinwar

“The negotiations were managed by the leadership, and Sinwar was not far from the negotiation process. He was part of its details,” Osama Hamdan told Anadolu.

Hamas named Sinwar as its new political chief on Tuesday to succeed Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last Wednesday.

Hamas and Iran have accused Israel of carrying out Haniyeh’s assassination, but Tel Aviv has not confirmed or denied responsibility.

“The negotiation process will continue,” Hamdan affirmed.

“The problem was not Hamas, but Israel, (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, and the US, which was not sincere in its mediation or in its attempt to push for a ceasefire.”

For months, the US, Qatar and Egypt have been trying to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas to ensure a prisoner exchange and ceasefire and allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.

But the mediation efforts have been stalled due to Netanyahu’s refusal to meet Hamas’s demands to stop the war.

Hamdan added Hamas will remain committed to working for a ceasefire in Gaza, full Israeli withdrawal, ending the siege, rebuilding the enclave and swapping prisoners.

Sinwar “will continue moving in this direction”, he continued.

“Sinwar has a high degree of flexibility in managing public affairs and preserves the rights of the Palestinian people.”

Sinwar is on Israel’s kill list, with Tel Aviv accusing him of masterminding the group’s Oct. 7 attack last year, which prompted Israel to launch a devastating military campaign in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 39,600 people, according to local health authorities.

Hamas has been flexible in talks to reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza, Hamdan said, adding, “Netanyahu knows well that his attempts for evading will not work.”

“If assassinating Haniyeh was one of Netanyahu’s goals to change the course of the negotiations, he is delusional. The basis of the negotiations is fixed, and the men who negotiated under Haniyeh will continue to work with Sinwar, who was present in all the details of the negotiations.”

On Monday, the foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt and the US held separate talks to discuss their mediation efforts and the importance of reaching a ceasefire in the besieged enclave.

Flouting a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an attack last October by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

Over 10 months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Majority of Americans oppose sending US troops to defend Israel against Iran: Poll

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IFP Media Wire
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US Aircraft Carrier

The poll was conducted between June 21 and July 1.

Among Democrats and independents, the percentage of those opposing the move was higher.

But a slim majority of Republicans (53 percent) said they would favour US forces defending Israel in this scenario.

The poll also found that while the majority of the American public opposed sending US soldiers to defend Israel, most of them favoured soldiers taking part in a peacekeeping force in Israel and Palestine.

Some 54 percent favoured the deployment of US troops to enforce a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians, with 62 percent of Democrats saying they agreed with such a decision. About 51 percent of Independents and 48 percent of Republicans also said they favoured such a move.

Washington has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to the Middle East, along with additional ballistic missile defense-capable cruisers and destroyers and a fighter squadron, to prepare for any Iranian and Hezbollah attack.

It comes as the US and Israel are bracing for an Iranian attack. Iran has blamed Israel for the assassination of top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh while he was in Tehran last week, and Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has vowed revenge. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack, though it rarely acknowledges covert operations in countries it is not at direct war with.

Israel last week also claimed responsibility for a strike against the top Hezbollah military leader, Fuad Shukr, who was the right-hand man to the Lebanese group’s leader, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah.

166 journalists killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since start of war: Report

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IFP Media Wire
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Gaza’s government media office identified the new victim as Mohammed Abu Saada, a photojournalist, without providing details about the circumstances of his death.

According to the media office, the new fatality brought the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza to 166 since Oct. 7, 2023.

Flouting a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an attack last October by Hamas.

More than 39,650 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and nearly 91,600 injured, according to local health authorities.

Ten months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice for its actions in the coastal enclave.

Israel detained 10,000 in West Bank since October 7: Report

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IFP Media Wire
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Israeli Forces

In a statement, the group announced Israel’s mass arrest campaign has been accompanied by:

  • Field executions
  • Shootings or the threat of shootings
  • Severe beatings
  • Field interrogations
  • Use of police dogs
  • Use of citizens as human shields
  • Confiscation of people’s belongings, vehicles, money, jewellery and electronic devices
  • Demolition of homes belonging to Palestinians in Israeli jails.

Over the past few years, the Israeli military has conducted regular raids in the West Bank, which have escalated with the beginning of the war on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinians have also been violently attacked by illegal Israeli settlers.

At least 620 Palestinians have since been killed and nearly 5,400 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied territory, according to the Health Ministry.

In a landmark opinion on July 19, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israel informed US of its involvement in killing of Haniyeh: Report

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IFP Media Wire
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White House

“While Israel has declined to comment on Haniyeh’s killing, it informed US officials immediately afterward that it was responsible,” the WaPO reported, quoting three people familiar with the White House’s thinking, but without mentioning their names.

White House officials reacted to the death of Haniyeh with surprise and outrage, seeing it as a serious setback in their attempts to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the newspaper added.

It noted that “behind the scenes” there is growing friction between the US administration and Israel, as the latter continues to take unilateral steps in the conflict that has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, which claimed 1,200 lives and around 250 were taken as hostages.

“US officials are also outraged over Israel failing to inform them before launching other operations to assassinate Hezbollah or Iranian commanders,” the WaPo added.

Several administration officials have also told the outlet that many in the White House now see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not Iran, as “the chief wild card in containing a broader regional conflagration”.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday the United States has communicated to Iran and Israel that conflict in the Middle East must not escalate, even as the Pentagon warned that it would not tolerate attacks against its forces in the region.

“We’ve been engaged in intense diplomacy with allies and partners, communicating that message directly to Iran. We’ve communicated that message directly to Israel,” Blinken stated.

The United States will continue to defend Israel against attacks, Blinken continued. He added that everyone in the region should understand the risks of escalation and miscalculation.

“Further attacks only raise the risk of dangerous outcomes that no one can predict and no one can fully control.”

Fears are rising that the Middle East could be tipped into full-blown war following vows by Hezbollah to avenge top commander Fuad Shukr’s killing by Israel in Lebanon, and by Iran to respond to the assassination in Tehran last week of Haniyeh.

For months, the US, Qatar and Egypt have been trying to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas to ensure a prisoner exchange and ceasefire in the besieged enclave, but efforts have yet to bear fruit. A brief truce in November saw the exchange of some prisoners and hostages.

Iran Police chief gives illegal migrants deadline to leave country

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Afghan Refugee

Brigadier General Ahmadreza Radan said Iran is seriously pursuing the policy of returning illegal migrants to their own countries.

The Iranian police chief made the remarks on the sidelines of a ceremony on the Arbaeen walk for pilgrims destined for the holy shrine of the third Shia imam, Hussain ibn Ali, in the Iraqi city of Karbala.

General Radan said Iran does not issue permits for foreigners to enter Iraq through Iranian border crossings for the million-man Arbaeen walk.

Unofficial estimates put the number of unauthorized Afghan immigrants in Iran at over 8 million. They have chosen Iran as a refuge for decades to escape conflicts, poverty, and the Taliban rule in their country.

The influx of refugees into Iran, especially after the 2021 takeover of the Taliban, has raised security and social alarms, with many Iranians demanding the expulsion of the Afghan migrants on social media.

Iran Army chief: Israeli terrorism won’t go unanswered

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Abdulrahim Mousavi

In a ceremony in Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Wednesday, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said that the Israeli regime has escalated its terrorism campaign because “they have realized the speed of their destruction and by doing such things they want to save themselves from the quagmire they are caught in, but they definitely cannot save themselves from annihilation.”

The comments came in reaction to the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, who was on an official visit to the Iranian capital Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Massoud Pezeshkian.

General Mousavi said replacing the assassinated Hamas leader with Yahya Sinwar, the resistance movement’s leader in Gaza, “indicates the strong determination of the brave and honorable movement for resistance and struggle.”

Iran has asserted it will give a more serious response than its previous retaliatory operation mid-April against Israel. Speculations have been rife since last week on the timing of Iran’s response to Israel.

10,000 Palestinian students, 500 teachers killed in Gaza, West Bank since start of war: Report

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IFP Media Wire
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Gaza War

The Palestinian ministry said on Tuesday another 16,000 students have been injured since then.

According to the ministry, over 500 teachers and administrators were also killed, and 3,000 others were injured.

The ministry added during the time, 62 schools were destroyed in the Gaza Strip and another 119 were severely damaged.

More than 107 scientists, university professors, and researchers were also killed.

Even schools affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were not spared the Israeli attacks.

Over 6,000 students have been deprived of attending their schools in Gaza, with many of them suffering psychological trauma.

The Government Media Office in blockaded strip announced that Israel has killed at least 16,000 children in the besieged territory since October. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under the rubble.

Israel’s war on Gaza, which has been raging for more than ten months, has destroyed large swaths of the besieged territory. Israeli occupation forces have, particularly targeted schools, colleges, universities and hospitals.

Nearly 40,000 people have been killed, the great majority of them women and children. Thousands more are missing or presumed to be dead under the rubble.

Greco-Roman wrestler wins Iran’s first medal in Paris Olympics

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IFP Media Wire
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He defeated Azerbaijan’s Sabah Shariati 4-0 in the 130kg bronze-medal match. Shariati, bronze medalist of the 2016 Olympic Games, bade farewell after the match.

Cuban Mijaín López beat Yasmani Acosta of Chile 6-0 to win his fifth gold medal in Olympics.

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