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Iran’s president lauds Yemen military operation against Israel

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Pezeshkian made the remarks at a meeting with spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi movement, Mohamed Abdel-Salam, in Tehran on Monday.

“Actions taken by Yemen in support of the Palestinian nation are very important and effective, and have clearly pressured the Zionist regime and its supporters,” the newly-elected president said.

“The steadfastness of the Yemeni nation in the face of pressures and the enmities of the arrogant powers is very valuable and commendable,” he added.

The president stressed that if all Muslim countries become united and act in coordination, they will thwart the enemies’ plots, noting, “Unity and cohesion strengthen the power of Islamic countries.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, Pezeshkian touched on Tehran-Sana’a ties and hoped the relations will be further enhanced in the future.

Abdel-Salam, who arrived in the Iranian capital earlier on Monday to take part in Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, also praised the strong, deep-rooted ties between the two countries.

“I hope our cooperation will further expand to serve the mutual interests.”

Abdel-Salam stressed “Yemen will continue to coordinate [efforts]…with Iran in different fields with the aim of confronting common challenges.”

Israel calls for Turkey’s expulsion from NATO

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“In light of Turkish President Erdogan’s threats to invade Israel and his dangerous rhetoric, Foreign Minister Israel Katz instructed diplomats … to urgently engage with all NATO members, calling for the condemnation of Turkey and demanding its expulsion from the regional alliance,” the ministry said.

Erdogan, a fierce critic of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, said in a speech on Sunday: “We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do similar to them.”

He did not spell out what sort of intervention he was suggesting.

“Erdogan is following in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein and threatening to attack Israel. He should remember what happened there and how it ended,” Katz announced in the statement.

“Turkey, which hosts the Hamas headquarters responsible for terrorist attacks against Israel, has become a member of the Iranian axis of evil, alongside Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen,” he added.

Once close regional allies, relations between Israel and Turkey have been deteriorating for more than a decade.

Bilateral trade weathered many diplomatic storms, reaching billions of dollars a year, but Turkey this month stressed they would halt all bilateral trade with Israel until the war ends and aid can flow unhindered into Gaza.

Iran refutes US claims on Tehran’s alleged interference in US elections

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On Monday, media reported that the office of the Director of National Intelligence of the United States had unsubstantiated claims that Russia, China and Iran allegedly use marketing, communications and other means to influence US voters and the outcome of the upcoming presidential election.

“Iran has no purpose or activity aimed at influencing the US elections. Most of these accusations are being made as part of psychological actions to artificially revive election campaigns,” the Iranian mission to the UN said, as quoted by the IRNA news agency.

Iran says supports any initiative to end Gaza war

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South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola, who has taken a trip to Tehran to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of the new Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, met with Bagheri for talks and shared his views on continued expansion and enhancement of ties between the two countries.

During the meeting, the Iranian caretaker foreign minister congratulated South Africa for the successful elections and formation of a new government and wished Lamola success in his new and important position as the foreign minister of South Africa.

Bagheri said the promotion of ties between the two countries during the previous administration was satisfactory and expressed hope that bilateral ties will seriously and effectively be promoted and existing economic capacities in Iran and South Africa will be exploited through efforts by the new administrations and the presidents in both countries to serve the interests of two nations.

Meanwhile, the Iranian acting foreign minister highlighted the high capacities for cooperation between the two countries in international political and judicial fields by adopting multilateral mechanisms to counter unilateral approaches and the illegitimate restrictions imposed by some Western countries, with the US on top of them, against independent countries by abusing issues such as human rights, terrorism, and non-proliferation.

Bagheri hailed Lamola for his outstanding role as an undaunted and innovative diplomat in pursuing the case of the Zionist regime’s crimes at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the special efforts by the South African government to denounce the regime’s crimes in international legal and judicial circles.

He also stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran fully supports South Africa’s vital role in this regard, saying, “The Islamic Republic of Iran backs any initiative and measure in the international arena to support the oppressed Palestinian people and counter and slam the Zionist regime’s genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza.”

Furthermore, the top Iranian diplomat expressed satisfaction with Iran’s full membership in the BRICS during South Africa’s tenure as the head of the economic group. He added that the interaction and cooperation between the two countries in international assemblies and multilateral mechanisms such as BRICS should continue in order to defend and protect the rights of independent countries as well as the Palestinian people’s rights.

Expressing his satisfaction with his maiden trip to Iran, the South African foreign minister congratulated Iran for successfully holding the presidential election. He said his presence as the special envoy of the South African government and President Cyril Ramaphosa in President Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony indicates his country’s strong will to continue boosting and promoting ties between Tehran and Pretoria.

He also added his country is willing to step up relations between the two countries, especially in the economic and commercial fields, bolster cultural and people-to-people communications and cooperation, and expand international interactions and cooperation within the framework of The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Lamola also stressed on consultations and boosting common stances in the fight against genocide in Gaza.

Pezeshkian stresses Iran new administration’s resolve to implement Syria deals

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The Iranian president stressed the importance of enhancing mutual ties in the economic, trade and social sectors as well as cultural exchanges in line with the political relations.

Arnous, for his part, commended Iran’s support for the improvement of security in Syria. He stated the two countries should use their diverse capacities to deepen relations.

back in early May, late Presidents Ebrahim Raisi and Bashar Assad singed an agreement on “long-term strategic comprehensive cooperation” between Iran and Syria.

In addition to the strategic cooperation agreement, the two presidents inked 14 other documents in various areas, including trade, oil and energy, engineering, housing, rail and aerial transportation, free trade zones, communications and technology, earthquake reliefs, and facilitation of pilgrimage to the holy sites for the people of the two Muslim nations.

Hamas says Israel stalling Gaza ceasefire agreement with new terms

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“We in the Hamas movement have listened to the mediators regarding what transpired recently in the Rome meeting, concerning the ceasefire talks and prisoner exchange,” the group said in a statement on Monday.

“It is clear from what the mediators conveyed that Netanyahu has returned to his strategy of procrastination, stalling, and evading reaching a deal by setting new conditions and demands,” it added.

The new terms, Hamas stressed, represent “a retreat” from an earlier draft communicated by mediators.

The statement came after Egyptian, Qatari and US mediators met with Israeli negotiators in Rome on Sunday in the latest push for a truce.

Israel and Hamas have been engaged in indirect talks since January to reach a deal that ends the war on Gaza and swaps Israeli captives with Palestinian prisoners.

The two sides have been back and forth over a three-phased proposed outline for the agreement presented by mediators.

The process involves a six-week pause in fighting, in which Hamas will release some Israeli captives it has held since October 7.

In exchange, Israel is expected to release several Palestinian prisoners, withdraw its troops from certain regions of the Gaza Strip and allow Palestinians to travel from the south of the territory to the north.

During the second phase, there would be a direct announcement of a permanent cessation of Israeli military operations before the remaining Israeli captives are exchanged for more Palestinian prisoners.

Hamas has accepted a UN Security Council resolution passed last month which said: “If the negotiations take longer than six weeks for phase one, the ceasefire will continue as long as negotiations continue.”

Israel’s war on Gaza, now nearing its tenth month, has destroyed large swaths of the besieged territory. Israel has killed more than 39,300 people, the great majority of them women and children, in Gaza since October 2023.

Pezeshkian reassures Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad of Iran’s support

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Pezeshkian made the remarks in Tehran on Monday, meeting separately with Ziad Nakhala, secretary-general of the Gaza Strip-based resistance movement of the Islamic Jihad, and Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.

“The Islamic Republic’s position of supporting the cause of liberation of [the holy occupied city of] al-Quds, would not change with the transition of governments [in the country],” Pezeshkian told Nakhala.

Pezeshkian asserted, “We would not abandon our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the face of Zionists’ inhumane crimes.”

The remarks came amid the Israeli regime’s October 7-present war of genocide against Gaza that has so far claimed the lives of at least 39,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

The Palestinian official, for his part, expressed gratitude towards the Islamic Republic, noting that “Iran’s resonating supportive voice has an important impact towards preserving resistance fighters’ morale and steadfastness.”

The Palestinian people would never forget Iran’s supportive attitude, he concluded.

Pezeshkian reassures Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad of Iran’s support

Meeting with Qassem, Pezeshkian likewise asserted that backing the resistance front constituted one of the Islamic Republic’s “religious duties and principled policies”.

He also considered enhancement of relations with Muslim countries to be among the foreign policy priorities of his pending government.

The Lebanese official, in turn, said that the defeats that the Israeli regime had been dealt at the hands of the regional resistance movements were owed to the Islamic Republic’s acts of support in favor of those groups.

Qassem, meanwhile, expressed certainty that the ardent people of Gaza’s resistance in the face of the invading Israeli military would impose another defeat on the occupying regime.

Polio epidemic declared in Gaza Strip amid war

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In a statement on Telegram, the ministry on Monday said the situation “poses a health threat to the residents of Gaza and neighbouring countries” – the latest sign of a worsening public health emergency caused by Israel’s genocidal war since October.

Calling the epidemic a “setback” to the global polio eradication programme, the ministry called for an “immediate intervention to end the [Israeli] aggression and find radical solutions” to lack of potable water and personal hygiene, damaged sewage networks and removal of tonnes of rubbish and solid waste.

Poliomyelitis, which is spread mainly through the fecal-oral route, is a highly infectious virus that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Cases of polio have declined by 99 percent worldwide since 1988, thanks to mass vaccination campaigns, and efforts continue to eradicate it everywhere.

Earlier this month, Gaza’s Health Ministry announced it had detected “component poliovirus type 2” in coordination with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The virus was found in sewage “that collects and flows between the tents of the displaced”, added the ministry.

Already scarce supplies of drinking water in the densely-populated Gaza Strip are at risk of being contaminated by the virus.

On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children from being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples.

Israel’s military, which said it has evidence of the “component polio virus type 2”, noted it would start offering the polio vaccine to soldiers in Gaza.

Israel’s war in Gaza has damaged and destroyed sewage and water systems, and sewage has spilled into the streets near some camps for the displaced Palestinians.

Last week, the United Nations reported that besides the detection of the polio virus, there has been a widespread increase in cases of Hepatitis A, dysentery and gastroenteritis as sanitary conditions deteriorate in Gaza.

US congressional aides launch dissent channel to protest Israel’s war on Gaza

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Gaza War

The website’s homepage states the channel is where aides can “safely and anonymously offer alternative or dissenting opinions to Congressional policies and action”.

Organizers said the page, called the Congressional Dissent Channel, took inspiration from the State Department’s internal dissent channel, formed in 1971 in the wake of the Vietnam War. The State Department’s channel is slightly different. It is a classified internal government system in which authors must include their names when offering dissenting views that are confidentially posted.

However, the congressional dissent channel will be public, and authors can remain anonymous, either through videos or memos.

“Despite clear and mounting objections from constituents across the country, threats that the war’s regional escalation poses to U.S. interests, and the unconscionable Palestinian civilian casualties numbering in the tens of thousands, Congress has refused to use its leverage to condition arms on curbing human rights abuses, and to compel Israel to broker an immediate ceasefire,” the group wrote on the website.

The website follows a series of moves from congressional staffers who have protested Washington’s military and financial support of Israel amid its war in Gaza. The war has killed more than 39,000 Palestinians since it began in early October.

Some staffers, mostly progressives, have repeatedly pushed for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, including at a demonstration in November and another in May. Several staffers, however, have stressed they fear retribution from their offices to publicly discuss their disagreement with Congress’s stance.

Last week, dozens of congressional staffers with the group behind the website — Congressional Staff for Ceasefire — walked out of their offices to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress.

The informal group said the Israeli leader’s presence in the Capitol “disgraces the U.S. Capitol and dishonors the American values Congress has sworn to uphold”.

More than 200 anonymous staff members across 122 Democratic and Republican members signed a letter earlier this month calling for Congress to protest or boycott Netanyahu’s visit. It was organized by the Congressional Progressive Staff Association and signed by 230 House and Senate staffers.

While Congress as a whole did not boycott Netanyahu’s speech, several Democratic lawmakers did not attend in protest.

Palestinian prisoners recount abuse in Israeli jails: Report

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Israel Prison

According to doctors from Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) quoted by the American daily newspaper Washington Post, at least 12 Palestinians from the West Bank and the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories have died from abuse in Israeli prisons since October 7 last year when the bloody Israeli onslaught on Gaza started.

The report also included witness accounts about the suffering of three of those dead inmates.

The paper said one Palestinian inmate died with a ruptured spleen and broken ribs after being beaten by Israeli prison guards.

Another met an excruciating end because a chronic condition went untreated. A third screamed for help for hours before dying, the Washington Post noted.

“Violence is pervasive,” said Jessica Montell, executive director of the Israeli rights group HaMoked, which has worked for years with Palestinian inmates.

“It’s very overcrowded. Every prisoner that we’ve met with has lost 30 pounds.”

A 28-year-old former prisoner said guards beat them “like crazy people”, kicking and beating them with batons.

Ibrahim, the brother of Abdul Rahman al-Maari, 33, who died in Megiddo Prison in November, stated his brother was detained at a temporary checkpoint last February 2023.

Ibrahim added he lost contact with his brother after the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza.

An autopsy report examined by Dr. Danny Rosen of the PHRI stated that al-Maari’s ribs were broken, and that there were deformities in his back, hip, left arm, head and neck.

Khairy Hamad, 32, who was held in the same section, said al-Maari was thrown down the stairs while handcuffed and bleeding from his head, on the grounds that he had spoken back to guards during a cell search.

He added al-Maari was left for hours in pain and crying for help until he died.

Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express outrage at their illegal detention.

Israel keeps Palestinian inmates under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.

Human rights organizations say Israel continues to violate all rights and freedoms granted to prisoners by the Fourth Geneva Convention and international laws.

According to the Palestine Detainees Studies Center, around 60 percent of the Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails suffer from chronic diseases, a number of whom died in detention or after being released due to the severity of their cases.

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