In total, the Iranian wrestlers bagged 9 medals. The medals include 5 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze.
The Iranian team became the champion with 201 points. Kazakhstan became runner-up with 150 points followed by Uzbekistan with 136 points.
The U20 Asian Freestyle Championships were held on July 23-24, 2024 in Sriracha, Thailand.
In the meeting held during the summon, the director general of Western Europe of the Iranian Foreign Ministry filed a strong protest against this hostile move that, he said, is a violation of the basic principles of human rights.
The Iranian official referred to the valuable and unforgettable services of Islamic centers, including the Hamburg Islamic Center, and their explanation of the religious teachings of Islam, their promotion of the principle of dialogue and religious tolerance, and their fight against extremism.
He said, “Unfortunately, what is happening in Germany today is a clear example of Islamophobia and confronting the teachings of Abrahamic religions, which of course, on the other hand, is dictatorship and the deliberate promotion of violence”.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry official added that some currents that support well-known terrorists and advocates of violence and extremism are seeking to fuel religious tensions by making baseless accusations.
The official then warned the German government about the consequences of such destructive measures, noting that such actions are a clear example of confronting freedom of thought and expression and actually constitute promotion of violence and extremism.
The German ambassador said he will immediately convey Iran’s protest to the relevant authorities in Germany.
The knowledge-based company that produces the drug announced it has increased its production capacity to cater to foreign markets, besides supplying the domestic markets.
Hadi Hazrati, the director of the Biotechnology Department of the company said Oman, Venezuela, Iraq and Bosnia and Herzegovina are the target markets of the medicine.
Iran managed to break the US monopoly in producing the medicine last year and develop the drug which is a recombinant human tissue-type plasminogen activator that converts plasminogen to active plasmin and leads to fibrin clot dissolution.
Hazrati believes Altelyse is the best for people suffering from heart and cerebral strokes and pulmonary embolism by dissolving blood clots.
In case this drug is administered in its golden time, namely within 60 minutes after the onset of heart attack or stroke symptoms, it can save the patients’ life, he said.
Actors and cinema lovers gathered in the House of Cinema to honor Rad’s legacy that spanned decades.
They moved to the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery just outside the capital to lay the late actor to rest next to the late cinema star Mohammad Ali Fardin’s grave, as Rad had willed.
Rad died on Monday at the age of 79 after a bout of illness.
He got a back injury in an accident about a year ago and faced complications during his treatment which led to kidney and bladder infection.
Born in 1944 in Tehran, Rad started acting at the age of 25. He stayed away from the profession for nearly two decades but resumed his activities in the 2000s.
He has acted in dozens of movies and series including Che (2014), Duel (2002), and Eagles ( (1984) after the Islamic Revolution.
In the last cabinet meeting of the outgoing administration on Wednesday, Esmaeil Khatib said Iranian forces acted on a tip-off to identify and arrest the militants with foreign nationalities who had links to militant groups.
The intelligence minister said 12 of the detainees were operative agents who had snuck into Iran to stage terrorist attacks, and two of them were leaders of Daesh and other Takfiri groups affiliated with non-neighboring countries, without specifying their nationalities.
Khatib advised Iranian citizens to take precautionary measures while renting their houses or properties to foreign nationals.
The intelligence minister praised the security forces for their efforts in shoring up security in the country particularly on borders.
The media office said in a statement on Tuesday that the figure is part of the overall death toll of more than 39,000 people.
The office said nearly 90,000 Palestinians have been wounded in the war, mostly children and women. About 10,000 remain missing.
34 children have died due to malnutrition, while 17,000 children are living without one or both parents, the office said.
The latest figures come as a leading general medical journal has estimated that the death toll from Israel’s genocidal campaign could be 186,000 or even more, translating to 7.9 percent of the population.
In a report published earlier this month, the Lancet said the figure includes both direct and indirect deaths from the Israeli onslaught and those still buried under the rubble in Gaza.
The journal added it had applied a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death reported by the Gaza Health Ministry.
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 Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas.
More than 39,000 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 90,000 injured, according to local health authorities.
Over nine months into the Israeli onslaught, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.
In a briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Yemen on Tuesday, Hans Grundberg warned of the danger of an escalation following new Houthi attacks on commercial shipping and the first confirmed Israeli air strikes on Yemen in retaliation for Houthi drone and missile attacks on Israel.
“I remain deeply concerned about the continued targeting of international navigation in the Red Sea and its surrounding waterways,” Grundberg said.
“Recent developments suggest that the threat against international shipping is increasing in scope and precision.”
The Houthi attacks on Israel and the Israeli strikes on Yemen’s port of Hodeidah and its oil and power facilities represent “a new and dangerous level” of violence, he added.
Commercial ships have been sunk and damaged, disrupting trade, civilians have died, the Houthis still detain the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a cargo ship they hijacked in November, and the United States and the United Kingdom continue air strikes on military targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, he stated.
“It is alarming that there are no signs of de-escalation, let alone a solution,” Grundberg continued.
The Houthis have launched missiles and drones at Israel and disrupted global trade through the Red Sea in response to Israel’s military onslaught against the Gaza Strip.
Israel has claimed Houthis have launched 200 attacks against it since the war began, many of them intercepted.
But a rare Houthi drone strike last Friday hit Tel Aviv, killing one person and prompting Israel to announce its first strikes against the group on Saturday.
The air strikes hit near Hodeidah and killed six people, local medics confirmed.
The idea of calling on NATO members to contribute more was raised in discussions at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week, Bloomberg wrote, citing people familiar with the conversations.
The potential new target is currently only a suggestion and hasn’t been approved as official policy for the Trump team, anonymous sources told the outlet. Talk of a new spending target, however, may herald even more tension if Trump is reelected as US president in November, as some NATO allies are already struggling to manage government debt.
Trump has long criticized members of the bloc for not spending enough on their militaries, with some falling short of a 2014 commitment to contribute 2% of GDP to defense.
Last year’s NATO estimates showed that 11 of the bloc’s 32 nations met the 2% goal, while only Poland, the US, and Greece were estimated to have spent 3% or more of their GDP on defense.
Trump faced a backlash from the White House and top Western officials earlier this year after suggesting he would not defend NATO countries that failed to spend enough on defense, even hinting that he would encourage Russia to attack them. Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have repeatedly said that Moscow has no plans to attack any NATO country.
The potential spending demand would align Trump with Polish President Andrzej Duda, who earlier this year called on NATO to set a 3% target. Trump reiterated his stance early in July, suggesting at a rally in Florida that he wouldn’t honor alliance commitments to mutual defense unless countries meet NATO spending targets.
The most recent talk of a defense spending increase is potentially a negotiating tactic aimed at pressuring NATO allies not to be complacent, Bloomberg wrote, citing a person familiar with Trump’s position. Another source quoted by the outlet confirmed that the higher target had been discussed in Milwaukee, but that there was some debate about whether it would be a good idea as it may undermine unity in the bloc.
“We believe that immediately cutting US military aid to the Israeli government is necessary to bring about a peaceful resolution to this conflict,” the letter reads.
Signatories include the United Auto Workers (UAW), the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT), the National Education Association (NEA), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) and United Electrical Workers (UE).
In a Tuesday press release, APWU President Mark Dimondstein said the “unions are hearing the cries of humanity as this vicious war continues”.
“Working people and our unions are horrified that our tax dollars are financing this ongoing tragedy,” Dimondstein continued.
“We need a ceasefire now, and the best way to secure that is to shut off US military aid to Israel.”
The letter comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu begins his visit to Washington this week. He is set to give a speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday and meet with both President Biden and former President Trump this week.
Netanyahu has faced calls to resign from leading Democrats in Congress over his handling of the war in Gaza and creating the current humanitarian crisis facing some 2 million Palestinians living in the strip. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war.
The letter from unions said Netanyahu was also violating U.S. laws on foreign aid.
“Furthermore, Israel’s refusal to minimize civilian harm and its demonstrated restriction of U.S. humanitarian aid call for a halt to U.S. military aid under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Control Export Act,” the letter from the unions states.
“Mr. President, the time to act decisively to end this war is now,” the letter adds.
“Stopping US military aid to Israel is the quickest and most sure way to do so, it is what U.S. law demands, and it will show your commitment to securing a lasting peace in the region.”
The agreement lays the groundwork for an “interim national reconciliation government” to rule post-war Gaza and has been seen as a bulwark against any governance plans that sideline Palestinians.
Miller told reporters the United States opposes any post-war plan that includes Hamas.
“As we have made clear for months, Hamas is a terrorist organisation. … When it comes to governance of Gaza at the end of the conflict, there can’t be a role for a terrorist organisation.”
He added the US would “like to see the Palestinian Authority governing a unified Gaza and the West Bank, but no, we cannot support a role for Hamas”.
14 Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Fatah, have agreed in the Chinese capital of Beijing to achieve “a comprehensive national unity” under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The announcement was made in a joint statement at the conclusion of a two-day meeting in Beijing following China’s invitation to intra-Palestinian talks.
The statement said the Palestinian groups “agreed on achieving a comprehensive national unity that includes all Palestinian factions within the frame of PLO, and on the commitment to the establishment of the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the UN resolutions and ensuring the right of return as based in resolution 194”.
The Palestinian groups also agreed on “uniting national efforts” to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza and to resist attempts to expel Palestinians from their lands.
The Fatah Movement, Hamas Movement, Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and other Palestinian groups took part in the talks.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described the deal as an agreement to rule the Gaza Strip together once the ongoing war ends.
“The most prominent highlight is the agreement to form an interim national reconciliation government around the governance of post-war Gaza,” he stated.
“Reconciliation is an internal matter for the Palestinian factions, but at the same time, it cannot be achieved without the support of the international community.”
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