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White House mulling to approve $18 billion deal to send F-15 jets to Israel

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F-15 Fighter Jet

The transaction, which would amount to the largest US foreign military sale to Israel since October 7, comes as the administration is also expected to notify Congress soon of a large new sale of precision-guided munitions to Israel, the people said.

The new sales of some of the US’ most sophisticated weaponry underscore the extent to which the US continues to support Israel militarily, even as Biden administration officials criticize Israel’s operations in Gaza, which have killed more than 32,800 Palestinians since October, according to the Gaza Ministry of health.

The sale is likely to be hotly debated in Congress, particularly by members of the president’s party. US weapons sales to Israel have come under intense scrutiny in recent months and Democratic lawmakers have called for restricting military aid to Israel until it allows more humanitarian aid into Gaza and does more to protect civilians there.

Politico first reported The US government is considering selling Israel up to 50 new F-15 fighter jets, 30 AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles, as well as Joint Direct Attack Munition kits, equipment that can alter dumb bombs into precision-guided weapons.

A House Foreign Affairs Committee aide later confirmed to The Hill that the administration informally notified the relevant congressional panels of the sale.

The sale, which is still pending US government approval, comes as there are growing calls for President Biden to withhold arms for Israel if it won’t take actions to limit civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip.

Many, including those within Biden’s own party, have also argued that the commander in chief should refuse to give Israel weapons should it launch a large-scale invasion into Gaza’s southern city of Rafah. More than 1 million Palestinian civilians are sheltering there after being driven from northern parts of the territory due to fighting.

Moscow to probe possible US links to terror attacks on Russian soil

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Moscow Attack

The law enforcement body announced on Monday that it was moving forward with the procedural investigation after reviewing the initial accusations. The initial claim, which the Committee confirmed receiving last Wednesday, identified the US and its allies as allegedly driving a string of attacks on Russian soil. The agency is looking into the purported “organization, financing and conduct of terrorist acts” by those nations.

Nikolay Kharitonov of the Communist Party, one of the MPs who filed the original notice, insisted that Western nations have “benefited” from the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall outside Moscow earlier this month. Russia’s geopolitical opponents stood to gain from the tragedy, and counted “on their inaccessibility and impunity”.

A total of 12 people – including the four gunmen – have so far been arrested in connection to one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the country’s history.

Over 140 people were killed in the shooting spree and arson attack just outside of Moscow. The Afghanistan-based offshoot of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS or ISIL) has claimed credit for the strike. However, Russian officials claim to have uncovered evidence of possible Ukrainian involvement, contrary to US assurances that Kiev could not have been behind the attack.

“The US and its allies are today conducting terrorist acts on Russian territories with the hands of ISIS and Ukrainian special services,” Kharitonov claimed on Telegram last week.

“We demand that the political leadership of the US and Ukraine, as well as the intelligence services of these countries, be held criminally liable for organizing, financing, and conducting terrorist operations directed against Russia and the entire modern world.”

The complaint was signed by three Russian lawmakers as well as some public figures, including the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin. His daughter Darya was killed by a car bomb in August 2022 in what is widely believed to have been a targeted assassination attempt aimed at her father, a prominent nationalist.

Russian investigators accused Kiev of organizing the bomb attack. Reports in the Western media said officials in the US likewise believe that Ukrainian covert operatives were behind the murder.

The Ukrainian government has publicly claimed credit for some of the attacks against Russian targets, such as the bombings of the Crimean Bridge. Last week, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasily Malyuk all but bragged about a string of assassinations of people he described as enemies of his country.

When asked about several such killings during an interview, the official said the question was “directed to the right address, but we will not acknowledge that in any way”. Malyuk proceeded to give some details about the crimes.

Malyuk is among the senior Ukrainian officials wanted for terrorism by Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday it had sent a demand to Ukraine to hand such suspects over, under the UN-backed international treaties on fighting terrorism, to which Kiev is a signatory.

Pakistan court suspends ex-PM Imran Khan’s Jail sentence

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Imran Khan

Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were each handed a 14-year sentence in the case on January 31 – just a week ahead of the February 8 elections, which Khan’s party alleges were rigged.

The Islamabad High Court on Monday said the couple’s sentence will remain suspended until a decision is taken on the case after the Eid holidays, which begin in 10 days.

Khan, 71, is accused of not disclosing assets based on the sale of state gifts worth more than 140 million rupees ($504,000) he received when he was the prime minister from 2018 to April 2022.

The case was brought by Pakistan’s anticorruption agency, which accused Khan and his wife of unlawfully buying and selling the gifts.

The sentencing had made the couple ineligible to contest for public office for 10 years while also slapping a fine of 787 million rupees ($2.8m) on each of them.

Khan, founder of the main opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, has been in prison since August last year on several charges.

The conviction in the state gifts case came a day after the cricket star-turned-politician was handed a 10-year prison term for revealing state secrets.

Khan and his wife were also convicted for seven years when a court on February 3 ruled that their 2018 marriage violated Islamic law.

PTI politician Sayed Zulfikar Bukhari, a close aide of Khan, told Al Jazeera he was confident of a favourable outcome given the way the state gifts case was progressing in the court.

“I have said this since the conviction that the cases against Khan and his wife do not have the legs to stand on and it was only a matter of time before they would get thrown out,” he told Al Jazeera.

“We welcome this decision and hopefully this will be the outcome in all other cases against Khan and his wife as they are all frivolous in nature.”

Renowned Iranian actor Reza Davoudnejad dies aged 44 

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Renowned Iranian actor Reza Davoudnejad dies

The liver disease was blamed on an unsuccessful gastric bypass surgery that was for weight loss.

Davoudnejad’s debut movie was “Without a Sanctuary” in which he starred during childhood.

Later, he starred in other films such as “Sweet Agony” and Peaceful Streets”.

He also played in some TV series such as “The Defendant Escaped.

Davoudnejad was 44. His father Alireza Davoudnejad is also a veteran film director and actor.

IRGC issues statement on martyrdom of Iranian military personnel in Israel’s attack in Syria

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The statement said: “Following the irreparable defeats of the murderous Zionist regime against the Palestinian resistance and the resistance of the people of Gaza as well as its humiliation thanks to the strong will of the fighters of the Islamic Resistance Front in the region, on Monday evening, the warplanes of the fake Zionist regime committed a new crime by firing missiles at the consulate building of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus.”

It added, “As a result of this crime, brave defenders of the holy shrine General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and General Hadi Haji Rahimi, commanders and war veterans of the sacred defense and Iran’s senior military advisers in Syria together with five other officers who accompanied them, were martyred.”

The IRGC strongly condemned the crime and extended congratulations and condolences to the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution and the commander in chief of the armed forces of Iran as well as their families, companions and the Iranian people.

Iran says reserves right to respond to Israel attack on Damascus mission, warns of “consequences” 

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Nasser Kanaani

 

 

Nasser Kanani underlined that all aspects of this “abhorrent act” are under investigation, adding “the Zionist regime will be held responsible for the consequences thereof.”

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman underscored that Iran reserves the right to take countermeasures against the attack and will make a decision as to how to punish the aggressor.

Israel hit the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus on Monday, using 6 missiles, that killed 7 people including a high-ranking military commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

The commander, brigadier general Mohammad Reza Zahedi, was with the Quds force of the IRGC in Lebanon and Syria from 2008 to 2016.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman strongly condemned the attack, saying

the UN should condemn the act in the strongest possible terms and take necessary measures against the aggressor.

Kanaani described the brutal attack as a gross violation of the Vienna Convention on

Diplomatic Relations of 1961.

Upon a formal request by the Syrian government, Iran has kept its military advisory mission in Syria to help Damascus fight the terror groups in the Middle Eastern country.

Iran alerted Russia of a looming major “terrorist operation” before Moscow attack: Report

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Moscow Terror Attack

The Iranian side reportedly attributed the imminent attack to terrorists within Islamic State’s Afghanistan-based ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), citing information obtained during interrogations of suspects in recent deadly bombings in the country. Earlier this year, Tehran detained some 35 suspected members of ISIS-K, following a major blast in the city of Kerman that killed about 100 people.

“[ISIS-K members] were instructed to prepare for a significant operation in Russia… One of the terrorists said some members of the group had already traveled to Russia,” one of the sources told the news agency.

Reached for comment, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he was not aware about any warnings coming from Iran ahead of the attack.

“I do not know anything about this,” he told reporters.

The Afghanistan-based offshoot of the terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the massacre shortly after the attack. The US and the EU have insisted that ISIS-K was the sole culprit behind the Crocus City Hall attack.

Moscow, however, appears to be skeptical about the ISIS-K narrative, with top officials signaling that preliminary findings indicated Ukraine –and other parties– might have been involved. President Vladimir Putin stated that the attack was carried out by “radical Islamists” but that its true mastermind is yet to be established. The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, suggested that the US, UK, and Ukraine may all be linked to the massacre.

IRGC commander killed in Israel attack on Iran’s consular section in Damascus, Syria 

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Reports say the missiles were launched by the Zionist regime’s warplanes.

The attack flattened the building of the consular section of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus.

A number of other people were killedd in the incident including Iranian nationals.

General Zahedi was a commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon from 2008 to 2016.

Hossein Akbari Iranian ambassador to Syria said 5 to 7 people were killed in the attacks on Tuesday afternoon.

He added 6 missiles were fired from the occupied Golan Heights in the attack.

Meanwhile the Syrian Defense Ministry issued a statement announcing the Zionist enemy waged the the strike at 17 pm local time, hitting Iran’s consulate.

The Zionist regime has launched large numbers of airstrikes and missile attacks in Syria and Lebanon since it waged war on Gaza on October 7 2023.

The Israeli attacks have killed a number of people including Iranian military advisors in Syria and some Hezbollah resistance movement fighters.

Sources: Iraq revokes passports of anti-Iranian terrorists 

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Tehran-based Tansim news agency reported on Monday that the terrorists were affiliated with the so-called the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan.

Mustafa Hijri is named as one of the terrorist group’s prominent heads whose citizenship passport has been taken back.

Meanwhile, the Iraqi Interior Ministry has published a letter confirming the cancellation of the passports of some of the heads of terrorist and anti-Iranian groups.

After a series of extensive talks, Iran and Iraq signed a security agreement last year to monitor terrorist groups and anti-Iran hostile forces in the Kurdish-populated northern regions of Iraq and expel the leaders of the grouplets from those areas.

Besides the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, several other anti-Iran groups operate in northern Iraq, including the so-called Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), the Komala Party, and the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK).

According to Tasnim, they claim to fight for Kurdish minority rights, but in fact they have been serving as a stepping stone for the Israeli spy agencies.

Iran calls for Intl. probe into “Israel’s crimes” in Gaza Al-Shifa Hospital

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Nasser Kanaani

More than 400 people including patients, war-displaced and healthcare staff were reportedly killed during Israel’s 13-day attack on and the siege of the Al-Shifa Hospital.

In a message posted on X, Kanaani said, “The released images of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza after a two-week blockade by the Zionist regime’s army, the remarks by the witnesses on the ground and the video footage and news reports released on the amount of destruction, torture, slaughter and the number of Palestinian detainees in the hospital are horrible and shocking.”

The spokesman added an international investigation into the crimes committed by the Israeli army “is immediately needed”, urging the international forums and institutions to fulfill their duties in this regard.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman went on to say. “Will the well-known claimants of human rights back an international probe into the dimensions of the blatant war crimes, or will the selective and biased behaviors towards human rights continue?!”

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the death toll from Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 32,782 with 75,300 people being injured. Thousands of others remain unaccounted for.

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