TEHRAN, Sep. 30 (MNA) – The Israeli regime’s forces have fatally wounded a member of the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas during an ambush in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
Musk to sue ADL for defamation
The billionaire owner of the social media website X, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk, is suing Israel lobby group and spy outfit, The Anti Defamation League. Musk claims that the ADL has been lobbying companies to drop their advertising deals with X, alleging that Musk is an anti Semite.
According to Musk this treacherous campaign has led to a significant drop in advertising revenue for the company.
In an entertaining turn of events, a live conversation about the issue on the X website was disrupted by Vivian Bercovici, a former Canadian Ambassador to Israel.
Bercovici was supporting the ADL viewpoints when she was asked by a participant if she worked with the Israeli spy firm Black Cube. Following this exposure, she quit the space and deactivated her account.
Long before it targeted a billionaire military contractor like musk, the ADL had been spying on and smearing all manner of leftist organizations.
It was previously revealed that the ADL actually collected confidential information on around 10,000 political activists and spied on over 700 organizations across several cities in the United States.
Individuals the ADL spied on included Dr. Martin Luther King and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The ADL was also found to have sold information on anti apartheid activists to the BOSS agency of the apartheid regime.
It is also well known that the ADL supplied the Israeli external intelligence agency Mossad with information gathered on Arab student groups in the United States. Interestingly, an FBI internal memo in 1969 raised concerns that the ADL was violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by spying for Israel.
The FBI has, little by little, become more integrated with the ADL over the years. The ADL is the largest nongovernmental trainer of US law enforcement with every single FBI agents going through ADL training.
The ADL has also employed the former FBI chief of the domestic terrorism operations section, Gregory Ehrie, as vice president for law enforcement and analysis. Ehrie spent a year living on a settlements in al Quds, occupied Palestine, learning Arabic for the FBI.
So while military contractor Musk goes head to head with the Israel lobby group, the anti Defamation League, it is important to remember not to interrupt when your enemies quarrel.
Elon Musk’s curious connections with Israel and its apologists
Elon Musk has a complex but generally positive relationship with Israel and its lobby groups. In order to purchase Twitter Musk borrowed a billion dollars from the largest recorded donor to the Israeli military, Larry Ellison.
Ellison is so close to Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that he offered him the directorship of his tech company, Oracle.
Elon Musk’s X will also collaborate with AU10TIX, an Israeli firm created by ex Israeli intelligence officers.
AU10TIX will handle the new ID verification, which requires users to submit official ID documents and selfies.
AU10TIX is a branch of the Dutch security firm ICTS International, which was founded by former members of the Shin Bet intelligence agency.
Musk and his Starlink satellites were also involved in a failed regime change campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
When the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, mentioned the importance of the US government assisting writers in Iran, Musk directly tweeted back with the words ‘activating Starlink’.
Musk later boasted of contributing 100 active Starlinks in Iran to ease the communication of regime change writers.
Musk is also collaborating with Israel against the Resistance Axis. Musk’s company Space X recently launched spy satellites for an Israeli intelligence firm named ImageSat International to identify targets for airstrikes in Syria.
Noam Segal the company CEO is a current reserve in the Israeli Air Force. Musk’s collaborator, ImageSat International, has been essential to Israel’s over one thousand airstrikes on the Syrian Arab Republic over the past half decade.
Both ImageSat International and the Israeli embassy in the US went as far as publicly thanking Elon Musk on Twitter for the launch of their spy satellite over Syria.
It would appear that Musk is certainly not an enemy of Israel.
Israeli forces kill Hamas member during West Bank ambush
The Israeli regime’s forces have fatally wounded a member of the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas during an ambush in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
The incident took place on Friday near the illegal settlement of Pesagot, which is located to the east of the city of al-Bireh.
The West Bank-based Palestinian health ministry named the victim as Mohammad Jibril Roummaneh, saying he had succumbed to serious injuries he had suffered in the abdomen.
Hamas, which is headquartered in the nearby Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, issued a statement, describing Roummaneh as a “heroic martyr,” who had died while “defending the freedom of [his] people.”
Another Palestinian was “lightly” injured during the incident, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
The Israeli army alleged that the victims had been targeted after “assailants hurled Molotov cocktails at a military post adjacent to the [settlement] of Psagot.”
“Soldiers…identified the suspects and responded with live fire,” claimed a statement by the army.
Violence waged by the regime’s forces and its illegal settlers has claimed the lives of at least 242 Palestinians so far this year.
Also on Friday, dozens of Palestinians sustained injuries when Israeli forces used tear gas and gunfire to disperse weekly anti-settlement rallies in the northern part of the West Bank.
According to Palestinian media outlets, the rallies were staged in the Beit Dajan village and the town of Kafr Qaddum, which are located near the city of Nablus.
Ahmad Jibril, head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency and Ambulance Department in Nablus, said Israeli troops had attacked protesters in Beit Dajan with rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas bombs, and stun grenades.
Qatar calls for Israeli nuclear facilities to be subjected to IAEA safeguards
Qatar has called for the Israeli regime’s nuclear facilities to be subjected to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s safeguards amid Tel Aviv’s ongoing snub of international nuclear regulations.
The demand was put forward by the Chairman of Qatar’s National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons, Abdulaziz Salmeen al-Jabri at the annual general conference of the IAEA, which is currently underway in Vienna, the official Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported on Friday.
Jabri further called for Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The Qatari official explained that these were legitimate demands that had been confirmed by “international legitimacy resolutions [that were passed] half a century ago,” the QNA report noted.
He named some of those resolutions as “resolutions of the UN General Assembly [that have been passed] since 1974, [United Nations] Security Council Resolutions 487 of 1981 and 687 of 1991, numerous IAEA resolutions, and the resolution of the Review Conference of the Middle East Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1995.”
The official reminded that Israel’s subjecting all of its nuclear facilities to the IAEA’s comprehensive safeguards regime and its accession to the NPT “is a prerequisite for establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.”
He “stressed that confronting nuclear proliferation in the Middle East is at the core of the tasks assigned to the IAEA…”
Israel, which pursues a policy of deliberate ambiguity about its nuclear weapons, is estimated to harbor 200 to 400 nuclear warheads in its arsenal, making it the sole possessor of non-conventional arms in West Asia.
The regime has, nevertheless, refused to either allow inspections of its military nuclear facilities or sign the NPT.
President Raeisi attends opening ceremony of Mustafa Prize
The opening ceremony of the 5th edition of the Mustafa Prize was held in the presence of President Ebrahim Raeisi and 150 religious scholars from 40 countries at the Isfahan International Convention Center in the city of Isfahan in central Iran.
The Mustafa Prize is a science and technology award, granted to top researchers and scientists from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states.
A the end of the Mustafa Prize, the selected participants will be awarded.
The prize is awarded to scientists residing in Islamic countries with the aim of developing science and technology in those countries.
The Mustafa Prize is held biennially during the Islamic Unity week in Iran. On the initiative of Imam Khomeini, Rabi al-Awwal, 12 to 17 (October 9 to 14) was named Unity Week. Based on the Sunni Muslims’ narration, 12 Rabi ul Awwal is the birthday of the Grand Prophet of Islam Muhammad (PBUH), and based on Shia Muslims’ narration, 17 Rabi ul Awwal is the birthday of the Prophet.
President Raeisi arrived in Isfahan province on Friday morning to inaugurate some government projects there. He launched the second phase of a large-scale national project that transfers water from the Sea of Oman to the central province.
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Qatar calls on Tel Aviv regime to join NPT
Qatar’s request was made in a statement read out by Abdulaziz Al-Jabri, Qatar National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons (NCPW) at the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.
Calling on all non-member states to join the NPT, the Qatar envoy said that the joining of the Israeli regime to the treaty and bringing all its nuclear facilities under the safeguard inspections by the IAEA is a prerequisite for the creation of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
In this statement, Qatar also asked the IAEA director general to review the issue of “Israel’s nuclear capabilities” in the agency’s decision-making bodies.
The Zionist regime is the only possessor of nuclear weapons in the West Asian region that has not allowed the IAEA inspectors to inspect its nuclear facilities.
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Dozens injured as Israeli forces attack anti-settlement protests in West Bank
Dozens of Palestinians have sustained injuries when Israeli forces used tear gas and gunfire to disperse weekly anti-settlement rallies in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
According to Palestinian media outlets, the rallies were staged on Friday in Beit Dajan village and the town of Kafr Qaddum which are located 10 kilometers east and 13 kilometers west of Nablus respectively.
Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency and Ambulance Department in Nablus, said Israeli troops attacked protesters in Beit Dajan with rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas bombs, and stun grenades.
He added that the soldiers shot three Palestinians with tear gas canisters, one in the face and two others in the chest.
Jibril also said that Palestinian paramedics treated 21 people for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Israeli forces also closed Huwwara and Beit Furik military checkpoints near Nablus and prevented the Palestinians from crossing.
Separately, at least four Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli forces’ rubber-coated steel bullets, as the occupation military suppressed the weekly anti-settlement demonstration in Kafr Qaddum.
One of the injured Palestinians was taken to a nearby hospital for medical treatment, while the rest were treated in the field.
The anti-settlement protests come as more than 700,000 Israelis live in over 280 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
The international community views the settlements – hundreds of which have been built across the West Bank since 1967 – as illegal under international law and the Geneva Conventions due to their construction on the occupied territories.
The UN Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in several resolutions.
Tripartite deal envisages construction of refinery in Syria
Deputy Oil Minister Jalil Salari provided the information in an interview with Iranian media on Monday, as translated by Press TV website.
The deal foresees the construction of “a new 140,000-barrel refinery,” whose required oil would be provided jointly by the Islamic Republic and Venezuela, he said.
“The [relevant] fundamental studies and designing process [for implementation of the project] has been completed,” the official noted.
The refinery would complement two already functioning ones, the Banias Refinery and the Homs Refinery, which are both located in western Syria.
According to Salari, “the financing and construction [phases of the project] are on the agenda.”
Iran and Syria have also signed a memorandum of understanding towards repairing the 110,000-barrel oil refinery that is located in Homs, the Iranian official reported.
Analysts say cooperation among the threesome states exemplifies their indifference towards the United States-led campaign of sanctions that has similarly targeted them over their rejection of Washington’s efforts at regional and global dominance.
The cooperation also comes amid the ongoing illegal presence of US forces in Syria, who are engaged in stealing the Arab country’s direly needed oil resources.
US military trucks and tankers frequently carry tons of grain and crude oil from the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakah to the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq as part of Washington’s systematic smuggling of basic commodities out of Syria.
The US military has for long stationed its forces and equipment in northeastern Syria, with the Pentagon claiming that the deployment is aimed at preventing the oilfields in the area from falling into the hands of Daesh terrorists.
Damascus, however, maintains that the deployment is meant to plunder the country’s natural resources.
Former US President Donald Trump admitted on several occasions that American forces were in the Arab country for its oil wealth.
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Official: Islamic Jihad has deep-seated, strategic relations with Iran
A high-ranking member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has commended his group’s relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, terming the ties as “deep-seated and strategic.”
Ihsan Ataya, a senior member of the political bureau of Islamic Jihad, said on Thursday that the Gaza-based group’s relationship with Iran, Syria and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement guarantees its military prowess and stronger performance.
“Islamic Jihad aligns with any party that stands up against the Zionist regime and the United States,” he said, emphasizing that his movement is prepared to “pay any cost” for the final goal of liberating the occupied Palestinian territories.
Ataya went on to describe the Islamic Jihad as a beacon of hope on the path towards liberating Palestine, highlighting that the occupying Tel Aviv regime is not the worst enemy of the Palestinian nation, but rather a broad coalition led by Washington.
“The Zionist enemy exiled a number of Jihad commanders to Lebanon, but we were able to develop the movement in Beirut and Damascus,” he said.
The senior Islamic Jihad official pointed out that Zionists usurped Palestinian lands through mass killings, stressing that the Israeli regime is plundering the entire resources of the region.
“We cannot forge relations with the United States as Washington and Tel Aviv are two sides of the same coin,” Ataya pointed.
Back on June 19, the Islamic Jihad chief hailed Iran’s unwavering support for Palestinians, insisting that the Islamic Republic remains the sole nation across the globe to openly advocate for Palestine and the anti-Israeli resistance.
Iran “dares to declare that it supports the Palestinian people and Palestinian resistance. No other country in the world takes such a stance so explicitly,” said Islamic Jihad’s Secretary-General Ziad al-Nakhaleh during an interview with the Tehran-based and Arabic-language al-Alam television news network.
Nakhaleh, who led a Palestinian delegation to Iran, also pointed to a meeting in Tehran between senior officials of the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements and the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corps (IRGC) as “a testament to Tehran’s support for the Palestinian resistance factions” that also “highlights [persisting] strong ties between Islamic Jihad, Hamas and the Islamic Republic.”
Iran proposes to Saudi Arabia for visa cancellation
A ceremony was held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia to celebrate World Tourism Day, and Maryam Jalali, deputy Iranian Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, on behalf of Ezzatollah Zarghami, the minister, attended the ceremony.
On the sidelines of this ceremony, the deputy Iranian tourism minister held separate meetings with participating officials from Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan.
In the meeting with Sultan Al Musallam, Deputy Minister of International Affairs at Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Tourism, Jalali proposed the formation of a working group to cancel visas between the two nations.
Jalali said after the meeting with the Saudi official that “I conveyed the message of minister Ezzatollah Zarghami … to the Minister of Tourism of Saudi Arabia to Sultan Al Musallam. Also, in the message, the high official of the Saudi Ministry was invited to visit Iran, and it was decided to make the necessary planning and coordination.”
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