The oil minister also on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning said that the negotiations are underway regarding the issue of the Arash field.
Iranian authorities have expressed dissatisfaction over a contract signed between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia last year that enables them to develop the field and share its resources without Iran’s involvement.
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The Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement has hailed the retaliatory shooting operation in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara, describing it as a heroic response to repeated desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound by extremist settlers.
Mohammad Hamadeh, the spokesman for the Hamas branch in occupied al-Quds, said on Wednesday that the operation sent a clear message to the occupying Tel Aviv regime and Zionist settlers, who intended to invade al-Quds and the holy al-Aqsa Mosque during the Rosh HaShanah holidays for the Jewish New Year.
“The struggle against the Israeli occupation will continue until full restoration of Palestinians’ rights,” he added.
He praised the brave Palestinian nation who stood up against Israeli forces, and resistance fighters who prove their might every day to create deterrence against Israel and dispel its invincibility myth.
Hamadeh also said that the operation was a response to the follies of far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir against Palestinian prisoners.
Earlier this month, Ben-Gvir declared that Palestinian prisoners would now be permitted family visits only once every two months instead of once a month.
He also revoked a policy allowing for the early release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.
Earlier this year, he attempted to enforce stricter regulations on the duration of showers and ordered the elimination of ovens in prisons.
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The Hamas spokesman called on Palestinians living throughout the West Bank and al-Quds to intensify their retaliatory operations against Zionist occupiers and target illegal settlements.
The resistance fighters and the entire Palestinian nation must turn the occupiers’ lives into utter hell in order to finally force them out of the occupied territories, and stop their crimes against al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestinian prisoners, he said.
The remarks came after two Israeli men were wounded in a retaliatory shooting attack in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Tuesday evening.
The Israeli Magen David Adom ambulance service said the pair, in their 30s, were in good condition, after suffering minor injuries by glass shards as a result of the gunfire toward the windshield of their car.
Israeli Army Radio cited a security source as saying the shooting was carried out by someone on foot, rather than a drive-by attack. It remained unclear how the assailant fled the scene.
Israeli forces launch raids on various cities of the West Bank on an almost daily basis under the pretext of detaining what it calls “wanted” Palestinians. The raids usually lead to violent confrontations with residents.
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed this year in the occupied Palestinian territories and Gaza. The majority of these fatalities have been recorded in the West Bank.
“Based on the agreement between Iraq and Iran, necessary measures were taken to remove these groups from the border areas and they were housed in camps deep inside Iraqi Kurdistan,” Hussein told a press conference on Tuesday.
Hussein said he would visit Tehran on Wednesday to deliver the message in person in the hopes that it would prevent any escalation on the border.
Iraq and Iran signed a border security agreement in March, according to which the Iraqi side is committed to disarming the armed separatist and terrorist groups in the Kurdistan region by September 19.
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The “shooting operation” took place in the town of Huwara, south of the city of Nablus, on Tuesday, the Palestinian Information Center news agency reported.
The agency attributed the operation to “Palestinian resistance fighters.” Other outlets said the al-Fajr Brigade, which is associated with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades — a coalition of West Bank-based Palestinian resistance groups — had claimed responsibility for the incident.
Israeli media sources, meanwhile, said one of the settlers was in a “critical condition,” while the other had been “moderately injured.”
The fighters managed to flee the scene, the sources added, saying that Israeli military reinforcements had been deployed to the area to conduct a comprehensive search operation in pursuit of the fighters.
The West Bank has been witnessing a surge in such resistance operations in reaction to the Israeli regime’s and its illegal settlers’ incessant instances of deadly aggression against the Palestinians, and their near-daily violations against Palestinian properties and holy sites.
The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas, which is based in the nearby Gaza Strip, commended the operation.
Spokesman Hazem Qassem said the successful operation showed that the Palestinian fighters in the West Bank would continue resisting the Israeli occupation.
The operation coincided with the anniversary of the Israeli regime’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, he reminded. Qassem stressed that “this reflects the Palestinian people’s ability to resist the Israeli occupation until there will be no place for the invaders,” the Palestinian Information Center reported, citing his remarks.
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Two Israeli settlers have been injured, one of them critically, following a Palestinian resistance operation in the north of the occupied West Bank.
The “shooting operation” took place in the town of Huwara, south of the city of Nablus, on Tuesday, the Palestinian Information Center news agency reported.
The agency attributed the operation to “Palestinian resistance fighters.” Other outlets said the al-Fajr Brigade, which is associated with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades — a coalition of West Bank-based Palestinian resistance groups — had claimed responsibility for the incident.
Israeli media sources, meanwhile, said one of the settlers was in a “critical condition,” while the other had been “moderately injured.”
The fighters managed to flee the scene, the sources added, saying that Israeli military reinforcements had been deployed to the area to conduct a comprehensive search operation in pursuit of the fighters.
The West Bank has been witnessing a surge in such resistance operations in reaction to the Israeli regime’s and its illegal settlers’ incessant instances of deadly aggression against the Palestinians, and their near-daily violations against Palestinian properties and holy sites.
The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas, which is based in the nearby Gaza Strip, commended the operation.
Spokesman Hazem Qassem said the successful operation showed that the Palestinian fighters in the West Bank would continue resisting the Israeli occupation.
The operation coincided with the anniversary of the Israeli regime’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, he reminded. Qassem stressed that “this reflects the Palestinian people’s ability to resist the Israeli occupation until there will be no place for the invaders,” the Palestinian Information Center reported, citing his remarks.
Talabani held a meeting with Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad, Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadegh in Sulaymaniyah located in the north of Iraq in the Kurdistan region on Tuesday.
In the meeting, the Iranian ambassador thanked the Iraqi Kurdish authorities for providing services and facilities to Iranian Arbaeen pilgrims after highlighting the historical and brotherly relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the PUK.
Referring to his recent trip to Tehran, Bafel Talabani described its results as positive and constructive.
Talebani further announced his readiness for any cooperation in order to fully implement the security agreement [between Iran and Iraq].
During his visit to the Kurdistan region, the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Iraq also visited the grave of late Jalal Talabani, the former president of Iraq, in Sulaymaniyah.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says Yemen has one of the world’s highest rates of contamination with landmines and other deadly explosives.
“When it comes to weapon contamination, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan are the three countries most affected by this. It is really devastating and has a very important impact on people, their safety, and also their livelihood.” The ICRC’s Near and Middle East regional director, Fabrizio Carboni, was quoted as saying
“The presence of unexploded ordnance is massive,” stressed Carboni. “The contamination is so important and so widespread that you will not be able to decontaminate everything [even if the conflict ended today].”
“This is the first time that I really have the feeling that there are convincing and concrete political options on the table and that violence is no longer the only option,” added Carboni.
Yemen is estimated to have at least one million mines that have been planted during years of war.
According to the UN-linked Civilian Impact Monitoring Project, landmines, unexploded shells, and other weapons or munitions left behind during fighting have killed and injured 1,469 civilians in Yemen over the past five years.
The Yemen Executive Mine Action Centre (YEMAC) earlier this month said that cluster bombs and unexploded ordnance used by the Saudi-led military coalition during its onslaught on Yemen took the lives of dozens of civilians last month.
The center criticized the United Nations for the suspension of funding for minefield clearing operations in Yemen for the second straight month.
The center also stressed that the continuation of the current situation will result in the maiming of a great number of Yemenis, especially children.
Saudi Arabia initiated a brutal war of aggression against Yemen in March 2015, enlisting the assistance of some of its regional allies, including the United Arab Emirates, as well as massive shipments of advanced weaponry from the US and Western Europe.
The Western governments further extended their political and logistical support to Riyadh in their failed bid to restore power in Yemen to the country’s former Saudi-installed government.
The former Yemeni government’s president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, resigned from the presidency in late 2014 and later fled to Riyadh amid a political conflict with Ansarullah. The movement has been running Yemen’s affairs in the absence of a functioning administration.
The war further led to the killing of tens of thousands of Yemenis and turned the entire nation into the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Talebani held a meeting with Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad, Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadegh in Sulaymaniyah located in the north of Iraq in the Kurdistan region on Tuesday.
In the meeting, the Iranian ambassador thanked the Iraqi Kurdish authorities for providing services and facilities to Iranian Arbaeen pilgrims after highlighting the historical and brotherly relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the PUK.
Referring to his recent trip to Tehran, Bafel Talabani described its results as positive and constructive.
Talebani further announced his readiness for any cooperation in order to fully implement the security agreement [between Iran and Iraq].
During his visit to the Kurdistan region, the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Iraq also visited the grave of late Jalal Talabani, the former president of Iraq, in Sulaimaniyah.
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Thousands of Israeli academics and artists have urged the US president and UN chief to shun Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to New York next week.
Over 3,500 signers, including well-known Israeli writer David Grossman and painter Tamar Getter, in a recent open letter called on President Joe Biden and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres not to meet with Netanyahu or invite him to speak at the UN General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders.
“Netanyahu incites citizens against each other, threatens the country’s security and economy, and turns his face away from the historical conflict that tears Israel apart – the forceful domination of the Palestinian people,” the open letter read.
“From the outset of establishing his extreme right-wing government, Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition has worked tirelessly to undermine the gatekeepers of Israel’s democracy, weaken the Supreme Court, neutralize the media and destroy the few checks and balances safeguarding the health of our nation,” they wrote.
The letter underlines the divide between Israel’s far-right regime and segments of its population.
Netanyahu’s office has said the premier will travel to the US next week to visit high-tech leaders in California before flying to New York to address the UN.
Netanyahu’s public itinerary so far does not feature an appointment with Biden at the White House. Biden said earlier this year he had no intention to meet Netanyahu “in the near term.”
Israel’s rightward lurch under Netanyahu’s extremist regime that took office late last year has strained the country’s critical ties with the US, Israel’s main backer.
The Israeli prime minister’s US trip comes as his plan to overhaul the judicial system has plunged Israel into one of its gravest domestic crises in history.
Once again in the focus was Netanyahu’s so-called judicial overhaul plan. Netanyahu’s push for the highly controversial judicial overhaul has drawn strong criticism from Washington.
Proponents of the plan say it helps redistribute the balance of power between the politicians and the judiciary. Its opponents, however, accuse Netanyahu of trying his hand at a power grab. They say the premier, who is on trial on several counts of corruption charges, is also attempting to use the scheme to quash possible judgments against him.
The major grievance of the anti-regime demonstrators has been the highly controversial judicial overhaul scheme presented by the cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli academics, artists, businessmen and even military reservists have come out against the controversial overhaul.
Biden expressed concerns when Israel’s parliament slammed through the first piece of legislation in July, calling the outcome “unfortunate.” On Tuesday, Israel’s supreme court, for the first time in its history, convened its entire 15-judge bench on Tuesday, September 12, to hear an appeal against that bill.
The Biden administration has also voiced increased frustration with the Israeli regime’s settlement growth in the occupied West Bank, which the US and most of the international community consider a main obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.
Kazem Gharibabadi made the remarks in a meeting with the Turkish ambassador to Tehran Hicabi Kırlangıç on Tuesday.
Gharibabadi expressed readiness for strengthening interactions and expanding legal-judicial relations and cooperation with Turkey, adding that the expansion of judicial cooperation not only can enhance the overall bilateral ties, but also will be of great help to the citizens of the two countries.
Referring to the judicial cooperation agreement between Iran and Turkey he said that one of the main parts of this agreement is the transfer of convicts between the two countries.
Elsewhere in his remarks, he referred to the fight against terrorism, organized crime, Islamophobia, and support for the people of Palestine emphasizing that Iran and Turkey have extensive and positive cooperation in these areas within international bodies.
Hicabi Kırlangıç , for his part, referred to the friendly and significant relations between the two countries and the various shared aspects of neighborhood, Islamic values, and culture.
He also stated that following negotiations between officials of the two countries, the necessary ground has been laid for the extradition of 40 Iranian prisoners in Turkey to return home.
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