#IRANIAN PRESIDENT HASSAN ROHANI

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Mediazoon: “Israel is a terrorist state, Demand of the free Palestinian state will never be handed over”.

Istanbul (Mediazoon): The emergency meeting of the Islamic Cooperation Organization (OIC) in Turkey has started a regular start with the announcement of the occupation Betul Maqadas of the capital of Israel.

  In Istanbul OIC meeting, heads of 57 Islamic countries and their representatives are present, while Turkish President Rajab Tayyab Erdogan addresses the inaugural session of the meeting,…

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The new government 17/7/2021

7/14/2021 Haaretz.Com https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-one-month-in-this-is-the-biggest-difference-about-israel-s-new-governmen… 1/5 One month in, the world sees a difference in Israel's new government Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid have demonstrated they have an alternative set of priorities to their predecessor when it comes to foreign policy – starting with the recent trip to Amman Anshel Pfeffer | Jul. 13, 2021 | 10:09 PM | 1 Any appraisal of the new Israeli government a month into its term suffers from premature judgment. The ministers have barely got their feet under their desks, are just beginning to learn their complex briefs, and nearly all the issues and crises they’re dealing with are the legacy of the previous government. The one major exception to this is Israel’s foreign policy. From day one, the two men running this coalition government both had very clear ideas of how they intended to run Israel’s international relations. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is very conscious of his predecessor’s image as Israel’s mega-statesman and is anxious to assume that mantle. He’s come into office with plans. And so has Bennett’s senior coalition partner, Yair Lapid. A two-headed foreign policy hasn’t often worked well in the past, certainly not since Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in the early 1990s. So far, it seems to be working. As the true architect of the new government, Lapid knew all along this would be the job he would take while he waits out the near-two years until he replaces Bennett as premier. It was the position he wanted all along from his entry into politics in 2013, when his centrist Yesh Atid established itself overnight as the second-largest party in the Knesset. Benjamin Netanyahu stymied him when he forced him to take the finance minister’s job, in which he had no interest. Ever since Lapid was fired by Netanyahu at the end of 2014, he has tried to establish himself as Israel’s alternative foreign minister, with overseas trips, meetings with world leaders whenever he could schedule them, and interviews with the international media. At first, there was something almost risible about Lapid’s hobnobbing – especially while Netanyahu was so dominant. But gradually, he succeeded in building an international profile, rare for opposition party leaders. Most crucially, he learned the brief thoroughly before actually entering office. While it’s still early days, the contours of a Bennett-Lapid foreign policy and the nuanced change from the Netanyahu era can already be discerned.7/14/2021 Haaretz.Com https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-one-month-in-this-is-the-biggest-difference-about-israel-s-new-governmen… 2/5 It can be seen in Bennett’s choice of his first international visit. While previous Israeli prime ministers were quick to fly off to Washington in their first weeks in office, Bennett instead flew discreetly to Amman, to meet King Abdullah. (The meeting took place secretly, and was first reported by Barak Ravid in Walla.) It certainly seems to have taken nearly everyone by surprise: the Jordanians at the Israeli priorities; the Israelis at Abdullah’s swift eagerness to host Bennett at his palace; and the former prime minister at his successor’s initiative. Netanyahu, anxious to denigrate Bennett as a diplomatic neophyte, was so blindsided by the move that in his rushed criticism he concocted a ridiculous false narrative, as if energy-poor Jordan is supplying oil to Iran (which is the one thing it doesn’t lack). In Amman, Bennett offered to double the water Israel pipes to Jordan over the summer – a move that Netanyahu and his proxies, who have promoted in recent years the message that “Jordan needs us much more than we need it,” attacked. Thanks to desalination plants and sewage treatment, Israel no longer suffers from water shortages. For the new government, it was a nobrainer: Why treat Jordan, a vulnerable neighbor, as an enemy? It was the first indication of a change in Israel’s foreign policy. Less grandstanding. Less picking unnecessary fights. And that’s also the reason Bennett’s staff have decided to wait until August for his trip to the White House. No one is under any illusions that Jerusalem and Washington will be seeing eye-to-eye on the Biden administration’s hopes to return to the nuclear agreement with Iran. So why allow that to overshadow the first meeting between Bennett and U.S. President Joe Biden? Arriving in Washington in mid-August means that either the United States will have agreed with the outgoing government of President Hassan Rohani on rejoining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or, if not, it will probably take a while before new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who will take office on August 5, assembles his own negotiation team and engages with the Americans. If at all. On Iran in general, the new government’s policy reflects a return to that of the prime ministers before Netanyahu – Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, whose policy was to speak of Iran in public as little as possible, in order to avoid the impression that Iran was Israel’s unique problem to solve rather than a problem for the whole world. Delaying the visit doesn’t mean, of course, that the new Israeli government has deprioritized the United States. Rebuilding Israel’s relations with the Democrats (as far left as the Sen. Elizabeth Warren wing of the party,7/14/2021 Haaretz.Com https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-one-month-in-this-is-the-biggest-difference-about-israel-s-new-governmen… 3/5 according to one Israeli official; Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez and their ilk are currently considered irredeemably anti-Israel), which were all but destroyed by Netanyahu during the Trump years, is top of the foreign policy list. But the first step is to reestablish points of contact. Unlike the previous government, where the entire U.S. file was run from the Prime Minister’s Office, now there’s a clear division: Bennett’s office deals with the White House. After years in which it was marginalized, the Foreign Ministry under Lapid has resumed its traditional role of working with the State Department (Lapid’s first overseas trip last month was to meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome) and Congress. Even the much maligned Diaspora Affairs Ministry has a role to play, with Labor’s Nachman Shai – the new minister and a former head of the Jewish Federations of North America office in Israel – tasked with rebuilding ties with the liberal majority of American Jewry (aided by Labor MK Gilad Kariv, the first Reform rabbi in the Knesset). Clear departure Another important diplomatic arena where the new government’s different approach is already clear is Europe. The new legislation in Poland making it almost impossible for Polish Holocaust survivors and their heirs to claim Jewish property that was stolen during the war gave Lapid, who issued a series of fierce condemnations, an opportunity to make a clear departure from the Netanyahu policy of helping like-minded populist leaders in Europe to whitewash their nations’ historic records. Netanyahu assiduously courted the Visegrád Group – the European Union’s “odd squad” of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, all led mainly by right-wing populists with whom he found common cause. He relied on them to oppose any criticism of Israel in the EU institutions and in return gave them, especially Poland and Hungary, cover from criticism of any antisemitic tendencies. Lapid has instead embarked this week on a charm offensive in Brussels, where he addressed EU foreign ministers at their monthly Foreign Affairs Council. Bennett and Lapid are both agreed that in their ideologically diverse coalition, there is little of substance they can change in Israel’s most crucial foreign policy issue: the future of the conflict with the Palestinians. But they both believe Israel has a rare window of opportunity to make gains on other issues in the immediate “post-Netanyahu” era.7/14/2021 Haaretz.Com https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-one-month-in-this-is-the-biggest-difference-about-israel-s-new-governmen… 4/5 The fact that right-wing, centrist and left-wing parties have managed to come together in one coalition to replace a long-serving populist leader like Netanyahu makes the Bennett-Lapid government an intriguing “experiment” for non-populist leaders, who would like to see it emulated in other countries. As a result, they hope it could overcome obstacles to restarting negotiations on a new association agreement, which establishes the parameters of Israel’s relations with the EU. In his Brussels address, Lapid tried to maneuver within the new government’s narrow parameters, telling the foreign ministers that “it is no secret that I support a two-state solution. Unfortunately, there is no current plan for this.” Instead he will try, with Bennett’s backing, to convince the Europeans that while no diplomatic progress with the Palestinians is on the table, the new government is serious about doing whatever it can to improve the economic situation, both in the West Bank and Gaza. In essence, this isn’t that different to Netanyahu’s official position. Bennett and Lapid, however, hope they can change the mood music by proving that they’re actually going to follow through on the economic promises. Their first attempt to do so, by authorizing the transfer of Israel’s surplus COVID-19 vaccines to the Palestinians, blew up when the Palestinian Authority backed out of the agreement at the last moment, citing the fact that the vaccines were about to expire. The next attempt is trying to work out a new United Nations-administered scheme for providing the bimonthly $30 million of Qatari aid money to Gaza, instead of the previous arrangement where Hamas just got it in cash. Another nuanced change in the new government’s foreign policy is its more suspicious attitude toward China – though Israeli officials are less eager to be drawn on this. The shift already began in the Netanyahu era, though it took significant pressure from the Trump administration to get him to tamp down Israel’s openness to Chinese investment in various infrastructure programs. Even then, he was reluctant to pass along guidelines to Israeli companies. One overt sign of the new government’s firmer policy was its decision last month to join 40 other nations at the UN Human Rights Council in condemnation of China’s persecution of the Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang. Israel had in the past resisted Western pressure to join similar condemnations. The policy on China has shifted, but is unlikely to change regarding Russia, which, unlike China, has a significant military presence on Israel’s border7/14/2021 Haaretz.Com https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-one-month-in-this-is-the-biggest-difference-about-israel-s-new-governmen… 5/5 with Syria and a large Jewish community. For now at least, Bennett and Lapid are well coordinated. Members of their staff speak glowingly about each other. The professionals in the Foreign Ministry are “back at the table,” for the first time in years: A list of 35 senior overseas appointments that was blocked by Netanyahu for months was greenlighted immediately, and the ambassadors are even allowed to be on the phone calls between Bennett and other world leaders. But if precedent – and not just during the Netanyahu years – is anything to go by, tensions between the prime minister and a foreign minister with a mind of their own, and the political power to back it up, are inevitable. Whether it’s over a concession to the Palestinians, other matters of policy or due to attempts by interlocutors to engage and exploit them separately, the relationship between Bennett and Lapid is a potential minefield. One area where it could explode is over the fraught ties with Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his own play this week by calling new Israeli President Isaac Herzog and chatting for 40 minutes. Lapid has long harbored the desire for Israel to recognize the Armenian genocide, and is expected to try to do so at some point over the next two years. No previous Israeli government even considered this and he will face staunch opposition from various parts of the Israeli security establishment, who will argue that such a symbolic move will endanger Israel’s vital interests not just in Turkey but in Azerbaijan as well. On whose side will Bennett come down? And will differences over foreign policy end up jeopardizing the most important relationship in this fragile coalition

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Iranian president Rohani says ‘madman’ Trump will be HANGED like Saddam Hussein when he leaves office

Iranian president Rohani says ‘madman’ Trump will be HANGED like Saddam Hussein when he leaves office

IRAN’S president believes “madman” Donald Trump will end up being hanged like Saddam Hussein when he leaves the White House. Firebrand Hassan Rouhani made the astonishing claim during a heated cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday. 4 Hassan Rouhani lashed out at Trump during a cabinet meeting in TehranCredit: AFP He predicted the US president would suffer a similar fate to that of the late…

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Saturday News

by Emilien Schoenher

🇫🇷 : - Today all over France there have been demonstrations against the Global Security Law. A law that aims to protect police officers, who are forced to blur the faces of law enforcement officers when videos of them are posted on the Internet. Most French people do not agree with this law and have made this known in the streets. According to the Ministry of the Interior, 133,000 people demonstrated all over France, including 46,000 in Paris. In the late afternoon clashes took place between demonstrators and police officers. Cars were burned, police officers lynched and scenes of unprecedented violence took place today in the capital. - The first stage of deconfinement began this morning. Shops deemed non-essential have been allowed to reopen, outdoor physical activities will last up to three hours and within a radius of 20 kilometres. Bars, restaurants, sports halls and discos will remain closed. - In the case of Michel Zecler, the black man who was subjected to racist insults before being beaten without any reason in his music studio by three policemen and another who had thrown a tear gas grenade inside the building in order to arrest and beat him. The four police officers who were suspended following this case, have been in police custody since Friday and the case has been extended.

🇨🇱 : - Thousands of people demonstrated on Friday in Santiago de Chile, demanding the resignation of conservative President Sebastián Piñera. The demonstration comes after several days of clashes between protesters and police. The police used gas and water cannons to disperse groups of hooded men who threw stones at them and set fire to bus stops. Demonstrators who had breathed in the chemicals were vomiting and collapsed to the ground.

🇪🇹 : - In Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that the army had taken "control" of Mekele, the capital of northern Tigray. The Tigrayan authorities of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, which the government is fighting, would be entrenched in this city. The head of the army, Berhanu Jula, for his part said in a message broadcast on the official Ethiopian television EBC that the army "chases away the members of the Tigray People's Liberation Front who are in hiding".

🇮🇷 : - Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a 59-year-old Iranian scientist, was shot dead while he was in his car, the Defense Ministry announced Friday, saying he was head of its research and innovation department. Iranian President Hassan Rohani accused Israel of being behind the attack. These accusations only worsen the already complicated relationship between the two countries.

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Iranian politician faces 10 years in prison for supporting homosexuality

Iranian politician faces 10 years in prison for supporting homosexuality

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Shahindokht Molaverdi, special assistant to Iranian President Hassan Rohani, in charge of citizenship rights, faces 10 years in prison for sharing a drawing representing single-parent families. In Iran, homosexuality is still punishable by death. His appointment had already displeased the ultra-conservatives.

Ten years in prison. This…

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Romina Ashrafi murder: Honour killing sparks outcry in Iran

Romina Ashrafi murder: Honour killing sparks outcry in Iran

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Iranian President Hassan Rohani has called for harsher laws to tackle ‘honour killings’ after the particularly shocking slaying of a teenage girl, allegedly by her father, prompted a nationwide outcry.

The killing of teen Romina Ashrafi last week in the Iranian town of Talesh, some 320 kilometres (198 miles) northwest of the capital, Tehran, prompted a nationwide outcry. She was…

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Legislative in Iran: Conservatives leave favorites

Legislative in Iran: Conservatives leave favorites

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Iranians vote Friday to elect a new parliament. The conservatives leave favorites, carried by a popular resentment against the moderate president Hassan Rohani, fueled inter alia by the economic crisis.

The polling stations opened at 08:00 (05:30 in Switzerland), and the Iranian supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as usual, slipped his ballot into the ballot box at the opening of the…

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Mediazoon: “Iranian president announces the end of Islamic state”.

International (Mediazoon):  BEIRUT: Iranian President Hassan Rohani announced an end to Islamic state on Tuesday in an address broadcast on state television.

END OF ISLAMIC STATE Iranian revolutionary guards Major General Qasim Suleiman, a senior commander, The high leader of the country was sent to Tuesday, which also announced the end of the Islamic state in a message- which was published on…

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Power Jets: How World Leaders Fly

1. Iran

An Airbus A340 carrying Iranian President Hassan Rohani touches down in Moscow in 2017.

Rohani at a computer inside the 20-year-old European-made jet.

Roh Buenos Aires news today

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Nucléaire: l'Iran relance des activités d'enrichissement d'uranium gelées

L'Iran a réduit un peu plus mardi ses engagements internationaux en matière nucléaire en annonçant la relance, dans une usine souterraine, d'activités d'enrichissement d'uranium jusque-là gelées...

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L’Iran a réduit un peu plus mardi ses engagements internationaux en matière nucléaire en annonçant la relance, dans une usine souterraine, d’activités d’enrichissement d’uranium jusque-là gelées, une décision condamnée par Washington qui dénonce un “chantage nucléaire”.

Iranian Presidency/AFP / HOLe président iranien Hassan Rohani prononce un discours à l’occasion de…

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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has said in its statement that the Pakistan PM has thanked Tehran for its support on the Kashmir issue. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan held talks with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday and also raised the Kashmir issue in …

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Iran intelligence minister defends jailed nuclear negotiator

Iran intelligence minister defends jailed nuclear negotiator

Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani (right) was honored by President Hassan Rohani on February 8, 2016, for his role in the landmark nuclear negotiations.

:: Iran’s intelligence minister on Wednesday defended a nuclear negotiator imprisoned on spying charges in a rare implied criticism of the judiciary.

Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani, a Canadian-Iranian, was given a five-year prison sentence this month, with…

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Iran-USA: at the UN, the suspense of a Trump-Rohani meeting

While Macron, Merkel, and Johnson point to Iran's responsibility in attacking a Saudi oil site, the suspense remains about an interview between Trump and his Iranian counterpart. In the cramped room of the French UN delegation, Germany's Angela Merkel and Briton Boris Johnson have just met with Emmanuel Macron. Quickly, a statement is prepared by the European diplomats on the air attacks perpetrated on September 14th against the Saudi oil site of Abqaïq. "It is clear that Iran bears the responsibility for this attack. There is no other possible explanation, "assure the three leaders black and white. "It's a step that shows that there is clarity, says the head of state at the end of this meeting three. We have taken our responsibility by remaining in the JCPOA (note: the Iranian nuclear deal that the Americans have left), and we expect everyone to be clear and ensure the security of the region. Everyone is called to resume negotiations. A pressure stroke on the regime of the mullahs, a few hours of an interview between the French and his Persian counterpart, Hassan Rohani. It will take place on the 28th floor of the Millenium Hotel, riddled with Secret Service agents. It is necessary to show paw to access the small room of this high-grade dramaturgical meeting, where American, Iranian and French security officers rub shoulders on thick carpets, in a climate as heavy as incongruous. The weather stretches, the interview lasts nearly an hour and a half. At the end of the meeting, the few journalists present on site are allowed to immortalize the moment, in silence. The American president blows hot and cold. The faces of the main protagonists of this piece are indecipherable. The comment of the Elysee on the content of trade, terse: "The President said that in the current situation, the path of de-escalation was narrow but more than ever necessary and that the time has come for Iran to take it. The president said it was now urgent to advance on the basics posed in Biarritz and start the discussion on a security agenda in the region. A head-to-head between Trump and Macron is expected to take place on Tuesday as the head of state leaves the United States next night. In the meantime, at the United Nations, the suspense continues. Will the French mediation attempt be successful? Will the meeting between American Trump and his counterpart Rohani take place? The billionaire seemed to be blowing hot and cold Monday. "We have nothing planned at this stage," said the businessman at the head of the world's leading power before adding, "I never exclude anything. Emmanuel Macron had said - cautiously - when he arrived in New York. "Something can happen ..." Read the full article

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U.S. backs Saudi Arabia’s ‘right to defend itself’

Following a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States supports Riyadh’s “right to defend itself” and said Washington would not tolerate Iran’s “threatening behavior.” “Met with #Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman today to discuss the unprecedented attacks against Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure,” Pompeo wrote on Twitter on September 19. “The U.S. stands with #SaudiArabia and supports its right to defend itself. The Iranian regime’s threatening behavior will not be tolerated.” Pompeo’s comments and the meeting with the crown prince, known as MBS, came as tensions in the region soared to new heights following a September 14 attack on Saudi Arabia’s largest oil production complex. Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels had earlier said they were behind the attack. But Washington and Riyadh have directly blamed Tehran. Saudi Arabia on Wednesday put on display drone and missile fragments that it said showed the attack was “unquestionably sponsored by Iran.” Tehran has denied involvement and warned it would retaliate against any attack that targeted Iran as U.S. President Donald Trump said a variety of options, including war, were available as a response. “There are many options. There’s the ultimate option and there are options that are a lot less than that. And we’ll see,” Trump told reporters in Los Angeles. “I’m saying the ultimate option meaning go in — war.” Trump also said he ordered the U.S. Treasury to “substantially increase sanctions on the country of Iran!” He told reporters the unspecified economic measures would be revealed within 48 hours. Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the attack and discussed in a phone call the need for a united diplomatic response to the incident, the two leaders’ offices said. The prime minister’s office said they agreed that must not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, meanwhile, said experts from the UN have left for Saudi Arabia to investigate the attacks. He has condemned the attacks, calling them “a dramatic escalation” in the Persian Gulf that must be halted. Before arriving in Saudi Arabia, Pompeo said the attacks were an Iranian “act of war” and called the Huthi rebels’ claim of responsibility “fraudulent.” “We were blessed that there were no Americans killed in this attack, but any time you have an act of war of this nature, there’s always risk that that could happen,” he said. Pompeo said U.S. intelligence experts have “high confidence” the Huthis do not possess the weapons used in the incident. Riyadh is leading a coalition of Arab states fighting against the Iran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen. The latest escalation in tensions has dampened speculation of a possible meeting between Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rohani during a gathering of the UN General Assembly in New York later this month. Iranian state media reported on September 18 that Rohani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif may not attend the General Assembly at all unless U.S. visas are issued in the next few hours. Trump later said that if it were up to him, he would give the two Iranian leaders U.S. visas to attend the UN event. The United States is required as host country to issue the visas. The State Department said it does not comment on individual cases. Read the full article