Author: Steven Sahiounie

President Mahmoud Abbas today received at the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah the White House envoy and the National Security Advisor to the US Vice President, Philip Gordon. The President stressed to the American official the necessity of the American administration’s immediate intervention and pressure on the Israeli occupation government to stop its ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the price of which is paid by the defenseless people who are subjected to an unprecedented genocide, in which more than 60,000 civilians, children and women have been killed. He said that the Israeli killing…

Upon completing his working agenda in Abu Dhabi, the Russian President will continue on to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Abu Dhabi, where he will hold talks with his Emirati counterpart, President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Earlier, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said that the initial meeting will include the presidents’ respective delegations, and will be followed by talks between the two leaders in a one-on-one format. Upon completing his working agenda in Abu Dhabi, Putin will continue on to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on…

The French foreign ministry has condemned shelling by Israel in south Lebanon that killed a Lebanese soldier yesterday. “France is gravely concerned by the ongoing clashes on the border between Lebanon and Israel. France condemns the Israeli strike which cost the life of a member of the Lebanese armed forces, and sends its sincere condolences to the victim’s relatives,” a spokesperson in a daily briefing. One Lebanese soldier was killed and three wounded when Israeli shelling hit near a border village in south Lebanon, the Lebanese army said in a statement on Tuesday. The Israeli army later expressed “regret over…

Shahriar Afandizadeh pointed to the meeting of the Iran-Uzbekistan Transport and Transit Committee, held through videoconference, and said that the Uzbek transport minister voiced his interest in visiting rail, road and port infrastructures of Iran in the near future. Deputy Transport Minister of Uzbekistan Mamanbiy Omarov and Iran’s ambassador to Uzbekistan also attended the virtual meeting, he said. During the meeting, the officials exchanged views on bilateral cooperation in the road sector and the necessity of reducing transportation costs in the territory of the two countries, he stated. Negotiating for finalizing the text of the trilateral agreement between Iran, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan was the…

Speaking in an expert-level meeting of the 20th Iran-Oman Joint Economic Cooperation Commission, Mehdi Zeyghami expressed hope that the meeting will pave the way for the two countries to further expand bilateral trade and economic relations. The deputy industry minister pointed to his recent visit to the Sultanate of Oman accompanying Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Abbas Aliabadi and hoped that visits by trade and economic delegations of the two countries will lead to further expansion of bilateral trade relations. Zeyghami put the value of trade exchanges between Iran and Oman in 2022 at $1.8 billion and said the bilateral trade is expected to increase by…

Leaders of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have jointly condemned Israel’s “blatant aggression” against the Palestinian people. They also warned that the Israeli regime’s war on the Gaza Strip will have “dire consequences” for the entire region and the international community as well. The leaders of the six nations of the GCC —Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait — and President Erdogan stated at the end of the 44th session of the Council in the Qatari capital Doha, on Tuesday. They condemned Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip and called for the implementation of a permanent ceasefire…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called for an urgent halt to Israel’s ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip, demanding active role by international organizations to bring the occupying regime to justice for its genocidal war on the besieged territory. Amir-Abdollahian made the call during the 12th annual summit of foreign ministers of the five Caspian Sea littoral states, Caspian Five, which is hosted by Russia, in the country’s capital of Moscow on Tuesday. “The Zionist regime’s war criminals must be punished in the international court,” Amir-Abdollahian said as he pointed to the more than 16,000 innocent Palestinians, including women…

Google has reinstated a mobile phone application that helps people identify and potentially avoid the products that have been made by companies that are linked to the Israeli regime. The application, named “No Thanks,” was made available again on Google’s Play Store on Sunday, days after it was removed. The app was launched last month amid a genocidal and yet-ongoing war by the Israeli regime against the Gaza Strip, which has so far killed more than 16,000 people. The developer, named as Ahmad Bashbash, is a Hungary-based Palestinian from Gaza, who has lost his siblings to the regime’s campaign of…

UN Humanitarian Coordinator has warned of a “hellish scenario” unfolding as the flow of aid in Gaza has come to a grinding halt, as a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the besieged territory. Lynn Hastings, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, said on Monday that conditions for aid delivery to the Strip are nonexistent. “The conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza do not exist,” she said, adding that the aid devilry is also complicated as two major roads in Gaza have been declared off-limits to UN teams and trucks. According to Hastings, since the 7-day…

The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) has urged all labor activists, trade unionists, and workers’ organizations to block Israeli ships over the genocide committed by the occupying regime against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Masar Badil called on the international global working class to “block and reject the appearance or docking of any Israeli ship in any global port; to refuse to load or unload any Israeli ship” and to refuse to transport weapons of war to the Israeli entity. “The hands of the workers should not be sullied with the cargo of genocide,” it added. According to…