2 Nov 2019; MEMO: Israeli prime minister and head of the Likud Party, Benjamin Netanyahu, is saving no effort to reach third elections, not a unity government, Israeli analysts announced on Friday.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran signed a preliminary agreement with Syria on Saturday to help rebuild the Arab ally’s electricity grid, Iranian state media reported, as Tehran seeks a deepening economic role after years of the Syrian conflict.
A memorandum of understanding signed by the two countries’ electricity ministers in Tehran covered the construction of power plants, transmission lines, cutting losses in Syria’s electricity network, and the possibility of connecting the two countries’ grids through Iraq, the state news agency IRNA said.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Saturday Turkey would send captured Islamic State members back to their home countries, and he complained about European inaction on the matter.
“That is not acceptable to us. It’s also irresponsible,” he said of Europe leaving Turkey to deal with the prisoners alone. “We will send the captured Daesh members to their countries,” he told reporters, using another name for Islamic State.
TEHRAN, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday lashed out at U.S. new sanctions against Iran.
On Thursday, the White House imposed sanctions on Iran's construction sector. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Iran's construction sector is heavily influenced by Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), an elite part of Iran's army which Washington has announced as "a terrorist group."
TEHRAN, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday slammed the recent U.S. sanctions against Iran's construction sector.
In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that the new U.S. sanctions against the country's construction sector indicate Washington's "weakness and failure."
"Unfortunately, the U.S. diplomacy is incapable of initiatives and only relies on coercion and economic terrorism," Mousavi said.
The spokesman urged the United States to quit "imposing repetitive sanctions ... which are doomed to failure."
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed a Palestinian man Saturday as aircraft pounded militant sites in response to barrages of rockets launched toward Israel from the seaside enclave.
The exchange of fire shattered a monthlong lull across the volatile frontier.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Ahmed al-Shehri, 27, died from shrapnel injuries during the Israeli bombings that continued through the early hours of Saturday.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — His revolutionary fervor diminished by the years that have also turned his dark brown hair white, one of the Iranian student leaders of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover says he now regrets the seizure of the diplomatic compound and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed.
Speaking to The Associated Press ahead of Monday’s 40th anniversary of the attack, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh acknowledged that the repercussions of the crisis still reverberate as tensions remain high between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran’s collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.
MOSCOW, November 1. /TASS/: The possibility of Russia’s participation in the reconstruction of Donbass depends on how the conflict in this region will be settled, but Kiev’s idea Moscow should pay reparations is inappropriate, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Friday.
In this way he replied to a remark by Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Vladislav Krikly to the effect Russia after the end of hostilities in Donbass should pay reparations to Ukraine.
1 Nov 2019; MEMO: Israeli settlers have carried out 73 attacks against Palestinians since the beginning of the olive harvest season, a senior Palestinian Authority official said yesterday.
Ghassan Daghlas, who is responsible for monitoring settlements in the occupied northern West Bank, said in a statement that the Israeli army forces have also prevented Palestinian farmers from accessing their lands to harvest olives in the areas of Hafar and Naqar in the town of Huwwara; south of Nablus.
1 Nov 2019; MEMO: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has stated that his American counterpart Donald Trump is “the best US President,” calling him an “honest enemy”.
Speaking in an interview aired on Syrian state television, Al-Assad said that “He is not a good president because of his policies, but because he is the most transparent. Various American presidents have made political mistakes and crimes, and received a Nobel Prize for it.”
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