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🔸 Israel restores blockade on northern Gaza
📌 Tehran, IRNA – The Israeli regime has restored a blockade on the northern Gaza Strip, shortly after it resumed a genocidal war on the Palestinian territory.
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📌 Ayatollah Khamenei urges the Islamic Ummah to stand united against the Zionist regime's crimes and set aside their differences on various issues. This matter concerns the entire Islamic Ummah.
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🔶 In New Year message, Leader calls for greater investment to boost production
📌 In his New Year address, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei urges the Iranian government and nation to focus on efforts to improve the economy, especially through increased investment aimed at boosting production.
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📌 Foreign Minister Araghchi: In conditions of pressure, threats, and an escalation of sanctions, we will certainly not negotiate directly.
We will respond to Trump’s letter in the coming days and send it via the appropriate channel.
The letter mostly threatens [Iran], but also claims that there are opportunities as well.
We will take note of both the threat and opportunity dimension.
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📌 Waves of protests in Turkey in support of Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu
Public protests began when Istanbul’s university revoked Imamoglu’s degree, essentially blocking him from elections, and Turkish police arrested him on charges of corruption and collaboration with terrorist groups.
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📌 Aerial images show massive protests in Turkey in response to the arrest of President Erdogan’s most serious rival in the presidential election.
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🔶 Over 70 Palestinians killed in predawn Israeli attacks on Gaza
📌 More than 70 Palestinians, including many women and children, were killed in predawn Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
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♦️ Over 70 Palestinians killed in predawn Israeli attacks on Gaza
📌 More than 70 Palestinians, including many women and children, were killed in predawn Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
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🔷 Yemen targets Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport with ballistic missile
📌 The spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces announced that their missile units successfully targeted Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Yafa region using a ballistic missile known as Palestine 2.
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🔸 Lavrov hails elevation of Iran-Russia relations to strategic partnership
📌 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has sent a message to his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, congratulating him on the arrival of Nowruz and the New Year and expressing satisfaction with the expansion of Iran-Russia relations.
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🔹 Qalibaf: Nowruz is a symbol of shared aspirations among regional nations
📌 Tehran, IRNA – Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has extended his congratulations on the Persian New Year, Nowruz, to his counterparts in countries that celebrate the ancient festival, emphasizing that the millennia-old celebration represents solidarity and common aspirations among regional nations.
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🔻 Israel’s Ben-Gvir rejoins Netanyahu’s cabinet as Gaza war resumes
📌 Ben-Gvir is to join the Netanyahu cabinet after Israel launched a major onslaught on Gaza, killing hundreds of Palestinians, mostly women and children.
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🎥 Thousands of Israelis start a march toward the occupied Quds early on Wednesday in response to calls for the largest demonstration against the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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📌 Following the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Erdogan's main rival in the upcoming presidential election, and about 100 political activists, Turkish businessmen and media figures, access to X and Instagram has been blocked.
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📌 Ayatollah Khamenei: The United States is also complicit in the renewed attacks by the usurping Zionist regime on Gaza. Experts in political issues worldwide concur that this action is being executed under the direction of the United States, or at the very least, with the approval and a green light from the US. Therefore, the US is also complicit in this crime.
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📌 Ayatollah Khamenei: The renewed attacks by the usurping Zionist regime on Gaza is a truly large, atrocious crime.
I urge all freedom-seekers around the world – within the United States itself, in Western and European countries, and in other countries – to strongly oppose this treacherous, horrendous act.
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📌 Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has designated the calendar year 1404 as the “Year of Investment for Production”.
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🔷 Iran condemns international inaction on ‘U.S.-Israeli conspiracy’ in Yemen and Gaza
📌 Tehran, IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has criticized the United Nations Security Council and other international organizations for their silence regarding ongoing U.S. airstrikes in Yemen and the massacre of civilians in Gaza by Israel.
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📌 An aerial image of Imam Reza (PBUH)’s Holy Shrine in Mashhad, eastern Iran, on Laylat al-Qadr
Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Power) is one of three special holy nights in Islam that are considered the most blessed nights of the year. According to Islamic teachings, the Quran was first revealed to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
Muslims believe that angels descend to earth on Laylat al-Qadr, and that prayer and repentance on this night are of great importance and can change a person’s destiny. Laylat al-Qadr is celebrated on the 19th, 21st, and 23rd nights of the holy month of Ramadan.
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♦️ Iran releases French citizen detained since October 2022: Macron
📌 Olivier Grondeau was arrested in Shiraz, southern Iran, and sentenced to five years in prison for “conspiracy against the Islamic Republic.”
Iran has released French citizen Olivier Grondeau, who had been detained since October 2022 on security charges, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced.
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🔷 Iran summons German and British envoys over draft resolution at U.N. rights body
📌 Tehran, IRNA – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the German ambassador and the British chargé d’affaires in Tehran in response to recent anti-Iran measures taken by London and Berlin.
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🔶‘Negotiating with the U.S. not wise, intelligent or honorable’ picked as Leader’s statement of the year
📌 Tehran, IRNA – In a recent survey, the audience of KHAMENEI.IR selected a statement by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on negotiations with the United States as the most significant remark of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution for the calendar year 1403.
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♦️ Israeli protesters rally against Netanyahu, denounce the renewed war on Gaza
📌 Israeli protesters have once again taken to the streets in several cities, including Tel Aviv and al-Quds, to express their anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for resuming the war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
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🔻 Moscow: Ukraine defies Trump’s truce initiative by attacking Russian oil facility
📌 Moscow, IRNA – The Russian Defense Ministry has accused Ukraine of violating a temporary halt in strikes on energy infrastructure, an agreement reached between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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🔹 Istanbul mayor detained ahead of likely presidential nomination
📌 Turkish police have detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as part of what state media have described as corruption and terror investigations.
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📌 The Israeli Haaretz says it is Israel that impeding a ceasefire process in Gaza and preventing the return of prisoners, not Hamas.
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🎥 Shirez Canyon is one of the wonders of the Zagros Mountains in Kuhdasht, Lorestan, western Iran. It has similarities to the Grand Canyon in the U.S.
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📌 The dollar rate rises against the Turkish lira by about %12 following the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest rival.
The Istanbul Stock Exchange index also experienced a fall of about %8 on Wednesday morning.
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📌 Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesperson for the Yemeni army, says Yemen has targeted the USS Harry S. Truman for the fourth time in the past 72 hours.
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