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Daily Archives: August 23, 2021

Japanese Ambassador to Iran Kazutoshi Aikawa and Mahdi Mirashrafi, president of Iran's Customs Administration and deputy finance minister, sign a customs agreement in Tehran on Aug. 22, 2021, in the presence of Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (top left) and his Iranian counterpart (standing, far right) Mohammed Javad Zarif. Credit: Foreign Ministry of Japan.

Iran urges Japan to release billions in frozen assets

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Iran has called on Japan to release billions of dollars frozen in the country’s banks due to United States sanctions, Reuters reported on Sunday. The request followed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s meeting in Tehran with Japanese Foreign...
A public address by Iranian Ayatollah Alireza Ebadi that aired on Iranian T.V. on May 7, 2021. (MEMRI)

Iranian ayatollah: ‘Jews are the greatest problem of Islam and humanity’

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According to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative in Iran’s Southern Khorasan Province, the Jews are humanity’s greatest problem. “Consider the most difficult problem for Islam and humanity as a whole. This is corroborated by...
A Bar Mitzvah ceremony in Manama, Bahrain, on Aug. 21, 2021. Credit: Courtesy.

Bahrain celebrates first bar mitzvah in 16 years

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The first bar mitzvah in Bahrain in 16 years was held over the weekend at the House of Ten Commandments, the oldest and only operational synagogue in a Gulf Cooperation Council country. The bar mitzvah...
The aftermath of alleged Israeli airstrikes near Damascus on Feb. 15, 2021. Source: Majd Fahd/Twitter.

Four Hezbollah members reportedly killed in alleged Israeli Syria strike

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Israel launched missile strikes against targets in northern Syria early on Friday, according to Reuters. The report cited a Syrian military source as saying that the strikes originated from the direction of Beirut, and triggered Syria’s...
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza City, on Aug. 21, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

IDF soldier critically wounded in Gaza border riot; Israel hits Hamas terror targets

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Israeli Border Police officer Sgt. Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli remained in critical condition on Sunday after suffering a gunshot wound to the head during Palestinian rioting in the northern Gaza Strip a day earlier, according...