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Asylum-seekers pushed to new extremes in Mexico after Trump’s border crackdown begins

News Agency nabakhabar — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 16:17:32 +0000

Trump on Monday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border and announced plans to send U.S. troops and restrict refugees and asylum, saying he wants to halt illegal entry and border crime. The measures follow a drop in illegal crossings in recent months.

When Dayana Castro heard that the U.S. asylum appointment she waited over a year for was canceled in an instant, she had no doubt: She was heading north any way she could.

Border Patrol Agent Gutierrez walks past four men detained after crossing the border illegally in a gap in two walls separating Mexico from the United States before turning themselves in, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The 25-year-old migrant, her husband and their 4- and 7-year-old children had nothing left at home in Venezuela. They already had trekked the perilous Darien Gap jungle dividing Colombia and Panama and criminal groups that prey on migrants like them.

Castro was one of tens of thousands of migrants across Mexico with appointments to apply for U.S. asylum at the border scheduled out through February until President Donald Trump took office and issued a series of executive orders to beef up border security and slash migration. One ended the use of the CBP One app that had allowed nearly 1 million people, many seeking asylum, to legally enter the U.S. since January 2023.

“We’re going to keep going. We can’t go home after all we’ve been through, after all the countries we’ve fought our way through, only to give up now,” she said from a small shelter in central Mexico beside a freight train line they were riding north.

Migrants walk into Mexico after being deported from the U.S. at El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Now, migrants like her are adjusting to a new and uncertain reality. Many remain determined to reach the U.S. through more dangerous means, riding freight trains, hiring smugglers and dodging authorities. Some lined up in Mexico’s refugee offices to seek asylum in that country, while others contemplated finding a way back home.

Supporters of the CBP One app that people like Castro used to try to enter legally say it brought order to a chaotic border. Critics say it was magnet for more people to come.

Migrants walk through Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, in an attempt to reach the U.S. border, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)

Adam Isacson, defense oversight analyst for the human rights organization Washington Office on Latin America, said Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration will surely deter migrants in the short term but will also have cascading humanitarian consequences.

People with valid asylum claims may die in their own countries, he said, while migrants fleeing countries like Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti who cannot easily return home may end up floating around the Americas “completely unprotected.” Isacson and other analysts expect Trump’s policies will lead to increased demand for smugglers and push migrants — many of whom are children and families — to more dangerous terrain to avoid capture.

By Tuesday, Castro was wrapping her mind around the fact that continuing on after her Feb. 18 appointment with U.S. authorities was canceled would likely mean putting her life, and the lives of her family, at risk as cartels are increasingly extorting and kidnapping vulnerable migrants.

“There’s the train, the cartels, migration police, and they all make you pay them,” she said as she fed her children bread beside a small shelter where they slept. “But if we don’t put ourselves at risk, we’ll never arrive.”

Along Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala another group of migrants in Tapachula took a different approach.

Cuban migrant Rosalí Martínez waited in line outside the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid in the sweltering southern city. Traveling with her child, she had hoped to reunite with her husband in the U.S.

Migrants line up to board boats to continue their journey north hoping to reach the United States after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia in Bajo Chiquito, Panama, Nov. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Now, she was biding her time, joining an increasing number of migrants who have sought asylum in Mexico in recent years, either temporarily due to shifting American restrictions or more permanently.

Like many Cubans in recent years, Martínez was fleeing a spiraling economic crisis.

“I’m going to stay here and see what happens,” she said. But “I’m not going back to Cuba. I’ll become a Mexican citizen, but there’s no way I’m going back to Cuba.”

Others like 42-year-old Jomaris Figuera and her husband want to throw in the towel after years trying to build a life outside Venezuela, where economic and political crises have prompted nearly 8 million people to flee in recent years.

Workers begin the installation of a temporary shelter for possible deportees from the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

They spent more than four years picking coffee in neighboring Colombia, but struggling to make ends meet, they decided to traverse the Darien Gap. They waited nearly a year and a half for a legal pathway to the U.S. in a wooden shelter in a crime-riddled migrant camp in the center of Mexico City.

But due to Venezuela’s crises, they have no passports. And without money, they fear their only pathway back will be traveling south through Mexico and Central America, and walking days through the same rugged mountains of the Darien Gap.

Anything would be better than staying in Mexico, said Figuera.

Colombian migrant Margelis Tinoco, 48, cries after her CBP One appointment was canceled at the Paso del Norte international bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on the border with the U.S., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the inauguration day of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

“It’s like abandoning everything after everything that’s happened to us,” she said. “But after trying to get an appointment, and this happens, we’ve given up.”

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More South Koreans give up on reuniting with long-lost relatives in North: survey

News Agency nabakhabar — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 14:08:38 +0000

More and more South Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War are losing hope of ever visiting their hometowns or reuniting with their loved ones in the North, a survey showed Friday.

According to the 2024 survey conducted by the Ministry of Unification, 57.2 percent of respondents said they want to see their loved ones in North Korea, down from 65.8 percent in 2021. The demand to visit their hometowns in the North dropped by 26.7 percentage points, while the demand for letter exchanges also declined by about 8 percentage points.

The survey gathered responses from 35,542 South Koreans and 475 Koreans living abroad, primarily in the U.S. They had all registered themselves on a list of people believed to have family ties in the North.

The two Koreas remain technically at war as the Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. Since the first Seoul-Pyongyang summit in 2000, the two sides have held 21 rounds of in-person family reunions, including the latest one in August 2018. Since then, almost all forms of exchanges have been halted amid North Korea’s continued nuclear and missile provocations.

The unification ministry noted that the latest results reflect lowered expectations about the possibility of direct relatives in the North still surviving. It also mentioned that the survey cycle was shortened from five to three years, as more South Koreans have passed away of old age without the opportunity to reunite with their relatives in North Korea.

According to the results, 63.6 percent of those living in South Korea and 60.9 percent of those living abroad are currently over the age of 80.

An elderly South Korean leaves a message on the occasion of the newly designated Separated Families Day in Seoul, Sept. 27, 2023. Yonhap

Nearly 76 percent of respondents said they are unable to confirm whether their long-lost relatives are still alive in the North.

Data shows that of the 134,291 South Koreans on the waiting list for government-arranged reunions, 97,350 have passed away as of last month.

In terms of policy priorities, 77.2 percent of respondents said the most urgent need is for the government to find out if their family members in the North are still alive and to be notified when they die. About 37.5 percent requested regular family reunions, followed by letter exchanges (18.2 percent) and virtual reunions (11.8 percent). Respondents were allowed to select more than one policy priority.

In an in-depth interview with 5,103 selected participants in the latest survey, 55.3 percent of respondents expressed a desire to know whether their family members in the North are still alive. However, 19.4 percent said they no longer wish to find out.

About 14.4 percent selected in-person reunions as their preference, followed by just 3.5 percent who expressed their wishes to visit their hometowns in the North.

“We will establish and promote policies for inter-Korean separated families that better meet their demands considering changes in preferences and the aging of separated families,” a unification ministry official said.

The government designated Aug. 13 on the lunar calendar, or two days before the Chuseok holiday, as Separated Families Day in 2023 as part of broader efforts to raise awareness about the issue of separated families.

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Iran hails French police raid on MKO headquarters near Paris

News Agency nabakhabar — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:35:41 +0000

Iran’s top human rights official has hailed an attack by French police on the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group’s main headquarters in a Paris suburb, saying there will be “no safe place for terrorists.”

In a post on X on Thursday, Kazem Gharibabadi, who serves as head of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, said the Islamic Republic welcomed the raid by the French police on MKO’s main headquarters in the Paris suburb of Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône that led to the sealing of the premises and the detention of at least three members of the group.

“We welcome the attack of the French police on the main headquarters of the MKO terrorist group, thorough inspection of the headquarters, the arrest of three members of the faction and the sealing of this headquarters. This operation was monitored live by Iran,” he said.

“Iran will leave no safe place for terrorists,” Gharibabadi asserted.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that France’s security forces on Wednesday raided the headquarters of the MKO – also known as the so-called People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) – and detained three of its members.

The raid occurred at a site housing MKO’s TV studio, the report said, adding that the group had to substitute live programming with archival content for several hours.

According to the report, security forces also seized a cache of weapons hidden in the headquarters, suggesting the persistent engagement in terrorist and criminal activities by this group.

The MKO terrorist group is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranian civilians during the past four decades.

The notorious group sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq’s war with Iran in the 1980s but fell out of favor with Baghdad after he was toppled by a US-led invasion in 2003.

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IRGC crucial in countering terrorist threats in West Asia

News Agency nabakhabar — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 09:13:58 +0000

Iran’s Embassy in the UK says that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) has been crucial in countering terrorist threats and extremist groups in the West Asia region.

Iran has hit out against a “malicious” campaign by British parliamentarians to ban the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC).

Iran’s Embassy in the UK told Middle East Eye that the call to proscribe the IRGC was being pushed by “a few specific individuals and groups who are aiming to diminish and destroy the Iran-UK relationship”.

“We believe that the push to designate the IRGC is influenced by external actors, notably the Israeli regime, which has a history of antagonism towards Iran,” said the embassy in a statement.

“This attempt serves to escalate tensions and provoke confrontation rather than promote peace and stability in the region.”

The embassy said the IRGC had been crucial in countering “terrorist threats and extremist groups” in the Middle East, including the ISIL.

“Accusations of terrorism against the IRGC are lack of substantiation and are driven by political agendas, serving only to benefit certain interests,” it said.

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Pakistan bomb attack targets Japanese nationals, injuries reported

News Agency nabakhabar — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:10:07 +0000

A van carrying five Japanese nationals was attacked by a suicide bomber and a gunman in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Friday morning, killing a local security guard and injuring another guard and a bystander as well as one Japanese, according to Pakistani media, police and the Japanese government.

Dawn News TV reported that the security guard died in hospital after he was injured in the attack.

The wounded Japanese national only sustained a minor injury by broken glass, the Japanese consulate in the city said.

Pakistani investigators examine a damaged van at the site of a suicide attack in Karachi, Pakistan, on April 19, 2024. (AP/Kyodo)

The five Japanese, employees of a Japanese company, were traveling from their residences in Zamzama, Clifton, an upscale community in Karachi, to their workplace in the city’s export processing zone when the attack occurred, Azfar Mahesar, the police’s deputy inspector general told reporters.

He said that the bomber detonated an explosive near the vehicle while his accomplice opened fire. The bomber died in the explosion and the gunman was shot dead by police.

In Tokyo, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said several Japanese were involved in the incident and that one of them was injured. The Pakistani side did not confirm that information.

The incident follows a suicide bomb attack last month in northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that killed five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver.

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Bomb threats force temporary lockdown of Norway’s parliament

News Agency nabakhabar — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:35:40 +0000

Norwegian security forces evacuated the parliament building, while the police, equipped with heavy weaponry, secured the area amid investigation.

Norway’s parliament, the Storting, has been temporarily closed off after repeated threats against the institution, police have said.

Two threats were directed at the institution on Tuesday, but no link between them has been established yet, Oslo police chief of operations Sven Bjelland told a press briefing.

The first was not deemed credible, but the second threat led police to cordon off the building in the centre of Oslo on Wednesday.

According to Norwegian media, the threats were bomb threats, but police did not confirm this.

The public was asked to leave the building, but work continued normally inside in the morning.

“We are now at a stage where we do not believe that these (threats) were real, but that does not mean that they are not serious,” Bjelland told reporters after noon Wednesday.

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The security perimeter set up around the parliament building was therefore lifted, but police said that they would maintain a presence on site.

Police gave no further details about the threats or their motives but said the source of the first threat had been identified.

Images and video from the scene showed heavily armed police officers wearing helmets surrounding the building, while police dogs were used to inspect the surrounding area.

In Norway, police are generally not armed, but they had been authorised to be temporarily armed from March 27 to April 2 — during Easter — without authorities changing their threat assessment level, which is currently considered “moderate”.

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Live blog: Bodies of foreign aid workers killed by Israel arrive in Egypt

News Agency nabakhabar — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:28:12 +0000

Israel’s war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 180th day — has killed at least 32,975 Palestinians and wounded 75,577 others as outrage grows globally following Israel’s strike and killing of aid workers in Gaza.

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

1221 GMT — Egypt state media has reported that the bodies of six foreign aid workers killed in Israeli strikes have been transported out of Gaza.

Bodies will be received by representatives from their home nations and then they will be repatriated to their respective countries, according to reports.

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1049 GMT — UN rights council to consider call for Israel arms embargo

The UN Human Rights Council will consider a draft resolution calling for an arms embargo on Israel, citing the “plausible risk of genocide in Gaza”.

If the draft resolution is adopted, it would mark the first time that the United Nations’ top rights body has taken a position on the war raging in Gaza.

The text condemns “the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects by Israel” in populated areas of Gaza and demands that Israel “uphold its legal responsibility to prevent genocide”.

The text was brought forward by Pakistan on behalf of 55 of the 56 UN member states in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) – the exception being Albania.

0951 GMT — Israel army implicates Hezbollah in UN peacekeepers’ wounding

Israel’s military said it had obtained information that indicated a Hezbollah explosive charge caused the blast that wounded UN peacekeepers in Lebanon last week.

The UN peacekeeping force said three military observers and a translator were wounded in Saturday’s blast in south Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah militants trade frequent cross-border fire.

“According to information available to the (army), the explosion that occurred on March 30… occurred after a UNIFIL patrol passed over a charge that had been previously placed by Hezbollah in the area,” army spokesman Avichay Adraee said on X.

0932 GMT — Freedom Flotilla Coalition to bring aid, international observers to Gaza this month

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FCC) will sail several ships carrying 5,500 tonnes of humanitarian aid and hundreds of international observers to besieged Gaza in mid-April, its Spanish chapter Rumbo a Gaza said in a statement sent to Anadolu.

Rejecting Israel’s control over the entrance of humanitarian aid, Rumbo a Gaza said it will not allow Israel to inspect the shipments.

“For everyone’s safety and to ensure that aid reaches those who need it, the FFC will be bringing hundreds of international humanitarian observers from many countries and different backgrounds,” the statement said.

The voyage aims to “challenge the current illegal Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.”

0907 GMT — Gaza death toll nears 33,000 amid ongoing Israeli assault

A total of 32,975 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since last October, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said.

The Health Ministry in Gaza made the statement as the deadly Israeli onslaught on the enclave entered its 180th day. The ongoing onslaughts have also injured 75,577 Palestinians, it added.

It noted that in the past 24 hours, “Israel committed five massacres against families across Gaza that left 59 martyrs and 83 others injured.”

“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads and rescuers are unable to reach them,” it said.

0906 GMT — Following two-week raid, Israel leaves Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital in ruins

Following extensive damage to Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital following two weeks of Israeli army raid, Palestinian doctors said the hospital’s entire premises had been destroyed by fire and bombings, rendering it unusable.

Speaking to Anadolu, Marwan Abu Sada, head of the Department of Surgery at the hospital, said the Israeli army withdrew from al-Shifa Hospital, leaving behind widespread destruction throughout the hospital’s buildings and facilities.

Abu Sada underlined that the destruction inflicted by the Israeli army has made it impossible to resume medical operations to aid the wounded and patients.

0850 GMT — Israeli president, army chief extend apologies over killing of foreign aid workers in Gaza

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and army chief Herzi Halevi extended apologies for the Israeli army’s killing of aid workers in Gaza affiliated with the US-based aid organisation World Central Kitchen (WCK).

In a statement by his office, Herzog made a phone call with WCK founder Chef Jose Anders during which he “expressed his deep sorrow and sincere apologies over the tragic loss of life of WCK staff in the Gaza Strip.”

The Israeli army’s Chief of Staff Halevi also issued an apology for the Israeli air strike on the aid convoy in Gaza.

0626 GMT — Israel accused of ‘genocide in plain sight’ by British lawmaker

An independent British member of parliament has denounced Israel’s killing of international aid workers, saying Israel is “out of control.”

Referring to Monday’s deadly strike in Gaza on aid workers with the food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK), Claudia Webbe said on X that Israel is out of control and is “deliberately killing” international aid workers.

Also referring to Israel’s recent move to ban the Qatari television Al Jazeera, she stressed that it has passed a law to “ban journalists.”

“Israel is killing Palestinians in Gaza. Murder and genocide in plain sight. They don’t want you to know the truth,” underlined Webbe.

0435 GMT — British lawmaker calls for probe into whether UK-supplied arms used in Israeli attack on aid workers

A British lawmaker called on the government to launch an investigation into the Israeli killing of humanitarian aid workers in Gaza, saying the attack showed why Britain “should immediately suspend arms sales to Israel.”

In a letter to Foreign Secretary David Cameron, Labour MP Richard Burgon demanded that the government immediately launch a full investigation into whether UK-supplied arms were used in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Monday that killed seven aid workers with the food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK), including three British nationals.

“This attack once again underlines why the UK should immediately suspend arms sales to Israel, given the role these could be playing in such deadly attacks on Gaza and even in war crimes carried out by the Israeli government,” said the member of parliament for East Leeds.

0425 GMT — Four officers injured in Israel car-ramming attack: police

Four Israeli police were injured in a car-ramming attack at a checkpoint in the centre of the country, police said, adding that the assailant was killed after trying to stab other security forces.

The 26-year-old man crashed into four police officers at a checkpoint in the town of Kochav Yair, which borders the occupied West Bank and sits northeast of Tel Aviv.

The officers suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital, Israeli police says.

0405 GMT — US conducts humanitarian airdrops into Gaza

US Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted another round of airdrops of humanitarian assistance into northern Gaza to provide relief to civilians affected by the ongoing war.

“The joint operation included four C-130 U.S. Air Force aircraft and U.S. Army Soldiers specialized in aerial delivery of U.S humanitarian assistance supplies,” CENTCOM said on X.

The planes dropped over 50,680 U S meal equivalents into northern Gaza, it added.

0106 GMT — Israel says strike killing aid workers was ‘grave mistake‘

Israel’s defence chief has said that a strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza was a “grave mistake”, after the incident prompted a chorus of international condemnation.

“This incident was a grave mistake,” Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi said in a video message on the strike that hit a World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy on Monday.

“It shouldn’t have happened,” Halevi said, as he blamed the strike on a “misidentification — at night during a war in very complex conditions.”

“We are sorry for the unintentional harm to the members of WCK.”

0042 GMT — Biden says Israel ‘has not done enough to protect aid workers’

US President Joe Biden has said he is “outraged” and “heartbroken” over an Israeli air strike in Gaza that killed seven aid workers, highlighting that Israel “has not done enough to protect aid workers.”

“They were providing food to hungry civilians in the middle of a war. They were brave and selfless. Their deaths are a tragedy,” Biden said in a statement.

Noting that Israel has pledged to conduct a thorough investigation into the killings, he said “that investigation must be swift, it must bring accountability, and its findings must be made public.”

2130 GMT — Palestine reignites its quest for full UN seat amid Israel’s war

Palestine has officially revived its application to become a full member state in the United Nations, according to a letter from their UN envoy.

“Upon instructions of the Palestinian leadership, I have the honor to request that renewed consideration be given to this application by the Security Council during April 2024,” UN envoy Riyad Mansour wrote in the letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, which has been transmitted to the council.

The Palestinians, who have had observer status at the world body since 2012, have tried for years to gain full membership, which would amount to recognition of Palestinian statehood, already recognised by most of the UN member states.

2100 GMT — Missile attack from Lebanon targets northern Israel: reports

At least 14 missiles have been launched from Lebanon toward the city of Nahariyya and illegal settlements in western Galilee in northern Israel, Israeli media reported.

Two missiles were intercepted, and seven fell in open areas, Yedioth Ahronoth daily said without specifying the fate of the remaining rockets.

For the first time since last November, sirens sounded in the city of Nahariya earlier in the night, according to the newspaper. There have been no reported injuries as of yet.

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Crocus City Hall terror attack traced to Ukrainian special services — Patrushev

News Agency nabakhabar — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:06:06 +0000

As Nikolay Patrushev pointed out, “the perpetrators of this mass shooting and also their accomplices were arrested upon their attempt to cross the Russian state border where the Ukrainian side prepared a window for their escape.”

The terror attack at the Crocus City Hall music venue in the Moscow suburb can be traced to Ukrainian special services and it is well known that the Kiev regime is fully controlled by the United States, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev said on Wednesday.

“They are trying to impose it on us that the terrorist act was committed not by the Kiev regime but by supporters of the radical Islamic ideology, possibly, by members of the Afghan branch of ISIL [the former name of the Islamic State terror group outlawed in Russia],” Patrushev told the 19th annual meeting of top security officials of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) member states.

“However, it is far more important to promptly establish who is the mastermind and the sponsor of this horrific crime. Its traces lead to Ukrainian intelligence services. However, everyone is well aware that the Kiev regime is not independent and is fully controlled by the United States. It has to be borne in mind that ISIL and Al-Qaeda [outlawed in Russia] and other terrorist groups were created by Washington,” Patrushev stressed.

As the Russian top security official pointed out, “the perpetrators of this mass shooting and also their accomplices were arrested upon their attempt to cross the Russian state border where the Ukrainian side prepared a window for their escape.”

On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack targeted the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, just outside the Moscow city limits. According to the latest data, 144 people were killed and 551 suffered injuries. The Russian Investigative Committee said that evidence had been found of the attackers’ links to Ukrainian nationalists.

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Israel to regret attacking Iran’s consulate building: Leader

News Agency nabakhabar — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:37:44 +0000

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says that the Israeli regime will regret attacking Iran’s consulate building in Damascus.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has issued a message after the Israeli regime’s attack on Iran’s consular building in Damascus on Monday.

We will make them regret committing this crime, the Leader stressed.

Ayatollah Khamenei also prayed to God to bestow divine forgiveness and blessings to the IRGC military advisors who were martyred in the Israeli strike.

The evil regime of Israel will be punished by the hands of our brave men, he concluded.

The Israeli regime attacked Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday evening. The Israeli aggression led to the destruction of the entire building and the martyrdom and injury of the entire people inside it.

Seven of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military advisors were martyred following the Israeli attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus on Monday, IRGC said in a statement.

Reacting to the Israeli aggression, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kan’ani on Monday night said that the Islamic Republic of Iran, while reserving its rights to take countermeasures, decides on the type of reaction and punishment of the aggressor.

Earlier on Monday, Iran’s Ambassador to Syria stressed that the country will give a decisive response to the Israeli regime.

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Israeli regime attacks Iran’s consulate in Damascus (+VIDEO)

News Agency nabakhabar — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:20:56 +0000

The Israeli regime attacked the building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syrian sources reported on Monday evening.

The fresh Israeli aggression targeted the building in the Al Mazzeh area of Damascus.

SANA news agency also reported that the attack inflicted heavy damage to the targeted building as well as the nearby buildings.

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The reports added that the Syrian defense systems countered some of the missiles.

This attack led to the destruction of the entire building and the martyrdom and injury of the entire people inside it, the Syrian defense ministry said.

Initial reports suggest that at least 6 people were martyred in the Israeli strike.

IRGC commander in Syria and Lebanon General Mohammad Reza Zahedi was martyred during the Israeli attack, according to the reports.

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad contacted his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian following the incident and condemned the Israeli aggression.

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