** IRAN DAILY
- Iran, China ink cultural exchange MoU
Iran and China have taken a significant step towards promoting stronger bilateral ties by signing a three-year cultural exchange memorandum of understanding (MoU). The agreement was signed at the headquarters of Iran's Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) in Tehran, with the presence of Mohammad-Mehdi Imanipour, the Head of ICRO, and Lu Yingchuan, Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism of China, as reported by IRNA.
- UN warns of ‘more desperate’ situation as Israel batters Gaza
Israel pounded Hamas-governed Gaza on Sunday in an escalating air and ground campaign as the UN warned the situation was “growing more desperate by the hour” in the besieged Palestinian territory. Despite calls for a humanitarian cease-fire and outrage across the world, Israel has intensified its campaign triggered by Hamas’s unprecedented attack on October 7 that saw 1,400 people dead and 230 others captured, according to Israeli officials. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steeled Israelis for a “long and difficult war” ahead.
- Netanyahu’s plights and the West plots
After Benjamin Netanyahu secured his second term as Israel’s prime minister, it was expected that his radical policies would result in a new war against the innocent people of Palestine. And it wasn’t long before this prediction came true. Netanyahu’s insistence on the violation of international regulations and the United Nations’ resolutions by the expansion of illegal settlements and the desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque caused the 193-member United Nations General Assembly to ask the International Court of Justice in December 2022 to give an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.
** TEHRAN TIMES
- The captive factor: embarrassment and challenge
As the international community joined forces to establish a humanitarian ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip, backchannel diplomacy involving several countries in the region gained steam with the aim of ultimately hammering out a deal on exchanging captives between the Gaza Strip and Israel. But Israeli procrastination and stonewalling have so far prevented such a deal from being made. Diplomatic efforts, however, continue unabated, with Qatar and Egypt playing a big role in this regard.
- Raisi: Israel’s failed ground offensive marks another victory for resistance
Israel’s defeat in its ground invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip was the second victory for the Palestinian resistance groups that launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the regime on October 7, President Ebrahim Raisi said in an interview with Al Jazeera TV on Saturday. Israeli forces, backed by warplanes, staged a brief ground raid into central Gaza on Friday, after frequent threats by the regime about launching a full ground invasion as part of a fierce aggression on the besieged Palestinian territory.
- ‘Crimes in Gaza reveal moral decay of U.S., other Israeli backers’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has said that Israel’s “brutal and relentless” crimes in its war on the besieged Gaza Strip have revealed the “moral decay” of the regime’s backers, notably the United States, which has justified the regime’s atrocities as “self-defense.” In a Saturday post on X, Nasser Kanaani said, “The Zionists’ brutal and relentless crimes committed over the past 22 days in Gaza showed the moral decline of the U.S. regime and other hidden and open supporters of the apartheid Zionist regime to the whole world and exposed their hypocrisy.”
** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
- President Raisi: Zionist invasion may force everyone to act
President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday said Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza “may force everyone” to act in the latest warning issued by the Islamic Republic since the start of the Zionist regime’s brutal attacks on the enclave.
“The crimes of the Zionist regime have crossed the red lines, and this may force everyone to take action,” Raisi said on X, formerly Twitter.
- Palestine solidarity rallies become bigger
Tens of thousands filled the entire length of College Street in Sydney’s largest pro-Palestine to date Sunday, amid anger among Muslim Australians about the country’s position on the Israeli atrocities.
Organizers said as many as 50,000 people marched from Hyde Park to Belmore Park to demand freedom for Palestinians and protest the Australian government’s support for the occupying regime of Israel.
- Zionist escalation risks wrath of axis of Resistance
Desperate Palestinians in Gaza burst into aid centers after more than three weeks of siege and bombardment, the UN said on Sunday, as the occupying regime of Israel escalated ground invasion of the besieged territory.
Despite calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, international outrage and the potential risk to captives held in Gaza, the Zionist regime has intensified its invasion.
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