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Headlines in Iranian English-language dailies on Dec 12

Dec 12, 2023, 8:11 AM
News ID: 85319489
Headlines in Iranian English-language dailies on Dec 12

Tehran, IRNA – The following headlines appeared in English-language newspapers in the Iranian capital on Tuesday, December 12, 2023:

** IRAN DAILY

- Netanyahu going down, taking Israel with him

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking Palestinians, Israelis, and even Iranians hostage to negotiate for a longer time in office and does not care what the cost will be. The historian Max Hastings revealed in his memoirs that at a dinner table, he heard the young Netanyahu say, “In the next war, if we do it right, we’ll have a chance to get all the Arabs out... We can clear the West Bank, sort out Jerusalem.”

- IRGC Ground Force stages security drill in western Iran

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force staged a large-scale combined and specialized drill in a border region in Iran’s western province of Kermanshah, as part of preparations to confront potential security threats against the country. The drill was held by the Najaf Ashraf Base of the IRGC Ground Force in Qasr-e Shirin County on Monday and involved various units, Press TV reported. The forces partaking in the exercise employed the latest tactics to evaluate their preparedness in the face of latent security threats, and sinister plots being devised by anti-Iran terrorist outfits.

- Raisi clarifies measures to modify pillars of economy

President Ebrahim Raisi explained the main measures taken by his government to reform the economic structures in the Iranian Economy Conference on Monday. The conference titled, “Iranian Economy: Modifying Structures, Resolving Shortages, and Playing a New Role in the International Arena,” was attended by economic experts and high-ranking officials, reported president.ir.

** TEHRAN TIMES

- Never-Dying Resistance

The Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip has trapped the Israeli army in several areas and is attacking the regime's ground forces from zero distance.  The Israeli military's massacres of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and the destruction of almost the entire coastal enclave have been well documented.  The power of the Palestinian resistance in attacking the Israeli military's ground forces appears to be steadfast and contrary to the regime's claims it is nowhere near the verge of collapsing.

- ‘US veto of UN resolution indicates greenlight for Israel brutality’

Iran asserted that the US vetoing a UN resolution for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza is tantamount to a support for the Israeli regime’s continued cruelty against the Palestinian people.

Nasser Kanaani made the remarks on Monday during his weekly news conference in Tehran, following the United States’ use of its veto in the United Nations Security Council on Friday to prevent a draft resolution calling for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

- Tehranis planting 5,000 saplings in memory of Gaza martyrs

In a ceremony held on Sunday to mark Human Rights Day, some five thousand saplings started to be planted in Tehran’s Saadat-Abad Forest Park in memory of innocent children and women killed in Gaza. Ensieh Khazali, the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, and Naser Abu-sharif, the representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in Tehran, attended the ceremony, IRNA reported. Moreover, 313 olive saplings with identification cards named after Iranian and Palestinian women and children martyred were planted.

** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL

- Global strike in solidarity with Gazans

Shops, schools and government offices shut across the occupied West Bank and occupied East Al-Quds and several other countries Monday as Palestinians and their supporters worldwide staged a general strike protesting against Israel’s relentless onslaught in the Gaza Strip. Activists had called for a strike in solidarity with the besieged territory covering businesses, public workers and education.

- Hamas targets Tel Aviv with missiles

The military wing of Hamas said Monday it targeted southern Tel Aviv with missiles in response to the Zionist regime’s barbaric bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Qassam Brigades announced in a brief statement that the resistance forces had fired missiles at southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv and the city of Holon “in response to the Israeli massacres against civilians in Gaza.”

- IRGC stages specialized drill in Kermanshah

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force on Monday staged a large-scale combined and specialized drill in a border region in Iran’s western province of Kermanshah, as part of preparations to confront potential security threats against the country. The drill was held by the Najaf Ashraf Base of the IRGC Ground Force in Qasr Shirin county and involved various units. The forces partaking in the exercise employed the latest tactics to evaluate their preparedness in the face of latent security threats, and sinister plots being devised by anti-Iran terrorist outfits.

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