** IRAN DAILY
- Terrorists ‘legitimate’ targets
Iran’s defense minister on Wednesday defended strikes on terrorists’ positions in some neighboring countries as a “legitimate defense” that the country is entitled to. Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani underlined that Iran warns the countries and uses diplomatic channels and negotiations before taking any military action against anti-Iran terrorists. Ashtiani made the remarks after Iran’s attacks on positions of anti-Iran terrorists in Pakistan, Syria and Iraq.
- Iran to act as ’third party’ in South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel
Iran has formed a commission and is preparing documents to act as a third party in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the Iranian Vice President for Legal Affairs Mohammad Dehghan said on Wednesday. “As soon as South Africa filed a complaint, we formed a commission [...] and will soon file a complaint against Israel at the International Court of Justice as a third party. This claim was brought by South Africa under the 1948 Convention for the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, and Iran, taking into account Article 9 of the Convention, did not file a complaint on its own, since this would mean recognition of Israel as a state,” he said.
- Tehran’s security principle
After the missile strikes on the terrorist strongholds in Idlib, Syria, and an Israeli spy base in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq, the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran also launched assaults on the hideout of a terrorist group known as Jaish al-Adl in Pakistan. These strikes were a direct response to acts of terror targeting Iran, the most recent instances being the tragic loss of over 90 innocent lives in Kerman and the killing of 11 policemen in Iran’s easter town of Rask.
** TEHRAN TIMES
- "We told them our patience is running thin"
The Tehran Times has learned that Iran had cautioned both Iraq’s central government and the authorities in the country’s Kurdistan region about its diminishing patience with the presence of Mossad and terrorist groups in Iran’s vicinity, before carrying out airstrikes on Iraqi soil.
- Iran says national security will be safeguarded regardless of limits
The Iranian defense minister has declared that there are no limitations when it comes to defending the nation's interests and its people. “We condemn terrorism worldwide. Any action against the rights of the Iranian people will definitely receive a reaction, and we strongly respond, and we regard no limits when it comes to defending our national interests,” Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said on Wednesday.
- Iran defends counterterrorism efforts against Takfiri, Israeli targets
The UN representative for Iran has defended the nation’s recent counterterrorism efforts, which have targeted the bases of Takfiri terrorists in Syria and anti-Iranian terror groups in Iraq with ties to Israel. Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, made the remarks in a letter addressed to the world body’s Security Council on Tuesday.
** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
- Without end to Gaza genocide, all Resistance Fronts to remain active
Iran’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that operations against the occupying regime of Israel and its interests by the “Axis of Resistance” will stop if the Gaza war ends. “An end to the genocide in Gaza will lead to an end of military actions and crises in the region,” Hossein Amirabdollahian said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
- Pakistani, Iranian FMs hold phone talks
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in a telephone conversation with his Pakistani counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani on Wednesday described Pakistan’s security as Iran’s.
Expressing satisfaction with the friendly ties between the two countries, Amirabdollahian emphasized the importance of continuing cooperation and close contacts between the two countries’ officials in various fields.
- Israel intensifies Gaza strikes after aid deal
The occupying regime of Israel stepped up strikes on the south of war-torn Gaza Wednesday, ahead of the expected delivery of medicines for captives in exchange for humanitarian aid under a newly brokered deal. Airstrikes and artillery fire targeted Khan Younis throughout the night, said an AFP correspondent in the southern Gaza Strip’s biggest city.
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