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US Airstrike in Syria Left 1 Dead, 2 Injured

reporter 1222 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:41:21 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A Syrian soldier was killed and two others injured after a US warplane targeted a Syrian Army checkpoint in the country’s northeast.

According to SANA, the soldiers were targeted by an American warplane after they prevented an American military patrol from passing through the area.

The incident occurred southeast of Qamishli, a city near the Syria-Turkey border.

Syrian newspaper Al-Watan reported that one of those wounded was an officer.

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Indian Kashmir on General Strike

reporter 1222 — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:13:24 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Indian part of Kashmir was hit by a general strike on Sunday called by the separatist Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) to mark the anniversary of the death of a Kashmiri man who was executed for his part in an attack on India’s parliament in 2001.

In Kashmir, on Indian part, the JKLF on Thursday called for a general strike on Feb. 9 and Feb. 11 to observe the anniversary of the death of Afzal Guru, and then that of its founder Maqbool Bhat.

Shops and businesses were shut on Sunday, while there was little traffic on the roads in Srinagar and other parts of Indian-held Kashmir.

Indian troops have erected iron barricades and laid concertina wire in parts of the region to block roads, with armed soldiers in full riot gear patrolling the streets to prevent any protests, a government official said, Reuters reported.

He said low-speed mobile internet, which was restored last month, had also been shut down as a precautionary measure.

Last month, India’s Supreme Court rebuked the government for shutting down the internet and telecommunications in Jammu and Kashmir, which was India’s only Muslim-majority state before it was split into two federally administered territories.

Indian police, meanwhile, have launched legal proceedings against JKLF for calling the strikes.

The JKLF was banned by India last year as part of a massive clampdown in Kashmir after an attack on Feb. 14 in which 40 Indian troops were killed. Its offices were closed and main leaders, including its chairman Yasin Malik, were detained.

On Feb. 9, 2013, Afzal Guru was hanged after the Supreme Court upheld a verdict that he was involved in a 2001 attack on parliament.

Maqbool Bhat was hanged in New Delhi’s Tihar jail on Feb. 11, 1984, following his conviction for the killing of a police official.

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US-led strike on Syria flagrant violation of intl. law

reporter 1222 — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 13:45:54 +0000

The top adviser to Iranian Leader Ali Akbar Velayati said the US and its allies attack on Syria violated international rules, adding it will not reach its goals.

Ali Akbar Velayati, who has just arrived back in Tehran from a 4-day visit to Syria, described the US, France and UK assault on Syria as an aggressive act, stressing that the attack occurred before the UN inspectors arrived at the scene of the alleged chemical attack.

Velayati added that the attack will have negative international, regional effects, while condemning it as an aggressive act against the oppressed nation and government of Syria who have been fighting terrorism for the last seven years and have made great victories.

The top adviser to Iran’s Leader went on to add that “this action is in blatant violation of international rules, as well as the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian nation,” adding that criminals will receive a firm response from the Resistance Axis.

Referring to the Iranian Leader’s description of the attack as a crime and declaring presidents of those three countries as criminals, Velayati said “as the Leader declared, presidents of United States, France and UK are criminals and will not benefit from their attack,” adding “they will not reach their vicious goals in the region as before.”

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