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Iraqi parties demand gov’t settle Iran dues
AFP – The Coordination Framework, a coalition of Shia parties in Iraq’s parliament, called on the government to pressure the United States to unlock pending payments to Tehran for crucial gas imports.
Iraq, ravaged by decades of conflict and international sanctions, relies on gas imported from its eastern neighbor for a third of its energy needs.
But US sanctions on Iranian oil and gas impose restrictions on how Baghdad can pay for the imports.
Iraq cannot directly hand over cash to Iran, but payments must be held in a bank account and be used by Tehran to fund imports of food and medicines.
Israeli war machine suffered another defeat in Jenin: Spox
PRESS TV – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has hailed the steely resistance of Palestinians in the face of the Israeli military’s two-day military onslaught on the Jenin refugee camp, saying the occupying regime suffered a humiliating defeat in the battle.
In a tweet on Sunday, Nasser Kanaani wrote that the trail of destruction left behind in the Jenin camp marks a shameful moral failure for the supporters of the regime.
“The war machine of the criminal Israeli regime suffered a new historic defeat in the recent brutal onslaught on Jenin. Nonetheless, a much bigger defeat awaits the supporters of the regime,” he said.
Kanaani further underlined that the scale of destruction in the Jenin camp marks a flagrant violation of international law and constitutes a war crime.
He also called on Palestinians to expose such level of aggression to the world so that the so-called advocates of human rights would become more disgraced.