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Raisi: Elites should play ‘effective role’ in Iran’s development
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said that the country’s elites should play an effective role in Iran’s development by identifying and solving problems.
Addressing a group of elites in Tehran on Sunday, Raisi said that the Islamic Revolution has always emphasized the importance of learning and promoting science within the country.
He stressed that significant promotion of Iran’s scientific ranking in the world is a sign of the revolution’s attention to science.
However, the president said, “Neither you, elites, nor we in the government should be confined to these achievements”; we should try hard to maintain and promote the process of development in the country.
Meanwhile, 28 medalists of the International Science Olympiads in the fields of biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer, astronomy and astrophysics were praised during the Sunday ceremony.
Hamas deploys police, distributes funds in Gaza
Hamas has begun deploying police forces and making partial salary payments to some of its civil servants in Gaza City in recent days in areas from which Israel had withdrawn the bulk of its troops a month ago, four residents and a senior official in the resistance group said Saturday.
Four Gaza City residents told The Associated Press that in recent days, uniformed and plainclothes police officers deployed near police headquarters and other government offices, including near Shifa Hospital, the territory’s largest.
The return of police marks an attempt to reinstate order in the devastated city, a Hamas official told AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Saeed Abdel-Bar, a resident of Gaza City, said a cousin received funds from a makeshift Hamas office near the hospital that was set up to distribute $200 payouts to government employees, including police officers and municipal workers. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 27,360 people so far.