News in Brief
Top military brass exalt Raisi’s efforts to boost defense power
Commanders of Iran’s military forces appreciated measures taken by the late president Ebrahim Raisi in ensuring coordination between the government and military sectors to strengthen the country’s defense capabilities.
On Saturday, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami, Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, Commander of the Law Enforcement Command Brigadier General Ahmadreza Radan, and Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani had a meeting with Acting President Mohammad Mokhber in Tehran to express their gratitude to the outgoing administration.
The commanders also admired Raisi’s useful ideas during the security meetings, especially those of the country’s Supreme National Security Council.
They also appreciated Mokhber for his efforts to manage the country’s affairs after Raisi died in a tragic helicopter crash on May 19.
Russia rejects US claims on Iran’s nuclear work
Russia’s permanent representative to the international organizations in Vienna said the new US claims about Iran’s nuclear activities are made for “propagandistic purposes.”
Mikhail Ulyanov was reacting to recent comments by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who has claimed that Iran is capable of producing fissile material for use in a nuclear weapon within “one or two weeks.”
“This assertion that Iran is one or two weeks away from reaching the capacity of producing fissile material for Nuclear Weapons was used many times over the last 20 years and will be used again in the years to come, as always, for propagandistic purposes,” Ulyanov wrote on X.
This is while, the US national security advisor Jake Sullivan said on Friday that, “I have not seen a decision by Iran to move in a way that signals it has decided to actually develop a nuclear bomb right now.”