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United News of India
9 hours ago
- United News of India
Iran-US to hold nuclear deal talks round 6 in Muscat Sunday
Tehran/Washington/Muscat, June 10 (UNI) The sixth round of indirect nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington are scheduled to take place in Oman on Sunday, said Iran's Foreign Ministry Tuesday. Iran and the United States have held five rounds of talks so far, three of which were held in Muscat and two in Rome since the beginning of Tehran's talks with the US on coming to a possible deal on its nuclear programme and the lifting of sanctions. The fifth round was held on May 23 in Rome. In late May, the United States presented a proposal to Tehran through Oman for a potential nuclear deal with Iran. While both sides have acknowledged some progress, a decisive breakthrough has yet to be achieved, due to disagreements on uranium enrichment. While Iran views it as critical to its programme, the US is staunchly against any uranium enrichment on Iranian soil. Amid the ongoing negotiations, the US has called for the dismantling of all Iranian infrastructure built for the process, while Iran has denied American demands, insisting the programme will continue. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he does not expect talks with the US to yield results and asserted that Iran 'needs no one's permission' to enrich uranium, reports Turkish agency Anadolu Ajansi. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the US proposal was not the outcome of the previous rounds of negotiations, and Iran would submit its proposal to the United States through Oman, according to Xinhua. He stressed that any proposal disrespecting Iran's national rights, including its right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and effective sanctions relief, is unacceptable. Baghaei said Iran's forthcoming proposal would be "reasonable, logically sound, and balanced," urging the United States to consider it seriously. "Accepting this proposal serves the interests of the United States," he added. UNI ANV SSP
NDTV
15 hours ago
- NDTV
Israel Seized Gaza-Bound Ship With Greta Thunberg On Board. Can It Do That?
Quick Read Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. A Gaza-bound ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists like Greta Thunberg was seized by Israel. Israel has allegedly violated international law by intercepting the ship. Israel has also had a history of blockading aid entering Gaza as a form of resistance. Jerusalem: Israeli naval forces, far from the country's shores, intercepted and seized a Gaza-bound ship carrying international activists, including Greta Thunberg, in an early morning raid Monday. The operation sparked accusations that Israel's actions, apparently in the high seas, were a breach of international law. The activists say their journey was meant to protest Israel's ongoing war in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there. The ship was carrying aid destined for people in Gaza, including baby formula and food. The activists, including Thunberg, were detained and were headed to Israel for likely deportation. It's not the first time Israel has halted ships carrying aid bound for the Palestinian territory. A raid in 2010 descended into violence between activists and Israeli commandos, leaving eight Turks and one Turkish-American killed. Most of the other operations against Gaza-bound boats have ended uneventfully, with ships diverted and activists detained. Israel says the latest ship planned to violate its blockade on Gaza and says it acted in accordance with international law. Can Israel storm a ship in the high seas? Here is a look at the legal debate. Intercepted Far Off The Coast Of Gaza The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which organized the latest ship, says the Madleen was intercepted in international waters some 200 kilometers (124 miles) off the coast of Gaza, a claim that could not be independently verified. Israeli authorities have not disclosed the location where the ship was halted. Robbie Sabel, an international law expert and former legal adviser to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea stipulates that a state only has jurisdiction up to 12 nautical miles (19 kilometers) from its shores. In general, states don't have the right to seize ships in international waters, but there are exceptions, including during armed conflict, Sabel added. He said that even before the latest war, Israel was in an armed conflict with Hamas, allowing it to intercept ships it suspected were violating its longstanding blockade of Gaza, which Egypt also enforced. Rights groups have long criticized the blockade as unlawful collective punishment against Palestinians. Sabel cited a U.N. report on the 2010 raid that ended in activist fatalities, which stated that "attempts to breach a lawfully imposed naval blockade place the vessel and those on board at risk." The debate over the legality of Israel's blockade remains unresolved among legal experts. The U.N. report urged states to be cautious in the use of force against civilian vessels and called on humanitarian missions to deliver aid through regular channels. It said a country maintaining a naval blockade "must abide by their obligations with respect to the provision of humanitarian assistance." A Debate Over Israel's Right To Act Yuval Shany, an expert on international law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said that so long as Israel's blockade of Gaza is "militarily justified" - meant to keep out weapons - and the ship intended to break it, Israel can intercept the vessel after prior warning. Whether the blockade is militarily justified is also up for debate. Suhad Bishara, head of the legal department at Adalah, a legal rights group in Israel representing the activists, said Israel was not justified in acting against a ship in international waters that posed no military threat. "In principle, Israel cannot extend an arm into international waters and carry out whatever action against a ship there," she said. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein said that "everything that was done was done in accordance with international law," referring to the ship takeover. Gaza And Israel's Obligations Under International Law Rights groups say the legal questions are complicated by Gaza's unique status. The United Nations and much of the international community view Gaza as Israeli-occupied territory, along with east Jerusalem and the West Bank, all of which Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want the three territories to form their future state. Israel argues that it withdrew from Gaza in 2005, when it pulled out its soldiers and settlers, even though it maintained control over Gaza's coastline, airspace and most of its land border. Hamas, which does not accept Israel's existence, seized power in Gaza two years later. Amnesty International says Israel has an obligation as the occupying power to make sure that Palestinians in Gaza have enough access to humanitarian supplies, something Amnesty says Israel was preventing by not allowing the Madleen through. Amnesty and other groups see the seizure of the Madleen as part of a campaign by Israel throughout the war to limit or entirely deny aid into Gaza. Israel says it has allowed enough aid to enter Gaza to sustain the population and accuses Hamas of siphoning it off, while U.N. agencies and aid groups deny there has been any systematic diversion. Israel's aid policy during the war has driven the territory toward famine, experts say, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accused by the International Criminal Court of using starvation as a method of warfare by restricting humanitarian aid into Gaza, charges he has rejected. "By forcibly intercepting and blocking the Madleen, which was carrying humanitarian aid and a crew of solidarity activists, Israel has once again openly disregarded its legal obligations towards civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip," Amnesty International's secretary general, Agnes Callamard, said in a statement. The group called for the immediate and unconditional release of the activists, who it said were on a humanitarian mission.
India.com
15 hours ago
- India.com
Pakistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan join hands against India and its friends; their plan includes Kashmir, Greece and..., want Rafale to...
New Delhi: During Operation Sindoor, a limited war went on between India and Pakistan for about 4 days. During this war, the weapons of China and Turkey were exposed. Turkey considers itself a drone superpower, but its drones were destroyed by Indian air shield. Turkey is furious because of this. Recently, a meeting was held between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Pakistan PM Shahbaz Sharif and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in which further strategy was made after this crushing defeat. The trio of Pakistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan has announced that they will further strengthen the defense relationship. In fact, while Pakistan has its eyes on Kashmir, Turkey and Azerbaijan are targeting two friendly countries of India on which it is strengthening military preparations to attack. Let's understand the whole matter. Erdogan has now started targeting New Delhi's friend Greece. Turkey is threatening Greece that just as Pakistan shot down India's fighter jet, Erdogan's army will shoot down Greece's planes in the same way. Recently, Greece has bought 24 Rafale fighter jets from France. This has infuriated the Turkish government. Turkey's government-sponsored media is busy raising questions on the capability of Greece's Rafale fighter jet. There has been tension between Turkey and Greece for many years. Turkey targeting Greece and India The way India foiled Turkey's Bayraktar TB-2 drone has exposed Turkish drone technology. Turkey has sold it to Ukraine and Azerbaijan. India's neighbouring countries Maldives, Pakistan and Bangladesh have bought this Bayraktar TB-2 drone. At the same time, India openly stands with Greece and is also ready to invest in the field of port, tourism and defense. India's Akash and T-4 defense system shot down Turkey's drone. Now Turkey is afraid that India can export weapons to Greece. Not only this, India's defense relations with Turkey's opponents Cyprus and Armenia have also become strong. India has supplied many excellent weapons to Armenia. Due to this, the nefarious plans of Pakistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan seem to be failing. In fact, Turkey has been threatening to attack Greece and Armenia for many years. Turkey and Greece hostility Turkey claims that it occupies 152 islands in the Aegean Sea, which were given to Greece after the treaty between Turkey and Italy in 1923. The Treaty of Paris of 1947 also contributed to this. Apart from Greece, Turkey also has its eyes on Armenia. Azerbaijan is occupying a large area of Armenia with the help of Turkey. India has given many deadly weapons to Armenia to foil the devious moves of Turkey and Azerbaijan. This also includes the Pinaka rocket system. The US had decided to give F-16 to Turkey when it agreed that it would not stop flights over the Greek islands. After this, Erdogan broke his promise. Both Turkey and Greece are NATO member countries.
