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Top Iranian cleric calls for Trump's execution
A top Iranian cleric called for the executions of President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in accordance with Sharia law while speaking during a sermon on Friday. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami accused the two leaders of murdering tens of thousands of people in Gaza and the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, according to a translation of the remarks by Memri TV. "You are murderers, and you need to be punished," Khatami said, per the translation. The crowd responded with chants of "Death to America," "Death to England" and "Death to Israel." Khatami is a member of the Iranian regime's Guardian Council and a senior member of the Assembly of Experts. Tensions between Iran and Israel escalated to a 12-day war last month, amid an ongoing war between Israel and the regime's Gaza-based proxy Hamas, which started when the group attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Trump has made clear that following the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, he would like to see the Gaza conflict end soon. Relations between the U.S. and Iran were also tense after the U.S. launched a surprise strike on three of Iran's key nuclear sites last month. Trump recently took a swipe at Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying that the U.S. knew where the Iranian leader was hiding. "We know exactly where the so-called 'Supreme Leader' is hiding," Trump wrote at the time. "He is an easy target, but is safe there — we are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don't want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin." Iranian officials have since launched a war of words against Trump, demanding he respect Khamenei or else risk facing the regime's "real capabilities."
Los Angeles Times
an hour ago
- Los Angeles Times
U.S. envoy receives the Lebanese government's response to Hezbollah disarmament proposal
BEIRUT — A U.S. envoy said Monday he was satisfied with the Lebanese government's response to a proposal to disarm the militant Hezbollah group, adding that Washington is ready to help the small nation emerge from its long-running political and economic crisis. The U.S. envoy to Lebanon, Tom Barrack, spoke to journalists after meeting President Joseph Aoun, saying he will study the government's seven-page response. Barrack said the American and Lebanese sides are committed 'to get a resolution.' 'What the government gave us was something spectacular in a very short period of time and a very complicated manner,' Barrack said during his 20-minute news conference at the presidential palace southeast of Beirut. His meetings in Lebanon came amid fears that Hezbollah's refusal to immediately disarm would renew war with Israel after a shaky ceasefire agreement went into effect in November. Last month, Barrack gave Lebanese officials a proposal that aims to disarm Hezbollah and move on with some economic reforms to try get Lebanon out of its nearly six-year economic crisis, the worst in its modern history. The economic meltdown is rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by Lebanon's political class. Barrack said Lebanon should change in the same way Syria has following the fall in December of Syrian President Bashar Assad,who was replaced by a new leadership that is moving ahead with major economic reforms. Barrack said President Trump and the U.S. are ready to help Lebanon change and 'if you don't want change, it's no problem. The rest of the region is moving at high speed,' he said. Hezbollah's weapons have been one of the principal sticking points since Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000, ending an 18-year occupation. The two sides fought a destructive war in 2006 that ended in a draw. The latest Israel-Hezbollah war began a day after the Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel and intensified in September, leaving the Iran-backed group badly bruised and much of its political and military leadership dead. Since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect in November, Hezbollah has almost ended all its military presence along the border with Israel, which is insisting that the group disarms all over Lebanon. Aoun said Sunday that the number of Lebanese troops along the border with Israel will increase to 10,000, adding that only Lebanese soldiers and U.N. peacekeepers will be armed on the Lebanese side of the border. On Sunday night, hours before Barrack arrived in Beirut, Israel's air force carried out strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, wounding nine people, according to state media. The Israeli army said the airstrikes hit Hezbollah's infrastructure, arms depots and missile launchers. Earlier Sunday, Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem reiterated the militant group's refusal to lay down its weapons before Israel withdraws from all of southern Lebanon and stops its airstrikes. The Hezbollah-Israel war left over 4,000 people dead in Lebanon and caused destruction estimated at $11 billion. In Israel, 127 people, including 80 soldiers, were killed during the war. Since the November ceasefire, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on different parts of Lebanon, killing about 250 people and injuring over 600. Israel is also still holding five strategic posts inside Lebanon that it refused to withdraw from earlier this year. Chehayeb and Mroue write for the Associated Press.
New York Times
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- New York Times
Iran Carries Out Mass Expulsion of Afghan Refugees
Hundreds of thousands of hungry, exhausted and often battered Afghans have been expelled from Iran in recent weeks, under a harsh deportation drive that accelerated sharply last month, international aid workers say. Since March, when Iranian authorities ordered undocumented residents to leave the country, about 800,000 Afghans have poured across the border, Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the United Nations' refugee agency, said on Monday. Almost 600,000 of them have been forced out since June 1. During and since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran last month, Iranian officials have repeatedly cast suspicion on Afghans as possible spies for Israel, amplifying longstanding rumors and tensions. In that environment, and with the approach of a July 6 deadline set by the Iranian government, the pace of migrations soared to an average of about 30,000 per day recently, peaking on Friday at more than 50,000 people crossing into Afghanistan, Mr. Baloch said. Iran has ranked as the world's biggest host country for refugees, with nearly 3.5 million according to the United Nations, primarily people who fled decades of war and violence in Afghanistan. Aid groups estimate that in reality, the Afghan population in Iran is much larger — including about two million refugees who are undocumented — and Iran's patience with them appears to have run out. Iranian authorities say that Afghans with proper documents are still accepted, but U.N. officials say that the reality is harsher — some of those returning to Afghanistan in recent weeks had received visas from Iran's consulate in the western town of Herat, but still were compelled to leave. 'The gloves are off,' Arafat Jamal, the U.N. refugee agency representative in Kabul said in a phone interview. 'There's a bit of a frenzy at the moment, no one is going to oppose deportations of Afghans right now so those who wish to deport them have been ramping it up.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
