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President Assad Hails Strategic Ties After Military Deal Kayhan Group of Newspapers and on the Day When He Will Gather Them As Editorial Dept 2 July 11, 2020 DOMESTIC NEWS President Assad Hails Strategic Ties After Military Deal Kayhan Group of Newspapers And on the day when He will gather them as Editorial Dept. Tel.: 33911561, 33110251-9 though they had not Ext.: 2334, 2336, 2337 stayed but an hour of the day, they will know each Advertising Dept.: 33110251-9 Ext. 2336 other. They will perish Subscription Ext.: 2322 indeed who called the Facsimile: 33114228 & 33111120 meeting with Allah to be Website: www.kayhan.ir/en a lie, and they are not followers of the right di- E-mail: [email protected] rection. P.O. Box: 11365/9631 The Holy Qur’an (10.45) Address: Martyr Shah Cheraghi Street, Ferdowsi Avenue, Tehran – Islamic Republic of Iran PRAYER TIMINGS Noon (Zohr) 13:10 In the Name of the Most High Evening(Maghreb) 20:42 Viewpoint Dawn(Fajr)“Tomorrow” 04:14 Sunrise “Tomorrow” 05:58 Upgrading of Iran-Syria Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, center right, holds talks with head of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian armed forces Major General Muhammad Baqeri in Damascus July 9, 2020. Pompeo Defence Ties Ensures DAMASCUS (Dispatches) -- bilateral ties between the two Baqeri said Iran plans to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad friendly and brotherly nations in strengthen Syria’s air defense sys- Lies to Have Regional Stability said here Thursday a military all fields.” tems as part of a military agree- By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer agreement signed between Damas- The top Iranian military offi- ment between the allies. Iran Arms cus and Tehran a day before is the cial also stressed that continued “We will strengthen Syria’s air de- The western media is rife with rumours regarding the recent up- result of years of cooperation in strengthening of bilateral ties is in fense systems in order to improve Ban Extended fighting against terrorism. the interests of Iran and Syria and military cooperation between the grading of the traditional Iran-Syria defence ties for bolstering TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- “This agreement reflects the stra- that he supports it against any at- two countries,” he said after arriv- Damascus’ air power against terrorism of all kinds, including the Iran on Thursday denied that takfiri threats and the illegal foreign military presence in parts of tegic level of relations between tempts to interfere in the domestic ing for an official visit. The deal Iran and Syria and is the outcome affairs of the two countries and will “further enhance our will... to U.S. forces had seized a boat car- the country. rying Iranian weapons to Houthi It was a routine reaffirmation of the close ties the two Muslim of years of common measures and damage their independent deci- confront pressures by America.” cooperation in the fight against sion-making. The occupying regime of Israel fighters in Yemen, saying the countries have enjoyed over the past four decades since the victory terrorism in Syria,” Assad told Major General Baqeri arrived has launched hundreds of strikes charge was aimed at extending of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and Syria’s strategic decision to head of the Chiefs of Staff of the in Damascus on Wednesday in Syria since the start of an im- a UN arms embargo on Tehran. close the Iraqi oil pipeline to its Banias port on the Mediterranean U.S. Secretary of State Mike Iranian armed forces Major Gen- and signed a “comprehensive” posed war there in 2011, targeting Pompeo claimed in Washing- during the 8-year war the US had imposed on the Islamic Republic eral Muhammad Baqeri. agreement with Syrian Defense government troops and their al- ton on Wednesday that U.S. through the repressive Ba’th minority regime of Baghdad. Baqeri, for his part, underlined Minister Ali Abdullah Ayoub to lies in a bid to stop their advances and unidentified allied forces It was yet another proof that the Islamic Republic of Iran will al- “the importance of Iran’s con- strengthen military and defense and prevent the defeat of foreign- had interdicted a vessel off ways stand beside Syria and the fraternal Syrian people to protect tinued efforts aimed at boosting cooperation. backed terrorists. their Islamic dignity, national sovereignty, and territorial integrity, Yemen’s coast on June 28 that at a time when the western-backed terrorists have slaughtered al- was carrying Iranian arms to most half a million men, women, and children over the past nine U.S. Assassination Set a the Houthis. years, in addition to making millions of other Syrians homeless. “Lying, accusations and The latest agreement signed in Damascus by Chief of Staff of spreading hatred are key ele- ‘Dangerous Precedent’: UN ments of America’s foreign the Iranian Armed Forces, Major-General Mohammad Hussein policy, especially in the current Baqeri, and Syrian Defence Minister Ali Abdullah Ayyoub, is con- GENEVA (Dispatches) -- A UN special rapporteur The international community must now confront the regime,” Iran’s Foreign Minis- tinuation of the comprehensive military cooperation inked way back says the U.S. has put the world at unprecedented peril “real prospect” that states would follow in Washing- try spokesman Abbas Mousavi on 16th June 2006 in Tehran by the then defence ministers of the with its assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror command- ton’s footsteps by trying to justify and carry out such er General Qassem Soleimani, warning it is high time the acts of bloodshed, she added. said. “Pompeo’s remarks stem two countries – Iran’s Mustafa Najjar and Syria’s Hassan Turk- from this approach.” mani (the latter martyred in 2012 by terrorists on the payroll of the international community broke its silence on Washing- Apart from General Soleimani, former commander ton’s drone-powered unlawful killings. of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards U.S. President Donald US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. Trump’s administration has President Bashar al-Assad confirmed this point when he said dur- The January 3 assassination set a “dangerous prec- Corps, the attack near Baghdad International Airport edent,” placing the international community at edge killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-com- taken a hardline with the Unit- ing discussions with Maj.-Gen. Baqeri yesterday: “This agreement of a cliff, Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on mand of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) ed Nations to push it to extend reflects the strategic level of relations between Iran and Syria and is extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said anti-terror group, along with several others. The strike the embargo on Iran, saying the outcome of years of common measures and cooperation in the here Thursday as she presented the world body’s Hu- came while General Soleimani was on an official visit that lifting it would allow Teh- fight against terrorism in Syria.” man Rights Council with a report on the assassination. to the Iraqi capital. ran to acquire advanced weap- He is absolutely right. If not for the Islamic Republic’s strategic “On January 3rd 2020, the world moved into a very Both commanders enjoyed deep reverence among ons. advisory role in Syria, the macabrely murderous terrorists would difference space. On that day, the United States used Muslim nations over their endeavors in eliminating “Americans are trying to pro- have long fragmented the country into Zionist bases for expansion an armed drone to target and kill Iran’s top general, the U.S.-sponsored Daesh terrorist group in the re- vide excuses to continue their southwards towards Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Qassem Soleimani, as well as a number of his com- gion, particularly in Iraq and Syria. maximum pressure on Iran, ad- This is the reason the frustrated Zionist entity, having failed to panions, including largely Iraqi representatives,” she Callamard’s report underlines the “unlawful” nature vance their malicious goals and balkanize Syria through the terrorists, indulges in frequent air and said, adding, “That is a significant and troubling new of the operation, and shows how the U.S. has failed to to extend the arms embargo on missile attacks, which from now on will certainly be thwarted with development.” provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent Iran,” Mousavi said. the boosting of Syria’s air defences, especially since Iran has sig- Callamard called the attack “the first known inci- attack against its interests to justify the strike. Relations between the long- nificantly strengthened the large Syrian military base at Latakia dent” in which a state invokes what it calls “self-de- In response to the assassination, the IRGC fired vol- time foes have worsened since airport. fense as justification for an attack against a govern- leys of ballistic missiles at a U.S. air base in Iraq on 2018 when Trump abandoned an The Americans are also alarmed at the failure of their own terror- ment official outside a declared armed conflict.” (Continued on Page 7) (Continued on Page 7) ist policies, and know fully well that their forces have no place in a resurgent Syria, once the Syrian national army after completing the mopping up operations in Idlib, turns towards the eastern Euphra- Locals, Officials Deny Reports of Blast West of Tehran tes region and its oilfields to oust the uninvited US forces. TEHRAN (Dispatches) – A Islamic Republic have tried to conducted a missile attack on of its consequences.” On the Iraqi border, the American occupied enclave of at-Tanf is senior official on Friday dis- portray as coordinated. the American Ain al-Assad mili- Meanwhile, Javad Karimi also waiting for liberation, as well as the Golan Heights which the missed online reports of an explo- Only an explosion at the Na- tary base in Iraq.
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