Governor: Iran Not Leaving OPEC Potential Sign of Alien Life Detected on Venus

TEHRAN (Press TV) -- Iran’s OPEC governor said WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Scientists said on Monday they Monday the country is not mulling any departure from the have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries some six- inhospitable neighbor, a tantalizing sign of potential life be- ty years after it helped found the key global energy cartel. yond Earth. The researchers did not discover actual life forms, “Iran and OPEC are not separate from each other and but noted that on Earth phosphine is produced by bacteria expressing some thoughts or statements on departure thriving in oxygen-starved environments. The international scientific team first spotted the phosphine using the James from the OPEC is favorable to the enemies and is against Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii and confirmed it using the the national interests of the country,” said Amir Hussein Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio Zamaninia. telescope in Chile.

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It called on the German embassy tinued adherence to the principles Religious and political figures in to “recognize the limits of its dip- and customs of international diplo- the kingdom released statements on lomatic duties and not go beyond macy.” Sunday rejecting the normalization them.” “In contrast, it is the United plan. “Interference in the laws, regula- States and the current regime in the “There is a great divergence be- tions and judicial procedures of the White House that, especially in re- tween the rulers and the ruled in Islamic Republic of Iran is not tol- cent years, has shown its disregard thought, mind, aims and interests. erable in any way,” the statement for basic diplomatic principles and Governments are experiencing a added. become a pariah regime in the in- psychological defeat and want to Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old con- ternational arena with numerous impose it on the people, and the vict, was executed at a prison in actions outside the internationally- people have to resist this defeat,” the southern city of Shiraz on Sat- accepted methods and norms, in- said Ayatollah Qassim. urday. cluding the design and execution A Palestinian demonstrator burns posters depicting Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Bahrainis were vocally critical af- According to Iran’s judiciary, of dozens of assassination plans and U.S. President Donald Trump. ter the deal was announced on Fri- he had been found guilty of “vol- and military and intelligence in- MANAMA (Dispatches) – Bah- eral lockdown. stance on the plan. with the United Arab Emirates and day, making “Bahrainis against nor- untary homicide” for stabbing to terventions, withdrawal from nu- rain’s main opposition group, Al- “The Bahraini regime practices in- Bahrain. malization” the most popular topic death a water department employ- merous international agreements, Wefaq, on Monday said several sports timidation and threats to force some U.S. President Donald Trump on on social media. ee on August 2, 2018. violation of territorial integrity and and religious organizations on the institutions to support its agreement Friday announced that Bahrain had The head of Bahrain’s highest In a message written in Farsi post- the cowardly assassination of Gen- tiny island have received threatening with the Zionist entity,” the group struck an agreement to normalize court ordered judiciary employees ed on its official Twitter account on eral Qassem Soleimani, the glori- messages from the Manama regime said, adding the regime is also pre- relations with Tel Aviv, hailing the not to attack the regime’s policy or Sunday, the German embassy said, ous commander of the fight against to support normalization with the oc- venting people from holding rallies deal as yet another “HISTORIC express opinions purportedly harm- “We were deeply shocked by the terrorism.” cupying regime of Israel or face con- against the deal. breakthrough.” ing national unity, Al-Bilad newspa- execution of Navid Afkari.” On January 3, the United States sequences. Despite Manama’s desperate ef- The U.S.-mediated agreements per reported on Sunday. The embassy said that Afkari’s used an armed drone to assassinate In a statement posted on its Twit- forts to silence opposition voices, have been met with uniform con- Bahrainis have previously criti- two brothers held in connection General Soleimani along with Abu ter page, Al-Wefaq said a number there is a national consensus on re- demnation of Palestinians who have cized the Al Khalifa regime’s en- with the riots “are still in prison Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second- of institutions Israeli prime minister jecting normalization with the Zion- called normalization with the Zion- gagements with Israel, including and now they need our solidarity.” in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mo- Benjamin Netanyahu has headed to ist regime, it said. ist regime a stab in their back and last June’s conference in Manama Earlier on Monday, a judiciary of- bilization Units (PMU) and a num- the United States amid protests in On Monday, the occupying regime sheer betrayal of their cause. to launch a U.S.-led $50 billion ficial condemned the “interference ber of their companions, outside the occupied territories against his of Israel’s prime minister Benja- According to Al-Wefaq, many or- economic package as part of U.S. of some European embassies” and Baghdad airport. mishandling of the coronavirus pan- min Netanyahu headed to the U.S. ganizations and institutions inside President Donald Trump’s Middle called on them to “not be a loud- Iran responded to the terrorist demic that prompted a second gen- to sign a normalization agreement Bahrain are worried about the level East plan. speaker for lies like an opposition act with a volley of ballistic mis- group.” siles fired at two U.S. bases in Iraq, “Foreign pressure will neither which left about 110 American Protests Hit Pennsylvania After dull the sharp tip of the judiciary’s troops injured. U.S., Iran Battle Over Inhuman justice, nor lessen its Islamic mer- Khatibzadeh said, “The Islamic cy and compassion,” Mizan Online Republic of Iran, as it has repeat- Black Man Shot Dead quoted the judiciary’s deputy head edly stated, will continue to pur- LANCASTER, PA. (Dispatch- leave, according to local news Sanctions at World Court for international affairs Ali Baqeri sue international legal action in es) -- A police officer fatally shot outlets. as saying. connection with the criminal and a Black man during a domestic As for the use of “chemical mu- THE HAGUE (Dispatches) -- the World Court, Washington an- cowardly assassination of General disturbance call, prompting street nitions” against protesters early Lawyers for the United States tried nounced it was officially with- ‘U.S. Report of Assassination Soleimani at all levels, and will protests in Pennsylvania. Monday, the police department on Monday to reject the jurisdiction drawing, but that move was not Plan Baseless’ neither forgive nor forget this ter- Police posted the officer’s body said in a statement that the crowd of the UN’s highest court to resolve a retroactive and has no effect on rorist act.” camera video on social media, was given several warnings to case brought by Iran seeking to lift this ongoing case. Separately, Iran vehemently dis- The spokesman said baseless purportedly showing the man disperse before the gas was de- U.S. sanctions against Tehran. Hearings this week in The Hague missed a U.S. report that Tehran allegations such as the one pub- chasing the officer down a side- ployed. Iran brought the claim to the In- will only deal with the preliminary planned to kill a US diplomat in lished in the Politico are “part of walk with a knife before he was The crowd “failed to follow the ternational Court of Justice (ICJ), matter of whether the court has ju- retaliation for American assassina- the Trump administration’s coun- fatally shot, and eventually used instructions,” police stated, add- also known as the World Court, risdiction to hear the dispute. tion of General Qassem Soleimani. ter-intelligence campaign against tear gas early Monday to disperse ing that items including glass in 2018, asking the court to or- In an earlier case involving Ira- The outright rebuttal by Iran’s Iran.” the crowds. bottles, gallon jugs filled with der Washington to lift sanctions nian assets frozen by the U.S., the Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeid “The U.S. regime’s resort to Hundreds of protesters took to liquid, parts of plastic road barri- against Iran because they breach a World Court ruled in 2019 that the Khatibzadeh on Monday came af- anti-Iranian accusations and lies the streets of Lancaster follow- cades and more had been thrown decades-old friendship treaty. friendship treaty could provide a ter Politico news website claimed in the run-up to the U.S. presiden- ing the shooting death of Ricardo at officers. Washington has maintained that legal basis for calling in the top that Iran had sought to assassinate tial election, and at the same time Munoz, 27, on Sunday afternoon. In Tennessee, Black Lives Mat- the real aim of Iran’s legal suit is UN court in an Iran-U.S. dispute. US Ambassador to South Africa its pressure to abuse UN Security The crowd formed outside the ter demonstrators took to the to restore a 2015 nuclear pact op- In October, 2018, the court or- Lana Marks. Council mechanisms to increase police station, where the depart- streets of downtown Johnson posed by the administration of dered the U.S. to ensure that the Khatibzadeh said the “biased and pressure on the Iranian people, was ment stated multiple buildings City Sunday night, one day after President Donald Trump. sanctions against Iran did not af- agenda-driven” report published predictable. and government vehicles were a demonstrator was run over by Tehran argues that the sanctions, fect humanitarian aid or civil avia- in the American media outlet cited “Nevertheless, such moves and damaged by demonstrators. a vehicle in a crosswalk during a imposed by Washington when it tion safety. the statements of a seemingly U.S. news fabrications, probably to con- The body camera video posted march in the city Saturday eve- abandoned the 2015 nuclear pact, The ICJ is the United Nations’ government official in an effort to tinue in the future, will certainly by police late Sunday showed the ning. violate their 1955 “Treaty of Am- highest court for resolving dis- make it appear true. remain futile, adding to Washing- officer fire several shots while The march was “for all of the ity”, or bilateral friendship agree- putes between nations. Its rulings “We advise American officials ton’s long list of ongoing failures running away from Munoz, who voices that are unheard, all of the ment. are binding, but it has no power to to stop resorting to hackneyed and against the Islamic Republic of then falls to the ground. The offi- people being murdered but it is After Iran filed two cases based enforce them. outworn methods to create Irano- Iran,” he added. cer was placed on administrative (Continued on Page 7) on the treaty against the U.S. at (Continued on Page 7)