Iran
Nuclear Deal: Iran May Recall Envoys From Britain, France, Germany
There are strong indications that the Islamic Republic of Iran is at the threshold of recalling its envoys from Britain, France and Germany, after they led the global West to kill a vote seeking to extend the period for talks on its nuclear programme.
All three countries- with the code of E-3, had led the efforts to reimpose crippling sanctions on Iran over the alleged failure to keep faith with its commitment to the international community over its nuclear programme.
China and Russia- both veto – wielding members of the United Nations Security Council UNS- had, yesterday, presented a proposal for a vote on extending the freeze on the sanctions and to allow diplomacy to reignite on the matter.
But the effort failed after the vute was overwhelmingly defeated at the UNSC, with only Russia, China, Pakistan and Algeria supporting it.
The other 11 members of the UNSC, led by France and Britain, both veto- carrying members, voted against it.
Following the outcome of the vote, Iran will now face a plethora of crippling economic and diplomatic sanctions , including global assets freeze, a lid on its nuclear enrichment programme and an arms embargo.
Reacting to the development, informed sources said that Iran had taken a preliminary response by the imminent recall of it’s envoys to all three countries.
A source said the actual implementation of the decision of the government would come soon.
Iran’ s nuclear programme became a matter of global concern after it allegedly enriched its Uranium, the base raw material for nuclear fusion, to the critical 60 per cent benchmark, after America, during the first term of the Donald Trump presidency, unilaterally walked out of the nuclear deal between Teheran and the international community via the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
As American and Iranian officials primed to resume talks on the prospect of restituting the deal, Israel, which itself has nuclear military capability, began bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities in Isfahan Natanz and Fordow, the last of which is some 250 feet below a mountain.
Israel, which lacked the appropriate ordnance to reach the depth of the Fordow facility, had to reach out to America for military support, following which Washington had to deploy a total of 250 aircraft, including seven units of the giant B-2 Bombers, on a sortie that was code named Operation Midnight Hammer, to attack it.
Iranian sources said the imminent recall of the envoys represents the first reaction of the country to the unfolding scenario.
Palestine
MSF Pulls Out Of Gaza City
One of the world’s leading humanitarian medical doctors, Medesins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) says it is pulling out of Gaza City, in the face of the ongoing military campaign on the city by Israel.
Israel says it launched the campaign in an effort to capture and occupy the city.
Following battle field advancements by Israeli troops, MSF said it was no longer safe to continue to operate in the city in the face of the real danger to staff and patients.
Jose Mas, lead figure in the MSF, said that Israeli troops had given no consideration to the international convention that insulates hospital and other medical facilities from attacks.
He told the press that Israeli tanks and troops were already operating less than a kilometer from their clinics, hence the need to shut operations for the safety of the doctors and the patients.
Masvregretted that even before the decision to shut operations in the city, Israeli troops had virtually destroyed all the medical facilities in the city and other parts of Gaza Strip.
He said he feared that the already decrepit humanitarian situation in the city and other parts of the strip could worsen and lead to more deaths, some of them avoidable.
America
Elon Musk, Prince Andrews Named In Fresh Epstein Files
Fresh files on the Jeffrey Epstein Files saga have named the World ‘s richest man, Elon Musk, and scion of the British monarchy , Prince Andrews, Prince of York.
The development has expanded the scope and intensity of the public in the matter in which American President, Donald Trump, has been linked, though he denied the charges of association with the convicted serial sex offender who reportedly died in prison by suicide.
The latest files, apparently leaked by vested interests in America, showed the Musk has been invited by Epstein to his Virgin Island resort in 2014.
Musk said he declined the invitation.
The files showed that Prince Andrew was a passenger aboard the private plane of Epstein in 2000.
The flight was reportedly scheduled for the Virgin Island resort of Epstein.
Prince Andrew was yet to respond to the link uncovered in the latest files.
The latest development has added a fresh new dimension to the saga to which Trump has been linked.
Major journals recently published proximate photographs of Trump and Epstein, as well as his warm personal letter to the convict on his 50th birthday.
There is a growing bi-partisan clamour in America for Trump to come clean on the Epstein Saga.
South Korea
Koreans Protest Poor Climate Change Policy of Govt
Thousands of South Korea s have taken to the street in protest at what they called the poor environmental policies of their government.
They demanded a review of the existing policies to tackle the effects of Climate Change which, they say, are already manifesting in the country.
One of the leading Pro- Climate Change Policy advocates, Soh Yong Hung, Director, Centre for Climate Change, said the protests in Seoul, capital of the country, were meant to create greater awareness in the dangers of Climate Change and the necessity to review prevailing attitudes to have a more friendly weather pattern.
