Daily Archives: January 30, 2022

2022-01-30: News Headlines

Editor (2022-01-30). Lee Camp and Legendary Journalist John Pilger on Assange, Ukraine, & More. scheerpost.com Lee Camp has a very important guest this week. John Pilger is a brilliant journalist with a long history of award-winning reporting. They discuss the show-trial faced by Julian Assange and the current situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine. Julian Assange recently received some good news after a decade of torturous detainment when a British court decided that he could appeal his extradition into the hands of a government who had tried to assassinate him. They then dive into the current reality of a collapsing U.S. Empire and how it's leading into a dangerous period of nuclear brinkmanship between the…

_____ (2022-01-29). Call To Action: No War With Russia Over Ukraine. popularresistance.org Once again, our world is facing an imminent threat of war between two major nuclear powers. As in the past, the United States is using the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as the vehicle to wage war in clear violation of international law and the Charter of United Nations. | The Biden administration is currently flying $200 million worth of weapons and other "lethal aid" to Ukraine and has 8,500 US troops on standby to enter that country. 'Nonessential' US diplomatic personnel and their families are being withdrawn from the country. The corporate media is lockstep in its portrayal of Russia as the enemy…

_____ (2022-01-29). Is Washington Under Alien Control? strategic-culture.org Biden and Blinken get everything backwards in terms of US interests | By Philip GIRALDI | The drama currently unfolding in which the Biden Administration is doing everything it can to provoke a war with Russia over Ukraine is possibly the most frightening foreign policy misadventure since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1967 Lyndon Johnson attempt to sink the USS Liberty and blame it on Egypt, either of which could have gone nuclear. I can well recall the Robert Heinlein sci-fi book The Puppet Masters, later made into a movie, which described how alien-slugs, arriving by way of a flying saucer landing in Io…

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-29). Russia calls on U.S. to withdraw nuclear weapons from Europe, cease joint nuclear drills with non-nuclear allies. globalresearch.ca This is a serious issue, perhaps the most serious of issues in Europe, but coming as it does immediately on the heels of Russia's prior list of demands being resolutely rejected by the U.S. and NATO yesterday, the prospects of …

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-29). Iran-Russia trade turnover breaks record in 2021: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Russian Trade Representative in Iran Rustam Zhiganshin said that Russian Federation's trade volume with the Islamic Republic of Iran hit a historical record high in 2021 and reached about $4 billion.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-29). Efforts underway to hold new round of Astana Summit. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin announced the upcoming meeting of Astana Talks on Syria in the spring with the participation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russian Federation, and Republic of Turkey.

teleSUR (2022-01-29). Iran and Group 4+1 to Return to Vienna Talks After One Week. telesurenglish.net Iran's Fars news agency reported on Friday that the delegations of Iran and the Group 4+1 – the UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany – at the Vienna talks will return to their countries for the purpose of consultations. | RELATED: | The break in the negotiations, the agency stressed, takes place because of the importance of the outstanding issues being discussed. | In fact, after a week's pause, the dialogues will start agai…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-29). Independence, self-reliance salient achievements of IR. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Deputy Coordinator of Army Ideological-Political Organization said that independence, self-credence and self-reliance are of the salient achievements of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-01-29). US-China race to discover debris after F-35 crashes (+VIDEO). en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — After F-35 crashed into the South China Sea, the US and China have begun a race to find the wreckage.

Staff (2022-01-29). West African bloc suspends Burkina Faso after military coup. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — The West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, has suspended Burkina Faso in the aftermath of a military coup, making it the third member nation to be punished for a military takeover in only 18 months.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-01-29). 20 female athletes to take part at Brazilian Deaflympics. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — The vice president of the women's department of the Iran Deaf Sports Federation said as many as 20 deaf sportswomen will be sent to Brazil to at part at Deaflympics later this year.

Staff (2022-01-29). Headlines of Iran's Persian dailies on January 29. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Mehr News agency takes a look at the headlines of Iran's Persian-language dailies on Saturday, January 29.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-01-29). Raeisi congrats Kazekhestan on 3th anniv. of diplomatic ties. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — In separate messages to Nursultan Nazarbayev and President Kassym-Jomart, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi offered congratulations on the 30th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations with Iran.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-29). CBI urges S. Korea to return Iran's frozen assets. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has submitted a letter of intent (LOI) for Investor-State Dispute Settlement(ISDS), requesting South Korea to return its frozen assets locked in Korean banks.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-29). 15th edition of Intl. Tourism Exhibition kicks off in Tehran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — The 15th edition of Iran International Tourism Exhibition and 35th Tehran Handicrafts Exhibition were inaugurated at Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds on Saturday Jan. 29.

Editor (2022-01-29). Brazil Elections 2022: Greenwald debates Mier. mronline.org On January 24, Brasil Wire editor Brian Mier appeared on Eoin Higgins podcast, Flashpoint, to present his analysis of Brazilian Congressman David Miranda and his husband Glenn Greenwald's abandonment of the PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party) for the moderate PDT.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-01-29). "FP" think tank formed at foreign ministry headed by FM. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — A "Foreign Policy" think tank has been formed with the attendance 75 university professors at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its meetings are chaired by Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Staff (2022-01-29). Front pages of Iran's English dailies on January 29. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Here are the front pages of Iran's English language dailies on Saturday, January 29.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-01-29). Iran-UAE qualifying match to be held in empty stadium. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — The Iranian National Taskforce for Fighting Coronavirus said in a statement that as the Covid-19 infection rate is rising rapidly in the country, the Iran-UAE qualifying match to be held in Tehran Azadi stadium without fans.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-01-29). Iran handball fails to reach final of Asian championships. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — The national Iranian men's handball team lost to the team of Qatar at the semifinal of the 2022 Asian Men's Handball Championship on Saturday.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-29). Iran, S Korea set for working-level talks over frozen assets. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Informed sources say that South Korea and Iran plan to hold working-level consultations next month in Seoul to discuss ways to untangle years-long disputes over Tehran's assets frozen under US sanctions.

Staff (2022-01-29). I.R. Iran National Muaythai Association becomes federation. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — "According to international law and with the approval of the I.R. Iran National Muaythai Association, Muaythai is a non-governmental federation from now on," Nasiri, the head of the newly created Iranian federation said.

Staff (2022-01-29). Emirati mercenaries to withdraw from Yemen's Shabwah. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Being one of the mercenary groups in Yemen, Giants Brigades Saturday announced that its forces withdrew from Shabwa province to their previous positions.

Staff (2022-01-29). Yemeni attack on Emirati forces leaves 40 dead, injured. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — The Spokesman for Yemen Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced that a large gathering of UAE-affiliated mercenaries and ISIL members in Shabwa province has been targeted by a ballistic missile.

Staff (2022-01-29). Vienna talks to be paused for a week. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Deputy EU Foreign Policy Chief Enrique Mora said that the Vienna talks will have a one-week pause, stating that currently, political decisions are needed.

Staff (2022-01-29). Iraqi air defense blocks passage of US drone over Samarra. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — An Iraqi security source said on Saturday afternoon that the Iraqi air defense prevented a reconnaissance drone belonging to the US coalition from flying over Samarra in Salah al-Din province.

Staff (2022-01-29). German parliament approves extending troops mission in Iraq. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — The German Parliament Bundestag has approved extending German troops' mission in Iraq for nine months while Iraq had already announced the end of foreign troops' mission on Iraqi soil last year.

Staff (2022-01-29). Britain behind recent conspiracy against Iraqi security. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Qais al-Khazali, the secretary general of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH) has blamed the UK for the escalation of tensions in Iraq and the attacks on Baghdad's Green Zone while pointing to the counterproductive UAE role as well.

Staff (2022-01-29). Car bomb exploded in Somalian capital. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Somali media reported that a car bomb has exploded in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu.

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