2023-06-24: News Headlines

Anonymous669 (2023-06-24). Iran To Increase Range Of Fattah Hypersonic Missile To 2,000 Kilometers. southfront.org Illustrative image. | The range of the next version of the Iranian Fattah hypersonic ballistic missile will be extended to 2,000 kilometers, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force, who developed the missile, announced on June 24. | Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh made the announcement while attending a ceremony in the northern province of Mazandaran."Today, we have achieved all complex technologies in the field of the defense industry," the commander said during the ceremony, accordi…

Teri Mattson, WtF is Going on in Latin America, the Caribbean. (2023-06-24). Alex Saab, Three Years As A Kidnapped Diplomat. popularresistance.org June 12, 2023 was the third anniversary of the illegal kidnapping and imprisonment by the US of Alex Saab. | Because the brutality and cruelty of the US blockade was wreaking havoc on the economy and millions of the most vulnerable in Venezuela were being deliberately denied their human rights to the most basic necessities of daily life, President Nicolas Maduro tasked Saab with traveling around the world procuring food, medicines and fuel for his country. | Breaking every treaty, protocol, law and norm of international diplomacy, the US plotted to have Saab arrested while in transit to Iran to fulfill his diplom…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-23). Iran in America's Backyard: Raisi's Defiant Latin America Tour. libya360.wordpress.com Zafar Mehdi The Iranian president's visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba sought to challenge Washington's global hegemony, by stripping it bare in its own backyard. On 21 June, the US House Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Subcommittee conducted a hearing on "countering threats posed by nation-state actors" in Latin America to US homeland security. Congressman and subcommittee…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-23). Iran Joins Forces With Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua To Blow Back US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell — Jun 19, 2023 | The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, concluded this Friday in Havana, a trip to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, that aimed to denounce the U.S. sanctions and imperialist policy suffered by the four countries, and to create new economic and commercial agreements to promote the development of their peoples. The tour succeeded in uniting forces between these countries, which are under heavy unilateral sanctions at a time of economic hardship. | Raisi was received with honors in Caracas by President Nicolás Maduro. This was the starting point of the leader…

Anonymous834 (2023-06-23). Military Situation In Yemen On June 22, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 89 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah; | On June 22, an STC member was killed by an IED explosion in the Mudiya district; | On June 22, an al-Qaeda member was killed by a drone attack in the Saeid area; | On June 21, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian met with Mohammad Abdulsalam, the spokesman of AnsarAllah and the head of negotiations of the Yemeni Salvation Govern…

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-06-23). Presidente de Emiratos àÅrabes Unidos recibe a canciller de Irán. telesurtv.net El diplomático iraní se reunió este jueves con el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-06-23). As I said, A Nano-Second to Midnight. thealtworld.com Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova admits, as I predicted would happen, that the Kremlin's preference for a war of minimum Russian force has resulted in the West raising the stakes and becoming drawn ever deeper into military confrontation. She says, "It is obvious that such a policy, which we see as reckless, is capable of leading to a direct armed clash between nuclear powers." | So why did the Kremlin pursue a course that leads to "direct armed clash between nuclear powers." | And why did Washington get ever more deeply involved in a conflict that leads to "direct armed clash between nuclear…

_____ (2023-06-23). Biden's 'Warning' of Putin Using Nukes Is Perverse U.S. Projection. strategic-culture.org The only country that ever used atomic weapons — against civilians — has the audacity to warn the world about the "real risk" of Russia using nukes. | The United States — the only country that ever used atomic weapons in war, and that on a largely civilian population — has the staggering audacity to warn the world about the "real risk" of Russia using nukes. | The real risk to world peace stems from the crazy warmongering Western powers who are deceiving their own public about their criminal provocations. | U.S. President Joe Biden told a fundraising rally in California this week (June 19)…

Editor (2023-06-23). On the fundamental rights of the sex workers and others in India | Pradip Baksi. mronline.org It is for about one and a half decades now that our Sex Workers are raising the issues related to their lack of professional, legal and social rights before the members of the Other Sections of our society.

teleSUR (2023-06-23). Japan Gets Ready to Dump Nuclear Water Into the Ocean. telesurenglish.net Despite ongoing opposition from both home and abroad, Japan has been rushing to carry out its plan of dumping radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, raising growing anger among the global community. | RELATED: | Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO), the plant's operator, began trialing the equipment for discharging the nuclear-contaminated water into the Paci…

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