0223 GMT January 18, 2021
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Zarif: We do not shy away from crushing the aggressors
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US President-elect Joe Biden’s aide and a group of 25 American lawmakers denounced a decision by the outgoing administration to designate Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement a “foreign terrorist organization”, saying the move will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country.
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Funeral processions were held in several Iranian cities to honor 17 mostly unidentified martyrs of Iraq's 1980-88 war under Saddam Hussein on Iran, whose remains were recovered recently.
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The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas welcomed a decree by Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank later this year, expressing its “strong eagerness to make this obligation successful”.
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National Desk
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A senior US intelligence official said recent airstrikes on eastern parts of Syria near the Iraqi border were carried out by Israel with intelligence provided by the United States.
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Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said his American counterpart is marking the twilight of his already “disastrous” career with a pathetic end by resorting to more baseless warmongering lies about Iran and other countries.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh the US Department of State’s plan to designate Yemen’s Ansarullah movement as a “terrorist organization” would negatively affect the delivery of humanitarian aid and peaceful solutions to the country’s crisis.
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South Korea and Iran will continue talks for the release of a seized Korean ship and to resolve the issue of Tehran’s frozen assets in the Asian country, officials in Seoul said on Wednesday.
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National Desk
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