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Saturday, October 7, 2023

Iran slams Nobel Peace Prize decision

 
October 7, 2023
Tehran says the selection of women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi was “political”
Tehran has condemned the Nobel Peace Prize committee after it awarded an Iranian rights campaigner, calling the move “politically motivated” and alleging that the activist had engaged in “criminal acts.”
 Iran slams Nobel Peace Prize decision
The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement early on Saturday addressing the Nobel committee, not long after it selected Narges Mohammadi for its 2023 peace prize. Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani argued that the organization had made a “political move in line with the meddlesome and anti-Iran policy of some European governments.”
“The Nobel Peace committee has awarded its peace prize to someone who has been found guilty of frequently violating the law and engaging in criminal acts. We condemn the move by the Nobel committee as spiteful and politically motivated,” Kanaani added.
The Nobel committee unveiled the prestigious award for Mohammadi less than one day prior, saying she was chosen for her “fight against the oppression of women in Iran.” The activist is currently serving a ten-year sentence after her latest run-in with the law in 2021, when she was accused of threatening Iran’s national security and spreading propaganda, among other offenses.
The Iranian spokesman slammed the Nobel committee’s announcement, saying it was “riddled with false and counterfactual claims about Iran’s developments.” He added that the award showed that some European states seek to “falsify news and produce misguided and deviant narratives” about the Islamic Republic.
Kanaani urged the committee to award the peace prize only to “individuals or organizations that sincerely seek to promote the culture of peace and justice in the world,” instead of those “serving as a tool to implement the hypocritical policies of some Western countries.”
Tehran has come under fire from several Western governments and human-rights organizations over its gender-based policies, namely its mandatory dress code requiring women to wear headscarves in public.
The country was gripped by months of violent protests last year following the death of a young woman in police custody who was accused of violating the mandate. The protests resulted in thousands of arrests and the further loss of life among demonstrators and security forces. The Iranian government blamed Western countries for the chaos.
 
Iran warns against betting on ‘losing horse’ Israel
3 Oct, 2023
Tehran has called on the Arab world to avoid normalizing relations with the “Zionist regime”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned the Arab world against normalizing relations with Israel, predicting that the Jewish state will eventually “be eradicated.”
“The definitive stance of the Islamic Republic is that the governments which make the gamble of normalization with the Zionist regime will lose,” Khamenei said on Tuesday, according to Iranian state media.
“As the Europeans say, they are betting on a losing horse,” the Ayatollah continued, calling Israel a “cancer” that will “God willing, be eradicated by the hands of the Palestinian people and the resistance forces throughout the region.”
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters last week that a “basic framework” is in place for a US-brokered peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Such a deal would build on former US President Donald Trump’s ‘Abraham Accords’, which saw Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates agree to establish diplomatic and economic relations with Israel.
Iran and Saudi Arabia are the largest geopolitical rivals in the Middle East, and a normalization deal between Riyadh and West Jerusalem would be a major strategic blow to Tehran.
Prior to Kirby’s announcement, Saudi Arabia had apparently been drifting away from American influence, with Riyadh reportedly working on a deal to sell oil to China in yuan and signing a Beijing-brokered normalization deal with Iran in March. Saudi Arabia and Iran also received invitations in August to join the BRICS group of emerging economies, an informal bloc led by Russia and China.
Speaking at a conference of Islamic scholars on Sunday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi denounced the idea of rapprochement between Israel and the Muslim world.
“Normalizing relations with the Zionist regime is a reactionary and regressive move by any government in the Islamic world,” he said. “The only option for all the fighters in the occupied land and the Islamic world is to resist and stand against the enemies,” he continued, adding that Iran continues to support the “liberation” of Jerusalem from Israeli occupation.

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