US attempts to apply maximum pressure on its adversaries have hit a brick wall. Following decades of efforts to isolate and contain them militarily the US has targeted first Russia and then Iran with increasingly severe economic and diplomatic sanctions. Now it is adding China to its list of countries it considers strategic rivals.
A group of Lebanese legislators have called on Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti to take proper measures against the US ambassador to Beirut over her comments against the Hezbollah resistance movement.
The American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) has called on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “ensure equal treatment” of Black, Hispanic and other minority diplomats returning home.
Red paint was smeared across the Black Lives Matter mural on Monday (July 13), which was painted on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower in New York just last week.
Ayatollah Nouri-Hamadani:
The revered source of emulation stated that placing trust in the United States and the West isn’t acceptable and added, “Many of the economic problems and the high prices in Iran are due to mismanagement and lack of supervision by the authorities.”
Sens. Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime confidant Roger Stone — the first elected Republicans to denounce the president’s Friday night move.
Groups representing the nation’s doctors, teachers and top school officials on Friday pushed back against pressure from President Donald Trump to fully reopen US schools despite a surge in coronavirus cases, saying science must guide the decisions.
Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Brighton in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Vice-Speaker:
Vice-Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Amir Hossein Qazizadeh said that the global arrogance uses human rights and international organizations to pursue its own objectives, and reiterated that the Iranian nation will make its utmost efforts to preserve its religious and cultural identity.