Vladimir Avatkov: Iran and Oman have agreed
on a new safe route in the Strait of Hormuz.
The memorandum will be registered with
the International Maritime Organization
in the coming days.
Sept. 7th, 5:55pm GMT
(Pravda.En
Tehran will declare a no-go zone from the area of the US blockade to
the Persian Gulf: vessels will be blacklisted without permission. In
addition, Iran announced the test of an anti-ship missile on a US
warship - the details and damage were not disclosed. Read
more about this on the closed channel.
The blockade is already seriously affecting global supplies: in the
second quarter of 2026, oil traffic through the strait fell by 77%
(from 21.6 to 4.9 million barrels per day), and LNG shipments
by 92% (from 10.5 billion to 800 million cubic feet per day).
During the week from August 23 to August 29, only 4 oil
tankers and not a single gas carrier passed through
the strait. Iran accuses the United States of
aggression and is creating its own strait
management system, bypassing
Washington.
Source: MAX "avatkov"
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Tehran warns Europe over support for
US economic terrorism against Iran
September 7th, 11:29am
(PressTV)
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman - has warned European
countries against following US sanctions on Iran, saying
Europe must choose ---- between complying with
Washington ---- and protecting its own
national and economic interests.
Speaking during his weekly press conference on Monday,
Esmail Baghaei was asked about the EU’s support for
US sanctions against Iran.
“Europe must make its own decision. Europe has already tried this
path: keeping the United States satisfied and complying with its
demands, both at the UN Security Council and at the IAEA
Board of Governors. The result has been the further
marginalization of Europe’s role,” he said.
He added that, under European regulations, compliance
with US secondary sanctions ---- is prohibited.
“Under what is known as the Blocking Statute, European
companies are not allowed to comply with these
sanctions, and European governments are
required --- to protect their companies
against US sanctions,” he added.
Baghaei described the EU statement as a clear
violation of international law -- as well as the
bloc’s own sovereignty and independence.
“If the European Union attaches any value to its credibility,
sovereignty, independence, national interests and
economic interests, it certainly should
not follow the United States in its
economic war against Iran,”
he noted.
IAEA used as a tool to exert political pressure
Responding to a question about efforts by the United States and
three European countries — France, Britain and Germany — to
pass a resolution at the IAEA Board of Governors that would
refer Iran’s nuclear file to the UN Security Council,
Baghaei said the draft resolution was based on
a report issued by the IAEA ....and its
director general.
“We have encountered this pattern
and this process before,” he said.
“Whenever they fall short in other areas, they turn to the IAEA
..and its director general. Or, conversely, the director general
himself puts himself forward, so that the European parties
and the United States can use him.... to exert political
pressure on Iran,” he said.
He also called their demands unreasonable, stressing
that the United States and Israel - are responsible
for the current situation.
“The reason the IAEA cannot access Iran’s nuclear centres
and facilities - is the crime committed by the US and the
Israeli regime ----- by attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities.
They themselves blocked this path & are now blaming
Iran for the IAEA’s inability....... to access its nuclear
facilities. This defeats the purpose,” Baghaei said.
The spokesperson also said Iran would take the necessary
measures in response to any ill-advised action by the
three European countries and the United States.
He added that Tehran had repeatedly advised the three
European countries - to learn from an Iranian lesson:
“Trying what has already been tried is a mistake.”
Washington initiated aggression, violated MoU
Asked about reports that the White House was seeking to
reach a new agreement with Iran concerning the Strait
of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear program, Baghaei said
Iran had made its position clear from the outset
of the diplomatic process.
“When we reached an understanding on June 18, we very quickly
and clearly - included what we had in mind in that memorandum
of understanding. The problem is on the American side, which
violated all its commitments ....only 22 or 23 days after the
memorandum was signed,” he said.
“Therefore, if we use the familiar diplomatic expression, the ball
has long been in the American court, because they were both
the initiators of the military aggression - and the ones who
began violating the understanding they had signed.”
Iran’s actions in Strait of Hormuz are entirely defensive
Responding to the US claim that Iran had fired missiles at two US
warships and that attacks on Iranian oil tankers had been
carried out in retaliation, the spokesman for Iran’s
Foreign Ministry categorically rejected
the account.
“For a country that calls itself the greatest superpower in history,
resorting to such threats and attacking commercial vessels in
retaliation for what they themselves have acknowledged —
namely, Iran’s attack on their warship — is truly nothing
to be proud of,” he said.
He said Iran was in a defensive position due to
the continuation of the naval blockade and
economic warfare.
He added that Iran’s strikes against US military bases and warships
were carried out within the framework of its inherent right to self-
defense. “A right that is clearly enshrined in, and recognized by,
Article 51 of the United Nations Charter,” he said.
IRGC strikes 3 US-linked vessels, 3 trespassing
oil tankers in retaliation for American attacks
The IRGC Navy announces striking three United States-linked
vessels and three trespassing oil tankers in retaliation for
earlier American attacks on Iranian tankers.
Asked whether Iran 'genuinely intended' to prevent US ships
from transiting the Strait of Hormuz or was merely seeking
to pressure Washington, Baghaei said the insecurity in
the strait was a direct consequence of US actions.
“As long as this situation continues, it is fundamentally impossible to
speak of the Strait of Hormuz becoming secure. The problem - is not
Iran’s actions. The problem is the military aggression by the United
States and the Israeli regime, which is continuing in the form of a
naval blockade, an economic war and attacks on Iranian
commercial vessels,” he said.
Iran-Oman talks reach final stage
Regarding the latest status of negotiations with Oman, Baghaei
said Iran and Oman, as two littoral states, had begun serious
negotiations... to establish safe routes through the Strait
of Hormuz.
“We can now say that the negotiations between Iran and Oman
have reached the final stage. Most likely, within the coming
days, the understanding between Iran and Oman... on
establishing a temporary safe route through the
Strait of Hormuz will be registered with the
International Maritime Organization,”
Baghaei said.
He expressed hope that “some ill-intentioned parties”
would not interfere in the process and would allow it
to proceed reasonably and logically.
“As we have said before, the understanding between Iran
and Oman is a necessary condition for establishing
security along the transit routes of the Strait of
Hormuz, but it is not a sufficient condition,”
Baghaei said.
The spokesman stressed that insecurity in the Strait of
Hormuz was the result of US and Israeli military
aggression and that US aggression.....
was continuing.
“Therefore, as long as this situation continues, ships
cannot transit this route with confidence and a
sense of security,” he said.
Asked about repeated US attacks on civilians and
whether human rights bodies, including the UN
special rapporteur on human rights in Iran,
had taken a specific position on the
issue, Baghaei ----- slammed US
officials for dishonesty.
“American officials lie honestly, and
that in itself is an art,” he said.
“American officials -- know very well -- that one of the US
military tactics over the past 70 or 80 years -- has been
attacking civilian targets. When you reduce --- what is
referred to as ‘dynamic operations’ to indiscriminate
and aimless operations, resembling the actions of
the terrorist group Daesh, that itself, is a sign of
the moral decline of a system.”
Baghaei said the US attack on a wedding ceremony
was not an isolated incident. “This ---- was not
collateral damage; it was a deliberate act.”
“But we, as Iranians and the international community,
must not allow these crimes to simply become part
of history. We must continue to hold the United
States accountable.”
On September 1, the US military struck a wedding
ceremony in Kouhestak, a southern province of
Hormozgan. Five people, including two
children aged 4 and 16, were
killed in the attack.
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Israeli airstrikes across
southern Lebanon
kill 17, including
two infants
September 7th, 11:08am
(PressTV)
At least 17 people... including two infants, have lost their lives
and another 20 sustained injuries, in Israeli airstrikes across
southern Lebanon over the past 48 hours --------- as Israel
continues its daily violations of a US-brokered
framework agreement.
According to Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA),
Israeli warplanes struck a three-story residential building in
Kafr Rouman town of the Nabatieh governorate, after
midnight, destroying it.
Emergency teams recovered nine bodies, including those of
two infants, from the rubble, while five people were injured.
Separately, an Israeli drone targeted a civilian vehicle in
the same Lebanese town, killing two paramedics
affiliated with the Islamic Risala Scout
Association who were inside.
Israeli warplanes also carried out a series of strikes on
Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Arabsalim areas, where a
house was destroyed.
Moreover, Israeli warplanes destroyed a building in the town of Deir
al-Zahrani. The Israeli army had earlier issued an evacuation order.
Intl. community urged to stop relentless Israeli aggression
Lebanese Minister of State for Administrative Reform, Fadi Makki,
has called upon the international community and freedom-loving
peoples worldwide to take effective action aimed at ending
Israel’s relentless aggression and its violations of
Lebanon’s sovereignty.
“How long will this aggression against the south and its people
continue? How long will Lebanon and its nation have to pay
the price?” Makki said, criticizing the continued Israeli
attacks on southern Lebanon.
He said that civilians, including women and children, are being
massacred in various southern Lebanon towns and villages,
including Mayfadoun, Ramadiyeh, Nabatieh and Arabsalim,
and residential buildings as well as civilian infrastructure
are being destroyed.
“The height of the barbarity and vileness of the Israeli military
was the strike on Salah Ghandour Hospital” in the southern
town of Bint Jbeil just a few days ago, Makki noted.
In recent days... Israeli assaults on southern Lebanon have
escalated since the Israeli army’s claim that it intercepted
a drone, purportedly launched by Hezbollah targeting its
troops in what Tel Aviv designates as a “security zone”
in southern Lebanon.
The strikes occur despite a US-sponsored framework
agreement between the Beirut government and the
Tel Aviv regime that was signed on June 26.
The agreement outlines a gradual withdrawal of Israeli
forces from Lebanese territory in return for the
deployment of the Lebanese army.
The secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement,
Sheikh Naim Qassem, has dismissed the agreement as
illegitimate, unlawful, and humiliating.
Hezbollah launched military operations against Israel
on March 2, in response to the US-Israeli aggression
against Iran, repeated Israeli violations of the 2024
ceasefire, and Israel’s continued occupation of
Lebanese territory in the south.
Since then, despite months of negotiations, Israel has
continued its military offensive against Lebanon and
has killed 4,362 people and wounded 12,378 others,
and displaced more than 1 million, according to
the Lebanese authorities.
Israel continues to occupy parts of southern Lebanon, which
includes areas it has usurped for decades alongside regions
taken during the 2023-2024 war. Moreover, its troops have
advanced beyond 10 kilometres into Lebanese territory
--- in the course of the current offensive.
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Gaza-bound flotilla......
prepares new mission
Bilbao, Spain, September 7th, 8:31am
(Prensa Latina)
Freedom Flotilla Heading to Gaza --- announced today that it
is preparing a new mission to "break the blockade ------- and
denounce the genocide suffered by the Palestinian people.''
In fact, the group, now made up of a dozen crew members,
said at a press conference from the ship docked in Bilbao,
that it will depart this Tuesday on a tour... to incorporate
new members to the initiative.
"We sail to put pressure on our governments --- which are the ones
who have the tools to stop Israel," picking up the "global outcry,"
they commented.
In reality, the deployment of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza will be
done in October and again, they will assume the risk of further
arrests and violence by Israel, as has happened previously.
The boat arrived last Saturday in Bizkaia, where it received
an emotional welcome and took the opportunity to carry
out several activities such as a cycling march, a
conference and a concert.
This Tuesday it will head to Vigo, Galicia, at the beginning of a
journey that they hope to complete in October, with the idea
of adding followers in different ports.
The American Elisabeth Murray, one member of the Flotilla,
accompanied by Frank Romano and Sandra Barrilaro, the
collaborator of the Ana Cascón and the representative
of Ongi Etorri Errefuxiatuak of the Basque Country --
Aintzane Cámara, spoke to journalists.
Since 2010 --- and almost uninterruptedly every year, the Freedom
Flotilla has made its journeys to - "denounce and break the illegal
blockade of Gaza", which is "a collective punishment of an entire
population, more than two million people, at this time -- in Gaza".
Barrilero claimed the need for this initiative which, he remarked, is
not "a humanitarian mission", but seeks to "break and denounce
the blockade of Gaza, the decades-long occupation of Palestine,
the ethnic cleansing that has been exercised on the population
of Palestine for decades and at this time also the genocide".
"We are sailing doing the work that our governments should do. It is
a shame.. that the civilian population has been taking to the streets
for three years and carrying out a lot of actions to demand that our
governments stop Israel, and they are not doing it," he denounced.