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Iranian President Says U.S. to Blame for Attack on Military Parade

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09/24/2018

09/24/2018

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Iranian President Says U.S. to Blame for Attack on Military Parade

Top News: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sharply criticized the United States and blamed Washington and its Gulf allies for an attack on a military parade. Gunmen opened fire on Revolutionary Guard troops in a parade in the city of Ahvaz on Saturday, killing 25 people including 12 soldiers, and wounding 60.

“It is absolutely clear to us who committed this crime… and whom they are linked to,” Rouhani said, shortly before departing to New York for the U.N. General Assembly. “The small puppet countries in the region are backed by America, and the U.S. is provoking them and giving them the necessary capabilities.”

The United States fiercely denied it had any involvement in the attacks. “[Rouhani] has oppressed his people for a long time and he needs to look at his own base to figure out where that’s coming from,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley told CNN. “The United States condemns any terrorist attack anywhere,” she said.

Venezuela: A Chinese hospital ship traveled to Venezuela to provide free healthcare for locals amid the country’s worsening economic and humanitarian crisis. Last week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited China, one of the country’s main creditors, and agreed to boost oil exports to Beijing.

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AFRICA

•  The death toll of an overcrowded ferry that capsized in Tanzania reached 218.

•  An Italian court acquitted six Tunisian fishermen of charges of “aiding illegal migrants” after they assisted a migrant boat in distress.

•  Pirates kidnapped 12 crew members from a Swiss cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria.

AMERICAS

•  Brazilian authorities arrested a Lebanese man whom the United States has described as a “global terrorist” and a top financier for the militant group Hezbollah.

•  A second woman came forward accusing U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during his college years.

•  Pop icon Rihanna was appointed an ambassador for education, investment, and tourism by her native country, Barbados.

ASIA

•  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there would be no relaxation of economic sanctions on North Korea until denuclearization.

•  Opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih declared a surprise victory in the Maldives presidential elections following fears the current president, Yameen Abdul Gayoom, would rig the elections. Yameen has now conceded.

•  China summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest new U.S. economic sanctions over its purchase of Russian missile systems and fighter jets.

EUROPE

•  Panama revoked the registration of the last privately-operated rescue vessel searching for migrants in the central Mediterranean Sea, following complaints from Italy.

•  Divers in France are removing tens of thousands of old car tires from the Mediterranean from a failed project in the 1980s to create an artificial reef with the tires.

•  Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov said he refuses to vote in a referendum on whether to change his country’s name to “North Macedonia” to end a dispute with neighboring Greece.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other top oil-producing countries agreed not to boost oil production to help increase the low price of oil.

•  A child drowned after a boat carrying 39 migrants en route to Europe capsized off the coast of Lebanon.

•  Russia announced it would send new anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria a week after Syrian forces accidentally shot down one of Russia’s planes.

- By Robbie Gramer

MORTEZA JABERIAN / ISNA / AFP

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