Thursday, July 30
America and Saudi Arabia Target Hashd al-Shaabi Bases in Iraq, Iran Responds.
American and Saudi air strikes on Hashd al-Shaabi
Ronahî: The Iraqi government announced that tomorrow bases and centres of Hashd al-Shaabi in Mosul, Amirli, Karbala, Kirkuk, Basra and Baghdad were struck.
Ronahî: Hashd al-Shaabi stated in its announcement that twenty people lost their life and thirty-two others were wounded in these strikes.
Ronahî: The president of the United States Donald Trump said the strikes were coordinated with the government in Baghdad after Iran fired five missiles toward American bases and all of them were intercepted.
Kamîran: So the Iraqi government itself is also involved.
Ronahî: Iran's foreign ministry issued a statement saying these strikes are a violation of Iraq's sovereignty and places responsibility for their consequences on America and Saudi Arabia.
Iran bombs the PDKI base in Balisan Valley
Kamîran: Today another incident of the same kind happened on the eastern border.
Ronahî: The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan announced that at noon Iran struck their base in Balisan Valley with drones.
Ronahî: The PDKI said that so far casualties and material damage are still unknown.
Turkey's parliament extended until the sixth of August
Kamîran: In Turkey the parliament also made a separate decision.
Ronahî: Turkey's parliament decided at the proposal of the AKP group to extend its current session until the sixth of August.
Ronahî: Parliament was supposed to go on recess on the first of July, but it was extended for a second time so that the peace-process laws could be discussed.
United States imposes new sanctions on Iranian oil
Kamîran: New steps were also taken on oil.
Ronahî: The United States Department of the Treasury imposed new sanctions through OFAC on several companies, tankers and insurance entities linked to Iranian oil, including firms in Hong Kong and other areas.
Afrin: one hundred fifty-two teachers dismissed
Kamîran: Daily education news from Syria.
Ronahî: In Afrin one hundred fifty-two teachers, including women teachers, were dismissed and their salaries were stopped, despite earlier promises to secure their livelihoods.
Ronahî: The teachers said that during their years of displacement in northern and eastern Syria and in the cantons they worked as teachers, and now that they have returned they are being punished in this way.