Ronahî: After a one-month lull, the United States of America has struck Iran once again. The United States Central Command, known as CENTCOM, announced that the strike targeted two Iranian missile systems on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.

Ronahî: In response, Iran announced it had struck an American base in Jordan.

Kamîran: And Trump himself commented on Iran's strike, didn't he?

Ronahî: Yes. American President Donald Trump said they would respond, and his exact words were: "We will strike a strong blow." Trump said all missiles fired from Iran except one had been intercepted, and that one missile caused no major damage.

Kamîran: Yet at the same time another voice is coming from Tehran, a softer tone.

Ronahî: That's right. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said today during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Tehran does not want to continue war with America, and said continued fighting is not in Iran's interest. He said they are trying to move toward a path of agreement and understanding.

Kamîran: So we are seeing two messages side by side — a threat of attack from one side, a call for dialogue from the other.

Ronahî: In many cities of northern and eastern Syria, teachers, students and families have taken to the streets against a decision by the Syrian Ministry of Education. The decision sets only three Kurdish language lessons per week.

Kamîran: So Kurdish is treated as a subject, not as the language of instruction.

Ronahî: Exactly. Actions were held in Hasakah and Qamishli, and demonstrators carried banners reading "No life without language" and "The Kurdish language is a right, existence and future." In the cities of Qamishli, Derik and Til Kocher in the Jazira region, demands were also made for Kurdish to become an official language alongside Arabic in educational institutions.

Ronahî: In Kobani, political parties issued a written statement rejecting the decision. They stated that the decision does not give Kurdish students the right to learn in their mother tongue.

Kamîran: These voices are coming together from several different cities, showing that the dissatisfaction is not confined to one place.

Ronahî: In Iran, the First Branch of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court sentenced ten activists from recent demonstrations to death and eleven years in prison. The same court sentenced six other activists to a total of two hundred and fifty-six years in prison.

Kamîran: These are only court rulings — but it is being reported that executions have also been carried out.

Ronahî: Yes. According to reports, several prisoners lost their lives in prisons in Khorramabad, Sari, Rasht, Yazd and Isfahan between the twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth of August. The women's organization Kongra Star issued a statement calling for an end to the death penalty, saying that executions cannot break the will of the people.

Ronahî: Today two separate explosions caused the loss of many lives. In the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, in the Fayda Bin Miwayni area, a landmine exploded and eight people lost their lives. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, three children and a woman were among them, and several others were injured.

Kamîran: And in Halabja there was a similar incident involving old ammunition.

Ronahî: Yes. In the Mordan neighborhood of Halabja, when two citizens were handling an artillery shell, it exploded on them and both lost their lives. According to reports, both were forty years old, and one of them was named Serheng Kebir. Police say an investigation has begun.

Kamîran: Both incidents show how dangerous leftover ammunition remains.

Ronahî: In the Rasuwa region of Nepal, on the border with China, the number of people who lost their lives in the floods has reached nine hundred and three. Four thousand two hundred and forty-seven people are also missing.

Kamîran: The number of missing persons is almost five times the number of the dead — so the final toll could become much heavier.

Ronahî: That's right. According to provisional data from Nepal's Disaster Management Authority, the numbers are still rising, and the disaster has affected a wide area along the border with China.

Kamîran: Amid these confrontations, a major military agreement was signed in the Mediterranean region.

Ronahî: Yes. Israel and Greece signed a military agreement worth three billion euros for the sale of an air-defense system to Athens. Israel's Ministry of Defense described it as one of the largest defense-sales agreements in its history.