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Africa North
WSJ: 10,000 W.Bank PLA/Fatah fighters being trained in Egypt’s military academies to rule Gaza after Hanas leaves
[X] Did anyone ask Israel if they’d be allowed in? Because Bibi Netanyahu already said no PA ever again in Gaza. Not the the PA would be able to hold it — Hamas owns Gaza because they drove the PA out, not long after Ariel Sharon pulled the Israelis out.
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Fifth Column
Two Microsoft workers fired after occupying president’s office to protest ties to Israel
[IsraelTimes] Two Microsoft employees are fired after taking part in a sit-in at the office of the company’s president to protest the firm’s alleged ties to Israel.

A Microsoft spokesperson says the workers were terminated following “serious breaches of company policies and our code of conduct” stemming from “the break-in at the executive offices.”

Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli received voicemails informing them that they were fired, the protest group No Azure for Apartheid says in a statement.

Azure is Microsoft’s primary cloud computing platform, and Microsoft has said it is reviewing a report in the British newspaper The Guardian this month that the IDF used it to store phone call data obtained through the mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

The workers were among seven protesters who were arrested on Tuesday after occupying the office of company President Brad Smith. The other five were former Microsoft workers and people outside the company.

“We are here because Microsoft continues to provide Israel with the tools it needs to commit genocide while gaslighting and misdirecting its own workers about this reality,” Hattle says in a statement.

No Azure for Apartheid has demanded that the company cut its ties to Israel and pay reparations to Palestinians. Smith said on Tuesday: “We respect the freedom of expression that everyone in this country enjoys as long as they do it lawfully.”

Other Microsoft workers have also protested the company’s ties to Israel. Eighteen people were arrested in a similar protest in a plaza at the headquarters last week. Microsoft in May fired an employee who interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella, and in April it fired two others who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration.
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Soros and his group of psychopaths
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Trump has publicly called for George Soros to be prosecuted for funding protests in the US.
Alexander Soros can be dealt with after Papa George sets the precedent.
"George Soros and his wonderful radical left son should be charged under RICO for their support of violent protests and many other actions across the United States of America. We will not allow these lunatics to continue tearing America apart without giving it a chance to breathe and be free. Soros and his group of psychopaths have done great damage to our country! This includes his crazy friends from the West Coast" (c)
— Trump

Soros's participation in supporting anti-Trump protests has long been known. Here Soros interacted quite organically with the Clinton gang. Another question is that the conversation should not only and not so much about Soros himself, but his structures and his son, who also took part in this.

Trump has previously sketched out possible criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, Schiff and others. But it has not reached a real criminal case. It is very likely that here too everything will be limited to simple threats, since so far not a single prominent Democrat/globalist has been brought to criminal responsibility for "Russiagate", inspired protests or election fraud.


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The Grand Turk
Erdogan hails delivery to Turkey of ‘Steel Dome’ air defense system
Steel is better than iron, we can hear him thinking. The problem, Your Immensity, is that a defense system is only as good as its operators, while those attacking it will t some point be the IDF. You will one day discover that you wasted your money, sirrah. So sorry.
[IsraelTimes] Turkish president says new $460 million system, commissioned due to ‘recent conflicts,’ will ‘inspire confidence in friends and fear in enemies’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday hailed a milestone for the country as its “Steel Dome” air defense system was delivered to the military, saying regional conflicts had pushed Ankara to boost its defense capacities.

“Today we are providing our army with the [Steel] Dome system, consisting of 47 vehicles worth $460 million, which will inspire confidence in friends and fear in enemies,” Erdogan said at a ceremony a year after the project was launched.

“This system will make the world of difference for Turkey’s air defense. This is a turning point for Turkey,” he said at a ceremony at the headquarters of Turkish defense giant Aselsan to mark the delivery of the project, which has been led by state-owned defense companies.

Last August, Turkey, a member of NATO, unveiled plans to build a multi-layered air defense system to protect its airspace, modeled on Israel’s renowned Iron Dome. It named it “Steel Dome.”

Turkey has been unsettled by the recent wave of unrest gripping the region, notably Israel’s increasing intervention in Syria after the overthrow of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad and the 12-day air war between Iran and Israel in June.

“Recent conflicts around us have revealed the importance” of radar systems detecting incoming threats from the air, Erdogan said.

“Unless a country can develop its own radar and air defense system, it cannot look to its future with confidence in the face of current security challenges, especially in our region,” he added. “We are aware of the importance of not leaving anything to chance… With the Steel Dome, we will now be in a different class in terms of air defense.”

Also present at the ceremony, Defense Minister Yasar Guler said the system would “further increase the deterrence and effectiveness of our armed forces… and ensure our security at the highest level.”

Erdogan also inaugurated work on a giant technology base worth $1.5 billion, hailing it as “the largest defense industry investment ever made in a single instance in the history of the republic.”

“This is also going to be the largest integrated air defense facility in the whole of Europe,” he said, adding that by mid-2026, the first facility on this new campus would be operational. “This investment is going to… make Turkey not just a regional player but a global player when it comes to defense systems.”
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Home Front: Politix
Jared Kushner, Tony Blair reportedly to join Trump meet on Gaza’s future
Two new names enter the mix.
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, a senior adviser on the Middle East in his first term, is participating in the president’s meeting on the future of Gaza today, according to Axios, which cites “two sources with knowledge.”

Kushner and former British prime minister Tony Blair, who has been involved in Middle East initiatives since he left office in 2007, are presenting Trump with post-war proposals, according to the report.

Blair has been discussing plans for Gaza’s future with Kushner and US special envoy Steve Witkoff for months, reports Axios.

The two are expected to discuss approaches to governing Gaza without Hamas, and how to increase the amount of aid going into the Strip in the meantime.

According to a US official quoted by the outlet, Trump has told staffers regarding Gaza that “I can’t watch it anymore. It’s a terrible thing.”

Trump does not oppose the emerging Israeli military operation in Gaza City, a US official tells Axios, but wants it done quickly.

“At some level, the president thinks that Bibi’s going to do what Bibi’s going to do,” says the official, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “So would you just hurry up and then we can get in there and take care of people?”

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International-UN-NGOs
5 Minutes of Hate: UN Security Council members — sans US — blame Israel for ‘manmade’ famine in Gaza after fmr hostage hostage tells her story
[IsraelTimes] A joint statement from all United Nations Security Council members except the United States says the famine in Gaza is a “manmade crisis” and calls for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups, a substantive surge of aid throughout Gaza, and for Israel to immediately and unconditionally lift all restrictions on aid delivery.

“Famine in Gaza must be stopped immediately,” the statement reads. “Time is of the essence. The humanitarian emergency must be addressed without delay and Israel must reverse course.”

It warns that the use of starvation as a weapon of war is banned under international humanitarian law. Israel denies deliberately starving Gazans.

At a Security Council meeting earlier, acting US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea questioned the credibility and integrity of a report finding that Gaza is suffering a famine, saying it “doesn’t pass the test on either.”

“We all recognize that hunger is a real issue in Gaza and that there are significant humanitarian needs which must be met. Addressing those needs is a priority for the United States,” she told the 15-member council.gp

Former hostage tells UN Security Council of sexual assault, starvation, captivity in struck hospital

[IsraelTimes] Former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky tells the UN Security Council of begging her captors not to rape her, describing starvation, beatings and other horrifying conditions she was kept in for 55 days.

“On the way to Gaza, when they started to touch me and sexually abuse me, I passed out physically and mentally. I couldn’t handle it anymore,” she says in testimony to the world body, according to a transcript published by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. “I had to beg not to be raped, telling them I was on my period… I didn’t know exactly what had been done to my body in those lost minutes when I wasn’t conscious. But my soul already knew: nothing would ever be the same. I was suffering from a fractured jaw, a broken pelvis, ear damage from the explosions, and a burned leg.”

Gritzewsky, who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz alongside her partner Matan Zangauker, who is one of 50 hostages that remain in Gaza, says she lost 12 kilograms (26.5 lbs.) while in Gaza before being released during a shortu ceasefire in November 2023.

“When it was time to eat, they took a lot of food to their room. They had meat, rice, vegetables. At the same time, they left us with our meal, which contained sometimes as little as 10 chick peas or a piece of dry flat bread, which wasn’t always well-cooked.”

She says her captors, who would subject her and other captives to cruel interrogations, were dressed not as Hamas fighters but as civilians, including one who claimed to be a teacher and another who said they were a lawyer.

She says during her captivity, she and other hostages were held for a time in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

“They took us through the back entrance and walked us past all the civilians. In the hospital, there was an area which was closed off and used only by Hamas, with an armed guard. They locked us in a room, where we met a third hostage,” she recounts.

An Israeli strike on the hospital on Monday, which reportedly killed 20 people, including five journalists, elicited widespread anger worldwide. Israel has indicated the attack was a mistake, but has also noted its use by the Hamas terror group.

Gritzewsky, who has recounted many of these details in the past, tells council members to use whatever leverage they have to push for a deal ending the war and freeing the hostages.

“Do not turn away. Do not look for excuses. Do not allow political divisions to silence the voices of victims. Use your influence, your power, your responsibility, to demand the unconditional release of every hostage. Not tomorrow. Not in some distant future. But now. We need to make a deal. Israeli citizens want this war to end,” she says.

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New aid centers in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] After touring Gaza on Wednesday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir also met with UN World Food Program executive director Cindy McCain to review ongoing humanitarian aid efforts in the Gaza Strip.

The meeting, attended by Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, the head of COGAT, the Israeli body that coordinates with assistance providers in Gaza, outlined key measures to stabilize the Strip’s humanitarian situation and emphasized ensuring aid reaches civilians directly, not Hamas, the IDF said.

The meeting came days after the WFP-linked Integrated Food Security Phase Classification declared famine in northern Gaza for the first time — a claim Israel swiftly rejected, accusing the report of relying on “biased and self-interested sources originating from Hamas.”

McCain, who has been an outspoken critic of Israeli aid restrictions, claimed in May 2024 that the Strip was already in “full-blown famine.” She said last week hunger in the Strip was at “catastrophic” levels.

The IDF said Wednesday that two new aid distribution centers run by the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will be completed in the coming days in southern Gaza, while a facility in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood will close. Once completed, the total number of GHF centers in the Strip will rise from four to five.

According to GHF, which hands out boxes of dried, uncooked food, its centers have distributed more than 140 million meals in Gaza since operations began, including over 1.5 million meals delivered on Wednesday alone.

As the IDF moves ahead with its plans to conquer Gaza City, it has called on the area’s residents to evacuate and head south, saying that it is working to improve the infrastructure in those areas of Gaza to accept more displaced Palestinians.
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Israel threatens to target UN hunger monitor’s funding over ‘fabricated’ famine report
[IsraelTimes] The Foreign Ministry will send a letter to the United Nations today demanding it retract the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system’s “fabricated report” declaring famine in Gaza, Foreign Ministry Director General Eden Bar Tal announces at an English-language press conference.

The letter, addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, warns the UN that if it does not walk back the report, Israel will launch a campaign encouraging IPC donor countries to halt funding by presenting evidence appearing to disprove its findings and highlighting the hunger monitor’s alleged unreliability.

At the press conference, Bar Tal accuses the IPC of deliberately ignoring its own evidence standards to reach a “prefabricated conclusion of famine” in support of “Hamas fake starvation propaganda,” backing up the ministry’s earlier denunciations of the report after its publication on Friday.

He presents evidence gathered by Israel claiming that the IPC manipulated data through cherry-picking and misrepresentation, relied on speculative rather than evidence-based mortality assumptions, and ignored or downplayed available signs of improvement.

Among the evidence Bar Tal brings are findings showing that the IPC based its conclusions on only half of its July data — 7,519 children averaging 16 percent acute malnutrition, just above the 15% famine threshold — instead of the full July dataset of 15,749 children, which showed acute malnutrition rates of 12–13.5%. He also says the IPC improperly relied on clinical samples rather than healthy population samples, in violation of its own guidelines.

In the letter, Bar Tal demands that the IPC “conduct an urgent and transparent review” of the findings against the report that “will address methodological breaches and avoid misleading the international community, the public and policymakers.”

The IPC report estimated that 514,000 people in Gaza — nearly a quarter of the population — are already experiencing famine, with numbers expected to rise to 641,000 by the end of September.

The report said thresholds for starvation and acute malnutrition had been reached and argued it was “reasonable to conclude” mortality levels had likely also been met.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says hundreds in the Strip have died of malnutrition since war broke out with the terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Army says GHF to add aid site in southern Gaza
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says two new aid distribution centers run by the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will be completed in the coming days in southern Gaza, while a facility in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood will close. Once completed, the total number of GHF centers in the Strip will rise from four to five.

According to GHF, which hands out boxes of dried, uncooked food, its centers have distributed more than 140 million meals in Gaza since operations began, including over 1.5 million meals delivered today alone.

The announcement comes days after global hunger monitor Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared for the first time that famine has struck the densely populated northern Gaza Strip, nearly 22 months into the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel.

Israel swiftly rejected the finding, with the Defense Ministry body overseeing aid accusing the IPC system of relying on “biased and self-interested sources originating from Hamas.”

Israel has repeatedly denied reports of mass starvation in the Strip as false narratives, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office calling the IPC famine declaration an “outright lie” and “modern blood libel.”

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said earlier this month that plans were in place for GHF to expand operations to 16 sites, with overcrowding a constant issue at existing centers.

Israel plans to conquer Gaza City and force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living there to move south, but aid groups warn such a move will worsen the Strip’s humanitarian crisis, with insufficient infrastructure to support the millions displaced by the war.

“The evacuation of Gaza City is inevitable,” spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote in Arabic on X earlier. He said Israeli forces have surveyed vast empty areas south of the city “to assist the evacuating residents as much as possible.” He said the displaced would receive space for tents, and infrastructure would be set up to distribute aid and water.
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Once Upon a Time in Las Vegas: The FBI Was Catching Pedophiles, But Caught an Israeli Civil Servant
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Ol'ga Kuznetsova

[REGNUm] Some stories grace the front pages, while others – though worthy of tens of times more glory – are shamefully hidden under the chronicle of events in the Middle East or a military spectacle in the Caribbean. This is exactly what happened with the arrest in the US of Israeli cybersecurity officer Artem Tom.
Elsewhere his name is given as Tom Alexandrovich and his employer as National Cyber Directorate.
ALTHOUGH WHY “EMPLOYEE”?
Tom was then the head of a department at Israel's National Cyber ​​Authority and was in Las Vegas to attend an international conference for information security professionals.

His professional knowledge, however, did not help him avoid arrest, which was carried out as part of a secret operation by the Las Vegas police and the FBI. The Israeli cybersecurity specialist was caught – like many before him – in, to put it mildly, frivolous communication with a fifteen-year-old girl on the Internet.

MIRACULOUS LIBERATION
During a break from the conference, the Israeli agreed to a pleasant meeting, to which he agreed to take a condom. The girl, judging by the information in open sources, insisted on this in the correspondence. Later, having met her, Tom took his new girlfriend to the Cirque du Soleil, and then was arrested - no one, however, writes at what exact moment.

The arrest took place as part of an operation aimed at prosecuting individuals who have committed sexual crimes against minors.

The girl turned out to be a front woman, and the correspondence with Tom was conducted by American operatives. Later, the Israeli claimed that he was seriously convinced that his partner was of legal age and knew nothing.

However, he did not remain in prison for long.

Being a civil servant of another country, the cyber specialist did not take advantage of diplomatic immunity, posted bail - $10,000 - and was released with an order to appear for trial in late August.

Naturally, Artem Tom, not wanting to tempt fate and taking advantage of the lack of control and any regulations, immediately left the United States and returned home.

No one detained him for 24 hours, put an electronic bracelet on him, or assigned a police officer, as is usually done in such cases.

The most interesting thing is that no one even promptly scheduled a court hearing that would have prevented the alleged criminal from leaving the country.

Witnesses report that Tom didn't even hide during the initial hearing that he had a plane to Israel soon - but the judge allegedly didn't pay any attention to this.

And that's when the scandals began.

THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW!
The Clark County District Attorney in Nevada, giving an interview, said that the case was handled according to standard protocol. He was allegedly echoed by representatives of the all-powerful State Department, who reported that they did not interfere in this process in any way.

However, the representative of the US Attorney General in Nevada, Sigal Chattah, allowed herself to insert a barb on social media.

She wrote that the state was obliged to confiscate the passport of a man who fled the country. He should be "immediately returned to face justice."

In addition, Chattah made it clear that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was extremely outraged and even called Chattah herself and FBI Director Cash Patel.

Other prominent Republicans also spoke out, including Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, and journalist Tucker Carlson.

Chattah, who was born in Israel, also received her share of "kicks." Some accused her of freeing a fellow criminal.

However, there was also contrary information: some media outlets wrote that Artem Tom had not been arrested. He had simply been interrogated and returned to Israel, “as planned.”

Meanwhile, our hero's resume disappeared from popular recruiting sites, and information appeared on Israeli resources that he either took a temporary leave from work or was fired by mutual agreement. In short, the person involved in the scandal has clearly "lain low."

And at this point, local resources switched to an extremely uncomfortable topic: the split within the MAGA (“America First”) movement.

PEDOPHILES AND THE SCHISM
Congresswoman Greene was the one who was most zealous in creating the "turmoil." She was the first to throw the idea into the information space that representatives of the American government were involved in the release of the lover of young girls.

Frankly speaking, the idea is quite obvious, especially considering that Artem Tom — as some media outlets write — worked in the team of Benjamin Netanyahu himself. And the special position of Israeli officials in the States has not surprised anyone for a long time.

However, the situation is somewhat different now.

The arrest of the Israeli occurred against the backdrop of unpleasant unrest related to the case of another famous criminal, Jeffrey Epstein, who supplied underage girls to the powers that be. Donald Trump's team has failed to keep its campaign promises and has not published the famous list of clients who visited the "pedophile island."

Moreover, they began to hint that such a list does not exist at all.

This was confirmed by Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was suddenly given a softer detention in Texas instead of a Florida prison. Maxwell even began making strange statements like Bill Clinton (who is on the "Epstein list" circulating on the Internet), Prince Andrew, and Donald Trump himself never allowed themselves to do anything inappropriate.

Public opinion received this information without much enthusiasm.

Stories like these are not particularly bright (due to the active external “plug”), but they demonstrate a certain split within the Republican Party, which is trying its best to demonstrate strength and unity in the fight against Democratic competitors.

At the same time, in certain issues, Trump is no more literate than his predecessor, Joe Biden, whom he so loves to criticize in fits of self-promotion.

It's not entirely clear what this approach will lead to, but it's highly doubtful that members of the Democratic Party won't save the Epstein and Tom stories for a better time when they can be used to their advantage.

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IDF: double tap on Nasser Hospital was because a Hamas camera was operating there. As a bonus, they zapped five journalists who were totally being neutral - or not
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military said Tuesday that its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera. But the first strike killed a cameraman from the Reuters news agency doing a live television shot, according to witnesses and health officials.

The military released its initial findings into the strike, offering no immediate explanation for striking twice and no evidence for an assertion that six of the dead were militants, including two who were identified by their employers as a health care worker at the hospital and an emergency services driver. The dead also included five journalists.

The military said the back-to-back strikes on southern Gaza’s largest hospital were ordered because soldiers believed militants were using the camera to observe Israeli forces. But its account appeared to contradict witnesses at the scene of Monday’s attack on Nasser Hospital.
The first step of the OODA loop: Observe.
If no O you can't get to A: attack. That's what Boyd said.

That’s true. But: War zone. Some of the “journalists” were known to be on the Hamas payroll, including one recorded participating in Israel on 10/7. Which means that anyone hanging out with them in the middle of a battle is either a Hamasnik himself or a knowing fellow traveller. Anyone truly an innocent in that situation is too stupid to live.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian cleanup of Mojdeh nuclear site likely to erase proof of atomic work — report
[IsraelTimes] Institute for Science and International Security says Tehran appears to be ‘sanitizing any incriminating nuclear weapons research’ at Mojdeh, which Israel bombed twice this June

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has launched a speedy cleanup operation at a nuclear-related site in northern Tehran hit by Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s that will likely remove evidence of any nuclear weapons development work, a research group said on Wednesday.

Satellite imagery "shows a significant effort by Iran to rapidly demolish damaged or destroyed buildings, likely to sanitize any incriminating nuclear weapons research and development activities," the Institute for Science and International Security said.

The institute is an independent research group that focuses on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and is headed by David Albright, a former UN nuclear inspector.

Iran’s embassy to the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Tehran denies seeking nuclear weapons and repeatedly has said its program is for peaceful purposes.

The report on the Mojdeh site comes as the UN nuclear watchdog holds ongoing talks in Tehran on restarting inspections disrupted by the June 13-24 war between Israel and Iran and the June 22 US strikes on the country’s three main nuclear facilities.

Britannia, La Belle France and Germany are likely to begin on Thursday the process of reimposing UN sanctions on Iran for violating a 2015 nuclear deal designed to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, according to four diplomats.

Rafael Grossi, the head of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told news hounds on Wednesday at the end of a two-day visit to Washington that Iran is legally obligated to allow inspections to resume and that they should begin "as soon as possible."

The agency, he said, wants to visit "all of the sites that are relevant," including the main nuclear facilities — Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan — hit by the US and to account for Iran’s stock of more than 400 kg (882 pounds) of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade purity.

MOJDEH STRIKES
Israel twice bombed the Mojdeh site, also known as Lavisan II, adjacent to Malek Ashtar University on June 18, the institute’s report said, during the operation that hit hundreds of targets across Iran.

It noted that the IAEA had established a direct link between Mojdeh and the AMAD Plan, a nuclear weapons development program that the agency and US intelligence separately concluded ended in 2003.

The first Israeli strike on Mojdeh hit several buildings, the report said. One was associated with the Institute of Applied Physics and another had a suspected link to the Shahid Karimi Group, which the US has sanctioned for work on missiles and explosive-related projects.

The group belongs to the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, which the US and the IAEA say is the direct successor to the AMAD Plan.

The second Israeli strike destroyed the Institute of Applied Physics building, damaged a security building and destroyed a workshop, according to a June 20 satellite image from Maxar Technologies, the report said.

A July 3 image depicted the beginning of the cleanup and removal of debris, the report said. August 19 imagery showed that the Applied Physics building and workshop had been razed and the debris completely cleared, as was the building suspected of housing the Shahid Karimi group.

"The rapid work by Iran to quickly demolish and clear the rubble of these important buildings appears to be an effort to sanitize the site and limit the availability of any possible future inspection from obtaining" evidence of nuclear weapons-related work, the report said.

IRAN THREATENS TO STOP WORK WITH IAEA IF ’SNAPBACK’ SANCTIONS IMPOSED
Also Wednesday, Iran said that the return of UN nuclear inspectors did not represent a full resumption of cooperation, after Grossi announced that the watchdog began work at the key nuclear site of Bushehr in southwestern Iran.

"No final text has yet been approved on the new cooperation framework with the IAEA and views are being exchanged," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, quoted by state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Under an Iranian law suspending cooperation with the IAEA, inspectors may access Iranian nuclear sites only with the approval of the country’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council.

Tehran has said repeatedly that future cooperation with the agency will take "a new form."

The front man for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said the IAEA inspectors would oversee the replacement of fuel at the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

He made no mention of whether inspectors would be allowed access to other sites, including Fordo and Natanz, which were hit during the war.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister Karim Gharibabadi meanwhile said that if so-called European snapback sanctions are triggered, "the path of interaction that we have now opened with the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency will also be completely affected and will probably stop."

On Tuesday, Russia circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at pushing back the deadline for triggering snapback sanctions by six months, according to the text seen by AFP.

The Russian proposal does not set preconditions for the deadline extension.

Russia’s deputy UN ambassador, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said that the updated proposal was designed to "give more breathing space for diplomacy," adding that he hoped it "will be acceptable".

"It will be kind of a litmus test for those who really want to uphold diplomatic efforts, and for those who don’t want any diplomatic solution, but just want to pursue their own nationalist, selfish agendas against Iran," he told media.
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