Al Mayadeen – January 20, 2025
Trump sworn in as 47th US president, vows 'golden age'
Flights near Washington D.C. have been postponed for security concerns coinciding with the inaugural ceremony.
Donald J. Trump has officially been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday as he plans to issue a slew of executive orders ranging from migration to the economy.
His vice president, JD Vance, was sworn in just before him.
He and outgoing President Joe Biden shared a motorcade to the Capitol, where the inauguration ceremony was held, after meeting for traditional tea at the White House.
According to CNN, excerpts of his prepared comments state he is returning "confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country," vowing that he will sign "historic executive orders" that will "begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.”
The introduction of the extreme policies comes a day after Trump promised a "brand new day" and the end of "four years of American decline."
"I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country," Trump said at an inauguration eve event where he danced with the Village People band.
The inauguration ceremony was moved inside the Capitol due to the cold, four years after a mob of Trump supporters raided the building, a symbol of American democracy, in an unsuccessful effort to forestall Trump's loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Biden and outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump in November, were on hand inside the Capitol's Rotunda, along with former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, arrived with her husband Bill, but Obama's wife, Michelle, chose not to attend.
Numerous tech executives who have sought to curry favor with the incoming administration - including the three richest men in the world, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg - had prominent seats on stage, next to cabinet nominees and members of Trump's family.
Musk gives thumbs up after Trump announces sending astronauts to Mars.
Some of Trump's expected executive orders are as follows:
On immigration:
- Close the border to asylum seekers and eliminate asylum and birthright citizenship.
- Involve the US military with border security.
- Declare migrant crossings along the US-Mexico border a national emergency, allowing Trump to use federal funds for border wall construction without congressional approval for stronger enforcement actions.
- Designate drug cartels as "terrorists".
- On DEI and workforce:
- End remote work regulations and require many agencies to return to the office 4-5 days a week.
- Establish biological sex criteria for government workers as part of the new Title IX guidelines for schools.
- Remove transgender safeguards in federal prisons.
- Eliminate safeguards for transgender migrants in US detention.
- On trade and tariffs:
- Direct federal agencies to investigate trade practices such as trade imbalances, unfair currency practices, counterfeit products, and a specific exemption for low-value items entering the US without tariffs.
- Assess China's compliance with a 2020 trade agreement as well as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement.
- Order the government to determine the viability of establishing an "External Revenue Service" to collect tariffs and levies.
- On the environment and energy:
- Declare a national energy emergency, giving him the authority to speed up pipeline and power plant approvals.
- Order the federal government to reduce rules that limit domestic energy production.
- Indicate a desire to relax restrictions on tailpipe emissions and fuel efficiency criteria.
- Reduce energy-efficiency rules for dishwashers, shower heads, and gas stoves.
- Allow for further oil and gas drilling in Alaska's wilderness.
- Eliminate environmental justice initiatives throughout the government that try to safeguard disadvantaged neighborhoods from excessive pollution.
- The first felon to become president
In 2016, Trump was the oldest president to take office at 70 years old. When his tenure ends in January 2029, he will be 82 years old, making him the oldest sitting president in history.
Trump is also the first former president-turned-felon to return to office. In early January he was sentenced to "unconditional discharge", which carries no penalty but confirms his felony record.
Last May, a New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying company records to hide a hush money payment to an adult actress, making him the first former president to be convicted of a felony.
The 45th and 47th president, Trump's 2017 inauguration sparked a wave of demonstrations that overwhelmed the number of his supporters assembled on the National Mall - but this year's event is likely to be more subdued.
Flights near Washington D.C. have been postponed for security concerns coinciding with the inaugural ceremony.
In his closing hours in office, Biden ordered unusual pre-emptive pardons for former Covid-19 advisor Anthony Fauci and retired general Mark Milley to protect them from "politically motivated prosecutions" by President Trump.
Biden issued identical pardons to members, officials, and witnesses of a US House committee investigating the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by Trump loyalists.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that Trump appointed Republican Commodity Futures Trading Commission officer Caroline Pham as the agency's chair.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/trump-sworn-in-as-47th-president-of-the-united-states
Palestinian Information Center – January 20, 2025
90 Palestinian women and kids released from Israeli jails
90 Palestinian women and children were freed at dawn Monday from Israeli prisons and were greeted by large crowds of jubilant relatives, friends and supporters as they returned home in the occupied West Bank following the release of three Israeli captives in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement, which took effect yesterday.
At about 1:00 a.m. local time on Monday, Red Cross buses carrying the 90 Palestinian prisoners arrived in Ramallah in the West Bank, where they were greeted by thousands of citizens despite warnings from the Israeli occupation forces that celebrations would not be allowed.
The freed Palestinians included 69 women and 21 teenage boys – some as young as 12 – from the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
Among them was Khalida Jarrar, 62, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who had been held for six months in solitary confinement under “administrative detention,” with no indictment.
In Ramallah City, a crowd of people lifted many of the freed prisoners up on their shoulders in an emotional show of support, while others carried the flags of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other resistance groups, amid chanting and cheering.
Earlier on Sunday night, Israeli forces attacked hundreds of Palestinian citizens as they gathered near the Ofer checkpoint and jail in the southwest of Ramallah City, awaiting the Israeli release of the first group of prisoners.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that Israeli soldiers fired volleys of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets at a crowd of Palestinians rallying near Ofer jail, pointing out that a number of people were injured.
The Red Crescent said that its ambulance crews provided medical assistance for seven wounded citizens during the events in the vicinity of Ofer jail, adding that two of them were evacuated to hospitals.
The exact number of Palestinian prisoners due to be released as part of the ceasefire deal is still unknown, with reported estimates ranging from 1,000 to about 2,000.
In the first phase of the deal, Hamas is expected to release a total of 33 Israeli captives over the next 42 days – with the next release due on Saturday. The second phase of the ceasefire talks is due to begin in two weeks.
More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed since the Israeli genocidal war started on October 7, 2023, and over 90 percent of Gaza’s population has been forcibly displaced by Israeli evacuation orders and attacks.
https://english.palinfo.com/news/2025/01/20/332533/
Al Mayadeen – January 20, 2025
Who is liberated Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar?
After Gaza's triumph over genocide, Khalida Jarrar was liberated, honoring the resistance’s promise to its prisoners. But who is Khalida Jarrar?
After enduring years of struggle and detention in Israeli prisons, Khalida Jarrar, hailed as "Political Prisoner No. 1" by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, is finally liberated. Her liberation came as part of the first prisoner exchange between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Resistance following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which symbolized a historic triumph against the atrocities in Gaza.
Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar was born on February 9, 1963, in the city of Nablus. She is married to Ghassan Jarrar, a businessman who has endured years of administrative detention, investigation, and deportation.
Jarrar has two daughters, Yafa and Suha. Tragically, Suha passed away in July 2021 while her mother was still in detention, and the occupation prevented her from saying a final farewell to her daughter.
The Palestinian leader holds a master's degree in political science from Birzeit University in Palestine. She also served as a member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council, and the official responsible for the detainees' file in the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Jarrar served as a member of the Supreme National Committee responsible for overseeing Palestine’s accession to the International Criminal Court. She also worked as the Director of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association from 1994 to 2006, and later served as Vice-Chairman of the Foundation’s Board of Directors.
House arrest, detention, and isolation… followed by freedom after Gaza’s triumph over genocide
All charges brought against Khalida Jarrar by the Israeli occupation are linked to her political activities and affiliation with the PFLP movement. The occupation used her participation in events supporting detainees and visits to liberated detainees as additional grounds for her arrest.
The occupation began its persecution of the Palestinian leader in 1998, when it carried out a house arrest order, effectively barring her from leaving the occupied Palestinian territories.
On April 2, 2015, occupation forces detained her from her home in Ramallah. They surrounded the house with military vehicles, stormed the premises, searched it thoroughly, and seized her belongings before transferring her from one Israeli military detention center to the other for interrogation.
During the investigations, Jarrar refused to cooperate with the occupation’s intelligence, asserting her right to remain silent and refusing to eat or drink. As a result, she was transferred to Hasharon Prison for women.
After Jarrar's trial was postponed for several sessions over several months, the military court in Ofer Prison in "Israel" issued a 15-month sentence in prison in December 2015. The occupation then released her on June 3, 2016.
During her detainment, Jarrar suffered a brain infarction due to reduced blood supply caused by blood vessel clotting and high cholesterol, necessitating multiple hospital transfers.
In the summer of 2017, Israeli occupation forces arrested Jarrar once again, and her detention was extended in 2018 before she was eventually released in February of the following year.
Her time outside prison was brief. In late October 2019, she was arrested once again. This detention was followed by a year and four months of investigations and court sessions, culminating in the verdict announced on March 1, 2021. After she was liberated later that year, Jarrar visited her daughter Suha’s grave in September.
After Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, specifically on December 26, 2023, the occupation detained her again and placed her with other female prisoners in Damon Prison.
She was later transferred to solitary confinement at Neve Tizia prison, where she endured intense isolation and the occupation refused to disclose the exact duration. During these harsh conditions, she faced the constant threat of death, subjected to extreme heat without proper ventilation.
Earlier in November, the Hanzala Center for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners reported on Jarrar's condition, describing her ongoing imprisonment as part of a broader campaign of repression and abuse, and marking her treatment as a clear example of "Israel's slow death" policy against Palestinian political prisoners.
The center also condemned the harsh conditions she faced, revealing that the female Palestinian activist was confined in an overcrowded, poorly ventilated cell, deprived of basic necessities such as water and light. The facility, as per the center, was described as resembling a "grave", where Jarrar is forced to lie next to the door in order to access the limited oxygen available.
Two days after the ceasefire was announced in Gaza on January 17, 2025, Israeli media announced that Khalida Jarrar was released among the detainees as part of the prisoner-captive exchange deal.
During the early hours of the 20th of this month, Khalida Jarrar was reunited with her people outside the occupation prisons, reclaiming her freedom. This followed Gaza’s triumph over genocide on its own terms, fulfilling its promise to both male and female detainees that their freedom would come.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/who-is-liberated-palestinian-leader-khalida-jarrar
Who are the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel?
Palestinians are celebrating the release of 90 prisoners, including 69 women, most of whom were detained without charges.
The Israeli-occupied West Bank has erupted in celebrations after 90 Palestinian prisoners, most of them women, were released from Israeli jails as part of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Families in the West Bank waited until early on Monday to receive their loved ones, most of whom had been detained without charge.
The ceasefire, which ended Israel’s more than 15-month war on Gaza, also saw the release of three Israeli captives. More captives and prisoners are expected to be released in the coming weeks.
Here is what we know about the Palestinian prisoners who were freed:
Who are some of the prominent Palestinians released?
The prisoners – 69 women and 21 children – were released about 1am on Monday (23:00 GMT on Sunday). They were taken to the West Bank city of Ramallah in Red Cross buses.
Only eight of the 90 prisoners were arrested before October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led Palestinian groups carried out attacks in southern Israel. The attacks killed more than 1,100 people, saw about 250 taken captive and triggered Israel’s war on Gaza.
Israel killed more than 47,000 Palestinians during its offensive on Gaza, drawing criticism for using disproportionate force against civilians and targeting hospitals and schools. It also killed more than 850 Palestinians and detained more than 7,000 in often violent raids across the West Bank.
Khalida Jarrar, leader of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and a feminist activist, was one of the most prominent prisoners released.
Jarrar has served prison terms in Israel since 2015 for being vocal about Palestinian prisoner rights and being affiliated with an “outlawed” party. The PFLP is considered a “terrorist” group by Israel.
In a statement in 2016, New York-based Human Rights Watch said Jarrar’s repeated arrests were part of Israel’s wider crackdown on nonviolent political opposition to its half-century of military occupation of Palestinian lands.
Her most recent arrest was on December 26, 2023.
The Palestinian’s first arrest came in March 1989 during an International Women’s Day protest at Birzeit University in the West Bank. She was a master’s student at the time.
Jarrar emerged as a feminist leader as she fought against gender stereotypes and worked for the empowerment of female entrepreneurs in the West Bank. She carried out community work in Nablus, helping clean public spaces and improve public schools. She was later elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council.
She served as the director of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association from 1994 to 2006.
“There’s this double feeling we’re living in: on the one hand, this feeling of freedom that we thank everyone for and, on the other hand, this pain of losing so many Palestinian martyrs,” Jarrar told The Associated Press news agency after she was released.
Another prominent released prisoner is journalist Rula Hassanein, an editor for the Ramallah-based Wattan Media Network. She was arrested by Israeli forces on March 19 as part of mass arrests of Palestinians.
Hassanein, 30, was tried before an Israeli military court at Israel’s Ofer Prison. She was charged with incitement on social media over posts that reportedly included retweets on X and her expression of frustration over the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.
How many more prisoners will be released?
The first phase of the three-phase ceasefire is to last 42 days. During this time, 33 Israeli captives are to be released, including female civilians and soldiers as well as children and elderly civilians.
In exchange, up to 1,900 Palestinian prisoners are to be freed.
On day one of the exchange, three Israeli captives were released from Gaza: 24-year-old Romi Gonen, 28-year-old Emily Damari and 31-year-old Doron Steinbrecher.
Before their release, about 100 captives were believed to be left in Gaza. It remains unclear how many are still alive.
The remaining captives, besides the 33 slated for release in the first phase, are reportedly male soldiers who are to be released in exchange for an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners.
How many Palestinians are in Israeli prisons?
Before the release of the 90 prisoners on Monday, there were 10,400 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, not including those detained in Gaza during the past 15 months of war, according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
“If they do something very little to challenge the status quo, they are faced with jail time,” according to Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim. Ibrahim said many children have been imprisoned by Israel for charges related to throwing rocks at Israeli forces.
“The list of prisoners, the hundreds of names that have been released, are mostly serving administrative detention, which is a tactic used by Israel to keep people in prison indefinitely without charges,” Ibrahim said.
Prison conditions
“I left hell and now I’m in heaven. We’re all out of hell. They used to violate us, beat us, fire tear gas towards us,” Abdelaziz Atawneh, a boy freed from an Israeli prison on Monday, told the media.
“There’s no food, no sweets, no salt,” he said.
Israeli prisons are notorious for mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners and observers commented on how Jarrar appeared to be frail in appearance compared with how she looked at the time of her latest arrest.
United Nations agencies, investigators and human rights organisations have documented arbitrary arrests, inhumane and degrading treatment, torture and deaths of Palestinians in Israeli custody.
On the other hand, the captives freed and sent to Israel seemed to be in good health, Israeli media reported.
The three captives, “together with their mothers, just landed at a hospital, where they will be reunited with the rest of their families and receive medical treatment”, the Israeli military said in a statement. The three released captives are at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
In April, Dr Adnan al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, died in Israel’s Ofer Prison. His family said al-Bursh was tortured to death.
“The release of Palestinian prisoners, including women and children, does not mean that the conditions of captivity have changed. Israeli negotiators insisted that nothing will change inside Israeli prisons,” Basil Farraj, an assistant professor at Birzeit University, told Al Jazeera.
“This is actually very worrisome, and it explains why families were gathered to receive the loved ones because they know the hell that [the prisoners] have been undergoing is brutal.”
Farraj added: “This shows that this carceral regime is intended to break Palestinian prisoners. It intentionally tries to break their spirit and soul.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/20/who-are-the-palestinian-prisoners-released-by-israel
97 bodies recovered in Rafah as search for 10,000 missing continues in Gaza
Medical sources say more than 97 bodies were recovered in Rafah a day after the Gaza ceasefire took effect.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Monday that 60 Gazans lost their lives on that first day.
Palestinian authorities estimate the number of unrecovered bodies to be around 10,000, with some claiming the number to be as high as 15,000.
Around 2,840 bodies were also said to have been "evaporated without a trace" due to the extreme temperatures caused by Israeli weapons.
The Israeli bombing of Gaza has left more than two-thirds of all buildings in the strip damaged or destroyed.
The recovery of dead bodies has also been compounded since Israeli forces have regularly attacked civil defense units.
During the Israeli campaign of genocide in Gaza, 99 civil defense members were killed with 319 being injured. At least 27 members of the Gaza civil defense were also abducted by Israeli soldiers with their fate currently being unknown.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, as of Monday, the death toll of Israel's aggression surpasses 47,000.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/20/741277/bodies-recovered-in-Rafah
Yemen says monitoring Netanyahu’s ‘crushing defeat’, pledges support for Gaza
The Yemeni Ansarullah resistance movement has congratulated Palestinians on the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire deal, reaffirming its unwavering support for the oppressed nation and its resistance front.
“With faith and confidence in the promised divine victory, we reiterate Yemen's unfaltering support for Palestine and its resistance,” the group said in a statement on Monday.
It added, “Yemen will closely follow up on the full implementation of the agreement and its details, and will resolutely confront any possible escalation of aggression by the Zionist regime.”
The Ansarullah movement described the implementation of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, as part of which 90 Palestinian prisoners were freed from Israeli jails, as the fruit of resilience in the face of the 15-month-long genocidal war and brutalities by the Israeli military.
“The genocidal war, launched by the Zionist regime, was waged with the full complicity of the United States and the unlimited support of Western European countries,” the Yemeni group stated.
It lauded the Gaza ceasefire deal and the release of the first group of Palestinian prisoners, which was achieved through sacrifices of the local Palestinian population, as a historic achievement.
“Palestinians have recorded an epic saga of patience and resilience. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood proved that we are facing a tyrannical and bullying enemy, which only understands the language of force and cannot be deterred by any means other than the language it comprehends [which is confrontation],” Ansarullah pointed out.
It underlined that the martyrdom of the late secretary-general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar helped the attainment of this great achievement.
It noted that a complete fiasco was imposed on the Zionist regime, the United States and Britain, which brought “a great disappointment for criminal [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu.”
Israeli authorities released 90 Palestinians from the Israeli Ofer military prison at about 1:30 a.m. local time (2330 GMT) on Monday.
The release came hours after Hamas released three Israeli captives from Gaza, on the first day of a ceasefire deal.
The freed Palestinians included politician Khalida Jarrar and journalist Rula Hassanein. Among the released prisoners were women from East al-Quds, and minors.
Several of the freed Palestinians described as difficult the conditions in Israeli prisons, including lack of medical care and solitary confinement.
The prisoner release is part of a Gaza ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas that took effect on Sunday.
Houthi: Iran played crucial role in victory of Palestinians over Israel
The Yemeni Ansarullah leader has praised Iran’s significant role in the Palestinian nation’s triumph over Israel after a 15-month-long campaign of genocide.
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi was giving a televised speech aired live from the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Monday evening.
“Despite all pressures, the Islamic Republic of Iran maintained its unfaltering support for Palestinians and their Resistance front. Iran carried out major and large operations, and launched Operations True Promise I and II,” targeting key Israeli military and intelligence installations with its missiles, he said.
“The support front for Gaza delivered a crushing blow to the Zionist enemy, and Iran played an important role in the achievement of such a victory.”
“This round of confrontation with the Israeli regime marks a turning point in the history of struggle against the Zionist enemy. [The Lebanese resistance movement] Hezbollah made tremendous sacrifices in an unprecedented manner alongside Palestinians.
“Hezbollah has continued to torment the Israeli enemy, and inflicted heavy losses and serious damage on it through great operations. The Iraqi support front also undertook several operations, which continued till recently, until victory was achieved,” Houthi stated.
The Ansarullah chief said Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian resistance factions remained steadfast until an outstanding result.
He also hailed Resistance fighters based in the occupied West Bank for the great sacrifices made and heroic operations carried out in solidarity with Gazans.
Houthi said the support front in Yemen has surprised the whole world with its substantial level of support, sustainability, and resilience.
“Yemenis supported the Palestinian cause and its resistance front due to Qura’nic teachings. The Yemeni nation wanted Ansarullah to stand side by side with Palestinians in the fight against the Israeli enemy.”
The Ansarullah leader underscored that the Israeli army crossed all redlines in the Gaza Strip with attacks on hospitals and civilian infrastructure.
Houthi said the Yemeni Armed Forces could successfully carry out operations against Israeli assets at sea, stating that the retaliatory strikes continued despite US interventions.
“The US military and the Israeli enemy failed to intercept Yemeni missiles and drones. Yemeni Armed Forces managed to stop Israeli-linked vessels sailing through the Red Sea.
“The US military and the Israeli enemy also could not locate Yemeni military installations and missile launch sites. Yemeni forces could cause serious economic losses on the Israeli enemy by targeting the Port of Eilat,” Houthi said.
The Ansarullah chief also said Yemeni forces managed to target US aircraft carriers in the Red Sea, stating that Washington launched a propaganda campaign against Yemen’s popular support for Palestinians in Gaza but to no avail.
Houthi warned the regime against the resumption of atrocities in Gaza, emphasizing that Yemeni forces are ready to escalate their strikes in case the Tel Aviv regime ups the ante in Gaza.
Israel lacks ability to eliminate resistance power
A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Israeli regime will never be able to eliminate the military and ideological power of the Resistance Front in Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen.
Addressing a meeting with Iranian Army commanders in Tehran on Monday, Brigadier General Amir Hatami said the Israeli regime suffered a defeat and political collapse after its aggression in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
He said the recent developments in the region and across the world exposed the “depth of conspiracy and malice of the Zionist-American axis with the direct support of Western countries and the deadly silence of international organizations.”
He said Israel was normalizing ties with regional countries before Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, launched by Palestinian resistance fighters on October 7, 2023, but the resistance of Hamas and Hezbollah in Palestine and Lebanon put an end to the regime’s plots.
General Hatami, a former defense minister, emphasized that Hamas and Hezbollah have inflicted a defeat on the Israeli army, which failed to free its captives and was forced to retreat and accept a humiliating ceasefire to avoid further casualties.
“The Zionist regime's security, military, political and economic position has been severely weakened and has suffered a significant decline in comparison to the time before Operation al-Aqsa Flood.”
Israel was forced to accept a ceasefire deal with Hamas on Wednesday. The long-awaited agreement went into effect on Sunday.
As part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal, Israel on Monday released 90 Palestinian abductees after Hamas freed three Israeli captives.
Hatami, the Leader’s advisor on Army affairs, further said the arrogant system has committed numerous crimes against the Iranian people in various fields, saying Iranians have managed to defeat all such plots.
He warned that the enemy seeks to wage psychological and media warfare to achieve the goals it failed to obtain militarily.
