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Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zari arrives before a ministerial meeting of EU/E3 with Iran at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on May 15, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

Here is a brief look at Press TV newsroom's headlines from 1800 GMT, July 21, 2018 to 0800 GMT, July 22, 2018.

Iran calls for action

Iran's top diplomat calls on the remaining signatories of the Iran nuclear deal to take practical steps to salvage the accord in the wake of US withdrawal. Zarif was addressing the Foreign Ministry personnel at Imam Khomeini’s Mausoleum. He also said Iran will not wait for Europeans to take action and will try to plan for maintaining the volume of the country's non-oil exports. Zarif said Iranian diplomats, by negotiating the nuclear deal, dealt a serious blow to what he called Israel’s spreading of Iranophobia. The foreign minister accused the US and Israel of being after destroying entire Iran, saying their plots are not limited to regime change. He made it clear that Tehran will not buckle under the economic pressure from Washington.

US condition for China talks

The US treasury secretary has urged China and the European Union to respect free and fair trade as France criticized Washington over putting levies on its imports. Steven Mnuchin said trade should be balanced and reciprocal and that means selling more goods to China. He urged Beijing to open up its markets. The US treasury secretary referred to President Donald Trump’s threat of imposing tariffs on all Chinese imports. He said that’s a real possibility if China doesn’t change its trade practices. Turning to the EU, Mnuchin said the bloc would have to make considerable concessions to get a free-trade agreement with the US. France’s economy minister Bruno Le Maire hit back at the US.

Nicaragua rival rallies

Supporters and opponents of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega have staged rival rallies in the capital Managua. Ortega’s supporters held up photos of police officers killed in the recent anti-government protests, demanding jail for those responsible. His opponents carried the Nicaraguan flag and pledged to continue their protests. There have been no reports of clashes between the two groups. Over the past three months, the opposition has staged mass rallies against the Nicaraguan president and called for his resignation. Ortega has refused to step down, saying his government is battling coup-plotting terrorists financed by the United States. Clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters have so far left some 300 people dead.

US threatens China

The US treasury secretary repeats President Trump’s threat of imposing tariffs on all Chinese imports if Beijing doesn’t change its trade practices.

UK Brexit warning

UK’s new Brexit secretary says Britain will only pay its EU divorce bill on the condition that the bloc agrees to the framework for a trade deal. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Domonic Raab said there must be some conditionality between paying the 39-billion-euro bill and Brussel's willingness to negotiate a post-Brexit trade agreement. He used EU regulations as leverage to support his argument. Raab noted that details for new deals existed in the same clause of an international agreement, known as the Lisbon Treaty, that triggered Britain's imminent withdrawal from the EU. He insisted the two should go together.

Iran's warning to US

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has ruled out dialogue with the United States, saying it means nothing but surrender. Rouhani’s comment came a day after Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei rejected negotiations with the US as an obvious mistake. Rouhani called US President Donald Trump a bully, saying if Iran yields in to his pressure, Trump will plunder the country. Rouhani said Washington seeks to topple the Islamic Republic and partition Iran. He once again warned the US against any effort to bring Iran’s oil export to zero. The Iranian president said such an attempt is like twisting the lion's tail and would lead to regret. Rouhani said the US should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with it is the mother of all wars.

Storming al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli settlers once again storm the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds. Large groups of settlers, guarded by Israeli forces broke into the compound. The move is considered an incursion under a 1967 deal between Israel and Jordan, which prohibits non-Muslim worshipers from entering the site. Tel Aviv, however, often allows Israeli settlers to enter the site and carry out religious rituals in defiance of the agreement.

Israel transfers ‘White Helmets’

The Israeli army says it has secretly evacuated 800 White Helmet volunteers and their families from southern Syria, where the country’s forces are making rapid advances against foreign-backed militants. Israel says the operation was carried out at the request of the US and European countries. It says the White Helmets were transported to Jordan via the occupied territories. According to Jordanian authorities, the volunteers will be transferred to Canada, the UK and Germany. Israel also runs hospitals in occupied Golan, where it gives treatment to anti-Damascus militants and reportedly to Takfiri terrorists. Syria says White Helmets work with both, and are part of the western propaganda war against Damascus. Russia also questions the group’s humanitarian work. Moscow says White Helmets have been helping foreign-backed militants and Nusra Front terrorists fake chemical attacks in Syria and blame them on the Syrian army.


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