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Israeli PM: World powers must 'wake up' on Iran nuclear deal

(AP) — Israel’s new Prime
Minister Naftali Bennett
opened his first Cabinet
meeting on Sunday by
slamming Iran’s newly-
elected president and
calling on world powers
to “wake up” to the perils
of returning to a nuclear
agreement with Tehran.

Later in the day, Bennett
warned Gaza’s militant
Hamas rulers that Israel
would not tolerate even mi-
nor attacks from the territory
in the wake of last month’s
11-day war, saying “our pa-
tience is running out.”

Iran’s hard-line judiciary
chief, Ebrahim Raisi, was
elected Saturday with 62% of
the vote amid historically low
turnout. He is sanctioned by
the U.S. in part over his in-
volvement in the mass execu-
tion of thousands of political
prisoners in 1988, at the end
of the Iran-Iraq war. Raisi has
not commented specifically
on the event. first round since the election restored. insists its nuclear program is incendiary balloons launched
that put hard-liners firmly in intended for peaceful pur- from Gaza in recent days
At the Cabinet meeting in Je- control across Iran’s govern- “The person who makes the poses. that have set fields ablaze in-
rusalem, Bennett said Iran’s ment. decision about whether Iran side Israel. Last week, Israel
Supreme Leader Ayatollah will go back into the Iran Earlier this month, Israel’s launched airstrikes on two
Ali Khamenei had chosen the Israel was staunchly opposed nuclear deal, will assume its outgoing Mossad intelligence occasions in response to the
“hangman of Tehran” to be to the landmark nuclear deal nuclear obligations under chief signaled that Israel was balloons sent by activists mo-
the country’s next president, and welcomed then-Presi- international law, is not the behind a string of recent at- bilized by Hamas.
a man “infamous among Ira- dent Donald Trump’s deci- president of Iran, it is the su- tacks targeting the country’s
nians and across the world for sion to unilaterally withdraw preme leader of Iran, and that nuclear program. Last month’s Gaza war was
leading the death commit- the U.S. from it. Since then, person did not change from halted by an informal cease-
tees that executed thousands the agreement has unraveled, before the election,” Sullivan Bennett heads a broad coali- fire. Egyptian mediators have
of innocent Iranian citizens with Iran abandoning all its said on CNN’s “State of the tion of parties ranging from met with Israeli and Hamas
throughout the years.” limitations on enrichment af- Union.” hard-line Jewish nationalists officials in recent weeks to try
ter the Trump administration to liberal factions and a small and shore it up, but there has
Raisi’s ascendancy comes at a restored crippling economic Bennett said Raisi’s election Islamist party. His govern- been no apparent progress on
sensitive time for the region, sanctions. Tehran is cur- was “the last chance for the ment was sworn in last week, Hamas’ main demand, the
as Iran and world powers rently enriching uranium at world powers to wake up be- sending Benjamin Netan- lifting of an Israeli-Egyptian
ramp up efforts to resurrect its highest levels ever, though fore returning to the nuclear yahu to the opposition after blockade imposed on the ter-
Tehran’s tattered 2015 nucle- still short of weapons-grade agreement and to understand a record 12 years as prime ritory when it seized power
ar deal, which granted Iran levels. who they’re doing business minister. from rival Palestinian forces
sanctions relief in exchange with. These guys are mur- in 2007.
for curbs on its nuclear pro- Although the White House derers, mass murderers.” Later on Sunday, at a me-
gram. has yet to weigh in on Iran’s morial ceremony for Israelis Israel says the blockade is
election, President Joe Israel, which is believed to killed in the 2014 Gaza war, needed to keep Hamas from
For weeks, Iranian and Biden’s national security ad- have its own undeclared Bennett warned Hamas that importing military resources,
American diplomats have viser, Jake Sullivan, said on nuclear arsenal, has long op- Israel “will not tolerate vio- while the Palestinians and
been negotiating a return to Sunday that the outcome was posed arch-enemy Iran’s nu- lence, we will not tolerate a human rights groups view it
the accord in Vienna through unlikely to affect nuclear ne- clear program and has vowed drizzle.” as collective punishment of
European intermediaries. gotiations because Iran’s su- to prevent Tehran from ob- the territory’s more than 2
Talks resumed Sunday, the preme leader wants the deal taining nuclear weapons. Iran He appeared to be referring to million Palestinian residents.

Gunmen kill at least 14 in attacks near US-Mexico border

(AP) — Gunmen in vehicles noon in several neighborhoods in tivity has long been dominated by bilized after the shootings. During
opened fire in the Mexican city eastern Reynosa, which borders the the Gulf Cartel, but there have been the security sweep, authorities said
of Reynosa on the U.S. border, Texan city of McAllen, according fractures within the group. they detained a person who had two
killing at least 14 people and to the Tamaulipas state agency that women, apparently kidnapped, in
causing widespread panic, au- coordinates security forces. Images Reynosa Mayor Maki Esther Ortiz the trunk of his car. They also seized
thorities said. Security forces posted on social media showed bod- Domínguez demanded an investiga- three vehicles.
killed four suspects, includ- ies in the streets. tion and said city residents must be
ing one who died near a border protected. Reynosa is a key crossing point for
bridge. Authorities did not immediately migrants attempting to reach the
comment on a possible motive for The Mexican army, National Guard, United States.
The attacks began Saturday after- the attacks. The area’s criminal ac- state police and other agencies mo-