Tehran mayor, city council members attend 313,000-strong Jaanfada-yan ceremony

US formally withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

🔹The US announced Thursday evening that it has formally ended its membership and participation in the UN Human Rights Council, according to Tasnim.

🔹The State Department accused the council of promoting "anti-American rhetoric" and taking a lenient approach toward regimes accused of suppressing their people.

🔹The decision came a day after the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Iran released a report stating there are "reasonable grounds" to believe US forces were responsible for two attacks in Iran—including the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd—which could constitute war crimes.

Gharibabadi: US cannot evade responsibility by exiting Human Rights Council

🔹Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi responded to the US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, stating: "History will not forget—in Minab, a school was stained with the blood of 168 children, and in Lamerd, a sports field became a slaughterhouse for civilians."

🔹"Everyone now acknowledges that the events in Minab and Lamerd were not an operational error, but a blatant war crime," he said.

🔹"The US cannot evade its responsibility by withdrawing from the Human Rights Council."

New mural at Enqelab Square: "Life, sacrificed for Iran"

Sports and youth community parade before President Pezeshkian at 'Jaanfada-yan Iran' rally

Chief Rabbi of Iran's Jewish community attends Jaanfada-yan exercise

15 states issue joint statement condemning attacks on safeguarded nuclear facilities

🔹At the 70th IAEA General Conference, 15 countries—including Belarus, Brazil, China, Cuba, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Nicaragua, Niger, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Tajikistan, and Zimbabwe—issued a joint statement on the "prohibition of any attack or threat against nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards dedicated to peaceful purposes."

🔹The statement recalled UN Security Council Resolution 487 (1981), which strongly condemned military attacks on nuclear facilities.

🔹It reaffirmed that attacks or threats against nuclear facilities violate the UN Charter, international law, and the IAEA Statute, and are "fundamentally incompatible with the objectives of the NPT."

Armed Forces spox: US-Israeli threats cannot save their decaying army from heavier defeats

🔹Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, senior spokesman of Iran's Armed Forces, said the repeated, baseless threats by the US president and Zionist regime leaders cannot save their "terrorist, incapacitated, and declining army" from heavier defeats at the hands of the Iranian nation and its powerful fighters.

🔹He stressed that Iran's Armed Forces remain fully prepared to confront any aggression and will deliver decisive responses to any hostile action.

Iran, Tajikistan emphasize trade expansion, removal of obstacles to economic exchanges

Iran and Tajikistan have agreed to accelerate a preferential trade deal, ease customs procedures, and explore national currency and barter mechanisms. Talks also covered joint tractor assembly, a cotton value chain, greenhouse projects, and agricultural machinery exports. Bilateral trade reached $254.3m in early 2026, up 14.8%, toward a $1bn target by 2030.

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/530120/Iran-Tajikistan-emphasize-trade-expansion-removal-of-obstacles

Baghaei: World won't be fooled by America's false narratives

🔹Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei mocked a US State Department spokesperson's claim that Washington would prevent Iranian officials from shopping at American stores during the upcoming UN General Assembly.

🔹"Washington still assumes nations lack memory and analytical sense—as if the world is a series like Pluribus, where everyone must stare at Washington's lips with a closed mind and believe its narrative without question," he said.

🔹He contrasted the "ruthless economic war aimed at inflicting maximum pain on every Iranian citizen" with the "grand spectacle of preventing hypothetical shopping at a New York wholesale store."

🔹"They celebrate sanctioning a nation's life and issue statements about sanctioning a store card. This propaganda is so naive it reveals the simplistic mindset that started the illegal war," Baghaei concluded.