Trilateral clash in NRNA America, Kharel, Sah for president, and Anup Khanal takes over as Adhikari general secretary

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The voting process for selecting the new leadership of the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) USA began on Sunday. About 13,000 members of the association will vote for their preferred candidates through ballots sent via email and mobile. This time, there will be a three-way competition between Bhanu Kharel, Satendra Sah, and Ramhari Adhikari for the post of president. All three candidates were intensifying the final phase of activities to woo voters before the election. Due to the divisions, disputes, and internal dissatisfaction seen in the last term, this time the members have appeared more cautious in selecting the leadership. In states with a large number of voters, like California, New York, and Texas, members have expressed expectations for the new leadership. Along with the president, there is also competition for other positions, including vice president, general secretary, secretary, and others. All three candidates have entered the field with a pail. Anup Khanal from the...

Iran to Resume Nuclear Talks with US if it gets Guarantees of no Further Attacks

 

Tehran: Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday that he would agree to resume nuclear talks with the United States if he received assurances that there would be no further attacks against his country.


In a speech to foreign diplomats in Tehran, Foreign Minister Araghchi said Iran has always been ready for talks on its nuclear program and will be ready in the future. “But if talks resume, they must be assured that this trend will not lead to war,” he said.


Referring to the 12-day Israeli bombing of Iran’s nuclear and military sites and the US attack on June 22, he said, “If the US and others want to resume talks with Iran, they must first have firm guarantees that such actions will not be repeated. The attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities have made it more difficult and complicated to achieve a negotiated solution.”


Iran suspended cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) after the attack. IAEA inspectors have since withdrawn.


Araghchi said that, in accordance with the law, the country will respond to the agency’s requests for assistance “on a case-by-case basis, based on Iran’s interests.”


He also said that any inspections by the agency must be based on Iran’s “security” concerns as well as the safety of the inspectors.


“The risk of the spread of radioactive elements left over from the war and the explosion of explosive devices at the attacked nuclear facilities is serious,” Foreign Minister Araghchi said.


He also reiterated Iran’s insistence that it must continue uranium enrichment on its soil. US President Donald Trump has insisted that this cannot happen.


Israel claims that Tehran has access to nuclear weapons. US intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last estimated that Iran had an organized nuclear weapons program in 2003.


However, Tehran had been enriching uranium to 60 percent. That is a shortfall and a technical step away from the weapons-grade level of 90 percent.


In an interview published on Monday, Iranian President Masoud Peshmerga said that the US airstrikes had damaged his country’s nuclear facilities so badly that Iranian officials had not yet been able to gain access to survey the damage.

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