Crimea gets ready for possible water shortage

SIMFEROPOL, February 20. /TASS/. Crimea has announced alert regime as the republic may face water shortage, the republic’s government said on its website on Saturday.

Crimea’s head Sergey Aksenov ordered all emergencies authorities and services to be prepared for the possible water shortage. Specially organized headquarters will solve the task of "providing drinking and technical water to Kerch, Feodosiya (cities) and the Lenin district," the order reads.

In 2014, Ukraine stopped water supplies from the Dnipro River to fill water reservoirs in Crimea.

In late January, Crimea’s water authority reported the republic’s all water reservoirs were full and the stock of water would be sufficient for the heating and the resort seasons. However, the reservoirs, which are filled naturally, are 50-70% full, the authority said.

 

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Damascus Rejects Kerry Proposal If Cease-Fire Fails

DAMASCUS – The Syrian government criticized on Wednesday U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for his statements that “contradict the truth” about a hypothetical partition of Syria if the cease-fire scheduled for Saturday fails.

In a statement published by the Syrian Arab News Agency, or SANA, a Syrian Foreign Ministry official said that “Syria condemns these statements which contradict the truth and serve to hide his country’s responsibility for what Syria is exposed to from the crimes perpetrated by the terrorist groups.”

On Tuesday, Kerry told the U.S. Senate that Washington would move to plan B, which would involve the division of Syria, if the truce between the United States and Russia in the Syrian territory did not materialize or if a transition to an interim government did not occur in the coming months.

For the Syrian Foreign Ministry “the United States, with its regional allies and tools, shoulders the responsibility of starting and continuing the crisis in Syria through its continuous support of terrorism, SANA reported.

The statement stressed that the Syrian people “are more determined to defeat terrorism, preserve Syria’s territorial integrity, national sovereignty and its national independent decision.”

Khamenei Claims Enemies Create “False Bipolarity to Create Discord” in Iran

TEHRAN – Iran’s Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that the enemies of his country are attempting to create a “false bipolarity to create discord” among the Iranian people.

Speaking to thousands of people in the Iranian city of Najafabad, the supreme leader said the plotters of “false bipolarity” are trying to show that there are pro-parliament and anti-parliament Iranians.

“The Iranian nation wants a parliament which is religious, committed, brave, not gullible, resistant against the arrogant powers’ excessive demands and greed,” he explained according to FARS news agency.

He pointed out that Iranian people need a parliament that will be a “defender of the national honor and independence, a real lover of the country’s progress” and is not “intimidated” by the United States.

Khamenei called on all people to go to the polling stations on Friday to elect the representatives of parliament and Assembly of Experts, in which about 55 million will vote.

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Saudi Arabia: 32 accused of spying for Iranian regime stand trial

A group of 32 people including an Iranian national who have been accused of spying for the Iranian regime’s Intelligence appeared before the Special Criminal Court in Riyadh on Sunday.

The court presented a list of accusations prepared by the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP) against the members of the cell that also includes Saudis and an Afghan national.

The spy ring divulged defense secrets and strove to carry out acts of sabotage in the kingdom, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry.

“They were accused of high treason against their country and the King by breaching their loyalty to the nation and setting up links with Iranian Intelligence and providing them with highly confidential information,” Saudi Gazette reported.

“The ring recruited people in government departments and trained them to send coded information to Iranian Intelligence.”

“Some of them also met Ali Khamenei,” the Iranian regime’s supreme leader, the report said.