Afghan Taliban threaten Iran

Other news of the day: Joint exercises of the Philippine, Japanese and US coast guards in the South China Sea, in an anti-Beijing key. The first North Korean military reconnaissance satellite has been completed. The Burmese junta arrests a rapper and sentences the author of a video to 10 years. China sends the first civilian astronaut into space. Riyadh against Moscow for oil prices. Asad Gulzoda Bukhoroi, poet and intellectual from Tajikistan, has died.

IRAN – AFGHANISTAN

in the middle of the growing tensions Due to border disputes and the exploitation of the waters of the Helmand River, the Afghan Taliban threatens to “conquer Iran very soon”. In a recently released video, a leader of Quranic students vows to fight the Ayatollahs “with more passion” than the United States. The clashes on the border in recent days left a balance of three dead.

NORTH KOREA

In June, Pyongyang will send its first military reconnaissance satellite to monitor US military activities in real time, according to the state agency KCNA. Scientists have completed construction and President Kim Jong-un has given the green light for the mission. The launch should take place between May 31 and June 11. Japan’s missile defenses are on standby.

PHILIPPINES – JAPAN – UNITED STATES

For the first time, the coast guards of the Philippines, Japan and the United States will carry out trilateral maritime exercises in the South China Sea from June 1 to 7. Four ships from Manila, one from Japan and one from the US will participate in an operation aimed at containing Beijing’s expansionism in the region.

CHINA

China will send into space today its first civilian astronaut marking the beginning of a new phase for the Tiangong space station. Gui Haichao, a professor at Beihang University in Beijing, travels together with veteran Jing Haipeng and Colonel Zhu Yangzhu, also for the first time in space, aboard Shenzhou-16, which will depart from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

MYANMAR

The military arrested the famous rapper Byu Har for criticizing the junta over recent power outages in Myanmar and claiming that Aung San Suu Kyi handled emergencies better than junta head Min Aung Hlaing. Shortly before, the sentence to 10 years of forced labor for the video author Hmu Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun for violating the anti-terrorism law.

RUSSIA – SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia is extremely upset by the decisions Russia has made regarding oil extraction. Moscow would not be fulfilling the commitments made in the meetings with the OPEC+ countries to reduce the amounts of extraction, exporting too much crude to world markets and causing prices to stagnate instead of increasing.

TAJIKISTAN

At the age of 88, Asad Gulzoda Bukhoroi, the greatest poet and herald of the Tajik language, has passed away. He was also a journalist and historical defender of the Tajik schools of Bukhara and lived between the United States, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan dedicated to spreading the culture of the Tajiks and all the peoples of Central Asia with books and public events.