We don’t need development that can affect mankind: Fr. Victor Vijay Lobo
'Sauharda Sangama, Hubburasool Prabhashana' programme in Mangaluru
Mangaluru, December 2: “Mushrooming of industries have been affecting the human life in a great extent. We don’t need any development which can affect the mankind”, said Mangaluru Diocese PRO Fr. Victor Vijay Lobo.
‘Sauharda Sangama, Hubburasool Prabhashana’ programme organized as part of the campaign of ‘Grow plants, shun drug habits’ to mark the 17th anniversary of Sunni Sandesha, at the Nehru Maidan on Saturday, was inaugurated by Khasim Darimi.
DCP (Law and Order) Hanumantharaya said that ‘Grow plants, shun drug habits’ was a model programme and the same kind of programme was being conducted by the police department during December and hailed the efforts of the Sunni Sandesha for conducting awareness on environment.
Presiding over the programme, Hubburasool Speech Reception Committee president Abdul Rauf Puthige said that ‘if Saudi Arabia waged war against India which is my pride, I would face it for my country. If people from all faiths worked together and achieved, India would become a super power in the world”, he opined.
Sunni Sandesha Editor-in-Chief Haji KS Hyder Darimi, former minister Ramanath Rai, Reception Committee honorary president Mansoor Ahmed wished the programme. After the inaugural programme, noted speaker Ustad Hafil Sirajuddin Qasimi delivered a speech on Hubburasool .
Rajiv Gandhi University for Health Sciences Senate Member U T Ifthikar, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Muslim Central Committee president Masood, Rasheed Haji Ullal of Ullala Darga, Reception Committee vice president Mustafa Bharat, Qatar businessman Monu, Abdul Khader Darimi Bambrana, Tabub Darimi, Mohammed Beary Yedapadavu, Hakeem Parthipadi, Yusuf Haji Addur, MH Haji Addur, Abdul Khader Darimi Kukkila, Abdul Rehman Haji Nasima, Umar Dirimi Pattori, Mahil Darimi, Siddiq Faizy Karaya, Zain Sakhafi, district Congress Minority wing president NS Kareem, Ibrahim Baqavi KC Road, Usman Faizy Todar, Usman Todar, Farooq Ullal, Nazeer Ullal, Sharief Ustad Ulla, Suleiman Sheik, Harun Ahsani, SDPI district president Ataulla Jokatte, Prakash Shetty and others were present.
while Reception Committee convener Naushad Haji Suralpadi welcomed the guests and Naufal Kudtamuger compared the programme.
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Iran suggests it's open to US talks, White House official says, Trump is 'eventually' willing
Washington (AP): A senior White House official said Sunday that Iran's “new potential leadership” has suggested it is open to talks with the United States after American and Israeli forces launched a major attack against Tehran, killing the country's supreme leader and other high-ranking officials.
The White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations, said President Donald Trump says he is “eventually” willing to talk, but for now the military operation “continues unabated.” The official did not say who the potential new Iranian leaders are or how they made their alleged willingness to talk known.
Trump told The Atlantic, in an interview Sunday, that he planned to speak with Iran's new leadership.
“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” he said, declining comment on the timing.
The potential future diplomatic opening comes as new details are emerging about the detailed planning that went into the US-Israeli strikes and some of the targets that were hit in Iran.
US Central Command said that B-2 stealth bombers struck Iran's ballistic missile facilities with 2,000-pound bombs. That mirrors the approach that the military took in June, when Trump agreed to deploy B-2 bombers to attack three key Iranian nuclear sites.
Trump claimed in his State of the Union speech last week that Iran had been building ballistic missiles that could reach the US homeland — a justification he repeated again Saturday as he announced that the bombardment of Iran was underway.
Iran has not acknowledged that it is building or seeking to build intercontinental ballistic missiles. The US Defence Intelligence Agency, however, said in an unclassified report last year that Iran could develop a militarily viable intercontinental ballistic missile by 2035 “should Tehran decide to pursue the capability.”
Before the attacks, the CIA had for months tracked the movements of senior Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a person familiar with the operation.
The intelligence was shared with Israeli officials, and the timing of the strikes was adjusted in part because of that information about the Iranian leaders' location, according to the person, who was not authorised to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The intelligence sharing between US and Israel reflects the preparation that went into the strikes, which continued for a second day Sunday after Khamenei's killing threw the future of the Islamic Republic into uncertainty and raised the risk of escalating regional conflict.
The New York Times earlier reported about the CIA's efforts before the Israeli-US strikes.
Sen. Tom Cotton, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, declined to discuss details Sunday when asked on CBS' “Face the Nation” about intelligence sharing with Israel. But he said tracking the movements of the supreme leader and the heads of other adversarial nations “is obviously one of the highest priorities of our intelligence community.”
“Clearly, this operation is driven by intelligence collected by Israel and the United States that has once again proven that our nations have capabilities that no other nation on Earth has,” said Cotton, R-Ark.
The US regularly shares intelligence with allies including Israel. Those partnerships, and the accuracy of the intelligence they yield, is often critical not only to the success of a military operation but also to the public's support for it.
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the senior Democrat on the committee, told The Associated Press that historically, “our working relationship with the Mossad and Israel is really strong.” Mossad is the Israeli spy agency.
Warner said he has serious concerns about the justification for the strikes, Trump's long-term plans for the conflict and the risks that US service members will face. The military announced Sunday that three American troops had been killed and five were seriously wounded in the Iran operation.
“No tears will be shed over their leadership being eliminated but always the question is: OK, what next?” Warner said.
