🇮🇷❗Minister of Communications of Iran, Issa Zarepour dismissed his PR official Mehdi Salem after a photo of a Russian woman wearing a mini-skirt while sitting in front of the minister during a TV interview in Russia went viral.

Iran is known for their staunch Islamic rules and any such action leads to severe punishment in the Islamic republic.

🏳❗🇦🇫❗🏴 Sources report that popular Taliban commander Mawlawi Pir Agha, has been killed in a traffic accident in Ghazni in southeastern Afghanistan after his return from Hajj pilgrimage.

In a major setback to Taliban, the Emirate lost one of its top military commanders. Agha was the head of special Taliban unit locally known as 'Sara Khata' known popularly as 'The Red unit' special forces. who played a key role in Taliban's war against NATO-led coalition & ISKP in Nanghar province ,

Pir Agha was described as the cruelest commander of Taliban by U.S media.

It is believed that IS had a role in this accident and it was no accident but an assassination in disguise.

🇺🇸🌩⚓ Storm hits the U.S. Navy.

Ten helicopters of the US Navy were severely damaged after a sudden storm hit the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia.

According to the Navy, the damaged helicopters included five MH-60S Knight Hawks, one MH-60R Sea Hawk and four MH-53E Sea Dragons.

Normally, before a storm occurs, a proper warning is announced to prevent damage to aircrafts. Flight equipment is transferred to the hangars and hangars are locked.

The warning of this storm was issued less than 15 minutes before it started.

🇺🇸❗🇮🇶 Smoke plumes seen rising inside the green zone in Baghdad.

The reason is not known yet.

🇨🇳❗🇹🇼❗🇺🇸 Tensions arise in the Strait of Taiwan after PRC announces military exercise over U.S. speaker Nancy Pelosi's planned visit to Taiwan.

Chinese say its a warning to Pelosi to scrap the visit.

🇽🇰⚡️🇷🇸 Events happening in Kosovo-Serbia region.

- On the streets of Northern Mitrovica, where mostly Serbs live, air raid sirens are heard.

- The Serbian population of Kosovo and Metohija is building barricades.

- There is information about gunshot wounds among Serbs at the Yarinje checkpoint.

- National TV reports that the road Pristina - Raska is blocked.

- Special forces of Kosovo blocked the border with Serbia.

- Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the Kosovo army plans to attack the northern part of his country.

- Serbian politician Vladimir Djukanovic said that "terrible information is coming" from Kosovo and Metohija.

- It is unofficially reported that the Serbs are deploying aircraft to airfields near the border with Kosovo.

- All over Northern Kosovo, the alarm bells - churches and monasteries have been continuously ringing the bells for half an hour.

Balkans events recapitulation:

🇪🇺🇧🇦🪖 — European Union started to strengthen its military presence in Bosnia for fear of destabilization and "Russian influence" in the country, deploying more troops into Operation Althea/European Union Force Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR), the Peacekeeping Mission of the European Union on the country
🇧🇦🇷🇸🇷🇺 — Bosnian-Serb Nationalist/Separatist Leader Mirolad Dodik traveled to Russian Federation yesterday, July 30, 2022, to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Republika Srpska question & the "Death of World Liberal Order"
🇧🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸 — Bosnian-Croat Nationalist Leader Dragan Čović threatened to create an autonomous or even secede the Croat areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the EU High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt refused to implement electoral laws seen as sectarian or segregationist in the country that would empower the Croats there
🇲🇰❌🇪🇺 — In North Macedonia (FYROM), over the past month, Anti-EU protests by Macedonian Nationalists and Communists, in a quite "Red-Brown Alliance", were sparked after the Bulgaria-Macedonia-France deal to accept Macedonia, where Macedonia would have to accept Bulgaria's influence over its culture and society, into the European Union was proposed
🇽🇰❌🇷🇸 — The self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo scheduled the implementation of laws that prohibited free movement between ethnically Serb areas and Serbia itself, creating a kind of "Hard borders" (as Europeans love to say) what caused the incidents today

🇷🇸❗️🇽🇰 The police of Kosovo announced that they had already closed two checkpoints due to the blockade of roads by the Serbs.

🇽🇰✈️ Air traffic over Kosovo right now. Civil aircraft fly as usual.

🇪🇺🇽🇰🇷🇸 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for an end to tensions on the Serbian-Kosovo border.

“It is important to de-escalate and return to the negotiating table to find a sustainable solution. The only way to do this is through EU-facilitated dialogue to resolve the current crisis,” she said.

🇪🇸🤝🇷🇸 — On July 30, 2022, during an official travel to Serbia, the Social-Democratic Prime-Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez affirms that the Kingdom of Spain fully supports Serbia regarding Kosovo issue.

Mr. Sanchez says that Spain and Serbia are "old friends" and that Spanish support to Serbia is based on International Law and that Spanish Government will always be allied diplomatically to Spain over Kosovo.

The Social-Democrat ended his speech saying that will do whatever is necessary as the Next President of European Union to help it.

Worthy noting that Spain has various of Separatist movements, like in Galicia, Basque Country, Andalusia & Catalonia and supporting the Self-proclaimed Kosovo Republic would open a legal basis for other countries to openly support such movements against Spanish State.

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