Iran’s foreign minister slams Saudi top cleric's offensive remarks

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. (AFP)

These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:

  • Iran’s foreign minister reacts to offensive remarks by the Saudi top cleric, saying there is no resemblance between Islam of Iranians and bigoted extremism preached in Saudi Arabia.
  • The Syrian army retakes control of several villages around the western city of Hama as it pushes ahead with its battle to liberate the city from foreign-backed militants.
  • The refugee crisis in France has reached shocking levels. We’ll have a report from Paris about how the government's failure to address the issue has caused misery among the refugees.
  • The UN says the Israeli occupation and Tel Aviv’s oppressive polices have inflicted serious damage to the Palestinian economy.
  • Newly-released documents show the US spying agency has used a British military base in its ‘capture-kill operations’ across the Middle East.

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