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WikiLeaks 'reveals' President Obama's personal emails

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October 22, 2016

Washington, Oct 22: WikiLeaks has revealed US President Barack Obama's private email address by publishing hacked emails, in another potentially embarrassing document dump targeting the Democrats, a media report said.

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"WikiLeaks reveals first batch of US President Barack Obama emails sent via secret address," WikiLeaks, the Julian Assange-founded open secrets site, tweeted on Thursday — implying that even more of Obama's private communications would be released.

According to the New York Post, the site published seven messages involving an email address purported to be that of the commander-in-chief: [email protected].

One exchange was dated the evening of November 4, 2008 — Election Day. John Podesta, co-chair of Obama's transition team, urges Obama not to accept an invitation to a G-20 meeting in November 15 on the global financial crisis should outgoing President George W. Bush invite him that night after Obama is officially elected.

Podesta attached a memo the transition team prepared weighing the pros and cons of going to the summit.

"On the chance that President Bush would raise this with you tonight, I wanted you to be aware that it is the unanimous recommendation for your advisors that you NOT attend," Podesta said.

When the G20 convened in Washington, Obama was absent.

An email message sent on Thursday to Obama's alleged address didn't bounce back immediately — signalling it could still be a working account.

The White House declined to comment. The US intelligence authorities believe Russia orchestrated the widespread cyber attacks into Democratic Party-related emails.

The Obama messages were among some 23,000 emails stolen from Podesta, who now serves as Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, the New York Post reported.

The alleged Obama emails were from 2008 when the young Illinois senator was about to win his historic White House bid and was assembling a transition team. The emails largely address staffing a transition economic team and adding diversity to a future Obama administration.

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May 5,2024

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Iran has urged Muslim countries to cut all relations with the Israeli regime as means of pressuring Tel Aviv to end its ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on Saturday, addressing the 15th Heads of State and Government Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Gambia’s capital Banjul.

“Beyond doubt, this time period will also pass by, despite all its hardships and adversities for the Palestinian nation,” he said.

“However, the manner and quality of the role that is played by us, Muslim states, in the face of this crisis will go down in history,” the top diplomat added.

“Undoubtedly, severance of diplomatic and economic ties and [imposition of] practical arms and trade embargo [on Israel] serves as an important means of cessation of its genocide in Gaza and atrocities in the West Bank and the Noble al-Quds.”

At least 34,654 people have died in Gaza since October 7, when the Israeli regime began the war in response to al-Aqsa Storm, a retaliatory operation by the coastal sliver’s resistance groups.

Despite the unabated campaign of bloodshed and destruction, the regime has so far fallen short of realizing its goals, including defeating Gaza’s resistance, causing forced displacement of the territory’s entire population to neighboring Egypt, and enabling the release of those who were taken captive during al-Aqsa Storm.

Amir-Abdollahian said Gaza’s developments proved that elimination of the Palestinian resistance “was nothing but an illusion.”

“Because the Israeli regime is not a legitimate government. It is only an occupying apartheid power,” he said, adding, “Passage of time is not going to lend legitimacy to an occupying power.”

The foreign minister asserted that realization of sustainable peace and security in the region was only possible through cessation of the regime’s occupation of Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, return of the Palestinian refugees to their homeland, and manifestation of Palestinians’ right to self-determination.

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