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SEVERE OVERCROWDING AS MIGRANTS ASK FOR ASSISTANCE-

Overcrowded, Squalid conditions are more widespread at migrant centers along the southern border than initially revealed, the Department of Homeland Securities independent watchdog said Tuesday. Its opinion describes standing-room-only cells, children without showers and hot meals, and detainees clamoring seriously for discharge. The conclusions by the Department of Homeland Security's Independent watchdog said Tuesday. Its information characterizes standing-room-only cells, children without showers and hot meals, and convict agitating desperately for release. The findings by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General were discharged as House Democrats detailed their own findings at migrant holding centers and pushed the agency to answer for the mistreatment not only of migrants but also of their own colleagues, who have been on social media. In June, inspectors from the department inspected five facilities in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and found children had few additional clothes and no laundry facilities. Many migrants were given only wet wipes to wash themselves and bologna sandwiches to eat, creating constipation and other health problems, pursuant to the report. Children at two of the five facilities in the district were not given hot meals until inspectors arrived. Overcrowded was so severe that when the agency's inspectors visited some of the facilities, migrants banged on cells and pressed notes to windows begging for help. At one facility, some single adults adhered in standing-room-only conditions for a week, and at another, some single adults were held more than a month in overflowed cells, according to the report, which built off an initial inquiry by the inspector general in May that described similar conditions in facilities in El Paso, Texas.

HASSAN ROUHANI: IRAN WILL START BOOSTING URANIUM ENRICHMENT LEVEL-

Iran will boost its uranium enrichment after July 7 to whatever levels it needs beyond the cap set in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, defying the US efforts to force Tehran into renegotiating the pact. Iran announced this week it has stockpiled more low-enriched uranium that is permitted under the accord, a move that prompted the US President Donald Trump-who withdrew the United States from the deal the last year-to warn Iran was playing with fire. European co-signatories said on Tuesday they were extremely concerned by Tehran's apparent breach of the deal while Israel said it was preparing for possible involvement in any military confrontation between Iran and the United States. Weeks of tensions crested last month when Tehran shot down a US military surveillance drone and Trump responded with a decision to launch air strikes only to call off at the last minute. Washington also implicated Iran of being behind attacks on certain oil tankers in the Gulf, which Tehran contradicts. Our level of enrichment will no longer be 3.67. We will put this commitment aside by whatever amount we feel like, by whatever amount is necessary, our need. We will take this above 3.67 said Rouhani, according to IRIB news agency. He added that the Islamic Republic's actions were reversible. He said that all of our actions can be returned to the previous condition within one hour, why are you worried? Though his tone was unusually tough, Rouhani was the architect of the nuclear pact and is seen as a pragmatist, unlike senior clerics in Iran's ruling elite who opposed his outlet to the West and have never let up in their accusations of the United States. Uranium purified to a fissile purity of 3.67% is deemed suitable for electricity generation and is the maximal allowed by the deal. Enrichment to 90% yields bomb-grade material. Rouhani said that if the other signatories did not safeguard trade with Iran agreements under the deal but closed by Trump's reimposition of hard sanctions, Tehran would also start to encourage its Arak heavy-water reactor after 7.

IRAN OVERTAKE N-DEAL STOCKPILE DEADLINE-

Iran announced on Monday it had amassed more low-enriched uranium than permitted under its 2015 deal with major powers, it's a first major step in contravention of the deal since the United States pulled out of it more than a year ago. The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which notices Iran's nuclear program under the deal, established in Vienna that Tehran had breached the limit. The step could have far-reaching outcomes for diplomacy at a time when European countries are trying to pull the United States and Iran back from the brink of war, less than two weeks after Washington terminated air strikes at the last minute. The Europeans, who opposed last year's decision by the US President Donald Trump to abandon the nuclear deal signed under his predecessor Barack Obama, had pleaded with Iran to keep within its parameters. Iran has said it aims to do so but cannot do so it had amassed more low-enriched uranium than permitted under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, drawing a caution from US president Donald Trump that Tehran was playing with fire. Tehran's announcement marked its first major step beyond the terms of the pact since the US pulled out of it more than a year ago. However, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javed Zarif said the move was not a violation of the accord, arguing that Iran was exercising its right to respond to the US walkout. The step, however, could have far-reaching outcomes for diplomacy at a time when European countries are trying to pull the US and Iran back from conflict. It comes two weeks after Trump said he ordered airstrikes on Iran, only to cancel them minutes before impact. Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported that the countries enriched uranium stockpile has now passed the 300-Kg limit allowed under the deal. Trump, asked if he had a message for Iran, said no message to Iran. They know what they are doing. They know what they are playing with, and I think they are playing with fire. So, no message to Iran whatsoever. The White House said earlier it would continue to apply maximum pressure on Iran until its leaders alter their course of action. European powers, who remain a party to the accord, urged Iran not to take further steps that would violate it. But they held off on declaring the agreement void, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. As soon as E3 abide by their obligations, we will reverse, he said, referring to European powers Britain, Germany, and France. Iran has demanded them guarantee it the access to world trade envisioned.

CHINA CRITICIZE HONG KONG PROTESTS OVER ITS RULE: ARTLESS CHALLENGE-

China on Tuesday condemned violent protests in Hong Kong as an undisguised challenge to the formula under which the city is ruled, hours after police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who stormed and trashed the legislature. A representative of China's Hong Kong affairs office denounced the demonstrators, who are furious about proposed legislation allowing extraditions to China in 1997 under one country two systems formula that permits freedoms, not appreciated in mainland China, including the freedom to objection and an independent judiciary. Monday was the 22nd anniversary of the handover. Beijing denies any interference, but for many Hong Kong residents, the extradition bill is the latest step in a relentless march towards mainland control. Seriously disrupting the law, the act tramples the rule of law in Hong Kong, subvert social order and the essential interests of Hong Kong, and is an undisguised challenge to the lowest part line of one country, two systems, Xinhua news agency cited a Hong Kong affairs office spokesman as saying. We strongly condemn this act. Debris including umbrellas, hard hats, and water bottles was among the few signs left of the mayhem that had consumed parts of the city on Monday and overnight after protestors stormed and ransacked the Legislative Council or Mini Parliament. Police cleaned roads near the heart of the financial center, paving the way for business to arrival to normal.