If the US refuses to sell or hand over its F-35 fighters to Turkey, or "violates bilateral agreements," Ankara has no choice but to choose an "alternative," said the Turkish parliament.

"Turkey is forced to buy all kinds of equipment and weapons to build its power and ensure the safety of both air and land, our geographical and strategic location forces us to do that," said MP Hassan Turan, member of the Russia-Turkey Interparliamentary Friendship Group.

The legislator goes on to say that Turkey needs to ensure its safety first and foremost, emphasizing that the country "needs to update technology and weapons in its arsenal if it wants to ensure the safety of its airspace independently."

"Today, the most modern and high-tech fighters are the American F-35 and the Russian Su-57... We will not leave our airspace without whim protection from anyone," he adds.

The Turkish legislator's comments came just days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's appointment that Ankara could be forced to consider other options, such as Russia's Su-35 and Su-57 jets.

May can't contain her schadenfreude after Boris rout in parliament

UK lawmakers defeated Boris Johnson in something of a parliamentary coup on Tuesday, paving the way for the removal of his preferred no-deal Brexit strategy. His predecessor Theresa May was snapped grinning widely shortly after.

The former British prime minister could hardly contain her mirth from the Conservative back benches as she watched her successor face wave after wave of criticism from both sides of the House of Commons on Tuesday, her first day back in the chamber since stepping down.

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Father of the House Ken Clarke, who was seated next to May, accused Johnson of fighting for a hasty election after his Brexit strategy was exposed, in which he was caught attempting "to set conditions which make no-deal inevitable, to make sure as much blame as possible is attached to the EU and to this House for that consequence and then as quickly as he can fight a flag-waving general election before the consequences of no-deal become too obvious to the public."

Clarke and May shared a laugh as Johnson claimed he was a "lifelong fan" of Clarke's before insisting that neither he, his party nor the opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn want a general election. A short time later, a visibly amused May was spotted grinning ear-to-ear as she left the House that evening.

The collective consciousness on Twitter, some of whom seemingly disagree with Johnson, couldn't help but live vicariously through May. "Can't have been easy putting a brave face on it after her successor suffered such a bruising defeat," one commenter quipped.

"Caption competition not required..!" another added. A third person asked: "Has anyone ever seen Theresa May ever look quite this happy?"

'Parliament surrenders to EU': UK front pages react to bombshell Brexit vote

As usual, the partisan nature of the UK press meant that each outlet had its own slant on events but every paper got across the point that it was a bad day for Boris Johnson.

"Parliament surrenders to the EU," screamed the Daily Express with a front page that suggested it was also a very bad day for Britain. "On another shameful day in our so-called democracy rebel MPs vote to betray Brexit as Corbyn vows to block PM's snap election," it added.

The Sun ran with "Over to you Britain," along with a photo of an irate-looking Johnson gesturing across the floor of parliament.

The Guardian said: "Humiliation for Johnson as Tory rebels turn against him," while the Times led with "PM loses historic vote" as Johnson became the first prime minister to lose his first vote in the Commons for over 100 years.

In the aftermath of the vote, Johnson said he will table a motion for a general election because he won't accept it. That provided the focus for the Daily Telegraph, Johnson's former employers, which ran with "Johnson demands election."

Awkwardly, the Daily Mirror and the i newspaper both ran with "Boris loses control," so one of them will have to go home and change.

And finally, the Metro said: "Now the MPs take control" above a sub-headline reading: "Boris blow as Tories join bid to block no-deal."

Ukraine's newly installed government has tweaked the state-run registry of legal entities to publish information on a daily basis, a change that the chief coordinator of the Cabinet of Ministers says will help prevent the theft of businesses known as "raiding."

In a September 2 Facebook post, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Dmytro Dubilet emphasized the measure because "raiding occurs when company ownership or directors quickly change when the true owners aren't aware of it."

Due to weak property rights and crooked judges, corporate raiding in Ukraine is seen as a huge impediment to foreign investment.

Iran's foreign minister has accused the United States of an overreliance on sanctions and said the latest punitive measures out of Washington targeting his country's space and research sectors are "totally ineffective."

"Americans are addicted to sanctions. These sanctions are totally ineffective," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted by the semiofficial Tasnim news agency as saying on September 4 in the first public reaction to the U.S. move.

Iran's technology minister has compared US President Donald Trump to an intergalactic comic book supervillain after Washington blacklisted the nation's space exploration program.

"I can't even locate the US in this picture, let alone sanctions on Space! The universe & #BrightFuture belong to everyone, not to a few!" Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi tweeted on Tuesday, along with a picture of a nebula.

The official did not clarify in what way, according to him, Trump was 'imitating' the intergalactic Marvel supervillain, who is known for snapping half the population of the universe out of existence. However, the tweet came after the US slapped sanctions on Iran's space agency.

• Sigal Mandelker, Israel-born Treasury official at the center of US policy on Iran
• US sanctions Iran-linked entities, individuals in Oman and Lebanon
• US Treasury: Washington freezes Russian assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars
• Washington sanctions two Hezbollah lawmakers for doing 'Iran's bidding'
• Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi jailed in US on unspecified charges
• Another political prisoner: Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman blasts US detention of PressTV anchor Marzieh Hashemi

On September 3, reports suggested France was prepared to offer Iran $15 billion in credit lines until the end of the year -- guaranteed by oil -- in return for Tehran adhering again to the JCPOA's terms.

But that arrangement seemingly hinged on cooperation from Washington, which reimposed unilateral sanctions and has pressed other states to avoid doing business with Iran.

And Iran's state-run Press TV, without citing a source, said that country had rejected the $15 billion-credit proposal.

Earlier on September 4, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was quoted as saying that "it is unlikely European countries can take an effective step" before a weekend deadline set by Iran.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian told Reuters talks on the credit lines were ongoing, but U.S. President Donald Trump must first approve it.

The idea is "to exchange a credit line guaranteed by oil in return for, one, a return to the JCPOA [nuclear deal]...and two, security in the [Persian] Gulf and the opening of negotiations on regional security and a post-2025 [nuclear program]," Le Drian told reporters. "All this [pre]supposes that President Trump issues waivers."

"No decision has ever been made to hold talks with the United States and there has been a lot of offers for talks but our answer will always be negative," Rohani said on September 3 in Iran's parliament.

According to reports, Tehran will only stop scrapping its obligations under the agreement if it sells as much oil as it used to before Washington re-imposed sanctions.

In the meantime, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran was unlikely to reach a deal with European countries in the next few days and stated that Europe would have two months to fulfill its commitments under the accord. Rouhani also noted that Iran would announce the details of its retaliatory step on the deal later in the day, or tomorrow.