Leader: Iran won't back down from keeping distance with US

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

• The US approves the sale of battle tanks, armored vehicles and other military equipment, worth about 1.15 billion dollars to Saudi Arabia.
• Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Khamenei says maintaining a distance with the head of arrogant powers, the US, is a major principle of the Islamic revolution.
• Syrian forces and their allies inflict huge losses on foreign-backed militants in the city of Aleppo, recapturing more territory southwest of the city.
• Israel demolishes more homes in the occupied West Bank, leaving nearly 30 Palestinians homeless, more than half of them children.
• US Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is accused of encouraging violence against his Democratic rival by suggesting that gun rights activists could stop her.