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‘400 seconds to Tel Aviv:’ Iran boasts about hypersonic missile on street banners

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Fattah Missile

A day after the ‘Fattah’ missile was unveiled, the banners were set up in the streets with the motto ‘400 seconds to Tel Aviv’ in Arabic and Hebrew languages.

Fattah Missile
‘400 seconds to Tel Aviv:’ Iran boasts about hypersonic missile on street banners

The missile, developed by the Aerospace Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has a range of 1,400 kilometers and is able to breach all anti-missile shields and destroy them.

The speed of the missile can reach 13-15 Mach before hitting the target.

Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said during the unveiling ceremony on Tuesday that the missile can reach Tel Aviv within only “400 seconds.

World Bank projects 2.2% economic growth for Iran despite sanctions

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IFP Media Wire
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World Bank

In its latest report entitled “Prospects of World Economy”, the World Bank warned that anti-inflationary policies of the central banks in the world in 2023 will considerably reduce the economic growth of countries this year.

The international body has anticipated that the average economic growth of countries will reduce from 3.1 percent in 2022 to 2.1 percent in 2023 as a result of contractionary monetary policies of countries.

Thereupon, the World Bank has decreased its predicted figures of economic growth of many countries in 2023.

Inflation will still remain a problem in the global economy but it is expected that the price of goods will improve with reduced demand.

The reduced economic growth in the world in 2023 will relate to the drop of economic activities in the developed countries.

However, the World Bank, in its evaluation of the economic situation in Iran, expects that Iran will experience a 2.2 percent economic growth in 2023, which is equal to the average economic growth of the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries.

World’s largest water cave in Hamedan Province, western Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Dating back to the Jurassic period (the Second geological period), Ali-Sadr is one of the few navigable water caves in the world.

The cave area has numerous twist and turns corridors and a great lake inside, created by some streams of water which can be penetrated deep only by boat.

Here you can see some images of the Ali-Sadr Cave:

Ex-Iran President Rouhani defends his Foreign Minister Zarif during tenure

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Rouhani and Zarif

In his Telegram channel, Rouhani posted a screen shot of his comments during his presidency in praise of Zarif, and wrote, “I testify that Zarif was and still is the establishment’s trustworthy messenger.”

The post came after Zarif’s newly-released Club House interview, which has raised enormous controversy in the country.

During the interview, Zarif made remarks on a range of foreign policy issues under successive Iranian presidents, namely Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Rouhani.

Zarif, a politician close to the reformist camp, defended his foreign policy concessions that led to the finalization of the 2015 nuclear deal with six world powers.

The ex-foreign minister criticized the Principlist officials for trying to run the country based on “dreams” instead of abilities.

In the face of the comments, the Principlist camp attacked Zarif and questioned his credentials.

Tasnim News Agency, which is close to the Principlists, ran an article slamming Zarif for what it described as his failing to understand the difference between interacting and compromising.

Some analysts also said Zarif’s thinking was “dangerous” for Iran.

Iran president to visit Latin America within days

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IFP Media Wire
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Ebrahim Raisi

Heading a high-ranking delegation, Raisi will depart Tehran on Sunday to start his tour to the aforementioned countries to upgrade the level of economic, political and scientific cooperation with them.

The visit will come at the official invitations of his counterparts.

Several documents to expand bilateral cooperation in various fields will be signed between the authorities of Iran and the other three countries.

Criticism grows in Iran of govt. move to abolish daylight saving time law

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IFP Editorial Staff
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COVID in Iran

Iran used to move clocks forward by one hour at midnight (2030 GMT), March 21, to observe Daylight Saving Time (DST).

After returning to standard time on 22 September 2022, the time in Iran stayed at UTC +3:30, as part of a government-proposed law adopted by the Parliament.

The Raisi administration, however, changed the start of working hours at the government offices to 6:00 a.m. as of Tuesday, saying the decision has been taken in line with “optimal management of energy consumption.”

In an article, Asr-e Iran news outlet highlighted the problems created by the decision for many in the country, especially the residents of Tehran and its suburbs.

“Instead of the clocks, they moved the employees backward,” it said sarcastically.

It wrote that the government “decided not to change the clock in Iran citing reasons such as the disturbance of the body’s biological clock, performance of religious acts such as pre-dawn prayer, or the fact that the clock change has no effect on energy consumption, and that many countries are stopping the clock change.”

“But what about those few hours of daylight? In this first half of the year, a city like Tehran is fully lit from 5:30 a.m., and this even reaches 4:30 a.m. in a city like Mashhad”, reads the article.

It said the change will cause sleep deprivation, among many other troubles.

“Now the city hosts employees who have not slept properly and use their personal cars to go to work from around 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. Such a situation has always led to unfortunate and fatal accidents,” Asr-e Iran warned.

Satellite images show troubled Lake Urmia recovering gradually

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IFP Media Wire
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Lake Urmia

According to ISNA, the water system facilitates the transfer of 300 million cubic meters of water to the lake every year.

The construction of a 36-kilometer tunnel at a depth of 150 meters in Kani Sib was an important step toward the revival of Lake Urmia.

ISNA said satellite images of Lake Urmia also show the water transfer plan has accelerated the recovery process of the lake.

According to the latest statistics, the volume of water in the lake was recorded to be more than 1.9 million cubic meters by early June, up from 1.2 million in October 2022.

ISNA said Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is set to pay another visit to the region in the coming days to follow up on the measures taken to revitalize the lake.

Iran Saudi envoy offers new regional security, based on development, ruling out militarization

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IFP Media Wire
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Alireza Enayati

Enayati made the remarks to Iran’s Arabic-language al-Alam television news network on Tuesday.

“Today, we are after more cooperation with each other and prioritize [the issue of] regional security based on [the concept of] development,” he stated.

Security does not come by through either weapons or ammunition or military forces, Enayati asserted, calling militarization of the issue of security “a great mistake.”

The United States and its Western allies have been encouraging regional countries to buy billions of dollars worth of state-of-the-art weaponry for decades on end.

In order to increase sales, the Western allies have been investing heavily in the antagonization of the region’s countries against one another through either political coercion or media-delivered propaganda.

Iran has, however, invariably warned the regional players against being lured by Western enticement.

The Islamic Republic stresses that regional security has to be provided by regional countries in cooperation with one another, noting that security cannot be either imported from abroad or realized through foreign military intervention.

“In [its] new sense, security has to be based on economic, commercial, social, and cultural development,” Enayati continued, adding that the Islamic Republic welcomes such a vantage point.

The envoy made the remarks following accreditation by Saudi Arabia as Iran’s new ambassador to Riyadh.

Back in March, China successfully mediated talks between the countries that led to their signing of a deal enabling the restoration of their diplomatic ties following many years of estrangement.

Observers have welcomed the development as a counterweight to efforts aimed at the alienation of the region’s countries from each other, saying the rapprochement serves to invigorate regional cohesion and integrity.

OIC calls for independent probe into Israel’s killing of Palestinian toddler

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IFP Media Wire
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Mohammed Al-Tamimi

Israeli soldiers on Thursday shot in the head of two-and-a-half-year-old Mohammad Haytham Tamimi in the village of Nabi Salah, near Ramallah, when he and his father, Haytam Tamimi, were in their parked car outside their home.

Mohammad suffered critical injuries in the head while his father received chest injuries. The toddler was taken to Sheba Hospital, where he remained on life support until he was pronounced dead on Monday morning.

In a statement following the shooting, the Israeli military claimed that its soldiers mistook the Palestinian toddler and his father for Palestinian fighters.

The OIC “has condemned the continuing crimes perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces, the latest of which was the heinous crime that claimed the life of the two-year-old Palestinian child, Mohammed Al-Tamimi, who was shot in the head,” read a statement by the 57-member intergovernmental organization on Tuesday.

The Jeddah-based organization also stressed that it “considers that this crime is one in a series of continued Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, including children, with no less than 28 children having been martyred at the hands of the Israeli occupation since the beginning of this year.”

The OIC further called for opening “an independent international investigation into this crime.”

Israeli forces launch raids on various cities of the occupied West Bank on an almost daily basis under the pretext of detaining what is called “wanted” Palestinians. The raids usually lead to violent confrontations with residents.

The United Nations marked 2022 as the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank in 16 years. Israeli forces killed at least 171 Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied East al-Quds last year, including more than 30 children. At least 9,000 others were injured as well.

According to a report by Middle East Eye, a UK-based news website, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 119 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds since January and a further 34 in the besieged Gaza Strip.

A total of 28 children have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers since the beginning of the year, including seven in the Gaza Strip, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency said in a report on Monday.

Iranian actress Shaghayegh Dehghan given 10 days in jail for not wearing hijab

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Her lawyer, Kaveh Rad, said the court had agreed to replace the jail term with 1.5 million tomans in fine, Iranian media reported.

Dehghan, the lawyer said, was found guilty of “hurting public feelings by publishing an image of herself without hijab at a book unveiling ceremony.”

Shaghayegh Dehqan had earlier been summoned to court over similar charges.

Since September 2020, when a wave of protests and riots broke out in Iran over the death of an Iranian girl in police custody, many Iranian actors and actresses voiced support for protests against mandatory hijab in Iran.

Iran’s Parliament is reviewing a bill that would regulate similar instances of norm-breaking.

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