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Car collision kills brown bear cub in Iran’s Karaj

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Brown Bear Cub in Iran

Reza Qassempour, the head of the Environment Protection Department in Karaj, said on Tuesday that a vehicle had hit the bear cub as it was moving near the side of the road in Velayat-Roud Village in Karaj County’s Asara.

Police were dispatched after village locals called to report the accident, confirming that the cub had died, he said.

The animal’s carcass was handed over to the Environment Protection Unit of Alborz Province for an autopsy.

Qassempour said overhead crossings were a measure that could decrease road accidents involving wildlife, but he added that budget limitations were often cited to call off the construction of such bridges.

Still, he added, such measures as setting up fences and roadside signs warning drivers of wildlife passages could help avoid accidents.

“Iran and Russia agree on transit of 10mn tons of goods via Iranian territory”

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Trade

Shahriar Afandizadeh told the national radio and TV organization (IRIB) that the memorandum of understanding between the two sides puts emphasis on transit in addition to imports and exports. Afandizadeh added that the value of trade exchanges between Tehran and Moscow is nearly 4.5 billion dollars.

He said trade exchanges between Russia and the EU were over 250 billion euros but they plummeted due to the Ukraine war. The official said that Iran can use this opportunity as it now is a good alternative transit route for Russia.

According to Afandizadeh, Iran and Russia are inter-connected either via the Caspian Sea or through their railway networks.

He noted that if Iran can expand its railway networks including its locomotives and wagons, it will be able to reach the foregoing amount of trade with the Russian side.

Afandizadeh said what matters most for Russia is its ability to invest in Iran’s port cities of Chahbahar and Bandar Abbas as well as Iran’s northern ports as regional hubs and “we hope that both Russia and Iran will use this opportunity to reach the level of 10-million-ton transit of goods.”

As to when agreements between Tehran and Moscow will go into force, Afandizadeh said hopefully, the two sides will implement their deals in 2023.

Iran’s Center of Commerce and House of Innovation and Technology inaugurated in Sulaymaniyah

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Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini Lahijani
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Iran’s Center of Commerce and House of Innovation and Technology

Mehdi Qal-e-noi, the head of the International Cooperation at the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, Iranian Consul General in Sulaymaniyah Mehdi Shushtari, Sulaymaniyah Governor Hawal Abubakr, Dean of Sulaymaniyah Polytechnic University Hoshyar Abdullah Aziz, the representative of Kurdistan Region’s minister of higher graduation and scientific research, governors of Sulaymaniyah and Halabja, the dean of Sulaymaniyah University, a number of director generals from governmental organizations in Sulaymaniyah, the chief of the exporters and importers’ union of Kurdistan Region, the deputy chiefs of chambers of commerce and industries of Sulaymaniyah and Halabja, and a number of merchants and businessmen were present at the inauguration ceremony.

During the event, which received widespread coverage by the media of Kurdistan Region, Iranian Consul General in Sulaymaniyah Mehdi Shushtari expressed hope that the establishment of the center, which has two commercial and scientific and technological dimensions, would play a significant role in the development of business and commerce ties as well as scientific and university relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kurdistan Region, especially Sulaymaniyah.

Sulaymaniyah Governor Hawal Abubakr and Hoshyar Abdullah Aziz, the representative of Kurdistan Region’s minister of higher graduation and scientific research, in separate speeches referred to the deep political, cultural, social, economic, and commerce ties between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Sulaymaniyah.

They welcomed the presence of Iranian knowledge-based companies in Sulaymaniyah, and heralded it as the beginning of the development of scientific, university, and technological relations between the two sides.

Mehdi Qal-e-noi, the head of the International Cooperation at the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, in a speech explained the Islamic Republic of Iran’s capabilities in the field of knowledge-based economy and said Iran’s Center of Commerce and House of Innovation and Technology in Sulaymaniyah was the sixth such a center outside of the country (after Kenya, China, Russia, Turkey, and Syria) and expressed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s full readiness to transfer technological know-how and advanced technology in different fields to Iraq and Kurdistan Region.

After the inauguration ceremony, attendees visited the different sites of the center, including the conference hall, shared workplace, the offices of Iranian knowledge-based firms, and a room where a number of products by Iranian knowledge-based firms, including full equipment for surgery rooms, were on display.

Tehran: Uzbekistan stability important for Iran, region

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani

Nasser Kanaani, in reaction to the recent developments in the Republic of Uzbekistan
said stability and security in Uzbekistan is highly important for the Islamic Republic of Iran and the region.

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman added that the developments are an internal affair of the country.

He expressed hope that the government of Uzbekistan will soon resolve the problem in favor of its honorable people.

Uzbek authorities said on Monday 18 were killed and more than 240 others wounded during unrest in Uzbekistan’s autonomous province of Karakalpakstan last week.

The Uzbek officials added, security forces detained 516 people during the protests. The unrests, said to be the worst to hit the Central Asian nation in 17 years, broke out over plans to curtail Karakalpakstan’s autonomy.

3 people die of Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Congo fever

Amiri said zoonotic diseases are infectious and that 200 types of them have been detected in the world.

He also said 3 out of 5 new infectious diseases are zoonotic, adding that 80% of the biological agents that are used in weapons are zoonotic originally.

The official also expressed concern over the possibility of a hospital epidemic of the CCHF, adding this is among the diseases which can be controlled with difficulty for the time being.
The head of Iran’s zoonotic diseases control group made those comments on the occasion of World Zoonoses Day.

Endemic in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans, CCHF causes severe bleeding.

People usually catch it through contact with the blood of infected animals.

Symptoms of the disease may include fever, muscle pains, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding into the skin. Complications may include liver failure.

Iran’s neighboring country, Iraq, is experiencing a sharp uptick in the number of Congo fever cases which is feared to spread the disease.

Iranian officials say the surge in Iraq can cause the spread of the disease as there are no vaccines to curb it yet.

Production line of Iran’s Cov Pars vaccine against coronavirus shut down

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran’s Cov Pars Vaccine

Mohammad-Hossein Fallah, the deputy head of the Institute’s Research and Technology Center, said the major pharmaceutical company had been told by the Iranian Health Ministry to produce 3.5 million doses of Cov Pars in February, but the ministry went back on its pledge when the production process was completed.

The reason for the closure of the production was that “coronavirus vaccines do not sell well in the country” while the respiratory disease is on the decline worldwide, he said.

Now that the ministry is planning for a fourth round of nationwide inoculation, it has already purchased the vaccines it requires, Fallah explained.

Iran was among the first countries to be hit with an outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020. It was likewise among the first producers of vaccines against the virus.

Thanks to a successful vaccination campaign, using both domestic and foreign vaccines, Iran has managed to bring the outbreak under control.

In recent days, however, there has been a gradual rise in the number of infections with the disease, prompting official warnings of a new wave of COVID-19 and calls for the public to take a fourth booster shot.

Experts warn: Coronavirus cases in Iran raging

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IFP Editorial Staff
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COVID in Iran

Dr. Payam Tabarsi, a top infectious decease specialist, told ISNA on Monday that the number of outpatients has been increasing in Iran since last week and it would take at least ten days to predict the severity and duration of the new wave.
Dr. Tabarsi called on people to observe health protocols and get the booster shots.

Meanwhile, Dr. Alireza Zali, the head of the Tehran Coronavirus Combat Taskforce, confirmed an 18-percent growth in the number of Covid patients in the capital since past week.

However, Dr. Zali said Iran has experienced a slower uptick compared to other parts of Wes Asia that witnessed a 46-percent surge last week.

Over 140 thousand people in Iran have died of the virus.

More than 150 million doses of coronavirus vaccine have been administered across the country of about 85 million people.

Over 64 million Iranians have received the first dose and nearly 58 million people have received the second dose of the vaccine. Nearly 28 million people have got the third shot as the booster jab.

Meanwhile Iran’s health ministry announced on Tuesday 4 people had died of Coronavirus over the past 24 hours. The ministry added 1,084 new cases had been logged during the time span with 150 cases of hospitalization.

Egypt offers condolences to Iran over deadly quake

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Earthquake Iran

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Ahmed Hafez in a message in his twitter account on Monday said, “We express our sincere condolences and sympathy following the death (of a number of Iranian citizens) in the earthquake in Hormozgan Province in the south of Iran.”

He also hoped for speedy recovery for the wounded.

The strong tremor, that was also felt in the neighboring countries, hit the province in the early hours of Saturday at least six times, the strongest of which were recorded 6.3 and 6.1 on the Richter scale.

The message comes as sources in Egypt have denied reports that Cairo is forging an anti-Iran military alliance with other Arab countries and Israel.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has also welcomed plans to mend ties with Saudi Arabia and Egypt and reopen the embassies in Tehran and Riyadh.

Earlier, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates also sympathized with Iran over the devastating quake.

Deputy FM: Zionists can’t even dream of attacking Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Ali Bagheri Kani

Answering a question on recent threats by some Israeli officials against Iran, the diplomat told IRNA, “The Zionists can’t even dream of attacking Iran, and if they do, they won’t wake up.”

The remarks came as Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid said he would push for a tougher tack on Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the West and called for “coordinated pressure” on the Islamic Republic.

Iran says Israel has been behind the assassination of some of its nuclear scientists.
Iranian military and diplomatic officials have dismissed threats by Israel, saying they are meant to divert attention from the occupying regime’s economic hardships and collapse of the cabinet.

On Saturday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Israel was going through the worst security and political conditions it had ever experienced.

Days earlier, Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri also said Israel was at the core of all destabilizing moves in the Middle East, warning the Islamic Republic would give a befitting response to any act of Israeli intervention in the Middle East.

Ex-diplomat: Taliban’s new manifesto fuels domestic, foreign radicalism

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Taliban

In an interview with ILNA news agency, Iran’s former ambassador to Afghanistan, Abolfazl Zohrevand, said the three-day meeting, or Loya Jirga, that concluded on Saturday was meant to receive allegiance for the Taliban from over 3000 Islamic clerics and tribal elders, as a prelude to the international recognition of the movement.

Zohrevand regretted that the assembly was not inclusive as representatives from many tribes and women were not allowed to attend.

The former diplomat said all indicators show that the Taliban are moving towards radicalism.

He cited the recent manifesto by the movement that recognizes Hanafims as the only acceptable sect of Islam and rejects all other sects.

He also denounced the recent stance by the Taliban that puts the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, led by Ahmad Massoud, in the same category as the Daesh terrorist group as a ‘corrupt sect.’

The Taliban grabbed control of the country in August last year following a chaotic withdrawal of US forces after twenty years of occupation of the country.

Given their past history and the recent developments, concerns are growing the Taliban will fail to fulfill its promise to form a broad-based and representative government.

Many countries including the Islamic republic of Iran say forming and all-inclusive government is a prelude to the recognition of the new rulers in Kabul.

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