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Iran says ready to boost trade with Black Sea region

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian

The top Iranian diplomat raised the issue in a meeting with Lazăr Comănescu, Secretary General of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation in Tehran on Sunday.

In the meeting, Amir Abdollahian congratulated Comănescu on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the BSEC.

He referred to the huge potential for cooperation between Iran and the organization and outlined the Islamic Republic’s capabilities including in the fields of transit and energy.

The foreign minister also pointed to the “International Conference of Iran and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization: Prospects for Cooperation”.

Amir Abdollahian described the conference as a good opportunity for finding areas of mutual cooperation between the BSEC and Iran.

The top Iranian diplomat also spoke about the finalization of the Persian Gulf-Black Sea International Corridor Agreement and expressed hope that the signing of the document and the building of the corridor will result in positive developments in trade and transit cooperation between Iran and the Black Sea region.

The secretary general of the BSEC for his part thanked Amir Abdollahian for the meeting.

Lazăr Comănescu supported the idea of holding the international conference in Tehran and described the Islamic Republic of Iran as one of the most active partners of the BSEC.

He expressed confidence that under the auspices of the conference on Monday, the road will be paved for more widespread and stronger cooperation between the two sides. Comănescu also gave a report on the activities of the BSEC over the last three decsdes and spoke about the adverse impact of the Ukraine crisis on the work of the organization.

Then, Amir Abdollahian outlined Iran’s efforts to end the hostilities in Ukraine and reaffirmed Iran’s readiness to boost level of cooperation with the BSEC. He also expressed hope that the Tehran conference will be successful.

It needs to be noted that the “International Conference of Iran and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization: Prospects for Cooperation” will take place on May 30 with the BSEC’s secretary general in attendance. Other participants are ambassadors of the member states, representatives of the UN, the secretary general of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and the senior directors of Iran’s private and public sectors at the Center for Political and International Studies of the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

Iranian filmmakers slammed for making “opposition gestures”

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Leila's Brothers

Mohammad Khazaee said the filmmakers should have been the voice of the oppressed people of Iran and should have raised their voices about the crimes of the US and Europeans against their country.

Khazaee also lashed out at the filmmakers for making “opposition gestures” at the Cannes Film Festival, saying such behaviors will not bring international reputation and credibility and will only draw negative reactions from the Iranian people.

He referred to comments by Peyman Maadi, an Iranian actor, and Saeed Roustaee, a film director, as well as another actor, Navid Mohammadzadeh, kissing his wife on the red carpet in the Cannes festival.

‘Value of Iran-Tajikistan trade increased by 463% last year’

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Trade

Rouhollah Latifi, spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, said Sunday that the two countries exchanged over 139 tons of non-oil goods, worth $131 million, in the course of the past Persian calendar year, which started on March 20, 2021.

The figures, he said, showed a 489-percent and 463-percent increase in the volume and value, respectively, compared to the previous year.

Latifi added, however, that the volume of trade still remained far from the two nations’ expectations given the many historical, cultural and religious commonalities existing between Iran and Tajikistan.

The official said Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to Tajikistan last year set the stage for the growth in bilateral trade ties.

He expressed hope that a trip by Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon to Tehran on Sunday would help broaden political and economic cooperation between the two states “to the extent that it would meet the expectations of the two nations.”

Iranian official: 60%+ rise in oil revenues in first two months of this year

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Oil

Ali Forouzandeh described the rise in the revenues as “stunning”, saying they were generated by selling petroleum, gas condensates, natural gas, and petrochemical products.

Forouzandeh said revenues from selling petrochemical products that were paid through Nima (Iran’s domestic Forex Management Integrated System) equaled $1.5 billion in the first two months of the last Persian year but they now stand at $2.450 billion.

The increase comes as Iran has been under the harshest sanctions imposed by the US since 2018. The bans were placed on Iran by former US President Donald Trump.

The administration of current President Joe Biden has so far defied calls to lift the sanctions.

Iranian president warns against unsafe buildings following Abadan tragedy

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi

He ordered the interior minister and the minister of roads and urban development to urgently identify unsafe buildings and get their owners to strengthen them.

The president said owners of unsafe buildings who refuse to strengthen them will be dealt with legally because their refusal to do so endangers the lives of citizens.

President Raisi once again offered condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the Abadan building collapse and demanded that those responsible for the tragic incident be brought to justice.

Prior to the president’s remarks, Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi gave a report on his 6-day presence at the site of the building collapse in Abadan.

29 people have so far killed and around 40 others remain missing following the tragic building collapse in Abadan.

Iranian national football team to hold friendly match against Uruguay

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Football Team

Kamranifar said following the cancellation of the match against Canada for political reasons, the Iranian football federation tried to find a suitable rival to prepare for the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar and held talks with several countries including Paraguay and Senegal.

He added that even Senegal was supposed to travel to Tehran for the friendly match but they failed to do so.

Kamranifar said given the cancellation of the Uruguay-Mexico match, Iran held talks with Uruguay and the two teams will face off on June 11 or 12.

Earlier, Dragan Skočić, manager of Team Melli criticized at Iran’s football federation over what he called lack of planning for a preparatory camp and friendly matches several months ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022.

Meanwhile, Iranian international Sardar Azmoon described Team Melli as the messiest national teams of the world. Azmoon made the comment in a story he posed on his Instagram account.

Iran predicts injection of 4th Covid vaccine shot in months

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IFP Editorial Staff
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COVID Vaccine

The official said citizens over the age of 70 and those with health conditions like heart and kidney diseases or diabetes as well as people with chronic diseases of the immune system must show up at vaccination centers to get the fourth shot of the Covid jab.

Thanks to the nationwide vaccination campaign, Iran has been experiencing a downward trend in Coronavirus deaths and infections.

The number of daily deaths has been single-digit in the country for the past two weeks.

Officials also believe that apart from the vaccination process, people’s observance of health protocols can be credited for the declining number of deaths and infections

Israeli settlers, army troops storm al-Aqsa Mosque ahead of flag march

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IFP Media Wire
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Israeli settlers Al Aqsa Mosque

The Israeli settlers entered the compound through the Moroccan Gate on Sunday morning, according to the Arabic-language Arab48 news website.

In the meantime, Israeli troops were stationed at the main praying building of al-Aqsa Mosque, which sits on the southern side of the complex, besieging Palestinian worshipers inside the scared site.

The settlers then performed Talmudic rituals at the site, which is venerated by Jews, Christians and Muslims.

The development comes as thousands of extremist Jewish Israeli settlers are due to hold a far-right march through Muslim areas of the holy city amid Palestinian warnings it could trigger serious confrontations.

Earlier, Israeli military forces had raided the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber in southern East al-Quds, according to Palestinian media outlets.

The raid prompted a group of young Palestinians to throw lit Molotov cocktails at the Israeli troops, who, in return, fired stun grenades and live bullets to disperse the crowd.

The Palestinian al-Quds TV satellite channel also said an improvised explosive device struck a checkpoint in the village of al-Jalma, which lies north of the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

According to Shehab news agency, extremist Jewish settlers once again attacked the homes of local Palestinians in al-Huwara neighborhood of northern al-Quds.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society stated that 30 Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli settlers in Huwara neighborhood as well as Kafr Qaddum town, located 13 kilometers (8 miles) west of Nablus.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said clashes also broke out between young Palestinian men and Israeli forces at the entrance to Jamain area south of Nablus.

Israeli forces have already detained nearly 100 Palestinians ahead of the planned far-right Israeli Flag March.

Around 20 Palestinians were arrested in al-Quds between Wednesday and Thursday, and another 80 inside the Israeli-occupied territories.

“The arrests have mostly targeted Palestinians who have been arrested in previous waves of protests in al-Quds, and Palestinians who have been banned from entering the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, all of which we see as preparation for reactions to the settlers’ flag march on Sunday,” the al-Quds detainees’ families committee spokesperson, Amjad Abu Asab, said.

“Israeli authorities usually arrest Palestinians whom they consider to be active during expected [counter] protests,” Abu Asab added.

The so-called Flag March, which attracts hundreds of Jewish settlers and far-right extremists, celebrates the Israeli regime’s capture of East al-Quds in the 1967 war.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials are expected to allow extremist lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir to visit the al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday amid soaring tensions around the contentious Flag March.

Earlier this week, Ben-Gvir had informed the Knesset of his plan.

On Saturday evening, a group of young Israeli settlers held a rehearsal of the march, walking together through Hagai Street in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of al-Quds, waving Israeli flags and chanting slogans, as police escorted them.

Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, warned the Palestinian resistance movement is ready to face any possible scenario as tensions are high in the occupied al-Quds ahead of the far-right and provocative Flag March.

“All options are on the table, and we are ready for all scenarios. We are dealing with the Israeli occupation, which has existed for so long and has now reached its end,” he said in a statement issued on Saturday evening.

“The occupying Israeli regime wants to use (the so-called) Flag March as part of attempts aimed at undermining the achievements of Operation al-Quds Sword, and cracking down on the status quo that followed the battle,” he added.

“We have many options to confront the Flag March and attempts meant to desecrate the al-Aqsa Mosque compound,” Haniyeh pointed out.

The head of the political bureau of Islamic Jihad movement, Mohammed al-Hindi, also stated Palestinians will spare no effort to confront the Israeli occupation’s plans, underscoring that all possibilities are on the table.

Hindi told Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen channel in an interview that Israeli authorities have mistakenly underestimated the capabilities of Palestinian resistance movements, and are currently suffering from the repercussions of Operation al-Quds Sword.

He pointed out that the issue of Palestine is not simply confined to Palestinians and Arabs, but rather a global matter that has been raised at international forums.

Hindi noted that Israel serves as the arm of the United States and the West in the Middle East, and that Washington seeks to subjugate and dominate the entire region.

Dozens still missing since collapse of tower block in Iran’s Abadan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran building collapse

Sadeq Khalilian briefed media on Sunday about the search operation underway at the site of the collapse, saying 29 bodies have so far been retrieved, three of whom remain unidentified.

“Based on the preliminary statistics and reports by families, 38 people remain missing,” he said.

“We continue searching for the remaining bodies and will do our utmost to pursue every single request made by families based on documents and recover the bodies,” the official said.

He said all locations where there is a high possibility that people may have been trapped have been identified and the process of removing the debris will be focused on those spots.

A large section of the 10-story Metropol building that was under construction crashed to the ground on Monday, making it one of the deadliest such disasters in the country in years.

The search is said to be moving slowly and carefully because of the risk of the adjacent buildings collapsing.

The incident happened due to the building’s weak structures. Officials have pledged to identify and punish all those who failed to follow up on construction violations.

Judiciary officials say the DNA test results show the owner of the building is among the dead.

‘Besides Turkey, other countries involved in dust storms, making regional fund a must ‘

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Air pollution

In an interview with the Iranian Labor News Agency, ILNA, Abdolreza Faraji Rad, who is a former senior diplomat, says a trilateral meeting with the presence of Iran, Turkey and Iraq is the first step to find a solution for the problem.

He says, however, that for a permanent solution, a joint secretariat and fund should be established with the presence of all involved countries in the region.

Faraji Rad says dam-construction by Turkey, and its impact on wetlands in Iran, is just part of the problem, but one cannot downplay climate change and desertification in other countries due to lack of rainfall.

But the analyst noted that focusing on Turkey would only delay things and lead Ankara to withhold cooperation on the issue of the dams it has built and those it is planning to construct.

He said a blame game will solve no problem so Iran should avoid emphasis on a meeting in Tehran and under Tehran’s leadership because time lost on such discussions only makes finding solutions more difficult, especially seeing that Iran does not have good relations with some of the countries involved in the dust phenomenon.

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