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Iranian female weightlifter disappears in Athens

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Iranian female weightlifter Yekta Jamali

The vice-president of the Iranian Weightlifting Federation has confirmed the report.

Zahra Pouramin said she had no idea what had happened but noted that President of the Weightlifting Federation of Iran Ali Moradi is in Athens to return Jamali to Tehran.

Pouramin added that officials at the federation have also talked to the weightlifter’s family over the issue.

She won the silver in the 87kg category in snatch on Monday.

Male weightlifter Alireza Yousefi won the gold medal on Tuesday in the 109kg category.

Reports say Jamali was not in the venue of the competitions when Yousefi went on board to lift the weight and during the ceremony in which he received the gold medal.

The weightlifting championships started in Greece on 2 May. 304 male and female athletes from 61 countries participated in the competition.

Vienna talks coordinator meets with Iranian deputy FM in Tehran

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Ali Bagheri Kani & Enrique Mora

Before heading to Tehran on Tuesday evening, Mora said on twitter that work on closing the remaining gaps of this negotiation continues.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian also said in a tweet that both the tracks of neutering and removing sanctions will be pursued.

Amir Abdollahian noted that immunizing Iran through the path of economic transformation and fair distribution of subsidies payment is a key strategy.

The foreign minister added that talks will continue to remove anti-Iran sanctions and reach a good, robust and lasting deal with the P4+1 group without violating the country’s red lines.

This is Mora’s second meeting with Bagheri this Persian new year and after the Vienna talks halted due to what Iran calls excessive demands by the US.

The key difference between Iran and the US is said to be Washington’s refusal to remove the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps from its so-called terror list.

Iran says all sanctions on the country including bans on the IRGC must be lifted before any deal is signed for the US to return to the 2015 nuclear deal and for Iran to return to full compliance with the agreement, also known as JCPOA.

The US left the JCPOA in 2018 unilaterally under former president Donald Trump. It then reinstated hundreds of sanctions on Iran.

Qatari emir due in Tehran Thursday

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Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Heading a high-ranking political-economic delegation, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will pay a visit to Tehran at the invitation of President Raisi.

Bilateral talks and consultations between the high-ranking Iranian and Qatari delegations, as well as holding a joint press conference between President Raisi and the Emir of Qatar are among the plans for this one-day visit.

Earlier on February 21, President Raisi attended the 6th Summit Meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Doha at the official invitation of the Emir of Qatar.

During this visit to Qatar, 14 cooperation documents in different political, economic, cultural, and sports fields were signed between the two countries.

Iran urges independent probe into death of Jazeera correspondent by Israel

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Shireen Abu Akleh

Saeed Khatibzadeh called on international organizations, human rights bodies and international media unions to do an independent investigation into the killing and demanded that the regime be held accountable for its crime.

The Iranian Foreign ministry spokesman described this criminal act by the Zionist regime as clear proof of the regime’s lack of commitment to the role and place of the press, the media and journalists in promoting awareness for the public opinion.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman also described the Zionist regime’s offer to probe the crime as being based on blame-game and as escape to forward which lacks any credibility.

He extended condolences over the killing of this senior correspondent to her family, Al Jazeera network and journalists who are committed to the cause of Palestine and the holy city of al-Quds all over the world.

Israeli forces shot dead Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank city of Jennin on Wednesday while she was covering Israeli raids in the city.

Iran’s leader calls for officials to pay more attention to livelihoods of teachers

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Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei

Ayatollah Khamenei said teachers are responsible for educating a civilization making generation.

The leader made the remarks during a meeting with hundreds of teachers and Education Ministry staff in Tehran on Wednesday. Ayatollah Khamenei further noted that human resources are the foundation of any civilization and the creators of the new Islamic civilization are members of the generation that is now being educated by teachers.

He went on to say that the importance and value of a teacher’s work must be viewed from this angle.

The leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution added that given their lofty goal, this generation must have an Iranian-Islamic identity, strong beliefs and confidence and must be aware of the fact that Eastern and the Western civilizations have become obsolete.

Ayatollah Khamenei underscored the necessity of appreciating the efforts of teachers, saying their current problems must be solved with patience.

The leader instructed the Iranian Education Ministry to eliminate useless science from the curriculum of students.

He said beneficial science is one that nurtures the talents of the youth and helps the country to make progress by investing in their future.

Ayatollah Khamenei maintained that some of the subjects in the current curriculum are just material that flows into the minds of students without any benefit for the present or the future.

These subjects, he added, must be identified and removed from the curriculum.

Iran says ceasefire unique chance for resolving Yemen crisis

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Yemen War

Ali Asghar Khaji, the senior advisor to Iran’s foreign minister on political affairs, has exchanged views with Hans Grundberg, the United Nations secretary-general’s special envoy for Yemen.

The consultations were made as part of Tehran’s efforts to lay the groundwork for a resolution of the crisis in Yemen through cooperation.

In the meeting held via video link, the two sides discussed the latest developments in Yemen in the light of the two-month ceasefire there.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry official voiced support for the UN envoy’s efforts to bring about the two-month truce, describing it as a unique opportunity for consolidating the ceasefire and resolving Yemen’s crisis through political means.

“Fully upholding the commitments is the key to success in this area, while a defeat at this stage would deepen the distrust and further complicate the crisis in Yemen in future,” Khaji said.

He said the lifting of the siege on the Yemenis would be an important step toward reducing the humanitarian crisis in the country and would be in line with efforts to continue the ceasefire and to bring about a political resolution to Yemen’s crisis.

The UN envoy, for his part, said he was, at the current juncture, focusing on removing the obstacles to fulfilling the commitments under the two-month truce agreement between the two sides.

Extending the ceasefire, he added, would be the next step.

He thanked the Islamic Republic for his role in helping the United Nations in its efforts to resolve the case of Yemen.

Analyst: Russian war with Ukraine to have no winner

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Russia Ukraine War

In an interview with Eslahat Press, Reza Zabihi, an expert in international relations, said Russia “took a risk by waging war on Ukraine,” and that it remains far from its objectives over three months into the military conflict.

“Given the heavy costs that Russia will pay during the war, it will be one of the biggest losers of this war,” he added.

Zabihi said, “It’s been almost three months that Ukraine has been reduced to ruins and this means that the biggest damage has been to the country’s people and government in the war,” Zabihi said.

He also pointed to the repercussions of the war for the Western states, especially the Europeans, namely the influx of refugees into Ukraine’s neighboring states and the negative impact of the war on the global energy market.

The analyst also said the Western states were expected to tighten their economic sanctions against Russia, particularly in energy and banking sectors.

As a result, Zabihi added, the war will exert pressure on Russian economy. In case Moscow fails to fulfill its objectives in the war, it will turn into one of the main victims of the military conflict of its own making, he said.

Iranian security forces arrest 2 European agents ‘sent in to provoke unrest’

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian security forces

The Ministry said the two, “experts in inciting unrest and instability,” had been exposed during Iranian intelligence gathering outside of Iran and had been under surveillance since their entry into the country.

All their activities, including plans, secret meetings, and guises had been monitored and documented, it added.

In Iran, they sought to “brief, guide, network, and link individuals and infested domestic networks” to turn rightful demands inside the country into “unrest, social disorder, and societal instability.”

It said the two individuals were “professionals” in the inciting of unrest who had trained local agents in several countries for a number of years, and had been in contact with, among others, a particular illegal association inside Iran.

In recent weeks, a number of gatherings have been held by the practitioners of various trades and professions in some cities in Iran to protest rising prices, inflation, and their living conditions.

Iran’s foreign minister says negotiations will be pursued to remove sanctions

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Hosseni Amir Abdollahian

In a tweet on Wednesday, Amir Abdollahian wrote that both tracks of negotiating to remove the sanctions and working to neutralize them via “economic advancement” and the “fair distribution… of subsidies” would be followed.

He said negotiations will take place while “observing Iran’s red lines in reaching a good, strong, and maintainable deal.”

Iran has been under stringent sanctions by the United States, which have battered its economy. Some of the harshest of those sanctions were imposed after former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.

His successor, President Joe Biden, has expressed a desire to return to compliance, and Iran and the US have since been negotiating indirectly to facilitate the US’s return to the deal and to revive it.

Those talks have recently stopped in an apparent deadlock. European Union (EU) deputy foreign policy chief Enrique Mora is scheduled to visit Iran in an attempt to bring about a breakthrough.

Earlier, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his administration does not view the removal of the sanctions on Iran as the sole solution to the country’s economic woes.

Meanwhile, a majority of Iranians say they want the Raisi administration to revive the nuclear deal, according to a recent national poll.

Iran’s IRGC targets, destroys terrorist bases in Iraqi Kurdistan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Missile

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the IRGC said that its Ground Force launched the attacks on terror bastions in Erbil, following confessions of members of a recently-dismantled terrorist group on the Iranian side of the border, who disclosed their evil intentions for conducting acts of sabotage in the country.

The terror group, it said, had been busted in Baneh County of Iran’s western Kordestan Province on the back of “meticulous operational and intelligence measures,” with all of its five members taken into custody.

The arrests were made “in the wake of the acts of mischief by terrorist groups affiliated with the global hegemony, which saw the dispatch of terrorist teams for infiltration as well as counter-security and sabotage operations on our country’s soil,” the statement said.

The statement did not provide details about the attack, but the Tasnim News Agency reported earlier that the terrorist bases had been targeted by artillery fire.

Iran’s Armed Forces have repeatedly warned that they will never tolerate the presence and activities of terror groups near its western borders, and that they will respond decisively to any national security threat.

In March, the IRGC fired a dozen ballistic missiles against secret Mossad bases in Erbil, reportedly leaving several Israeli operatives dead.

The raid came in response to an earlier Israeli airstrike in Syria, which killed two members of the elite military force.

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