The leader said Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani faithfully stood by people on different issues relating to the Islamic Revolution and the country and threw his full support behind the Islamic establishment.
Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated that the late cleric made great services that will definitely be rewarded with divine blessing.
The leader also wished Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani a high place in his afterlife and expressed hope the late cleric will be reunited with his pure ancestors.
Vardan Goustanian said all signs show that trade ties between Iran and Armenia are growing.
Goustanian’s comments come as Iran’s minister of industry, mines and trade earlier this month visited Armenia for talks over ways of facilitating economic ties between the Islamic Republic and neighbors including Armenia.
Currently, the volume of trade between Iran and Armenia is $500 million per year but both sides agree this can reach $1 billion. Armenia’s economic attaché in Iran said compared to 2021 and 2020, trade between the two countries has increased 25% ($102 million) this year and now stands at $503 million.
Goustanian also confirmed that the goal is to increase that figure to $1 billion, saying if that objective is achieved, higher figures will also be discussed.
He noted that the Eurasian Economic Union has five members including Armenia, which is the only member of the bloc having a land border with Iran.
Armenia’s economic attaché in Iran said the Eurasian Economic Union is a large market with a 185 million population, and Armenia is capable of linking Iran to other members of the bloc like a bridge.
He also said Iranian businesspeople can use the links their Armenian peers have in the Eurasian Economic Union for the purpose of doing lucrative business with the bloc’s members.
He said Iranians are highly skilled in road and dam construction and the two sides can engage in profitable cooperation in this regard. He also noted that Armenia has a population of 3.5 million, saying his country imports $5 billion worth of goods each year. Goustanian said Iran can secure a larger share of Armenia’s imports.
“We consider the recent courageous action within the framework of the country’s laws and the protection of the borders of our beloved homeland,” 213 Iranian parliamentarians wrote in a statement that praised the operation during which the IRGC fired a volley of ballistic missiles at the Israeli center in northern Iraq.
The MPs stressed that any hesitation in responding to the enemy will embolden it.
“Iran’s national security and the country’s powerful armed forces are among the inviolable red lines of the nation’s representatives,” the lawmakers said.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said the missile strike was in response to Israeli crimes just days after the regime killed two Iranian military advisers in a missile attack in the Syrian capital Damascus.
Raisi said in the message, “I would like to wholeheartedly congratulate Your Excellency and the noble people of Turkmenistan on your election as the country’s president.”
Raisi also expressed hope that during Serdar Berdimuhamedow’s presidency, relations between Iran and Turkmenistan will grow at bilateral, regional and international levels.
The Iranian president noted that the Islamic Republic’s priority is to deepen ties with neighbors and Turkmenistan has a special place in this regard.
The Raisi administration has made expansion of ties with neighbors the centerpiece of its foreign policy, arguing that this can help the country achieve economic growth and blunt Western sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
The vessels were unveiled, along with new missiles and speedboats, at a ceremony attended by IRGC Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami and IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri in Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas.
General Salami said the addition of the new smart submarines has completed the capabilities of the IRGC Navy.
He praised the Iranian armed forces for their latest achievements as the country is targeted by stringent sanctions.
The new missiles delivered to the IRGC Navy boast enhanced range and maneuverability, stronger explosive and destructive power, and withstand electronic warfare.
The new generation of speedboats can travel at up to 95 knots and are able to fire different missiles and rockets.
Over the past decades, Iran has developed its defense industry and can currently manufacture different light and heavy weapons ranging from missiles with pinpoint precision, to mortars, torpedoes, tanks and submarines.
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli soldiers stormed Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday morning to arrest a number of people, triggering a confrontation with the local residents.
The Israeli soldiers then fired live rounds to suppress the protest and disperse the crowd.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that 17-year-old Nader Haytham Rayan was struck by several bullets in the head, chest, belly, and hand. He died on the spot.
Three others sustained injuries and were taken to a hospital in Nablus to receive treatment.
Palestinian medical sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said one of them had suffered a grave gunshot wound in the chest, while another had been hit in the leg.
The third one had got burns in the face and neck as a result of the explosion of a concussion grenade.
Moreover, a Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli undercover police in the predominantly Bedouin city of Rahat early on Tuesday.
Palestinian media outlets, citing local sources, identified the victim as 27-year-old Salem al-Harbed.
According to them, he is survived by his wife and three children.
Shortly afterward, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced Israeli forces had killed a young Palestinian man, believed to be in his 20s, in Qalandiya refugee camp.
Wafa news agency reported that Israeli soldiers opened live fire, and fatally shot Alaa Shaham.
The ministry added Shaham was hit by a live round in the head and killed immediately.
Six other people were also injured and taken to Palestine Medical Complex in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The office of Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani made the announcement and expressed condolences over the cleric’s passing.
It also described Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani’s departure as a great loss.
Seyyed Mohammad Ali Alavi Gorgani was born in Najaf in June 1939. His father, Seyyed Sajjad, was one of the scholars and jurists of Gorgan.
Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani has authored several books on jurisprudence, principles of jurisprudence, hadith and rijal (a branch of hadith sciences that discusses the qualities of the hadith relaters).
Apart from religious research and writing books, the late cleric engaged in social activities such as construction of mosques, clinics and riba-free loan granting funds in different parts of Iran.
The MP for Hampstead and Kilburn tweeted: “I am very pleased to say that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been given her British passport back.”
“She is still at her family home in Tehran. I also understand that there is a British negotiating team in Tehran right now,” the MP continued, adding, “I will keep posting updates as I get them.”
A British-Iranian dual national, Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has been in custody in Iran since 2016 after being accused of being a spy. She was taking her daughter to visit family when she was arrested at Tehran Airport and sentenced to five years in jail, spending four in Evin Prison and one under house arrest.
According to her family, she was told by local authorities that she was being detained because of the UK’s failure to pay an outstanding £400m debt to Iran.
Tehran announced that the issue of paying off Iran’s debt by the UK government has nothing to do with the case of Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian national who has been jailed in Tehran for spying for London.
Iranian officials have criticized the British government for repeatedly delaying the payment of its debt to Tehran up to the present time.
Her husband Richard Ratcliffe has been outspoken in calling for her release, including camping outside the Foreign Office in London on a three-week hunger strike in November 2021.
Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s chief executive, warned that the latest reports should be treated with caution as there had been “false dawn after false dawn” in the long-running process.
He said, “We sincerely hope these reports are correct.”
“The detainees and their families have been suffering for years, and a resolution can’t come quickly enough,” he added.
Every Republican senator except Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky signed on to a statement Monday directed to President Biden, Democrats and the international community, warning that a “major agreement that does not have strong bipartisan support in Congress will not survive.”
“According to press reports, the Biden administration may soon conclude an agreement with Iran to provide substantial sanctions relief in exchange for merely short-term limitations on Iran’s nuclear program,” the Republican senators wrote.
“By every indication, the Biden administration appears to have given away the store,” they continued, adding that the Biden administration “appears to have agreed to lift sanctions that were not even placed on Iran for its nuclear activities in the first place, but instead because of its ongoing support for terrorism and its gross abuses of human rights.”
“The nuclear limitations in this new deal appear to be significantly less restrictive than the 2015 nuclear deal, which was itself too weak, and will sharply undermine US leverage to secure an actually ‘longer and stronger’ deal,” they said.
“What is more, the deal appears likely to deepen Iran’s financial and security relationship with Moscow and Beijing, including through arms sales,” they added.
Republicans criticized the Biden administration for having “refused to commit to submit a new Iran deal to the Senate for ratification as a treaty, as per its constitutional obligation, or for review under statutory requirements that passed on a bipartisan basis in response to the 2015 deal.”
“Additionally, despite earlier promises to the contrary, the administration has failed to adequately consult with Congress,” they added.
“Republicans have made it clear: We would be willing and eager to support an Iran policy that completely blocks Iran’s path to a nuclear weapons capability, constrains Iran’s ballistic missile program, and confronts Iran’s support for terrorism,” they said.
“But if the administration agrees to a deal that fails to achieve these objectives or makes achieving them more difficult, Republicans will do everything in our power to reverse it,” they continued.
The Republicans added that “unless Iran ceases its support for terrorism, we will oppose removing and seek to reimpose any terrorism-related sanctions. And we will force the Senate to vote on any administration effort to do so.”
“We strongly urge the administration, our Democrat colleagues, and the international community to learn the lessons of the very recent past,” they said.
“A major agreement that does not have strong bipartisan support in Congress will not survive,” they continued.
However, questioning Republicans, an administration official asked “specifically” what “they would do to prevent Iran from getting a nuke since a maximum pressure campaign did not work.”
A senior Republican congressional aide close to the GOP push on the Iran deal told Fox News that the Iranian government “only started rushing toward a nuclear weapon after Biden was elected.”
Tehran denies seeking nuclear weapons, stressing it wants to master nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
“Not even the Biden administration disputes that timeline, even though they hope no one notices,” the aide said, adding, “Republicans want a return to the maximum pressure sanctions campaign, which sent Iran’s economy into a death spiral, backed by a credible military threat in case they try to cross the finish line.”
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was inked by Iran and six world powers in 2015. Under the deal, Tehran agreed to put limits on certain aspects of its nuclear activities in exchange for the removal of draconian international sanctions imposed against the country.
In 2018, however, the US, under President Donald Trump, pulled out of the pact and reinstated sanctions under the so-called ‘maximum pressure campaign’ against Tehran, effectively depriving Iran of the deal’s benefits by forcing third parties to stop doing business with Iran.
Iran remained patient for an entire year, after which it began to take incremental steps away from its nuclear obligations, especially after Europeans failed to salvage the deal under the US pressure. Tehran’s decision to ramp up its nuclear activities prompted other parties to revive talks.
Iran and the five remaining parties to the JCPOA — Germany, Britain, France, Russia and China — began the talks in the Austrian capital in April with the aim of removing the sanctions after the US voiced its willingness to return to the agreement.
Iran insists that the talks must lead to the removal of all American sanctions that were imposed against Tehran following Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the landmark agreement in May 2018. Tehran has also demanded credible guarantees that Washington will not abandon the deal again
As a part of the ritual, Iranian tribes from different cities of the country move from three Iranian world cities, namely Hamedan, Kermanshah and Sanandaj.
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