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Iran’s nuclear right cannot be restricted: Top official

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“Iran’s legal right to continue research and development work and maintain its peaceful nuclear capabilities and accomplishments as well as to ensure its safety against supported wicked acts cannot be restricted with any agreement,” said Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani in a tweet.

Moreover, he had already made a tweet about reports that contact with the American delegation to the Vienna talks has, so far, been made via unofficial exchanges and that there has not been, and will not be any need for anything beyond that.

“This method will be replaced with other methods only when a good deal is close at hand,” he had explained.

Iran and the P 4+1 group, namely Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, are engaged in talks in the Austrian capital Vienna in a bid to revive the 2015 nuclear deal – JCPOA- and a possible return of the US to the agreement. 

The US, under former President Donald Trump, withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, leaving the internationally-recognized deal in tatters.

Tehran says as the US did not abide by its commitments under the deal, it does not talk directly with Washington in Vienna.

PastoCovac vaccine creates 100% immunity against coronavirus: Official

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“The injection of three doses of the PastoCovac vaccine will create an immunity of over 90% against the Omicron strain,” said Alireza Biglari.

“With the injection of the fourth dose of the PastoCovac vaccine, immunity against Omicron will reach 100%,” he claimed.

“The PastoCovac vaccine creates 96% immunity against the Beta variant in Cuba and Delta strain in Iran,” he explained.

“There is a capacity of producing 5 million doses of the PastoCovac vaccine monthly in the country,” he said.

This comes as reports suggest the number of COVID-19 infections are on the rise in Iran.

Meanwhile, the national coronavirus inoculation campaign is in full swing to help contain the deadly virus and its more contagious variants such as Omicron which have hit the nation.

Iran calls for US to “show good will in practice”

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“The Americans should show their goodwill in actions and objectively,” Hossein Amir Abdollahian told reporters on Saturday while touching upon Washington’s restoration of Iran sanctions waivers.

“Goodwill in practice means something tangible should happen on the ground,” he added.

“The waiver of some of the sanctions can, in the true sense of the word, be a sign of their goodwill. The Americans talk about this, and we should know that whatever happens on paper is good, but not enough,” he said.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the foreign minister touched upon guarantees that the White House should give Iran regarding the Iran nuclear deal.

“When it comes to the Vienna talks on the lifting of sanctions, one of the key issues is to get the necessary guarantees, especially from the Western sides, about the fulfilment of their commitments,” he noted.

“Accordingly, Iran is seeking to secure guarantees,” he added. 

“We are seeking to get guarantees in the political, legal and economic domains, and that is our demand,” said the top diplomat.

“Some agreements have been reached in some sectors, and our negotiating team is seriously working to get tangible guarantees, during the Vienna talks, from the Western sides in order to make good on their obligations,” he said.

Persian leopards in Iran’s Golestan province

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The feline is the largest or one of the largest subspecies of leopard, which is native to West Asia. Persian leopard is on the list of endangered species.

The animal can be found in West Asian countries like Iran, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and also southern Russia.

Estimates put the number of remaining Persian leopards at 1,300, of which about 70% are found in the Iranian provinces of Khorasan Razavi and North Khorasan, Golestan, Mazandaran and Semnan.

Golestan National Park in northern Iran is one of the best habitats for large mammals such as leopards, brown bears, wolves, lynxes, red deers, roe deers, Urials and wild goats, Persian deers and boars, and is especially famous for its large population of Asiatic mouflons and Urials.

Russia: US sanctions waivers may slow down Iran nuclear program

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“Clear provisions of the Iranian nuclear deal are totally misinterpreted by opponents. The US maximum pressure policy remains the major factor of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear programme. Probably waivers can slow it down,” Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

On Friday, US State Department reported that Washington made a decision to restore the sanctions waivers which allowed Iran to receive assistance on peaceful nuclear projects from other countries, including Russia. An American official stressed that the waiver “is not a concession to Iran,” nor is it “a signal that we are about to reach an understanding on a mutual return to full implementation of the” Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

The administration of President Joe Biden has recently announced it sees a path to an agreement in the Vienna talks, but Iran must make “tough political decisions now”. US officials have also warned that there are only weeks left to return to the deal given Iran’s rapid nuclear developments.

Iran has repeatedly rejected any deadline or precondition over the deal, stressing Washington that unilaterally withdrew from the agreement must first lift its sanctions against Tehran. Iran has also demanded credible guarantees that the United States will not abandon the deal again.

120 Iranian cities declared coronavirus red zones

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According to the ministry, 153 cities are orange (high risk), 167 cities are yellow (medium risk) and only 8 have been declared blue (very low risk).

The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been spreading fast across Iran, once again pushing up the number of infections cases and fatalities.

Iran reported nearly 37,000 new infections on Friday and 57 new deaths.

The country has so far administered well over 134,000,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine with 54,400,000 people fully vaccinated. 

It is trying to contain the outbreak by giving the target population their third doses. So far over 19 million Iranians have received their booster jabs.

Iran-China trade hits $14.8bn in 2021

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IFP Editorial Staff
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According to China’s Customs Office, transactions between the two countries showed a less-than-one-percent drop during the 12-month-period over the previous year (2020) when the figure crossed the 14.9-billion-dollar mark.

China’s imports from Iran grew more than 1% in 2021 year on year, reaching $6.5 billion.

China had imported over $6.4 billion worth of goods from Iran in 2020.

Nevertheless, China’s exports to Iran saw a nearly 2% decline between January to December 2021, hitting $8.3 billion.

China had exported to Iran $8.5 billion worth of goods the previous year.

Iran slams US for denying visas to wrestlers

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In a tweet on Friday, Ali Bahadori Jahromi, said denying visas to Iranian wrestlers “proved once again that administration changes will not change the anti-people approach of the United States of America’s government.”

Iran called off the trip after the US State Department denied entry visas to six members of the 35-strong Iranian wrestling team.

In a letter to his American counterpart, Iran Wrestling Federation chief Alireza Dabir, said the Iranian team had decided not to travel to the United States to compete against Team USA at the Bout at the Ballpark in Arlington, Texas on February 12.

Dabir who was among those denied visas, was interrogated for five hours by officials at the US Consulate in Dubai.

USA Wrestling has formally requested that the Iran Wrestling Federation reconsider its decision and send the delegation which has been approved to enter the United States for the competition.

More films screened on 5th day of Iran’s intl. Fajr Festival

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IFP Editorial Staff
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On Friday, the event’s fifth day, Iranian films “The Motherless,” directed by Morteza Fatemi, and “Squad of Girls, by Monir Gheidi were screened, but none of them apparently appealed to the critics.

There were also complaints about the “poor quality” of the films selected to compete at the prestigious festival, with critics and cineastes blaming the Jury for what they believe is its failure to pick proper cinematic products.

Meanwhile, the results of the first public poll on the most popular movies competing at the Fajr Festival were released. 

“Private Meeting” directed by Omid Shams topped the list, followed by Hadi Hejazi-Far’s “The Situation of Mehdi,” Kazem Daneshi’s “The Lawn,” Hossein Namazi’s “The Deceased,” and “The Loser Man” by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian.

Every year, the festival kicks off in early February, as the country begins 10-day Fajr celebrations marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which toppled the US-backed Pahlavi regime and replaced it with an Islamic Republic.

Cancer rate on rise among Iranians, scientist warns

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Dr. Mehdi Tootoonchi, with Iran’s Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, said the rate of cancer incidence is estimated to be up 1.5 percent.

Citing figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO), Tootoonchi said “cancer is the second cause of death after cardiovascular diseases in the world and the rate of its incidence has constantly been on the rise worldwide.”

Although the rate in Iran has been lower than the global average, it is increasing, with the average annual incidence being 1.5 percent, based the Iranian Health Ministry’s figures.

“It is thus necessary to pay attention to elements of stemming cancer, namely prevention, timely diagnosis, and adoption of targeted methods in the treatment process, to prevent the incidence of various types of cancer and lower the number of fatalities caused by the disease,” he added.

His comments come as world countries are marking the international Cancer Day, an occasion designed to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment.

In turn, the Royan Institute has been holding the third edition of the International Cancer Symposium, of which Tootoonchi is the secretary, with the participation of international scientists, experts and researchers to share views on how to control and cure cancer.

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