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Iran: Winter cold pushing more Afghans towards Iranian borders

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“Due to the cold winter, 5,000 Afghan women, children and men enter the borders of Iran every day, so that in the last four months, the number of new Afghan refugees in Iran has reached about 800,000,” Amir Abdollahian said during a phone call with his Norwegian counterpart Anniken Huitfeldt on Thursday.

“We are working to provide assistance to these IDPs within the borders of Afghanistan, and if the Norwegian government has plans to provide humanitarian aid to these IDPs, we are prepared to take the aid to the Afghan people by land and air,” he added.

The top Norwegian diplomat said for her part that the entire international community should be grateful for Iran’s humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan, and that such Iranian efforts have been ongoing on for a very long time.
She said Norway will hold a meeting in Oslo focusing on the crises in Yemen and Afghanistan, and invited Amir Abdollahian to attend the meeting.

Iran has hosted millions of refugees from the neighboring country over the past decades.

Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August, hundreds of thousands of Afghans have flocked to Iran.

The Islamic republic has repeatedly announced that, despite problems due to U.S. sanctions, it will spare no effort to help the asylum seekers.

It has called on European countries and international organizations to fulfill their commitments regarding Afghan refugees.

Iran FM: Good words being heard from US in Vienna

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Amir Aodollahian was speaking to Al Jazeera television. He also said the 8th round of talks in the Austrian capital to revive the Iran nuclear deal and the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions is on the right track.

He added if Western countries have the will, a good deal is within reach.

The Iranian foreign minister also spoke of guarantees that Iran must receive regarding its oil exports. He said one tangible guarantee is that Iran must be able to sell crude and have access to revenues from the oil sales.

The foreign minister said, “We demand that the sanctions imposed by Trump be lifted, in particular the bans that are contrary to the nuclear deal, JCPOA… we want new guarantees that no new sanctions will be imposed or re-imposed after they have been removed.”

Amir Abdollhian further turned to the Zionist regime’s threats. He said such threats are not new and that the Israeli regime is in no position to make good on those threats.

On talks with Saudi Arabia, the Iranian foreign minister noted that negotiations with Riyadh are positive and constructive and we are ready to resume ties with the kingdom at any moment.

He also announced the return of Iran’s envoys to the headquarters of the Islamic Cooperation Organization in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, which he described as a positive development.
“We believe in the important role of a regional dialogue in resolving the region’s problems, which includes Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey,” said Amir Abdollahian, referring to Riyadh’s announced willingness to negotiate over regional issues.

He also underlined, “We caution our neighbors that normalization with Israel is a strategic mistake and they will be the first to pay the price for that”.

Long hair causes trouble for former footballer in Iran 

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The SMS also said Arifi would be fined if he fails to observe the hijab code.

It seems that the traffic police cams in Tehran where Arifi is living mistook him for a woman because of his long hair.

The former footballer is now the manager of the junior team of the Perspolis FC.

Iranian Health Ministry urges hike in sugar prices over health concerns

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The director general of the Nutrition Improvement Office of Iran’s Ministry of Health referred to the high consumption of sugar in the country, saying the proposal to increase prices or eliminate sugar subsidies is aimed at keeping people healthy because Iranians consume too much sugar.

Zahra Abdollahi noted that a priority of the Health Ministry is to reduce sugar consumption in society. She said research shows that the per capita consumption of sugar in Iran is much higher than the recommended amount, and this is a main cause of overweight, obesity, diabetes and some cancers such as pancreatic cancer.

Abdollahi added that due to the high consumption of sugar and sweet substances, people’s tastes have shifted to the consumption of sugary foods, and therefore, officials must work on reducing demand and consumption in different ways.

Situation tense in Azerbaijan amid reports of rise in bread prices

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Several days ago, media outlets in the Republic of Azerbaijani quoted the producers of flour and bread as saying that due to rising world prices, Russian export duties and the expiration of government subsidies on flour, they have to raise the price of bread by 35 to 40 percent.

The news of the bread price hike angered people on social media, with some calling it similar to the ongoing protests by Kazakhstan’s people over rising liquefied natural gas prices.

Now the state television of the Republic of Azerbaijan says the increase in the world prices of wheat and the expiration of government subsidies for flour and its products on December 31 forced them to calculate the price of wheat on an equal footing with other foodstuffs in order to continue supplying this vital product.

All these reports angered the Azeri people, who staged demonstrations similar to those in Kazakhstan.

The unofficial telegram channel of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan wrote that the protests in Kazakhstan “are a warning to countries that ignore the fact that people could run out of patience if they come under more price pressures.”

Opposition politicians also warned the government against increasing prices.
Ali Karimli, leader of the People’s Front Party of Azerbaijan, an opposition faction, called on the government to resume subsidies as rising prices would spread poverty in the country.

Saudi coalition seizes another Yemen-bound fuel vessel

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The Saudi coalition has seized a Yemeni tanker ship carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the Red Sea on Thursday.

The Yemeni Oil and Gas Corporation (YOGC) announced that the Saudi coalition has seized a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) before reaching the port of Hudaidah.

The vessel was carrying 9487 tons of gas for domestic use, which was directed by Riyadh-led coalition forces to the coast of Jazan in Saudi Arabia.

On Wednesday, Yemen announced that the coalition seized a fuel ship named “Splendour Sapphire” belonging to private sector factories in international waters, although it had been inspected and received UN clearance.

Last year, Yemen’s Minister of Oil and Minerals Ahmad Abdullah Dares warned that the Saudi seizure of ships carrying petroleum products could lead to the suspension of the service sectors and cause “a humanitarian catastrophe”.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies — including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — launched a brutal war against Yemen in March 2015.

The UN says more than 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger. The world body also refers to the situation in Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The Saudi war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.

A dozen killed, many injured in Afghanistan floods avalanches

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Citing officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Bakhtar News Agency-Afghan news agency reported that 90 percent of the country’s territory witnessed snow or rainfall that led to financial loss besides death toll.

The casualties have been reported in Helmand, Nimroz, Farah, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Jawzjan, Takhar, and the Afghan capital Kabul.

In the meantime, the Ministry of Disaster Management of IEA has also confirmed the number of deaths and those wounded.

Afghan officials have also stated that they have rescued tens of passengers stranded in floods by people collaboration.

The recent heavy snow and rainfall have also clogged several highways and flights to Kabul International Airport have also been disrupted.

Iran warns against foreign meddling in Kazakhstan

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The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says Tehran believes that the people and government of Kazakhstan are able to resolve their differences without foreign interference and in line with their national interests through dialogue and in a peaceful manner.

He also said foreign elements must not be allowed to take advantage of the situation in Kazakhstan.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman underlined that the stability and security of Kazakhstan is important for Iran.

Meanwhile, a Kazakh police spokesperson says security forces have killed dozens of protesters in an attempt to prevent them from storming police buildings in the country’s main city Almaty.

The spokesperson described the crackdown on the demonstrators angry with a fuel price hike as “anti-terrorist operation”.

The Kazakh military was deployed in Almaty, the country’s largest city, after a day of violence on Wednesday, which saw mobs overrunning government buildings, including the old presidential residence and the mayor’s office.

The demonstrators also stormed the airport in Almaty but security forces regained control of it later.

Protests across Kazakhstan, including Almaty, capital Nur-Sultan, Aktobe and other cities, started after the New Year. They were sparked by a two-fold hike in gas prices after the government said it couldn’t afford to subsidize cheap fuel anymore.

This comes as Russia has deployed a contingent of peacekeepers to Kazakhstan as part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization involving Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

 

24 more people die of Covid in Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The deaths pushed to 131,802 the number of people killed by the disease since the Coronavirus pandemic engulfed the country some two years ago.

The Health Ministry also logged 1,579 new Covid cases across Iran including 269 hospitalizations.

Official figures also show 9,389,424 people have got their third shots of Covid vaccine – also known as booster shot- while the total number of jabs so far administered stands at 121,827,244.

The massive nationwide vaccination drive is credited with the downward trend in Covid deaths and infections in Iran where the disease killed as many as 800 people daily during its fifth wave.

Bagheri: South Korea obliged to release Iran’s assets

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Unilateral U.S. sanctions cannot justify non-payment of debts to Iran, Bagheri said in a meeting with South Korea’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Choi Jong Kun in the Austrian capital Vienna on Thursday.

The senior Iranian diplomat also stated that South Korea’s illegal and unjustifiable refusal to repay its debts to Iran would be a dark point in the history of relations between the two countries and that Seoul must act as soon as possible to release Iran’s assets.

During the meeting the Deputy Foreign Minister of South Korea also referred to the importance of Seoul-Tehran relations and offered some explanations about frozen Iranian money in South Korea, adding that the country is trying to pay its debt to Iran.

Tehran wants Seoul to quickly release nearly 8 billion dollars in funds for crude imports frozen because of American sanctions.

Before the sanctions came into effect in 2018, the Islamic Republic was South Korea’s third-largest trade partner in West Asia.

Iran has warned that it would take legal action against the South Korean government if it continues to refuse to pay its debt.

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