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Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Armane-Melli Newspaper:

  1. Yalda will give rise to the sixth wave of the coronavirus

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Ebtekar Newspaper

  1. Yalda Night in competition with Christmas
  • Can Yalda be introduced as a suitable time for tourism?

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Etemad Newspaper

  1. Yalda: The night of joy and getting together

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Ettela’at Newspaper

  1. Convergence of compatriots and solidarity of relatives in the beautiful Iranian tradition of Yalda

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Iran Newspaper

  1. A city with the color of Yalda

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Jame Jam Newspaper

  1. The warmest night of the year
  • A special case for the second Yalda Night amid the coronavirus outbreak

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Javan Newspaper

  1. Resurgence of the coronavirus with Yalda gatherings

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Resalat Newspaper

  1. Hafez: The Yalda of Iranian poetry

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Qods Newspaper

  1. Yalda: The night of stories
  • An interview with writer and storyteller Shermin Naderi about the longest night of the year

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Samt Newspaper

  1. Yalda brings vibrancy to the markets

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Setareh Sobh Newspaper

  1. Yalda Night amid health protocols

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Shargh Newspaper

  1. Yalda Night overshadowed by inflation

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

 

Sobhe Emruz Newspaper

  1. Yalda: The longest night of exorbitant prices

Corona, inflation take center stage at media on Yalda Night

Afghan protesters call on US to release frozen assets

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IFP Media Wire
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Holding banners reading, “Let us eat” and “Give us our frozen money”, the protesters chanted slogans and marched down a central avenue, with the ruling Taliban providing security.

International funding to Afghanistan has been suspended and billions of dollars of the country’s assets abroad, mostly in the United States, were frozen after the Taliban took control of the country in mid-August.

The lack of funding has battered Afghanistan’s already troubled economy, leading to increasing poverty while aid groups warn of a looming humanitarian catastrophe.

State employees, from doctors to teachers and administrative civil servants, haven’t been paid in months. Banks, meanwhile, have restricted how much money account holders can withdraw.

No country has yet officially recognized the country’s new Taliban rulers due to the armed group’s previous track record. The Taliban’s previous regime 20 years ago banned women and girls from education and public life, mandated beards for men and attendance at prayers, banned sports and entertainment and carried out public executions.

But current Taliban government officials say their rule will be different, including eventually allowing education for all girls, and have called on the international community to release funds and help stave off a humanitarian disaster.

US democrats urge Biden to unfreeze Afghan reserves

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IFP Media Wire
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In their letter to Biden, the 46 Democrats, led by progressive Reps. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), Sara Jacobs (Calif.) and Jesús Garcia (Ill.), stressed that while they supported the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, they also agreed with international calls for the US to avoid imposing economic measures that would contribute to Afghanistan’s collapsing economy.

“This means conscientiously but urgently modifying current US policy regarding the freeze of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves and ongoing sanctions,” they wrote.

They also asked Biden to provide “more explicit reassurances” to overseas organizations that operating in Afghanistan will not risk violating US sanctions against Taliban members.

International organizations such as the United Nations have warned that Afghanistan is facing widespread famine this winter, with 97 percent of people in Afghanistan projected to be living in poverty if interventions aren’t made.

Almost immediately after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August, entities around the world moved to cut off international resources. The World Bank suspended aid funds to Afghanistan, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) moved to cut off the country’s access to the organization’s resources, citing a lack of international recognition for the Taliban.

The US also froze nearly $10 billion in Afghan government funds being held in American banks.

House progressives signaled their support for a plan proposed by current and former Afghan central bank officials to provide access to hard currency reserves. They also asked Biden to work with the IMF in order to provide access to emergency financing for Afghanistan.

“We deplore the new Taliban government’s grave human rights abuses, crackdowns on civil society and repression of women and LGBTQ people,” they wrote.

“However, pragmatic US engagement with the de facto authorities is nevertheless key to averting unprecedented harm to tens of millions of women, children and innocent civilians,” they added.

They warned that continuing to enforce harsh sanctions on Afghanistan would risk “humanitarian devastation” and result in the Taliban refusing to engage with the US.

A spokesperson for the National Security Council told The Hill in a statement that the administration was looking for ways to support the needs of the Afghan people.

“The United States is a longstanding supporter to the Afghan people, including as the largest single provider of humanitarian assistance and continue to look at additional ways to support the needs of the Afghan people,” the spokesman said, adding, “We are engaged intensively and urgently on this issue, have rolled out a variety of policy measures to respond in support of the Afghan people and are in the process of rolling out additional measures.”

Addressing the matter of economic reserves, a senior administration official stated it was a “complicated issue” that the White House is “reviewing intensely.”

The official pointed out that the US has announced over $200 million in humanitarian assistance for the Afghan people since mid-August.

As the New York Times noted, there are multiple lawsuits seeking a portion of the frozen Afghan funds, such as one suit filed in the Northern District of Texas by State Department contractors seeking a $138 default judgment against numerous defendants including the Taliban.

The White House also called on Afghanistan’s neighbors and other countries close to the region like China and Russia to provide meaningful support.

This call comes just days after a bipartisan coalition of House lawmakers similarly asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to provide aid funds to the Afghan people. They recommended that Biden release frozen Afghan funds to a UN agency in order to pay for teachers’ salaries and meals for children.

Lawmakers announced the Biden administration should also permit international financial institutions to “inject the necessary economic capital” into Afghanistan in order to prevent an economic downfall. Failure to prevent a worsening economic and food crisis could lead to further instability in the region, they warned.

“No one benefits from a failed state in Afghanistan,” they said, adding that the US has a responsibility to help Afghans survive this winter and “preserve what can be salvaged of the progress made during the last 20 years.”

IRGC navy chief: We eliminate enemy before getting close to Iran islands

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Read Admiral Alireza Tangsiri says the forces involved in the drills showed that any enemy will be eliminated before even managing to approach the islands.
He was referring to the three Iranian Islands of Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunbs in the Persian Gulf.
“Today, in these drills, the outcome of the war games and the plans, which were worked out in theory, was laid out on the field in practice and we obtained all our desired results,” Tangsiri said.
He added that the weapons and ammunition used during the exercises were highly precise and produced inside the country, “which is a source of pride”.
The admiral added that forces also practiced blocking enemy units’ advances by weapon systems installed on the southern islands, if any of the hostile forces managed to cross the defense line around them.
The five-day drills began Monday and cover three southern Iranian provinces as well as the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormoz.

Iran Supreme Court acquits former central bank governor

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The defendants were in charge of implementing macro foreign exchange policies, given that, criminalizing their actions and attributing the crime of disrupting the country’s economic system to them would not be legally justified, the high court said on Tuesday.

According to the verdict, the Supreme Court has overturned the previous court ruling that these defendants are guilty, and now case will be referred to another court for reconsideration.

Back in October, Seif and two of his deputies including Ahmad Araghchi received jail terms because they had “provided illegal conditions for the mismanagement of about $160 million and 20 million euros” as the country grappled with the falling value of Iranian currency during the administration of former president Hassan Rouhani.

Iran drills: Precision-strike drones, ballistic missiles hit targets

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The drills, codenamed Great Prophet (PBUH) 17, also saw the IRGC hit the enemy targets, including vessels, bases and facilities, with ballistic missiles.
In this phase of the exercises, surface-to-surface missiles were used to hit the targets.
The forces also destroyed marine targets of the mock enemy with surface-to-surface missiles from the shorelines.
That was part of a scenario to practice defense of the shores in the area of the drills, including against heliborne operations.
The exercises, which began on Monday, cover the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and the three littoral Iranian provinces of Khouzestan, Bushehr and Hormozgan.

“Reshteh Polo”, Yalda Night’s dinner in old Tehran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Of course, residents of Tehran’s Shemiran Neighborhood and people, who had migrated to Tehran from other cities, had their own cuisine for the last night of autumn, Yalda. But the food for the night was Reshteh Polo in Tehran.

The Reshteh Polo prepared for Shab-e-Chelleh or what is called Yalda Night in Tehran, did not feature chicken or meatballs. It was rather eaten together with dried apricots and grape honey and anyone, who did not like it that way, went for dates and sugar powder.

Yalda Night

How to make Reshteh Polo for Yald Night:

Put rice, left to soak in salt water, into water and boil. Then add thin roasted noodles and let them boil with the rice for a few minutes. Make sure the mixture is heated only for long enough for the noodle not to turn soft. Then rinse the mixture and put in a pot where the bottom is greased with a mix of water and cooking oil and is covered with bread. Then also add a mix of water and cooking oil on top. The old practice was roasting the dried apricot in cooking oil and putting it inside the pot, next to the rice, and letting them steam together.

How to Serve:

Place the dried apricot inside the Reshteh Polo and top with a mixture of heated butter and turmeric. It was old practice to add white grape honey stirred in hot cooking oil and serving it with the Reshteh Polo.

Old people of Tehran also served dried and roasted seeds from spring and summer fruit such as watermelon, apricot and melon as refreshments during Shab-e-Chelleh.

Israeli spyware targets UN investigator into Yemen war crimes

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IFP Media Wire
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Kamel Jendoubi, a Tunisian who served as the chairman of the now defunct Group of Eminent Experts in Yemen (GEE) – a panel mandated by the UN to investigate possible war crimes – was targeted in August 2019, according to an analysis of his mobile phone by experts at Amnesty International and the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto.

The targeting is claimed to have occurred just weeks before Jendoubi and his panel of experts released a damning report which concluded that the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemen war had committed “serious violations of international humanitarian law” that could lead to “criminal responsibility for war crimes”.

Jendoubi’s mobile number also appears on a leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus Project, an investigation into NSO by several media outlets, which was coordinated by Forbidden Stories, the French non-profit media group.

The leaked list contained numbers of individuals who were believed to have been selected as potential surveillance targets by NSO’s government clients.

The data suggests that Jendoubi was selected as a potential surveillance target by Saudi Arabia, which was a longtime client of NSO before it was dropped earlier this year after allegations that it abused the surveillance tool.

In a statement in response to questions about Jendoubi’s case, an NSO spokesperson said: “Based on the details you have provided us we can confirm that Kamel Jendoubi was not targeted by any of our current customers”.

Jendoubi, a human rights defender and opponent of former president Ben Ali’s regime in Tunisia, was appointed by the Office of the UN high commissioner for Human Rights to lead a group of international experts to investigate human rights violations in 2017.

The UN mandate to investigate the possible war crimes came to an abrupt halt this October, after the members of the Human Rights Council voted to end the investigation.

Citing political and diplomatic experts with close knowledge of the matter, the Guardian reported earlier this month that Saudi Arabia used “incentives and threats” as part of a lobbying campaign to shut down the UN investigation.

Jendoubi told the Pegasus Project that the targeting of his phone marked the actions of a “rogue state”.

“There are no other words. As international investigators, we are supposed to be at least protected. But I am not at all surprised. I’ve been apprehensive about this since 2019,” he stated.

“We knew that we [the panel] could be potentially targeted since the publication of our 2018 report. That report had created a shock in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. They did not expect such findings,” he continued.

Jendoubi added, “They used all their propaganda, their media … to defame us and discredit our work. Everything you would expect from them. Until the 2021 vote that ended our mission.”

The investigator said he did not believe that his work had been compromised on the targeted phone because he had used another device to conduct his investigations. He added the targeting of his phone was indicative of a state that did not care about “commitments and minimum international rules”.

Iran Yemen ambassador passes away due to Covid

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“Martyr [Hassan] Irlou, who was a disabled veteran exposed to toxic chemicals during the imposed war, was infected with the coronavirus disease at his duty station, and due to belated cooperation of certain countries, unfortunately, he returned to the country in an inappropriate condition, and despite going through all phases of treatment for the improvement of his condition, he attained martyrdom during the early hours of Today [Tuesday],” Saeed Khatibzadeh said.
The announcement comes after the foreign ministry announced Irlou’s transfer from the Yemeni capital Sana’a to a hospital in the Iranian capital Tehran on December 18.
Irlou was picked as Iran’s ambassador to Yemen’s National Salvation Government last year.

Iran FM calls on Intl. community to pay attention to Afghan refugees

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Hossein Amir Abdollahian made the remark in a Monday meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi in Tehran.

During the meeting, Amir Abdollahian thanked the UN High Commission for its assistance regarding Afghan refugees, but said that the assistance provided was insignificant compared to the volume of our country’s measures in this regard.

The Iranian minister of foreign affairs pointed out that more than 520,000 foreign students in Iran study for free and that the vaccination of Afghan asylum seekers has been considered and taken on a par with that of Iranian citizens.

Amir Abdollahian added that Iran does not have the capacity to provide more services than the current level to new asylum seekers, and that the international community must pay special attention to the living conditions of the Afghan people.

He praised the UN Commission for its services, but said that they were inadequate given the scale of the refugee crisis. Amir Abdollahian added that the crisis of Afghan refugees’ influx towards neighboring borders is increasingly large but the volume of international aid is very small.

The Iranian foreign minister further called on the UN Commission to be more active inside Afghanistan and to help reduce asylum seekers from Afghanistan by providing assistance inside the country.

Amir Abdollahian also stressed that European countries must pay their fair share in this regard, and while the presence of several thousand refugees on the European borders turns into a crisis, they should not expect help from Iran forever and just pay lip service with kind words.

The Iranian foreign minister also suggested that the UN High Commission and the UN secretary-general put holding an international fundraising conference for the people of Afghanistan on their agenda.

During the meeting, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi also praised Iran’s extensive efforts to help new refugees from Afghanistan.

He called Iran’s attention to vaccinating a high percentage of Afghans in Iran and the resettlement of new refugees who enter Iran every day a humane and important step, adding that: We are pursuing an increase in the UN Commission activities and financial resources inside Afghanistan.

He also presented a report on the actions of the UN Refugee Agency, especially regarding Afghan asylum seekers to the top Iranian diplomat.

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