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Investigating body calls for prosecution of Soleimani assassins

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The committee convened in Baghdad and released the 5-point communiqué after the first round of their probe into the assassination. 

The committee says all possible judicial and legal measures should be taken to prosecute and punish those involved in the assassination of General Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis and their companions, especially American agents and elements. 

According to the communiqué, bilateral cooperation to complete the ongoing judicial investigations by the joint committee must continue and be boosted. 

It added that all available capacities must be used to provide and complete the required information based on the “Agreement on Legal and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters” between Iraq and Iran. 

The joint investigation committee also says it must keep working in Iran and Iraq to ensure the completion of the information required in the judicial investigation. 

The next session of the Joint Committee will be held in Tehran next month. 

General Qassemi Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in a drone strike directly ordered by former US president Donald Trump in January 2020. Following the terrorist attack, Iran launched a salvo of missiles at a US base in northern Iraq in retaliation. Iran said its retaliatory acts would not be limited to the missile strike and it will pursue the matter through legal international channels.

Iranian intelligence agents deal blow to home appliance smuggling cell

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IFP Editorial Staff
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During its two years of operation, the network has smuggled about 30,000 home appliances, often with South Korean trademarks.

During the intelligence operation, key members of the network were arrested and about 4,000 appliances, including refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, air conditioners and televisions, were seized.

The report also said, by abusing the legal practice of carrying goods by human porters and launches, that has been made legal in order to protect the livelihoods of border residents, the network smuggled these home appliances via the western borders and southern ports of Iran.

Iran ready to help Syria counter western sanctions

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IFP Media Wire
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Iranian Ambassador in Damascus Mehdi Sobhani stated that Iran and Syria have bravely stood against US sanctions, highlighting the strategic ties between the two countries in an interview.

Speaking with the Lebanese news website Alahed on Friday, he noted that the Islamic Revolution in 1979 made a transition in Iran’s identity, creating new values, goals, and norms that outline Iran’s foreign policy and its role in the international arena that is manifested in supporting freedom-seeking movements enshrined in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This led to Iran and Syria’s standing against the wave of normalization with the Israeli regime in the 1980s, Sobhani continued, adding that this provided a ground for the common interests of Iran and Syria and a common foe.

The diplomat mentioned the levels of interaction between countries in the international arena, including cooperation, partnership and alliance, adding that Iran and Syria have put the initial levels behind and are allied states now.

Sobhani also stated that the Islamic Republic of Iran has emerged from the so-called maximum pressure imposed by the US and was ready to provide Syria with all required expertise to stand against the sanctions.

He also noted that Iran’s tankers reaching Syrian and delivering oil from there to Lebanon show that no one could block the Axis of Resistance if they decide to do something.

Iran runners-up at Asian beach volleyball championship

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IFP Media Wire
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Iran A team of Bahman and Abolhassan Khakizadeh lost to Australia’s Christopher McHugh and Paul Burnett 2-0 (21-16, 21-13) in the final.

Qatar also defeated Kazakhstan 2-0 (21-15, 21-15) to win the bronze.

This championship was scheduled to be held in July 2020 in China, but was postponed twice, until finally approved to be held in Thailand according to the applicable measures for COVID-19 prevention.

Iran’s Raisi calls for closer regional cooperation

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Raisi said this cooperation is very useful in promoting economic relations in the region. He noted that for Iran and other regional countries, this type of economic connection will be particularly effective.

He made the remarks on Saturday in Tehran before heading for Turkmenistan to attend the summit of the Economic Cooperation Organizatoin (ECO) in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat. The summit will be held on Sunday.

Also referring to the necessity of deepening neighborly relations between Iran and Turkmenistan, the president said the important issues of gas, transit and other mutual issues will top the agenda of talks during this visit.

The president added the motto of this meeting is “Let’s be together for a better future ahead” and in this meeting, the actions by this organization will be reviewed.

Raisi also said that on the sidelines of the summit, he will hold one-on-one meetings with the leaders of the participating countries and will also meet separately with the president and high-ranking officials of Turkmenistan to discuss bilateral and regional issues.

Pakistan, Afghanistan, Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are member states of ECO.

NIOC’s CEO: Iran oil output to reach pre-sanctions level

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Mohsen Khojasteh Mehr said financial resources have been determined for this purpose.

He added that the NIOC is one of the 10 largest companies in the world and Iran has a wealth of about 1,200 billion barrels of crude oil.

He pointed out that the NIOC has 400 oil and gas fields, adding, “We can produce 340 billion barrels of current resources with basic and conventional methods and without the need for new technologies.” Khojasteh Mehr emphasized Iran is the second country in the world in terms of gas reserves and it sits on 34 trillion cubic meters of gas reserves and is capable of producing oil and gas for the next 100 years with its current reserves.

The NIOC’s CEO also said Iran has 24 gas refineries, 130 processing and exploitation units and 140 onshore and offshore rigs. He added, “We are obliged to increase the gas production capacity to 1 billion and 500 million cubic meters and oil production capacity to 5 million barrels by the next 10 years”.

Khojasteh Mehr also said $90bn is needed in the oil sector and $70bn for the development of gas fields.

Iran Covid: 87 deaths; downward trend holding

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The Health Ministry announced on Saturday 87 people died of Covid in the past 24 hours, pushing the total number of fatalities since the pandemic started to 129,549. 

Meanwhile, 3,045 new infections have been logged since Friday including 583 hospitalizations. 

Since the Covid outbreak began in Iran, 6,105,101 people have contracted the disease. Of that figure, 5,583,066 people recovered from the Coronavirus. Iran’s nationwide inoculation drive has been credited with the downward trend in deaths and infections. The number of Covid vaccine doses administered to Iranians is 104,609,358. So far, 57,332,853 people have received the first dose of vaccine while the number of those who have been given the second shot is 46,328,337. The number of the third dose, known as the booster shot, is 948,168. 

Another landmark achievement by Iran is that the number of cities marked red has fallen to zero. Red zones are areas facing the highest risk from the Coronavirus. Meanwhile, 22 cities across Iran are orange, 207 yellow and 219 blue with the latter showing the lowest level of risk. 

All these figures prove Covid has abated in Iran. Despite that, officials warn people to remain careful and avoid relaxing health protocols because another wave of the pandemic is still a possibility.

Russia: Iranians do not do anything under pressure

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IFP Media Wire
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Russia has lambasted the United States for threats to confront Iran at the IAEA next month unless Tehran improves what Washington calls cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.

Ulyanov warned at a joint news conference with his Chinese counterpart on Friday that Washington’s threatening a diplomatic escalation would risk harming wider talks on Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal, which is officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

The US on Thursday threatened that if Iran did not give way on at least one of several conflicts with the IAEA, particularly what it claimed to be Tehran’s refusal to allow the agency to reinstall cameras at a workshop after an attack in June, Washington would confront Tehran at the watchdog in December.

“I don’t welcome this particular statement of the US delegation (at the IAEA). It’s not helpful,” the Russia’s ambassador to the IAEA Mikhail stated.

“The US did not negotiate with the Iranians for a very long time and forgot that Iranians don’t do anything under pressure. If they are under pressure, they resist,” Ulyanov added.

Despite repeated reports by the IAEA that certified Iran’s full compliance with the deal, former US President Donald Trump left the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May 2018 and re-imposed the anti-Iran sanctions that the deal had lifted. He also placed additional sanctions on Iran under other pretexts not related to the nuclear case as part of his “maximum pressure” campaign.

Following a year of strategic patience, Iran resorted to its legal rights under the JCPOA, which grants a party the right to suspend its contractual commitments in case of non-compliance by other signatories, and let go of some of the restrictions imposed on its nuclear energy program.

The administration of US President Joe Biden has said it is willing to compensate for Trump’s mistake and rejoin the deal, but it has shown an overriding propensity for maintaining some of the sanctions as a tool of pressure.

Tehran insists that all sanctions must first be removed in a verifiable manner before it reverses its remedial measures.

Envoys from Iran and the P4+1 group of countries — Britain, France, Russia, and China plus Germany — are expected to hold the seventh round of discussions in Vienna on Monday.

Iran’s oldest journalist dies at 107

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Amini started his journalistic career when he was a teen by covering the inauguration of Pol Sefid (White Bridge) in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz 85 years ago. 

He resided in the city in the 1960s and lost his son who was an army soldier during the imposed Iraqi war. 

Amini was a retiree of the National Iranian Oil Company and worked as a reporter for the Etella’at Newspaper.

Tehran calls for sisterhood pact with Najaf

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“We crave for a sisterhood agreement between Tehran and Najaf,” said Zakani in the meeting held in Tehran on Saturday.

The mayor said Tehran is proud to be hosting the Iraqi delegation, adding, “You are our good religious brothers and we have the honor to be hosting you.”

“There is attachment and bonds from the bottom of the heart between Iran and Iraq,” the mayor noted. 

He then called for closer cooperation between the two sides.

“Najaf and Karbala are not two ordinary Iraqi cities; rather, they are symbols from an ideological and international point of view, and we take pride in being at your service,” Zakani said. 

He called for Tehran and Najaf to have more interaction and exchange their experience in the domain of management.

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