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Iranian soldier praised for defending woman against thief

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The announcement was made by an official at Imam Hossein University of Iran where the soldier is doing military service.

Earlier, footage went viral on social media showing the soldier hitting the thief with his car while the man was trying to snatch a passing woman’s purse by force.

After hitting the stealer, the soldier got off his car and began fighting him to take back the purse. This gesture drew widespread admiration from people in Iran.

On Saturday, the soldier was invited to a prime time program on the Iranian television where he was praised for defending the woman against the thief.

He said he did not do anything and that “it was God’s act, not mine”.  The soldier also said, “I thought for a second that it was my own mom who fell down on the ground.”

 

Dimensions of Zionists’ psychological warfare against Iran: Threat or desperation?

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Nour News was referring to Israel’s recent threat of military attack on Iran. It said experience shows the Israeli regime has never given an advance warning about an imminent attack against a country in the past and that  Tel Aviv latest threats against Iran more point to desperation and confusion on the part of Israel.

Nour News said Israel stepped up its campaign against Iran after Tehran and the P4+1 group set a date to start their fresh talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA.

According to this analysis, the anti-Iran campaign was riddled with wrong and misleading information with Iran and its nuclear program. The campaign involved threats by the Israeli regime’s officials and purported leaks by Israeli media about covert plans to hit Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, Minister of Military Affairs Benny Gantz, and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid all spoke of the possibility of an attack on Iran.

Meanwhile, an Israeli news outlet even said Israeli forces have begun rehearsing attacks on Iran, as another news outlet said the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists did not slow Iran’s nuclear program.

Nour News described Bennet’s policy as preposterous, referring to his pressure on the US to stand up against what he called Iran “nuclear extortion”.

According the news website, all the threats are meant to put pressure on the West to take more concessions from Iran and tie other issues such as Iran’s missile and drone might as well as its regional influence to the nuclear talks in Vienna.

Yemen says France complicit in war crimes

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IFP Media Wire
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Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen, made the criticism in a post on his Twitter account early Saturday, a day after several people were killed and several others injured in Saudi airstrikes on a residential area in Yemen’s southwestern Ta’izz Province.

He made the remarks as Macron started an official two-day tour of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar and Saudi Arabia on Friday.

“We condemn the move by the French president, who – through his trip to Saudi Arabia – caused the killing of civilians and children in Ta’izz’s Muqbana district,” Houthi stated.

“We remind him that his requests to European countries to continue selling arms to the aggressor Saudi coalition, in which he also participates, amount to war crimes in Yemen,” he added.

The UAE ordered 80 Rafale fighter jets and 12 military helicopters from France as part of the $19 billion deal signed during Macron’s visit.

The deal was announced in a statement from the French presidency following a meeting between Macron and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the sidelines of the Dubai Expo 2020.

The French president traveled to Saudi Arabia Saturday, becoming the first major Western leader to visit the country since the murder of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

Macron was to meet the kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who is widely believed to have ordered the murder and has moved to crush any dissent.

Khashoggi’s murder sparked international outrage that continues to reverberate. But Macron stated it was impossible to engage with the region while ignoring Saudi Arabia.

“Who can think for one second that we can help Lebanon and preserve peace and stability in the Middle East if we say: ‘We’re not going to speak to Saudi Arabia, the most populated and most powerful country in the Persian Gulf’?” he said to reporters in Dubai, the first stop of his tour.

“It doesn’t mean that I endorse anything, that I’ve forgotten, that we’re not demanding partners,” he noted, adding that he was acting “for our country and in the interests of the region”.

“Whatever strategic interest France has in Saudi Arabia, nothing can justify their legitimization of a ruler who kills journalists, threatens activists, imprisons women human rights defenders, slaughters Yemeni civilians, and deceives the international community. Macron diminishes himself and his own country as he stoops to partnership with MBS,” stated Agnes Callamard, a French national who serves as Amnesty International’s secretary general.

Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war on its southern neighbor in March 2015 in collaboration with a number of its allied states such as the UAE and with arms and logistics support from the US and several other Western countries.

The aim was to return to power a Riyadh-backed former regime and crush the popular Ansarullah movement, which has been effectively running state affairs in the absence of an effective government in Yemen.

The offensive has failed to achieve its goals, but pushed Yemen to the brink, killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people and destroyed the impoverished country’s infrastructure.

US grants Iraq waiver to import energy supplies from Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The latest waiver is granted for 120 days. Iraq has still substantial arrears for its energy imports from Iran. 

Iran’s state-owned gas company NIGC has said Iraq’s debts to the Islamic Republic have risen to more than $6bn. 

Baghdad is unable to pay back its debt due to the US’s oppressive sanctions on Tehran. Western and Iraqi sources told AFP that the US had given Iraq the green light to unlock 2 billion dollars in debts for gas imports through a Swiss bank account. 

Iraq imports two thirds of its energy needs including gas and electricity from the Islamic Republic. 

The Trump administration placed harsh sanctions on Iran’s energy industry in late 2018 as part of its so-called maximum pressure campaign against Tehran. The US however has granted Iraq some waivers to buy energy supplies from Iran.

Unvaccinated Iranians to be fined: Official

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“In the smart coronavirus control system which will become operational as of December 6, 2021, restrictions and fines will be imposed on unvaccinated individuals entering towns and cities on the orange or red state of COVID-19 alert, and infected people will not even be permitted to travel within towns and cities with their private cars,” said Reza Nafisi, the head of the center charged with drawing up passive defense transportation safety regulations and crisis management affiliated with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. 

“If the new strain of the coronavirus spreads across the country, COVID-19 restrictions on domestic trips will definitely change and become stricter,” he added.

“The health protocols already enforced for cities with red, orange, yellow and blue states of coronavirus alert have remained unchanged, but they have become smart and will go into force for unvaccinated and infected individuals in such a way that they will not be allowed to leave home even with their private cars and they must remain in quarantine and they will be fined if seen traveling within or between cities,” the official added. 

“Under such circumstances, people infected with the coronavirus are monitored and will not be allowed to go to work,” he explained.

“If they are seen traveling, it will be regarded as illegally leaving their quarantine and will be fined,” he said.

Iran Covid: Number of daily deaths decreases to 58

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian Health Ministry figures announced on Saturday show that 58 people have died of the disease since Friday, nearly 40 percent down compared with the previous day and the lowest death toll in nearly a year. The deaths push to 130,125 the total fatalities in Iran since the start of the pandemic in early 2020. 

Total caseload is 6,131,356, of whom 5,916,196 people recovered. The large decrease in the number of deaths and cases has been attributed to a nationwide vaccination campaign that sped up in summer. 

Since the vaccination drive began, over 100 million doses of vaccine have been administered with nearly 50 million having received two doses of the jab. Over a million people have also been given the third dose, known as the booster shot. 

Currently, there are two red zones in Iran in terms of risk from the disease. The rest of the Iranian cities and towns are either orange, yellow or blue. 

Iran has made the achievements in its healthcare sector at a time when the nation is under the heaviest ever sanctions by the US. Unlike other countries, in Iran, the vast majority of people welcomed the vaccination campaign and in the early months of the process stood in long lines to get their jabs. 

The Iranian government also made massive efforts to push back the Covid outbreak which at its peak killed as many as 800 people daily. 

The Foreign and Health Ministries were instrumental in the fight against Covid with the former helping with vaccine imports and the latter accelerating production of homegrown jabs.

UN: Millions of Afghans starving as winter approaches

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Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini Lahijani
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UNHCR’s spokesperson in Refugees affairs Babur Baloch noted that displaced families are lacking shelter, warm clothes, and firewoods to heat their houses and added that they also need food, medicines, and other supplies to survive, according to Khaama press news agency.

“Humanitarian crisis is deepening in Afghanistan and starvation is now at its unprecedented level in the country. 23 million Afghans that form 55% population of the country are facing the highest level of poverty and nine million of them are facing starvation.” Baloch continued.

The UN spokesperson who visited Afghanistan said the number of malnourished children is growing, hospitals are nearly overwhelmed with malnourished children and the 3 million of these children are at a critical point.

Baloch added that one million malnourished Afghan children are close to death.

In an interview with the BBC, the former president of Afghanistan underscored the importance of an inclusive government in Afghanistan, among other issues, according to TOLO news.

Former President Hamid Karzai underlined that Afghanistan should form an inclusive government that represents all aspects of society in order for the government to gain international recognition.

He named the Loya Jirga (Great Assembly) as a good option to pave the ground for a legitimate government.

Karzai said he opposes the US mission of over-the-horizon counterterrorism and urged the administration of President Joe Biden to work with the current Afghan government.

“I have had conversations with them on a lot of issues–the return of women to back to work. The schools, the flag of the country, the national flag of the country. And the need for a political process, for a government that belongs to all Afghans, that all Afghans see as theirs–that is inclusive,” he added.

“We really … want them to go back to school–the girls–not only to schools but to universities, but to the workplace. Yes, we have had talks about this with the Taliban. They hear me on this. They understand it and they say that it will happen. We say that it should happen now, immediately,” Karzai noted.

He called on the international community to work for the improvement of Afghanistan.

“They have better come and help the Afghan people. They and their allies and the international community must help Afghanistan rebuild itself, must heal the wounds that have been caused on all sides. Must work with the Taliban- they are the government today. Work towards improvements towards a better Afghanistan,” Karzai suggested.

However, a former Afghan ambassador to Moscow, Sayed Taib Jawad, told a Russian news agency that the “Taliban” government would not be recognized soon by the world.

“Look, they (the Taliban) have not been able to gain recognition by anyone, they have made many promises to their friends, to the international community, to Afghans. They have not delivered on their promises, and it does not look like they are going to be recognized soon, at least by the countries in the region, including Russia,” he told TASS News.

“If the US does not recognize the Taliban, there will be a big challenge to the region that will not be in the interest of any country or anyone,” stated Hamid Aziz Mujadidi, a university instructor.

The Islamic Emirate earlier said that it had fulfilled all the conditions for recognition and that it was seeking positive relations with world countries.

Bakhtiari kebab: Mouth-watering Persian dish favorite with tourists

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Bakhtiari kebab contains a high protein content and is very popular with tourists especially when it is barbecued.

Read more: Meat Market of Juybar, Best Place to Eat Fresh Kebab

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Women in the province are an old hand at cooking this Persian dish. They grill it on coal and serve it to their guests.

Even some visitors film the process of preparing this ambrosial dish before it is served.

Ingredient of Bakhtiari Kebab

The ingredients of Bakhtiari kebab include lamb or beef tenderloin, chicken breast, butter, onions, saffron, lime juice, salt, pepper and yoghurt.

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Recipe of Bakhtiari Kebab

They chop the fillet and let it stay in yoghurt until it gets tender. Then they skewer the meat this way: two pieces of beef fillet and two piece of chicken meat alternately. Finally, they grill it.

The kebab becomes all the more delicious if served with local bread and doogh (a drink made by mixing yoghurt and water).

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Key Ppoints on Cooking Bbakhtiari Kebab

Some do not consider the kebab served in restaurants, which is made of a mixture of red meat and chicken, as original Bakhtiari Kebab. They believe Bakhtiari Kebab contains sheep meat only and no chicken.

In the original recipe, Bakhtiari Kebab is made of a mixture of sheep meat and fat. You need to add a small piece of fat to each two pieces of meat.

In the final stage of cooking, melt some butter and mix it with brewed saffron inside a small bowl. Two minutes before the kebabs are done, lubricate them with the mixture using an oil brush so that they get softer and more delicious.

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How to Mmarinate Bakhtiari Kebab

First, cut the chicken fillets the size of the chunks used to make Chicken Kebab and place them inside a large bowl. Then, chop meat fillets a little larger than the size of Chenjeh Kebab and add them to the chicken chunks.

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Then, slice onions into rings and mix them with the meat and the chicken. Next, mix brewed saffron, yoghurt, oil, salt and black pepper very well together and add them to the main ingredients.

Bakhtiari kebab: Mouth-watering Persian dish favorite with tourists

Turn the pieces of chicken and meat upside down for some time so the marinate materials reach all parts.

you wish, you can also add some lime juice to get a sour taste in the end. Finally, cover the bowl once the ingredients are mixed together well. Let the ingredients rest inside the fridge between two to four hours.

Saudi bombing of Yemen leaves 16 civilians dead

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IFP Media Wire
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The deadly aggression occurred on Friday evening, when Saudi-led warplanes targeted a gathering of civilians in Muqbana district of the province, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.

It added that continued presence of the enemy fighter jets in the skies of Muqbana and the possibility of other strikes prevented the paramedics to reach the crime scene to exhume the bodies of the victims and attending the wounded.

The airstrikes came as the Saudi-led forces and its mercenaries have escalated their aggression in the western coastal region of Yemen.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and other key Western powers, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the former Riyadh-backed regime back to power and crushing the popular Ansarullah resistance movement which has been running state affairs in the absence of an effective government in Yemen.

The war has stopped well shy of all of its goals, despite killing tens of thousands of Yemenis and displacing millions more. The war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.

An all-out blockade was also imposed on Yemen since the onset of the bloody war, pushing Yemen into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, including by hampering access to aid.

Despite heavily-armed Saudi Arabia’s continuous bombardment of the impoverished country, Yemeni armed forces and the Popular Committees have grown steadily in strength against the Saudi invaders and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.

Putin, Biden to discuss Middle East, Iran

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IFP Media Wire
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The date of Putin’s videoconference meeting with Biden has been tentatively approved and will be announced after it has been finalized with US counterparts, Kremlin Aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on Friday.

“We are working on a possible contact between Putin and Biden in the videoconference format. This contact is to take place within days. We have a concrete date and time for this videoconference. But it is better to wait until all its parameters are agreed with the US side and then we will be able to announce it officially. This videoconference meeting is being prepared quite actively,” he said.

“The agenda is obvious. It will be an important contact as a follow-up to the Geneva talks. The progress in the implementation of the Geneva agreements will be touched upon,” Ushakov added.

“They will be talking about bilateral affairs, pressing international issues, including Afghanistan, Iran, the intra-Ukrainian crisis, and Libya. Syria may be touched upon, if the conversation goes that way,” he continued.

The Russian presidential aide added that the leaders would also discuss “progress in the dialogue on strategic stability.”

“The implementation of our idea to hold a summit of the permanent members of the UN Security Council will certainly be touched upon,” Ushakov said.

NATO-related issues will be also on the table of the talks. The two presidents will discuss legal accords on excluding NATO’s further eastward enlargement.

“I think that the Russian president will discuss this issue in the course of his upcoming contact with President Biden,” Ushakov noted, reminding reporters that Putin spoke about the need for guarantees in this sphere at a Foreign Ministry enlarged board session and at a meeting with foreign ambassadors.

“This is our proposal on the need to hold joint work with colleagues, with leading countries on reaching corresponding legal accords that would rule out any further eastward expansion by NATO and the deployment of weapon systems that directly threaten us on the territory of states bordering on Russia, including Ukraine,” he stated.

According to Putin’s aide, Moscow urgently needs assurances that NATO would not expand in the eastward direction.

“It is a very old issue. Both the Soviet Union and Russia were given verbal assurances that NATO’s military structures would not advance eastward. However, it turned out that those verbal assurances were worthless, although those statements were documented somehow, and there are records of the corresponding conversations,” the Kremlin aide continued.

“Given the current tense situation, there is an urgent need for us to be provided with appropriate guarantees, as it cannot go on like this,” he emphasized, adding, “It is hard to say what form this document will take, the main thing is that they must be written agreements.”

Additionally, Ushakov did not rule out that the Russian and US presidents might touch upon the situation in the oil market.

“I do not know but they might [touch on the oil market]. There are a lot of issues. A corresponding memo is being drafted, but there could be other issues, including the pandemic and climate change,” he stated.

“The main thing is that not only do we, but hopefully our American counterparts as well, realize how crucial and necessary this contact is,” he continued.

“We are working on this contact with Olympic serenity, and we are not rushing the Americans, as we remain ready to hold it when it is convenient for them. Now we are close to agreeing on the timeframe convenient for both sides,” Ushakov said in conclusion.

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