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Iranian movie ‘The Badger’ wins award at Italy festival

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“The Badger”, directed by Mollaei and produced by Sina Saeedian, was screened in the 17th Terni Film Festival of Italy alongside seven films from Switzerland, the US, Italy, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and finally the jury of this cinematic event presented its best director award to Mollaei for the film “The Badger”. 

In this movie, Soodeh’s 11-year-old son is kidnapped before her second wedding and she is forced to ask her ex-husband for the ransom money. 

It features several well-known Iranian actors and actresses, including Vishka Asayesh, Hasan Majouni, Mehraveh Sharifi-nia, and Behnoush Bakhtiari. 

First group of migrant swans travel to Iran

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The director of the Department of Environment in Mahmoudabad says 550 swans have arrived at the pond since the first group of the migrant birds flew to the wetlands a week ago. 

Ali Mohammad Do’agoo says the swans migrated to the area 10 days earlier than they normally do. But he said a smaller population of the birds has traveled to Sorkhroud this year. 

The area has hosted up to 12,000 swans a year over the past several years. The migrant birds normally leave the area back to colder habitats by March. 

Do’agoo further explained that whooper, mute and tundra swans travel to Sorkhroud every year, with whoopers comprising the larger portion of the migrant birds. 

He said conservation officers are protecting the area 24/7 and are helping people, who seek to feed the swans. 

“US military mission in Iraq to be completed in 2021”

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“The United States will uphold the commitments it made during the July 2021 US-Iraq Strategic Dialogue, including that there will be no US forces with a combat role by the end of the year,” the Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said on Saturday.

This statement was made after US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met on November 20 with Minister Jumah Inad Sadun al-Jaburi, Iraq’s Minister of Defense, in Manama, Bahrain, during the annual Manama Dialogue.

Austin further confirmed to the Iraqi defense minister that American forces will remain in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government to support the country’s security forces, the statement added.

The sides also discussed the next stage of the US military mission in Iraq, which will focus on “advising, assisting, and sharing intelligence with the Iraqi Security Forces in support of the campaign to defeat Daesh”, the statement read.

The Pentagon chief again condemned the recent attack on the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi and expressed hope that the formation of the new government in Iraq will proceed peacefully.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Manama Dialogue international conference on regional security held annually in Bahrain.

Iranian movie “Khonyar’s Children” wins prize at Moscow film festival

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The movie directed by Arman Gholipour won the Special Diploma of the jury at the event where 86 movies from 48 countries competed. 

Three movies from Iran were among the films screened at the festival. 

In addition to award-winning “Khonyar’s Children,” two other Iranian films, namely “The Look” directed by Farnoush Samadi and “Aparat” by Hassan Najmabadi also took part in the festival. 

The VGIK International Student Festival is one of the oldest student film showcases. 

The first Festival was held in 1961. The main film competition consisted of 29 films, the Grand-Prix being granted to Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky for his diploma work “The Boy and the Dove”. 

But it was only at the 9th Festival in 1972 where international prizes were awarded for the first time. 

The first awardees were B.Boghinovsky from Bulgaria for his film “The 17th parallel” and the Karpenko-Kary National Institute of Performing Arts for the presented film program.

Iran lifts nighttime driving ban as Covid recedes

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Raisi issued the order on Saturday effective immediately. 

Meanwhile, Iran’s traffic police chief has told the IRIB that the driving ban has been lifted across the country on president’s order and drivers will not get a ticket for driving at night.

After ordering the driving ban to be removed, the Iranian president said the main concern and first priority of his administration is to protect people’s lives and that government efforts will continue until the situation returns to normal across the country. 

Raisi also said it is important that authorities monitor comings and goings via borders. 

He underlined the need to keep up smart surveillance and its role in containing Covid. 

The nighttime driving ban had been put in place along with some other restrictions with the aim of containing the Covid pandemic in Iran. 

The country has been witnessing a downward trend in Covid deaths and infections over the past few months that has been attributed to a fast vaccination campaign.  Now over 101 million doses of vaccine have been administered in Iran.

Iran condemns attack on its consulate in Hamburg

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Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh demanded the German government fulfill its obligation to take action seriously and responsibly to provide security for the diplomatic missions of Iran in Germany in line with the Vienna Convention.

Khatibazde said the German government is expected to take effective and sustainable measures to prevent the repetition of such acts of aggression while launching an investigation into the details of the incident and punishing the perpetrators of the attack.

Unknown attackers carried out an arson attack on the Iranian consulate in Germany’s Hamburg, according to the newspapers Bild and the Hamburger Abendblatt.

On Friday evening, the perpetrators hurled an incendiary device against a steel door that leads to the premises of the consulate in the Winterhude district, the police announced.
Property damage occurred at the entrance to the consulate, but no one was injured.

“70% of Lebanese cannot afford medicine”

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The hike in prices prompted angry activists to protest in front of the ministry of health on Thursday.

Lebanese authorities had decided to lift the subsidy for chronic diseases medicines partially.

The move came in light of a high exchange rate of the dollar on the black market coupled with the depletion of hard currency reserves at the Central Bank of Lebanon, which used to provide dollars to import these medicines.

“The subsidy was set according to certain conditions, but due to the collapse of the Lebanese pound, prices rose frighteningly,” Araji said after a meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati.

“70% of the Lebanese are unable to buy medications, which is why we asked for a meeting with Mikati and told him that this issue was not acceptable, and we discussed a number of solutions,” revealed Araji.

“We proposed increasing the funds allocated to medications in dollars, and this will be discussed in a meeting between Mikati, the Health Minister, and the Central Bank Governor,” he added.

“We proposed that pharmaceutical companies be paid in Lebanese pounds according to Sayrafa platform, thus saving 20 % of the medication price, and starting today, generic drugs must be purchased,” Araji continued.

Following the decline in the Central Bank’s reserves of hard currency, the subsidy for medicines was gradually lifted, and the partial assistance was recently lifted for medication for chronic diseases.

“We continued to support medicines for chronic diseases and cancerous diseases for a period of two months, but they were lost from the market,” explained Mikati on his part.

‘Either people stored them in homes, or they were smuggled,” he added.

“Therefore, we will remain committed to the issue so that each patient takes their right by limiting the provision of the required medicine or its equivalent according to a doctor’s opinion,” said Mikati.

“Saudi airbase, Aramco under Yemen drone attacks”

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A spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces has detailed the “Eighth Deterrence Operation” which was launched in retaliation for a years-long brutal war by the Saudi-led coalition against impoverished nation.

According to al-Masirah, Brigadier General Yahya Saree said King Khalid Air Base in Riyadh was targeted by four Samad-3 UAVs during the operation, adding an important military target was hit at Abha International Airport with Samad-3 drones.

The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces stated various military targets in the Abha, Jizan and Najran provinces were targeted with five Qasif K2 drones, as well as military targets at King Abdullah Airport in Jeddah.

He noted that an Aramco refinery was also targeted with four Samad-2 UAVs.

Saree also pointed out that during the operation by the Yemeni Army, as many as 14 drones including different modes of UAVs such as Samad-3, Samad-2 and Qasef-K2 were used.

He underlined that the Yemeni forces have attacked targets in Saudi Arabia within the framework of legitimate defense against the aggression by the Riyadh-led military coalition.

Saree also underscored that while the Saudi military targets civilians in Yemen in its aggression, the Yemeni forces solely target military ones.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the Mansour Hadi government back to power and crushing Ansarullah.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases.

Yemeni Armed Forces and the Popular Committees have grown steadily in strength against the Saudi-led invaders, and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.

Some flights cancelled in Tehran due to air pollution

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Air Polution Returns to Tehran as Winter Looms 1

Meanwhile, some flights at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport have been canceled due to a thick layer of smog over the city that hugely reduced visibility.

The Meteorological Organization has however said downpours will begin in parts of Iran on Monday and that will improve the quality of the air.

Iranian officials have said up to 40,000 people die every year due to air pollution. In polluted cities like Tehran, Esfahan and Karaj citizens, especially the elderly, have been warned not the engage in heavy physical activities outdoors.

Air pollution has in many cases shut down large cities including Tehran during winter cold weather.

 Saudi military bases hit by Yemeni drone strikes

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Al-Mayadeen television, citing local media outlets, reported Yemeni drones struck military sites in Najran, Jizan and ‘Asir regions on Saturday morning.

The report came after Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree stated Saudi Arabia had significantly intensified its aggression and carried out more than 65 aerial raids across Yemen in the past 24 hours.

“This escalation will have serious consequences for the forces of aggression. They must bear the consequences,” he tweeted Friday.

On Saturday, Yemen’s official Saba news agency reported Saudi military forces and their mercenaries had violated a ceasefire in Hudaydah for 182 times in the past 24 hours.

A source in Yemen’s Liaison and Coordination Officers Operations Room noted the violations included reconnaissance flights over various regions, including al-Faza, al-Jabaliya and al-Tuhaita districts, in addition to 28 counts of artillery shelling and 45 shooting incidents.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the Ansarullah movement.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.

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-led invaders and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.

 

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