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Kamalvandi: Iran and IAEA almost finished the job, good progress made

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Behrouz Kamalvandi said the two sides almost finished the job and only a few words remained over which they are negotiating.

Kamalvandi referred to the terrorist attack at the Tessa Complex near Karaj and the IAEA’s reaction, saying the agency has condemned the act of terror halfway but that’s not going to suffice. “We declare that the agency’s cameras have been destroyed and the IAEA must condemn it over its own cameras”, the spokesman of the AEOI said.

Kamalvandi said by “inconclusive”, Grossi meant the two sides have yet to finish the job unlike how the media interpreted that word. He cited the IAEA’s chief as confirming this.

Kamalvandi added that Iran and the IAEA failed to complete their talks because Grossi’s visit was short.

He also said the IAEA has failed to treat Iran fairly under the influence of big powers but that cannot be an excuse to leave the agency.

He said at present, we have more than 30 kg of 60% enriched uranium, and in the next one or two days, the amount of 20% enriched uranium will reach twice the capacity set by the Iranian parliament.

Regarding the leak of the IAEA’s confidential reports on Iran’s nuclear program in the Western media, he said: “We have repeatedly protested publication of confidential reports to the IAEA through letters, official statements, explanatory notes, meetings with IAEA officials, etc.”

Iranian National Football team goalie has entry in Guinness Book

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Alireza Beiranvand threw the ball 61 meters during the National Football Team’s match against South Korea in September 2021. That smashed all previous records.

The 28-year-old currently plays on loan for Boavista at Portugal’s Primeira Liga.

He helped the Iranian national team to the top of Group A in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifiers.

Many football fans, experts and even players including goalies would call his throws incredible stuff.

In addition to his ability to throw the ball long distances, Beiranvand’s story is nothing short of inspirational. As a youngster, he left his father’s home to achieve his dream of becoming a professional soccer player.

Having moved away from his own town, he was homeless for some time in Iran’s capital Tehran. He would later work in a dress factory, at a car wash and as a street cleaner before becoming of the best goalkeeper in Iran’s Premier League.

Beiranvand was catapulted into global stardom after he saved a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty during Iran’s match against Portugal at the 2018 World Cup.

Iranian, Kuwaiti diplomats discuss bilateral ties

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IFP Media Wire
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Kuwait’s official news agency Kuna reported on Thursday that Bagheri, who arrived in Kuwait on an official visit on Thursday, held talks the Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs.

During the meeting, the two sides explored ways for strong bilateral relations between the two friendly countries as well as the latest developments in regional and international arenas.

On Wednesday, Bagheri met and held talks with Anwar Gargash, a diplomatic adviser to UAE President and discussed bilateral relations between the two countries.

The two sides stressed the importance of developing bilateral relations on the basis of principle of good neighborliness and mutual respect within the framework of common interests, taking serious action in line with establishing more stability and prosperity in the region as well as development of economic and trade relations.

The report came as Reuters had previously reported that a high-ranking Emirati official would travel to Iran soon.

Joint committee holds 1st session on General Soleimani assassination

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General Soleimani

That’s according to Kazem Gharibabadi, Deputy Chief of Staff for the Iranian Judiciary’s International Affairs. Gharibabadi said following high-level talks between the judiciaries of Iran and Iraq and efforts by the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office, an Iranian legal-judicial delegation attended the first meeting of the Joint Committee for Investigation into the assassination of General Soleimani and his entourage in Baghdad.

Gharibabadi said a joint statement issued after the two-day meeting condemned the US move as a serious crime, a human rights violation and a breach of international law. It also called the assassination a violation of Iraq’s national sovereignty.

He added that the panel pledged to take all necessary legal and judicial measures to bring the perpetrators and orchestrators of the terror attack to justice.

According to the Iranian official, the key point from a legal point of view is that this statement stipulates that the crime was committed during an official visit by General Soleimani to Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government.

The next session of the investigative committee is to be held in Tehran within a month.

Iran’s top General, Qassem Soleimani and senior Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were assassinated in a U-S drone strike outside Baghdad airport in January 20-20. The drone attack was directly ordered by former US president Donald Trump.

UN calls for end to violence against Afghan women

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Marking the day, the UNAMA has called for solidarity and commitment to end violence against women and girls.

In the statement, UNAMA announced gender-based violence continues to be a serious threat to women and girls and a major obstacle in the way of achieving lasting sustainable development and peace.

Pointing to the spread of COVID-19 and the humanitarian crisis, UNAMA added “violence against women has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the humanitarian crisis”.

According to the UN office, globally one in three women has experienced physical or sexual violence and “mostly by an intimate partner”.

The rate of violence against women and girls in Afghanistan is the highest in the world, according to UNAMA, with “9 out of 10 women experiencing at least one form of intimate partner violence in their lifetime”, the statement reads.

The UN Secretary General Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, stated people must take action to end the violence and called on the international community to listen to the voices and experiences of Afghan women and urgently respond to their needs.

“We must act together to tackle this shadow pandemic. The violence should be prevented, we must change attitudes that shame survivors and support violence, we must support services for survivors,” she noted.

According to the UN office in Kabul, the recent restrictions against women in Afghanistan, especially the restrictions on their right to work and education, has increased the level of violence against them.

“The message we receive from our partners and women across the country is clear – violence against women that was already at alarming levels, has been exacerbated by both crisis and COVID-19. And yet, lifesaving services for women survivors of violence have closed on account of fear of being targeted,” said Alison Davidian, UN Women Country Representative in Afghanistan.

The UN added violence against women is a big hurdle in the way of efforts for peace and sustainable development that is necessary for Afghanistan. It has called on all people to play their role in ending the violence which cause women and girls not be able to use their full potential for prosperity of the country.

EVAW – End Violence Against Women – is a 16-day period each year to raise awareness against gender-based violence. It starts on November 25, the international day for EVAW, and ends on 10 December, Human Rights Day.

Covid downward trend holds in Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The health Ministry announced on Thursday 96 people died of Covid in the past 24 hours, compared to the 95 deaths confirmed yesterday.

This has pushed the total number of fatalities since the pandemic started to 129,376.

Meantime, 4,850 new infections have been logged since Wednesday including 786 hospitalizations.

Since the Covid outbreak began in Iran, 6,097,672 people have contracted the disease. Of that figure, 5,830,653 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 has crossed the 104 million mark.

So far, 57,179,012 people have received the first dose of vaccine while the number of those who have been given the second shot is 45,942,308. The number of the third dose, known as the booster shot, is 902,909.

The number of cities marked red zones in Iran is still eight. Red zones are areas facing the highest risk from the Coronavirus. Meanwhile, 58 cities are orange, 236 yellow and 146 blue with the latter showing the lowest level of risk.

Authorities say Covid has abated in Iran but people should remain careful because another wave of the pandemic is still a possibility.

Israel approves settlement expansion in WB, Palestinians decry

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IFP Media Wire
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Israel has given initial approval to a plan that would expand Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries by building thousands of new illegal settlement homes on occupied West Bank land around the city, drawing a Palestinian demand that Washington intervene.

On Wednesday, Jerusalem municipality green-lit what it described as a new eastern neighbourhood on lands located over the West Bank boundary, near the Palestinian hub city of Ramallah. The site, which once housed Qalandiya Airport, is known to Israelis as Atarot.

The airport site, which was closed after the eruption of the second Intifada in 2000, was designated in former US President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan as a Palestinian tourism zone. The area is sandwiched between the Palestinian neighbourhood of Kafr Akab and the Qalandiya refugee camp.

The plan, which requires further stages of approval, is for 3,000 homes to be built, with a view to adding another 6,000 eventually, Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Arieh King told the Reuters news agency.

Israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law.

The two-state solution laid out by the Oslo Accords of 1993 envisioned East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state made up of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel claims the entire city of Jerusalem as its indivisible capital.

US-sponsored peace talks between the two parties stalled in 2014. Washington has since recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, without explicitly backing its claim on all the city.

“This settlement plan aims to conclude the separation of Jerusalem from our outlying Palestinian area … in a bid to Israelise it, Judaise it and annex it,” the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

It urged the US and other powers “to immediately intervene to stop these colonial projects and plans”.

The US Embassy in Jerusalem had no immediate comment.

About 475,000 Israeli Jews live in settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem has continued under every Israeli government since 1967.

However, construction accelerated in the last few years under former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with a significant boom during Trump’s US administration, which Palestinians accused of egregious pro-Israel bias.

Iran calls for removal of sanctions as goodwill gesture

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“The next round of Vienna talks provides a unique opportunity for other remaining parties to the nuclear deal and the U.S. to demonstrate their real intention to return to full implementation of their commitments by effectively lifting all inhumane sanctions,” Acting permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the International Organizations in Vienna Reza Ghaebi said during a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors on Thursday.

“The credible and effective lifting of sanctions is the basis of Iran’s willingness to abide by the terms of the agreement, and U.S. violations have nullified and effectively rendered those parts of the agreement void,” Ghaebi noted.

It is unfortunate that European countries still do not want to openly condemn the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the nuclear deal and the re-imposition of sanctions, which is the only cause of all these problems, and refuse to call on the United States to resume fulfilling its obligations and remove its sanctions against the Iranian nation, the Iranian diplomat told the IAEA Board of Governors adding that Europeans arrogantly call on Iran to fulfill its JCPOA obligations.

“I would like to reiterate that until sanctions against Iran are removed, it is unreasonable to expect more restraint from Iran. Our nuclear activities, including enrichment at various levels and the production of metal-based uranium fuel, are fully peaceful, in accordance with our rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and under the oversight and verification of the Agency’s safeguards,” Acting Iranian permanent mission to the International Organizations in Vienna added.

Iran and the remaining JCPOA parties will resume negotiations in the Austrian capital Vienna later this month. U.S. negotiators will also be present in the city, but there will be no direct discussions between them and the Iranians.

Top US commander acknowledges Iran’s missiles accuracy

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IFP Media Wire
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The top general has warned that Iran has a “very capable” ballistic missile program, calling it “the one thing the Iranians have done over the last three to five years.”

Iran has shown its missiles have a proven ability to strike targets with precision, McKenzie noted.

In January 2020, Tehran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles from launch sites at three bases in western Iran that hit two Iraqi bases, Al Asad and Erbil, where hundreds of Americans were stationed. The missiles turned buildings, aircraft and living quarters into smoldering rubble. No one died, as most had managed to shelter in underground bunkers and trenches, but concussions from the blasts injured at least 100 American troops.

The military operation was in retaliation for Washington’s assassination of Tehran’s elite commander, Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq’s Baghdad.

“Those missiles hit within tens of meters of their targets,” McKenzie stated, noting, “The one thing the Iranians have done over the last three-to-five years is they built a very capable ballistic missile platform.”

Iran has called the January 2020 operation “only a slap across the face” of the United States, stressing that “military moves like this are not enough, and the Americans corruption-stirring presence should come to an end”.

“70% of Iranians received both doses of Covid vaccine”

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IFP Editorial Staff
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He was speaking on the sideline of the delivery of 5 million doses of a homegrown jab dubbed Razi Covopars. The health minister said the rate of vaccination is an amazing statistic in the world, adding that this is a sign of the Iranian people’s confidence in the Health Ministry.

Einollahi said the Covid outbreak has subsided in Iran, but there is always the possibility of a new wave, and health protocols must be strictly observed.

He noted that Iranians must learn to live with Covid, pointing out “One of the best jabs in the world has been produced in Iran, which has a lot of health, safety and effectiveness.”

Einollahi said Razi Covopars is one of the advanced and effective vaccines and Iran will use it to administer the booster shot. “At present, up to 20% of Razi Institute vaccines can be exported”, he noted. According to the Iranian helath minister, people who received Sinopharm for their first and second doses must get Astrazeneca vaccine for the third.

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