Baharak Rashidi of the Etesam Health Center in the western city of Kermanshah died on Monday night.
The president of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences offered his condolences in a message.
Iran has been hit by five waves of the respiratory disease so far with about 300 health workers having lost their lives to Covid-19.
Since the start of the pandemic in early 2020 in Iran, 128,406 people have lost their lives.
The international conference and exhibition will be held with the aim of examining the challenges facing the development of renewable energies in Iran and providing solutions to improve the business environment in this area during the coronavirus pandemic and amid sanctions.
The most important topics which are going to be discussed at this international exhibition by both domestic and foreign speakers are as follows; Policies and programs of the government for renewable energy, challenges of the renewable energy market in the country and the ways to move out of the current situation, new financing methods and presence of large industries for investing in the renewable energy field for supplying electricity, the localization policies of the renewable energy industry and study of the development of renewable energy technology in the world, etc.
At the opening of the exhibition, the country’s top companies active in the field of renewables will be rewarded with the National Renewable Energy Award which has been designed and provided by the Iran Renewable Energy Association in collaboration with the Energy Ministry, Iran’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (known as SATBA), Vice Presidency for Science and Technology and other relevant organizations.
The award is aimed at motivating the development of renewable energy in the country, raising public awareness about renewable energies, recognizing successful national examples of renewable energy development, and helping to form and complete the renewable energy ecosystem in the country.
The nomination was put to vote on Tuesday after Parliament reviewed the qualifications of the proposed Minister of Education with Raeisi making a speech in defense of his pick with pros and cons delivering their own addresses before Parliament.
At the end of the voting, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf asked the president to introduce his next pick for the Ministry of Education in due course.
An Iranian MP says the president has one week to introduce his new nominee for Education Minister. Seyyed Nezameddin Mousavi, spokesman for the parliament presiding board said after Raeisi’s first pick lost the confidence vote, he was given three months under the law to propose any number of nominees and win the vote of confidence.
He added that seven days are left from that three-month period.
Mousavi said in the past, the period has been extended following approval by the Leader of Islamic Revolution. But he urged the president to introduce his new pick for Education Minister as soon as possible.
Raesi added that the revenues from crude exports have increased the Islamic Republic’s foreign and domestic currency reserves and this is helping boost the country’s economy.
Raeisi was speaking before Parliament on Tuesday.
He added that Iran has already taken good economic steps which have decreased worries over resources such as basic goods and supplies.
He also referred to Iran’s foreign policy with regard to relations with other countries. He underlined Iran’s policy to prioritize ties with neighbors.
The president however said Iran already has good ties with nations that want interaction with the Islamic Republic based on mutual respect and dignity.
On the Covid vaccination campaign, the president said Iran has taken a good step toward protecting the lives of citizens by providing 100 million doses of vaccine for the inoculation program.
Raeisi said although the danger has not been fully averted, people are not concerned over access to vaccine and the situation has changed.
The president also noted that Iran’s development today requires solidarity between the government and Parliament.
The two leaders have exchanged views on key regional challenges, including North Korea, Afghanistan, and Iran, according to a statement made public by the White House on Tuesday.
Biden also expressed concern over Beijing’s actions with regards to the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region during the video conference with Xi.
“President Biden raised concerns about the PRC’s practices in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, as well as human rights more broadly,” the statement said.
The US leader discussed with his Chinese counterpart the importance of a free and open Indo-Pacific region and conveyed the continued determination of the United States to uphold its commitments in the region.
“President Biden reiterated the importance of freedom of navigation and safe overflight to the region’s prosperity,” the statement added.
Additionally, Biden “was clear about the need to protect American workers and industries from the PRC’s unfair trade and economic practices.”
Biden noted that the US supports the “one China” policy during the video conference with Xi.
“On Taiwan, President Biden underscored that the United States remains committed to the ‘one China’ policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three Joint Communiques, and the Six Assurances (in relations with Taipei), and that the United States strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” the statement read.
Xi has said the one-China principle and the three Sino-US joint communiques are the political foundation for China-US relations.
“We are patient and willing to do our utmost to strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the utmost sincerity,” Xi stated, while warning that if “Taiwan independence” forces provoke the issue, or even cross the red line, the mainland will have to take decisive measures.
China is willing to conduct dialogue on human rights issues on the basis of mutual respect, but is not in favor of using human right to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, Xi added.
According to China Central Television, the online meeting of the two leaders began at 08:46 Beijing time. The first half of the meeting lasted about 1 hour 56 minutes after which the sides took a break. The second half of the meeting began at 11:06 Beijing time and lasted about 1 hour 18 minutes. In total, the talks lasted about 3 hours 14 minutes.
This is the first official meeting between the two leaders since the US president assumed office in January 2021. Earlier, they exchanged messages and held telephone conversations. Their most recent telephone conversation was on September 10, 2021.
The newspaper outlines Iran’s approach in five points which are as follows:
1-Not only will the Iranian negotiating team not allow talks over the country’s missile program and regional role, but it will also avoid negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program. Ali Bagheri, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, recently dismissed nuclear talks in a meeting with the director general of France’s Foreign Ministry. He also told the British newspaper The Guardian that Iran will not negotiate over its defensive and security issues, saying the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, has a clear framework and other issues have nothing to do with the deal.
2-The US has violated the JCPOA and is not part of the talks. The US must take action to compensate its past mistakes and pay reparations to Iran and also take necessary confidence-building measures.
3-The US must also stop dividing sanctions and must remove all the bans imposed on Iran during the Obama and Trump administrations. Bagheri says Iran’s goal is to get the sanctions lifted which are all illegal and violate the UN resolutions.
4-The genuine removal of sanctions requires verification and Iran must have an opportunity to make sure the sanctions have been removed through selling oil and transfer of foreign currency into the country.
5-The US must give assurances that it will not leave the JCPOA again. Since the US has a history of destroying international treaties, it’s likely that it will abuse the trigger mechanism enshrined in the JCPOA. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has said the US violations such as sanctions make it necessary for Washington to give tangible guarantees.
The Ministry of Health confirmed that 26-year-old Saddam Hussein Ban Odei was killed after he was shot by Israeli forces during the clashes that erupted in the aforementioned city.
It added Bani Odeh was shot with a bullet that penetrated his left shoulder and heart and settled in his left lung.
Israeli forces usually use force to disperse anti-settlement weekly rallies in the occupied West Bank.
Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — territories the Palestinians want for a future state — during the six-day Arab-Israeli war in 1967. It later had to withdraw from Gaza.
More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank. All the settlements are illegal under international law. The United Nations Security Council has condemned the settlement activities in several resolutions.
The film had participated in the competition section of the festival and gained the prize on Monday.
The festival offers six feature films and competition films unreleased in France, documentaries, short films, a tribute to JC Carriere and a retrospective of the works of the late Abbas Kiarostami, as well as various aspects of the Persian culture, music, poetry, literature, exhibitions, conferences, etc.
It is a project of discovery and humanist exchanges to meet populations with a prestigious culture of Iran.
TiTi is a 2020 Iranian drama film directed by Panahandeh and written by Panahandeh and Arsalan Amiri. The film screened for the first time at the 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival. In 2021, at the 39th Fajr Film Festival the film earned three nominations.
In a statement, the IAEA said the date of the visit is being finalized.
Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Grossi will soon visit Iran where he will hold talks with the country’s top diplomat Hossein Amir Abdollahian as well as its nuclear chief.
On November 3, Grossi told The Associated Press that the agency had no access to data and online images of monitoring equipment installed at Iranian nuclear facilities.
Iran imposed restrictions on the activities of the IAEA in the country from late 2020 and also suspended its voluntary implementation of the additional protocol to the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) from March 2021. The restrictions included denying the IAEA inspectors access to the data of cameras monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities.
It followed the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the re-imposition of its sanctions against Tehran.
Iran says the restrictions are imposed under the safeguards of the IAEA.
Iran has said it’s going to remove the restrictions if the Vienna talks aimed at lifting US sanctions are successful.
The Iranian delegation headed by Javad Hedayati, Director General of the Transit Department of Iran’s Roads and Transportation Organization, and Azeri officials are exploring ways of expanding cooperation in road transportation.
At the meeting, Hedayati highlighted the importance of the meeting, saying the negotiators hold discussions about obstacles to developing trade relations and road transportation and will also explore ways of boosting transportation ties between Tehran and Baku.
Hedayati added that the two sides intend to design new mechanisms and initiatives in order to define roads in a targeted way, facilitate road transportation, especially along border routes through reduction of transportation costs, and expand transit along the north-south corridor. The Azeri official for road transportation affairs for his part stressed the need to increase transportation cooperation between the two countries.
Anar Rezayev said age-old relations between Tehran and Baku pave the way for cooperation in different areas. Rezayev expressed confidence that Iran and Azerbaijan will use the existing potentials to boost cooperation in road transportation.
The Azeri official also noted that all problems are resolvable.
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