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Turkish president: US training and arming terror groups

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a meeting with the Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, added the White House

is providing those groups with terrorist equipment to create insecurity.

Erdogan referred to the need for security arrangements based on the active presence of regional countries.

He said Iran, Turkey and Russia can maintain security and stability with the cooperation of other regional countries.

The Turkish president added his country views expansion of bilateral and regional cooperation with Iran as a must, adding Tehran and Ankara can give a momentum to the level of ties, especially in the economic sectors.

President Raisi also called for the establishment of peace and security in war-ravaged Syria.

President Raisi said, “We must use all our capacities to establish peace and security in Syria”.

He added regional problems must be resolved by regional countries and foreign interference will not only solve anything but it will also further complicate the situation.

Raisi also spoke of the situation in Afghanistan, saying the Islamic Republic of Iran supports the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan.

He expressed concern over Daesh’s activity in the country, saying regional countries must not let terror groups like Daesh and the PKK threaten security of the region.

On bilateral ties with Turkey, the Iranian president said Tehran and Ankara can boost the current trade and political ties to a strategic level.

He added that Iran and Turkey must pave the way for expanding economic relations and, to that end, they can review preferential tariffs.

The president also said Iran, Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan have many cultural and religious commonalities and they should not allow their ties to be disrupted and should disappoint their common enemies.

The meeting between Riasi and Erdogan was held on the sidelines of the ECO summit in Ashgabat.

Iran’s Covid deaths hit new low

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Over 270,000 Iranians Recover from COVID-19: Ministry

The Iranian Healthy Ministry figures show the number of blue cities where the risk from Covid is lowest has increased to 219. There are no red zones. The number of orange and yellow cities is respectively 22 and 207. Meanwhile, single-day Covid fatalities since Saturday fell to 80, the lowest death toll in nearly 8 months. Over the past 24 hours, 3,781 new infections were logged including 649 hospitalizations. 

The total caseload since the start of the pandemic nearly two years ago is 6,108,882. Of that figure, 5,863,248 people recovered from Covid. 

The downward trend gives credence to statements by authorities that their nationwide vaccination campaign has been effective. 

The number of Covid vaccine doses administered to Iranians is 104,886,372. So far, 57,408,046 people have received the first dose of vaccine while the number of those who have been given the second shot is 46,510,395. The number of the third dose, known as the booster shot, is 967,931.  

Despite the positive moves by the Healthy Ministry and the retreat of Covid, officials warn people against relaxing health protocols given the emergence of the new strain of the virus known as Omicron variant and the possibility of a new wave of the outbreak.

Germany’s new govt.: We will stick to JCPOA

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 The parties signed a governing coalition deal to this effect and declared the new government’s policies regarding domestic and international issues in the document. Germany’s Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats demanded all signatories to the JCPOA abide by their commitments under the deal. 

Germany’s governing coalition deal addresses security and political challenges faced by Germany and other international issues including the Iran nuclear deal and the situation in the Middle East. 

The publication of the 178-page document paves the way for the takeover of power by Olaf Scholz as Germany’s new chancellor. The government coalition deal refers to the Iran issue several times. 

It also urges Iran to keep cooperating with the International Atomic energy Agency and remain committed to the JCPOA. The document however fails to cite inaction on the part of the European troika to stick to its part of the nuclear agreement.  

It also highlights what it calls Israel’s security without referring to the Zionist regime’s nuclear arsenal which is full of atomic warheads. 

Germany’s governing coalition deal also speaks of Israel’s settlement expansions in occupied Palestinian territories and reiterates opposition to the settlements.

Raisi: Daesh handiwork of Washington

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Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi reiterated Daesh terrorists have been a handiwork of the US. 

In a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Arif Alvi, the Iranian president also called for support for oppressed Afghan people.

He stressed the roughly 4 million Afghan migrants currently residing in Iran is the result of the US invasion of Afghanistan.

“Twenty years of foreign presence in Afghanistan not only did not help solve problems facing the country, but had no outcome other than tyranny, killing, looting and insecurity,” Raisi said.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran backs the formation of a broad-based government in Afghanistan represented by all Afghan people, ethnic groups and political factions, and we are ready to cooperation with Pakistan in that regard,” said the Iranian president.

He made the remarks on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Organization summit in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat.

Iran’s president also called for the enhancement of all-out cooperation with Pakistan.

“The two countries enjoy not only a neighborhood relationship, but also deep-rooted emotional, historical and cultural bonds,” he said.

“Utilization of these potentialities in a bid to further boost mutual relations will serve the interests of the two nations and help promote regional progress and prosperity,” 

He said the level of Iran-Pakistan relations should be upgraded, saying areas of cooperation include the development of border markets, transportation, energy and tourism, among other things.

Iran team meets Chinese, Russian, EU diplomats

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“The Iranian team arrived on Saturday in Vienna and started meetings which continued on Sunday at an expert level with the heads of the Russian and Chinese negotiating teams, as well as the EU Coordinator Enrique Mora,” Iranian diplomat Mohammadreza Ghaebi told ISNA.

The meetings at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Vienna headquarters came ahead of a resumption of talks to salvage the landmark 2015 nuclear deal after former US President, Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement, dismaying the other world powers involved – Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia. With the withdrawal, Washington also re-imposed sanctions on Tehran that were lifted under the accord’s terms. 

Tehran has stated Washington should stop demands and remove the illegal sanctions against Iran.

Bagheri, the top negotiator, has stressed Washington must remove all sanctions against Tehran and provide guarantees that future US administrations will not leave the 2015 nuclear deal again.

The indirect negotiations in Vienna will resume Monday after a five-month suspension imposed by Iran.

Raisi: US sanctions not to hinder Iran cooperation with others

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“The United States’ cruel sanctions against Iran will not have the slightest impact on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s policy of maximum interaction with neighboring and regional countries,” said Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi at a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Turkmenistan’s capital, Ashghabat on Sunday.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Raisi said Iran unconditionally supports the ECO and its activities.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran attaches special importance to cooperation and economic partnership with Asian countries, especially its neighbors in South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus,” he noted.

“Indubitably, we pay due regard to the reinforcement of the role and status of regional organizations as facilitators of bilateral and multilateral cooperation a clear example of which is the ECO,” President Raisi explained.

“Good achievements and progress have been made within the ECO over the past years, but there still is a meaningful gap between the accomplishments achieved and the real potential of the organization. For instance, intra-regional trade is less than 10% despite the great trade potential which exists,” he said.

Raisi said Iran seeks to elevate the status of the ECO in regional and international relations, adding effective tools exist for the organization to leap forward.

He called on member states to work together in a range of fields, from the creation of a regional electricity market, to water transfer projects as well as energy ventures. 

He said Iran is ready to help connect the fiber optic networks of member states as well as promote artificial intelligence projects and virtual education programs. 

President Raisi also proposed that the organization create an internal financial mechanism to boost its efficacy.

‘Inoculation of 4m Afghan migrants against Covid key Iran achievement ‘

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“Providing coronavirus vaccines for migrants who live in Iran is a great job completed by the government of this country,” said Jaffar Hussain, who heads the WHO mission in Iran.

“Through expansion of general vaccination in Iran, daily fatalities due to Covid have fallen down below 100 people and most provinces are now out of the red alert and into the orange and blue zones.”

Hussain added that some one million people in Iran have received the booster dose of the Covid vaccine. He said the WHO is helping Pasteur Institute of Iran and its Barekat group to complete their evidence on their vaccines and receive the organization’s quality certificate, so that they can export their jabs to the regional countries and Africa.

He added that Iran now has over 160 million doses of Covid vaccines available for administration, stressing that the public vaccination campaign that saw up to 1.5 million doses administered in 24-hour periods show I0ran’s capability in the field.

Iran-Turkmenistan natural gas deal to be revived: President Raisi

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Under a 25-year contract signed between Iran and Turkmenistan back in 1997, the latter undertook to export between 8 to 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Iran annually. Iran, in turn, was obliged to make payments for the imported gas to the Turkmen Gas Company. 

The agreement remained in effect even at a time of toughest sanctions, but its implementation halted in 2016 due to financial disputes.

Seyyed Ebrabim Raisi also touched upon a meeting with his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow where, as he said, the two sides discussed the promotion of Tehran-Asghabat ties on different fronts, namely in the oil and gas sector.

“Turkmenistan has received assurances that the Iranian government is set to remove the existing problems and obstacles,” Raisi said.

He further stressed that impediments to the activities of businessmen and exporters should be removed, too. 

Raisi said his administration’s policy is to forge closer ties with neighboring countries.

“Suitable economic and trade infrastructure exists for the promotion and upgrading of our country’s bilateral and regional cooperation, and we should step in that direction by facilitating the activities of businessmen and exporters,” he explained.

President Raisi is in Turkmenistan to attend the Economic Cooperation Organization summit in Asghabat.

Iranian athletes win 3 medals at World Taekwondo Women’s Open

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The Iranian female taekwondo practitioners have finished the World Taekwondo Women’s Open Championships after winning three medals on Saturday.

On the last day of the World Taekwondo Women’s Open Championships on Saturday, Zahra Sheidaei of Iran in the final of under-57kg division defeated Russia’s Margarita Blizniakova to bag the gold medal for her country.

Accordingly, the Iranian women ended the World Taekwondo Women’s Open Championships with a gold medal and two bronze medals by Melika Mirhosseini and Kowsar Asaseh. The other Iranian fighters Saeedeh Nasri, Ghazal Soltani, Nahid Kiani, Narges Mirnorollahi and Zeinab Esmaeili were eliminated from the competition earlier.

The championships took place for the first time, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Iranian MPs confirm Yousef Nouri as new Education Minister

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Nouri made it to the top post with 194 votes in favor, 57 against and 17 abstentions.

He had been nominated by President Ebrahim Raisi for the post of Education Minister.

Speaking on Parliament floor during the confirmation session on Sunday, Noursi criticized the performance of the Education Ministry.

He said the Supreme Council of the Education Ministry did not do enough to counter Education Document 2030, and that even some of the councilors supported that document.

“Those behind Education Document 2030 will have no place in the education system,” he noted.

“During the second phase of the Revolution, we will take a leap toward new Islamic civilization, which requires the education of a generation with a model of new Islamic civilization,” he explained.

Two other nominees, namely Hossein Baghgoli and Masoud Fayazi, had previously failed to get the Parliament’s approval.

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