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Amir Abdollahian: UAE FM Damascus visit positive step

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Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in a phone conversation with his Emirati counterpart on Thursday evening, also said Tehran-UAE ties are of special importance for both countries.

The two top diplomats discussed the pursuit of a growing trend in bilateral relations, as well as regional and international developments.

The Iranian foreign minister described relations between Iran and the UAE as traditional and positive, saying: Tehran-UAE ties are of special importance for both countries and we are confident that a good trend in improving relations will lead to the full development of bilateral ties.

Amir Abdollahian said resolving some executive problems between the two countries will facilitate and help develop trade ties, and expressed hope that with the cooperation between the two governments, the problems that currently exist in the financial exchanges will be overcome based on mutual relations and international law.

Referring to the forthcoming nuclear talks, the top Iranian diplomat said: We are ready to reach a good agreement and believe that the other parties must return to their commitments.

The UAE foreign minister also asked Amir Abdollahian about his health and wished his Iranian counterpart excellent health and full recovery.

Referring to the problems in trade exchanges between the two countries, the UAE foreign minister said that the existing problems are being studied by experts from the two countries and efforts are being made to resolve them.

Referring to environmental crises, the UAE top diplomat called for global and regional cooperation to solve environmental problems, adding that the UAE is ready to cooperate with regional countries in this regard.

Amir Abdollahian called the UAE foreign minister’s visit to the region, including Damascus, a positive step.

The Emirati foreign minister invited his Iranian counterpart to visit the UAE. Amir Abdollahian for his part invited the top Emirati diplomat to visit the Islamic Republic.

The foreign ministers of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United Arab Emirates referred to the fact that the new Iranian administration prioritizes relations with neighbors, saying that increasing dialogue and cooperation among regional countries is important and stressed the need to strengthen this process.

Iran and Russia call for joint fight against terrorism

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The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has, in a meeting with his Russian counterpart, said regional problems like terrorism, military aggression and refugee crisis will end if extra-regional powers stop interfering in the region and if regional countries work together.

Ali Shamkhani, on the sidelines of the third security conference in New Delhi, held talks with secretary of Russia’s Security Council Nikolai Patrushev on Thursday.

In the meeting, Shamkhani said given the ethnic and religious fabric of Afghan society, the solution to the crisis in the country is the continuation of inter-Afghan dialogue and the formation of an inclusive government based on the demographic realities in Afghanistan.

Shamkhani further said the expansion of relations with Russia in all areas, especially security and joint fight against terrorism, has a decisive role in regional stability. He said Iran and Russia are the targets of the US conspiracies and sanctions and must bring down the illegal and inhumane sanctions regime of the United States through boosting their cooperation.

Patrushev also expressed pleasure at the expanding ties between Tehran and Moscow in various fields and said the continuation of the relations will benefit both nations. Patrushev referred to the constructive impact of the third regional security meeting on bringing closer the views of the countries on common threats and ways to deal with them.

He said regional cooperation is not just an option but an inevitable path to sustainable security.

He also said Afghanistan can get out of the current situation and have a better future if other regional nations work together in concert to restore stability to the country.

Iran FM praises Algeria’s no vote for Israel membership in AU

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Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in a phone talk with his Algerian counterpart, said Algeria’s rational stance on Syria’s return to the Arab League is valuable.

Amir Abdollahian and Ramtane Lamamra talked over the trend of bilateral ties and issues of mutual interest regionally and internationally.

Referring to the good political relations between Iran and Algeria, the Iranian foreign minister expressed hope that the bilateral ties would further develop in all fields.

Amir Abdollahian described the recent meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the two countries as a fruitful step and said holding this meeting will create a good opportunity to improve the level of trade relations between the two countries.

He also spoke of Algeria’s negative vote for the Zionist regime’s membership in the African Union. The Iranian foreign minister praised Algeria’s move and said the country has acted wisely and logically. Amir Abdollahian also said the move and also Algeria’s rational stance on Syria’s return to the Arab League are valuable.

He expressed hope that the upcoming meeting of the Arab League will have important benefits for the Islamic ummah.

The Algerian foreign minister also wished Amir Abdollahian health and full recovery from Covid and expressed hope that the world will soon hear good news regarding the end of the pandemic and also about the successful end of the Iran nuclear talks.

Lamamra referred to the meeting of the Iran-Algeria Chamber of Commerce. He said holding the meeting is positive for developing trade relations and boosting exchanges between the two countries.

The Algerian Foreign Minister, while formally inviting Amir Abdollahian to visit his country, stressed the importance of forming a political committee and a relations monitoring committee.

The two top diplomats described the process of political and parliamentary relations between Tehran and Algiers as positive and constructive. They also pointed to the recent developments in Libya, emphasizing that the problems there can be solved with the presence of Libyan groups and without foreign interference.

Russia: US should revise sanction policy against Iran

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“The utmost must be done so that the negotiations ensure the restoration of what’s known as the ‘factory settings’ of the JCPOA. <…> Political will is now required,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stated on Thursday.

“From the US side, it is important to prove and demonstrate in practice that the sanctions policy which has been carried out over the recent years is being reviewed and the Iranian side is given the opportunity to reap those economic advantages that are included in the package of agreements that lies at the heart of the JCPOA,” the diplomat added.

According to Ryabkov, in the interests of reviving the JCPOA, Iran should implement a number of activities which allows other countries to record the absence of any deviations from the nuclear deal’s parameters.

“The Iranian side must carry out a series of measures to make it clear to all the other parties to the agreements, and, of course, to the IAEA that there aren’t any deviations from the parameters of the JCPOA in the nuclear field,” he noted.

The Russian deputy foreign minister stressed that sides should return to the implementation of the agreements on the Iranian nuclear deal in its original form. In order to accomplish this, it is important to continue negotiations “on the basis of the progress achieved by June 20” in Vienna, when the parties suspended consultations.

“There is a solid base there, and there are reasonable solutions to a number of essential aspects. But, of course, not everything was agreed on back then,” Ryabkov explained.

The JCPOA was signed between Iran, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (Russia, the United Kingdom, China, the United States and France) and Germany in 2015. In 2018, then US President Donald Trump announced Washington’s withdrawal from the deal. Incumbent US President Joe Biden has repeatedly made it clear that Washington was ready to return to the JCPOA. Talks involving Iran and the P5+1 (Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, France and the US) on restoring the nuclear deal in its original form have been underway in Vienna since April. So far, six rounds of consultations have taken place, the next round is set to begin on November 29.

Iran: Over 97 million doses of Covid vaccine administered

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The shots include 55,500,300 first doses and 41,506,171 second doses. Meanwhile, 393,865 people have received a third dose, known as the booster shot.

Over the past day alone, 772,237 doses were administered. Despite the high-speed vaccination process across Iran, Covid keeps claiming lives.

The Health Ministry announced on Thursday, over the past 24 hours, the disease killed 123 people, pushing the total fatalities since the pandemic’s beginning to 127,809. Meanwhile 7.539 new cases have been logged during the past day.

The daily death toll is however down compared with some two months ago when Iran was in the grip of the pandemic’s fifth wave.

Meanwhile, Authorities say most of those killed by Covid are unvaccinated people. They are urging all those who have not been inoculated to get their jabs as soon as possible to further bring down the deaths from the disease.

Iran’s First Vice President Mohamamd Mokhber warned on Thursday that ignoring health protocols could thwart all the efforts and achievements of the government and the healthcare staff across Iran in the fight against Covid. Mokhber urged the media and the press to give accurate information to citizens so that health protocols are not relaxed.

There’s been no change in the number of cities marked red in terms of risk from Covid in recent days. Now 33 cities are red in Iran. Red spots are areas where the risk is at its highest level. The rest of them are orange, yellow and blue.

Brain-dead kid’s girl organs save 4 lives

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They gave their consent after 1.5-year-old Sama went into a vegetative state due to drowning.

Sama had been kept in ICU in the southern city of Bandar Abbas for several days after the accident.

After the arrangements were made, her heart was transferred to a Tehran hospital where a 22-month-old baby received the organ.

Sama’s kidneys and liver were also transplanted to three other children in the southern city of Shiraz.

Saudi warplanes pound Yemen, capital hit

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Riyadh-led coalition aircraft conducted airstrikes on al-Sayanah area in the district of al-Thawra and on al-Hafa area in the district of al-Sabeen, both located in Sana’a, Yemen Press Agency (YPA) reported.

The war coalition also attacked Raymat Humaid area in Sanhan district of Sana’a province and Sihar and Harf Sufyan districts, which are located in Sa’adah and Amran provinces, respectively.

The latest round of Saudi-led onslaught against Yemenis comes as the Yemeni Army’s Missile Force launched ballistic missiles toward the southwestern Saudi region of Asir and also pounded the positions of Saudi-backed mercenaries in the Yemeni provinces of Ma’rib and Ta’izz.

Saudi Arabia, accompanied by its allies, launched the war on Yemen in 2015, to bring the Mansour Hadi government back to power and crush the popular Ansarullah movement.

Instead of achieving the professed goals, however, the Saudi-led 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.

Meanwhile, Yemeni Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf Abdullah called on the international community to address the root causes of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, represented by the Saudi-led aggression and siege.

The Yemeni humanitarian file should be given priority and not be compromised or used as a political card, Abdullah said during a meeting with the head of the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sana’a, Mathew Leslie, on Wednesday.

The chief Yemeni diplomat called on the UN Security Council to pay attention to the Yemeni people’s suffering and find appropriate solutions to end the suffering.

The Saudi-led war on Yemen has been accompanied by a tight siege that has led to fuel shortages in Yemen, devastated daily life in the impoverished country, and even prevented the entry of medicines and medical supplies into the country.

Meantime, according to the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC), the Saudi-led coalition is detaining three Yemeni tankers carrying more than 80,000 tons of diesel, preventing them from reaching the port of Hodeidah despite the fact that the ships have obtained UN permits and were inspected in Djibouti.

In a statement, the YPC announced the tankers have been detained for 81 days of “unprecedented piracy.”

“All tankers have completed all UNVIM procedures in Djibouti and obtained United Nations permits,” the company explained, stressing that the cargo “complies with the conditions contained in the concept of verification and inspection operations.”

The YPC pointed out that in the face of “criminal piracy and its catastrophic repercussions,” no serious and tangible action has been taken by the UN, despite the fact that it is the international body concerned with facilitating the entry of imports of basic commodities.

Azerbaijani, Armenian FMs meet in France

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According to a statement from the France’s Foreign Ministry, Jean-Yves Le Drian held separate meetings with Jeyhun Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan, the Armenian Foreign Minister. They then had a trilateral meeting as part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group.

France seeks to strengthen the dialogue between the parties and establish lasting peace in the South Caucasus, added the statement.

It was also noted that Le Drian wishes to continue the dialogue with Azerbaijan and Armenia.

France has faced criticism for abandoning its neutrality and supporting Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as one of the co-chair countries of the Minsk Group, which was set up by the OSCE.

The Minsk Group, co-chaired by France, Russia and the United States, was formed in 1992 to find a peaceful solution to the conflict between Baku and Yerevan over the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region. However, for years it has been unable to provide a solution.

Previously, Azerbaijan’s parliament called for France to be stripped of its mediation role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to punish the French Senate for adopting a resolution backing the region’s independence.

Relations between the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions.

New clashes erupted on Sept. 27, 2020, with the Armenian army attacking civilians and Azerbaijani forces and violating humanitarian cease-fire agreements.

The fighting ended with a Russia-brokered agreement on Nov. 10, 2020.

During the 44-day conflict, Azerbaijan liberated several cities and 300 settlements and villages that were under the Armenian occupation for almost 30 years.

Iran VP calls for acceleration of booster covid jabs

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Mokhber made the comments during a Thursday meeting with specialized committees of the National Taskforce Against the Coronavirus.

The vice president called for attention to health protocols saying that several other countries are facing a new wave of the pandemic, despite mass vaccination.

“Although vaccines are being administered fast in our country, failure to pay attention to health protocols can offset efforts and achievements of the government, the efforts of the health personnel and the cooperation of the people,” he warned.

“Fortunately, thanks to extensive efforts by the government to import vaccines and the work by Iranian producers, there is no problem in terms of the availability of vaccines in the country and the process of administering the third dose of the jab should be sped up based on the announced priorities.”

During the meeting, the health minister also briefed participants on the situation on the ground in different provinces and their number of infections and deaths.

Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry offered its report on the plan for smart management of the coronavirus disease at the National Taskforce Against the Coronavirus.

Iran has passed five waves of the Covid pandemic with officials warning of the sixth wave. The respiratory disease has so far claimed over 127,000 lives in the country.

Iran victim of terror, inhuman sanctions: Rights official

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“Some 17,000 innocent Iranian were killed by the MKO terrorist group whose members freely travel in European safe havens,” tweeted Kazem Gharibabadi, the deputy Judiciary chief for international affairs and the secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council.

“Five Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated; the great hero of fighting terrorism (Major General Qassem Soleimani) was assassinated by the US regime; Iran is under the United States’ inhumane sanctions,” he added.

“Still, those who have turned a blind eye to these merciless practices are introduced as supporters of human rights and, instead, Iran is accused of violating human rights!” he said.

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