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Iraq’s PM survives ‘assassination attempt’

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A drone laden with explosives targeted the residence of al-Kadhimi in Baghdad early on Sunday in what the Iraqi military called an attempted assassination, but announced Kadhimi escaped unhurt.

The attack, which security sources stated injured several members of Kadhimi’s personal protection detail, came after protests in the Iraqi capital over the result of a general election last month turned violent. Demonstrations turned violent on Friday when protesters pelted police with stones near the Green Zone, injuring several officers. The police responded with tear gas and live gunfire, killing at least one demonstrator, according to security and hospital sources in Baghdad.

The United States Department of State condemned the attack and offered assistance with the investigation.

“This apparent act of terrorism, which we strongly condemn, was directed at the heart of the Iraqi state,” spokesman Ned Price said in a statement, adding, “We are in close touch with the Iraqi security forces charged with upholding Iraq’s sovereignty and independence and have offered our assistance as they investigate this attack.”

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on Kadhimi’s residence in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign embassies.

A statement from the Iraqi military said that the attack targeted Kadhimi’s residence and that he was in “good health”. It provided no further detail.

Kadhimi’s official Twitter account said the prime minister was safe and called for calm.

Two government officials added Kadhimi’s residence had been hit by at least one explosion and confirmed to Reuters that the prime minister was safe.

Security sources told Reuters that six members of Kadhimi’s personal protection force stationed outside his residence had been injured.

Western diplomats based nearby in the Green Zone stated they heard explosions and gunfire in the area.

Iran’s army launches Zolfaghar 1400 military drills

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The drills are being conducted jointly by the Infantry, armored and mechanized infantry divisions of the army’s ground force, the air defense systems of the army’s defense force and the surface and subsurface vessels of the army’s naval force backed by fighter jets and drones of the air force.

The drills spokesman Rea Admiral Mahmoud Mousavi said the Iranian forces successfully tapped electronic, counter-electronic and signal intelligence of the hostile forces using eavesdropping systems and different Iranian surveillance drones including Ababil 3 and Yasir as well as surveillance aircraft.

He said stable communications amid electronic warfare was a strongpoint of the Iranian forces during the exercises.

“Another scenario that will be exercised during Zolfaghar 1400 drills will be monitoring and the evaluation of the country’s airspace and the general area of the drills in the waters south of the country by the air defense forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army and firing operations by air defense systems to counter hostile targets and air patrol operations by the pilots and drones of the Army’s air force,” Mousavi said.

“The message the army’s Zolfaghar maneuvers convey to regional countries is preparedness for the establishment of peace and friendly ties using intra-regional potential, as history shows other extra-regional countries have been war-mongering and destabilizing players and have brought to the west Asia region nothing but insecurity, war and occupation.”

Iran raps Europe double-standards on human rights

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In reaction to holding a meeting on the situation of human rights in Iran by the terrorist group MKO in the Italian Senate, Secretary of Human Rights Headquarters of the Iranian Judiciary Kazem Gharibabadi condemned the measure.

He urged Italy to stop the double standards in dealing with terrorism and human rights.

The terrorist group has killed over 17,000 innocent Iranians but is freely traveling in European capitals, he underlined.

The group holds ridiculous human rights meetings with the support of European sovereign institutions, he added.

Such measures are clear examples of selective and instrumental treatment of human rights, as well as countering terrorism by Western states, he noted.

He called on the Italian government to strongly criticize the senate’s move and abide by its counterterrorism commitments.

Iran, Uzbekistan to forge closer trade, technological ties

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IFP Editorial Staff
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One of the events to be held during the 3-day trip is the second Iran-Uzbekistan trade-technology meeting. The first meeting was held back in 2019 when a meeting of the two countries’ joint commission was also underway in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.

The upcoming trip supported by the Science and Technology Department of the Presidential Office as well as Iran’s Trade Promotion Center will also feature joint trade meetings with peer Uzbek companies as well as industrial and trade visits to the country’s technological infrastructure.

Representatives of the companies travelling to Uzbekistan can also visit an innovation exhibit there.

As a key economic hub, Uzbekistan has served as a friendly country over the past years and Iran has sought to forge closer trade relations with it.

Accordingly, collaboration in the domains of technology and innovation between the two countries will help enhance bilateral ties in those areas.

Iranian Film Festival underway in France

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IFP Media Wire
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The festival was inaugurated with Christophe Tardieu, secretary general of the French state television group, French film enthusiasts and people of Chantilly in attendance.

While welcoming the guests on behalf of herself as well as the officials and representatives of this city, Mayor of Chantilly Isabelle Wojtowiez said, “I feel happy with the presence of Iranian directors in this city. Iranian cinema is known to us and we are happy to hold such a festival in Chantilly”.

Meanwhile, Tardieu described the Iranian cinema as exceptional, adding that it is very important the cinema has accomplished a lot in prestigious festivals around the world with the country being under sanctions.

He underlined the need to continue the Iranian Film Festival in the coming years and said Iranian directors are great artists in making films about the Iran-Iraq war and family issues, and “I, as a member of the jury who saw the films, believe the films were very good quality wise”.

The festival, which began on November 4 and will run until November 7, aims to introduce the talented directors of Iranian cinema and it’s being held in the two parts of competitive and non-competitive.

Abolfazl Jalili, director and cinematographer, is the Iranian chairman of the festival jury. Meanwhile, Frédéric Bonnaud, director of the French Cinematheque, is the French chairman of the festival jury. Sarah Derval, French film editor, Christophe Tardieu, secretary general of the French state television group, and Marie Masmonteil, film producer and president of the Association of Independent Producers of French Cinema, are members of the jury of the festival.

Russia: JCPOA stalemate can only end through talks

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Ulyanov made the remark in a tweet. He said the US has not only exerted the so-called maximum pressure on Iran, but it’s also placed more sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

He said that the only way to break this vicious cycle is that the resumption of the Vienna talks would pave the ground for the return of the US and Iran to full compliance with the JCPOA.

The Russian envoy expressed confidence that none of the participants in the upcoming negotiations in Vienna will take an action that would thwart the talks.

The Vienna talks between Iran and the other remaining signatories to the JCPOA, namely Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, will begin on November 29 with the aim of reviving the Iran nuclear deal.

The deal plunged into chaos after the US unilateral withdrawal under former president Donald Trump in 2018.

Chinese FM: US to blame for JCPOA obstacles

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Wang Yi, in a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart, expressed hope that the US will compensate its mistake by fully removing the anti-Iran sanctions so that the nuclear negotiations will produce good results in light of Iran’s positive approach.

The Chinese foreign minister also welcomed the continuation of the nuclear talks and announced Beijing’s support for them.

Also referring to Afghanistan, he voiced hope that the third conference of Afghanistan’s neighbors in China will result in the formation of a broad-based and stable government in the war-hit country with the active participation of its neighbors including Iran.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in his turn, voiced hope the US and the European signatories to the Iran nuclear deal will enter the Vienna talks realistically so that an agreement is reached swiftly.

He added that the US cannot push ahead with its failed maximum pressure policy and economic terrorism and at the same time claim it wants talks and an agreement.

Amir Abdollahian also referred to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s performing of its duties in Iran. He expressed confidence that cooperation between Iran and the IAEA will continue smoothly in line with agreements and rules.

On Afghanistan, the Iranian foreign minister underscored the necessity of forming an inclusive government there.

Amir Abdollahian also thanked the Chinese government for sending 120 million doses of Covid vaccine to Iran and expressed satisfaction over the expanding ties between Tehran and Beijing.

The top Iranian diplomat also said the Islamic Republic supports China’s global initiative for sustainable development. He underlined Iran’s close cooperation with China in this regard.

IRGC arrests ringleaders of anti-Iran group

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IFP Media Wire
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The IRGC’s Imam Hassan Mojtaba base in Alborz Province announced in a statement on Saturday that its forces had taken into custody the ringleaders of the so-called White Uprising Movement, who had extensively planned to disrupt public security and order, carry out acts of sabotage, and create riots in the province and the country.

They distributed night letters in the streets, deceived some naive people and hired thugs to implement their schemes, it further said.

“From the beginning, all their actions and movements were monitored thanks to the vigilance of intelligence and security forces, and in a timely and revolutionary action, they were arrested and sent to prison during a complex operation by the unknown soldiers of Imam Hassan Mojtaba base,” the statement read.

“All elements affiliated to the White Uprising have been identified by the province’s intelligence community, and the movements of dissident groups are being closely monitored,” it added.

The statement underlined that the security of the people is the IRGC forces’ redline and that they will spare no efforts to maintain tranquility.

Security and intelligence forces in Iran dismantled 78 gangs in the first 6 months of the current Iranian year (started on March 21) which smuggled weapons and ammunition to the country.

During the operations, 2,170 weapons, including 473 guns, 685 hunting weapons, 782 small arms and 230 other types of weapons were discovered and 201 people were arrested and handed over to the judicial authority.

In the latest related development in September, the Iranian intelligence forces confiscated a weapons cargo in Khuzestan province, Southwestern Iran.

Iranian security forces identified and dismantled an anti-security group in Southwestern Iran.

Dozens of weapons were seized in the operations which was carried out in the Southwestern border region of Khuzestan Province, Southwestern Iran.

Prominent Iranian cartoonist Derambakhsh dies at 79

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IFP Media Wire
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Born in 1942 in Shiraz, Derambakhsh was a cartoonist and graphic artist.

His works are included in the collections of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran, and the Cartoonmuseum Basel, Switzerland, as well as in the collections of museums in Bulgaria, Japan, Turkey, Poland, and Germany.

He was made a Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2014.

His books include Siyah (Black Miniatures), a fusion of Persian miniature style and black humor, Olampic e Khande (Laughter Olympics), Samphony e Khotoot (A Symphony of Lines), and Agar DaVinci Mara Dide Bood (If Da Vinci Had Met Me).

Iranian Army to hold new drills

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the four forces of the Army, namely the Ground Force, the Anti-air Defense Force, the Navy and the Air Force will participate in the operational phase of the drills. Sayyari added that the exercises will happen in an area of more than one million square kilometers in Iran’s southeast.

He added that the war games will cover the area from Jask to Govatr Port in the provinces of Hormozgan as well as Sistan and Balouchestan to the east of the Strait of Hormuz to the 10th parallel north of the Indian Ocean and parts of the Red Sea. Iran has beefed up its military might in recent years amid repeated threat of war from the US and the Israeli regime. Tehran says it will give a crushing response to any aggression.

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