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Attack on Iran’s pavilion in Germany book fair foiled

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IFP Media Wire
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A small number of MKO members attempted to stir chaos at Iran’s national pavilion, but failed, thanks to the vigilance of the pavilion staff and immediate presence of the Book Fair officials and the Frankfurt Police. 

The MKO members, who had gathered in front of the pavilion, were forced out of the Book Fair.

Frankfurt Book Fair, which had kicked off on October 19, was closed today (October 24).

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where they received support from then dictator Saddam Hussein.

The notorious outfit has carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials for several decades.

In 2012, the US State Department removed the MKO from its list of designated terrorist organizations under intense lobbying by groups associated to Saudi regime and other regimes adversarial to Iran.

A few years ago, MKO members were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and were later sent to Albania.

Those members, who have managed to escape, have revealed MKO’s scandalous means of access to money, almost exclusively coming from Riyadh.

The MKO terrorist group specified the targets as martyred Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who commanded the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi.

The terrorist organization said it would “welcome” their assassination, adding that it desired for the ranking officials to “join” Asadollah Lajevardi, Tehran’s former chief prosecutor, and Ali Sayyad-Shirazi, a former commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces during Iraq’s 1980-88 war against Iran.

Earlier in June 2019, a leaked audio of a phone conversation between two members of MKO, revealed Saudi regime has colluded with the MKO elements to frame Iran for the tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf.

In the audio, which is being released by the Iran Front Page for the first time, Shahram Fakhteh, an official member and the person in charge of MKO’s cyber operations, is heard talking with a US-based MKO sympathizer named Daei-ul-Eslam in Persian, IFP news reported.

In this conversation, the two elements discuss the MKO’s efforts to introduce Iran as the culprit behind the tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf, and how the Saudis contacted them to pursue the issue.

“In the past week we did our best to blame the [Iranian] regime for the (oil tanker) blasts. Saudis have called Sister Maryam (Rajavi)’s office to follow up on the results, [to get] a conclusion of what has been done, and the possible consequences,” Fakhteh is heard saying.

“I guess this can have different consequences. It can send the case to the UN Security Council or even result in military intervention. It can have any consequence,” Daei-ul-Eslam says.

Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on June 13, 2019 and an earlier attack on four oil tankers off the UAE’s Fujairah port on May 12, 2019, escalated tensions in West Asia and raised the prospect of a military confrontation between Iran and the United States.

The US, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have rushed to blame Iran for the incidents, with the US military releasing a grainy video it claimed shows Iranian forces in a patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from the side of a Japanese-owned tanker which caught fire in 2019.

It later released some images of the purported Iranian operation after the video was seriously challenged by experts and Washington’s own allies.

The MKO which is said to be a cult which turns humans into obedient robots, turned against Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and has carried out several terrorist attacks killing senior officials in Iran; yet the West which says cultism is wrong and claims to be against terrorism, supports this terrorist group officially.

After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the MKO began its enmity against Iran by killing over 17,000 Iranians and terrorist activities. Several members of the terrorist group and its leaders are living in France now, freely conducting terrorist activities.

The MKO terrorist group has martyred 17,161 Iranian citizens, including late president Mohammad Ali Rajayee, former prime minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar, late Head of Supreme Judicial Council Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, late Deputy Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff Ali Sayyad Shirazi, and 27 legislators, as well as four nuclear scientists.

 

Iran, Iraq Launch Visa Waiver Program

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian Mothers Can Now Pass Nationality to Children

“Iranians arriving in Iraq through airports in Baghdad and Najaf, as well as Iraqis travelling to Iran will no longer be required to obtain visas,” said Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Iraj Masjedi.

“They will only need to have passports,” the ambassador added.

He added visitors will also be able to travel to Iraq via the flight routes mentioned above and return to Iran by land.

The top diplomat noted Iranian travelers can stay in Iraq for a period of one month, which could be extended.

He also said, at the moment, Iran runs 90 flights to Iraq weekly, but a rise in the number of flights should be approved at a joint meeting with the Iraqi side

Meanwhile the Iraqi Interior Ministry had already announced that visas would be issued to Iranians upon arrival on Iraqi soil.

“Based on the authorization of the government of Iraq, issuing one-month extendable visas for Iranian nationals, who enter Iraq by air, has entered the execution stage.” the ministry said.

Tehran to Host Forum on Afghanistan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Tuesday the event will not be a forum for rivalry; rather, he added, it will serve to make Afghanistan’s neighbours work together to help Afghans determine their own future.

He said it is up to Afghan people to determine their own destiny, adding other countries, including Iran, will only have a “facilitating” role.

“The conference on Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries opens in Tehran on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at the foreign ministry in Tehran, bringing together Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries plus Russia,” said Khatibzadeh.

He said the event will be inaugurated by Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi.

“Our top priority is to safeguard Afghan people’s rights, and we have made every effort, so far, not to sever our trade-economic relations with Afghan people,” the spokesman said.

“We have also told the ruling elite [in Afghanistan] that they should set the stage for a stable political and security situation,” he added.

“Unfortunately, under the current circumstances, we are concerned about a growth in terrorism in Afghanistan,” he explained.

“Iran, as a responsible player, seeks to help meet Afghan people’s demands,” he said.

 

No Orphan without Sponsor in Iran: Official

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Morteza Bakhtiari, the head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation, made the comment at a gathering aimed at promoting a national program to support orphans.

“Since the beginning of the implementation of this program, the number of sponsors of orphans and the needy has risen from 721,000 to 1.1 million,” he added.

The official noted more than Rls. 190 billion ($76 mn) was donated to orphans and the needy by those taking part in the program called Charity Plan.

“Just in one case, one of our major sponsors has formed a network of 800 benefactors, supporting around 137 thousand orphans,” he explained.

He said the government and Parliament are also backing the foundation in the implementation of the charity program.

Iran slams UN rights report as “ill-intentioned”

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IFP Media Wire
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Kazem Gharibabadi made the remarks on Monday following a new report prepared by Javaid Rehman, the so-called United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.

“At a time when the world is suffering from the attitudes and policies of such Western countries like the United States, issuance of such a report against the Islamic Republic, which, itself, is a victim of these countries’ actions is a completely political and diversionary measure,” he said.

The “ill-intentioned” report, the official lamented, had intentionally ignored various instances of extensive progress in the area of human rights in Iran.

The so-called UN official had also used “mendacious claims” made by foreign-based anti-Iran terrorist groups, which themselves are guilty of violating human rights, to devise the report’s central planks, Gharibabadi added.

“The Islamic Republic constantly moves towards enhancement and betterment of human rights, and this is based on religious guidelines not international obligations or political reports,” he noted.

Zahra Ershadi, Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN, had also slammed the report earlier in the day.

Appointment of a special rapporteur for Iran, which was spearheaded by the West, especially Canada, was done on the basis of political motivations and against the interests of the Iranian nation, she had said.

Afghanistan says willing to buy oil from Iran

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IFP Media Wire
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It came during a video conference between ACCI officials and Iranian commercial attaché Ebrahim Hosseini. The participants also discussed general trade issues between the two countries.

Kabul is currently struggling to resolve its ongoing issue with petroleum shortages and hopes that Tehran will be able to led a hand. Yet, for this to happen, Iran will have to help its neighbour in resolving a number of issues.

Kabul asked Hosseini to help Afghanistan with them.

“It is imperative for both countries to strengthen economic relations and promote trade and Afghan petroleum importers are in dire need of being provided with the required facilities by the Iranian government,” he stated.

The Iranian commercial attaché vowed to help Kabul to create the conditions necessary for launching the oil trade by “eliminating the existing challenges” and building the facilities required.

It is so far unclear how Kabul plans to pay for the purchase as a major portion of the government’s reserves was frozen in the US following the Taliban takeover in August. Since then, no foreign state, including Iran, has officially recognised the acting Taliban government. In addition, many countries designated the Taliban as a terrorist organisation, hence any taxes and duties paid to its coffers due to trade with the country might fall into the category of terrorist funding and result in criminal charges.

Kabul has called on the world’s nations, and specifically the US, to unlock Afghanistan’s reserves and recognise the new government after the Taliban seized the capital and most of the country practically without a fight. The international community is still considering how to proceed with regard to Afghanistan and its Taliban government, which claims to have severed ties with terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. So far, a plan is being considered to launch humanitarian relief efforts to help desperate Afghans.

Iran’s first round of beach polo competitions in Gilan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Polo, as a sport, dates back several thousand years in Iran. It is played in about 80 countries, and in Iran, after a long break, the first national polo championship with 6 teams was held in Tehran in 2018 with the host team becoming the champion of the tournament. 

Currently, there are about 50 polo players in Gilan, with 10 playing in the men’s section and eight in the women’s. 

Gilan has two polo fields in Talesh and Rasht, the provincial capital. 

Hamzeh Ilkhanizadeh is known as the father of modern polo and the polo ambassador in Iran. Ilkhanizadeh is attending the first round of the national beach polo championship in Talesh, Gilan, as a special guest.

Putin, Johnson talk Iran nuclear deal on phone

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IFP Media Wire
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“The leaders spoke in favor of preserving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program, which is a major factor of ensuring security and maintaining nuclear nonproliferation,” the Kremlin press service said.

It was Putin’s first telephone contact with Johnson since May 8, 2020.

The JCPOA Joint Commission has had several offline meetings in Vienna since April to find ways to restore the nuclear deal in its original form. The sides discuss prospects for the United States’ possible return to the deal, steps needed to ensure full compliance with the deal’s terms by Iran, and issues of lifting the anti-Iranian sanctions.

The JCPOA, also known as the Iran nuclear deal, 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. Under the deal, Iran undertook to curb its nuclear activities and place them under total control of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in exchange of abandonment of the sanctions imposed previously by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union and the United States over its nuclear program.

The future of the deal was called in question after the United States’ unilateral pullout in May 2018 and Washington’s unilateral oil export sanctions against Teheran. Iran argued that all other participants, Europeans in the first place, were ignoring some of their own obligations in the economic sphere, thus making the deal in its current shape senseless. This said, it began to gradually scale down its commitments under the deal.

Iran keeps up vaccination pace with about 954,000 new shots

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The Health Ministry announced on Monday that a total of over 81,360,000 Covid-19 shots have been administered since the beginning of the outbreak.

Iran was long criticized for its slow pace of inoculations, but it has intensified imports and domestic production of different types of Covid-19 vaccine over the past months in a bid to contain the outbreak.

The ministry’s latest figures also show that 140 more people have lost their lives to the deadly respiratory disease compared to 171 fatalities reported a day earlier. Over 7,500 new infection cases were also reported on Monday.

The number of daily fatalities has been below 200 for several days now but health authorities are warning that the increasing number of infection cases could mean that another wave of the disease could be looming on the horizon.

Iran has so far been hit by five Covid-19 waves with official figures putting the total death toll at over 125,360 since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.

Iranian MP calls for reciprocal action against S Korea over frozen assets

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Mojtaba Yousefi, who is a member of the presiding board of Iran’s parliament, said Tehran must freeze Seoul’s assets in response.

He also said, “Had we done this before, a country like that would not have treated us this way.”
Yousefi is the representative of the southern city of Ahvaz in Iran’s Parliament.

He added South Korea is making mischievous moves against Iranian nation with an ancient civilization. Yousefi pointed out that South Korea tries to make history and portray itself as a great country by producing TV series.

Meanwhile, a group of Iranians have signed an online petition, demanding the government freeze South Korean assets in Iran.

South Korea has frozen billions of dollars in Iranian assets, claiming it can’t release them due to the US sanctions. Seoul has repeatedly said it will unlock the frozen funds, but it has failed to make good on its promise, drawing harsh criticism from Iran.

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