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Iran Calls on US, European Vessels to Leave Persian Gulf

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In a meeting with Pierre Vandier, the Chief of Staff of the French Navy, Khanzadi hit out at Western troops for their presence in regional waters.

“We do not understand why foreign forces should be present in the Persian Gulf,” said the senior Iranian commander.

“The presence of American and European vessels off our coastal waters should be suspended,” said Khanzadi, who has traveled to Réunion (a French department in the Indian Ocean) west of Madagascar Island to attend the Seventh Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) hosted by France.
Rear Admiral Khanzadi also touched upon Iran’s geostrategic situation in the region.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran is located in a special location in the north Indian Ocean region, and many geopolitics experts describe Iran as the heart of the earth,” said Khanzadi in his meeting with the top French commander held on the sidelines of the IONS.

He said Iran closely monitors the movements of “coalition” forces in the regional waters.

“Today, a group of American and European, namely French, vessels are present in the Persian Gulf region, but we closely watch and monitor all of their movements and their vessels, even from remote distances,” said the Iranian commander.

He reiterated that security in any naval region should be ensured by its regional countries.
The French navy commander, in turn, said he would convey Iran’s message to Paris.

He also touched upon Iran’ performance during its periodical chairmanship of the IONS, saying the Naval Force of the Iranian Army was able to manage the symposium in the best way possible over the past three years despite the coronavirus pandemic.

He also said that the US under Trump invited all its allies to come to the region and increase the pressure on Iran, but that France distanced itself from Washington’s position.

Trump Virus, COVID-19 Responsible for Iran’s Economic Situation: Rouhani

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Rouhani said a recent analysis has shed light on the likely situation of Iran’s economy if there was no Donald Trump administration in the US and there was no coronavirus pandemic.

“Based on the analysis, if there were no Trump and COVID-19 viruses, today the country’s economic growth would have been 4.1 percent excluding oil and 8.3 percent including oil revenues. The inflation would have been 11.5 percent and the US dollar exchange rate would have been lower than 50,000 rials. The investment growth would have been 4.7 percent and the GDP figure would have been 22 percent more than what we are witnessing now,” Rouhani said during the Wednesday meeting of his cabinet.

The president also stressed that his government has done everything at its power to counter the economic war and the coronavirus pandemic.

“The 12th government has spared no effort in the course of getting the nuclear deal implemented and removing the sanctions and has exploited every single opportunity, hour and minute in the process,” he said.

The president added that the current US administration, in its pre-election campaign, repeatedly dismissed the former administration’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal as a mistake and acknowledged that sanctions lead nowhere.

Rouhani, however, said Trump’s crimes and economic terrorism against Iran continue unabated, even after the change in the US administration. He said President Joe Biden would betray American’s vote if its follows suite on Donald Trump’s policy.

“If Biden takes the implementation of the nuclear deal lightly, he has betrayed the vote Americans cast for him,” he said.

“Anti-Iran accusations are baseless and unjustified as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is a proof that shows Iran is not after nuclear weapons”.

The president said the Trump administration went beyond imposing sanctions, and even an economic war, on Iran.

“Is there is a war, you know about, in which supplies of medicine for patients were prevented? Despite the huge difficulties, the Iranian people resisted well in the face of this incessant terrorism, and today, if a number of issues are resolved, people can claim their inalienable right,” he said.

Iran has completed six rounds of talks on revival of the 2015 nuclear deal in the Austrian capital Vienna. Iran says it will return to compliance with its obligations under the accord once other signatories, especially the US, do the same. Iran says a key step would be removal of anti-Iran sanctions in a verifiable manner. But the US has so far refused to end the restrictions.

Iran Govt. Says Will Review Protocols on Dispatching Reporters on Business Trips

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Iran Govt. Says Will Review Protocols on Dispatching Reporters on Business Trips

“I never expected such a bitter presence among ISNA staff,” said Ali Rabiei, as he addressed a commemoration ceremony for Mahshad Karimi, the environment correspondent of ISNA news agency, who was one of the victims of the incident.

“Several messages must have been surely conveyed by this bitter incident. Definitely, policy-making and a review of the protocols for dispatching reporters on business trips should be seriously pursued by occupational associations”.

The government spokesman highlighted the difficulties reporters and other media personnel face, saying the deaths of Mahshad Karimi and IRNA News Agency correspondent Reihaneh Yasini are cases in point.

Rabiee also touched on the death toll of 17,000 people in road traffic accidents in Iran and the deaths of the two reporters. The official said people should be educated, vehicles should be renewed and road policies should be amended to minimize loss of life on the roads.

“Today we are here to extend our condolence to the family of the bereaved,” he said.

“We sympathize with the bereaved families of the bus crash incident and honor the victims and apologize for any possible fault”.

“Mahshad Karimi and Reihaneh Yasini wrote to improve the lives and environment for the people. They wrote for the flowers, animals and every other thing that has a trace of life.The impression they made surely remains with us”.

Rabiee, accompanied with Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyed Reza Salehi Amri, had earlier visited the family of Mahshad Karimi to extend the government’s condolence on their loss.

Iran Govt. Says Will Review Protocols on Dispatching Reporters on Business Trips

It came after the head of the Department of Environment, whose organization had invited the reporters for news coverage of a project on revival of Orumiyeh Lake in West Azerbaijan Province, refused to apologize for what the families said choosing a faulty bus for the reporters’ trip. Eisa Kalantari claimed the bus had passed the necessary technical tests beforehand. This is while the vehicle reportedly overturned due to a faulty break system.

During the government officials’ meeting with the Karimi family, Mahshad Karimi’s father and his fiancé criticized Kalantari for his “insulting” comments and demanded the government to apologize.

“We expect you to prepare guidelines, to define principles, on reporters’ business trips so that a reporter knows, has a [safety] checklist, when on assignment, so that they can be assured of their health and safety, so that they know their rights. […] We pursue this through our occupational association and we expect you, as government, support our move,” added Ali Soltan Mohammade, also a reporter, whose wedding ceremony with the late Mahshad Karimi was planned for this week.

In response, Salehi Amiri, whose ministry is in charge of news agencies’ work, had pledged to prepare obligatory guidelines on reporters’ health and safety, while Rabiee pledged to apologize on behalf of the government.

Iranian Journalists Call for VP’s Resignation after Deadly Bus Crash

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The journalists who held the protest rally on Wednesday expressed their protest at the Department’s lack of accountability regarding the recent crash of the bus carrying journalists near Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran.

Earlier, Iran’s First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri expressed regret over the tragic incident and called on the relevant authorities to be brave enough to apologize.

“Those who were responsible must be accountable, and I will pursue the issue on behalf of journalists,” he said.

Rooyin: The First Traditional Textile Village in Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The village houses some 800 households. Men in the village often make ends meet through farming or maintaining orchards. And women are involved in traditional textile work as it is an ancestral tradition going back around 400 years.

The textiles woven in Rooyin include different types of wrappers, towels, handkerchiefs, sheets and fabric used to make shirts.

Around 300 villagers are directly involved in providing thread as well as dying, weaving and selling wrappers. They have also received the UNESCO’s originality seal in the field of wrapper weaving or traditional textile work.

 

 

Iranian, Armenian High-Tech Companies Discuss Promotion of Ties

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IFP Editorial Staff
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In this meeting, which was attended by a delegation of 50 Iranian knowledge-based companies, the participants explored avenues for the launch of joint production lines and enhancement of the existing collaborations.

The Iranian firma attended the event with the aim of developing the global market of Iranian-made products and services.

The Armenian market has a great capacity for accepting Iranian knowledge-based and creative companies, and business exchanges with the country can play an effective role in the development of bilateral relations.

Iranian, Armenian High-Tech Companies Discuss Promotion of TiesEarlier this year, a delegation of Iranian high-tech companies attended the first B2B meeting of Iran and Armenia, and the Tuesday event was the second of its kind, held with the purpose of promoting Tehran-Yerevan collaborations.

The event included an expert meeting between Iranian companies and 120 Armenian firms operating in different high-tech fields, an expert meeting between 15 Iranian companies and 40 Armenian firms working in the ICT field, and a visit to Armenia’s technology centres and infrastructure.

Iranian, Armenian High-Tech Companies Discuss Promotion of TiesThe companies attending this event operate in the fields of information and communication technologies, advanced materials, industrial machinery and equipment, medical equipment, etc.
In this event, 50 knowledge-based and creative companies accompanied Dr. Mahdi Eliasi, the deputy head for policy and development at the Iranian Vice Presidency for Science and Technology.

The Armenian parties participating in the meeting included Economy Minister Vahan Kerobyan, Deputy Economy Minister Narek Teryan, the Representative of the Industrial Organization of Armenia, and the Deputy Minister of High-Tech Industry.

Iranian Asylum Seeker Turns into Hero in Germany

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The incident took place on June 25 in the city of Wurzburg in the northern state of Bavaria. The 24-year-old Somali assailant went to the knives section in a store, took a knife and attacked the storekeeper before going for the passersby.

The incident led to the deaths of three women, aged 24, 49 and 82.

Footage from the attack shows a person trying bravely to stop the assailant. This person is Chia Rabiee, an Iranian who filed for asylum in Germany 17 months ago.

On Sunday, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Soder visited the site of the attack to lay a wreath for the victims. He also met with Rabiee and thanked him.

“Thanks for your act of bravery, while apparently you were not obliged to do so,” Soder told Rabiee.

The premier told a local daily the next day that he is going to confer Bavaria’s medal of bravery to the people who tried to restrain the assailant in Wurzburg for showing a “high degree of civil bravery”.

The medal is a state order of merit awarded to people who risk their lives to save the lives of others.

Chia Rabiee, a 42-year-old from the western Iranian city of Mahabad, was a taxi driver back in Iran.

“I was not frightened at all. If I was frightened, I would have hidden somewhere or would have escaped,” he said in a radio interview.

Iranian Asylum Seeker Turns into Hero in Germany

Iran House of Innovation and Technology Opens in Tehran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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One of the long-term objectives of the Science and Technology Department of the Presidential Office over the past few years has been to develop the global market for Iranian knowledge-based and innovative companies.

In order to achieve this objective, the department has implemented various plans.
One of the measures adopted has been to create innovation and technology houses in other countries, so that they will serve as a gateway for Iranian technological products to find their way onto global markets.

Supported by the department’s Centre for International Interactions, these houses have been established in Kenya, Syria, China and Russia.

The one inaugurated in Tehran is, in fact, the hub and central branch of those centres.
The objective of the establishment of innovation and exports technology houses in different countries is to create centres to offer services to promote the export of products developed by Iranian knowledge-based firms.

Among other objectives are to upgrade hardware infrastructure, commercialize and export knowledge-based technologies such as showrooms for commodities as well as knowledge-based and creative achievements, provide specific and shared workspace as well as face-to-face meeting rooms, offer software services such as market research, marketing and receiving standards and sale permits, support the development of foreign markets for knowledge-based companies in tandem with the development of domestic markets, and use and effectively interact with exports agents, exports management firms and EMCs.

Among other missions of these centres are to give impetus to the development of an international market and introduce domestically-developed products on global markets.

The IHIT plans to receive foreign delegations and introduce products, hold events and specialized and face-to-face meetings with foreign customers themed on exports, and offer services to knowledge-based and creative firms in the field of commercializing products for export.

The IHIT has three storeys and has been established on an area measuring 3500 square metres.

The IHIT brings together 400 companies with 800 products in a whole range of areas, namely machinery and equipment, electricity and telecommunications, transport, water and energy, agriculture and food industry, houses and smart towns, advanced materials, metal industries, medical equipment, drugs and health, simulators, and creative industries including IT and software, animation, handicrafts, games and toys, and other cultural industries.

Iran, Japan Implement Prisoner Exchange Deal

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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The embassy said the group is comprised of three Iranian convicted prisoners.

The embassy added that they were sent back home thanks to cooperation between Iran’s ministry of justice and the deputy office for consular affairs of the foreign ministry and Japan’s foreign and justice ministries, coupled with efforts and follow-up measures by the mission.

Second Iran-Armenia Business Meeting Kicks Off in Yerevan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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A delegation of 50 Iranian knowledge-based companies is attending the event with the aim of developing the global market of Iranian-made products and services.

The representatives of the Iranian companies will take part in business-to-business meetings with their Armenian counterparts in order to facilitate a shared business environment between the two countries, helping the export of Iranian knowledge-based products and services to the Eurasian market.

The Armenian market has a great capacity for accepting Iranian knowledge-based and creative companies, and business exchanges with the country can play an effective role in the development of bilateral relations.

Earlier this year, a delegation of Iranian high-tech companies attended the first B2B meeting of Iran and Armenia, and the ongoing event is the second of its kind which is held with the purpose of promoting Tehran-Yerevan collaborations.

The event includes an expert meeting between Iranian companies and 120 Armenian firms operating in different high-tech fields, an expert meeting between 15 Iranian companies and 40 Armenian firms working in the ICT field, and a visit to Armenia’s technology centres and infrastructure.

Some eight million Armenian expatriates live in European countries, the US and Canada, and that provides an ample opportunity and capacity for the implementation of these countries’ technology projects. However, Armenia is not able to do all these projects by itself, and thus tries to use the capacity of other countries in this regard.

A team of Iranian IT companies, especially those working in the field of computer programming, has been formed in the country to expedite the export of Iranian knowledge-based products and services to Armenia and increase the two countries’ joint products.

The companies attending this event operate in the field of information and communication technologies, advanced materials, industrial machinery and equipment, medical equipment, etc.

In this event, 50 knowledge-based and creative companies will accompany Dr. Mahdi Eliasi, the deputy head for policy and development at the Iranian Vice Presidency for Science and Technology.

The Armenian parties participating in the meeting include Economy Minister Vahan Kerobyan, Deputy Economy Minister Narek Teryan, the Representative of the Industrial Organization of Armenia, and the Deputy Minister of High-Tech Industry.

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