Jamali won Bronze medal at the 2021 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships, which is underway in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The 20-year-old girl lifted 92kg in snatch and 116kg in clean and jerk and won the bronze medal with a total of 208.
Uzbekistan weightlifter Tursunoy Jabborova made 111-113-244 to win the gold medal and American participant Avery Owens bagged the silver medal with 93-118-211.
The 2021 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championship is being held in Tashkent from May 23-31.
Born in 1985, Briere was arrested when flying a drone and taking photographs in a “prohibited area”.
His lawyer Saeid Dehqan says investigation had been completed and the prosecution had confirmed the charges.
“The prosecutor is preparing the indictment and sending it to the revolutionary court for the continuation of the judicial process,” Dehqan told AFP.
Currently jailed in the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, Briere was also facing charges of “corruption on earth”, one of the most serious offences under Iranian law, and drinking alcohol, punishable by flogging, but those charges were dismissed after the investigation.
The announcement comes days after an open letter from Briere’s sister, Blandine Briere, was published by French weekly Le Point, in which she appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to push for her brother’s release.
She said the charges were “baseless” and that Briere had become a “negotiating tool”.
In March, a spokesman for the French foreign ministry said Briere was benefitting from consular support and that its embassy in Tehran was in “regular contact” with him.
Ardakanian told lawmakers in a briefing session that every single Bitcoin needs 300,000 MWh of energy to be mined. He said this means the government should cut off the electricity of 30,000 homes for 24 hours for a Bitcoin to be mined.
He said 2,000 people have so far requested mining permits from his ministry while only 99 of them have completed the paperwork. He said the industry needs to be regulated so that there are no power outages amid the coronavirus situation and hot weather conditions.
The minister also touched on questions raised over Iran’s electricity exports amid domestic energy needs. He said the energy ministry relies on exports to provide for its foreign currency needs to maintain the vast national power grid, as the ministry has no foreign currency budget quota.
Ardakanian further explained that Iran’s net electricity exports amount to 500 MW, which is only a fraction of the 85,000 MW installed production capacity of the country.
The minister also noted that the government is finalising an agreement under which Russia will finance the second and third phases of the 1,400MW Hormozgan power plant. He said foreign funding is one of the main prerequisites to catch up with the requirements of the sixth national development plan to increase national power generation by 25,000 MW.
Ardakanian said 15,000 MW of the figure has been materialised so far. He added that 25 percent of the country’s current 85,000MW power production capacity has been installed under the current administration.
Rumours began to spread earlier today after Hemmati’s deputy, Akbar Komeijani, attended a meeting of the Rouhani administration’s economic coordination committee instead of the Central Bank Governor.
Later in the day, the news of his removal from office was confirmed by an informed source speaking to Mehr News Agency.
It was initially reported that Hamid Pourmohammadi, a deputy head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organisation, has been named the new governor of the Central Bank, but he later denied the rumours, and said he has rejected the offer a few days ago.
Komeijani was later named as the new Governor of the Central Bank, replacing Hemmati who is one of the seven candidates approved by the Guardian Council to run for president.
This development, said Jalal Sadatian, would see Tehran reap the benefits of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and benefit from the revival of this international agreement.
He said one of the issues at hand is Iran’s joining the FATF and its approval at the country’s Expediency Council.
“The president, the foreign minister and some members of the Expediency Council have also stressed the significance of approving the FATF and believe its ratification is a necessity. We should wait and see whether or not the FATF issue will be resolved in the country as negotiations in Vienna follow a positive trend,” said Sadatian.
He then referred to comments made by the senior Iranian negotiating team in Vienna as well as heads of other delegations at the talks.
“Based on these remarks, its seems talks in Vienna are moving forward and that agreement has been made on the general principles while some issues still remain [to be settled] and need to be discussed,” he added.
“It seems the trend will become more transparent during the fifth round of talks currently underway in Vienna,” the ex-diplomat said.
He underscored the Iranian negotiating team regularly sends to Tehran reports on its negotiations and moves forward with the talks based on the policies announced and after holding the necessary consultations.
“There is hope that this would be the last round of talks,” he said.
“Of course, in addition to this, the Iranian negotiating team has stressed that it will not sacrifice precision for speed, and that these negotiations will go on until Iran’s interests are fully secured,” the former Iranian diplomat said.
He added the technical issues being discussed in the three committees formed during the course of the negotiations are important issues.
Sadatian underscored agreements needs to be reached on the lifting of sanctions as well as Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.
“Iran has emphasized that it should verify the United States’ lifting of sanctions and see, for example, if banks in different parts of the world would cooperate with Iran, or if Iran would be able to easily sell its oil,” he said.
Iraq’s overdue payments to Iran were discussed in a meeting between Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian, and a visiting Iraqi delegation led by the country’s Finance Minister Ali Abdul-Amir.
The two sides discussed how Baghdad is supposed to pay its debts to Tehran, and it was decided that talks be held in the current week to reach final agreement.
Iran and Iraq are to hold joint meetings this week to work out ways for Iraq to pay its overdue debts to Iran.
In turn, the Iranian oil minister said the country stands ready to increase natural gas exports to Iraq, expressing hope Baghdad will pay its debts as soon as possible.
In a Friday message, Rouhani described the widespread turnout of the Syrian people at the ballot box as an important step in determining the future and prosperity of Syria.
He also sincerely congratulated Assad on the successful holding of the elections, and said the Syrian voters made a “decisive choice”.
“I am confident that in the new chapter of Syria’s political life, we will see the development of cooperation between the two friendly and brotherly countries,” he added.
He finally wished health and success for Assad and dignity and felicity for the people of Syria.
Assad was re-elected in a landslide, officials said Thursday, ushering in a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country.
Officials said 18 million were eligible to vote. But in the country ravaged by the 10-year-old conflict, areas controlled by militants or Kurdish-led troops did not hold the vote.
At least 8 million, mostly displaced, live in those areas in northwest and northeast Syria. Over 5 million refugees — mostly living in neighbouring countries — have largely refrained from casting their ballots.
Syria’s parliament speaker, Hammoud Sabbagh, announced the final results from Wednesday’s vote. He said Assad garnered 95.1% of the votes. He said turnout stood at 78.6% of the voters, in an election that lasted for 17 hours on Wednesday with no independent monitors.
In an opinion piece published by the Iranian reformist daily Etemad, Abbas Abdi said now that the parties to the JCPOA talks are most likely to reach agreement, the Iranian parliament must be pressured to endorse the potential deal.
“I guess the finalisation of this agreement without the blessing of the current parliament would be a big mistake,” he said.
“All of us know that conservative radicals have made numerous irresponsible, untrue and baseless remarks in the domain of foreign relations and on the JCPOA,” the analyst said.
“They went so far on this path that they directed the worst [verbal] attacks on the government and the president himself and particularly on the foreign minister,” he noted.
“On the other hand, we know that the Rouhani administration will not benefit from resolving this crisis that much, and settling this problem would, even on the face of it, be to the administration’s detriment,” he noted.
“The reason is that if this issue is settled and the US returns to the JCPOA, that will enable Iran to sell oil and earn money and also get engaged in trade deals, which will be in the interest of the next administration,” he added.
“This will be in interest of the next administration and help it somehow improve people’s livelihood conditions,” the analyst noted.
“Given the conditions surrounding the [presidential] election, its seems that its result is a foregone conclusion, and the group which will come into office want to speak against the current administration,” he said.
“As a result, it would not be logical for this administration to sow a seed whose yield will be against it and in favour of the next administration, which is a sworn opponent of the current administration,” the commentator explained.
However, he added, the current administration is moving forward with talks and is trying to settle the issue irrespective of the benefits it might have for the future administration.
“From this perspective, the current administration deserves praise,” the analyst noted.
In the meantime, he said any final agreement with regards to the Vienna talks should be approved by the Parliament, the Guardian Council (Constitutional Council) and the Supreme National Security Council.
“The result of the June 2021 presidential vote is a foregone conclusion, and no one has any doubt about who the final winner of this election is,” wrote the Tehran-based Jomhouri Eslami conservative daily in an editorial on Saturday.
“So, instead of turning against one another, the candidates had better, from now on, seek to build up synergy and indicate during their presidential campaigns that they will try to help the president-elect and cooperate with him in running the country,” the paper added.
The newspaper called on the candidates to give pledges they can fulfill rather than empty promises.
“People are tired of wrangling [among political groups], obstructionist moves, corruption, shortcomings, unfulfilled promises and colourful, but unsupported slogans,” the paper wrote.
“Election campaigns should not fuel this fatigue,” it noted.
“Garnering votes by resorting to smear campaigns, seeking to paint a black picture [of rivals] and using threadbare slogans will not only amount to a betrayal of the country and Establishment, but also have a negative impact on the candidates,” the daily explained.
Alireza Zakani said Washington will also have to remove sanctions because the United States needs to return to the JCPOA.
“Washington needs to rejoin the JCPOA because all of US policies vis-à-vis Iran have failed,” he said.
Zakani underlined one of the reasons the US would like to return to the nuclear deal is that it wants to use the so-called “trigger mechanism” and “target the base of our existence.”
“The US wants to put the noose around our neck. Trump chose the same path, but openly announced that the policy of putting ‘maximum pressure’ on Iranians had failed,” he added.
The presidential candidate added Iran cannot be put under sanctions.
“The imposition of sanctions is a crime and brutal tyranny against the Iranian nation. We should break the sanctions in whatever way we can. The US will not renounce this strategic weapon,” he said.
Zakani reiterated that if the US wants to return to the JCPOA, it should first remove all sanctions.
“Then we will verify the lifting of sanctions. Afterwards, they can rejoin the JCPOA,” he explained.
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