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Camera Footage Must Be Deleted as IAEA’s Deadline Over: Iran

Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said lawmakers do insist that the Strategic Action Plan for the Lifting of Sanctions and Safeguarding Iranians’ rights be implemented at the specified times and based on the regulations.

He said Iran’s Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has also emphasized this issue.

“The three-month deadline set for the IAEA expired on May 22. Accordingly, the agency has no right to access the AEOI’s images and information,” the top parliamentarian said.

Qalibaf’s comments were a confirmation of remarks by lawmaker Alireza Salimi, who had reminded parliament deputies that the IAEA’s legal deadline was over.

“The IAEA had three months to live up to its commitments, but it failed to, and their legal deadline expired yesterday,” Salim had said in an open session of parliament on May 23.

“Under the law, all the images and footage recorded by the IAEA’s cameras should be erased, and we expect the IAEA chief to inform us, as soon as possible, that the deadline set for the agency has expired and that the images and footage have been deleted,” Salimi had further added.

Salimi urged the speaker to order the AEOI not to make any delays in that regard and erase all films and images recorded by cameras.

Official Warns of Possible 5th Wave of Coronavirus in Iran

The warning comes despite a relative drop in the number of infections and deaths.

“All provinces across the country, especially 28 ones, are seeing a downward trend in terms of the spread of the coronavirus,” said Alireza Raisi, the spokesman for the headquarters.

“We have passed the fourth peak of the coronavirus outbreak,” he added.

“In two weeks’ time, the number of [daily] deaths [from coronavirus] will drop below 200 people, but there is a possibility of a fifth surge in the disease,” he said.

The spokesman underlined that a travel ban may be imposed for the holiday period in early June in order to create a safer atmosphere for the upcoming presidential election in terms of coronavirus infection.

“If there are covid patients among voters, mobile ballots boxes should be used for them, so that they will not be deprived of the right to vote,” he noted.

He said voting should take place in open spaces as much as possible to contain a possible rise in the disease as a result of being in closed spaces.

“There is no need for using stamps and fingerprinting on the election day,” he said.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Says IRGC Has Share in Victories against Israel

Al-Nakhalah said the recent war on Gaza was a key conflict in the history of the fight against Israel and was characterised with unprecedented solidarity among Palestinians.

He hailed the efforts of late commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying he worked hard to help this victory materialize.

“You stood with us in all fields and you have a share in the realisation of our victories and will also be next to us in liberation of al-Quds,” Al-Nakhalah told Salami.

Salami, in turn, vowed that the IRGC will never leave the Palestinian nation alone.

Several Iranian Funds Attend Austria Connect Day 2021 Event

The event was held from May 3-12, 2021, trying to match start-ups with investors and major industrial companies in the fields of technology and innovation from across the globe.

The event was organized by the promotional bank of the Austrian federal government (AWS), the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), and Global Incubator Network Austria (GIN) as the most significant financial supporters of Technology-Based Firms (TBFs), start-ups and those who work in Austria’s innovation and technology ecosystem.

Austria Connect Day 2021 brought financial supporters of innovation as well as innovative and creative firms from around the world together in order to establish a platform to build networks and match investors and start-ups, owners of innovative and technological ideas in order to develop novel, effective, innovative and sustainable businesses in the world.

Iran National Innovation Fund (INIF) made some arrangements with the secretariat of the event and, in coordination with the Iranian representation in Vienna, arranged bilateral meetings between Iranian TBFs, Start-ups and Private Research and Technology Funds and their foreign counterparts including investors, traders, innovative and technological companies and Venture Capital Funds (VCs). INIF also made arrangements to facilitate the participation of Iranian companies and start-ups in workshops and investment pitch sessions.

According to Sohrab Assa, the INIF’s International Affairs manager, “despite the barriers to international cooperation, Iran’s innovation ecosystem and its various actors such as TBFs and start-ups, enjoy a good technological appeal that can cover the shortcomings and obstacles in this way.”

“Taking this issue into account, and considering the good relationship between Iran and Austria, the INIF tried to make the most of this opportunity to pave the way for the Iranian teams to participate in this event and show their capabilities,” Assa said.

He said, “One of the most important purposes of the INIF is to support and encourage the other actors of the country’s innovation ecosystem to attend such events, so that they would get familiar with global actors in the field of financing and learn their operational mechanisms.”

Sohrab Assa explained, “The establishment of joint innovation Funds to develop cooperation in the fields of empowerment and export development and support the commercialization of joint high-priority projects between Iranian and foreign parties have been the other important goals behind the participation of the Iranian delegation in this event.”

During this event, 54 meetings were held between the Iranian participants and their foreign counterparts.

Iran Opens Its Consulate-General in Syria’s Aleppo

The consulate-general was opened by Iran’s ambassador to Syria in a Saturday ceremony in Aleppo, which was virtually attended by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad.

Following Zarif’s recent trip to Damascus and his consultations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Foreign Minister Mekdad, the Syrian government gave Iran the green light for the inauguration of the consulate-general in Aleppo. The Syrian Arab Republic’s Foreign Ministry later gave its consent in written.

Over 50% of Iranian Couriers, Pickup Drivers Lose Their Jobs during Pandemic

According to Davoud Mohammadi, the head of Iran’s transport union, at least 15,000 drivers have lost their jobs.

The official said many of these people have sold their vehicles and are now unemployed.
The majority of drivers have not managed to pay for their insurance even for one month, and should now pay fines, he added.

Iran Opens Innovation Centre to Boost Home Appliances Production

The centre was opened by Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari.

“The path has opened for creative ideas to enter the household appliances sector,” said the vice president during a ceremony where the centre was inaugurated.

He said now the infrastructure and ground has been prepared to establish an innovation area at the University of Isfahan.

“The existence of a scientific and research township as well as numerus knowledge-based units in this province shows the firm determination of officials and managers in the province to develop the ecosystem for technology and innovation,” he said.

Sattari will also open a chamber for culturing livestock feed belonging to an Iranian company and a fabric production line, and will equip a firm at Isfahan’s Scientific and Research Township.

The provincial Andisheh Technology Tower will also be put into service during the vice president’s visit.

Iranian Scientist Working for NASA Returns to Iran Due to Unfair Treatment

Rahmatollah Qadimi Chermihani continued his education in the United States and finally was employed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

He managed to solve the problem of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986 after its explosion.

The then US president offered $200,000 in reward to American scientists, but gave Chermihani only a jumper!

Because of this behaviour, he went to the space agency in Sweden before returning to Iran at his mother’s request.

People’s Health Top Priority during Elections: Iran President

Next US Administration Should Bow to Iranian Nation’s Will: Rouhani

“It is forbidden to hold election gatherings in closed spaces,” said Hassan Rouhani in a meeting of the National Coronavirus Headquarters.

“Campaigns should be held at the maximum level, but gatherings should be kept to the minimum,” he said.

President Rouhani underlined the most important task is to protect people’s lives, and added the realisation of a huge turnout in the elections is the second priority.

“All should fully abide by health protocols in the coming weeks in a bid to hold the elections without facing a new peak in the [coronavirus] disease while protecting people’s health and realizing a maximum [voter] turnout,” he said.

“It is necessary to observe health protocols and maintain the current lifestyle until the end of the year,” he added.

“All provinces have passed the fourth peak [in the COVID-19 disease],” the president said.
He also touched upon the national coronavirus vaccination program.

“So far, more than 5 million doses of vaccines have been distributed,” he said.

“We hope as many as 14 million people in the target group will have been inoculated by late June,” the president said.

Traffic Camera Operator Helps Iranian Man Find His Lost Phone (+Video)

“The policeman monitoring the flow of traffic at Hadi Nowruzi square in Babol noticed a man’s mobile phone drop while he was getting out of a taxi,” said local police.

“While monitoring the traffic, I noticed the driver of a car which had stopped at the square, wanted the turn left or move in the opposite direction,” said a police officer.

“I zoomed the camera on the car and noticed a passenger was getting out of the car,” he added.
“After the car left, I saw the passenger’s mobile phone had dropped on the ground,” the policeman noted.

The man (passenger) failed to notice his cell phone had dropped when he was paying the taxi fare, and went on walking across the square.

The policeman who noticed the man’s phone had dropped on the ground immediately began searching among the cars parked around the square.

“I saw the taxi driver cleaning his car at the square.

I zoomed [the camera] on the number plate and called the taxi owner. I told him how the passenger looked like, and asked him to go across the square and tell the passenger that his mobile phone had dropped,” the policeman added.