During the visit, Foreign Minister Zarif held meetings with Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the new emir of Kuwait, and Foreign Minister Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
In the Sunday meetings, the Iranian top diplomat expressed Iran’s sympathy and condolences over the loss.
He also offered congratulations on the new emir’s appointment, and underlined the Islamic Republic’s support for the Arab country.
The Iranian player has been banned from all football events and fined $10,000 over his special goal celebration after the recent ACL match against Pakhtakor of Uzbekistan, where he was named the man of the match after scoring two goals, helping the Iranian side advance to the semi-finals.
However, Iranian football fans and Persepolis officials say the ban – announced by the AFC a few hours before the semi-final match against the Saudi club Al-Nassr – is unfair as Alkasir had used it a lot of times in domestic league.
Alkasir says his goal celebration, which the AFC considers to be “racist’, is in memory of his nephew who has small eyes.
Some Iranian football fans believe the decision has been taken under the influence of Saudi lobby groups, as Alkasir was the Iranian side’s top goal scorer and many had pinned their hopes on him for the Saturday match against Al-Nassr. Outraged by the decision, they have started sharing a video of Alkasir’s similar goal celebrations in domestic matches.
In a statement, Persepolis club slammed the AFC for taking the “hasty” decision without “careful consideration”.
“It was a very illogical and unfair decision to ban Alkasir a few hours before the semi-final match,” the statement said.
Persepolis says it has provided the AFC with the explanation one day before the announcement of the ban, but to no avail.
It said it will continue to pursue the issue and appeal the decision, but it won’t influence the team’s resolve to defeat the Saudi rival.
Iranian lawmaker Ahmad Naderi has also tweeted that the AFC should immediately revoke its decision and “not fuel the same old speculation that it’s bribed by Saudis.” He also vowed that Iran’s Parliament will seriously and immediately pursue the issue.
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In a press briefing on Saturday, Sima-Sadat Lari said 468,119 patients have contracted the virus so far, including 3,523 new cases identified in the past 24 hours.
So far, she added, 387,675 patients have recovered from the disease or been discharged from the hospital.
Lari said 4,127 patients are also in critical conditions caused by more severe infection.
The spokeswoman noted that 4,098,161 COVID-19 tests have been taken across the country so far.
She said the high-risk “red” zones include Tehran, Qom, Mazandaran, East Azarbaijan, Isfahan, Yazd, Ardabil, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan, Hamadan, West Azarbaijan, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Alborz, Lorestan, Markazi, Ilam, South Khorasan, Kermanshah, North Khorasan, Semnan, Gilan, Zanjan, Qazvin, and Kerman provinces.
The “orange” zones also include Golestan, Hormozgan, Kurdistan, and Fars provinces, she added.
Asked by journalists on Saturday about the reports of violation of Iran’s soil amid the ongoing clashes between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Khatibzadeh said, “The Islamic Republic of Iran is monitoring the movements at our country’s border areas seriously and with great sensitivity.”
The spokesperson underlined that any violation of the Iranian soil by any warring side in the region would be “intolerable”, adding, “We seriously warn all sides to take the necessary precautions in this regard.”
The Iranian spokesman further reiterated the necessity of respecting the Republic of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, observing the principle of protecting civilians, halting the clashes, and starting serious and scheduled negotiations.
Khatibzadeh finally expressed the Islamic Republic’s readiness to help achieve those objectives.
His comments came after officials in Iran’s northwestern province of East Azarbaijan reported that mortar shells fired by the warring sides in the latest round of fighting between Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan have hit border rural areas in the Iranian province.
According to reports, one of the mortar shells that hit a village in Khoda-Afrin County has injured a six-year-old child.
Almost half of most mouth-watering sweets and confectionary sold on markets across Iran are produced at chocolate factories in Tabriz, making Iran one of the Middle East’s leading countries as far as chocolate production is concerned.
We may call Tabriz the city of delectables, with a whole range of tastes from salty and sweet to sour, including different types of confectionary, fruit leather, broth, meatballs, etc. Bread has a special status on Tabrizis’ table and is one its essential items.
Foods in this region are much influenced by the Caucasus geographical area and have features of the cuisine of Russia, the Azerbaijan Republic, etc.
There is a strong feeling of unity and love for family in Tabriz, which brings family members together for all household activities, especially at mealtimes.
If you walk through Tabriz, you cannot miss trolleys whose owners sell baked potatoes and eggs rather than boiled beetroot and fava beans which are much more common across other Iranian cities. The potatoes and eggs are popular, too, and, in fact, are a signature of Tabriz.
Different types of tasty confectionary are made in Tabriz. Nuts and dried fruit are also an integral part of Tabriz.
The following are the most famous foods of Tabriz:
Undoubtedly, large and delicious meatballs are the most well-known food of Tabriz. Its ingredients include lentils, minced beef, onions, eggs, leeks and coriander and rice. Ingredients such as different types of plums, raspberries, fried onions, baked eggs, almond, walnut, and sometimes a whole chicken are inserted inside the meatballs. The meatballs are cooked in a sauce made with tomatoes and saffron.
In most parts of Iran, kebabs are served with rice as well. However, the Bonab kebab is always served with bread in Tabriz. The ingredients of this very special kebab include fresh lamb, onions chopped into very small pieces, salt and pepper. After the mix is ready, they leave it the fridge for up to two hours before barbecuing it.
To make this delectable food, they use lamb, fat, peas, split peas, onions and spices. Dizi Sangi is usually cooked in stone dishes. It is served with different types of pickles, fresh bread, doogh (yoghurt drink) and raw onions.
This food is made with ingredients such as leek, eggs, spices, walnuts and raspberries. In order to make this tasty cutlet, which is very similar to the herbs cutlet, they mix those ingredients, form the mix into the shapes they want and fry it.
This food served with soup is an integral part of Tabrizi people’s table and is served in most parties.
The basic ingredients of green beans cutlet include potatoes, minced beef, chopped green beans, garlic, onions, carrots, eggs, walnuts and raspberries. There are two recipes to make this food: Some people mix the ingredients and fry them, and some chop and fry potatoes before adding them to the other ingredients.
This delicious stew contains lamb or chicken as well as carrots, prunes, tomato paste, a little lime juice, fried onions, saffron and other spices.
This food contains more milk than water; hence, it is called milk-rice. The ingredients include rice, saffron, rosewater, chicken, milk, sultanas, almond shreds and pistachio shreds. To make this food, boil rice with water, rosewater, saffron and salt. After the rice is cooked, it is served with flavoured chicken and sultanas. Almond and pistachio shreds are used as garnish.
The ingredients of this delicious food include grape leaves, split peas, rice, bulgur, herbs (dill, leek, savory), oil and minced meat. Vinegar, sugar and slat are boiled together and poured on the food as spice.
Roasted Pluck is inspired by Russian foods. Its ingredients include a minced mix of lungs and intestines of sheep. First, they fry onions and the lungs; then they add spices and chopped tomatoes.
This is a very nutritious food rich in calcium made with ingredients such leek, rice, potatoes, tomatoes, eggs, oil and tomato paste. It is served with bread, vegetables and pickles.
Doimaj is a light, inexpensive food which is easy to make. It is made with dried bread, walnuts, local cheese, doogh and herbs. First, they pour doogh on the dried bread to make it soft. Then they put the other ingredients on it before giving it an oval or round shape and serving it.
In addition to the foods mentioned above, different types of broth are cooked in Tabriz, including lentil broth and yoghurt broth.
Old houses in Tehran, especially, mansions and aristocrats’ homes, boasted mantelpieces which were built between two rooms separated with a wall measuring at least one-metre thick, so that the fireplace could be used on either side.
Two types of mantelpieces were built into walls inside old homes, one carved into the wall and the other protruding from the wall. The mantelpieces were also used as decoration which added to the beauty of the architecture of the houses.
The mantelpieces would spread throughout the room the heat coming from the fire.
The heat was in conformity with the constructions materials used in the house. Sometimes a log used as firewood could keep an area of 200-300 sqm warm for hours without posing any danger to members of the household. The wall around the mantelpiece would be decorated with stucco to make the architecture inside the room all the more pleasant and enjoyable.
The following are Honar Online’s images of mantelpieces in old homes, which are an integral part of the fabulous ancient Iranian architecture.
President Hassan Rouhani said “prevention” is the only way to counter COVID-19 and cut off its chain of transmission.
“We have no other option, but to levy fines on offenders,” he said at a meeting of the National Coronavirus Headquarters on Saturday.
“It is necessary to intensify care and monitoring to combat coronavirus,” he said.
Rouhani said punishments have been envisaged for all civil servants and other businesses that do not abide by health protocols.
He noted employees who do not abide by health directives could be fined or temporarily suspended, and businesses that do not comply could also be ordered to close for a specific period of time.
He added anyone giving services to customers who do not observe health protocols will also be punished.
President Rouhani urged all citizens to seriously respect health protocols.
“Under the current circumstances, we should all join hands to ensure people’s health and livelihood as well,” he added.
Rouhani said the measures to contain the novel virus will be implemented in a stricter way in the capital city of Tehran.
The president once again thanked all medical personnel who have been actively involved in treating coronavirus patients and containing the spread of the disease.
The remains of the girl were found on an archaeological hill in the city of Isfahan.
“Traces of a platform, large jar and the spine of a horse indicate the architecture of a tomb designed after the Mehr traditions,” said Alireza Jafari-Zand, the head of the archaeology team working at the ancient site.
Archaeologists have found remarkable finds at the hill over the past two months during operations to save the ancients site.
The newly-discovered remains of a 13-year-old girl suggests the site is, in fact, a cemetery dating back to the Parthian Empire. The finds shed light on a hitherto unknown era in history.
“The tomb indicates it had been designed. Next to the body of the 13-year-old girl was a platform on which lay the remains of a broken large jar as well as part of the spine of a horse,” said the lead archaeologist.
He said the archaeologists are moving forward with their excavations in an area between the new find and the location of an earlier discovery to see what other relics could be found.
He added the team are almost sure that a large Parthian cemetery lies at the site.
The skeleton of another Parthian woman had earlier been unearthed from the same cemetery in July.
The game became an instant hit among online gaming enthusiasts. Mostly because of the fact that most of them were eager to try out any brand-new game releases during those times.
But with its unique game modes and the ability for players to forge their own paths, more and more people became attracted to play Old School RuneScape.
With numerous quests, tasks, and missions to choose from, the interest for playing OSRS has only grown year after year. You have the option to compete against fellow players on certain quests and minigames, and even stake your stash of Old School RuneScape gold to increase your gold reserve.
Some players say that the secret behind Old School RuneScape’s success is the continuous updates that it regularly gets to keep the interest high.
Based on the recent data gathered, the game has about 100,000 players in different parts of the world playing it at any given moment.
So what makes OSRS popular even after all those years?
The competition among players is intense and this makes it attractive to those who are always seeking for challenges when they play online games. RuneScape items and OSRS GP can be lost by losing in battle, some might even lose their valuable OSRS items because of thieves.
Yes, you can steal things from fellow players, for your own enjoyment or to make more money, as long as you won’t get yourself caught.
This is another part of the game that makes it unique and exciting to play.
For those players who find in-game storyline boring, OSRS should be of interest to them. Instead of having a specific plot, this game offers various quests or short stories that you can participate in. The game’s developer also added some humor to it that engages its players.
Unlike other online games that faded in the limelight, Old School RuneScape has been basking on it because of how often it gets updated to improve the gameplay and sometimes cater to its players’ requests and preferences.
OSRS is on top of the list for those online games that are updated regularly and Jagex knows the importance of keeping their players interested. They do this by adding more tasks, missions, and even launch contests and giveaways from time to time.
Some people might say the game is a little bit outdated compared to modern games today, but Old School RuneScape is still considered one of the best MMORPGs today.
You might feel weird playing it for the first time, but trust me, it’s not as easy as it looks like.
Despite being difficult for some beginners, OSRS is still an addictive and oddly satisfying game to play. A good example is when Jagex launched a mobile version in 2018. The RuneScape mobile game became an instant hit getting 5 million downloads in its first year.
You can even say that the game has been tried and tested both in PC and mobile devices, and it performed well on both, and it should continue to do so in the coming years.
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