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Tehran Police Seize 750 Coins Dating Back to 3,000 Years Ago

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Tehran Police Seize 750 Coins Dating Back to 3,000 Years Ago

A 70-year-old father and his two sons residing in a province neighbouring Tehran had formed an antique dealing ring with two others to sell golden antiques and ancient coins, said General Keivan Zahiri, commander of an Iranian Police department tasked with prevention of crimes.

He said the Police raided a place where the dealers had arranged an appointment to sell a number of 3,000-year-old coins on July 14 and arrested the wrongdoers.

The father and his sons had found a treasure of coins dating back to 3,000 years ago with metal detector and had plans to sell them to a customer in Tehran, the commander noted, saying the cops have found 750 antique coins, three coin albums, an ancient book, and a series of excavation equipment from the whereabouts of the ring.

All of the objects and antiques confiscated in the operation have been handed over to the cultural heritage centres for pricing and six convicts have been also handed over to the Judiciary for trial, General Zahiri added.

How Does VoIP Benefit Your Small Business?

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How Does VoIP Benefit Your Small Business

So, if you want to stay relevant in your industry, you’ve just got to embrace technology in its various forms.
And one of its leading forms at the moment is VoIP.

VoIP

VoIP stands for “Voice over Internet Protocol.” Simply put, it is communicating through voice medium over the internet as opposed to the standard PSTN / telephone fixed lines that have been in place for centuries. VoIP technology is available in hardware form where handheld devices are there with internet connectivity, and also, they are available as a software application to be used in laptops/computers. VoIP works by converting the sound signals / telephonic conversation into small packets of data and then sending them over the internet to a central cloud database. It works just like an email, but instead of words, data is being transferred in the form of voice.

It is a widespread misconception that VoIP is only feasible for big business enterprises. On the contrary, it is a great technology tool, well-suited to both small and large enterprises. VoIP provides multiple benefits which are not limited to the scale of the business. Following are some major advantages of incorporating VoIP in your small business: –

Cost-Effectiveness

Traditional phone lines have their fixed cost of copper wires installation, setup charges, and running monthly costs. The expense increases with its use. In contrast, VoIP technology enables us to communicate via the internet, which is essentially free because we are using Internet services in our homes and business in one way or another. There is a study that has found that by implementing VoIP technology, the overall costs of calls can reduce by up to 40%.

International calls cost the most when using traditional phone lines. VoIP is free all around the globe. There are less hardware charges, and if you are not willing to pay them even, software applications are available. Features like teleconferencing and video-conferencing are available when you use VoIP services. This mostly eliminates the need for physical interaction with the employees and therefore cut some essential costs.

Easy to setup

The shift to VoIP technology is much easier than being perceived. The switching costs are almost minimal. It is a simple plug-and-play service which could be benefited from. Its maintenance is easier as the hardware is less prone to damage as against the traditional phone technology. There are companies like Nextiva which provide easy software solutions, on-spot training, and services for VoIP, so even the most common person can grasp and understand its use.

Secure

As compared to traditional phone lines that are subjected to an increased risk of insecure lines for any misuse, rerouting of confidential conversation, VoIP places standard encryption protocols which enhance the overall security for any business.

Enhanced Features

When we used traditional phone services, the maximum benefits we could get were call forwarding, call waiting, and call hold. But in addition to these services, a VoIP business phone service like Nextiva will provide you with more important features such as multi-conferencing, video-conferencing, instant messages delivery, and even call routing. This means that a person will never miss a call as long as he is connected to the internet. The calls can be routed to his phone. This highly increases individual productivity.

But that’s not even all; VoIP allows you have faxes and voicemails directly into your Email Inbox. These services were present before but additionally charged by the companies. Now they all come with the VoIP service itself.

The way of Future

Small businesses need to very efficiently and effectively to compete with bigger farms. As they have already shifted to VoIP, there is no point that small businesses should lag behind. Not only voice quality has matured enough in VoIP, but all its cons are being addressed now for future use.

VoIP technology can be scaled to your use and demand. It gives multiple and cost-effective functions to have the same level of communication as others. It eliminates the operating cost so all the savings can be put into use in another productive manner for the company. With increased productivity, the brand image could be enhanced, customers can be retained, and small businesses can progress in the most effective manner.

MPs May Oblige Iran Gov’t to Stop Implementing Additional Protocol

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MPs May Oblige Iran Gov’t to Stop Implementing Additional Protocol

Mahmoud Nabavian said on Saturday that the motion to cease Iran’s voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol has been submitted to the Parliament’s presiding board.

He said the plan is going to be discussed at the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission and other relevant commissions.

According to the motion, the government will be obligated to suspend the voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol and to approve and carry out the inspections “only under the Safeguards” agreements, the lawmaker added.

Nabavian further noted that the purpose of the motion is to give the Islamic Republic the “upper hand” in the face of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspections of the nuclear sites, military centres, and sometimes the universities of Iran.

Iran should have a weapon in confrontation with the US sanctions, he stressed.

In September 2019, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the country was ready to pursue ratification of the Additional Protocol in the Parliament provided that the US Congress endorses the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and lifts all anti-Tehran sanctions.

Iran Sends Ukrainian Jetliner’s Black Box to Paris

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Iran Sends Ukrainian Jetliner’s Black Box to Paris

Speaking to Etemad daily on Saturday, Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs Mohsen Baharvand said the black box of the Ukrainian airplane was taken to Paris on Friday by the officials from Iran Civil Aviation Organization and an Iranian judge.

The process of analyzing the black box data will begin on Monday, the diplomat added.

He also expressed gratitude to the government of France for close cooperation with the Iranian delegation carrying the flight recorder.

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 (PS752) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Tehran to Kiev operated by Ukraine International Airlines (UIA).

On 8 January 2020, the Boeing 737-800 operating the route was accidentally shot down by the IRGC Air Defence shortly after take-off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport. All the 176 passengers and crew were killed.

According to Iranian officials, 146 passengers used an Iranian passport to leave the country, 10 used an Afghan passport, five used a Canadian one, four a Swedish one, and two used Ukrainian passports.

The Ukrainian government, however, says there were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians (mostly Iranian-Canadian dual nationals), 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, 7 Afghans, and 3 Britons on the plane.

Foreign Airlines Resuming Flights to Iran Proves Its Airspace Safe: Official

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Foreign Airlines Resuming Flights to Iran Proves Its Airspace Safe: Official

Deputy Director of Iran Civil Organization for Aviation and International Affairs, Morteza Dehqan, has pointed to the resumption and a gradual increase of flights operated by the foreign airlines to Iran.

He said Tehran has held a series of negotiations with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and a number of European countries to allay concerns about the safety of Iran’s airspace and assure them of security of the Iranian sky.

“The return of international airlines to the country after the crisis caused by the coronavirus is a sign of the positive measures and the security and safety of the Iranian airports and airspace,” Dehqan added.

His comments came after the EASA issued a warning on Thursday that civilian aircraft flying in Iranian airspace may be at risk for accidental targeting of the air defence, similar to the accidental shootdown of the Ukrainian plane in January.

Dehqan said the recent warning was not anything new and was a renewal of an advice of caution issued last year, extended until January 16, 2021.

The official finally highlighted the strict plans to carry out the health protocols in Iran’s civil aviation industry to contain the spread of COVID-19, saying careful and constant inspection of the airports and airlines is being conducted.

Some 25 Million Iranians Have Contracted COVID-19: President

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Some 25 Million Iranians Have Contracted COVID-19

President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday around 14,000 Iranian have lost their lives to the disease, too, based on the same report.

“It is likely that another 30 to 35 million people are prone to contract the disease as well,” he added.

“The report says we should expect the number of people who will refer to hospitals in the future [due to the coronavirus outbreak] will be twice that hospitalized over the past 150 days,” he said, referring to a second peak of the disease.

“Until the end of this [Persian] year (ending March 20, 2021) and probably till the beginning of the next [Persian] year, we may be grappling with this disease,” he said.

The president said enough medical equipment and treatment services should be provided to tackle the second surge in COVID-19 infections.

President Rouhani also expressed concern over the risk posed by asymptomatic patients.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the president said “economic resilience” should be maintained in the country amid the coronavirus outbreak and production of items needed by people should continue.

He also urged authorities not to stir up anxiety in people.

He finally gave assurances that “we should not back down in the face of the disease as we will definitely win in the battle against the disease.”

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Zarbaft; A Fabulous but Almost Forgotten Persian Fabric

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Zarbaft; A Fabulous but Almost Forgotten Persian Fabric

Made of gold warps and silk wefts, the cloth is not very popular these days. Even billionaires do not go for this splendid fabric.

The history of making superb fabrics in Iran, as the first country to have developed the art, goes back to the Parthian era. Of course, not many fabrics have been left behind from the Achaemenid era. However, due to the fact that art of weaving exquisite cloth was a developing industry, we can say the art was well developed during the Achaemenid era, too, as were other forms of art. In fact, threads made of pure gold had been used in fabrics since the Parthian era.

This art was so popular during the Sassanid era that the country’s commercial boom was dependent on selling magnificent silk cloth, which was exported to the Far East, i.e., the Chinese Empire, and the Far West.

During the Safavid era, especially during the rule of King Abbas, some eight hundred people were working at the workshop belonging to the king’s court. Trade in exquisite fabrics was so prevalent that, at some point, the king ordered the fabrics not be sold domestically and only be exported.

A major part of the running costs of the ruling system was met by selling Zarbaft and other exquisite fabrics.

Now, only a very limited number of workshops in Iran produce these exquisite fabrics. Most of their products are archived and put aside, and there is no good market for them.
Some superb Persian-made fabrics left behind from Achaemenid, Sassanid and other eras are kept in well-known museums around the world.

Two Historical Structures Dug Out in Central Iran

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Two Historical Structures Dug Out in Central Iran

They were discovered on a historical hill in the city of Isfahan during operations to save antiquities in the ancient site.

The structures include a workshop and a metal melting furnace, says the head of the archaeological team.

“Marks of severe burns, furnace heat and pieces of metal were found around the walls of this Parthian structure,” the senior archaeologist said.

Ancient Stone Well Discovered in Isfahan Hills 3
Ancient Stone Well Discovered in Isfahan Hills

“Silver coins would be mostly made beyond borders and outside the realms of empires, but copper coins were made locally. The coin found in the metal melting furnace is a Parthian copper coin clearly bearing Greek letters,” according to the lead archaeologist.

Other structures have also been discovered on the historical hill in Isfahan which shows the site used to be an urban area, and not simply a military fortress or a single mansion, he said.

Researchers Use Persian Violet to Treat Breast Cancer

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Researchers Use Persian Violet to Treat Breast Cancer

Breast cancer has the highest mortality rate of all other types of cancer among women in Iran, as in many other parts of the world.

Physicians have used different types of treatment such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy to combat these cancerous cells. In most cases, however, cancer stem cells are not destroyed and the disease recurs. The reason is that the cells left behind are capable of reproducing and creating a new cancer condition, leading to the recurrence of the disease.

So, researchers at the University of Isfahan and the Royan Institute of Isfahan in central Iran began to conduct research on herbs in a bid to control this type of cancer.

Throughout the research, a group of herbal cyclic peptides drew their attention. These compounds are naturally regarded as a defence element in plants. Their research shed light on the anti-cancer properties of these compounds. They focused their research on the Persian violet.

“Our research on the herbal extracts of the Persian violet showed they were effective in fighting cancer cells in the breast and slowed down or stopped their growth,” said Kamran Qaedi, the manager of the research project.

“Cancer tissues have cancer stem cells which are left behind and grow again even after surgery is conducted and the cell mass is removed. So, using a complementary treatment can be effective,” he added.

“The extract of the Persian violet is that very complementary treatment which can stem the growth of cancer stem cells in the breast. We are trying to have the medicine hit the market soon,” he said.

The herbal medicine will soon hit the shelves.

The research was partly financed by the Researchers and Technologists’ Support Fund of the Science and Technology Department of the Presidential Office.

Iran Says Ready to Mediate between Azerbaijan, Armenia

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Iran Says Ready to Mediate between Azerbaijan, Armenia

In a telephone conversation with the Republic of Azerbaijan’s new Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on Friday, Zarif congratulated the Azeri diplomat on his new post.

Foreign Minister Zarif also stressed the need to broaden the bilateral ties between Tehran and Baku.

He further expressed regret at the recent clashes between the Azeri and Armenian military forces and the deaths of a number of troops, and once again expressed Iran’s readiness to mediate between the two countries to de-escalate the tensions.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on Friday appointed Education Minister Jeyhun Bayramov as the country’s new Foreign Minister.

The new appointment came one day after President Aliyev strongly criticized long-running Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who had been in the post since 2004.

New clashes on the volatile border between Azerbaijan and Armenia began on Sunday, killing several soldiers and civilians.

The two South Caucasus nations have been locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. International efforts to settle the conflict have stalled.

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