Iran Urges Negotiated Solution to Libya Crisis

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June 18, 2020

Iran Condemns US Oil Deal with Syrian Kurdish Group

In a statement on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi stressed the need to respect Libya’s unity and territorial integrity.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has always emphasized the necessity of respecting the Libyan people’s right to decide their own political fate without foreign interference, and believes accordingly that the crisis in that country has no military solution, and the only way to achieve stability and calm in Libya is for all countries and regional and international actors influential in that country’s developments to support the political process and holding of Libyan dialogue with the participation of all domestic parties in that country,” the spokesperson said.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman also expresses support for the international efforts to end the political crisis in Libya, stressing the need to proceed with those efforts.

Iran Hosts COVID-19 Fight Technology Expo

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June 17, 2020

Iran Hosts COVID-19 Fight Technology Expo

The exhibition was held under the auspices of the Innovation and Development Fund and the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology at Tehran International Exhibition Center on June 13-15.

The event was open to the general public, as many foreign ambassadors and attachés as well as Iranian authorities visited the fair.

The visitors were admitted to the exposition in compliance with strict health protocols.

Some 150 knowledge-based companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs attended the exposition and offered their products at a 50% discount.

The event was held with the purpose of making connections between the domestic producer companies and industrial sectors, introducing the homegrown technological products, and promoting the exports.

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Over 195,000 Infected by Novel Coronavirus in Iran

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June 17, 2020

Iran Confirms Record-High Number of New COVID-19 Cases

In her press briefing on Wednesday, Lari said 120 patients have died of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, raising the overall death toll to 9,185.

According to the spokeswoman, 154,812 patients have so far recovered from COVID-19, but 2,789 are still in severe conditions of the disease.
She said so far 1,319,920 COVID-19 tests have been taken across the country.

According to Lari, Khuzestan, East Azarbaijan, Khorasan Razavi, Lorestan, Hormozgan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces are considered red zones.

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‘Knowledge-Based Firms Make Iran Exporter of Coronavirus-Related Items’

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June 17, 2020

‘Knowledge-Based Firms Make Iran Exporter of Coronavirus-Related Items’

Addressing a Tuesday meeting of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, President Rouhani expressed gratitude to the local scientific centers, universities, and knowledge-based enterprises for developing innovative ideas that have prevented a halt to domestic production amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.

“Under such difficult conditions, the new ideas of the knowledge-based centers turned Iran into a powerful exporter of certain new products,” the president added.

He also paid tribute to all Iranian individuals in the health, medical, security, and economic sectors for assisting people and the country in the battle with coronavirus.

President Rouhani also praised Iranians for their stellar efforts, resistance and fortitude in dealing with the foreign sanctions and pressures, saying the country has continued to make progress despite a cut in revenues caused by the sanctions and the coronavirus outbreak.

While the entire world is facing tough conditions and the statistics show that economies have shrunk after the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, Iran has managed to revive non-oil exports in many sectors, has gradually reopened border-crossings, and continues to improve the situation step by step, the president noted.

Iran Censures UN for Taking Saudi-Led Coalition Off Child Rights Blacklist

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June 17, 2020

In a statement on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi deplored the UN secretary-general’s decision to remove the Saudi-led coalition from a blacklist of those violating children’s rights.

“The UN secretary-general has omitted the name of Saudi-led coalition from the list of child-murderers while, as acknowledged by the international organizations, a large number of Yemeni children and teenagers have died in catastrophes such as bomb attacks on buses carrying students and aerial bombing of residential houses, schools and hospitals, as the tragic news and images of them are undeniable,” he noted.

The spokesperson said such measures by the UN are not unprecedented, as in 2015, the then secretary-general of the United Nations had removed Saudi Arabia from the same blacklist of children’s rights violators arguing that Saudi Arabia had threatened to cut off funding to the UN.

“Unfortunately, some in the United Nations are seeking to sanctify that country’s (Saudi Arabia’s) crimes against Yemeni children and women with Saudi dollars, while the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has announced that a Yemeni child dies every 10 minutes of the consequences of the war and blockade imposed on Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition,” Mousavi added.

The Iranian spokesman further denounced the “shocking and disgusting” logic behind the decision to remove Saudi Arabia from the blacklist of violators of children’s rights in armed conflict because the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for the death or injury of “only 222 children” in 2019.

“The result obtained logically is that the death and injury of this number of children is either an unimportant fact for the secretariat of that organization (the UN) or the casualties at the hands of a country like Saudi Arabia is deemed to be a praiseworthy progress compared to the past record, which is another evidence for the claims that there are selective approaches and double standards on human rights,” the Iranian spokesperson stated.

On Tuesday, the UN secretary-general removed the Saudi-led coalition from his latest “list of shame” despite continued grave violations against children in Yemen. Antonio Guterres also ignored violations by other parties, including the United States and Israel, by omitting them from his list.

Five years of Saudi-led war on Yemen has devastated the poor country, reportedly killed more than 100,000 people, and triggered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

Iran, Russia Issue Declaration on Promotion of Int’l Law

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June 16, 2020

Iran, Russia Issue Declaration on Promotion of Int’l Law

After a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday, June 16, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov signed a joint declaration on the promotion of international law.

What follows is the full text of the declaration:

1. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation reaffirm their full commitment to the principles of international law codified in the “Charter of the United Nations” and in the “Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations” adopted in 1970. The principles of international law that form the basis of fair and equal international relations contribute to realization of win-win cooperation and create common space for equal and inseparable security and economic cooperation.

2. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation share the view that the principle of sovereign equality of states is vital for stability in the international relations. The states enjoy their rights based on independence and equality, and make commitments and take responsibilities on the basis of mutual respect. The states have the right to take part equally in creating and enforcing the international law. They are also committed to observing the international law with goodwill in a consistent and constant manner.

3. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation affirm the principle that all states should refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any other state inconsistent with the Charter of the United Nations. Accordingly, they condemn the unilateral acts of military intervention.

4. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation fully support the principle of non-intervention in the domestic or foreign affairs of the other states, and condemn any intervention by the states in the domestic or foreign affairs of the other states with the purpose of a fake change of legitimate governments that would violate that principle.

5. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation consider any measure or effort to undermine or destabilize the states or their institutions in any shape or under any pretext as a violation of the aforementioned principle.

6. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation condemn the extraterritorial imposition of national laws of states in contravention of the international law as another example of violation of the principle of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of states.

7. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation assert the sovereign and inviolable right of states, as part of principle of non-intervention in the domestic or foreign affairs of the other states, to define their own political, economic, cultural and social systems to promote international relations and exercise permanent sovereignty over their natural resources, in accordance with the will of their people and without foreign interference, intervention, subversion, coercion or threat in any shape.

8. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation underline the principle of peaceful settlement of the conflicts and firmly believe that the states must resolve their differences with the means and mechanisms on which they have agreed. Such process contributes to the peaceful settlement of differences according to the imposable international law and, accordingly, could result in the reduction of tensions and enhancement of peaceful cooperation. Obviously, in order to maintain the international legal order, it is essential that all means and mechanism for the settlement of disputes are based upon consent and are employed with goodwill and the spirit of cooperation. The aforementioned purposes must not be undermined with abuse in practice.

9. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation share the view that implementation of the general principles and rules recognized by the international law with goodwill will prevent the process of adoption of double standards or the imposition of will of some states on some others. They consider the imposition of unilateral forceful measures –also known as the “unilateral sanctions”- as an example of such approach. The unilateral forceful measures, particularly in the form of economic coercive measures, target the groups in the most vulnerable economic and social conditions. Therefore, all countries must refrain from declaring and imposing any unilateral forceful measure; because such measures prevent the full realization of economic and social development and have negative impacts on the enjoyment of all human rights, including the right to development, trade and investment.

10. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation condemn terrorism in any shape and form as a global threat to international peace and security and consider that it undermines the international order based upon international law. They emphasize that terrorism must not be attributed to a specific faith, nationality, and ethnic or civilizational group. The terrorist acts are criminal and unjustifiable measures, irrespective of the motive, the time and the place and no matter who commits them. They also emphasize the need for joint efforts and comprehensive approaches to prevent and fight against terrorism, in accordance with the international law, including the Charter of the United Nations. Moreover, they emphasize that unfounded accusations against the official institutions of other states, which could challenge the international efforts at the fight against terrorism, are unacceptable. Furthermore, they support the uniform and balanced implementation of the United Nations’ strategy for fighting against terrorism.

11. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation declare that the international commitments regarding the impunity of states, their assets and their officials must be always respected by the countries. The violation of those commitments run counter to the principle of sovereign equality of states and could escalate tensions.

12. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation are determined to counter the unilateral illegal approaches to the settlement of global crises and actively promote the collective and multilateral just approaches based upon the general principles and rules recognized by the international law to resolve the urgent and essential regional and global problems. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation reject the concepts that seek to undermine the international order based upon international law.

13. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation decide to expand their cooperation, in line with the relations based on strategic partnership between the two sides, in order to observe and promote the international law and establish a just international order on the basis of international law.

Iran’s COVID-19 Fatalities Rise to 9,000

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June 16, 2020

Iran's Daily COVID-19 Fatalities Down to 147

In her press briefing on Tuesday, Sima-Sadat Lari confirmed 2,563 new cases of COVID-19 infection, increasing the total number of infections to 192,439.

According to the spokeswoman, 152,675 patients have so far recovered from COVID-19, but 2,815 are still in severe conditions of the disease.

She said so far 1,293,609 COVID-19 tests have been taken across the country.

According to Lari, Khuzestan, West and East Azarbaijan, Golestan, Khorasan Razavi, Lorestan, Hormozgan, Kurdistan, and Sistan and Baluchestan provinces are considered red zones.

Ministers Weigh Plans for Iran-Iraq Oil Cooperation

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June 16, 2020

Ministers Weigh Plans for Iran-Iraq Oil Cooperation

In a telephone conversation, Zangeneh and Abdul Jabbar conducted a review of relations between Iran and Iraq and called for the expansion of oil cooperation between the two Muslim neighbours.

In the conversation, the Iranian minister congratulated Abdul Jabbar on taking office as the new oil minister of Iraq after formation of a new government under Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s leadership.

For his part, Abdul Jabbar said Iraq’s daily export of crude in June has reached 2.8 million barrels.

The Iraqi oil minister also emphasized that it would be in Iraq’s interests to abide by a production cut agreement between the OPEC and its allies, known as OPEC+, saying the Iraqi Kurdistan Region has been directed to comply with the OPEC+ deal and cut its share of oil output.

The OPEC members, Russia and other oil producing nations agreed in April to cut output by around 10% of global supply to support oil prices amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Iran after Release of Currency Assets Abroad: President

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June 16, 2020

Iran after Release of Currency Assets Abroad: President

Addressing a meeting of the Administration’s Economic Headquarters on Tuesday, President Rouhani stressed the need to prevent the pressure of sanctions on the supply of foreign currency from leading to a hike in the price of basic commodities.

The president said one of the main economic priorities the administration has set for the current Iranian year is managing the capital market and supplying the foreign currency to meet the country’s demands.

“The foreign policy and the Central Bank officials are trying to free Iran’s currency assets in the other countries through multilateral consultations, so that the country’s currency market would be immune to possible volatility, “President Rouhani noted.

He also highlighted the efforts to handle the situation in two fronts at the same time, saying the administration is actively dealing with the “cruel and inhumane sanctions” imposed by the enemies and fighting against the coronavirus epidemic and mitigating its economic repercussions simultaneously.

“One of the country’s glories in simultaneous handling of the sanctions and the coronavirus has been fulfillment of the necessary needs of people in the market, in such a way that we prevented the inhumane dream of those imposing sanctions from coming true, which was causing problems and distress in the daily economic lives of people and the supply of the items they need for livelihood,” the president stated.

President Rouhani also praised the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and the Central Bank of Iran for providing the necessary medicine in the current tough conditions, saying good planning has enabled people to obtain medication in spite of the sanctions and the outbreak of coronavirus.

In comments on Sunday, President Rouhani had highlighted his administration’s efforts to deal with the economic consequences of the coronavirus outbreak, saying the main priority in the administration’s economic plans is to control prices and supply the basic means of life.