US President Donald Trump prays during a cabinet meeting in the White House / Photo by AP
Hesameddin Ashena said in a tweet on Friday that Iran knows US President Donald Trump will leave office in November, so he needs to give more concessions than his predecessor Barack Obama.
“You are going down on November 3 and we know that. So you’ll need to offer much more than Obama did!” reads his message.
The tweet came shortly after Donald Trump said in a tweet “Thank you to Iran, it shows a deal is possible!”
Referring to the release of a Navy veteran from Iranian custody, Trump said that a pact with Tehran could be tenable.
Then in another tweet the US president said “So great to have Michael home. Just arrived. Very excited. Thank you to Iran. Don’t wait until after US Election to make the Big deal. I’m going to win. You’ll make a better deal now.”
Right after Trump’s tweet, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif replied to him saying that “We achieved humanitarian swap *despite* your subordinates’ efforts. And we had a deal when you entered office. Iran & other JCPOA participants never left the table.
Your advisors—most fired by now—made a dumb bet. Up to you to decide *when* you want to fix it.”
Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said on Friday as it has been repeatedly stated the French officials must be aware that the judicial processes in Iran are followed up independently.
Accordingly, he added, the case of Iranian citizen Fariba Adelkhah has been subject to an independent and fair judicial process.
“She has been convicted with regards to the crime she has committed, and is serving her sentence,” he noted.
“Political pressures and propaganda campaigns cannot disrupt the carrying out of the sentence. We hope that the French authorities will pay attention to this,” added Mousavi.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian asked Iran to release Fariba Adelkhah who is serving her six-year sentence on national security charges.
“This ongoing situation can only have a negative impact on the bilateral relations between France and Iran, and can only significantly reduce the trust between our two countries,” he added.
Iran’s consulate in Basra says it has contacted the Iraqi officials about the latest condition of the crew of Behbahan vessel and the reason for its capsize.
In this regard, preliminary studies indicate that due to the unfavourable weather conditions and the impact of the waves on the cargo ship, its load has been pushed to one side of the ship, and this has caused the ship to sink, Iran’s foreign ministry said in a a statement on Friday.
The foreign ministry has also noted that the embassy and consulate general of the Islamic Republic in Iraq would match up to return the four survivors and transfer the body of an Iranian national who lost his life in this incident.
Iran’s Behbahan cargo ship capsized early Friday in Iraqi waters near Umm Qasr Port in the southeast of the country.
The vessel was heading from Iran’s Khoramshar port to transfer ceramic and other construction materials to the neighbouring state.
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Speaking in his Friday press briefing, Kianoush Jahanpour said 13 Iranian provinces recorded zero fatalities since Thursday noon, and 5 provinces recorded only one death in the one-day period.
The spokesman also confirmed 2,886 new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the total number of cases to 167,156.
He said 129,741 patients have so far recovered from the disease, and been discharged from hospitals across the country.
2,573 patients are also in severe conditions of the disease, he added.
So far, Jahanpour noted, 1,040,289 COVID-19 tests have been taken in Iran.
The Iranian vessel Behbahan sank in the early hours of Friday north of Persian Gulf and in the southeast of Umm Qasr Port, Iraq‘s only deep water port.
Khorramshahr Ports and Maritime Administration announced on Friday that the cargo vessel was carrying construction materials when it capsized.
Iranian officials say there were seven crew members onboard, of whom one has died and four have been rescued. Two people including an Indian national are still unaccounted for and the rescue teams are searching the area.
The Islamic Republic is now consulting with Iraq to send a team of marine experts to the scene.
The cause of the incident is under investigation and will be announced later, Iranian authorities at Khorramshahr Ports and Maritime Administration say.
Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said in a statement on Friday that the increase of the EU and US sanctions against the Syrian people is an unlawful and inhumane move, and that most of the negative consequences and harms of such bans will be borne by the ordinary people and citizens of Syria.
Mousavi described sanctions as an inhumane tool that directly and seriously jeopardises human rights.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran expresses solidarity with the resilient nation and government of Syria and calls for the lifting of all anti-human sanctions against Damascus so that the Syrians can meet their basic needs and repair the damages caused by Western-backed terrorist attacks against the country’s infrastructure with the help of the international community,” underlined Mousavi.
The European Union has renewed its sanctions against the Syrian government of for another year. The sanctions ban oil imports, certain investments, technology transfer that could aid the Arab country. These sanctions were first initiated in 2011.
The US has also imposed new financial sanctions against Syria as part of its so-called Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act – also known as the Caesar Act.
“Mr. Michael White, who had been sentenced to prison in Iran for security crimes and in a lawsuit brought by private plaintiffs, was released after satisfying the plaintiffs in respect to the cause of action while being granted Islamic mercy for his other crimes,” Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said in a statement.
“He was released from jail given the time served and in respect of human rights considerations, and left Iran on Thursday,” the spokesman added.
“After the coronavirus outbreak, upon the general directive of the Iranian Judiciary Chief, White was granted furlough, but as long as he had no relatives in Iran, he was handed over to the Embassy of Switzerland, which protects the US interests in Iran, upon the embassy’s request,” Mousavi noted.
Photo of Michael White leaving Iran after being released in a prisoner swap deal
“As he had some symptoms of the virus, he was under full medical supervision and treatment during this time, and after making sure that his coronavirus test was negative, the freedom verdict was implemented,” he added.
“Simultaneous with White’s release, Majid Taheri, an Iranian scientist who had been imprisoned in the United States for false reasons, was released from prison as per the court ruling,” Mousavi added.
Mousavi finally appreciated the close cooperation of the Judiciary, the Intelligence Ministry, and the Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council as well as the Swiss Embassy in Tehran who prepared the grounds for the release of Mr White and Doctor Taheri.
In a tweet on Thursday night, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the United States to release all Iranian citizens.
The developments come a day after Iranian scientist Sirous Asgari, a professor of material sciences at Iran’s Sharif University of Technology, returned home after spending about three years in detention in the US on trumped up charges of fraud and theft of information relating to his work with a university in Ohio.
Last December, Iran freed US citizen Xiyue Wang, who had been held for three years on spying charges, and the United States released Iranian stem cell scientist Massoud Soleimani.
Soleimani was on a sabbatical when he was arrested by US authorities upon arrival in Chicago a year ago and transferred to a prison in Atlanta, Georgia on charges of violating US sanctions on Iran.
Kianoush Jahanpour announced on Thursday the new cases of infection increase the total number of cases to 164,270.
He said 59 people have died of the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 8,071.
The spokesman said 127,485 patients have so far recovered from the disease, and been discharged from hospital.
2,569 patients are also in severe conditions of the disease, he added.
Jahanpour noted that 1,019,362 COVID-19 tests have been taken across the country.
He warned that Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and Hormozgan provinces are in alarming conditions, and the situation is still red in Khuzestan province.
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The travel bans and home quarantine orders amidst the coronavirus pandemic significantly reduced air pollution; as the carbon monoxide levels, produced mainly by automobiles, has dropped by almost 50 percent as compared to 2019.
The carbon dioxide production, another phenomenon leading to global warming by increasing the world’s temperature, has also declined since the COVID-19 outbreak. Forests are also relieved from the pollutant waste.
What follows are YJC’s photos of Gorgan forests in northeastern Iran, free from destructive human effects in lockdown days:
