Iran-Russia-China Naval Drills Grab Headlines in Iran

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Fatemeh Askarieh

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December 28, 2019

Iran Newspapers

Abrar:

1- Iran, Russia, China Start Joint Drills North of Indian Ocean

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- East Holds Drills against West Coalition

* Iran, China, Russia Start Drills in Sea of Oman

Ebtekar:

1- From Rumours of Resignation to Threat of Impeachment

* Hardliners Trying to Prevent Gov’t from Continuing Its Work

Etemad:

1- Marine Security Narrated by the East

* Iran, China, Russia Start War Games North of Indian Ocean

Hamshahri:

1- Eastern Military Exercise

2- Iran Celebrates Global Registration of Its Hyrcanian Forests While They’re on Fire

Javan:

1- We Won’t Give in to US Sanctions: VP

2- Barham Salih Playing Hariri’s Role in Iraq

3- Iran’s Healthcare Science Breaks Records in 2019

4- Asian Powers Show Off Their Power against US Coalition

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- MP: Iran’s Failure to Adopt FATF Standards So Far Benefited Enemies

2- Iraq’s Situation Gets More Complicated after President’s Resignation

3- Passenger Plane Crashes in Kazakhstan; 14 Killed

Kayhan:

1- Iran, China, Russia Hold Drills, Send Message to US through Oman Sea

2- Ansarullah: We’ll Repeat Aramco Nightmare for Saudis

Khorasan:

1- Eastern Triangle’s Clear Message to US

Mardom Salari:

1- End of Another Iranophobe: Will Pompeo Leave Trump Admin?

2- Christmas in Iran’s Jolfa

Shahrvand:

1- Iranian Woman Goalkeeper Breaks Iran’s Clean Sheet Record

* Team Melli’s Goalie among World’s Top 100

2- A Dolphin, Two Sea‌ Lions Die in Tehran’s Milad Tower Dolphinarium

Shargh:

1- Easterners Show Off Their Power: Iran, Russia, China Hold War Games

Iran to Build Houses for Low-Income Families

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IFP Editorial Staff

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December 28, 2019

Iran to Build Houses for Low-Income Families

Mohammad Baqer Nobokht said eight thousand of these houses are allocated to villagers and two thousand units will be built on the outskirts of Mashhad.

He made the remarks at a ceremony to launch several projects in Bardaskan, southwest of Khorasan Razavi on Saturday.

He added that the move to build houses for low-income families in Khorasan Razavi started in December this year and will be completed within a year.

Nobakht, who is also the head of the Plan and Budget Organisation, said, “This project was implemented in South Khorasan province last year and ten thousand residential units for low income groups were completed yesterday on December 27th.”

He also pointed to the flood that hit various parts of the country earlier this year, noting that it inflicted large-scale damages.

“The total damages of April floods amounted to nearly 3 billion dollars, which the government compensated part of it through grants and partially by low interest loans.”

“Grants and loans were paid in a situation that the government was struggling with financial problems. However, in addition to compensating for the flood damages earlier this year, the government has also spent over $3 billion on the country’s infrastructure, including the construction of highways and railways,” concluded Nobakht.

Charité Hospital of Berlin: Oldest, Most Prestigious Clinic in Germany

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IFP Media Wire

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December 28, 2019

Charité Hospital of Berlin: Oldest, Most Prestigious Clinic in Germany

Charité hospital Berlin was founded in 1710. The name was derived from King Frederick William and means “mercy”. Since then, the clinic has grown significantly and now it is the largest clinic in Germany.

Charité has the status of a University Hospital. Charité is the practical base for two medical universities, where students receive quality training. The clinic also pays a lot of attention to scientific activity.

In order to organize medical care in the most efficient way, the clinic is divided into 17 centers. The centers are also subdivided into many departments (about 100 departments in total).

Here are some of Charité’s centres:

Dental and craniofacial medicine.
Diagnosis and preventive medicine.
Radiology.
Anesthesiology and intensive therapy.
Surgery center.
Traumatology and orthopedic surgery.
Comprehensive cancer center.
Center of cardiovascular diseases.
Internal medicine and dermatology.
Internal medicine, gastroenterology and nephrology.
Neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry.
Ophthalmology and otolaryngology.
Gynecology and pediatrics.

The university clinic has 3,500 beds. Charité hospital accepts more than 150,000 inpatients and 700,00 outpatients annually.

Treatment in Charité clinic

Charité clinic is the most reputable clinic in Germany. The best doctors who have achieved great success in their medical field are working here. They have extensive experience and knowledge in the treatment of various diseases, including severe and rare diseases. What treatments do patients most often ask for in the Charité clinic?

Treatment of oncological diseases

The treatment of oncological diseases is provided in Comprehensive cancer center. The center uses a multidisciplinary approach. This means that in each case an oncologist develops an individual treatment program together with doctors of different specialties.

The fight against cancer is carried out using modern methods of treatment:

Tumor removal can be done using a robot-assisted surgical technology.
Doctors use modern types of radiotherapy, such as 3D conformal radiation therapy, brachytherapy, and radioisotope treatment.
Chemotherapy is effectively supplemented with targeted therapy. The patient has the opportunity to receive innovative drugs that have been created by researchers of the clinic.

Even patients with advanced cancer get a chance to improve overall health in Charité clinic Berlin.

Treatment of cardiovascular diseases

Charité hospital specializes in conservative and surgical therapies for various types of cardiovascular diseases. It is a modern cardiology center that is known throughout Europe.

Charité hospital performs such cardiovascular interventions:

Coronary artery bypass grafting.
Stent implantation.
Heart valve reconstruction and replacement.
Congenital heart defects surgery.
Surgery of cardiac arrhythmias — implantation of pacemakers or defibrillators.

In most cases, Charité clinic performs minimally invasive surgeries. Thus, heart surgeons achieve excellent results with the most sparing treatment.

Treatment of neurological diseases

Doctors from Charité hospital perform treatment of a wide range of neurological diseases. Thanks to research activities and high qualifications of doctors, the clinic treats rare and complicated diseases.

Doctors from Charité clinic can also offer surgical treatment for such diseases:

Cerebrovascular diseases.
Brain tumors.
Acute craniocerebral injuries.
Epilepsy.
Spinal diseases.

The doctors perform neurosurgical treatment with use of intraoperative imaging system. It allows surgeons performing complicated operations on brain or spine with the best possible accuracy and efficiency.

Main advantages of treatment in Charité clinic

Charité clinic is recognized as one of the leading European medical facilities. Main advantages of treatment in the Charité clinic are:

Treatment by the best specialists, including renowned professors and Nobel Prize winners.
The clinic has modern equipment, which allows to improve traditional methods of treatment and achieve better results.
The clinic is engaged in the advanced research. Thus, patients have access to innovative treatments.
The clinic offers a high level of service. Patients receive quality medical services, polite communication, comfortable hospital rooms.

Foreign residents can also be treated in the Charité clinic. You can undergo treatment in this clinic with the help of medical travel service Booking Health. We will arrange your medical program as soon as possible. The company Booking Health will also help you to issue a visa, book airline tickets and arrange transfer to the hospital.

Iran’s Beauties in Photos: Haj-Aqa-Torab Bath

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IFP Editorial Staff

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December 28, 2019

Located in Haj-Aqa-Torab alley in Aliabad neighbourhood of Nahavand in western Iran, the monument was constructed on 1851 during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar by Haj Mirza Mohammad Naqi, a well-respected authority of the city.

It was, however, named after Haj Mirza’s son, Haj-Aqa Torab, also a prominent figure of the Qajar area.

Registered in the list of Iranian national heritage on December 1976, the bath includes two separated sections for men and women, and two large and small hot and cold rooms.

The building has impressive decorations such as tiles with pictures of ancient Persian tales and Shahnameh (Book of Kings), decorative stones of white marble, and white lime with beautiful paintings and poems.

Nahavand is an important historical city in the south of Hamadan province. Various theories are developed about the historical background of this ancient region.

What follows are YJC’s photos of Haj-Aqa-Torab Bath:

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UNGA Condemns Myanmar’s Abuse of Rohingya Muslims

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IFP Editorial Staff

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December 28, 2019

UNGA Condemns Myanmar’s Abuse of Rohingya Muslims

In a session on Friday, the 193-member body voted 134-9 with 28 abstentions in favour of the resolution, which also calls on Myanmar’s government to take urgent measures to combat incitement of hatred against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states.

UNGA resolutions are not legally binding but they reflect world opinion.

Buddhist-majority Myanmar has long considered the Rohingya to be “Bengalis” from Bangladesh, in spite of their families having lived in the country for generations.

Nearly all have been denied citizenship since 1982, effectively rendering them stateless; they are also denied freedom of movement and other basic rights.

The long-simmering Rohingya crisis exploded on August 25, 2017, when Myanmar’s military launched what it called a clearance campaign in Rakhine in response to an attack by a Rohingya armed group.

The campaign led to a mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh, and accusations that security forces committed mass rapes and killings and burned thousands of homes, Al Jazeera reported.

The resolution expresses alarm at the continuing influx of Rohingya to neighbouring Bangladesh over the last four decades, now numbering 1.1 million including 744,000 who arrived since August 2017, “ïn the aftermath of atrocities committed by the security and armed forces of Myanmar.”

The UNGA also expressed alarm at an independent international fact-finding mission’s findings “of gross human rights violations and abuses suffered by Rohingya Muslims and other minorities” by the security forces, which the mission said “undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law.”

The resolution called for an immediate cessation of fighting and hostilities.

Musicians at a Coast Near Strait of Hormuz

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Photo of the Day

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December 28, 2019

Musicians at a Coast Near Strait of Hormuz

Lootis are inseparable parts of the culture and music of Hormozgan province in southern Iran. They herald the wedding ceremonies in the neighbourhood.

Car Bombing in Somalia Kills Dozens of People

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IFP Editorial Staff

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December 28, 2019

Car Bombing in Somalia Kills Dozens of People — Health team members take away dead bodies after a bomb attack carried out in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Dec. 28, 2019 / Photo by Anadolu Agency

The blast targeted a tax collection centre during the morning rush hour in Mogadishu, Police officer Mohamed Hussein said.

Close to 100 wounded people, including children, were rushed to hospitals. Among them were several university students who had been travelling in a bus, Hussein said.

There were conflicting reports about the number of casualties. Speaking to Al Jazeera, the adviser to Mogadishu’s capital said the death toll “is above 90 at the moment”.

“There are many casualties as well so the death toll is expected to rise,” Hodan Ali said, adding that the explosion took place at the Ex-Control junction.

Abdiqadir Abdirahman, the director of the Aamin Ambulance service, said that 61 people were killed in the attack.

A large plume of black smoke rose above the capital marking one of the deadliest attacks in Mogadishu in recent memory.

Ancient Works Discovered in Northern Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff

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December 28, 2019

Ancient Works Discovered in Northern Iran (2)

The findings, among the oldest collections of the Islamic period in Mazandaran province, play a pivotal role in portraying cultural sequences and also the events of various Islamic eras.

The head of the archaeology department of the city of Behshahr in Mazandaran province said nine immovable sites as well as some other movable works including pottery, earthenware, pieces of glass, iron and bronze objects, and stone blade have been discovered in the region.

In winter 2018, the site was excavated and some parts were demolished. However, after receiving reports that the owners demolished the cultural monuments the operation was immediately stopped.

Overall, remnants from prehistoric, historical, and Islamic artifacts have been identified during the destruction of much of the site.

In addition to the Safavid to the Qajar period, considerable works have been obtained from the early Islamic eras as well as the Ilkhanid period.

‘Iran-China-Russia Drills Show Commitment to Secure Waterways’

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IFP Editorial Staff

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December 28, 2019

Iran-China-Russia Drills Show Commitment to Secure Waterways

“Our joint military drills in Oman Sea/Indian Ocean with our Russian and Chinese partners make clear our broader commitment to secure vital waterways,” Zarif said in a Friday tweet.

“Iran has long stated its readiness to work with our neighbours to secure Persian Gulf. #HOPE-Hormuz Peace Endeavour-is on table right now,” he added.

The tweet came on the same day that Iran, Russia and China started four days of joint maritime exercise, dubbed as the “Marine Security Belt”, in an area of 17,000 square kilometres.

The drills are held in an area which consists of “various tactical exercises”, such as target practicing and rescuing ships from assault and incidents such as fires.

At a news conference on Wednesday, senior Spokesman for Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said the joint exercises will last until Monday.

Referring to the importance of the maneuver, he said the Indian Ocean and the Sea of Oman are key areas for the world trade, and many countries navigate through this region, so providing its security is of crucial significance.

He said the exchange of security experience between Tehran, Moscow and Beijing and counter-terrorism and piracy as well as countering terrorism and piracy are among the other goals of the drill.

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