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Iran FM to Visit Kuwait, Finland, Sweden, Norway

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The Iranian foreign minister will first pay a one-day visit to Kuwait on Saturday.

After returning to Iran, Zarif will then depart for the Finnish capital of Helsinki late Sunday, and hold talks with the Scandinavian nation’s president, Sauli Niinistö, and foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, on Monday.

The Iranian top diplomat will also meet Finland’s minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari.

The ongoing tensions in the Persian Gulf will be a focus of talks between Zarif and Finland officials, the Finnish foreign ministry told Euronews.

Helsinki seeks to know more about Tehran’s ideas to ease tensions in the region during Zarif’s trip, the foreign ministry said.

“Tensions in the Persian Gulf have an impact on the entire world. The importance of maintaining a dialogue is emphasised in this situation.”

“Discussion topics in the meetings will include bilateral relations, international and regional issues, human rights issues and Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Finland, the rotating president of the European Union, will elaborate on its goals and plans during its presidency during talks with the Iranian foreign minister.

Zarif will later leave Helsinki for Stockholm and Oslo, where he is going to hold talks with top Swedish and Norwegian officials.

Planning for Financial Challenges We All Face

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IFP Media Wire
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In the tough economic times, we live in today the financial challenges are becoming tougher month by month and we are all looking for different answers to each challenge. Our finances are stretched more today than ever before, so what can one do?

Buying time

The one thing nearly everyone would like is more time. We can’t make time; we can manage our time better to give the illusion of more time but there are very few people who do not have more money than month. Salaries and wages just don’t seem to go as far as they did and small loans provider HittaSMSLan knows this very well.  They know a secret to managing financial challenges that may not seem clear, they understand how to buy time with a small short-term loan.

Borrowing to improve cashflow

Short term loans, especially so-called payday loans that are borrowed over relatively short periods of time have become a financial tool that savvy people understand. A small loan in the middle of the month can help stretch your money. The interest and fees are not massive in the big picture of things when managing your personal cashflow these clever, instant loans become extremely useful. When planned payday loans become a management tool not something to get you out of the position where you don’t have enough income. Payday loans improve cashflow not income and this is vital understand and is perhaps where these loans have been tarnished a little.

Saving by cutting back

Another way to plan for the financial challenges we face is to look at your lifestyle and start saving. Our grandparents and great grandparents all lived happy lives, they lived on less material items that we ever did, and they didn’t have to spend money to be happy. We can all do this today and yet we buckle to peer pressure and never-ending marketing messages that tell us what we think we need. If you take a close look at your life you can cut back significantly. Look at your spending habits and begin to consider what you really need not so much what you want. It may be that you take a short payday loan to stabilize things, when used cleverly this is very possible and you can begin to plan f your finances better.

Small Savings

Saving needs to become a habit for it to become of value. We all think we need to save a big amount each month, but this is not true. The fact we live in an instant gratification society has hidden the value of time when saving. Saving for a rainy day may seem hard and what we want may be what everyone else has and by the time we have saved, it will be out of date. Stop worrying and take 2 years and learn to save. Set a goal of just saving 1% of your income per month and grow it by a percent each month. Before you know it, you will be on 24% and not feeling it. You will have started a habit that makes you see money and finance very differently.

Gibraltar Releases Iranian Tanker Grace 1: Official

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The release was confirmed on Thursday by Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad.

The release of the oil tanker Grace-1 came after some documents were exchanged that would help the seized ship’s release.

Gibraltar had earlier said it was seeking to de-escalate issues arising with Iran since the detention of the Grace-1 tanker.

“We continue to seek to de-escalate issues arising since the lawful detention of Grace 1,” a spokesman for Gibraltar said Tuesday.

The detention order on the vessel would have expired on Saturday night but a court hearing was held Thursday, and decided that the tanker be released.

British Royal Marines seized the Iranian oil tanker on July 4 off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory of Gibraltar on suspicion of violating EU sanctions by taking oil to Syria, which Tehran denies.

The tanker’s release is expected to facilitate Tehran’s reciprocal release of the UK tanker it seized last month on charge of violating international maritime rules.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

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IFP Editorial Staff
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A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 19

Abrar:

1- Strongly Stand against Saudi-UAE Plot for Disintegration of Yemen: Iran Leader

2- EU Shouldn’t Stand between US’ Maximum Pressure, Iran’s Maximum Resistance

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

 

Afkar:

1- IRGC Chief: Negotiation Is a Forgiven, Destroyed Logic in Iranian People’s Public Opinion

2- Rouhani: We’re Committed to Our Obligations If Other Parties Remained Loyal to Their Commitments

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- VPNs in Iran Brining Enormous Income for Sellers!

2- Rouhani to Attend UN General Assembly in September

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

 

Arman-e Melli:

1- Najafi Says Goodbye to Death Penalty

* Public Opinion Welcomes Decision by Victim’s Family

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

 

Asia:

1- Foreign Tourists with Heavy Motorcycles Can Now Visit Iran

2- Poor-Quality Saipa Pride Cars Won’t Receive Number Plates Anymore

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

 

Etemad:

1- Pardon: Don’t Execute Him; Najafi Forgiven by Victim’s Family

2- Father of Iran’s Nature Gholam-Ali Beski Dies at 88

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

 

Hemayat:

1- Israel to Be Showered with Missiles If It Attacks Gaza: Hamas

2- Hong Kong Protests Moving towards Separation

3- Al Jazeera Discloses UAE-Saudi Plot to Disintegrate Yemen

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

 

Javan:

1- First VP: You Won’t Find Any Government Better than Ours!

2- Rouhani: Gov’t Doing Its Best, Conditions Not Appropriate!

3- Ibrahim in Nigerian Jail of India

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

 

Kayhan:

1- Bitter Joke: Rouhani’s Chief of Staff Says Talks with Europe More Serious!

2- Mohammad Ali Najafi Escapes Qisas [Retaliation in Kind]

3- A Report on Sheikh Zakzaky’s Condition in India: Sheikh’s Life in Danger

4- Difference between Position of the Oppressed [Yemenis] and the Arrogant [Japan]

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

 

Sazandegi:

1- We Should Never Run Away from Negotiation: Rouhani

2- Saipa’s TIBA to Replace Poor-Quality Pride

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 15

Training Plane Crash Kills Two in South-East of Tehran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“It was a two-seat training aircraft. As a result of the accident … two crew members were killed,” Ali Hemmati, deputy governor of the Garmsar in Semnan province, told Fars News Agency.

The incident occurred at 9 am, 300-500 metres from the local Aflak Airport of Eyvanakey.

Captain Majid Fathinejad, 51, and a female trainee named Hosseininejad were killed in the incident, according to a Red Crescent official.

Reza Ameri told ISNA that the plane was 150 metres above the ground when the incident happened and it crashed.

Both passengers were reportedly alive when the plane crashed, but they failed to get themselves out of the burning plane.

Ameri says when the rescue teams arrived at the scene, both of them were dead.

The plane was reportedly a private one.

Iran Says Will Pump Oil from East of Hormuz Strait by 2021

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IFP Media Wire
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A senior oil ministry official said on Wednesday that the 1,100-kilometer pipeline connecting Gorreh, in southwestern province of Bushehr, to Jask, a port in southern Hormozgan province, will be ready for use in March 2021 which marks the end of the next Iranian calendar year when officials hope to finish the project.

Touraj Dehqani, who serves as CEO of Iran’s Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC), said that the project would drastically transform oil delivery mechanisms in the Persian Gulf as it would save oil tankers a long journey to terminals located to the west of the region.

Dehqani said Iran had managed to reduce funding needed for the project through contracting domestic manufacturers for supply of the pipes.

“This project would cost around $2 billion of which between 500 to 600 million have been (earmarked for) contract to supply pipes,” he said, adding that the cost of pipes, that should be of the sour service type, could have doubled if Iran wanted to import them from traditional suppliers in Europe, China and South Korea.

The PEDEC chief said the pipeline would transfer around one million barrels per day (bpd) of oil from Gorreh to Jask, adding that a storage capacity of around 20 million bpd would be created in Jask to increase Iran’s potentials for exports.

The announcement comes amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf where the United States and allies are seeking to increase their military presence in the Strait of Hormuz in an alleged attempt to ensure security through the waterway.

Iran, which shares control over the Strait with neighboring Oman, has warned that it would remain the single dominant force in the waterway and would not allow foreigners to destabilize the area for their political purposes.

Iran has previously warned that it would shut down the Strait of Hormuz if its energy exports are threatened by external powers.

Creepy Legends about Underground Aqueduct in Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Creepy legends have grown about Qasabeh Qanat since a long time ago. In fact, the ancient people believed that it could not be constructed by humans and was made by super-human forces.

Most of what we know about this underground aqueduct are the stories that people of Gonabad have been narrating since the past.

Apart from mythical and historical stories about the qanat, archaeological investigations into the aqueduct led to the discovery of pottery collected from the main wells; proving that this strange aqueduct dates back to the Achaemenid dynasty.

French researcher Henri Goblot, in a book called “Qanats: A Water Acquisition Technique”, describes the underground aqueduct as an oddity. He considers this qanat to be a structure built using the techniques of engineering.

In his view, this qanat, which is the most original one in the world, is made by people who have had superhuman powers! Indeed, he confirms the creepy local legends!

He travelled to Iran in 1940 to do research and comment on modern irrigation methods. In his book, he attributes the culmination of creativity to the builders and engineers of Gonabad qanat.

This weird qanat is an ancient one dating back to 2,500 to 2,700 years ago.

It also has two underground corridors that are 33 km long as well as very deep wells, some of them 300 metres deep.

Gonabad qanat was first added to UNESCO’s list of tentative World Heritage Sites in 2007, then officially inscribed in 2016, collectively with several other qanats, as “The Persian Qanat“.

What’s a qanat?

A qanat or kariz is a gently sloping underground channel to transport water from an aquifer or water well to surface with a series of vertical access shafts. It acts as an underground aqueduct, supplying water for irrigation and drinking.

Qanats still create a reliable supply of water for human settlements and irrigation in hot, arid, and semi-arid climates. Of course, the value of this system is directly related to the quality, volume, and regularity of the water flow.

Traditionally qanats were built by a group of skilled labourers, with hand labour. According to most sources, the qanat technology was developed in ancient Iran by the Persian people sometime in the early 1st millennium BCE. Later it spread from Iran slowly westward and eastward.

Iran Warns of Crushing Response to Any Aggression

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Araqchi made the remarks in a Wednesday meeting with Chairman of the Defence, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Information Commission of the People’s Representative Council of Indonesia, Abdul Kharis Almasyhari, and some of the commission’s members in Tehran.

In the meeting, the Iranian diplomat welcomed the expansion of relations with Indonesia in diverse fields, explicated Tehran’s defence policy, and underlined that its military capabilities are exclusively for deterrence, not against any other country.

“In its modern history, Iran has not started any war, and will not do it hereafter either, but would not have the slightest hesitation in defending itself, and will respond to any aggressor immediately and crushingly,” Araqchi stressed.

On Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and the US’ baseless allegations, the Iranian diplomat said, “According to the fatwa (religious edict) of the Supreme Leader, we deem any kind of non-peaceful use of nuclear energy haram (forbidden) and rejected, but we have locally developed this technology within the framework a peaceful program, with the capabilities of our own scientists.”

He also emphasized that Washington’s cruel sanctions against the Iranian nation are illegal and inhumane in nature, noting, however, that Iran is determined to turn them into an opportunity for transforming its economy.

For his part, chairman of the Indonesian parliamentary commission lauded Iran’s self-confidence and independence, stressed the need for the enhancement of parliamentary interaction between the two Muslim states, and voiced Indonesia’s readiness for cooperation with Iran in various fields, including in the fight against extremism and terrorism.

Hezbollah Decries US Sanction on Zarif

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IFP Editorial Staff
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In a letter released on Wednesday, Nasrallah praised Foreign Minister Zarif for standing against the US by disclosing the truth, saying the US plots against Iran are doomed to failure, like those hatched against Lebanon in the 2006 war.

What follows in the text of the Lebanese leader’s letter to Zarif:

Dear brother, Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, the honorable Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran;
May the peace, mercy and blessing of Allah be upon you;

When the American authorities announced the imposition of sanctions on you and added you to the list of the honorable people, I and my brothers decided to send you a message to express our solidarity and respect; but I preferred to postpone issuing the message until today, August 14, the day on which the Lebanese resistance could defeat the US and the so-called Israel with the full support and backing from the Islamic Republic of Iran during a 33-day war in July and August 2006.

The decisions and plots in that cruel war and grave invasion were made in America, and were under the authority of the powerless administration of George Bush the son, Condoleezza Rice, and John Bolton. The Israeli army, alleged by them to be the strongest army in the region, was merely an instrument for operation in that war.

Bolton, the then US envoy in the Security Council, had told one of the Arab officials in that war, “There is no room for diplomatic activity, because the war would not end unless with Hezbollah’s destruction or surrender.” But a few weeks later, Bolton told that Arab official, “We must finish the war right now.”

“Did you destroy Hezbollah?” the Arab official had asked him.

“No,” Bolton said.

“Did you force Hezbollah to surrender?”

“No.”

“So why are you ending the war?”

“Because if the war continues, ‘Israel’ will be gripped by a tremendous catastrophe,” Bolton had replied.

Mr. Minister, our dear friend;

Bolton, who threatens to overthrow the Islamic Republic’s establishment, has had no achievement or victory in his life. On these days back in 2006, the US retreated and was defeated in the face of popular resistance from a country with a small area and embroiled in internal disunity, let alone in the face of a great regional country, a united nation, a coherent establishment, and an august leadership.

Mr. Minister; you are a loud voice in all international venues, who discloses the truth, expresses what is rightful, and shouts it before the eyes of the world’s unruliest tyrants, namely the US and Trump and all individuals of the same type, and this is the biggest jihad.

They sought to besiege you, push you away, and intimidate you, but your presence and influence were strengthened and your position was elevated; and God willing, you will continue to remain an advocate of the oppressed and those resisting in the same way.

May God protect and help you.

Hassan Nasrallah

August 14, 2019

Iran Raps Saudi-Emirati Plot to Disintegrate Yemen

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IFP Editorial Staff
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In a statement released on Wednesday, Seyyed Abbas Mousavi touched on the recent developments in south of Yemen, saying, “The coalition of Saudi and Emirati invaders, accompanied by their mercenaries, who have been unable to destroy the willpower of people with various advanced weapons, massacre, and widespread destruction over the past five years and who find themselves defeated by the spirit of diligence and fortitude of people across Yemen, are now seeking disintegration of Yemen under a suspicious plot.”

He also reaffirmed Tehran’s backing for the territorial integrity of Yemen, and added, “The Islamic Republic of Iran always supports a ‘united Yemen’ and deems preserving its integrity a common responsibility of all Yemeni people.”

The Iranian diplomat finally expressed the hope that a cessation of aggression against Yemen by the Saudi-Emirati coalition would enable different Yemeni parties and groups to overcome the problems by accomplishing the Yemeni-Yemeni talks and form an inclusive government across the country.

Estimates show that the Saudi-led war has claimed the lives of over 60,000 Yemenis since January 2016.

The years-long military aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The United Nations has warned that more than 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.

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