Kerman municipality has organized the event in order to make use of dried trees for beautifying the city with the help of sculpture artists all over the country who create artworks from the trees’ wood.
“These dried up trees of the city have the memory of years of vitality; the citizens can remember the trees’ lively past by looking at the wooden artworks,” said the symposium’s executive secretory.
What follows are ISNA’s photos of the event:
Dr Ali Jafarian, a faculty member at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, says from a scientific point of view, Iran’s transplanting sections are working very well.
“Last year, 800 liver transplants were carried out in Iran, which is close to the United Kingdom with approximately equal numbers, and such number of liver transplants was only conducted in three centres in Iran.”
“Of course, because of the sanctions, we are faced with challenges in this area. For example, for two weeks we did not have a dialysis device that would make life difficult for patients.”
He also noted that fortunately, currently there is no problem in providing these patients with medicines across the country because most of the needed drugs are produced domestically.
“With the launch of liver transplantation centres in Kerman, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz, Mashhad and Tehran, the country’s need for liver transplantation has also been met,” underlined Dr Jafari.
According to the Ministry of Health’s permission to the organ transplant centres in the country, foreign patients can do this transplant in Iran after Iranian embassies abroad approve their documents.
“We perform the least expensive organ transplant in the world, and therefore, foreign patients tend to undergo this transplant in Iran. Moreover, the foreign patients trust our medical services and doctors.”
The Panamanian Maritime Administration (AMP) on Sunday censured the use of ships chartered by Panama for illegal acts, days after Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) detained the oil tanker MT Riah when it was smuggling one million liters of Iranian fuel in the northern part of the Strait of Hormuz.
“We categorically condemn the use of vessels with a Panamanian flag for illicit acts that threaten the safety of human life,” the AMP underscored in a statement.
The statement further said that “those who clearly violate the laws, conventions and international agreements will be sanctioned and will run the risk that the ship is canceled from the Registry.”
Panamanian Ship Registry on Friday officially started withdrawing the registration of MT Riah after an investigation determined the tanker had “deliberately violated international regulations,” the AMP said.
According to specialized international sites, the vessel changed its name four times between 2009 and 2019. The vessel’s Dubai-based owner Prime Tankers LLC says it has sold the vessel to Mouj Al-Bahar, another Emirati company.
The latest development follows the British seizure of an Iranian oil tanker claiming that it was carrying crude to Syria in violation of the European Union’s unilateral sanctions against the Arab country.
The Grace 1 supertanker, carrying 2.1 million barrels of oil, was seized on July 4 as it transited through international waters off Gibraltar, which is located on Spain’s southern tip.
Later that day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Britain’s ambassador in Tehran, Rob Macaire, to express its strong protest at the move. The envoy was told that the British Royal Marines’ move was tantamount to “maritime piracy.”
Reports say the seizure took place at the request of the United States, which has been bent on driving Iranian oil exports to “zero” as part of its sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei denounced Britain’s illegal seizure of the oil tanker, warning that the act of “piracy” will not go unanswered.
On July 19, the IRGC Navy captured British oil tanker Stena Impero for violating international maritime laws when crossing the high-traffic Strait of Hormuz.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Mondaythat Iran’s arguments for its seizure of the UK-flagged oil tanker were more convincing than those of London.
“Iran’s arguments are much more right than those of Gibraltar and London who are indulging in piracy,” Ryabkov said.
Iranian officials says the vessel had switched off its GPS locator, in contravention of international regulations, and was sailing into the strategic waterway in a wrong traffic pattern.
The taker was transferred to the port of Iran’s southern city of Bandar Abbas for maritime casualty investigation.
The Britain has sought a diplomatic solution to the incident and UK Prime Minister Theresa May is to hold a meeting of the emergencies committee on Monday to discuss the issue.
Saudi Arabia, which had itself been holding an Iranian oil tanker for almost 11 weeks, called Iran’s measure to seize Stena Impero “completely unacceptable”.
Saudi Arabia announced in early May that its coast guard had rescued a distressed Iranian oil tanker with 26 on board off the Red Sea port of Jeddah, after it faced “engine failure and the loss of control.”
According to Iranian officials, the incident had occurred on April 30 while Happiness I was on its way to the Suez Canal, and that water had leaked into the tanker’s engine room.
The Saudis were refusing to let the vessel leave and were, at the same time, demanding that Iran pay $200,000 a day for maintaining the vessel in the port city of Jeddah, some $10 million in total.
The oil tanker, however, was released on Saturday after a series of negotiations.
He made the remarks in a Monday meeting with Saleh al-Arouri, the Deputy Chairman of the political office of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and his entourage.
“Mr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says he will, Inshallah, pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque one day. To us, this is a totally feasible and achievable hope,” the Leader said.
“On the issue of Palestine, the Islamic Republic observes no ceremonies with any country in the world,” the Leader said.
“We have always clearly declared our viewpoint on Palestine. Even on the international arena, countries that are our friends— with whom we do not see eye to eye on this issue—know that to the Islamic Republic, the Palestinian cause is absolutely serious,” he added.
“One of the important reasons behind the animosity against the Islamic Republic is the Palestinian cause; but such enmities and pressures will not make Iran give up on its stances regarding Palestine; because supporting Palestine is an ideological and religious matter,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.
He also noted that “if the World of Islam unitedly resisted on the issue of Palestine, it would have been in better conditions.”
“Certain states— that are US cohorts—like the Saudis’ distancing themselves from the Palestinian cause was a foolish act; because if they supported Palestine, they could have gained concessions against the US,” he added.
According to the Intelligence Ministry’s director-general for counterintelligence, all the operatives are Iranian nationals working as spies on behalf of the CIA throughout the past Iranian calendar year (March 2018 to March 2019).
The suspects were operating in key organizations and institutions mainly in the private sector, the official said on Monday.
“The spies identified were employed in sensitive and vital private sector centres in the economic, nuclear, infrastructural, military and cyber areas… where they collected classified information,” the official said in a statement.
Some of those arrested have received death sentences, and some of them prison terms.
According to the unnamed official, the CIA had recruited the Iranian spies by mainly contacting them over the Internet.
Other tactics used by the US intelligence included issuing or renewing US visas, hiring Iranian specialists, providing necessary equipment and access to certain participants in scientific events abroad, sending emails and messaging through social.
The Intelligence Ministry has also aired a documentary film of the agents it has arrested. The film shows interviews with some of the operatives, and shows how the CIA sent equipment to the agents.
The reason for maintaining the traditional way is that mountainous roads don’t allow for the use of industrial machinery.
The region’s land owners use the manpower, including family members, to harvest the wheat.
Despite the successive droughts, Iran has remained self-sufficient in wheat production for the fourth year thanks to its farmers.
What follows are YJC’s photos of traditional wheat harvest:
“The Secretariat of the International Atomic Energy Agency regrets to inform with deepest sadness of the passing away of Director General Yukiya Amano,” the IAEA secretariat said in the note, obtained by Reuters.
Amano, a Japanese diplomat, previously served as an international civil servant for the United Nations and its subdivisions.
In 2005, Amano served as the ambassador from Japan to the IAEA. From September 2005 to September 2006, Amano served as the Chairman of the IAEA Board of Governors.
During this time, the IAEA and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize. Amano represented the IAEA as the chairman at the Nobel Prize award ceremony held in December 2005.
Amano was elected to the position of the IAEA chief in July 2009.
In March 2012, Amano was accused by several former senior IAEA officials of pro-western bias, over-reliance on unverified intelligence and of sidelining sceptics.
Hana Kamkar and Azita Torkashvand made alterations to their old clothes and attended the Hafez Awards to promote the campaign as a social and cultural move.
The campaign draws attention to the fact that many environmental resources go to waste every year as they are used to produce clothes that are worn just once or twice. Accordingly, the campaign invites artists along with the general public to join this social-cultural move and say “No” to consumerism.
Neda Sormeh is the person who re-designed the clothes of these two actresses.
“Based on the promise that I gave in the 2018 Fashion and Clothes Festival, I launched a campaign to remind people of, and reconstruct this lovely science, which has existed in our culture since long ago,” said Sormeh.
“For this year’s Hafez festival, I invited Azita Torkashvand and Hana Kamkar to join us as the first people to get on board, and to wear outfits which they no longer used and which were redesigned by our team,” she added.
The “Fashion or Consumerism” campaign is now up and running. Artists have been invited to join the campaign to help protect the environment and do away with consumerism.
Similar campaigns have already been launched around the world. High-profile figures such as Michelle Obama (former US President Barack Obama’s wife) and Kate Middleton (the British crown prince’s wife) have, in symbolic moves, put on their old clothes in red-carpet ceremonies and international events such as the Oscars and the Cannes Film Festival to express their protest at consumerism.
In an op-ed article on Sunday, the editor-in-chief of Kayhan newspaper lauded Iran’s decision to capture a British-flagged oil tanker at the Strait of Hormuz for violating the maritime law, saying Tehran has exercised its legal right to act in retaliation for the illegitimate seizure of Iranian supertanker by the UK Navy.
Hossein Shariatmadari said Iran has captured the UK oil tanker on legal grounds, because the UK had seized Iran’s vessel illegally.
He also cited the “right of reprisal” in the international law, which recognizes a nation’s right to take retaliatory measures against another state in response to a hostile move.
“As a result, we can, and must, maintain that we have captured the British oil tanker in a retaliatory move in reprisal for the seizure of Iran’s oil tanker by the UK, not because of maritime violations,” the Iranian journalist added.
On July 19, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy captured British oil tanker “Stena Impero” for violating international maritime laws when crossing the high-traffic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
The UK vessel had switched off its GPS locator, in contravention of international regulations, and was sailing into the Strait of Hormuz in a wrong traffic pattern.
The British tanker was entering the strait from the southern route which is an exit path, increasing the risk of an accident
Moreover, Stena Impero had not heeded any of the warnings from the Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization.
Iran’s legal action against the British oil tanker came after the British Royal Marines seized Iran’s oil tanker Grace 1 in Gibraltar on July 4 for trying to take oil to Syria allegedly in violation of EU sanctions.
Tehran has made it clear that the supertanker was not bound for Syria and its seizure has taken place at the behest of the US.
In comments on Sunday, Seyyed Abbas Mousavi gave details of the return of an oil tanker of the Islamic Republic of Iran from Jeddah to Iranian ports, and of the transfer of an injured Iranian national on board a trade ship called Saviz from a hospital in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan to Oman and later to Iran.
“The Happiness oil tanker that had berthed at Saudi Arabia’s port of Jeddah on May 2 due to a technical failure, has finally left Jeddah port for our country’s ports on July 20 after the technical failure was fixed, and following various consultations and the Foreign Ministry’s move to pursue the matter constantly in contact with the relevant parties,” he added.
“Moreover, one of the people aboard the trade vessel Saviz that was on its route in the Red Sea had been injured because of an accident inside the ship on June 3 and was taken to the hospital in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan for treatment.”
“Ultimately, after efforts by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Iranian injured in Saviz ship has been transferred from the hospital of Saudi Arabia’s Jizan to Oman on July 20 and then returned to our country,” Mousavi added.
Citing the severance of diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Mousavi added, “Those two subjects were pursued through various diplomatic channels, and we thank and praise Switzerland and Oman, as well as the relevant parties inside Saudi Arabia, for providing the necessary services and facilities in relation to these two issues.”
Saudi Arabia has finally released an Iranian oil tanker that had been stuck at the port city of Jeddah for more than 11 weeks.
Iranian oil tanker ‘Happiness 1’, belonging to the to the National Iranian Tanker Co (NITC), was forced to berth at the Saudi port of Jeddah on April 30 due to a technical failure.
The NITC said a technical problem in the oil tanker caused sea water to leak into the ship’s engine room and stall the engine when the vessel was heading towards the Suez Canal in the Red Sea.
All of the 26 crew on board the oil tanker survived the incident as the ship was taken to the nearest safe port, namely Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah.
However, the kingdom was refusing to let Happiness 1 leave Jeddah after the vessel’s technical problem was resolved. Saudi Arabia was even charging the NITC $200,000 a day for the additional costs of maintenance.
In the other case, Saudi Arabia said on June 4 that its forces had rescued the injured crew member of the Iranian ship Saviz off the coasts of Yemen.
The Saudi-led military coalition fighting against Yemen said the injured sailor had been airlifted from Saviz, which was more than 170 kilometers northwest of the port of Hudaydah.
Saudis were reportedly dispatched after a distress call from the Iranian ship and took the Iranian national to a military hospital in Jizan.
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