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Saudis Recruiting Son of Iran’s Ex-Shah for Anti-Iran TV Show

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Informed sources say a number of Saudi intelligence officers have been deployed to the UK since a while ago to start the production and broadcast of a television program featuring Reza Pahlavi, who considers himself an opposition leader in exile. A media advisor group is also scheduled to give them assistance.

Noor News has quoted some sources as saying that Reza Pahlavi had asked for a large amount of money, but ultimately and under the pressure of a European intelligence service he accepted to appear in the show receiving one-fifth of his initial request.

The goal of the program is to lift up the Pahlavi monarchy and to eliminate the hatred in the Iranian society towards the treachery of this family and also to create a positive mindset about them using psychological and media operations.

The initial proposal was set forth by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in order to create an internal division in the Iranian society.

The MKO, which is strongly against Reza Pahlavi as one of the opposition elements of the Islamic Republic, has warned Saudis and some sponsors of the program that in case of producing such program, they will disclose secret information about them.

Based on the information received, Reza Pahlavi is scheduled to travel to several countries and meet with leaders of some of the opposition movements.

Earlier, the Guardian revealed that the UK-based TV station is being funded through a secretive offshore entity and a company whose director is a Saudi businessman with close links to bin Salman.

It also said that Saud al-Qahtani, the crown prince’s information tsar, who was among two senior officials removed in connection with the Khashoggi case, was involved in the funding of Iran International TV.

Back in 2017, Iran International TV abruptly emerged on the London media scene. Many of the 100-strong staff network were offered generous salaries, often double what rivals paid, but was elusive about its source of funding.

Busts of Top Iranian Artists, Elites on Display at Tehran Symposium

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IFP Editorial Staff
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During the event, which is being held at Tehran’s Einoldoleh Mansion, the busts of 26 contemporary Iranian artists have been put on display.

Busts of Top Iranian Artists, Elites on Display at Tehran Symposium
Persian Architecture in Photos: Einoldoleh Mansion

According to Honar Online, the artists participating in the event were selected based on their background and with the vote of an art council.

The sculptors will have to create the portraits of the figures assigned to them. At the end of the symposium, the sculptures will be molded and the works will be installed at the designated locations in the city. Cash gifts will also be handed to the artists.

The symposium tries to provide the young generation of sculptures with the chance to make use of the experience of veterans. The event is open to the public for free from 9 am to 5 pm.

 

Iran Weighing Plan to Collect Toll from Ships at Hormuz Strait

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IFP Media Wire
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Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi said in remarks published on Sunday that the parliament bill to charge foreign ships passing through the narrow waterway which accommodates around a third of global seaborne oil traffic is meant to reciprocate hostile actions by the United States and its allies in the region.

Ghazizadeh said the toll would also be a scheme to compensate Iran’s efforts to ensure security in the Strait of Hormuz and in the wider Persian Gulf region.

“If Iran is the real guarantor (of security) in the region and in international waters, then the parliament believes that commercial hubs and all ships in the region should pay the cost in the form of tolls based on the international norms and (due to conducts of) the United States,” he said in an interview with the Sobhe No’ newspaper.

The lawmaker said the bill has yet to be approved for an official debate in the parliament, saying it had raised objections from political forces who seek “normalization for Iran” and believe Tehran should maintain the status quo in the Parisian Gulf.

Ghazizadeh said that Iran could introduce its own preferential charging mechanism for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

“Since the bill is based on our country’s internal laws, (the toll) could be levied on unfriendly countries, meaning those who have no trade relations with us and have recognized US sanctions (against Iran),” he said.

Iran controls much of the northern part of the Strait of Hormuz as it is situated within the country’s territorial waters.

The waterway and the wider Persian Gulf region has been the scene of some unprecedented tensions between Iran and the US over the past months. The tensions escalated on June 21 when Iran shot down an intruding US drone.

Iran has repeatedly warned that it would close the Strait of Hormuz and stop the oil traffic through the waterway if the United States manages to succeed in its plans to cut Iran’s oil exports to zero.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 19

Abrar:
1- Europe’s Inaction Cooridnated with US: MP
2- We Expect Iran to Remain Committed to Nuclear Deal: German Official

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

 

Aftab-e Yazd:
1- If Tension between Iran, US Heightens, Afghan Refugees Head to Europe: Luxemburg
2- Macron Calls Rouhani Again

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

Arman-e Emrouz:
1- Second Phase of Iran’s Reduction of Commitments after EU’s Non-commitment
2- “INSTEX without Selling Oil is Meaningless”
3- Stopping Tanker; Heightening Tensions, UK’s Withdrawal from JCPOA: Expert
A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

 

Donyay-e Eqtesad:
1- Trump’s Ties with Evangelists
2- 2- Special Tariffs to be Set for Bitcoin Miners

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

Ebtekar:
1- Europe’s Uses Inaction Gesture
2- Iran’s Action Has Nothing to Do with Board of Governors: IAEA Envoy

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

Etemad:
1- Unconstructive Inaction of Europe
2- Iran Takes Second Step As EU Does Not Fulfil Its JCPOA Commitments

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

Etela’at:
1- Suspension of All Sanctions Can Be Beginning of Resumption of Talks Between Iran and P5+1: Rouhani
2- US, Some Iraqi Army Officers’ Plot against Hashd al-Shaabi Revealed
3- Board of Governors to Hold Meeting on Iran on Wednesday
A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

 

Farhikhtegan:
1- Nuclear Retreat
2- Recent Sanctions Funny, Ineffective: US Professor
3- EU the Same as the US!
4- Four frames of Javad Zarif’s Memoirs

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

 

Hemayat:
1- Continuity of Strategy; Commitment for Commitment
2- End of 60-Day Deadline

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

Jomhouri Eslami:
1- Iran’s New Decisions on JCPOA Commitments
2- US Violator of JCPA; Board of Governors Must Not Pay Heed to US Requests: Iran
3- More Jewish Protests against Racial Discrimination in Israel

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

Kayhan:
1- 60-day Deadline Over; Return to Pre-deal Point
2- CIA’s Spy Captured by Iraqi Army

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

Khorasan:
1- Historic Records Hit at Tehran Auction
2- ISIS in Afghanistan to Stand against Russia or Iran?: Expert

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

Ta’adol:
1- End of 60-Day Deadline
2- Would Iran Take 2nd Step?
A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 7

What Foreign Tourists Think about Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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What follows are photos of a number of foreign tourists writing their opinion about the country at the request of Mehr News Agency’s reporter:

Iran Says Nuclear Measures Reversible If E3 Comply with JCPOA

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“Today, Iran is taking its second round of remedial steps under Paragraph 36 of the JCPOA,” Zarif said in a Sunday tweet, shortly after the country announced the beginning of the second phase of reducing its nuclear commitments.

“We reserve the right to continue to exercise legal remedies within JCPOA to protect our interests in the face of US Economic Terrorism,” he added.

“All such steps are reversible only through E3 compliance,” Zarif stressed.

The Iranian foreign minister at the same time called on the European parties to support Iran’s measures, which Tehran says are actually aimed at saving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

“Having failed to implement their obligations under JCPOA – including after US withdrawal –EU/E3 should at minimum politically support Iran’s remedial measures under Paragraph 36, including at IAEA,” he said.

“E3 have no pretexts to avoid a firm political stance to preserve JCPOA and counter US unilateralism,” Zarif noted.

Iran on Sunday officially announced it is boosting the level of its uranium enrichment to a level beyond the 3.67% limit set by the JCPOA.

The decision was announced by Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei in a press conference also attended by Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi and the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi.

“Today we will surpass the 3.67% limit on uranium enrichment. The purity level will be based on our need, and that will be officially realized today,” Rabiei said.

Araqchi said the second phase begins as the 60-day deadline Iran had given the other JCPOA parties is over without Iran’s demands being fulfilled.

‘US Asks Iran to Let It Conduct Limited, Face-Saving Operation’

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, the Head of Iran’s Civil Defence Organization, said Iran vehemently rejected the US request, saying that it will respond to any act of aggression.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran responded that it views any operation as a war and will give a crushing response to it. You may initiate a war but this is Iran which will finish it,” he said Sunday.

The official underlined that the US image as a super power was tarnished by the downing of its spy drone in Iranian airspace.

On June 20, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) shot down an advanced US-made RQ-4 Global Hawk that had intruded into Iranian airspace. In a tweet early the next day, US President Donald Trump said he had initially approved military strikes against Iran but had called them off just 10 minutes before they were launched.

On June 21, Reuters claimed that two unnamed “Iranian officials” had told the news agency that Trump had notified Tehran via Oman of imminent attacks after the downing of the drone.

“In his message, Trump said he was against any war with Iran and wanted to talk to Tehran about various issues…,” it cited one of the officials as saying. “However, we told the Omani official that any attack against Iran will have regional and international consequences.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, General Jalali said last year, the US strategy was focused on using cyberspace to create chaos in Iran but the strategy was foiled by Iranian officials’ vigilance.

“That’s why in this current Persian year, they have resorted to military options. They have come to this conclusion that through military options they can make divisions within the Iranian society. But with the downing of the American drone, the plot was foiled and the Iranians came to understand the hollowness of the US military power,” he noted.

The US sent over 60 diplomatic delegations to Iran as mediators to hold talks with Iran but the leader of the Islamic Revolution rejected the US calls for talks and Iran began to scale back its commitments under the JCPOA.

US, Not Iran, Must Be Blamed for Chronic Security Crisis in Africa

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IFP Media Wire
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The Daily Telegraph has accused Iran of devastating activities in Africa, while Washington, Riyadh and Tel Aviv are continuing to plunder the rich African continent under the shadow of news cover-up by the Western media outlets. There should be a lot of focus on the role of Israel in this campaign.

About six decades ago, Golda Meir put a great emphasis on the African continent in line with the interests of Israel. As a result, Mossad officers were scattered across the continent as a cancerous tumor so that the U.S. can find another partner in its efforts to loot African riches. Now, Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya are important for Tel Aviv in terms of their geographic and strategic location.

Located in the Horn of Africa, these countries overlook Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen. In any case, Israel has new plans to interfere in the internal affairs of Africa.

Israel is now facing water crisis. The glow of the Nile waters is making the eyes of the Zionist regime look greedy to Egypt. Israel is struggling to expand its influence in the Horn of Africa to find a foothold in the entrance of the Red Sea.

Undoubtedly, in the near future documents will be released on U.S. and other Western countries’ support for Tel Aviv in its plundering of African. Beyond that, intervention by France, Britain and some other European countries in northern and some other parts of Africa is continuing unabatedly like the past centuries.

Injection of security crisis is the formula used by Western countries to maintain and continue their involvement in Africa. In the history of international relations, millions of people in African have been the victims of direct and indirect policies of Western countries. Under such circumstances, accusations by the media arm of Western intelligence and security agencies that Iran is interfering in Africa will have no result but a scandal for the U.S. and its allies.

UK Seizure of Iran Tanker: Outright Theft with No Legal Justification

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IFP Media Wire
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British Royal Marines seized the Iranian oil supertanker, Grace 1, in Gibraltar on Thursday, saying that the tanker was taking oil to Syria that is in violation of EU sanctions.

UK is supposed to leave the European Union within four months and in Britain, the top conservative party members seem inclined to get closer to U.S. and drift apart from other European countries.

In addition, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, who are likely to replace Teresa May as Britain’s next prime minister, both have taken a quite aggressive stand against Iran, a policy that seems closer to that of Donald Trump’s rather than to the leaders of other European countries.

It would have made much more sense if UK had seized the ship for carrying weapons, but it was merely carrying oil for the 17 million Syrians who are having a fuel crisis and have to stand in fuel stations for several hours before getting a little fuel. Blocking transportation of oil to Syria is an obvious violation of human rights and is against all moral values; specially because the sanctions against transferring oil to Syria are unilateral ones and are not approved by the United Nations.

On the other hand, it is quite surprising that U.S. and other western countries who send their fighter jets to Syria and Iraq as part of their so called “coalition against terrorism” can spot a fly in Syria’s sky but they never seem to notice the tons of oil that ISIS is moving around.

The Syrian nation have to suffer under a cruel siege conducted by Europeans. Posing these sanctions on Syria and preventing the fuel from getting into the country shows the depth of Europeans’ hypocrisy and unveils the true face behind all their seemingly humanitarian gestures.

Continuing this blockage means that either more Syrians travel to European countries to get rid of the siege, or they start to bear more grudge against the countries that have laid the siege. Therefore, saying that seizing the ship was in breach of European sanctions against Damascus is only a pretext.

On the other hand, the sanctions against Damascus is imposed by the European Union and U.S., not the UN, so other countries don’t have to observe these sanctions; therefore Iran has done nothing wrong because the EU and U.S. are not allowed to force other countries into following these sanctions; the sanctions are supposed to be followed by the countries who have imposed them, not others, so Iran has not done anything against the international law.

Following the blatant stealing of the Iranian oil tanker in international waters, the UK ambassador to Iran, Robert Macaire was summoned to Iranian Foreign Ministry on Thursday, July fourth.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the seizure of the oil tanker, saying that UK has obviously seized the tanker under U.S. orders and asked for the immediate release of the tanker.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced that seizing the oil tanker was the same as stealing because the sanctions imposed by UK or the European Union do not apply to other countries and UK was not allowed to force them on Iran. This is U.S. bullying other countries, something that European countries had long protested.

Over the meeting, all the documents that showed the movement of the tanker and the goods it carried where completely legal were handed to the UK ambassador.

Iran also announced that it will use all of its legal capacities to release the tanker and ensure that the country’s rights are safeguarded.

The UK ambassador to Tehran said that he will inform London immediately, underlining that UK does not abide by U.S. unilateral sanctions against Iran.

Enemy Gradually Understanding Iran’s Real Power: IRGC

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Major General Hossein Salami (1)

Addressing a Sunday ceremony, General Salami said the enemy’s perception of one’s power is more important than the power itself.

“In the past, the others’ perception of Iran’s power used to be much lower than the real power, and [Iran’s] perception of others’ power was much more than their real power,” he noted.

However, he added, the others’ perception of our power is gradually getting closer to the reality.

Once they know how powerful we are, no one will decide to get engaged in a war with a powerful country, he noted.

General Salami said the enemy has already acknowledged Iran’s military power, and thus, they have shifted their focus now on the economic war, psychological operations, and political pressures.

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