Located 200 metres from the historical cemetery of Qadamgah near Badamyar village in the southern part of Azarshahr, the mosque has been dug in rocky hills.
The building was used as a temple in pre-Islamic periods. After Islam, it was used as a mosque with villagers and tourists often carrying out religious ceremonies of the months of Muharram and Ramadan at this place.
What follows are photos of the mosque retrieved from Mizan Online:
The event started at Mother Square in northern Tehran, where a group of champions, sport veterans and people of all ages took part. The event was held in collaboration with the Municipality of Tehran’s 3rd District with the motto of “Let’s Take Care of Our City”.
Famous veteran footballers like Mohammad Panjali, Parviz Boroumand, Hamid Estili, Behrouz Rahbarifard, Sirous Din-Mohammadi, Mohammad Nawazi, Edmond Bezik, Esmail Helali, Mehdi and Morteza Fonounizadeh and Nasser Mohammad-Khani were among the salient figures present at the sporting event.
Here are photos of the event retrieved from IRNA and ISNA:
The top story in all papers today was the meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, which ended without any result.
Several papers also covered the sudden death of prominent Iranian screenwriter Khashayar Alvand at the age of 52. He was known for writing the scripts of a number of popular comedy TV series.
The above issues, as well as many more, are highlighted in the following headlines and top stories:
Abrar:
1-Gen. Soleimani: Why Do They Insist on Second JCPOA So Much?
2- Russia, China Veto US’ Resolution on Venezuela
Aftab-e Yazd:
1- Trump-Kim Talks Overshadowed by Iran Nuclear Deal
2- Why Are Iranian Celebrities Dying Young Suddenly?
3- Israel, Russia to Establish Joint Working Group
Arman-e Emrooz:
1- Put FATF to People’s Vote: Activists
2- The Artist Who Used to Make People Laugh
3- People Won’t Easily Go to Ballot Boxes Next Time: Analyst
Ebtekar:
1- Iran Leader: Enemy Wants to Make People Frustrated, Sad
2- “More Equal” Celebrities: Video of Famous Football Player Fighting Police Officer Goes Viral
Etemad:
1- Making Deals Not Easy: Kim, Trump Leave Hanoi without Deal
2- Over 30 Reformists Urge Expediency Council to Approve Bill on Palermo Convention
Ettela’at:
1- Enemies Want to Disappoint, Intimidate Iranian People: Leader
2- Saudi Arabia Main Supporter of Saddam in War He Imposed on Iran: Bandar bin Sultan
3- Enemy Will Definitely Be Defeated: Gen. Soleimani
4- We’re Nothing without People: Zarif
Iran:
1- Which Expediency the Council Is Going to Discern?
2- Apple Inc.’s Security Restrictions Hit Iranian Apps
3- Trump’s Empty Hands
Jame Jam:
1- A Review of Gen. Soleimani’s Recent Warnings over Second JCPOA
2- Death of a Smile: Renowned Screenwriter Alvand Dies at 52
Javan:
1- US Didn’t Accept Lifting of Sanctions, N Korea Didn’t Make Deal
2- “Second JCPOA” Aimed at Uprooting Islamic Movements: Gen. Soleimani
3- Apple Declares War against Iran by Boycotting Iranian Apps
Jomhouri Eslami:
1- Golan Part of Syrian Territory: UN
2- Trump’s Meeting with Kim in Hanoi Fruitless, Just for Show
Kayhan:
1- N Korea Learned from JCPOA, Was Not Deceived by US
2- FATF Is US’ Weapon in Economic War against Iran
3- Europe Poised to Take Godfather of Takfiris Out of Money Laundering Blacklist
Mardom Salari:
1- FATF Waiting for Expediency Council’s Decision
2- Trump-Kim Meeting Criticized, Mocked after Ending with No Result
3- BBC Persian Established to Cause Political Changes in Ia
Sazandegi:
1- Who Are the “20 Individuals” Opposed to FATF?
2- Deadlock in Talks: Trump-Kim Summit Ends with No Result
3- Apple Inc. against Iran?
Shargh:
1- Political Activists Say Referendum Must Be Held If FATF Not Approved
2- Putin’s Dangerous Game in Syria’s Court
3- Political Activity without Parties Will Lead to Populism: Imam Khomeini’s Grandson
Vatan-e Emrooz:
1- Gift to Enemy: Zarif under Fire for Overshadowing Assad’s Historic Tehran Visit
2- Apple Once Again against Iranian Apps
In a Friday statement, Qassemi wished success for Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and Macky Sall of Senegal who managed to be re-elected as the presidents of their respective countries after securing the majority of the votes.
He also expressed the hope that Tehran’s ties with Abuja and Dakar would further develop in light of the results of the recent elections in the two West African states.
Buhari was re-elected for a second four-year term on Wednesday. The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, with a margin of nearly four million votes.
Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result. Turnout was a record low at just 35.6%.
Sall also won a second term, of five years, following last Sunday’s election in Senegal.
He took 58% of the vote in the poll in which he faced four challengers, but was accused of preventing some of his main rivals from running.
Two well-known opposition figures were barred from taking part because of corruption convictions.
The opposition candidates have rejected the results, but say a court challenge would be futile.
Hossein Shariatmadari, the Editor-in-Chief of Iranian daily Kayhan, in a recent speech claimed the Saudis have asked Iran to help them end the Yemen crisis without losing more face.
He said Saudi Arabia was expected to take full control of Yemen in just three days but it is now four years into the conflict and Saudis are still desperately seeking to occupy Yemen.
“Since the beginning of the war in Yemen, the Saudis have done nothing but brutally massacring Yemeni civilians,” he was quoted as saying by IRNA.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Shariatmadari referred to efforts by certain circles to imply that the ghost of war is hovering over the Iranian nation and said this is part of enemies’ trick to disappoint Iranian people but to no avail.
He also said the Islamic Republic is now standing at its highest level of progress and added enemies will withhold no animosity towards Iran to stop its development.
Elsewhere, the Iranian journalist underlined that the enemies’ plot to highlight the gap between Iran and its ideal point is a trick to disappoint the nation and said the Islamic Republic has already made significant progress compared with the pre-Revolution era but it should continue its efforts to bridge further the gap.
He also called on Iranian revolutionary youths to remain vigilant against the enemies’ plots to portray them as a minority group in the Iranian society.
Islamic View Remains Influential In Region
Shariatmadari then underlined that today, Islamic views are alive in Syria as Jaish al-Watani, in Iraq as Hashd al-Shaabi, in Palestine as Hamas and in Yemen in Ansarullah.
The journalist also referred to the anti-Iran Warsaw conference held recently and added the conference was held with the aim of creating a psychological war against the Islamic Republic but “after its closure, the enemies declared that the conference was focused on the Middle East. This was a big lie by the arrogant powers.”
Elsewhere, he said Niki Haley, the former US envoy to the United Nations once announced after her resignation that she had been tasked with portraying Trump as a crazy man to coerce Iran and other US enemies in the world into accepting Washington’s hegemony.
Revolution’s Second Phase to Overcome Challenges
Shariatmadari then referred to the domestic challenges that the Islamic Republic is facing and said leader of the Islamic Revolution has already offered some clues to remove all the domestic problems.
“The roadmap set forth by the wise leader Ayatollah Khamenei is now available and we should follow it not to get misled,” he noted.
The journalist underlined that the Iranian nation will never fall victim to the nasty deceptions of the enemies.
“Over the past forty years, Iranians have managed to free themselves of the enemies’ domination and choose their own fate,” he said.
He cited Islam as a religion with anti-oppression inclinations and said Iran by relying on Islamic teachings is challenging the international domination.
Shariatmadari said today’s domestic problems are deeply rooted in the penetration of American and liberalist teachings into the Iranian society.
According to the reports, the iOS versions of the mobile apps developed in Iran have no longer been accessible to the users since Wednesday.
Several Iranian banks, online payment firms as well as ride-hailing and food delivery services have notified their mobile app users via text messages that the access to the iOS software has been blocked due to certain “restrictions imposed by the Apple company.”
Apple Inc. has not yet commented on the reports.
The tech has no formal operations in Iran due to the unilateral sanctions imposed by the US on the Islamic Republic. That, however, has not stopped Iranian technology lovers from buying Apple iPhones — which are being smuggled into the country among other Apple devices.
The US once removed its economic sanctions against Iran in 2016, months after a multinational nuclear deal with Iran, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), took effect, prompting Apple to get in touch with Iranian distributors to examine the possibility of entering the country.
Those American sanctions, however, were reinstalled when the US abandoned the nuclear deal in May last year.
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He made the remarks on Thursday in an address to an international conference on Nowruz in Tehran, which was attended by delegates from Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Iraq, India, and Afghanistan.
“We are happy to be hosting delegates from the land of Nowruz,” Zarif said.
“In today’s world, we face the problem of lack of understanding and knowledge. As Iranian poet Hafez says, we should accept that ‘the wind of Nowruz blows from the house of the beloved one’. This means, we should set aside violence, hostility, suffering and domination.”
“We should make the culture of Nowruz global. This is a duty upon all of us as the heirs to the Nowruz heritage,” he noted.
Iran’s top diplomat said “we have to turn the mindset of power, domination and use of destructive weapons into the mindset of dialogue, inclusion, sympathy and coexistence in our homes, societies, region and the world.”
Zarif directly addressed the participating delegates and said “we should accept that we are aboard the same ship.”
“Violence brings no security for anyone. As heirs to the Nowruz culture, we should avoid any war among us. There should be no conflict between India and Pakistan.”
“You have turned Nowruz into a global event. It is a good fortune,” he said.
“Let’s take an oath today to give the colour of Nowruz to our lands and the world.”
Zarif pointed out that Nowruz is not a natural phenomenon, but a humane transformation that has been put on top of the UNESCO’s agenda.
The Iranian foreign minister then underlined that the delegates should understand that achieving security at the expense of others’ insecurity and making progress at the expense of others’ regression is not only undesirable but also impossible.
“We should accept that in today’s interconnected world, we either reach the shores of salvation together or drown together in environmental, insecurity or poverty crises.”
“Let’s speak to the whole world with the language of Iran, the land of Nowruz and culture. Peace can’t be achieved by domination. Let’s show it to the world with our Nowruz thought and behaviour that the era of hegemony and domination is gone,” he said.
The Iranian top diplomat then referred to the US’ move to spend 7 trillion dollars in the region saying today the country is facing a worse situation compared with the past.
“They should know that the situation remains the same for them even if they spend 70 or 700 trillion dollars. They won’t see peace in the region as long as they fail to accept the fact that human beings have common futures and problems with a common solution,” he said.
“Nowruz is the language of sympathy and getting out of sulk. Today in Iran, we need sympathy and unity more than ever. We are heirs to the Nowruz culture.”
“Iranians have been fed by a culture whose Imam said about 1,400 years ago that be kind to others because they are either your religious brothers or fellowmen in creation,” he added.
He finally noted that expressing sympathy is much better than speaking the same language.
“The spring of love arrives, to transform the dust into a garden. The call is heard from the heavens, to bid the wings of soul to fly.”
Zarif made the remarks in his latest post on Instagram, a couple of days after his resignation was rejected by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The full text of the post is as follows:
In the Name of God
Hello my dear friends!
The deep sea of the affection of the great and brave nation of Iran and their respectable representatives, magnanimous remarks by my dear and honourable brother Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, the generous and glorious letter of the Iranian President addressed to me, and the fatherly kindness and munificence of the wise leader of the Islamic Revolution, all in all, have doubled my determination and that of my colleagues at the Foreign Ministry to safeguard our national interests and the rights of the great nation of Iran.
This national unity and sympathy is the secret behind the victories of and progresses made by the great nation of Iran over the past four decades. It is also the main reason behind the failures of hegemonic powers, who seek to secure their interests by creating divisions among the Iranian society.
With the mutual trust between the Iranian nation and government as well as the growing will on the side of the Iranian officials to fulfil their duties within the law, the unwise hegemonic powers will achieve nothing by exerting pressure on Iran.
Despite their failures and the damages they sustained, the hegemonic powers still believe that [securing] their interests hinge on conducting costly but fruitless hegemony, exporting arms to regional states, destabilizing West Asia and exerting maximum pressure on the great nation of Iran.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has always maintained that diplomacy can gain field achievements in the regional and global arenas only through national power, domestic solidarity and public support.
Today, thank God, the courageous and brave measures by the champions of the battlefield of resistance and sacrifice, and the sincere efforts of the anonymous soldiers of our diplomacy apparatus have managed to foil the Zionists’ efforts to restore their nasty and dangerous project of portraying Iran as a threat to regional security. The measures have also established Iran’s constructive and peace-seeking role in fight against extremism and violence at the regional level.
Through sympathy and synergy and with constructive criticisms and God’s grace, it is hoped that the current shortcomings could be removed and economic progress and better living conditions could be achieved with hope and self-confidence.
Iranians, regardless of their political, religious or ethnic inclinations, are aboard the same boat. Now, ahead of Nowruz (Iranian New Year), we should turn our common concerns into a chance to promote security and progress inside the country and establish self-esteemed exchanges with the outside world so that the ship of our dear Iran could successfully move towards progress in the chaotic sea of post-western world.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani officially rejected the resignation of Zarif on Wednesday, saying it runs contrary to national interests.
In a letter addressed to Zarif, Rouhani noted that the top diplomat has been standing on the frontline of resistance against the US pressure campaign.
Meanwhile, a majority of Iranian lawmakers signed a letter to President Rouhani, calling on him to reject Foreign Minister Zarif’s resignation.
Separately on Wednesday, IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani said that Zarif has the backing of senior Iranian officials, especially the Leader of the Islamic Revolution.
General Soleimani further described the top Iranian diplomat as the person in charge of Iran’s foreign policy.
“Mr Zarif is responsible for the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. During his term at the Foreign Ministry he has always enjoyed the support and approval of senior officials, particularly the Leader of the Islamic Revolution.” he said.
Speaking at a press conference in Tehran’s Milad Tower on Wednesday, activists from Code Pink: Women for Peace, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end US funded wars and occupations, denounced Washington’s anti-Iran policies, which are backed by the regimes in Tel Aviv and Riyadh.
“Both Israel and Saudi Arabia did tremendous amount of lobbying to try to stop the Iranian nuclear deal from being signed. The Israelis got as a compensation more of our tax dollars and the Saudis got as compensation US support for the destruction of Yemen,” said Medea Benjamin, Code Pink co-founder.
Tensions intensified between Tehran and Washington last year, when President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of the nuclear accord, officially named the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and unleashed the “toughest ever” sanctions against Iran.
Since then, the US has been trying to coerce the Europeans into following its lead and withdrawing from the nuclear accord with Iran.
Elsewhere in her remarks, Benjamin raised the alarm at the possibility of a new war in the Middle East.
“We are worried about the US going to war with Iran, we are worried about the US bombing Iran. We are worried about another disastrous war in the Middle East and we don’t want to be party to that,” she said.
“We don’t want to be involved in another war. It is almost 20 years now that the US has invaded and occupied countries in the Middle East. It’s been such a disaster for the people of this region. we don’t want to see it get even worse,” she added.
Ann Wright, another Code Pink member, condemned illegal American sanctions and vowed efforts towards changing the Trump administration’s hostile approach on Iran.
“We do not want our government in the United States to be having the sanctions put on Iran. It’s the United States who abrogated the framework agreement treaty. We are here to say to the Iranian people we are going to work hard in the United States to get our government to change its policies,” she said.
Earlier this week, Code Pink activists met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and students at University of Tehran.
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