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Exhibition of Iranian Musical Instruments Underway in Tehran

By
Fatemeh Askarieh
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The opening ceremony of exhibition known as “Sazkhaneh” (House of Instruments) was held on Monday November 12.

National musical instruments and innovations of instrument makers, as well as a variety of traditional and classical Western instruments are put on show.

According to the organizers, the most important goal of this event is to introduce innovative musical instruments, and the artists’ experiences and emotions.

The exhibition will be open to visitors from 1 pm to 11 pm until November 25.

Here you can find photos of this event retrieved from various Iranian news agencies:

Iran’s Most Advanced Football Stadium Opens in Ahvaz

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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Foolad Arena’s most important feature is that it does not have a tartan running track unlike other Iranian stadiums. In fact, Foolad Arena has been only made for football matches, and there is no space between spectators and the field.

Now the stadium will serve as a great venue both for Foolad Khuzestan FC, and the Team Melli (national football team) as Iranian players can show a much better performance with the spectators closer to them.

The stadium has been built based on the standards of the day, and can host 30,000 spectators, which is a standard capacity.

Foolad Arena is also a very beautiful stadium with a design similar to that of Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid.

The modern stadium was launched in a ceremony attended by First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri and Sports Minister Massoud Soltanifar.

What follows are photos of the stadium retrieved from various news agencies:

Iran Executes ‘Sultan of Coins’ for Financial Corruption

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IFP Media Wire
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Vahid Mazloumin and his accomplice Mohammad Esmaeil Qassemi were put to death in prison on Wednesday morning after the country’s Supreme Court upheld their death sentences and the legal process was completed.

Mazloumin, 58, had been arrested in July for collecting the coins over 10 months to agitate the market.

Two tons would be the equivalent of around 250,000 coins.

Since late August, Iran’s Judiciary has been holding public trials of individuals involved in major economic corruption cases.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei earlier permitted Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani to take special measures in order to confront economic corruption and called for “swift and just” legal action against financial crimes.

The Leader described “outright and unequivocal” treatment of economic corruption as one of the Judiciary’s major duties, stressing that confronting economic corrupts must be decisive and effective.

The Leader urged the Judiciary to fully inform people about its measures to tackle economic corruption, saying the judicial system should let people realize the authenticity of its anti-corruption measures and turn the threats into opportunities.

‘US Sanctions Putting Lives of Iranian Patients in Danger’

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IFP Media Wire
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“Despite the illegality of sanctioning food and medicine, the US government is preventing access to these vital resources and has therefore put in danger the lives of many patients from small children to the elderly who are in urgent need of medicine and medical equipment,” Marandi said in a letter to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres.

He pointed to the clear detrimental effects of these sanctions on Iranian children suffering from cancer and said, “The US sanctions policy on the Islamic Republic of Iran has been devised in such a way that prevents all banking exchanges including access to essential medicines and medical equipment which are now virtually impossible.”

Marandi called on the UN to act against the US “incessant violation of human rights.”

“When will the lives of children, women and men across the globe be protected from the criminal behavior of the United States?  Until when should cancer, organ transplant and other patients fear death because they are deliberately denied medicine and medical equipment?” he asked.

The Iranian academy official criticized the deafening silence of international human rights organizations, especially the United Nations, for their indifference to the suffering illegally imposed on the ordinary people of Iran.

“This indifference will further discredit the United Nations in the eyes of people around the world,” Marandi pointed out.

He urged the UN to take “immediate and serious measures” against the US “criminal actions which are in defiance of all international conventions and norms.”

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday scolded his American counterpart, Mike Pompeo, for his sharp attack on a US magazine that published his threat to starve the Iranian people through sanctions, saying Pompeo must assume responsibility for what he says.

In a post on his official Twitter account, Zarif said Pompeo “should either own what he says, or disown what US does. Can’t have it both ways.”

Zarif was responding to an earlier claim made by Pompeo on his Twitter account in which he accused “fake Newsweek”  of helping spread lies.

Zarif also said on Thursday that the United States should be held responsible for “crimes against humanity” it is committing against the Iranians as well as the Yemenis.

“The US is to be held accountable for crimes against humanity re Iran & Yemen,” Zarif tweeted on Thursday. He was referring to America’s sanctions against Iran and its support for the Saudi Arabia-led war on Yemen.

the US secretary of state had earlier told BBC Persian, “We have provided, we have accommodated the Iranian people with our sanctions, and it’s now the Iranian government’s responsibility to make sure that they do the right thing…It’s their job to do the right thing for their people.”

In his interview with BBC Persian, Pompeo had claimed that “the challenge in Yemen is in large part the responsibility of the Iranian leadership,” repeating Washington’s allegation against Tehran of arming Yemen’s popular fighters, which the Islamic Republic roundly denies.

The administration of US President Donald Trump announced the re-imposition of the “toughest” sanctions ever against Iran’s banking and energy sectors with the aim of cutting off the country’s oil sales and crucial exports.

A first round of American sanctions took effect in August, targeting Iran’s access to the US dollar, metals trading, coal, industrial software, and auto sector.

‘Bolton’s Remarks Show His Sadism, Grudge against Iranians’

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IFP Editorial Staff
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US National Security Adviser John Bolton at a cabinet meeting at the White House, April 9, 2018 / Photo by Kevin Lamarque Reuters

“Time, history and the Iranian culture have always been able to teach the necessary lessons to scoundrels who make excessive demands and who rave and rant, and [have been able] to easily tame insane, recalcitrant and unruly individuals,” Qassemi said in a Wednesday statement.

“The cheap remarks by John Bolton, which indicate his bellicose nature and spiteful personality in dealing with Iranian people, are nothing new and remarkable,” he added.

“As he has shown since long ago, he has a long-standing grudge against Iranians. He has abnormal behaviour and suffers from chronic sadism against Iran,” he said.

“He sometimes knowingly or unknowingly begins to talk and uses words that professional politicians usually avoid using,” the spokesman added.

He said such language basically does not exist in the diction of any professional and trained politician.

“It is no surprise to see an American official who has been in contact with some terrorist groups since long ago and who is in their pay make such cheap remarks,” he added.

“He speaks, with pleasure and very unconventionally and shamefully, of putting more pressure and imposing sanctions on Iran and threatening the country,” said the spokesman.

“Undoubtedly, he has not yet been able to grab a proper understanding of Iranians and Iran, and in the not-too-distant-future, will certainly find the chance to understand the capability, vigilance and prudence of the Iranian nation and to get familiar with their history and culture,” Qassemi added.

“Today, like always, the great Iranian nation will stand up to foreign aggressors and the enemies of this land and nation with strategic patience and prudence as it always has,” he said.

Qassemi said Iranians will definitely not allow the pipe dreams of these individuals to come true.

His comments came after Bolton said his country will keep up pressure on Iran after imposing new sanctions on the Islamic Republic early this month.

Bolton said on Tuesday that Washington’s ultimate aim was to zero Iran’s oil exports despite backing down on the pledge after eight importers were given waivers when the sanctions took effect on Nov. 5.

“The objective has been from the beginning to get oil exports from Iran down to zero,” Bolton said. “It is our intention to squeeze them very hard. As the British say: ‘Squeeze them until the pips squeak’.”

Europeans Hesitate to Pay Cost for Salvaging Iran Deal: Zarif

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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Speaking in an interview with the London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed media outlet published on Tuesday, Mohammad Javad Zarif said Europeans have vowed to support Iran’s economic cooperation with foreign countries, but they have failed to overcome operational challenges so far.

“Europeans are not yet ready to fulfill their political commitment while paying the economic cost. They are trying to keep their achievements without paying anything,” Zarif said.

“This policy won’t benefit Europeans in the long term. They will incur more cost,” he warned, urging the bloc to be serious and face up to the US.

The EU announced last September it will work to create a special payment mechanism, known as Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), to facilitate trade with Iran.

The mechanism was to go into effect by November 5, but Europeans have apparently failed to make it operational so far.

European officials have announced that the mechanism could also be used by other countries, protecting Iran from efforts by the US to hamper its Asia and Europe trade.

 

Iran’s Economy to Beat Sanctions

The foreign minister said Iran is in constant contact with its European, Chinese and Russian partners, in search for ways of countering sanctions and limiting their impact.

Zarif said Iran’s economy is highly capable of resisting sanctions, as the country has enormous human, natural and technical resources.

“It’s right that the US has great economic power. But … all countries are against the US sanctions,” he said.

Zarif said the US was optimistic the economic pressure caused by sanctions will push the nation to force the government to change tack, but such hopes have been disappointed.

The top Iranian diplomat said the US has failed to cut down to zero Iran’s oil exports and proven unable to hamper Iran’s air and sea connections with the world.

Earlier this month, the US restored the sanctions targeting Iran’s banking and energy sectors.

The punitive measures targeted 700 individuals, banks, aircraft, ships and companies tied to Iran’s energy and financial industries.

The move came following months of efforts by the US to hamper Iran’s trade with Asia and Europe.

Iran-EU Nuclear Cooperation Unaffected by US Sanctions: Official

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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“Under the Iran nuclear deal, Tehran and the European Union have engaged in broad cooperation in various fields, including nuclear safety. Within this framework, a nuclear safety centre is going to be built inside Iran,” Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said.

“I believe cooperation between Iran and Europe will continue in the two coming years,” he said, speaking to ISNA on Tuesday.

Kamalvandi said the third round of Iran-EU talks on nuclear cooperation will be held in Brussels later this month, co-chaired by the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi and EU Commissioner for Energy and Climate Miguel Arias Canete.

The second round of talks on peaceful nuclear energy between Iran and the EU was held in Iran in May.

 

Russia, China Won’t Accept Sanctions

Kamalvandi said Iran’s nuclear cooperation with Russia and China will also remain unaffected by the US sanctions.

Pointing to the fact that the three Iranian nuclear projects, namely the Bushehr power plant, the reconstruction of Arak nuclear site and production of radioisotopes in Fordow nuclear site, have been exempted from the US sanctions, Kamalvandi said the US knows it cannot hamper Iran’s nuclear work.

“These projects are being carried out by Russia and China. These countries have repeatedly announced they do not accept US sanctions and they won’t observe the bans. So the US exemption makes no difference,” he said.

“Iran, China and Russia won’t be intimidated by the US pressure and sanctions,” he said.

The US withdrew from the nuclear deal in May and has reinstated all the nuclear sanctions suspended under the nuclear accord.

Iran has announced the deal could remain in place only if European parties to the pact give Tehran firm assurances that its interests will be served if they remain in the deal.

Iran to Host Some 2022 World Cup Teams If FIFA Agrees: Qatar

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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The head of the organising committee of FIFA World Cup 2022 said on Monday that Qatar is considering an offer from Iran to host teams during the games, but no decision has been taken yet.

Chief organiser Hassan Al Thawadi noted that this is part of the operational plan, but obviously it will have to be OK’d by FIFA.

“Qatar has already received numerous proposals from neighbouring countries regarding the accommodation of teams during the World Cup, which will kick off on November 21, 2022,” he added.

“No decision has been taken yet and it is still being discussed,” he underlined.

Iran recently offered to host some of the teams that will qualify for Qatar World Cup, particularly using the potentialities of Kish Island, a well-known regional tourist resort.

Giving the green light to Iran would provide a major boost for the Islamic Republic at a time when the US is trying to impose cruel sanctions on the country internationally.

Since 2017, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, and the UAE have imposed an embargo on Qatar, accusing it of seeking closer ties with Iran and of supporting radical Islamist groups.

Qatar denies the charges, accusing its neighbours of seeking regime change.

Al Thawadi said he hoped the country’s neighbours would lift the ban on their citizens for the World Cup.

“I hope the blockading nations can see the value of this major tournament and can allow for their people to benefit from this tournament,” he mentioned.

Asked about whether Qatar was prepared to increase the number of teams at the Qatar World Cup to 48, as proposed by FIFA, Al Thawadi said the country is still planning for the usual figure of 32.

Our preparations right now are for 32 teams. All the preparations are ongoing based on that, he stressed.

Iran, Netherlands Discuss Business Ties, JCPOA, Regional Issues

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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During the Tuesday meeting, the two sides discussed the latest developments in bilateral relations, including the expansion of economic cooperation, and regional developments, particularly the situation in Syria and Yemen.

The two sides also conferred on the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Haspels, who is in Iran to attend regular political consultations between Tehran and Amsterdam, earlier met with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi.

During their Tuesday meeting in Tehran, Araqchi and Haspels talked about various bilateral, regional and international issues.

The Iranian official welcomed the Dutch government’s support for preservation and implementation of the nuclear deal, as well as the Netherlands’ position on standing against the US unilateralism and trans-national laws.

Iran, Netherlands Discuss Business Ties, JCPOA, Regional Issues“With its unilateral and illegal withdrawal from the nuclear accord, the United States has violated the UN Security Council’s resolution, and encourages or even forces others to violate it as well. If the deal known as the JCPOA fails, it means the diplomacy has failed, while bullying takes over the international arena. This will definitely add to the political complexities in the Middle East,” stated Araqchi.

The Iranian diplomat outlined the regional policies of Iran, saying that Tehran’s policy, unlike those of some other countries in the region who have been struggling with various political tensions in the region, is to maintain stability and expand security in the region.
He added that the Islamic Republic has therefore fought ISIS as the most important factor in the region’s instability.

For his part, the Dutch official noted that the Netherlands supports the JCPOA as a member of the European Union and a non-permanent member of the Security Council.
Haspels further mentioned that his country pursues the implementation of a banking mechanism with Iran in order to provide the Islamic Republic with the benefits of the nuclear agreement.

He also offered his condolences over the recent terrorist attack in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz and condemned the act. The Dutch diplomat also appreciated Iran’s important role in fight against ISIS.

Dried Fruits Broth; Traditional Food from Iran’s Hamadan

By
Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini Lahijani
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As the weather gets cold in Iran, different types of soups and broths find their way into the Iranian sufras. The dried fruits broth is of Hamadan one of the most popular ones, which is mainly made with such dried fruits as grapes, plums, berries, apricots, as well as nuts.

When these fruits get dried, the amount of sugar and some of their benefits increase.

 

Ingredients:

1.5 kilo of vegetables (leeks, parsley, coriander, dill, spinach)

½ cup of lentils

1 cup of peas

1 cup of beans

200 gr of bone-in meat

1 onion

½ cup of dried apricots

½ cup of dried black cherries

½ cup of dried peaches

½ cup of dried sour plums

Dough strips

Salt, pepper, turmeric

2 or 3 tbsp. of vinegar

Malayer grapes sap

Sautéed onions, mint, or garlic for dressing

 

Directions:

Soak the beans a night before. Soak the dried fruits before cooking as well. Cook the meat with beans, onions, pepper and turmeric.

In the last twenty minutes, add the dried fruits and vegetables to the broth and mix them. If the broth is not thick enough, add two to three tablespoons of rice. Then, let it get a little bit thicker.

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