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Iran Exports $490m Worth of Handicrafts in 9 Months

By
Emad Askarieh
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In an address to the people of Meybod in the central province of Yazd on Tuesday, Ali Asghar Mounesan said a total of $190 million worth of handicrafts has been exported through customs points.

“The rest, namely $300 million, has been exported by foreign tourists who visited Iran in the first nine months of the current Persian year,” he was quoted as saying in a report by ISNA.

Iran, as one of the most ancient civilizations of the world, and the land of many tribes so different in culture, lifestyle, and tradition has enjoyed a wide variety of handicrafts during the history. Persian handicrafts, each narrating the stories of the culturally diverse populations in different parts of Iran, are among the best souvenirs for the tours to Iran.

Iranian weavings are well-known for their antiquity, elegance, durability and variety. The most famous one is Persian carpet. It has been used as the covering for floors for thousands of years in Great Persia. Different geometrical shapes, medallions, tendrils, and figures of plants and animals woven with local materials specific to each area, inspired by the natural environment, remind people of colourful Persian gardens; full of flowers and birds. Persian rugs woven by nomads are different in style and design. The most prominent nomad rugs include Gabbeh, Kilim and Jajim.

Iranian fabric named Qalamkar is made by hand drawing or printed by the use of patterned wooden stamps. Termeh is another Iranian hand-woven cloth, primarily produced in Yazd. Its weaving is very delicate and time-taking. The most famous of the factories producing traditionally woven Termeh is called Rezaei Termeh.

Another kind of Persian weaving embroidery is Zardoozi. It is making designs using gold and silver threads, pearls and precious stones. Nowadays, copper wires polished by gold or silver, and silk threads are used as well. It also includes Goldoozi (embroidery stitches), Baluchi Suzandoozi (needlework), Sekkeh doozi (shisha embroidery), Rashti Qollabdoozi (special kind of broderie), and Kermani Pateh doozi (a style of Iranian embroidery).

Persian art of handicrafts go beyond textile weaving. It includes metal works, wood works, pottery, miniature, calligraphy, straw-made products, mosaic and stone.

IRGC Calls US Sabotage of Iran’s Missile Program a Big Lie

By
IFP Media Wire
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In a speech on Tuesday night, Brigadier General Hajizadeh highlighted the country’s progress in producing advanced missiles and said, “When it comes to Iran’s missile power, the enemies beg for negotiation with us because we have become powerful in this sector.”

He further rejected some American officials’ claims that the US has managed to  infiltrate Iran’s missile systems and disrupt them, saying, “It is a very big lie because if they make such a claim, they should tell us why they want to negotiate on this issue.”

The IRGC commander further said he believes that the US claims are nothing more than a lie and a great fiasco.

It came after The New York Times recently reported that the Trump White House has accelerated a secret American program to sabotage Iran’s missiles and rockets, according to current and former administration officials.

The officials described a far-reaching effort, created under President George W. Bush, to slip faulty parts and materials into Iran’s aerospace supply chains, the report said.

US government officials asked The Times to withhold some details of its reporting, mostly involving the identities of specific suppliers to the Iranian program, because the effort is continuing, the report said.

Iranian military experts and technicians have in recent years made great headways in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient in the arms sphere.

Iranian officials have repeatedly underscored that the country will not hesitate to strengthen its military capabilities, including its missile power, which are entirely meant for defense, and that Iran’s defense capabilities will be never subject to negotiations.

Back in February 2018, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called for efforts to maintain and boost Iran’s defense capabilities, hitting back at the enemies for disputing the country’s missile program.

“Without a moment of hesitation, the country must move to acquire whatever is necessary for defense, even if the whole world is opposed to it,” Ayatollah Khamenei said at the time.

IRGC Calls for Withdrawal of Chinese Fishing Ships from Iran Waters

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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“Chinese ships must leave Iran’s waters and any contract on this should be cancelled,” he said.

Brigadier General Alireza Tangsiri made the statement in a meeting with local fishermen in the Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday.

The Iranian general said Iranian ships must be equipped with the equipment needed for fishing in the sea of Oman.

Chinese vessels are authorized to fish in Iranian waters at a depth of 200 meters based on long-term permits. But reports that the Chinese vessels are involved in excessive fishing operation in Iranian waters have caused uproar.

Opponents believe that overfishing by Chinese ships in Iranian waters has put fish resources at risk, negatively affecting local fishermen’s livelihood.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

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

The top story in all papers today was the visit of a high-ranking Iranian delegation to China for expansion of ties amid the US sanctions and ahead of the Saudi crown prince’s visit to Beijing.

The Iranian delegation includes Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh, Economy Minister Farhad Dejpasand, and Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati.

The opposition of 16 US states to President Donald Trump’s declaration of national emergency, and Bernie Sanders’ decision to once again run for president also received great coverage.

The above issues, as well as many more, are highlighted in the following headlines and top stories:

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Northern Iranian Province May Consider Giving Visa to National Immigrants!

* Mazandaran, a Destination for Iranians Fleeing Cities, May Consider Idea of Choosing Its Guests

2- Khatami’s Term, Rouhani’s First Term Have Highest Satisfaction Rates: Reformist

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- People Want Both Freedom, Justice: Reformist Figure

2- 16 States File Lawsuit against Trump

3- Playing in Jerusalem, Serious Concern of Women Footballers of Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Ebtekar:

1- Decrypting Mysterious Moves of Pakistan

2- Iran Looking for Balance in Number of Tourists Exchanged with Turkey

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Etemad:

1- In Pursuit of Hope

2- Tehran-Beijing Ties on Path of Deepening Strategic Ties

3- Iran’s Guaranteed Partner in East

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Ettela’at:

1- We Won’t Leave Terrorists’ Move Unanswered: Intelligence Minister

2- Appointing Women to Executive Posts Not Just for Show: VP

3- Indians Hold Massive Rallies against Bin Salman’s New Delhi Visit

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Ghanoon:

1- Eastern Strategy

2- Zarif, Pelosi vs Trump: Global Efforts to Maintain JCPOA

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Haft-e Sobh:

1- Difficult Mission of Top Iranian Officials in China

2- What Does Iran’s Law Say about Women Riding Motorcycle?

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Hemayat:

1- Nationwide Rallies against Trump

2- 22,000 Prisoners Released So Far after Leader’s General Amnesty

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Iran:

1- The Non-United States of America

2- We Should Turn Iranophobia into Iranology: Iran’s First Sunni Woman Ambassador

3- Private Sector Unanimously Calls for Adopting FATF Standards

4- Europe Has Set No Condition for Iran: German Envoy

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Javan:

1- State-Owned Car Manufacturers Raising Prices

2- Only Iranian Forces to Be Used in Completing 4th Phase of Persian Gulf Star Refinery

3- Iran Has Plans to Defeat World Powers: IRGC General

4- 61% of Americans Opposed to Trump’s National Emergency

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Khorasan:

1- First Trial of Rouhani’s Brother Held in Tehran

2- Sanders Declares Candidacy in 2020 US Elections

3- Suicide Bomber behind Zahedan Attack Was Pakistani

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Sazandegi:

1- Is N Korea Moving Away from Socialism?

2- Top Cleric of Iran’s Ahvaz Resigns after Controversy over His UK Visit

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Shahrvand:

1- Iran Not Yet Ready for Fight against Corruption

2- Tehran’s Reformist City Council Creating Further Transparency

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Shargh:

1- It’s Not Time for Amending Constitution: Guardian Council Spokesman

2- Details of Loan Iran Will Get from Russia

3- Against Trump, Towards Political Revolution; Sanders Declares Bid to Run for President

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

 

Sobh-e Now:

1- Iranian Diplomacy in Beijing for Realization of Win-Win Game

* Agreement behind Wall of China

2- Rouhani’s Brother Appears in Court

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on February 20

Romanians Warmly Welcome Exhibition of Iranian Culture, History

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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The exhibition, which was held last week, put on display old maps and hand-written books on the Persian Gulf held in the Romanian Academy.

The exhibition saw huge crowds of visitors including the Romanian people, diplomats, academic figures and Iranians residing in Bucharest.

Morteza Aboutalebi, the Iranian ambassador to Romania, said in the opening ceremony of the exhibition that the Iranian culture has deep roots in the region’s history.

The ambassador said the name of the Persian Gulf has been mentioned in old maps, showing that it is the region’s real name despite what some Arab countries claim.

“The Persian Gulf is the origin of cultural and local values that have been connected to our region’s identity and life and today, thanks to the legacy, the Persian Gulf has become a symbol of the region’s history and culture,” he said.

The deputy chairman of the Romanian Academy, Rizvan Theodorsko, said in the ceremony that the Romanian people need to know more about Iran, particularly the Persian Gulf.

“It is highly important for the Romanian people to know that Iran’s civilization is one of the most important civilizations in the world and Achaemenid, Parthian and Sassanid and other [Iranian] empires have made major contributions to Europe’s civilization,” he said.

‘US Warns Travel Agencies against Arranging Tours of Iran’

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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Foreign tourists visiting the city of Isfahan in central Iran

Deputy Ambassador of Malaysia to Iran and some Chinese tour leaders say some US agents have contacted them warning against establishing cooperation with Iran in the tourism area.

“This time the US has blatantly threatened Iran’s tourism industry. Foreign travel agencies are not allowed to take anyone on a tour of Iran, otherwise it would ban them and create legal problems for the tourists who visited Iran when they want to enter the US,” a report by Mehr news agency said.

In a press conference on the sidelines of the International Tourism Exhibition recently held in Tehran, Deputy Head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran, Vali Teymouri, said some people from the US embassies in different parts of the world contact the host countries’ travel agencies threatening them with ban over any efforts promoting Iran’s tourism industry.

“The diplomats explicitly say if the agencies run tours of Iran, they will face serious problems,” he noted.

His statements were confirmed by some Chinese travel agencies visiting Iran. They said the US has already warned some leading travel agencies in China against working with Iran.

Rostam Yahya, Malaysian Ambassador to Iran, also said he has received some threatening letters from a number of US missions warning him against any cooperation with the Islamic Republic in the tourism area.

Speaking on the sidelines of a tourism exhibition in Tehran, he said Malaysia’s embassy doesn’t take the letters seriously.

“Iran is our good partner not only in tourism but also in commercial and educational areas,” he said.

Yahya also described the US sanctions on Iran as unilateral, adding Malaysia adopts its diplomacy based on its own national interests.

“Despite the threats, the number of Malaysian tours of Iran has increased over the past weeks,” he said.

Rosewater Has Unbelievable Healing Properties for Eyes

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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Rosewater Has Unbelievable Healing Properties for Eyes

As a nice flower symbolizing love, rose plays an extraordinary role in keeping our skin fresh, decreasing our stresses and healing any inefficiency in our eyes.

In the daily lives, most of us sit for hours in front of our computers or TV sets, staring at the screen. This, along with air pollution, is highly harmful to our eyes.

Rosewater, however, can be very helpful in protecting our eyes against health problems. Below, you can find some of the healing properties of rosewater for our eyes.

Anti-Bacterial, Disinfection Properties of Rosewater

The anti-bacterial and disinfection properties of rosewater highly contribute to eyes’ health in various ways. It protects our eyes against dust, pollution, inflation and the harms of cosmetics. Pick two cotton balls and soak them in rosewater. Then put them on your eyes for at least 10 to 15 minutes.

Use Rosewater to Remove Eye Fatigue

Wash your eyes with rosewater. It can significantly decrease the fatigue of your eyes after sitting for a long time before the computer or TV set. To this end, mix some drops of rosewater with water and then use the solution to wash your eyes with a cotton ball.

Rosewater as Eye Drop

Rosewater can also be used as a beneficial eye drop. Pour two to three drops of rosewater in each eye while lying on the ground. Then close your eyes for at least 10 minutes. This would relax the eyes while washing them.

Removing Dark Tissues around Eyes

Rosewater is also a good solution for removing the dark tissues created around our eyes. Mix rosewater with some milk and soak a cotton ball in the new solution. Then put the ball on your eyes for ten minutes on a daily basis. Within three to four weeks, you could vividly sense the removal of the dark tissues around your eyes.

Qamsar, Hub of Rosewater Extraction in Iran (+Photos)

Iran Says Visegrad Summit’s Cancellation Heavy Blow to Netanyahu

By
IFP Media Wire
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The move to cancel the Visegrad summit, which had been slated to be held in Quds (Jerusalem), is one of the aftershocks of the recent anti-Iran meeting in Poland’s Warsaw, Baeedinejad said on his Twitter account late on Monday.

“The holding of this meeting at this critical juncture was of great significance to Tel Aviv and its cancellation deals a major blow to Netanyahu’s political situation,” he added in his tweet.

The summit of Central European leaders in Quds was cancelled after Poland withdrew on Monday, accusing Israel’s acting foreign minister, Yisrael Katz, of “racist” and “totally unacceptable” statements.

Leaders of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, known as the V4, were to meet for two days beginning on Monday.

Poland’s withdrawal came after Katz said on Sunday that Poles “collaborated with the Nazis” and “sucked anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk”.

They were the latest comments in a diplomatic row that has been escalating since Friday between Poland and the Israeli regime about atrocities that reportedly occurred against the Jews on Polish soil during World War II.

Netanyahu reportedly said during his trip to Poland on Thursday that “Poles cooperated with the Germans” during the Holocaust.

The Israeli prime minister later said he had been misquoted, and that he did not mean all Poles cooperated, just certain ones.

Yemeni Nobel Laureate Amazed by Iran FM’s Behaviour

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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Tawakkol Karman, a female journalist supporting Yemen’s 2011 revolution who delivered a speech at the conference Sunday, said in a Facebook post this week that she was amazed by Zarif’s reactions after she strongly criticized Iran.

“While talking about destructive foreign interventions in Yemen, I seriously assailed Iran and its negative role in the region, but Mr Zarif who was sitting beside me said ‘we honour you’,” she wrote in a Facebook post this week.

“I mentioned this so you understand the big difference between the thinking and behaviour of Iranians with some Arabs including Saudi Arabia and the UAE,” he said.

This is while Karman has been attacked by Saudi and Emirati users of social media for her comment criticizing the two Arab countries for their invasion of Yemen, which has killed and injured thousands of Yemenis and put the nation on the verge of famine.

Karman, the chairwoman of Women Journalists Without Chains, is a member of Yemen’s al-Islah party, which is close to Muslim Brotherhood.

Karman has repeatedly called for peace talks with Ansarullah and the withdrawal of Saudi forces from this country.

Bernie Sanders Says Will Run for Presidency in 2020

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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In an email to supporters on Tuesday morning, he announced his decision to run again, casting his candidacy as way to accomplish the mission he started three years ago.

“Together, you and I and our 2016 campaign began the political revolution,” he said. “Now, it is time to complete that revolution and implement the vision that we fought for.”

Sanders, 77, believes he can prevail in a crowded and diverse field that includes several female and minority candidates, then beat Donald Trump, whom he called “the most dangerous president in modern American history”.

Whether he can once again capture grassroots support, and whether the energy of his last campaign will pass to other candidates, will likely be a central factor in determining who Democrats nominate to take on the sitting president.

The progressive policies Sanders helped popularize in 2016 – Medicare-for-All, a $15 an hour federal minimum wage, tuition-free college and demands to combat climate change more aggressively and tax the wealthy at a higher rate – have been broadly embraced in a leftward shift that has reached several presidential candidates.

“Three years ago, during our 2016 campaign, when we brought forth our progressive agenda we were told that our ideas were ‘radical’ and ‘extreme’,” Sanders wrote. “Well, three years have come and gone. And, as result of millions of Americans standing up and fighting back, all of these policies and more are now supported by a majority of Americans.”

No candidate will enter the race with as many advantages as Sanders, who ended the 2016 primary with more than 13m votes and nearly $230m raised, much of it through small donations. He begins his second run for the White House not as a political outsider but as a top-tier candidate with near-universal name recognition, a dedicated following and an unrivalled donor list.

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