These windmills have been serving the people through ages by combining art and technology. They are called Nashtifan after the wind of 120 days in the region. These mills first emerged in Iran in the 7th century AD. Since this area was exposed to “severe storms”, they are called Nashtifan. The remnants of these windmills in Khaf are in the list of places that are going to be registered by the UNESCO.
What follows are the photos Nashtifan windmills retrieved from IRNA:
The new law was approved during the process to make reforms to the article 104 of the Constitution on the urgency to have an extensive use and promotion of domestic productions and services to meet the national demands.
“According to the law, any TV and radio channel, newspaper and all kinds of printed and visual media carrying advertisements of foreign products similar to those produced inside the country will be subject to penalty,” a report by Tasnim News Agency said.
Meanwhile, all governmental organisations and their affiliates are obliged to use and buy domestic products.
Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade is also required to issue annually a comprehensive list of Iranian products. Carrying advertisements by the mentioned media for such goods are deemed legal.
The decision is made while Iran has once again come under the unilateral sanctions by the US after the White House decided to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018. US President Donald Trump re-imposed his country’s sanctions on Iran back in November.
The first phase of US sanctions included a universal ban on Iran’s access to the US dollar, as well as prohibitions against the country’s trade in gold and other precious metals, among other restrictions. The second wave was aimed to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero as claimed by US officials.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has ordered officials and institutions in charge to prepare to build up the country’s enrichment capacity in case the nuclear deal falls apart after the US unilaterally scrapped it.
Iran and the remaining signatories of the Iran nuclear deal are involved in efforts to preserve the nuclear accord following the US withdrawal.
“Europeans as the main blamable party should think about consequences of this decision, as Iran has so far fulfiled all its JCPOA pledges, but its patience has its own limits,” Bahram Qassemi said in an interview with IRIB News Agency.
The spokesman said Iran believes the US has taken captive the EU and European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal, and it is up to the European governments to take vital decisions in favour of their independence.
“Time for the EU to take a strategic decision to choose its path is coming,” Qassemi said.
The EU was expected to finalise the Special Purpose Vehicle, a mechanism to facilitate Iran’s foreign trade amid harsh US sanctions, by the end of 2018.
Iranian officials, who for months have been lamenting about Europe’s delay in fulfiling commitments, have been outspoken in criticising Europe in recent days.
Talks between the Islamic Republic and the EU on preparing SPV are still ongoing.
The latest figures released on the European Commission’s website indicate that Iran’s oil exports to the EU in the first nine months of 2018 rose 12% year-on-year.
The European Union imported 11.133 million tonnes of oil from Iran between January and September 2017. The figure increased to 12.558 million in the same period in 2018.
According to a report by Entekhab, Greece, Spain, France and Italy were the main importers of European oil in the first nine months of 2018.
In recent months, France has reduced imports of Iranian oil, while routinely it imports 300,000 to 800,000 tonnes of oil from Iran monthly.
This figure has dropped to 40,000 tonnes in August, and France has not imported any oil from Iran in September.
In the first nine months of 2018, Turkey has imported 6.451 million tonnes of oil from Iran, according to the report.
Turkey’s oil imports from Iran has dropped by 33% in comparison to the same period last year. In the first nine months of 2017, Turkey had imported 9.621 million tonnes of oil from the Islamic Republic.
The United States introduced new sanctions on Iran’s energy sector on 5 November, with a stated goal to cut the Islamic Republic’s oil exports to zero.
However, Amir Hossein Zamani-Nia, Iran’s deputy minister of petroleum for international affairs and commerce says the number of potential buyers of Iranian oil has increased despite US threats of sanctions.
He stressed that regardless of US pressure, the number of potential buyers of Iran’s oil has increased due to the competitive nature of the market and growing cupidity for more profitability.
Back in May 2018, US President announced the decision to withdraw from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action which saw anti-Iran sanctions lifted in exchange for Tehran maintaining the peaceful nature of its nuclear programme.
Trump also decided to reinstate all sanctions and impose a new set of restrictions on Tehran’s energy, shipping, financial and other sectors, and pledging to cut the country’s oil exports to zero.
The draft plan has already been prepared and handed over to the Security and Defence Commission of the parliament, said an Iraqi lawmaker.
“With the increasing number of foreign forces in Iraq particularly after the US decision to relocate its forces from Syria to the western and northern parts of Iraq and establish further bases there, more and more parliamentarian fractions are inclined towards urging the government to ouster foreign forces including those of the US from our country,” Mohammed al-Baldawi was quoted as saying in a report by Fars news agency.
The lawmaker then underlined that Iraq can’t put up further with the regional and global policies of the US President Donald Trump.
He referred to the resignation of the US Secretary of Defense, James Mattis along with other dramatic changes in the US politics as a sign of further confusion of the US officials in dealing with the regional issues.
Trump made a surprise visit to Iraq and met US military forces there back in December. During his stay in Iraq, he did not hold talks with the Iraqi officials. The move sparked outrage among Iraqi officials and people. This has contributed to the Iraqi lawmakers’ determination to approve the plan to put an end to the US military presence in their country.
Most of the US forces left Iraq back in 2011, but thousands of them still remain in the Arab country. According to the latest figures by the Pentagon, 5200 US forces were present in Iraq till December 2017. They are assigned with what is described by the US as providing logistic support for the Iraqi forces in their fight against terrorism.
Every day, the fans of this Iranian octogenarian artist in different countries are waiting for his new works every day.
When he was 2 years old, he lost his mother, and her father died later to make him a homeless orphan. He started working at the age of 6 and at the same time began his self-studies. Then, he began his job at a bakery. However, the strangest thing in his life happened at the age of 80 which suddenly took him to the galleries.
Moradi is not educated enough and has learned reading, writing, smithery, painting, etc. on his own.
“In my eighties, I feel like a young man. Every person lives with his wishes and will. Therefore, having problems in life is meaningless. This is what I say; a man who has always lived in poverty and loneliness,” he says.
What follows is part of his interview with Fars News Agency:
Once, I took the sheep for grazing and I found a piece of paper on which there were some sentences in English. At that moment, a young woman who was accompanied by a girl asked me, “Can you read?”
I did not know what to say. I said no. Then she asked me “Do you want to learn reading and writing?”
I said “Yes.” She took me to her home and gave me a notebook and a pencil and I began to write. I kept practicing secretly as I did not want anybody to know about this.
Finally, the man I was working for as a shepherd torn up my notebook. I escaped from there and started working in the market. As I grew older, I worked at a cafe and then I came to work at a bakery. In that bakery, I became friends with a student who taught me math.
At that time, I had a book in my pocket, and I asked the meaning of words on bus, in taxis, etc. I kept doing this till I learned reading and writing. Gradually, I learned poetry and literature and became a representative of the bakery workers. I was the representative of more than 4000 workers. There was a lot of opposition to the workers’ insurance, but I did not miss a moment and finally I could provide them with insurance. I launched workers’ protests until SAVAK arrested me. After a few weeks, they released us, but I did not keep quiet. I kept protesting till the officials were forced to provide insurance for the workers.
After that I decided to learn smithery. I made my decision and became a blacksmith.
When my wife died, I felt very isolated. Then, I had an accident and had my pelvis broken. I was hospitalised for about a year. My blood sugar rose too much, and they could not perfom an operation on my pelvis.
I did not want to be in that situation anymore. For the first time in my life I felt down. I asked God to help me. The other night I dreamt of Hazrat Fatima (SA). That was a miracle. The next day, my blood sugar dropped down and I asked my doctor to perform a surgery on my pelvis. He agreed and after 2 months, I could walk.
After that dream, I began to paint spontaneously. The topic of my paintings is Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS). Almost every month they put on show my works in a gallery. Some of my friends at the exhibitions took my works to different countries. All my paintings are images that come to my mind all at once.
The top story in almost all papers today was the Expediency Council’s decision to ratify the second of the four bills proposed by the government of Hassan Rouhani to get Iran out of the blacklist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global anti-money laundering body.
Also a top story was the visit of Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi to Kabul, where he held a fresh round of talks with Afghan officials one week after negotiating with the Taliban militants in Tehran.
The above issues, as well as many more, are highlighted in the following headlines and top stories:
Aftab-e Yazd:
1- Iranian Officials Discussing Budget Bill on Social Media!
2- Major FATF Bill Finally Passed by Expediency Council
Arman-e Emrooz:
1- CFT, One Step Ahead
* One of the Four FATF Bills Finally Passed
2- Emirati Media Unfair towards Iran National Football Team
Ebtekar:
1- I’ll Keep Gov’t Shut Down for Months and Years If Needed: Trump
2- Key to Afghan Peace Lies in Tehran
* Araqchi Departs for Kabul One Week after Talks with Taliban in Iran
Etemad:
1- Conflicting Reports about Torture of Detained Worker Bakhshi
2- Araqchi Holds Two Hours of Security-Political Talks in Kabul
3- One Parliament and Two Guardian Councils?
* Expediency Council Endorses One of FATF Bills after Guardian Council’s Opposition
Ettela’at:
1- Law on Combating Money Laundering Finally Ratified
2- Saudis Hampering Process of Clarifying Khashoggi’s Case: Washington
3- ISESCO Names 2019 as Year of Islamic Cultural Heritage
Iran:
1- A Report on Iran-Afghanistan Talks over Taliban
2- 121,000 People Deprived of Education in Sistan and Baluchestan Province: MP
Javan:
1- Iran to Send Message of Friendship to Space
2- 16% of Americans Seeking to Escape from Their Country
Jomhouri Eslami:
1- Number of Iran’s Oil Clients Rises
2- 40,000 Indian Workers Die in Saudi Arabia, UAE
3- Trump Is America’s Gorbachev: Afghan MP
Kayhan:
1- It’s Now January 2019: No Sign of Europe’s SPV!
2- Trump Increases US’ Debts to $22 Trillion
Shargh:
1- First Expediency Council Session Chaired by Ayatollah Amoli Larijani
2- Pompeo to Visit Middle East
3- Winter of Privatization
Being built on the technical know-how of Nanoparticles, the towels are capable of removing bacterium and fungus without triggering any type of skin allergy.
“To produce the towels, the Iranian scientists have used Silver Nanoparticles,” Hasan Eslahi, one of the members of the Iranian scientific team which has produced the towels was quoted as saying in a report by ISNA.
He went on to say that Silver Nanoparticles are mass produced inside the country and added the particles are added to the fibers of towels during the washing stage.
The new towels can remove various bacterium like Escherichia Coli widely (E Coli) and Staphylococcus Aureus (S Aureus). They are made one hundred percent of cotton fibers women-sensitivity.com more amount of water compared with their ordinary types.
The towels have been produced at the request of a growing number of consumers. So far, the knowledge-based firms have received several orders by several hotels to produce at least 10 tons of the towels.
The new product has an anti-fungi feature as well. Various tests show that the towel lose its anti-bacterial feature after being used for 100 times.
As part of the historical valley of Khayedalou, the city of Khorramabad is partially located in at the foot of this mountain.
This mountain has a sedimentary surface and is mostly covered with moss and lichen, and for this reason it is called Makhmalkuh (mountain covered with velvet).
With the onset of the rainy seasons, the lichens turn black. Therefore, parts of the mountains that are less exposed to the sunshine are greener and more attractive. It becomes just like a black and green velvet.
In a Saturday statement, Qassemi condemned Hunt for his anti-Iran claims as well as his use of improper and false words against the Islamic Republic and expressed regret over use of such words by the British politician.
“Unfortunately, over the past few days, the British foreign secretary has uttered, on several occasions, some unconsidered and false remarks on an issue which has nothing to do with his country,” he said.
According to Qassemi the remarks reveal the British politician’s lack of understanding of the mentioned issue and amounts to meddling in the internal affairs of an independent country.
“It’s better for the British foreign secretary to make a review of his country’s record in the Middle East over the past years and decades and explore why the UK’s policies and its supports for terrorist groups and aggressive states have led to such humanitarian catastrophes and crises in the Middle East,” he noted.
The spokesman then added a review of the plights of people in Yemen, Syria, Palestine and [many other parts of the region] including massive ruins, diseases, displacement, poverty and hunger and particularly the crisis created today in Yemen by the aggressive states reveals the role played by the British government as well as the states which received billions of British weaponries and used them for fanning the flame of war, hatred and destruction in the region. Their move has led to a shameful and catastrophic situation in the region,” he added.
The spokesman underlined that the UK should be ashamed of its political support for the aggressive states in war on Yemen, export of deadly weapons for murdering civilians and creation of catastrophes in the [war-torn] country.
Back on Friday, Hunt urged Prime Minister Theresa May not to sit by while Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen suffers in an Iranian jail. He added, empathy is not enough – the British government must call an end to the media circus and bare its teeth in demanding her release
Iran’s intelligence authorities arrested Zaghari at the Imam Khomeini International Airport in April 2016 as she was on her way back to London. She was subsequently put on trial and handed a five-year jail term after being found guilty of spying and spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic.
As per the released documents, Zaghari had played an active and leading role in holding training courses for recruits at BBC World Service Trust and the ZigZag Academy. The ZigZag academy, the documents suggest, pursued two main goals, namely training and recruitment of human resources for the launch of BBC Persian Service and deployment of undercover reporters in Iran to gather intelligence.
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