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Iranian Author on List of US 2018 National Book Awards Finalists

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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The novel Disoriental by Djavadi has found its way to the list of finalists in the translated works section. The following is the final list of nominees in the translated works section:

Disoriental by Negar Djavadi; translated by Tina Kover

Love by Hanne Ørstavik; translated by Martin Aitken

Trick by Domenico Starnone; translated by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Emissary by Yoko Tawada; translated by Margaret Mitsutani

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Jennifer Croft

The novel Disoriental was first published in France in 2016 and won several awards.

The United States’ 2018 National Book Awards are presented to top authors in several fields, including fiction and non-fiction literature, poetry, translated works and children and young adults’ literature.

Kordolia: A Unique Ancient Underground City in Heart of Iran

By
Fatemeh Askarieh
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The city measures more than 20 square km in area, dating back to the Safavid era.

“When King Abbas II (year 1587) made Armenians migrate to Isfahan, a group of them settled down in the westernmost part of Karvan county in Tiran town and others dwelled in Kordolia village, beginning to get engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry,” says Mohsen Mazaheri, the director of the Cultural Heritage Department of Tiran and Karvan town.

Since then, bitterly cold winter as well as the temporary insecurity gripping the area prompted residents of Kordolia village to dig tunnels under their homes to protect themselves and their cattle from freezing cold.

All the tunnels contain wide corridors and labyrinthine chambers which are connected to one another and they all form a large underground city.

According to Mazaheri, the local cultural heritage department learned about the existence of such a subterranean city in 2016. After several visits to the site, parts of the underground city were restored and fitted with lights by the governor’s office and other officials and upon encouragement by the owners of the homes built on the ground on top of the underground city.

Available records as well as stories recounted by late and elderly locals suggest the city has 80 entrances and was used to fight cold and protect residents and their property as well as their cattle.

Officials say three of the entrances have been restored.

“The restored part is 400 meters long and contains 40 chambers, measuring around 2,500 square meters,” says an official.

Parts of the subterranean city have been open to visitors since March 2018.

Below you find photos of this unique underground city.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

By
Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini Lahijani
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A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 19

Several papers today covered the remarks by the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in which he asked Iranian elites and experts for their consultative opinion on various aspects of the Islamic-Iranian Paradigm of Progress in order to upgrade the document which defines a roadmap for the next 50 years.

Also a top story was comments by Iranian First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri about the country’s oil exports under the US sanctions. Jahangiri announced that Iran has already found new clients for its crude oil ahead of new round of US sanctions, due to be imposed on November 4.

President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks in an address to university students in Tehran also received great coverage.

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

 

Abrar:

1- Iran Has Stored Enough Basic Supplies for One Year: MP

2- Trump: Deal with Iran Must Be a Real One

3- Increased Casualties in Northern Afghanistan

4- Trump Opposed to Halt in Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Afkar:

1- Iran First VP: We Must Use Sanctions to Create Opportunities

2- Netanyahu Rules Out Possibility of Early Elections

3- Conservative Figure: CFT Accession to Serve Enemy Plots against Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Paradigm for Iran’s Progress in Next 50 Years

  • Iran Leader Calls for Upgrading Islamic-Iranian Progress Paradigm

2- When American Judge Rules against His Own Country, It Means Justice Not Dead: Academic

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- University Students Protest, Rouhani Tolerates

  • A Report on Rouhani’s Meeting with Students

2- Iran’s Judiciary Summons 11 Military Personnel over Ahvaz Attack

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Ebtekar:

1- West Thinking of Punishing Saudis through Threat, Sanction

2- Rouhani Calls for Hope-Therapy, Says Word-Therapy Doesn’t Work

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Etemad:

1- Rouhani: Excessive Criticism Not Useful

2- Tax Evasion of Trump’s Son-in-Law

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Ettela’at:

1- Iran First VP: Our Oil Revenues Not to Decrease Even If We Sell Half of What We Used to Sell

2- Western Companies Boycott Riyadh Economic Forum over Khashoggi’s Assassination

3- Rouhani: We’ll Be Winner of Iran-US Conflict

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Hemayat:

1- End of Ankara’s Deadline for Inspecting Saudi Consulate

2- 196 Arrested for Disrupting Economy

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Iran:

1- Defending Freedom: Joint Editorial of Iranian Newspapers Addressing World Journalists

2- Iran: We’ve Found New Oil Clients

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Jame Jam:

1- Iran Leader Calls on Elites to Complete Paradigm of Progress

2- Iranian Hercules: Alireza Yusefi Named World’s Most Powerful Teenage Weightlifter

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Javan:

1- Rouhani: This Was All US Could Do, Rest Assured

2- Iran Leader Calls for Upgrading Progress Paradigm for Next 50 Years

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Kayhan:

1- CNN: Khashoggi’s Case to Drown Bin Salman

2- New York Times: Saudi Arabia Must Think of another Crown Prince

3- Trump Not to Succeed in Creating Unrest in Iran through Sanctions: NY Times

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Sazandegi:

1- Defending Freedom: Iranian Papers Publish Joint Editorials in Persian, English

2- Stephen Hawking’s Latest Scientific Article Released 7 Months after His Death

3- Rouhani: People Should Not Be Worried about November 4 Sanctions

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Shargh:

1- Rouhani: Hope for Future Key Reason for My Previous Government’s Success

2- Iran Leader Doesn’t Want to Personally Decide about FATF Bills: Conservative

3- Nominees for Post of US Envoy to UN

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Sobh-e Now:

1- 13 People Arrested for Disrupting Forex Market

2- Roadmap for New Millennium [Editorial]

3- Gap in Unified Europe

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

 

Vatan-e Emrooz:

1- Islamic Iran in 1444 (2065)

2- Saudis Not to Allow Turkey to Inspect Consulate

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 15

Turkey Cautiously Handling Khashoggi Case to Avoid Tension with Saudis

By
Saber Golanbari
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The method of disseminating information and remarks made by Turkish officials about Khashoggi indicate that the country is managing the crisis of his assassination in a calculated manner and has not gone into inaction in that regard.

Since the first day when Khashoggi went missing after entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Ankara possessed the most important evidence suggesting he had been assassinated, i.e., an audio tape recorded inside the consulate, and, hence, could have revealed the evidence during the very first days following the incident, but did not do so.

Although Turkey’s sovereignty and security are now under question, the country wouldn’t like the Khashoggi issue to turn into a high-profile matter in Ankara-Riyadh ties and jeopardize billions of dollars in Saudi investment.

For the time being, Ankara intends to gradually reveal reliable information in that regard to put pressure on Riyadh into working out a joint settlement of the crisis.

So, when Turkey says Saud Arabia should cooperate in that regard, it means Riyadh should work to reach a solution, not work to prove that Khashoggi was assassinated. In fact, Ankara is sure that Khashoggi was assassinated on orders from high Saudi authorities, and does not need Saudi cooperation to shed light on the dimensions of the saga.

Saudi Arabia has announced its readiness to dispatch a security delegation to cooperate with the Turkish security apparatus on the Khashoggi case, which can show that Riyadh has received Ankara’s message. On the whole, the sending of this team can have two motives. First, getting precise information on the reliable evidence in Turkey’s possession, and second, entering into serious talks to work out a common solution to the issue.

One possible solution could be that the Saudi government announces rogue elements assassinated him without Riyadh being informed of that, and stress that it will seriously deal with perpetrators.

Here, Turkey has managed to ward off a crisis in its relations with Saudi Arabia on the one hand. Experience (for example with regards to relations with Canada and Germany) shows that Riyadh usually is not scared of making bold decisions in such circumstances. On the other hand, Turkey has been able to gain concessions from Riyadh with regards to certain issues.

The coming days and weeks will bring to light whether Ankara and Riyadh will be able to reach agreement behind the scene and somehow close the case in order to prevent a serious blow to mutual relations. In that case, Turkey will most probably stop gradually releasing evidence of Khashoggi’s assassination, and neither will it release that audio tape which is said to contain the conversation between Khashoggi and the terror team. According to American sources, Turkey has informed Washington of the content of the tape which has not been released by media, yet.

Iran Denies Ankara Embassy Evacuation, Bomb Threat

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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In a Monday statement, Bahram Qassemi dismissed as sheer lies news that the Iranian embassy building in Ankara was the target of a suicide bomb attack and that the embassy had been evacuated.

“Such a claim and news is a sheer lie, and the personnel at our embassy are present at their workplace in full health and security, doing their daily jobs,” said Qassemi.

Earlier, Turkish media claimed that he Iranian Embassy in Ankara had been evacuated after Turkish security forces received a tip about a possible suicide bombing plot.

The reports said Turkish police evacuated the Iranian embassy after receiving the tip and cordoned off Tehran Street where the embassy is located.

Iran Produces Cooling Fabrics Using Nanotechnology

By
Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini Lahijani
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Nanocomposite fabrics have many useful functions including cooling the skin in summer, transferring the body moisture to the environment, rapidly drying textiles, increasing blood circulation, increasing cheerfulness, decreasing vascular cramps, and eliminating the bad smell of sweat and at the same time allowing the skin to continue its natural breathing.

Tehran Zarnakh Company, as the first Iranian company, has managed to produce nylon fabrics called HEALTEX which could reflect infrared radiations, and thus cool down the body.

This product has received a nano-scale certificate from the Iranian Headquarters of Nanotechnology Development this year. These fabrics can reflect infrared radiations and have the ability to retransmit these radiations into the body.

When the infrared radiation penetrates the skin, it contacts the molecules of protein, collagen, fat and water. By creating micrometric fluctuations, a thermal reaction is created which increases the temperature of the body tissue. As blood vessels expand, circulation increases.

Among other products of Zarnakh Company, one could refer to COOLTEX fabrics, which have the ability to rapidly transfer the body moisture to the environment. The presence of micrometric channels in the cross-sectional area of the fibre results in a faster transfer of moisture to a wider level of tissue; therefore, it can increase the evaporation of moisture from the garment.

The heat required for evaporation is provided by the body, and this results in a feeling of dryness and cooling for the person wearing the cooling garment. These features will not be lost by repeated washing of these fibres.

The nanocomposite antimicrobial fibres are among other products of the company. The antimicrobial particles of these threads directly attack the cell wall of the bacterium and DNA, and reduce the possibility of bacteria spreading. In this way, they prevent the creation of odor.

For a brief review of Iran’s achievements in various fields of science and technology, check the book “Science and Technology in Iran: A Brief Review”

No similar garment is being produced in Iran, and just some prominent companies of the advanced countries are active in this field. Therefore, there seems to be a good market for this product now and in the future.

Zarankh Corporation is a nano-based company participating in the 2018 International Nanotechnology Exhibition, which is currently underway in Tehran and will be open to visitors until October 16.

Iran Leader Calls for Upgrading 50-Year Paradigm of Progress

By
IFP Media Wire
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In a letter on Sunday, Ayatollah Khamenei called on Iranian organizations, scientific centers, elites and experts to explore various aspects of the Islamic-Iranian Paradigm of Progress and offer their consultative opinion in order to modify, complete and upgrade the document.

The Leader also ordered the Islamic-Iranian Paradigm of Progress Center to seek advice and fully study all ideas to introduce an upgraded and finalized version of the document within two years at most.

From the beginning of the 15th century of the Iranian calendar (2022), the Islamic-Iranian Paradigm of Progress should take effect with the necessary preparations and proper pace and become the pivot on which the country’s affairs revolve, Ayatollah Khamenei added.

The Leader also urged Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the Parliament, the administration, universities and religious schools to help upgrade the Islamic-Iranian Paradigm of Progress.

Developing an Islamic-Iranian paradigm of progress attracted Iranian elites’ attention after Ayatollah Khamenei’s call for such an initiative in December 2010.

In March 2013, the Leader described developing such a paradigm as a great, glorious, long-term and detailed plan, and stressed, “A prerequisite for developing an Islamic-Iranian paradigm of progress and propagating it among the elites is creating a discourse of such a paradigm in society.”

In April 2016, Ayatollah Khamenei said there are deep deficiencies in the common paradigms of development in the modern world, calling for the formulation of an indigenous model on the basis of Islamic and Iranian values.

The Leader had also explained that the common paradigms were fundamentally wrong and based upon humanist and non-divine principles, saying they have failed to keep pledges of supporting values such as freedom and justice.

Signs of failure of the common paradigms of progress can be seen in some countries that follow those models, including their governments’ huge financial debts, unemployment, poverty and severe social inequality, Imam Khamenei pointed out.

New Hitler to Emerge If Trump’s Lawlessness Ignored: Iran

By
IFP Media Wire
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In an address to the closing of a military medicine conference in Tehran on Monday, General Hatami lashed out at the US government for breaking the international law.

“Everybody witnessed how they (Americans) violated agreements and the world saw Iran expressing its good will for resolution of the fabricated nuclear crisis,” he said.

“The Americans have imposed sanctions on us because of opting for independence, and even blocked our access to medicine,” the Iranian defense minister deplored, warning that lack of action against such US lawlessness would lead to the rise of new Hitlers.

“The whole world must counter countries intending to beat the drum of war with law-breaking, and should not allow certain countries to steer the world to war,” the general stressed.

He then described Iran as a major victim of chemical weapons that has paid heavy costs for the treatment of chemical attack victims, saying the country has become self-sufficient in producing medical equipment and is ready to share its experience with other countries.

Iran has made hundreds of products for protection against radioactive, biological and chemical weapons, he added.

General Hatami also voiced Iran’s readiness to run courses for participants of the military medicine congress to share the experience in countering chemical weapons, saying the Defense Ministry is also open to cooperation in the field of military veterinary medicine.

The 4th edition of Military Medicine Congress in Asia-Pacific Region was attended by military commanders and delegations from 45 countries.

Iran took the rotating presidency of the biennial congress.

US Losing Its Allies, Unable to Isolate Iran: IRGC

By
IFP Media Wire
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“At the present time, the United States is isolated and is losing its allies while Iran is the pivot of the political developments in the region and the world and cannot be isolated by any means,” the IRGC’s second-in-command, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, said on Sunday.

He added that world countries are boosting their unity against the US and are refraining from helping Washington in its measures against Tehran.

The senior IRGC commander also emphasized that the Iranian nation has managed to defeat the enemy through resistance, adding that only a few patrol units are currently in the Persian Gulf, where the enemy had previously deployed its warships and aircraft carriers.

“Along with other military forces of the country, the IRGC is fully prepared to counter any enemy on any scale and defeat it,” Salami pointed out.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Salami said the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Palestinian militants and other groups affiliated with the resistance front are capable of thwarting all the enemies’ plots in the region, but the United States has not been able to achieve any of its goals despite spending huge sums.

In an exclusive interview with Press TV, IRGC spokesman, Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif, said the Iranian nation’s security remains the red line of the country’s Armed Forces, saying the IRGC has always taken practical measures to realize this aim.

He added that the IRGC has repeatedly announced that it would never submit to any effort aimed at creating insecurity in the Islamic Republic and would give a “crushing response” in the shortest possible time to anybody seeking to disrupt the country’s security.

“Iranian Diplomat Arrested in Germany Has Full Immunity”

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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Bahram Qassemi

Qassemi on Sunday stressed that Asadollah Assadi, the Iranian diplomat arrested in Germany, has full immunity. His comments came in reaction to reports which quoted him as saying that Assadi’s immunity was limited to the Austrian capital of Vienna, where he was on a mission.

The Iranian spokesman said his statements had been distorted in the media reports, and warned that such distortions could result in undesirable consequences.

“What I had exactly said was that his diplomatic immunity was linked to his position in Austria. I had firmly stated that, based on the Article 40 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961, Assadi had immunity while proceeding to return to his post, or when returning to his own country,” he added.

“Although the Iranian diplomat was not in the country of his mission, we believe he had full immunity under the Article 40 of the Vienna Convention as he was on the way to return to his post,” he said.

“Therefore, the media reports that quoted me as saying ‘Assadi’s diplomatic immunity was limited to Vienna’ are not only incorrect, but also totally contradict my statements,” Qassemi went on to say.

Assadi was apprehended in July near the German city of Aschaffenburg on a European warrant alleging his involvement in the plot to bomb the gathering of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group.

His arrest came after the Belgian police reported a couple with Iranian roots was stopped in the country with homemade explosives and a detonation device found in their car.

A German court said earlier this month that it had approved the extradition of Assadi, who was wanted in Belgium on suspicion he was part of the failed bombing plot.

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