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Italy Returns Historical Headstone to Iran

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Iran’s Ambassador to Rome, Jahanbakhsh Mozaffari, hailed the Italian Police’s move and said “fortunately, we have good relations with the Italian police particularly in coping with smuggling of ancient pieces from Iran and Italy.”

According to a Farsi report by IRNA, he made the comments in an address to a ceremony to take delivery of the smuggled stone inscription in Rome.

Italy Returns Historical Headstone to IranThe ceremony reveals the good cultural relations between Iran and Italy, he said, adding that the delivery of the headstone signifies the constructive relations between the two sides.

According to the Italian police, the gravestone was abandoned by the smugglers near a cemetery in Ferentino, a town 65 kilometres southeast of Rome.

“Following further investigation, Italy’s police came to the conclusion that the relic belongs to Iran,” police noted.

The stone contains Nasta’liq script of a Persian poem and the death and birth dates of a dead person.

In 2015, Italian police also found 30 cultural relics dating back to the post- and pre-Islamic eras which had been smuggled out of Iran, and handed them over to the Iranian Embassy in Rome.

Italy Returns Historical Headstone to Iran

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

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A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 18

The US-led coalition’s Saturday attack on Syria and the ensuing reactions to the “criminal” move remained a top story today.

Several papers particularly highlighted the remarks made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and the harsh comments made by Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on the recent aggression on Syria.

Also a major top story today was the Iranian Judiciary’s failure to arrest former Tehran prosecutor Saeid Mortazavi, who has been sentenced to two years in prison for complicity in the death of a prisoner in the notorious Kahrizak Detention Centre back in 2009. Posters have been put on the walls of Tehran in the past couple of days, depicting Mortazavi as a “wanted cowboy”, implicitly criticizing the Judiciary and its spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei who said we haven’t found him.

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

 

19 Dey:

  • Iran First VP Talks of New Forex System
  • Banks to Be Activated in Collecting Foreign Currencies Kept by People
  • Rouhani to Putin: We Shouldn’t Let New Tension Escalate in Region

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Abrar:

  • MP: Corruption Started in Ahmadinejad’s Government
  • DM Says Iran Self-Sufficient in Supplying Arms Needs

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Afkar:

  • Larijani’s Serious Warning to US, Allies
  • Time of Brutal Acts Over

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

  • World Bank: Iran to Run Out of Oil in 155 Years, Saudi Arabia in 80 Years
  • Consequences of Unwanted Filtering
  • What Restrictions on Telegram Will Do to Rouhani Gov’t
  • An Analysis of Iraq’s Parliamentary Elections
  • Shiites to Maintain Majority of Iraqi Parliament

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

  • Ministers of Justice, Interior to Be Summoned to Parliament over Fugitive Prosecutor
  • What Happened to Secrets of Notorious Prosecutor Mortazavi?

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Asrar:

  • Crime and Punishment of Trump in Syria
  • Velayati: US Looking for Pretext in Syria

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Ebtekar

  • Larijani: US, UK, France Attacked Syria in Violation of All Int’l Laws
  • Iranian MPs against Ahmadinejad’s Offences
  • Dreams of Saudi Prince: A Review of Riyadh’s Role in Mideast Trends

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Etemad:

  • Congress Trying to Decrease Trump’s Authority
  • Over $6.5 Billion in Damages Result of Oil Offences by Ahmadinejad’s Gov’t

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Ettela’at:

  • World’s Hatred of Criminal Aggression on Syria
  • Iran’s Non-Oil Exports to Hit $55 Billion
  • Yemen’s Ansarullah: We’ll Increase Range of Our Missiles to Hit Israel

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Ghanoon:

  • People Looking for Fugitive Convict
  • Iranian People in Past Days Put Posters on Walls to Find Mortazavi!

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Hemayat:

  • US’ Defeat in Syria Makes Headlines in World Newspapers
  • Bluff of Losers
  • A Report on Hebrew-Arab-Western Plot against Iran after Embarrassing Defeat in Syria

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Iran:

  • Zarif’s Evaluation of US-UK-France Invasion of Syria: An Attack to Defend Terrorists
  • FM: I Don’t Believe in Diplomacy for Show; National Interests More Important than JCPOA

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Javan:

  • World’s Freedom-Seekers Protest at 3 Criminal Musketeers
  • Nasrallah: They Bombed the Air!
  • US Attack Not to Change Regional Balance in Favour of Israel, Certain Regional States

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Jomhouri Eslami:

  • Iran First VP: Foreign Currencies Earned from Exports Must Return to Economy
  • Increased Global Protests, Opposition against Trump’s Warmongering in Syria

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Kayhan:

  • Need for Boosting Our Missile Power, Lesson Taken from West’s Attack on Syria
  • Brutal Crackdown on Critics in France, the So-Called Advocate of Democracy!

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Payam-e Zaman:

  • Zarif to Johnson: No Country Allowed to Punish Other States Arbitrarily

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Rooyesh-e Mellat:

  • Rouhani to Putin: US, Allies Don’t Want Syria to Have Stability

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Sepid:

  • Deputy Health Minister: Iran Committed to Fight Non-Communicable Diseases

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Setareh Sobh:

  • Dispute over Syria in UN Security Council

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Shahrvand:

  • Death of Children in Syria Not Staged: Red Cross Chief in Tehran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Shargh:

  • In Pursuit of Mortazavi
  • Judiciary Under Fire for Failing to Arrest Former Prosecutor

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

 

Sobh-e Now:

  • Nasrallah: Israel Too Coward to Take Its Tanks to Lebanon
  • A Jurisprudential Review of Digital Currency
  • Independent Cryptocurrency to End Dollar’s Domination

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 16

Mashhad to Host Louvre Exhibit after End of Tehran Show

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Mohammad-Reza Kargar, a senior official at Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organisation (ICHTO), noted that the exhibit is set to be held in Khorasan Grand Museum in Mashhad.

“Based on the order of ICHTO Chief Ali Asghar Moonesan, we began a series of talks with the French cultural officials to hold Louvre Exhibit in Mashhad,” he was quoted as saying in a Farsi report by IRNA.

He said after getting the approval of the French officials, “we began to make the arrangements to transfer Louver Exhibit works to Khorasan Grand Museum” after its show in Tehran is over.

The exhibit will be underway until June 8 at the National Museum of Iran in downtown Tehran.

According to Kargar, all works in the exhibit as well as a selection of photos taken of the Louvre in Paris by late Iranian filmmaker and photographer Abbas Kiarostami will be transferred to Mashhad for a two-month show.

Kiarostami’s photos are now on display on the sidelines of Louver Exhibit in Tehran. The photos are the fruits of his several visits to Louvre Museum from 1996 to 2012, where he took photos of the visitors.

Louvre Exhibit was warmly welcomed by Iranian people. The number of visits to the exhibit has gone beyond expectations as over 100,000 people have visited the place since the opening date on March 5.

“A total of 104,047 people explored the exhibit from March 5 to April 2, which is a stunning figure. We had estimated to have some 100,000 visitors over the course of three months, while we still have some 60 days to go until the end of the show in Tehran,” Jebreil Nokandeh, the head of the museum, told ISNA in a Farsi interview.

The Louvre show is the first large-scale exhibition by a major Western museum in Iran.

The exhibition puts on show some 50 works including the 2,400-year-old Egyptian sphinx, a bust of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and drawings by Rembrandt and Delacroix and other artifacts linked to Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures, as well as objects from ancient Iran.

In parallel with the Tehran exhibition, the Louvre-Lens, an art museum located in the French city of Lens, is presenting a vast collection of objects dating back to the Qajar era (1785-1925) from March 28 to July 22.

Iran Parliament Speaker in Vietnam for High-Level Talks

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Larijani was welcomed by Vietnamese parliamentary officials upon arrival at the airport in the capital, Hanoi, on Sunday night.

During the first day of his trip, Larijani is scheduled to attend a press conference, sit down with the secretary general of the Communist Party of Vietnam and visit the tomb of late Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh.

Prior to leaving Tehran, the top parliamentarian told reporters that his trip to Vietnam, which will later take him to Sri Lanka, is aimed at boosting economic and parliamentary cooperation.

He said there is good potential for economic cooperation between Tehran and Hanoi.

“There are good areas where the two countries can work together to boost economic cooperation, and the two countries already have parliamentary cooperation and political consultations in international circles,” said the speaker.

Larijani said his next stop would be Sri Lanka.

“Iran and Sri Lanka have good bilateral ties, and the country’s parliament speaker visited Iran last year when we discussed the promotion of relations is some areas,” the Iranian parliament speaker said.

He said the recent US-led military action against Syria will also be on the agenda of the talks with the officials of Vietnam and Sri Lanka.

Larijani’s trips to the two countries come at the invitation of his Vietnamese and Sri Lankan counterparts.

Iran Slams Arab League Summit’s Final Statement

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In a statement on Sunday, Bahram Qassemi reiterated Iran’s principled policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries.

Qassemi also expressed deep regret over some parts of the final statement of the Arab League summit which was held in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

“As in previous statements, once again baseless allegations and false claims have been made against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Qassemi said, stressing that the statement has ignored the facts on the ground and failed to identify the exact causes of regional crises.

There were high expectations that the meeting would take a positive step towards regional convergence in identifying the key factors of restoring stability and peace to the region, apart from adoption of repetitive double standards, Qassemi noted.

However, he added, the dark shadow of Saudis’ destructive policies is evident over the final statement of the summit.

He emphasised that the Greater and Lesser Tunbs, and Abu Musa islands belong to Iran reiterating that the efforts of some southern neighbours to create fake names for these islands is a baseless, useless and essentially false claim.

Qassemi strongly condemned such claims as outdated and ineffective, and called them an instance of interference in Iran’s internal affairs.

“It is a pity that some of the member states of the Arab League ignore the historical and geographical realities and disregard the sovereignty of their neighbours,” he said, adding that they do not follow a rational policy based on good neighbourliness.

Qassemi went on to say that by misrepresenting certain historical realities, they waste the capacities and potentialities of the Arab and Muslim countries to resolve the regional crises by making such allegations and futile efforts.

“Tehran’s principled policy has always been based on maintaining more convergence and mutual respect for the sovereignty of other countries, especially the neighbours, and the observance of good neighbourliness.”

In the same way, he added, Iran expects regional countries not to make false allegations, show mutual respect, and not interfere in each other’s affairs.

Moreover, Qassemi called on the Arab League member states to take necessary measures to build confidence and promote stability in the region. He also urged them to base their policies upon realism, interaction, contemplation, logic, dialogue, goodwill and far-sightedness.

The Arab League summit’s final communique called for more international sanctions on Iran and urged it to withdraw “its militias” from Syria and Yemen.

“The summit condemned Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries, either through igniting sectarian strife or planting militias in Arab countries such as Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen, and harboring al Qaeda terrorists,” Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir told a news conference.

Iran has repeatedly denied such accusations.

Syria Strikes Proof of US’ Ties with Terrorists, Rouhani Tells Putin

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Iranian, Russian Presidents Discuss Karabakh Conflict

In a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday, Rouhani described the recent US-led strikes on Syria as an “aggression” aimed at raising the morale of the defeated terrorists in the country.

“The US-led attack on Syria showed that Washington has direct ties with terrorists in Syria,” Rouhani was quoted as saying in a Farsi report by his official website.

He said when the US came to the sense that the terrorists are losing a strategic region like Eastern Ghouta, it reacted by conducting missile strikes on Syria.

Iran and Russia should not allow a new tension to escalate in the region, Rouhani noted, adding Tehran is ready to take whatever steps necessary to restore security to the region and save the lives of Yemeni people.

The Iranian president also called for further expansion of bilateral and multi-lateral relations between Iran and Russia in all fields.

President Putin said for his part that further missile attacks would lead to chaos in international relations.

He then rejected as baseless any claim that Syrian government has used chemical weapons in Douma.

Putin further noted Iran and Russia should take full advantages of the capacities available to expand mutual cooperation.

The two presidents agreed that the missile strikes have damaged the prospect of a political resolution to the conflict in the Arab country.

During the phone call, the two presidents also exchanged views on the latest regional and international developments.

Early on Saturday, the US, Britain and France launched a series of missile attacks against Syria in response to what they claimed was a chemical attack by the Damascus government in the town of Douma in the suburb of Damascus on April 7.

Iran FM Due in Tajikistan to Attend ECO Meeting

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Accompanied by a political entourage, Zarif is due to attend the 23rd ECO Ministerial Meeting in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, announced Bahram Qassemi.

The Iranian foreign minister will also hold talks with senior Tajik officials and discuss ways to expand mutual cooperation, he added.

This is the second visit of Zarif to Tajikistan within the past few months.

In November 2017, the Iranian top diplomat visited the central Asian country as the first of its kind in the past couple of years.

Relations between the two countries took a nosedive in late December 2015 on the issue of the Islamic Movement of Tajikistan. While the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) was considered by the Tajik government as a banned party, its leader Muhiddin Kabiri, who lives in exile, was invited to an international conference in Tehran, and this outraged the Central Asian state.

Tajik authorities said despite the fact that Kabiri was accused of organizing riots in September 2015, Iran invited him to the International Conference of Islamic Unity while he was seated next to the head of Tajikistan’s state-backed Council of Islamic Ulema and other members of the official delegation from Tajikistan.

Meanwhile, informed sources say the tension between the two countries goes back to earlier times and is in connection with the assets of Babak Zanjani, the Iranian billionaire who is in jail and was earlier sentenced to death.

Many believe Zarif’s visits to Dushanbe could be a serious step to mend Iran-Tajikistan ties.

Assad Praises Russian Weapons’ Supremacy over US Missiles

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Russian members of the parliament and other officials have provided details about their meeting with President Bashar Assad, which came in the wake of the joint US-UK-French missile strike on Syria.

According to governor Komarov, during a meeting with Russian lawmakers, Assad slammed the Western strike on Syria as “aggression.”

As the Russian State Duma lawmaker Sergei Zheleznyak stated, Damascus has praised Soviet arms made in the 1970s, which were used to repel the missile attack, carried out by the US and its allies.

“According to the president’s [Assad’s] point of view, this [the attack] was aggression and we share this position. He has highly appreciated Russian weapons, which showed supremacy over the arms of the aggressors,” Zheleznyak said.

“Since 1990s we have seen in American movies that the Russian weaponry is “backward.” And now we see, whose is really backward,” Assad was quoted as saying by a Russian MP.

Another MP, Sablin, said, citing Assad, that as Syrian air defences had demonstrated their efficiency, the Arab Republic’s citizens were “no longer afraid of NATO.”

Assad stated that Syria would continue its independent development “despite the agenda, imposed by the West,” Sablin said.

During the meeting, the issue of possible Russia’s anti-missile systems’ deliveries to Syria wasn’t discussed.

Assad also stated that the US-UK-French attack has not only “consolidated the peoples of Russia and Syria, but all the nations, which are guided by the norms of international law,” Sablin said, according to Sputnik.

He said during a meeting with Russian lawmakers that the cooperation between Russia and Syria should resist the “aggressive policy of the West.”

Following an overnight April 14 massive missile attack, launched by the US alongside France and the UK, the Syrian president said that the strikes came as the West realized that it had lost control of the situation in the Arab Republic. At the same time, the Syrian Foreign Ministry called the attack “brutal aggression.”

While Assad was seen arriving at work on the morning after the attack, the Syrians have taken to the streets in Damascus and Aleppo in order to support the government and denounce the West’s move.

According to the Russian Defence Ministry, a total of 71 missiles out of 103 launched by the Western states were repelled by Syrian air defences. The Pentagon has denied the information, saying that every missile had hit its target.

Iranian People Commemorate Renowned Persian Poet Attar

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On this day, a group of people gathered around his mausoleum in the city of Neyshabour (Nishapur) in eastern Iran to pay respect to this great Persian-speaking poet.

The great 12th century Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar is renowned as an author of superb short lyrics written in the Persian language.

Attar of Nishapur was not well known as a poet in his own lifetime, except at his home town, and his greatness as a mystic, a poet, and a master of narrative was not discovered until the 15th century.

Following you can find Mizan’s photos of the commemoration ceremony held in Neyshabour on Saturday:

Iran Slams West’s Double-Standard Policy on Chemical Weapons

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In a phone conversation with his British counterpart on Sunday, the Iranian foreign minister condemned the unilateral attack on Syria and reiterated that the Islamic Republic of Iran is against any use of chemical weapons.

He reminded British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson of the use of chemical weapons by Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein against Iran under the auspices of the US, the UK and France, and slammed the West for adopting double standards when it comes to the use of chemical weapons.

Zarif also raised questions about the timing of the Syria airstrikes which came just ahead of the visit of chemical weapons experts to Syria to probe into a suspected chemical attack on Douma, and added the two airstrikes by the US on Syria were carried out at a time when the Syrian government forces had the upper hand in their fight against the terrorists and were pushing them to defeat.

He also reminded his British counterpart of Iran’s stance towards Syria’s chemical disarmament, saying, “When the issue of Syria’s chemical disarmament was raised we announced that the terrorist groups in Syria are equipped with chemical weapons but no one took Iran’s warning seriously.”

Zarif once again slammed the US, Britain and France for their “unilateral, illegitimate and arbitrary move” to strike Syria, saying, “No country is allowed to unilaterally punish other states outside of international norms.”

Johnson, for his part, provided explanations for the United Kingdom’s role in the recent US-led airstrikes on Syria.

Early on Saturday, the US, Britain and France launched a series of missile attacks against Syria in response to what they claimed was a chemical attack by the Damascus government in the town of Douma in the suburb of Damascus on April 7.

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