The citadel was constructed in an area of 20,000 square metres and has a carpet area of 7,500 square metres.
There are four pigeon towers in its four corners. In the old days, the place was used as a station to secure the roads, as well as a central place for local people to do daily shopping.
Here are photos of Nehchir citadel retrieved from Tasnim News Agency:
Three traditional handmade baskets called Kapoo woven by two Iranian women named Narges Zahirnia and Hayedeh Kaidkhordeh have been shortlisted by the World Craft Council this year.
Kapoo-weaving is the traditional handicraft of the southern locals of Iran which consists of weaving objects with the leaves of palm trees and then decorating them with thick colourful strings in a way that the final product would be a voluminous and utilizable item.
The handicrafts had received the National Seal of Excellence for Handicrafts in Iran last year, Miras-e Arya reported.
UNESCO picks up its nominated handicrafts based on their excellence, quality, creativity, suppliability, and compatibility with the environment. The winners are given an international certificate of excellence issued by the UNESCO.
Meanwhile, the winners are offered a chance to promote and showcase their handicrafts and hold some international workshops.
Abdolkarim Foroutan from Khuzestan is one of the Iranian artists who managed to receive the award earlier in woodturning.
UNESCO remains the only international organisation with a global vision of the sociocultural and economic role of crafts in society.
The UNESCO Award of Excellence for Handicrafts is a program aimed at encouraging artisans to produce quality products using original and traditional techniques and design in order to ensure their continuity and sustainable development.
This program serves as a mechanism to certify quality and as a tool for commercialisation that guarantees excellence for traditional, innovative and hand-made products.
Until 2006, this recognition was known as the “UNESCO Crafts Prize,” and was later renamed the “Award of Excellence.”
Addressing senior oil officials on Tuesday, Rouhani said his administration has from the start sought “proper, constructive, effective and win-win interaction with the world.”
“Of course, there may be exceptional and special circumstances in the area too, which we will surely leave behind in the shortest time,” he added.
He was apparently referring to the prospect of Washington’s reinstating of nuclear sanctions against Iran as US President Donald Trump prepares to announce within hours whether his country would stay in the nuclear deal that necessitates the removal of the bans.
The 2015 agreement was signed between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China — plus Germany. It removed the sanctions in exchange for Tehran’s limiting its nuclear energy program in certain aspects.
Trump has been threatening to pull out of the accord since his inauguration last January, including by warning he would “tear up” the deal.
Other signatories to the deal, as well as the UN and the European Union, which moderated the talks in the lead-up to the agreement, have warned Washington against trying to sabotage it. They call it a pillar of regional and international peace and stability, and a multilateral pact, which cannot be simply terminated by a single party.
The Iranian chief executive also said the country will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the victory of its 1979 Islamic Revolution this year in “a more resplendent” manner.
“Apparently, it is difficult for some to bear the fact that the Iranian nation will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the victory of its Revolution this year,” he noted.
“By God’s grace, the people of Iran will continue down the path of independence, liberty, adherence to Islam and the Republic government system, and democracy for the years and centuries to come. This is the path that the people have chosen,” he asserted.
The top story in all newspapers today was the upcoming announcement of Trump’s decision on the Iran nuclear deal, which is slated for Tuesday night. The European Union has already stated that it will remain in the JCPOA regardless of Trump’s decision. However, speculations about the possible consequences of the decision have grabbed the headlines in Iran.
Several papers today also highlighted the meetings between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and a number of US politicians, including former US Secretary of State John Kerry and other influential figures from both GOP and Democrat parties.
The victory of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah and its allies in the Arab country’s parliamentary votes also received great coverage, particularly in conservative papers.
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“Considering its unfaithfulness [to the deal], it would be foolish to engage in [a new round of] negotiations with this country (the US),” Jahangiri said.
The vice-president made the statement while addressing a gathering in a Tehran University campus in Karaj west of the capital on Tuesday, a report by the Persian-language Tasnim News Agency said.
Praising the nuclear pact as a remarkable achievement in the history of diplomacy, Jahangiri said killing the deal will leave a stain on the reputation of the US.
France, along with other European powers, Germany and Britain, has for a while been requesting Iran to start talks on an agreement that will curb Iran’s ballistic missile program and regional activities.
They argue the restrictions is the only way to prevent the termination of the 2015 nuclear deal by the US President Donald Trump.
Trump has threatened he will refuse to extend the temporary waivers on US sanctions, which were suspended under the nuclear pact, unless what he calls “disastrous flaws” of the nuclear deal are fixed.
Failing to curb Iran’s missile program and regional activities are one of the so-called flaws of the deal that placed confidence-building curbs on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the removal of the US, EU and UN sanctions on Iran.
The refusal of the US to keep the sanctions frozen will mean Washington is no longer bound by the pact.
May 12 was the deadline for Trump to decide whether to remain in the deal, but he said last night that he will announce his decision on Tuesday.
Addressing the parliament on Tuesday, Ali Larijani lauded the Lebanese nation for responding to the US and Israeli hostile moves by voting in the parliamentary elections.
The wise Lebanese nation expressed their comments by voting “no to the US and no to Zionists” in the elections in spite of all the dirty dollars that the US, Zionists and their regional followers spent to harm Lebanon, he added.
The speaker called on the US president to notice the result of the American and Zionist plots against Lebanon in the vote of the Lebanese people, warning the US that lack of commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will have the same outcome.
Donald Trump should realize that political and military pressure against people of the region will be faced with the voice of nations who stand against bullies, Larijani underlined.
On Sunday, Lebanese people voted for their favorite candidates competing for 128 parliamentary seats.
Hezbollah and its political allies won more than half of the seats in the polls.
Hezbollah’s gains come as Trump is going to announce his decision on whether to stay in the JCPOA, the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned Washington against the “strategic mistake” of withdrawing from the nuclear deal, maintaining that Tehran has no concerns about the US’s cruel policies and wrong moves.
They, however, were not real terrorists. They were a group of actors dressed in ISIS militants’ costumes and were there to promote the film “Damascus Time”, an Iranian movie about the Islamic Republic’s fight against terrorism in Iraq and Syria.
The weird stunt immediately sparked harsh reactions among the people there and shocked the social media users who later watched the footages.
A clip filmed by one of the people inside the shopping mall shows a parent shouting at the ISIS-like actors, asking them, “What if a woman or a child is shocked by your freaky show here? Who is responsible for such a stupid move? Who the hell did tell you to dress up like this?”
After thousands of tweets and posts in various social media to criticize the move, Ebrahim Hatamikia, the director of the film, issues a statement and said he was unaware of the promotion, and sincerely apologizes to all those hurt and scared by the show.
“I thought a person with red beards (like ISIS militants) is going to stand outside the mall and let the fans take selfies with him. I didn’t know there would be horses, screams, and crowds inside the mall.”
“The show was definitely beneath the dignity of my film,” he added.
Damascus Time, shot in Iran and Syria, stars Hadi Hejazifar, Babak Hamidian and a number of Syrian and Iraqi actors.
It tells the story of an Iranian pilot and his son as co-pilot who are seized by ISIS forces in Syria when are in the country to deliver a cargo of humanitarian relief supplies to people in a war-torn region.
The film was produced by the Owj Arts and Media Organisation, an institution based in Tehran, producing revolutionary works in art and cinema.
The café titled “Titil” hosts the bookworms, who even lend their books to this mobile library in order to give the chance to their fellow citizens to read them as well. What follows is a report by the Persian-language Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) on this café.
In the days that reading books is not that much prevalent in Iran, and the publishers are worried about the decreased number of readers and book shoppers, three young guys are doing their best to promote the book reading culture among people using their own talents and experiences.
They bought a red Volkswagen T3 with a small amount of money, and turned it into a mobile library so that they could explore the city to lend books to the people interested in reading.
It was an interesting idea that produced results very soon, and the Titil Café has now become one of the most popular mobile cafés and libraries in Tehran. It is a café whose owners, regardless of economic concerns, seek to promote book reading culture among the people.
In addition to borrowing books from the café, you can order coffee, snacks and cold drinks, along with cupcakes and homemade and handmade cookies to enjoy your time when you are reading a book.
How It Came into Existence
Kourosh Esmaili, Mostafa Rasouli and Mohammad-Reza Heydari are the three main initiators of the Titil Café, which started its work in the summer of 2017 with an investment of around 14,000 US dollars. The three guys, who are the employees of a company in the field of oil and gas, are busy at the company from morning to the afternoon. From 5 pm to 10 they work at Titil Café.
As regards the name of the place, Kourosh Esmaili says “Titil in the Gilaki language means dragonfly, and since we wanted to go from place to place every day, Titil was a good choice as it constantly jumps from one place to another.”
Read Books for Free
One of the main features of Titil book café is that you can only borrow books, and this means no one can buy and sell books here. “Our main aim was to lend the books in a rotating form among the audience across the city. Honestly, we never thought about selling books, and from the very beginning we wanted to lend books for free,” says Mostafa Rasouli.
“Borrow a book, read and bring it back please,” this is a sentence written on a 25*30 cm blackboard in front of the café’s library. The library, which began with 150 books, now has about 3,000 volumes. Of these, about 400 to 700 books are transferred every day by the mobile Titil Café.
Concerning the future of the café, Kourosh told us that “we would like to enjoy the close cooperation of people and publishers with Titil Café so much so that we could have about 10,000 volumes of books on various subjects in order to be able to expand Titil’s activity from Tehran to other cities across the country.”
Everyday Clients
Mohammad-Reza Heydari says some of the people are the fixed clients of the café, adding that “we have a lot of clients, and some of them, who follow us in the social media, read our news and daily events. They visit us several times a week to return the books they have read and borrow some new ones. This is very promising.”
He also refers to one of their regular clients, saying “there is a woman who lives near Darabad in north of Tehran. She finds our location via our page on Instagram and comes to us every afternoon at about 6. She borrows a book and reads it until 10 pm, and if she is short of time, she will take the book to return it the day after.”
About the terms of lending books, Mohammad-Reza tells us that “anyone who likes to borrow a book just needs to give us his/her name and a cell phone number to be registered. We give them a card and they give it back after they read the books.”
A Charitable, Cultural Work
“During the week, many writers and translators are invited to the café, and sometimes they call on us without any coordination. In addition to donating their books to the café and holding book-reading sessions, they sign a number of their works.”
Kourosh, Mostafa and Mohammad-Reza, however, are thinking of another goal by separating the books signed by writers and translators.
“When the number of such books goes up, we will hold a public exhibition to sell the books signed by the authors, and spend the money on charity events. Fortunately, we have collected more than 60 signed books that we hope will increase as soon as possible.”
Another interesting thing about Titil café is that on the first Saturday of every month the revenues are spent on charity works.
Vahid Yazdanian, the dean of Post and Telecommunications Faculty, said with this approval, the professors can hold ITU’s workshops across the world.
“Four of the seven Iranian professors have already been invited to preside over an international workshop on Cyberspace Security slated for May 12 and 13 in Tehran,” a report by Persian-language Islamic Republic News agency (IRNA) said.
Promoting knowledge of potential challenges and threats by online services and applications, sharing global cyber security plan by ITU, exploring global indexes on cyber security and protecting children in the cyberspace are among the main issues to be dealt with during the workshop.
ITU has announced that during the workshop, the participants will also discuss clouding, internet of things, information security standards, critical information infrastructures and the prospects of cyber threats.
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Yazdanian went on to say that so far 15 managers and experts from Asian and Oceanic countries like India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, New Guinea and Afghanistan have registered to take part in the workshop.
“One of the main advantages of hosting such workshops is that we can increase the number of Iranian participants in the workshop by one and a half times compared with other countries,” he noted.
According to Yazdanian, based on the ITU regulations, member states like Iran must hold joint training courses in information technology and communication with the help of leading Asian countries in this area like South Korea, China and India. He added preliminary arrangements have been made to hold the courses in the near future.
Over the past years, Iran-ITU ties had been cut and Iranian professors were not allowed to hold any regional workshops.
In comments at a meeting of administrative officials in Mashhad on Monday, Rouhani said Iran has devised the necessary plans to deal with any possible scenario, including a US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).
The US will be the real loser if it walks away from the nuclear accord, he added.
“We have our own plan. Either what we demand from the JCPOA is fulfilled by the non-American (parties),(and in that case) the US withdrawal will be the removal of a trouble, or we (will resort to) our legal and rational option… if what we expect is not fully accomplished,” the president said.
He warned Washington against the “strategic mistake” of withdrawing from the nuclear deal, reiterating though that Iran has no concerns about the US’s cruel policies and wrong moves.
US President Donald Trump in January set a 120-day deadline for US lawmakers and European allies to “fix” his predecessor Barack Obama’s main foreign policy achievement or face a US exit.
Since the historic deal was signed by Tehran and the Group 5+1 in Vienna in July 2015, the IAEA has repeatedly confirmed the Islamic Republic’s compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA, but some other parties, especially the US, have failed to live up to their undertakings.
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