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Iranian Tai Chi Practitioners Gather Together to Promote Peace, Harmony

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The event was held at Niavaran Park north of the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday in commemoration of world Tai Chi and Qigong Day, a fun and beneficial global health event.

The event is annually held on the last Saturday of April to promote the related disciplines of the sports in nearly eighty countries since 1999.

The Tehran Tai Chi practice, open to the general public, was held Friday, as Saturday is not a holiday in Iran.

Dozens of Tai Chi practitioners, including 100 women, engaged in mass and solo shows of Chinese martial arts such as kung Fu, wushu, Tai Chi and qigong.

A number of Iranian artists and foreign diplomats from China, Austria and other countries attended the ceremony.

The local event was organised by the International Red Dragon Organization, an independent Tai Chi and Qigong association, in cooperation with Tehran Municipality.

 

“One World… One Breath”

Iranian Tai Chi Practitioners Gather Together to Promote Peace, HarmonyMasoud Jafari, the founder of the International Red Dragon Organization and the main organiser of the event, told IFP News that the event was held in commemoration of Master Hossein Davoudipanah, the late founder of wushu in Iran who had dedicated himself to promote Tai Chi in the country.

Thanks to the efforts of Master Davoudipanah, Tai Chi has now over 5,000 followers across the country, Jafari said.

Jafari said the Tai Chi practitioners shared the peaceful practice in the tranquility of a traditional Chinese setting, making an appeal to people to embrace wisdom from all the cultures of the world.

Jafari said the event was aimed at informing his compatriots of the health and healing benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong.

The IRDO founder said medical research on Tai Chi has revealed it is a safe practice that helps improve the health of internal body organs.

 

Iranian Tai Chi Practitioners Gather Together to Promote Peace, HarmonySecret to Tai Chi Benefits

Nasser Abolqassemi, a veteran wushu fighter and Tai Chi follower, said he believes the secret to Tai Chi’s great benefits lie in its slow movements and controlled breathing.

Abolqassemi said Tai Chi and Qigong practices are designed to unblock the limitations we hold, so that the greatest potential within us can flow out through our relaxed mind and body.

 

Iranian Tai Chi Practitioners Gather Together to Promote Peace, HarmonyShokoufeh Divani, a female master of Tai Chi, said she has spared no chance to promote Tai Chi among Iranian women, as she herself has greatly benefited from Tai Chi.

Divani said she is grateful to the Chinese culture for offering the gift of Tai Chi and Qigong to the world, as it helps ease stress and helps you to sleep better – both key to a healthy immune system and quality life.

 

Iranian Tai Chi Practitioners Gather Together to Promote Peace, HarmonyMojtaba Amouee, a world champion of Tai Chi, has also encouraged Iranians to join followers of Tai Chi, as it helps energise and motivate them for right action.

Amouee, who has given performances in international events in India, Russia, China, Georgia and Armenia, said Tai Chi also helps rev up your body’s disease-fighting defences.

 

Iran ICT Minister Censures Judiciary’s Blocking of Telegram

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Telegram was eventually filtered on Monday night, capping months of speculations regarding the fate of the encrypted messaging app that has been accused of allowing elements hostile to the Islamic Republic to fuel violence in Iran.

The Iranian judiciary, in a surprise announcement raising eyebrows among 40 million Iranian users of Telegram, said it has issued a “total ban” on Telegram following frequent requests.

In posts on Twitter on Tuesday, Azari Jahromi said the filtering of Telegram is equal to imposing sanctions on Iranians, leading to backwardness.

The minister also suggested the filtering could hardly be successful, as people could easily bypass it or choose to use similar services.

“The citizen’s access to sources of information is not limitable, even if an application is blocked. Similar software will be replaced and the free flow of information will be created again,” the minister said.

Azari Jahromi said he is of the opinion that Iran has to develop an effective policy regarding social media and allow free access to them while finding a way to establish its sovereignty over the country’s cyberspace.

Total Ban

The fate of Telegram in Iran become a hot subject in social circles late March, when the head of the national security commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said a decision has been made “at the highest levels” to permanently ban Telegram.

Boroujerdi cited “national security” concerns as the reason the messaging service will no longer be accessible.

However, his comments were shortly afterwards contradicted by President Hassan Rouhani, who said he opposes the filtering of Telegram and believes the government should instead work to end the monopoly of foreign services on the Iranian cyberspace.

Last month, Rouhani had vowed to safeguard people’s right to free access to communicational tools.

But the judiciary ordered a “total ban” on the messaging app that would require the providers to ensure there is no way circumvent the restrictions.

“Considering various complaints against the Telegram social networking app by Iranian citizens and based on the demand of security organizations to confront the illegal activities of Telegram, the judiciary has banned its usage in Iran,” the Iranian media reported a court in Tehran as saying.

“All Internet providers in Iran must take steps to block Telegram’s website and app as of April 30,” it said.

Minister Denies Resignation

The critical comments by Azari Jahromi were followed by reports on Iranian media that the ICT minister has resigned, but Azari Jahromi denied them in a talk with ISNA later on Tuesday.

However, he reiterated his position that the blocking of Telegram is not a solution.
Pointing to controversies over the filtering of Telegram in Russia, Azari Jahromi suggested similar problems could happen in Iran.

“We have provided related authorities with well-documented reports regarding the challenges created by the filtering of Telegram,” he said.

Iran is not the first country to ban the messaging app.

In mid-April, the Russian telecommunications watchdog also ordered internet providers to restrict access to all servers used by the Telegram, RT reported.

The move was taken after the company operating the messenger refused to comply with Russian law and hand over encryption keys to the Russian security services, arguing that was technically impossible.

Iranian officials in recent weeks have been encouraging Iranians to use domestic alternatives to Telegram.

ast month, Iran’s state institutions started replacing Telegram with domestic services, including Soroush.

But some Iranians are reluctant to use domestic apps, fearing they could be used by security apparatus to spy on them.

Tehran International Book Fair Officially Kicks Off

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The TIBF was inaugurated during a ceremony attended by high-ranking Iranian officials, including Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyed Abbas Salehi.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had been slated to deliver a speech at the ceremony but did not attend the event due to unknown reasons.

Publishers and delegations from 53 foreign countries are present at the fair and Serbia is the special guest country of the international event.

The Tehran International Book Fair is annually held as a social and cultural phenomenon with book displays, panel discussions and publishing deals.

Five Iranian Pharmaceuticals Registered in Europe

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Sorena Sattari says this is the first time that the pharmaceuticals produced by Iranian companies are being registered in foreign countries.

“For the time being, at least five Iranian pharmaceuticals have been registered in Russia,” he was quoted as saying in a report by the Persian-language Fars News Agency.

Sattari went on to say that the volume of Iranian knowledge-based companies’ exports stood at $450 million last year.

He said the overall sales figure of some knowledge-based companies in Iran hits $120m, adding there are at least 20 knowledge-based companies whose sales figures surpass $23m each.

According to Sattari, the government offers over 140 types of services to knowledge-based companies in Iran and plans to offer new services in civil aviation.

“During the early days of the Islamic Revolution, Iran had the largest air force in the world after the US but the war imposed by Iraq on Iran under former dictator Saddam Hussein left us with poor equipment in this field,” he noted.

Sattari slammed oil-dependent economy for hampering Iran’s technological development and said some people think they can buy new technologies with petrodollars but technology should be learned instead of being purchased.

The Iranian official also said the number of university graduates in Iran is equal to that of the US and added Iran needs to move towards establishing more knowledge-based companies if it wants to grow up new generations of scientists and entrepreneurs.

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“We cannot run the country with oil money. Instead we need to put our focus on knowledge-based companies to raise young scientists and technologists,” he added.

According to Sattari, at least $142m has been spent on establishing new knowledge-based companies in Iran.

He also lashed out at some governmental organizations for signing unprofitable contracts with foreign companies, saying such contracts usually leads to further brain drain rather than tangible benefits for the Iranian side.

Sattari noted the transfer of technology should be carried out by the private sector.

He then described start-ups as the main centres which can recruit skilled and young workers and said the startups can play a leading role in encouraging Iranian engineers and specialists living abroad to return to their homeland.

Iran to Restore Asiatic Cheetah Design to World Cup Kit

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Mehdi Taj said the shirts to be worn by players on Iran’s National Football Team are to be unveiled during an upcoming friendly match with Uzbekistan.

“The shirts arrived in Iran on Sunday, and contrary to many criticisms by media about the shirts, [it should be said that] they are not plain … and bear designs,” he said.

Earlier, the official had blamed Adidas for the removal of the cheetah design from the shirts, saying the designer company was against the Iranian cheetah design being used on the shirts of Iranian footballers.

This comes as the Iranian Ministry of Sports and Youth has, in a letter to the federation, called on the football body to pursue the issue of returning the image of the Asiatic cheetah to the shirts of the footballers on Iran’s team.

The ministry has demanded the Iranian Football Team attend the 2018 World Cup Competitions with shirts bearing the Iranian cheetah design in a move to promote global awareness about the endangered species.

Zionist Leaders See Their Survival in Viewing Others as Threat: Iran

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In a Tuesday statement, Qassemi described Netanyahu’s claims as worn-out, useless and shameful. He added that such remarks are futile efforts by a “broke and infamous liar who has had nothing to offer except lies and deceits.”

He further noted that Zionist leaders see the survival of their “illegal regime”, which is established based on lies, in viewing others as a threat using battered charlatanism of the ignorance age and unawareness of the world’s public opinion.

Qassemi also stressed that the futility and uselessness of such claims is now obvious more than ever.

“Netanyahu and the notorious, child-killing Zionist regime must have reached the basic understanding that the people of the world have enough awareness and cognisance,” he added.

On Monday, Netanyahu accused Tehran of having covertly pursued a nuclear program. Unveiling a cache of files purporting to show that Iran “blatantly lied” when it said it did not have a nuclear program, Netanyahu performed a show claiming to have “conclusive” evidence of the “secret program”.

He claimed that the Islamic Republic, after signing the nuclear agreement, intensified its efforts to hide files pertaining to its nuclear activities.

Iran Denounces Kabul Terrorist Attack

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In a Monday statement, Qassemi sympathised with the bereaved families of the victims of the ‘inhumane’ attack, and condoled with the Afghan nation and government over the deadly and tragic incident.

The Monday blast happened only a few days after the latest terrorist attack in Kabul, Qassemi noted, regretting that the Afghan nation’s pains after the previous similar attacks had not been relieved when the new blast took place.

“The region’s stability, including that of Afghanistan, hinges on the international community’s utmost efforts to strictly fight the issue of terrorism,” he noted.

The spokesman also noted that there is no doubt the terrorism orchestrated by certain centres, which seek to spread fear and instability in the region by targeting innocent citizens, will fail to achieve its vicious goals.

At least 25 people including six journalists were killed and nearly 50 others wounded in two back-to-back blasts that hit near government buildings in Kabul on Monday morning.

The first bomb attack was carried out by an assailant on a motorcycle, who blew himself up in the Shashdarak area close to the buildings of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security in the heart of Kabul, officials said.

Shortly afterwards, a second explosion tore through a group of reporters who had gathered at the site of the first incident outside the headquarters of the Ministry of Urban Development.

The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the blasts, which came only a week after the Takfiri terror group killed some 60 people in a bomb attack targeting a voter registration centre in the west of Kabul.

Source Rejects Reports on Death of Iranians in Syria Missile Attack

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After Syria announced that several of its military bases located in the provinces of Hama and Aleppo had come under missile fire, reports by some media outlets suggested that the missile attack had targeted what they called Iranian military bases and that Iranians were killed as a result.

However, an informed source, speaking to Tasnim on Monday, denied such reports.

Earlier, the commander of the Fatemiyoun Corps, an all-Afghan unit involved in the fight against Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria, also denied reports of a missile attack on the corps’ base near Aleppo.

The Syrian army said on Sunday that rockets had struck several military bases in the Hama and Aleppo countryside. In a news flash, state television said the missile attacks took place at 10:30 p.m.

“Syria is being exposed to a new aggression with some military bases in rural Hama and Aleppo hit with enemy rockets,” an army source was quoted as saying without elaborating.

Meanwhile, The Times of Israel said the blasts occurred in a base belonging to the Syrian army’s 47th Brigade that is allegedly used by Iran-backed fighters.

The report said the facility was used as an arms depot, which accounted for the size and intensity of the blast that could be seen from kilometers away and reportedly registered on seismographs in the area.

In another report, Reuters quoted an unnamed intelligence source as saying that it appeared that multiple missile strikes hit several command centers for Iranian-backed forces and there were dozens of injuries and deaths.

Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with various terrorist groups currently controlling parts of it.

According to a report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, the conflict has claimed the lives of over 470,000 people, injured 1.9 million others, and displaced nearly half of the country’s pre-war population of about 23 million within or beyond its borders.

In the meantime, Iran has remained a close ally of Syria and supports its legitimate government in the face of foreign-backed militancy.

Telegram to Be Fully Blocked in Iran Based on Court Ruling

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Tehran prosecutor’s office for culture and media on Monday said in a statement that it had ordered internet service providers across the country to fully block the access to the Telegram app, effective from April 30, in a way that would not allow users to bypass the restrictions using a virtual private network (VPN) or any other software.

The statement further said that the decree handed down after Tehran chief prosecutor’s office received numerous complaints from Iranian citizens calling for the closure of the messenger altogether. It added that the decision was also made after requests were filed by judicial authorities and relevant organs for putting an end to the uncontrollable and illegal activity of the cloud-based instant messaging service.

It further noted that the order against the Telegram was also issued because the application has been founded by foreign investments and operates with disregard to the rules and regulations of the Islamic Republic of Iran, illegally entering into Iran’s cyberspace.

Storing and processing private data of Iranian people outside the country, inflicting damage to the country’s economy through ignoring Iran’s banking system’s regulations and designing and promoting a cryptocurrency known as the Gram coin, and paving the way, as a medium, for causing rift in the national unity through provoking chaos and riot were among the reasons mentioned for the closure of the Telegram, the statement also added that the app played a pivotal role in last year’s riots that claimed the lives of citizens and injured others while incurring huge financial loses to public assets.

The Telegram also created an appropriate room for illegal activities of terrorist outfits through which Daesh Takfiri terrorist group conducted two separate terror operations one targeting the Iranian parliament in Tehran and the second one on Imam Khomeini’s mausoleum last year, which killed 17 people and wounded scores of others, the statement further said.

Earlier this month, the office of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei stopped using the Telegram in a show of support for domestic messenger applications and in line with the country’s national interests.

Following in the Leader’s example, other Iranian officials and entities also quit the Telegram and switched to domestic alternatives, such as Soroush and iGap.

Iran’s Top Judge Rules Out Possibility of Missile Talks

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Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said Iran’s defence power, including issues related to missile technology development, which is used to defend the country, are not negotiable, whatsoever.

He said Washington is in no position to talk about Iran’s defence capabilities.

“The United States, which arms a country such as Saudi Arabia to commit war crimes in Yemen, and which seeks to milk them (Saudi authorities) while trying to disrupt security in the region, and while a delusional, imbalanced and wicked individual like Trump is at the head of your government and keeps speaking out against the Islamic Republic of Iran, how dare you talk about Iran’s defence capabilities?” said Larijani.

He underlined that Iran, under the leadership of the late Imam Khomeini and Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has not feared animosities over the past 40 years.

“We will weather these challenges firmly and strongly as ever,” he said, according to a report by the Persian-language Fars News Agency.

“Friend and foe know well that the Islamic Republic of Iran has the upper hand in the region today, and we hope the country’s dignity will keep growing day by day,” Larijani underscored.

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