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Iranians Go on Outdoor Picnics to Celebrate Nature Day

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranians uphold the long-standing tradition on the thirteenth day of Nowruz by spending the day outdoors.

‘Sizdah’ means thirteen, and ‘bedar’ means to get rid of, bearing the meaning of ‘getting rid of thirteen’. Sizdah-bedar also marks the end of Nowruz celebrations, which begin on the first day of spring.

A ritual performed at the end of the picnic day is to throw away the “sabzeh” (Sprout) from the Nowruz’s “Haft-Seen table”. The sabzeh is supposed to have collected all the sickness, pain and ill fate hiding on the path of the family throughout the coming year.

Touching someone else’s greenery on this day or bringing it back home is considered a bad omen.

Preserving the environment is also an integral part of what Iranians do on Sizdah-bedar.

It is also customary for young single people, especially young girls, to tie the leaves of the greenery before discarding it, expressing a wish to find a partner.

Iran’s Beauties in Photos: Handicrafts Market in Bandar Torkaman

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IFP Editorial Staff
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What follows are Tasnim’s photos of the local market visited by hundreds of tourists and local people every Monday:

“Tel Aviv Terrorists Know No Language but Aggression”

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Larijani on Sunday condemned the “criminal and inhuman” move by the “illegitimate and occupying regime of Israel” against the peaceful protest by the Palestinians known as “Great March of Return” held on the Gaza border.

“The killing of the peaceful Palestinian protesters is the last in the series of Israeli crimes carried out under the patronage of the US,” he was quoted as saying in a Farsi report by Tasnim News Agency.

Larijani also described the Zionists’ policy to create regional tensions and crises as well as the US president’s move to transfer the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds as “dangerous”, saying the measures have already threatened the stability and security of the region.

The Iranian parliament speaker then said the terrorists in Tel Aviv understand no language other than aggression and added resistance is the most significant mechanism in fight against the vicious goals of the Zionist regime.

He urged the parliaments of the Islamic and non-Islamic states in the world to defend the legitimate rights of the Palestinians and stop the provocative policies of the Zionists through adopting some appropriate mechanisms and condemning them.

Back on Friday, at least 17 Palestinians lost their lives and more than a thousand others sustained injuries when Israeli military forces opened fire on thousands of protesters, who had flocked to a sit-in near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and occupied Palestinian territories.

The move sparked harsh criticisms by many rights groups across the world including Amnesty International.

The protest marked the 42nd anniversary of Land Day on March 30, 1976. Protesters said the main message of the march was to call for the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Tents were also set up on five different points along the border, a move kicking off six weeks of a sit-in demonstration leading up to the 70th anniversary of the Nakba on May 15.

Bajgiran Border Town; The Land of Poppies

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Bajgiran, the capital of Bajgiran District in Quchan County, serves as a zero point border crossing between Iran and Turkmenistan.

The distance between Bajgiran and the city of Mashhad is about 200 km, or about a two-hour drive. The border town is about 55 km away from Ashgabat, the capital city of Turkmenistan.

Bajrian is highly significant in historical term. Due to its proximity to one of the oldest customs in the region, the border town is home to some historic storehouses belonging to the Bajgiran customs office. The storehouses are registered as national heritage.

Even the name of the city is tied with the region’s customs office. Under Qajar dynasty, the privilege of the region’s customs was given to the Belgian government. To strengthen their grip on the customs, the Belgians had hired a number of armed bullies (in Persian, Bajgiran) to gather the customs duties.

In addition to the customs storehouses, there are other historical sites in the region including a historic crypt in the Rahvard village about 500m away from the town and the Shrine of Crown Prince Sultan Mahmoud in Dowlatkhaneh rural district near the same village.

The region of Bajgiran is also well-known for its natural attractions. It is home to a large number of plant species which are used in alternative medicine.

On the other hand, there is a no-hunt zone, about two kilometres northeast of Bajgiran. Among other natural attractions of the city, one can refer to Aq Kamar, Qater Darvish, Aslemeh and Darbam Valley.

Anemone Plain is also located in the region which is widely known as one of the greatest natural attractions of Iran.

What follows are photos of the region retrieved from Chamedan website:

Iran’s Beauties in Photos: Ancient Castle of Seb

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The ancient castle of Seb, which lies in a village with the same name located 25 kilometres southwest of the city of Saravan, is a work of human hands and is considered as a sign of identity, life and history of Baluchestan. The word Seb- the castle’s name- means a place with many springs.

Standing on a natural platform of rock, the castle was built of clay and mortar in two floors. To build the roof of the structure, palm tree, mat and ropes have been used. Its wall is 30m in height and 7m in width. Seb castle belongs to the Islamic era and is about a thousand years old.

This castle, which mirrors the entire history of the Safavid rulers, is among 27 historic monuments in the province that are still in place.

Currently, the castle’s structure is under the protection of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization and has been inscribed on the national heritage list.

What follows are photos of the ancient castle of Seb retrieved from various sources:

Iran President to Attend Syria Peace Talks in Turkey

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IFP Media Wire
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Rouhani will leave Tehran for Ankara on Tuesday at the invitation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iranian president’s deputy chief of staff for communications and information, Parviz Esmaeili, said on Saturday.

He added that the Iranian president would deliver a speech at the trilateral summit and hold separate meetings with Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss ways to develop regional and international cooperation.

The Iranian, Russian and Turkish presidents held a trilateral meeting on the Syrian crisis in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in November 2017.

Rouhani lauded the defeat of the Daesh terror group in Iraq and Syria, but underlined the need for continued battle against terrorism until the eradication of all Takfiri terrorist outfits in Syria.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Russian and Turkish counterparts, Sergei Lavrov and Mevlut Cavusoglu, convened in the Kazakh capital of Astana earlier this month and discussed the situation in Syria.

They reaffirmed the three countries’ strong commitment to Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The Astana peace talks, which have usually involved delegations from the Syrian government and opposition, began in January 2017 with the mediation of Russia and Iran, two Syria’s allies, as well as Turkey, which backs several armed opposition groups operating against Damascus. Together, the three countries have been acting as guarantor states for the peace process.

The Astana process came after the guarantor states helped bring a ceasefire to Syria’s second city of Aleppo, and then to the entire Arab country, which has been witnessing foreign-backed militancy since 2011.

It resulted in the establishment of four de-escalation zones across Syria in mid-September last year, and was hailed by the United Nations for its contribution to a parallel process, which the world body has been mediating between Damascus and the opposition in Geneva.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would withdraw from Syria “very soon,” just hours after the Pentagon highlighted the need for American troops to remain in the war-torn country.

“We will be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now,” Trump said during a speech on infrastructure spending in the state of Ohio.

The US has reportedly more than 2,000 troops stationed in eastern Syria, in addition to several thousand others in the Arab country’s north.

The US and its allies have been bombarding what they call Daesh positions inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.

Trump’s remarks came on the same day that Russia said the counter-terrorism operation in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta was coming to an end as government forces and allied fighters advanced against foreign-backed militants in the suburban region near Damascus.

“The counter-terrorism operation in East Ghouta is over, only the city of Douma remains under the control of militants,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing in Moscow.

“Claim That Israeli Jets Fly over Iran Ridiculous”

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Defence-Security expert Mohammad-Reza Ahmadi has, in an opinion piece published on the Persian-language website Mizan Online, analyzed the rumour that two Israeli F-35 warplanes have entered Iran’s airspace without Iranian air defence systems intercepting them. The full text of the article follows.

First Act: As short as it was funny …

The story changed hands in cyberspace as it was quoted by a Kuwaiti media outlet, an Israeli newspaper and the like. The story went that two F-35 jet fighters belonging to the Israeli regime had entered the Iranian airspace after flying over Syria and Iraq without being intercepted and flew over the cities of Isfahan, Bandar Abbas and Shiraz before returning to the occupied territories. An hour later, the Iraqi Defence Ministry in a statement denied any such aircraft had crossed its airspace. And maybe Iranian authorities thought the issue was too trivial to show any reaction to.

 

Second Act: I wish they had asked themselves …

Aerospace and weaponry experts aside, even those interested in air combat issues would not believe the story. I wish those who started and spread the rumour had studied the catalogue on the Lockheed MartinF-35 Lightning II and learned about the weak and strong points of the warplane and thought about the following features:

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) stealth multirole fighter. The claim that it is a radar-evading aircraft is because whatever the jet fighter carries with it (including ammunition, chaff, flares, etc.) are placed inside the plane, and the jet fighter has no fuel tanks and munitions under its wings. If the belongings of the plane were placed on it otherwise, then it would not be a stealth aircraft, and if the fighter jet is designed the way mentioned above, its operational radius will not be large enough to be able to flyto Iran and come back. (The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning IIhas an operational radius of around 800 kilometres, which is not regarded as a high range. The F-14 warplane, for instance, which was manufactured at least 40 years before the F-35, has an operational radius of approximately 1000 kilometres.)

Moreover, if the F-35 warplane is supposed to be refueled, the KC-10 and KC-737 aerial refueling tanker aircraft of Israel and the US are not radar-evading planes. They can even be spotted far beyond the Iranian borders using technologies belonging to 50 years ago.

And there is another point. Didn’t those who started the rumour take a glance at the map of West Asia and weren’t they aware of regulations on air borders and didn’t they ask themselves how the alleged F-35 warplanes managed to pass through the radar net in Syria (the Russian and Syrian air defence systems) and Iraq and through the radar systems stationed in western Iran (the Soubashi radar area with a monitoring range of 700 kilometres) without those radar systems detecting anything? The rumour will only serve as a scandal for Israel rather than a show of Tel Aviv’s air power.

 

Third Act: Even Goebbels would laugh if he were alive.

Joseph Goebbels, the mastermind behind Hitler’s psychological warfare, believed in the first months of World War II that Germany needed to introduce its planes as being more modern and capable than they really were so as to scare the enemy and exaggerate the country’s military power, especially the capability of its Air Force. If he were alive today, maybe he would burst into laughter after hearing the rumour. The spread of this rumour definitely needs analyses based on a political and geopolitical look against the backdrop of the regional developments, the JCPOA, Iran’s missile power and …, which should be discussed in their own place.

However, one needs to figure out what the motive behind such rumours is. By looking at the events over the past year, we can draw an almost logical conclusion. Flaws in Israel’s so-called Iron Dome system, US-made Patriot systems’ failure in Saudi Arabia in the face of not-so-complex Yemeni rockets, the downing of an Israeli F-16 warplane in Syria and of several F-15 fighters by Houthis, and the crashing of American-made choppers have cost Pentagon’s marketing system and aircraft sale program so dearly that they resorted to their last winning card, i.e. the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II warplane. They spread the rumour lest the customers of this lucrative project might become hesitant about purchasing the jet fighter as they did with regards to Patriot missiles and turn to Russia’s modern weapons market.

Oil Extraction’s Traditional Method in Iran’s Shahreza

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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The oil extraction workshop is constructed in a 700-sqm area, with a built-up area of 500 square metres. It is located next to the 900-year-old bazaar of Shahreza.

“Assari” in Persian means extracting the essence from a substance. The person doing this is called an “Assar,” and the place where seed oil is extracted is called “Assarkhaneh.”

After plant seeds are ground, they are made into paste which is then be placed in a pit using special moulds. Then the paste is pressed with a large piece of wood to extract the seeds’ oil. The extracted oil is then put into clay pots to be used as fuel for oil-burning lamps for lighting. The seeds’ waste is collected and sold as fertilizer.

Today, this type of oil is used to preserve camel hide and dye rug yarn.

The following are Mehr’s photos of Shahreza’s Assarkhaneh- oil extraction workshop:

IRGC to Spare No Effort to Help Palestinians Fight Israel

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The IRGC, in a statement, denounced the brutal crackdown on Palestinians by Israeli troops in Friday’s rallies which left a large number of Palestinians dead.

The IRGC said efforts by the US and its European and regional allies to ensure the security of the fabricated and child-killing Israeli regime are doomed to failure.

“The occupying and racist Zionist regime [of Israel]’s slaughtering of more than 1400 Palestinians in the peaceful ‘Great March of Return’ by Gaza residents which came about on the back of support by the US as well as the White House’s European and regional allies showed once again that Zionists are extremely scared of a new Intifada taking shape and of the potentialities of Palestine’s Islamic resistance,” read part of the statement.

“The brutal crimes of merciless Israelis in the Gaza Strip reveals that the wicked dealing between the treacherous leaders of some reactionary and puppet Arab countries in establishing covert links with the occupiers of the holy Palestinian territories are doomed to fail and will get nowhere despite the US ruling elite and “unwise” President Donald Trump’s constant, covert and overt support, and will only strengthen the popular movement and Palestinians’ Islamic resistance and expedite the trend of wiping out the cancerous tumour of Israel from the region,” read the statement.

The statement said the international community and the real sympathizers of human rights are now facing a new historic test, highlighting the need to take immediate and firm action to decry the Israeli crimes. The statement also urged them to take practical steps to help restore Palestinians’ rights.

“The oppressed and defenceless people of Palestine need more action and practical steps than the conventional and diplomatic condemnations [of Israeli crimes] in order to be supported and to put an end to the Zionists’ crimes and occupation of their territories,” part of the statement read.

The statement described as unachievable the dream of stabilizing Israel and ensuring security for the usurper regime.

“Incontrovertibly, now that the Islamic community, given the collapse of the ISIS terror group, regards the final defeat of Takfiri terrorists as a prelude to focusing its attention on the issue of Palestine, and given that Palestinians sent a message to the whole world in their latest move that they are in the lead on this path, the IRGC serving as the powerful arm of the Iranian nation will spare no effort to help Muslim Palestinian people and will further tap into its potential to restore the rights of dear Palestinians,” the statement said.

“John Bolton, A Cat in Guise of A Leopard”

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor-in-chief of Kayhanpaper, said John Bolton is a scarecrow used by Washington for scaring the US enemies.

“Among US politicians, Bolton is widely known more as a scarecrow to frighten the US enemies rather a warmonger or extremist,” Shariatmadari was quoted as saying in a Farsi interview with Fars News Agency.

He went on to say in each of his previous posts, one of the main missions of Bolton has been to voice harsh and warmongering remarks against the states which resist the US hegemony.

“As Los Angeles Times wrote with tongue in cheek last Tuesday, Bolton has never visited any country before calling for airstrikes against it,” he said.

Shariatmadari also noted Trump and Bolton always talk about waging war against others but interestingly enough, neither of them hasever been in any battlefield and can’t understand the dire consequences of a war. “This comes as some veteran commanders and military generals like General Mattis are not interested in military threats.”

According to Shariatmadari, Trump has picked Bolton as his national security advisor after coming to this conclusion that he can’t impose his three conditions on Iran over the JCPOA.

“With Bolton’s appointment as his national security advisor, Trump is seeking to scare Iran through military threats and pressurizing the country into accepting its conditions. But the appointment is just part of a psychological campaign which reveals how hollow the US threats are when it comes to Iran,” he noted.

Kayhan’s editor in chief underlined that the firm support of Bolton for the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group should be viewed in this context because “the MKO is already disbanded and the only aspect of the group which is still attractive for the US and some other western countries is its terrorist and unpatriotic nature.”

Shariatmadari said the US takes advantages of the MKO as a scarecrow while it knows well that the terrorist group which is involved in the killing of at least 17,000 Iranians during Saddam’s war on Iran is no more than an “embodiment of corruption”and “scum of the earth.”

He concluded that Bolton’s appointment will trigger no significant change to the US policies towards the region and Iran.

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