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UNSC Meeting on Iran Riots Brought Shame on US: Rouhani

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IFP Media Wire
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“A gathering and protest may be exploited by certain sides. This is natural and happens all over the world,” said Rouhani at a meeting with staff of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance in Tehran on Monday.

He pointed to the new US administration’s mistakes in dealing with Iranian people, noting that the White House “keeps hitting rock bottom in the wrong approaches it has chosen to deal with the Iranian nation.”

“Over the past days, the US’s political reputation has been destroyed at the UN Security Council,” Rouhani asserted.

Washington, Rouhani said, “abuses its permanent membership at the Security Council and calls for a meeting [on Iran], and there, the world countries slap the US in the face.”

Last week, Iran witnessed peaceful protests against recent price hikes and the overall economic condition of the country. However, limited numbers of violent individuals, some of them armed, sought to turn the peaceful protests into street riots.

Some foreign media outlets, meanwhile, tried to depict the entire situation as an uprising targeting Iran’s Islamic establishment.

Mindful of how the violent individuals sought to hijack the peaceful rallies, however, the original protesters soon heeded calls by authorities to leave the streets, paving the way for law enforcement officials to deal with the vandals and armed elements.

On Friday, the Council gave into a US push for a meeting on the events inside Iran. The session, though, did not go as planned as the Council’s veto wielders and Washington’s own allies used the debate to criticize the White House for involving the body in Iran’s domestic affairs.

At the meeting, several UNSC members defended Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world countries, including Washington, and warned the US against attempts to exploit the recent developments inside Iran to undermine the accord.

11-Year-Old Car Designer Makes Headlines in Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Hossein Ataei, 11, is an inventor and concept car designer. A number of leading companies like Tesla and Volvo have expressed their interests in recruiting the Iranian genius, according to media reports.

Ataei has at least sixteen inventions out of which six ones have been registered. Instead of going to school, he is now teaching at universities.

He has ranked first in CATIA Industrial Drawing competition in Tehran Technical Complex. Ataei also has won the first title in 3D Max (a cutting-edge drawing software) in Academic Centre for Education, Culture and Research.

The Iranian genius hails from Karaj in Alborz province near Tehran. He studies through distant education and goes to school only one day in a year to take his examinations.

He has already unveiled his brilliant innovations in aerospace, electronic, shipping industry and urban and office furniture.

Ataei also has some innovative ideas in vehicle designing which have got the attentions of the leading car manufactures across the globe. According to him, to implement his innovations, he only needs some basic needs like a cutting-edge laptop with the latest software for industrial drawing.

His father says Hossein is very accurate and active in his personal life and takes seriously his religious duties. He is a practicing Muslim who says his prayers on time.

Hossein is so creative that he says has no worries about his innovations being copied by others. He says he depends on his creative mind to put together new ideas.

He has already designed the architecture of two Martyrdom Gardens in the northern province of Gilan.

Head of Alborz Province Science and Technology Park Ataollah Rabbani highlighted the genius of Hossein and said the teenager is now recruited by the Alborz Science and Technology Park.

“Ataei is expected to be introduced in the coming week during a technology exhibition in Alborz province,” he noted.

Piazoo: A Yummy Traditional Iranian Food

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Piazoo looks like broth and is one of the oldest and most delicious meals in Iran’s cold province of Zanjan.

Years ago, local women cooked the meal with onions, walnuts, tomatoes, lentils, dried apricots and potatoes and served it when family members got together during the cold winter nights.

 

Ingredients:

Lentils: 1 cupful

Dried Apricots and Cherry Plums: 1 cupful

Tomato Paste: 2 spoonfuls

Wheat Flour or Ground Walnuts: 2 spoonfuls

Oil: As much as necessary

Salt and Turmeric: As much necessary

 

Recipe

First, rinse the dried apricots and cherry plums in warm water and leave them be for some time. Sauté chopped onions in a little oil. Then add wheat flour or ground walnuts.

After that, add tomato paste, salt and turmeric. Finally, add lentils. Add enough water and put the meal on the oven to boil.

Turn down the flame, so that the lentils are cooked through. After the food is cooked, add the apricots and cherry plums. Their sour taste will give a special flavour to the food. Check that there is neither too little nor too much water. After the food is completely cooked, serve it and enjoy your meal.

Rescue Efforts Hindered as Iranian Oil Tanker Giving Off Poisonous Gases

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IFP Media Wire
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Leakage of the poisonous gases have hindered rescue work and cleanup efforts around the oil tanker Sanchi, which is in danger of exploding after the collision, Sirous Kian-Ersi said on Monday.

Three Chinese fireboats are busy pumping water to contain the fire but have failed to do so due to the raging blaze, he added.

Authorities have set up a 10-nautical-mile cordon around Sanchi.

China, South Korea, Iran and the US have sent ships and planes to search for Sanchi’s 32-crew members. None of the missing crew has been found except for one.

Searchers have found the body of one of the missing sailors in the East China Sea, CEO of Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran Mohammad Rastad said on Monday.

A post-mortem will be conducted in Shanghai to determine the identity of the deceased individual, he added.

Sanchi spewed its £44million cargo into the East China Sea after it collided with the CF Crystal about 160 nautical miles off the coast of Shanghai on Saturday.

Thick plumes of thick dark smoke could still be seen billowing into the sky above the towering inferno.

The tanker was sailing from Iran to South Korea, carrying 136,000 tons of condensate, an ultra-light crude oil, which is the equivalent to just fewer than one million barrels.

The CF Crystal had been damaged but “without jeopardizing the safety of the ship” and all of its 21 Chinese crew had been rescued, according to China’s transport ministry.

The freighter was carrying 64,000 tons of grain from the United States to China’s southern province of Guangdong when it crashed, the ministry said.

Iran FM’s Talks in Brussels to Focus on JCPOA, Not Riots

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IFP Media Wire
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Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due in Brussels later this week for talks with the EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, as well as his British, German and French counterparts.

“This meeting will be held at the invitation of Ms. Mogherini, and is only meant to review the process of implementing the JCPOA,” said Qassemi, using an acronym for the nuclear deal officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

He was reacting to a foreign media fanfare created over Mogherini’s invitation, which claim that the EU had convened the meeting to address the riots in Iran.

“This meeting has been associated with Iran’s domestic affairs with vicious intentions,” Qassemi said. The session would possibly take place at Mogherini’s office on Thursday or Friday or earlier, he added.

Earlier in the day, Zarif, himself, commented on the claims in media reports, saying, “Some media outlets, especially Israeli ones, tried to fabricate news in this regard. Such news fabrication is baseless and unfounded.”

Last week, Iran witnessed peaceful protests against recent price hikes and the overall economic condition of the country. However, limited numbers of violent individuals, some of them armed, sought to turn the peaceful protests into street riots.

Some foreign media outlets, meanwhile, tried to depict the entire situation as an uprising targeting Iran’s Islamic establishment.

Mindful of how the violent individuals sought to hijack the peaceful rallies, however, the original protesters soon heeded calls by authorities to leave the streets, paving the way for law enforcement officials to deal with the vandals and armed elements.

Snub at UNSC for US

On Friday, the UN Security Council (UNSC) gave into a US push for a meeting on the events inside Iran. The session, though, did not go as planned as the Council’s veto wielders and Washington’s own allies used the debate to criticize the White House for involving the body in Iran’s domestic affairs.

At the meeting, several UNSC members defended the JCPOA and warned the US against attempts to exploit the recent developments inside Iran to undermine the 2015 nuclear accord.

Qassemi touched on the US’s failure to bring UNSC members onboard against Iran at Friday’s session, describing it as yet another defeat for Washington in its regional and foreign policy.

The developments at the council showed a “new era” has dawned, and that the Security Council, along with the entire international community, does not follow in Washington’s footsteps.

Qassemi further said Washington’s potential departure from the Iran deal or any irrational attitude on its part would be met with Tehran’s proportionate and strong reaction, “which will bring regret to the US administration.”

Exhibition of Tony Cragg’s Artworks Underway in Tehran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The exhibit is regarded as a special event because, on the one hand, Cragg is a world-famous artist and his presence at the Tehran exhibition has received extensive international coverage, and on the other, a whole range of his works of art, including 60 sculptures and 140 sketches on paper are on show at the event. A quick search on the Internet shows the items on show form one of the most complete collections of Cragg’s works of art. Displaying the artistic works in Tehran shows the good taste of the organizers.

According to a Farsi report by Honar Online, the exhibition opened on 24 October, 2017 and will run through 12 January, 2018.

Cragg, who is in Tehran for the event, told a press conference earlier that he was pleased to be in Iran, expressing the hope that he will have a friendly and fruitful cooperation with the TMoCA.

He said the oldest of the works on show belongs to 1970 and the latest one to early 2017. However, he said he did not intend to put on display a review of his life-time works.

“Rather, what matters to me is to display my works in a country whose people know nothing about my art,” he added.

The exhibition “Tony Cragg: Roots & Stones” gives an extensive insight into the sculptural and graphic works of the artist living in Wuppertal. Cragg was the first British artist invited to Iran for holding an exhibition of his works. The exhibition makes a connection between the West and Iran beyond diplomatic difficulties.

One of the reasons behind Cragg’s fame is the big size of his sculptures. At the same time, what distinguishes his works from those of other sculptors is his focus on nature and humans. Although his statues may not depict humans as old statues do, his works could have been inspired by part of a human’s body.

Born in 1949, Tony Cragg’s early work involved site-specific installations of found objects and discarded materials. From the mid-1970s through to the early 1980s, he presented assemblages in primary structures (as in his first mature piece, the 1975 Stack) as well as in colourful, representational reliefs on the floors and walls of gallery spaces (as in Red Indian of 1982-3). Cragg constructed these early works by systematically arranging individual fragments of mixed materials, often according to their artificial colours and profiles, so as to form larger images.

Cragg was selected to represent Britain at the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988, and won the Turner Prize in the same year. In 2001 he received the now discontinued Shakespeare Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation of Hamburg. He was made a CBE for services to art in the 2002 New Year Honours List, and also won the Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture in that year. In 2007, he received the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture of the Imperial House of Japan for the Japan Art Association.

Here are Honar Online’s photos of these artworks:

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

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IFP Editorial Staff
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A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 18

Several papers today covered a decision by Tehran’s City Council to oblige the municipality to build special places for people’s protest gatherings. The councillors say the decision has been made in line with the Article 27 of Iran’s Constitution which says public gatherings and demonstrations are allowed as long as the participants do not carry arms and do not violate the fundamental principles of Islam.

Also a top story today was a ship collision in eastern China, after which 30 Iranian crew members of an oil tanker have gone missing.

Reports about the restrictions on Telegram messaging app, which were temporarily imposed amid the recent protests, also received great coverage. The Parliament says it can be unblocked only if it makes certain promises to the Iranian government.

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

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Education Ministry’s Odd Decision: Primary Schools Banned from Teaching English

2- Pyongyang Gives Greenlight for Talks with South Korea

3- Central Bank Opposed to Receiving Tax from Deposit Interest Paid to Account Holders

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Tehran City Council Urges Municipality to Build Place for Protest Gatherings

2- Renowned Iranian Actor: Ordinary People Are Not Seditionists

3- 30 Iranian Crew Members Missing in Chinese Waters; Gov’t Pursuing Their Fate

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Ebtekar:

1- Telegram Won’t Be Unblocked Unless It Fulfills Commitments

2- 30 Sailors, $60 Million of Iranian People’s Assets Burn in China

3- Sports Diplomacy, Turning Point in Korean Peninsula Crisis

4- Curious Case of Departure Taxes

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Etemad:

1- IRIB Needs to Form Crisis Room

2- Place for Protest

  • Tehran City Council Takes Effective Step to Implement Article 27 of Constitution

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Ettela’at:

1- Gov’t to Fund Export-Oriented Projects that Create Jobs

2- Saudi People Protest Economic Woes in Front of Riyadh Palace

3- Tehran Mayor’s Steps to Renovate Old Structures of Capital

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Iran:

1- Rouhani Orders Three Cabinet Members to Remove Obstacles to Direct Export of Goods

2- Rouhani’s Aide on Citizens’ Rights Affairs: People Demanding Their Rights

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Javan:

1- Iranian Flag in Hands of Bakhtiari Tribesmen in Fifth Day of Protests

2- Egypt, Saudi Arabia Selling Quds in Silence

3- Netanyahu’s Dream of Reviving Riots in English Style

4- 30 Iranians Missing in Chinese Waters; Fates Unclear

5- Pakistan: Alliance with US Over; Escalation of Tension with Washington

6- “Trumpet” Producer: We Make Cartoons of Trump’s Goofs

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- Parliamentary Commission Opposed to Increase in Increase of Fuel Prices

2- Intelligence Minister Tells Secrets behind Recent Unrest

3- 247,000 Yemeni Kids Die of Hunger, Drought Caused by Saudi Siege

4- Israelis Hold Protest Rally against Netanyahu’s Corruption for Sixth Week

5- Parliament Not OK with Filtering Telegram: MP

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Kayhan:

1- Reformists Escaping Forward by Changing Questions

  • Those Who Made People Dissatisfied Pretending to Be Saviours

2- Three Top Officials to Address Depositors Problems

  • Rouhani’s Economic Deputy, Parliament’s Vice-Speaker, Deputy Judiciary Chief

3- Anti-Saudi Protests in Riyadh against Bin Salman’s Austerity Measures

4- Millions of Revolutionary People in World behind Ayatollah Khamenei

5- Top Clerics Urge Gov’t Not to Address People’s Woes Only in Words

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Khorasan:

1- Trump Defends His Mental Health: I’m Not Stupid

2- Details of Parliament’s Closed Session on Recent Riots

3- Parliamentary Commission to Make Decision on Iran’s Spiritual Capital

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Shargh:

1- Masoud Shojaei: They Forced Me to Play against Israelis

2- Cash Subsidies of Fewer People to Be Cut: Parliamentary Commission

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Vatan-e Emrooz:

1- IRGC Finishes Providing Temporary Accommodation for 1982 Quake-Hit Villages

2- Fifth Day of Nationwide Rallies to Condemn Rioters

3- Parliament: Telegram Must Make Pledges to Be Unblocked

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 8

 

Zarif to Be Invited to Europe for Talks on Iran Protests

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IFP Media Wire
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Together with the EU’s Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini, we agreed to invite the Iranian foreign minister, if possible next week,” said Germany’s Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel during a televised broadcast on ZDF.

While noting that Germany supports freedom of demonstration, Gabriel stressed that Berlin will not follow the lead of US President Donald Trump, who vowed to support protesters in Iran.

Germany and France have “warned against attempts at instrumentalizing the domestic conflicts in Iran,” he added.

On Friday, the UN Security Council finally gave into a US push for a meeting on the latest events inside Iran which resulted in the council’s veto wielders and Washington’s own allies using the debate to criticize the White House for involving the council in Iran’s domestic affairs.

Last week, some Iranian towns and cities were hit by scattered riots, which followed a series of peaceful demonstrations over economic issues.

However, Iranian law enforcement forces, backed by locals, intervened in time and ended the violence, which saw vandals and armed elements launch attacks on public property, mosques and police stations. Over a dozen people died amid the violence.

Iran frees 70 people charged with inciting unrest

Meanwhile, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi has announced that 70 people charged with inciting unrest have been freed on bail.

He added that more people will be freed over the next few days, but the main plotters of the riots will be dealt with severely.

Earlier in the day, an Iranian police spokesman announced that the main plotters of recent riots in some towns and cities have been identified and arrested.

Special Places to Be Built for Protest Gatherings in Tehran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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During its Sunday meeting, the city council members made the decision to promote peaceful protest gatherings in Tehran.

According to a Farsi report by the Khabar Online news website, the proponents of the plan underlined the necessity of implementing the Article 27 of Iran’s Constitution which says public gatherings and demonstrations are allowed as long as the participants do not carry arms and do not violate the fundamental principles of Islam.

On the other side, the opponents of the plan maintained that the plan is politically motivated and the city council should not get involved in security issues.

Over a week ago, a number of peaceful protests over economic problems broke out in several Iranian cities, but the gatherings turned violent when groups of participants, some of them armed, vandalized public property and launched attacks on police stations and government buildings. At least 21 people including security forces lost their lives during the riots.

Following the violent protests, Iranian officials unanimously recognized the people’s right to express their protest over economic woes but stressed the protests need to be voiced within law.

Now, with the new approval of Tehran’s City Council, the proponents say, the council provides people with an opportunity to retain their freedom for public gatherings within the constitution. Meanwhile, they argue that the new plan will prevent foreigners and rioters to mislead peaceful public protests.

Impossible to Send Missiles from Iran to Yemen: IRGC

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Chief-Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad-Ali Jafari has reacted to remarks by US and Saudi officials that Tehran has been interfering in Yemen and has sent missiles to the country.

“The Americans and the rulers that are their cronies have, so far, told many lies about the Islamic Republic and levelled many accusations against Iran,” said the commander in a Farsi interview with the Young Journalists Club (YJC).

“How would it be possible to send weapons, namely missiles, to a country which is under complete blockade and it is not even possible to send medicines and food aid to that country?” the top commander noted.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran is not able, whatsoever, to send missiles to Yemen, and US authorities know that the missiles fired were Yemeni-made missiles which had been renovated and their range increased,” said General Jafari.

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