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The Ugly Missile vs The Beautiful Missile

The Ugly Missile vs The Beautiful Missile

One of the Americans’ old tricks is to present fabricated documents to prove false accusations. Once, Colin Powell took to the UN the documents allegedly proving the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, which were never found.

On Thursday night, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley showed parts of a missile which she claimed was made by Iran and that it was the same missile fired by Yemen at Saudi Arabia. Interestingly enough, Haley, in order to prove her claim, referred to a report which says American parts have also been found in the missile!

The reporters present at Haley’s news show should have asked her about the tens of millions of American weapons which have been the cause of the deaths of millions of men, women and children across the world. At least, reporters could have asked Haley this question: ”Under the supervision of which international institution has Washington transferred to the United States the missile parts from the location of its impact in Riyadh?  And if the parts belong to an Iranian-made missile, can the US prove that they are not parts of the same missile that Iran fired at ISIS positions in Syria?”

Saudi Arabia has been attacking Yemen for three years now with American and British weaponry. UN figures suggest that at least 10,000 men, women and children have been killed in the Saudi aggression on Yemen. Still, the key backers of Saudi Arabia, namely Britain and the US, are not willing to stop selling weapons to Riyadh.

Last week, I asked British MP Andrew Mitchell why London did not stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite the fact that the UK has acknowledged that human crisis exists in Yemen. His answer was short: Because Saudi Arabia is rich and can buy a lot of weapons!

Earlier, Donald Trump had described as “beautiful” billions of dollars worth of arms the US had sold to Saudi Arabia. This comes as Haley, on Thursday, described as “ugly” and horrendous the missile fired by the Yemenis at Riyadh in response to the daily bombardment of their country by Saudi Arabia. The Yemeni missile attack did not have any casualties, either.

Shouldn’t we be afraid of the “beautiful” world that the US wants to build?

* Author: Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi

No Revision in Iran’s Stance on Caspian Sea Demarcation: Qassemi

In response to a question on the outcome of a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Caspian Sea littoral states held last week in Moscow, Qassemi rejected the reports on the final decision of the ministers on the demarcation of the Caspian Sea and said the issue of demarcation was not even put on the agenda of the meeting.

The spokesman said the issues still remain unresolved and added negotiations over the Caspian Sea demarcation are not set to be held within the convention talks.

“Given the deep disagreements between the member states over the demarcation issue, it seems there will be no deal in the near future. Meanwhile, discussing all the details during the convention talks is not possible at all,” he added.

Qassemi said issues related to the Caspian Sea’s demarcation will be addressed and finalized in separate accord and protocols.

“The convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea is a structural convention which (like other similar conventions) includes only main principles, outlines of each country’s basic rights and duties in various fields because it is not possible at all to include all the details in such conventions.”

He went on to say the convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea includes some general principles like goals, definitions, grounds of cooperation, ways to establish sovereignty, sovereign rights and qualifications, environmental protection, maritime monopoly under flag of convenience of the littoral states, bans on the military presence of non-littoral states, sailing regulations, transportation, access to/from free waters, transit, equal treatment of and prevention from discrimination against registered ships, protection and optimal use of living resources of the sea, security and energy measures, sea research, cooperation mechanisms and so on.

Qassemi stressed that during th Moscow meeting no document was signed or endorsed but the participants agreed to adopt some legal measures following internal coordination and expert-level meetings between the five member states.

“They will finally try to finalize the convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea to be signed in the next leaders’ summit, the date of which will be announced later,” he concluded.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took part in the Moscow meeting attended by delegations from Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Kazakhstan.

During the meeting, the participants discussed the draft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, and ways to finalize the convention.

 

They also prepared the agenda, and assessed the documents to be signed at the Leaders’ Summit.

During the previous ministerial meeting held in the Kazakh capital of Astana in 2016, Iran stressed that the legal regime of Caspian Sea should be developed in a way that the interests of all littoral states are met.

 

Iran Blasts US for “Fabricated Show” on Yemeni Missile

In a Thursday tweet, Aboutablebi said these are fabricated shows to say that the international peace and security is at stake.

Publishing the photos of Netanyahu’s bomb diagram at the United Nations in 2012 next to Nikki Haley’s Thursday standing before debris of a missile, the Iranian official said both of these moves were to influence diplomacy by provoking public opinion.Iran Blasts US for "Fabricated Show" on Yemeni Missile“Both were shows at the UN; one against the nuclear deal and the other against UNSC Resolution 2231,” reads the tweet.

Calling both moves demagogic, Aboutalebi has ironically asserted that “as much as the first was successful, the second would also be successful.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also reacted to the move in a tweet that said, “When I was based at the UN, I saw this show and what it begat…”.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley showed a missile wreckage during her Thursday speech claiming that the missile is of Iranian origin taken from Saudi Arabia. She presented that as “indisputable” evidence of Iran’s UN resolution-violating actions in the Middle East.

“Support for OIC Statement Not Indicative of Iran’s Recognition of Israel”

bahram

Referring to the documents endorsed at the extraordinary summit of the OIC in Turkey’s Istanbul, Bahram Qassemi said Tehran expressed its support for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, but its support for the final declaration of the summit in no way means Iran has recognised the fake occupying Zionist regime.

Iran has refrained from endorsing certain articles of the final statement which somehow implied recognition of Israel, he added.

“Iran’s refusal to recognise the Zionist regime was also formally announced in writing to the Secretariat of the Summit in Istanbul,” Qassemi told reporters on Thursday.

Key Threats against Iran Political, Economic, Cultural: IRGC Chief

Mohammad-Ali Jafari

The IRGC commander says good progress has been made inside Iran in the defence and security arenas, but that more efforts are needed in other areas such as economic, social and political domains.

Addressing a gathering in Tehran on Thursday, the senior commander said Iran has tackled security and defence threats facing the country.

“Of course, these threats still exist, but we will overcome them easily the same way that we have tackled the toughest domestic threats and seditious moves. That is to say, the easiest threats we are facing today are security and defense threats,” he said, according to a Farsi report by Fars News Agency.

“The main threats against the country are soft threats in economic, political, cultural and social areas,” he said.

General Jafari further underlined the need to safeguard the Islamic Revolution.

He said the Islamic Revolution has two key dimensions: a domestic aspect and an international one.

The international dimension of the revolution is manifested in the Islamic resistance which is spreading throughout the region and across the world, said the top general.

He also pointed to the back-to-back wins of the resistance front, saying that the enemies of the Islamic Revolution in all Middle East countries have suffered defeats over the past two decades.

General Jafari expressed hope that Yemen will emerge victorious in the Saudi-led war against the country.

“The [resistance] front is marvelously securing back-to-back victories,” he noted.

He said all plots hatched by the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and certain regional countries have been thwarted.

The top general said “fighting hegemony” is the most important principle of the Islamic Revolution, adding regional nations are seeking to implement this principle as well.

Iran Dismisses Haley’s Baseless Accusations

Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Gholam-Ali Khoshroo on Thursday rejected US envoy Nikki Haley’s “baseless” accusations about Iran’s supply of missiles to certain regional states.

The full text of Khoshroo’s statement reads as follows:

“Following a series of baseless accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran in the past 10 months, the US Ambassador to the UN once again today took the same line accusing the Iranian government of supplying the missile that hit Saudi Arabia on 4 November–an accusation that we categorically reject as unfounded and, at the same time, irresponsible, provocative and destructive. This purportedly evidence, put on public display today, is as much fabricated as the one presented on some other occasions earlier.

The US government has an agenda and is constantly at work to deceive the public into believing the cases they put together to advance it. As part of this agenda, the US President raised the same missile-attack accusation against Iran just hours after the missile launch even before Saudi Arabia did so. Likewise, the US ambassador to the UN last month called for international action against Iran over this missile launch.

While Iran has not supplied Yemen with missiles, these hyperboles are also to serve other US agendas in the Middle East, including covering up for its adventurist acts in the region and its unbridled support for the Israeli regime. It is not a coincidence that the US ambassador held her today’s press conference two days after her claim in her interview with CNN, claiming that the common fight against Iran is much more important for the American regional allies than the plights of the Palestinians and the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

These accusations seek also to cover up for the Saudi war crimes in Yemen, with the US complicity, and divert international and regional attention from the stalemate war of aggression against the Yemenis that has so far killed more than 10,000 civilians, displaced three million, crippled Yemen’s infrastructure and health system and pushed the country to the brink of largest famine the world has seen for decades, as the UN has warned.

While stressing the Yemenis’ right to self-defense, we reiterate that the crisis has no military solution. We take this opportunity to recall the peace plan that Iran formally presented to the UN Secretary-General in 2015 for peacefully settling the conflict and its readiness to contribute towards this goal.”

Tabriz in Photos: Forgotten Art of Building Sash Windows

A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or sashes that form a frame to hold panes of coloured glass, which are often separated from other panels by glazing bars.

The city of Tabriz is famous for making such windows. Although any window with this style of glazing is technically a sash, the term is used almost exclusively to refer to windows where the glazed panels are opened by sliding vertically, or horizontally. Unfortunately, these windows, known in Iran as Orosi, are currently less used in the interior and exterior architecture of the buildings.

Here are IRNA’s photos of Orosi art in Tabriz:

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 5

The top story in all Iranian newspapers today was the extraordinary summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Turkey, during which Muslim countries issued a statement on the need to support Palestine. The Muslim states called on the world to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.

Several papers particularly covered the remarks made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during the OIC summit about the need to support Palestine in the wake of the US-Israeli plots.

Also a top story was the 10th meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna and the claims by EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini about the Iran nuclear deal’s preamble, which was strongly dismissed by Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi.

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

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Ruling Party’s Paper: Wherever N. Korean Leader Goes, He Makes Weather Fine!

2- Rouhani Calls for Resolution of Muslim World’s Problems through Dialogue

3- Saudi Arabia to Increase Petrol Price by 80%

4- Certain American Media Talking of Trump’s Decision to Scrap Iran Nuclear Deal

  • Will Trump Create New Crisis?

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- First VP Jahangiri Should Resign If He Wants to Remain in Politics after 2021

2- Mogherini’s Last Words: Trump Should Know We’ll Proceed with JCPOA

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Ebtekar:

1- Larijani: Commitment of JCPOA Parties to Nuclear Deal Beneficial for Future of Mideast

2- Interior Minister: 2,700 Houses to Be Completed in Kermanshah Earthquake-Hit Areas

3- OIC Member Declare All-Out Support for Palestine at Istanbul Summit

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Etemad:

1- Raising Issue of Foreigner Prisoners during Diplomatic Visits Not Unprecedented: MP

2- Rouhani: Iran Ready to Work with Muslim States to Defend Al-Quds without Pre-Conditions

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Ettela’at:

1- Hamas Declares Intifada (Uprising) against Zionist Regime

2- Rouhani Outlines Seven Proposals for Confronting Zionist Regime

3- Mogherini: We Won’t Let JCPOA Be Scrapped

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Iran:

1- Weightlifting Champion: I’m Thinking about Olympic Medal, Not the Past

2- East Jerusalem Official Capital of Palestine: OIC Summit

3- Tehran Stock Exchange Market Witnesses 5% Growth in 56 Hours

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Javan:

1- Erdogan: Israel Not a Country, But a Regime of Terror

2- Unveiling Electoral Preamble of Iran Nuclear Deal

  • Mogherini: Rouhani’s Gov’t Wrote JCPOA Preamble Based on Argument with Political Rivals
  • Araqchi: It’s Not like What Mogherini Says

3- Mobile Games Played in Lawless Ground

  • Why There’s No Specific Body to Supervise Mobile Apps?

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- US President’s Decision on al-Quds Illegitimate: OIC Statement

2- P5+1 Members Warn US about Fulfilling Its JCPOA Commitments

3- Mogherini: Interaction with Iran to Benefit Entire Mideast

4- Zarif: Ending Nightmare of War in Yemen Collective Responsibility of All of Us

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Kayhan:

1- Rouhani before Election: Not Fair to Cut Cash Subsidies of 24m People

  • Rouhani’s Gov’t after Election: Cash Subsidies of 30m People Should Be Cut

2- UN’s Horrific Report on Myanmar Army’s Atrocities: Muslim Children Burned Alive

3- 600 Benz, Porsche Cars Imported Using Name of a Poor Woman!

4- Holy Jihad of Nation’s Children: From Fighting Enemies to Building Shelters for Quake-Hit People

5- N. Korean Leader: We’ll Become Top Nuclear Power in World

  • Tillerson: We’re Ready to Negotiate without Any Preconditions

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Shargh:

1- JCPOA Joint Commission Holds 10th Meeting: Direct Warning to US

2- Democrats’ Candidate Defeats Trump’s Candidate for Senate

3- Government’s Revenues in Danger: Economy Ministry Says Underground Economy Growing

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14


 

Vatan-e Emrooz:

1- Government’s Honest Play with Cash Subsidies

  • A Report on Conflicting Remarks, Double Standards of Gov’t on Subsidies

2- Bin Salman Seeks to Put West Bank on Auction

  • A Report on Details of Mahmoud Abbas’ Meeting with Saudi Crown Prince

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 14

Iran to Give Crushing Response to Any US Aggression: Larijani

“The enemies should be aware that they cannot press ahead with their projects even if they collude with tens of other countries against Iran because the Muslim nation of Iran will not remain silent over the enemies’ aggressions,” Larijani said on Thursday.

According to a Farsi report by the Mehr News Agency, he referred to the latest provocative decision of US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s capital ‘impudent’ and said the US and the UK should know that they will not survive if they continue to occupy further lands in the Islamic world.

The parliament speaker said terrorist groups are the fruits of occupying and arrogant states’ policies and added the Lebanese are entitled to resist Israel if the Zionist regime is seeking to occupy a large swath of Beirut.

Addressing a seminar on Mirza Koochak Khan, an early twentieth-century Iranian revolutionary, in Tehran, Larijani praised the figure’s anti-hegemony thoughts and said the revolutionary icon’s ideology is still alive among Iranians.

He stressed the revolutionary thought of Mirza Khoochak Khan are still alive in Iran and warned the enemies against hatching up new plots against Iran.

Larijani stressed internal division was the key reason behind the failure of the Persian Constitutional Revolution over 100 years ago.

He called Koochak Khan a patriot and said the revolutionary icon’s reliance on the Islamic values was the main cause of his success.

“Though Khoochak Khan’s movement came to an end, his patriotism will remain alive in the minds of all Iranians forever,” he concluded.

Sosis Bandari; Popular Spicy Dish from Southern Iran

Sosis Bandari; Popular Spicy Dish from Southern Iran

Sosis Bandari can be served as a breakfast too. If you are looking for a delicious and spicy dish, you have to try this recipe.

It can be served with any kind of bread, but the dish is mostly served in form of a sandwich, along with hot sauce and salad.

 

Ingredients to serve 4-5:

450 gr hot dogs (wiener), sliced diagonally

3/4 cup crushed tomatoes (or 2 tablespoons tomato paste)

1 medium onion, thinly sliced

2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil

1 teaspoon turmeric powder

Half a cup water

Salt & pepper

 

Recipe:

In a medium pan, heat the oil and add the sliced hot dogs to sauté. Set aside. Fry the sliced onion until slightly golden. Add the turmeric powder and give it a quick stir.

In another pan, leave the tomato paste or crushed tomatoes and some oil on medium heat for some minutes. Then use some salt and pepper. Pour the boiling water, and now it is time to add the fried onion to the mixture.

You can use ground chili pepper as much as you want depending on your taste. At this stage, the fried hot dogs must be added. Mix them thoroughly and cover the pot with the lid and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes or until the water steams off partially.

Now you have an original, spicy dish of yummy Sosis Bandari. Bon Appétit!