The natural lake is located about 6 kilometres west of Pol-e-Sefid on the heights overlooking the city, adjacent to the village of Shourmast.
Surrounded by old and tall alder trees, it is regarded as one of the most beautiful places in Savadkuh. The visitors of this lake are mostly tourists, nature adventurers and fishermen.
Here are ISNA’s photos of the lake:
Hashim bin Abdullah Yamani, head of the Saudi Government agency tasked with the nuclear plans said Saudi Arabia wants to extract uranium for “peaceful purposes”.
In a speech at an international nuclear power conference in Abu Dhabi, he did not specify whether Saudi Arabia seeks to also enrich and reprocess uranium.
Enrichment in the fuel cycle which can open up the possibility of military uses of the material.
Atomic reactors need uranium enriched to around 5 percent purity but the same technology in this process can also be used to enrich the heavy metal to higher, weapons-grade levels.
Yamani said, “The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also has been requested to conduct an integrated review of our nuclear infrastructure during the second quarter of 2018 to introduce nuclear power for peaceful purposes.”
Saudi Arabia is considering building 17.6 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2032 as part of an economic reform program by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called Vision 2030.
This is the equivalent of 17 reactors which makes it one of the strongest prospects for an industry struggling after the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan.
Saudi Arabia is reaching out to potential vendors from South Korea, China, France, Russia, Japan and the United States for its first two reactors.
Preliminary studies have estimated Saudi Arabia has around 60,000 tonnes of uranium ore.
Before Saudis, the UAE also started to tap nuclear energy. The UAE has committed not to enrich uranium itself and not to reprocess spent fuel.
IRGC Chief-Commander Major General Mohammad-Ali Jafari says the Americans are seeking to implement CAATSA against the IRGC under the pretext of Iran’s missile and defensive power.
“The move is basically an economic sanction,” he noted, according to a Farsi report by Tasnim News Agency.
“Today, Iranian people care as much about their missile power as their honour,” said the top General.
He said Iran’s defense capability is just an excuse for Washington, adding, “Their target is Iran’s economy.”
He said the US should know that the more it ratchets up economic pressure and sanctions against Iran, the more determined the Iranian nation gets in boosting its defensive and missile capabilities.
“Iranian missiles will also become more precise,” he vowed.
The Tuesday phone call came ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Wednesday visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Putin is going to attend the second trilateral summit of Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan Republic which will be held on Wednesday in Tehran, according to Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi.
“This would be the second summit. The first was held in Baku. We will hold bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit,” Qassemi told reporters in Tehran on Monday.
In August 2016, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Russian and Azerbaijani counterparts Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev held a key tripartite summit in Azerbaijan’s capital where they discussed ways of enhancing cooperation in the areas of commerce, energy, communications, transport and transit. They further exchanged views on environmental issues and the fight against terrorism.
The next three-nation summit meeting will be held on November 1 during which senior Iranian, Russian and Azeri officials will discuss regional developments and the battle against terrorism, the spokesman added.
Following the Monday meeting, President Rouhani said one of the issues discussed was the US plots. He said the main conspiracy of the United States is to cast doubt on the future of Iran’s economy, especially among people.
“On behalf of the three branches of power, I thank the great people of Iran who, as always, stood against this conspiracy,” the president noted.
He further mentioned that different scenarios have been discussed at this meeting and the coordination is ensured for the future.
Regarding economic issues, President Rouhani said, “We decided to do something about the domestic problems so that people would feel completely safe.”
It was also stressed that full security has to be provided for people to invest, he added.
Rouhani also noted that a mechanism has been suggested for better attracting of investments, especially the investments of Iranians living abroad.
“In our region, the global arrogance has always been seeking to create insecurity and instability and cause disagreements between countries, but we believe regional issues should be resolved by the regional countries themselves and in coordination with them because there exists a mechanism for that.”
The president stated that the global arrogant is doing its best to expand terrorism in the region saying that “today, God willing, these regional issues are being resolved gradually, and I hope the countries of the region will be able to get rid of terrorism in the near future. I hope terrorism would be wiped out in our region, and the global arrogance never achieves its goals.”
Rouhani went on to say that the global arrogance was after changing the geographical boundaries of the region, but they could not achieve any success.
“The global arrogance continues its efforts to create disagreements in the region with the aim of selling arms. We need to find a solution to the differences that exist in the region. Massacres and bombardments in the region must be stopped. We discussed this issue at the meeting and the necessary steps will be taken.”
Rouhani further mentioned that it was decided to hold the joint meeting of Iran’s trio branches of power at more regular and shorter intervals.
“I believe that if all the branches of power are united under the supervision of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, the country can go along the path of progress. Of course, the cooperation, consultation and coordination between Iran’s three branches of power is very influential,” said Rouhani.
The joint meeting of heads of three Iranian branches of power was held at Iran’s Parliament building.
“The blood-thirsty Zionist regime is trying to bend the will of the oppressed people of the occupied territories to guarantee its security by killing Palestinian youths,”Bahram Qassemi said in a Monday statement.
“This is while seven decades of crimes, bloodshed and child-killing could not weaken the determination of this patient and courageous people at all,” Qassemi added.
Earlier in the day, Israeli war planes bombarded and destroyed a lifeline tunnel in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Among the victims were two senior commanders of al-Quds Brigades, which is the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.
The tunnel, which was still under construction, reportedly belonged to Hamas resistance movement and infiltrated into the heart of the occupied Palestinian territories.
Addressing a meeting with high-ranking Iranian judiciary officials in Tehran on Monday, Amoli Larijani added that the report contained rehashed claims and allegations against the Islamic establishment and simply quoted anti-Islamic Republic sources and the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).
He added that the report supported those individuals who had been tried and convicted of espionage and also the MKO elements who had carried out various acts of terror against the Iranian people.
The top Iranian judiciary official strongly criticized the West’s double-standard approaches in dealing with the issue of human rights in Iran and said while different resolutions have been adopted against the Islamic Republic, Western countries have prevented the adoption of resolutions by world bodies against the Israeli regime or the “child-killing” Saudi regime.
“The US and Europe … support a spy, but keep silent about the mass killings in Yemen and the blockade of Gaza and heavy bombardments [of innocent people],” Amoli Larijani added.
Asma Jahangir, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, submitted her report to the world body on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Jahangir claimed that there had been little change in the human situation in Iran over the past year.
She also alleged the harassment of journalists in Iran had intensified, claiming that the progress on women’s rights was extremely slow.
Jahangir stated that she did not attempt to assess the impact of sanctions on human rights in Iran in her report, because she had not been allowed to visit the country.
Iran says it will welcome Jahangir if she wants to visit the country provided that human rights rapporteurs would also be appointed for the other 192 member countries of United Nations.
During the meeting, Iran’s Hossein Jaberi Ansari, Russia’s Alexander Lavrentiev, and Turkey’s Sedat Ünal, the heads of the three guarantor states’ delegations, exchanged views on the documents that are discussed in this round of Astana Process.
A document on mine clearance for humanitarian purposes and preservation of Syria’s cultural heritage sites, and another one on exchange of the detainees, the kidnapped, and the bodies of the dead were among the documents discussed by the three guarantor states and the Syrian government and opposition delegates in this round of talks.
Jaberi Ansari earlier met Turkey’s delegation to Astana Talks, headed by Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal.
During the Monday talks, the two sides discussed the latest developments in Syria and explored ways to implement previous agreements achieved in the Astana Process.
The top Iranian and Turkish negotiators further discussed the cases where previous agreements were violated in Idlib de-escalation zone.
They also exchanged views on the path towards the political settlement of the current crisis in Syria.
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri says the main objective of the United States’ new strategies is to topple the Islamic Republic of Iran’s establishment, something that the US secretary of state openly announced in recent days.
According to a Farsi report by Tasnim News Agency, General Baqeri said, “Somebody who intends to overthrow us (the Iranian government) does not deserve [to sit down for] talks [with us].”
He referred to Washington’s recent anti-Iran laws such as the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), and said, “The law is aimed at driving a wedge between the Iranian government and people, and put us in a dilemma, i.e. either to accept to defend our dignity while having livelihood problems, or to accept humiliation and destruction while pinning our hopes on the Americans’ promise of reducing the livelihood difficulties.”
The top general noted that if sanctions against Iran are reinstated, Tehran will definitely pull out of the Iran nuclear deal.
He also touched upon the White House’s backing for the ISIS terrorist group.
“The Americans have openly and repeatedly relocated ISIS commanders and sent them arms. The Americans themselves have said that ISIS is their handiwork,” he said.
General Baqeri further said the US wanted to drag threats to the Iranian borders and even inside Iran, adding, “Unfortunately, the Americans managed to do so in one or two cases, but they were suppressed in Iran.”
The top story in all Iranian newspapers today was the remarks made by President Hassan Rouhani about negotiation with the US administration. Rouhani highlighted the US violation of its commitments as per the earlier agreements, and said no one is that crazy to hold negotiation with the US anymore.
Rouhani made the remarks in an address to a parliamentary session held to give a vote of confidence to the two ministers he had proposed. Both of his picks, Science Minister Mansour Gholami and Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian were endorsed by the lawmakers.
Newspapers today also covered the Iranian foreign ministry’s remarks about a request by US President Donald Trump to meet Iran’s Rouhani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The foreign ministry says the Iranian president had rejected the offer.
The visit of Yukiya Amano, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to Tehran also received great coverage. Amano, who held separate meetings with President Rouhani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and nuclear Chief Ali Akbar Salehi, once again confirmed Tehran’s compliance with its JCPOA commitments.
The above issues, as well as many more, are highlighted in the following headlines and top stories:
19 Dey:
1- Amano: Iran Has Fulfilled All Its JCPOA Commitments
Abrar:
1- Rouhani: We Have Built, Are Building, Will Build Missiles
2- Judicial Emergency Centres to Be Established in Path of Arba’een Walk
Aftab-e Yazd:
1- Government’s Calm Day in Parliament: Two Ministers Receive Vote of Confidence
2- Iran Nuclear Chief: IAEA under US Pressure; We Hope It Can Maintain Independence
Arman-e Emrooz:
1- Rouhani Rejected Trump’s Request for Meeting at UNGA
2- Cabinet Completed
Asman-e Abi:
1- Young Female Wrestler: People Keep Saying Wrestling Not Appropriate for Girls
Asrar:
1- Reformist MP: Either Rouhani Has Become Conservative or Conservatives Have Become Reformist
2- Vacuum Power in Iraqi Kurdistan Region: Barzani to Resign Wednesday
Ebtekar:
1- Amano’s Message of Peace, from Tehran to Washington
Etemad:
1- Oil Minister for First Time Appoints Woman as Vice-Minister
Ettela’at:
1- Rouhani: IAEA Should Declare Peaceful Nature of Iran Nuclear Program ASAP
Iran:
1- First Jury to Be Formed for Political Crimes: Final Step to Implement Constitution
Javan:
1- Rouhani’s Message for Iranian Proponents of West: Negotiation with US Is Insanity
2- Armed Clash in Session on Barzani’s Resignation: Masoud’s Gamble Leads to His Overthrow
Jomhouri Eslami:
1- Amano: UNSC Backs Iran Nuclear Deal, I Don’t Have Anything to Say about Trump
2- Humanitarian Situation in Yemen Shocking: UN
3- Iran to Increase Oil Output from Joint Field with Saudi Arabia
Kayhan:
1- Rouhani: Other Countries Not That Crazy to Negotiate with US
2- Riyadh, Abu Dhabi Direct Target of Yemen’s Ballistic Missiles
3- Iraqi Popular Forces Tasked with Protecting Iranian Arba’een Pilgrims
Khorasan:
1- Rouhani: Call for Further Negotiations Ridiculous
Seda-ye Eslahat:
1- Rouhani in Defence of Proposed Minsters: I Don’t Make Deal on Security, Freedom
2- Barzani to Remain in Power in another Form: Kurdish Politician
Shargh:
1- Rouhani, Larijani Vow to Settle Problem of Zoroastrian Councilor
Siasat-e Rooz:
1- Iran Nuclear Chief: We Don’t Want to See JCPOA Scrapped
2- US No Longer Trustworthy for Russia
3- Tillerson: Iran Had No Role in Recapture of Syrian Territories from ISIS
Sobh-e Now:
1- Rouhani Says No to Trump’s Request for Meeting
Vatan-e Emrooz:
1- Bin Salman’s Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
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