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Saudis Outraged by Syrian Dissident Players’ Praise for Assad

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The Syrian national football team, composed of both pro- and anti-government players, managed to gain a draw against Iran on Tuesday in Tehran and advance to the next round of FIFA World Cup qualifications in Asia.

Following the victory, two of the dissident players, Omar al-Somah and Firas al-Khatib, in separate messages praised Syrian President Assad for his support for Syrian national team.

In a TV interview with Syrian TV, al-Somah thanked Assad’s support for the Syrian national football team, and said his permanent support for Syrian sports and athletes will have positive outcomes.

Al-Khatib also explicitly expressed gratitude to the Syrian president for his full support for Syrian national football team.

The move, however, has outraged many Saudi people who did not expect the two players, particularly Somah who plays for popular Saudi club Al-Ahli, to send messages of appreciation to the Syrian president.

Many Saudi social media users have since harshly slammed the two players for their pro-Assad remarks.

Due to his life in self-exile as well membership in a Saudi football club, Somah may be viewed as a dissident of the Syrian government, and this is a point which the Syrian government and Football Federation are completely aware of. However, they decided to include him in the Syrian national team and this created a strong motivation in Somah to revise his anti-government stances.

He managed to win the hearts of the Syrian nation by scoring a last minute equalizer to Iran, and owes this achievement to Assad’s non-political approach towards national sport.

The Iran-Syria match with such political achievements reveals that national enthusiasm is still alive under the ashes of the civil war underway in the war-torn country.

Iran FM Congratulates Syria on Deir ez-Zor Victory

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IFP Media Wire
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“Iran will continue to back Syria in its battle against terrorism,” Zarif said during a Wednesday phone conversation with Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem.

The Iranian foreign minister also congratulated Muallem for the Syrian army’s breaking of years-long Daesh siege of the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr.

He also highlighted the significance of boosting the Tehran-Damascus relations in all fields.

For his part, Muallem voiced his country’s gratitude for Iran’s continued support, and vowed that the Syrian army would not rest until the country is liberated from the scourge of Takfiri terrorism.

On Tuesday, Syrian army forces, backed by allied fighters from popular defense groups, reached the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr and broke a nearly three-year-long siege imposed by Daesh.

Iran FM Congratulates Syria on Deir ez-Zor Victory

Shortly after breaking the siege, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad extended his congratulations to government troops on the major breakthrough against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group

Daesh overran large parts of Dayr al-Zawr province, including its many oil fields, in mid-2014 as it seized areas in Syria and neighboring Iraq.

By early 2015, the Takfiri terrorists were in control of parts of Dayr al-Zawr city, and besieged the remaining parts of it under government control.

Iranian Hajj Pilgrim Attacked by Terrorists in Mecca

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IFP Editorial Staff
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According to a statement by Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organisation, a group of unknown elements on Wednesday evening (18:30 local time) attacked Iranian cleric Hossein Esmaeili, who was accompanying the pilgrims of Isfahan

The cleric was en route to his hotel room when he was attacked and wounded in his shoulder and side.

The terrorists escaped with a motorcycle, according to the statement.

Immediately after the attack, the cleric was transferred to a hospital by Iranian and Saudi medics. Reports from Mecca indicate he is in relatively stable condition now.

Three suspects have been arrested by the Saudi police so far, the statement added.

The attack came as Saudi authorities have repeatedly emphasized their ‘special’ treatment of Iranian pilgrims as per a deal they had signed with the Islamic Republic.

Iranian pilgrims this year went on the pilgrimage after one year of absence. In 2016, Iran boycotted the Hajj pilgrimage in protest at the Saudi mismanagement, which had claimed the lives of hundreds of Iranians in a 2015 crush in Mecca.

Iran’s Leader Pardons, Commutes Sentences of 1166 Convicts

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Ayatollah Khamenei on Thursday granted clemency or eased the sentences of 1,166 convicts sentenced by various Iranian courts.

The Leader’s decision was made upon a recommendation from the head of the Judiciary on the occasion of Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Ghadeer.

Article 110 of the Constitution grants the country’s Leader the right to pardon or reduce the sentences of convicts upon a recommendation from the Judiciary chief.

The clemency, however, does not apply to all types of convicts, including those who have been sentenced for their role in armed struggle against the country, armed or organized drug trafficking, rape, armed robbery, arms smuggling, abduction, bribery and embezzlement.

Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice) marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage and is one of the most significant holidays in the Muslim calendar.

Eid al-Ghadeer is also a festive day observed by Shiite Muslims on the 18th of Dhu al-Hijjah in the Islamic calendar to commemorate the appointment of Ali ibn Abi Talib by the Prophet Mohammad (PUBH) as his immediate successor.

Iranian Users Become Voice of Voiceless Myanmar Muslims

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Following the reactions of high-ranking Iranian politicians to the violation of Muslims’ rights in Myanmar, Iranian social media users have unanimously voiced their support for the oppressed Rohingya Muslims.

By creating and posting the hashtag #SaveRohingya, Iranian users urged the world to stop the genocide of innocent people in Myanmar who are suffering under the brutality of the Asian government amid international silence.

According to a Farsi report by the Fars News Agency, the hashtag has become a world trend in Twitter.

Here are some of the posts sent by Iranian users in Persian with the #SaveRohingya hashtag:

  • Silent genocide of Myanmar, showcase for the pretentious West’s ethical bankruptcy
  • The West holds memorial ceremonies for Holocaust victims 70 years after the WWII, but keeps silent over Myanmar genocide
  • Who is the advocate of human rights? It’s the UN which received money from Saudi Arabia to omit its name from list of child rights violators
  • Maybe if Rohingya kids had blue eyes and blond hairs, they would receive the world’s attention overnight
  • Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize was a historic joke for the world
  • Apparently a group of extremists are committing the heinous crimes in Myanmar, but in fact there is no crime in the world where the US is not involved
  • The human rights Iran is condemned for is the same concept they are adhering to for Myanmar Muslims today
  • Innocent is innocent, whether in Syria, Iraq, Yemen or Myanmar. Let’s be at least a voice for the voiceless

Besides Iranian users, netizens from across the world are sending posts with this hashtag in a move to become a voice for the voiceless Muslims in Myanmar.

Myanmar’s security forces have been attacking Rohingyas and torching their villages since October 2016 to push them out of the western state of Rakhine.

The attacks have been intensified since August 25, with State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi ignoring international demands to call off the violence.

Thousands of Rohingyas have already fled their homeland to take refuge in Bangladesh. Many people have been killed during the perilous boat journeys on the Naf River, which separates the two neighbouring countries.

The refugees have also tried to cross the border into Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

Syria Opposition Must Accept It Lost War against Assad: UN Envoy

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“For the opposition, the message is very clear: if they were planning to win the war, facts are proving that is not the case. So now it’s time to win the peace,” de Mistura told reporters on Wednesday.

De Mistura said a national ceasefire should follow soon after Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zor were “liberated” which he anticipated to happen within weeks.

He added that the rebel stronghold of Idlib could then be “frozen”.

Asked if he was implying that Assad had won, he said pro-Government forces had advanced militarily, but nobody could actually claim to have won the war.

Syria Opposition Must Accept It Lost War against Assad: UN Envoy

 

“Victory can only be if there is a sustainable political long-term solution,” he said.

“Otherwise instead of war, God forbid, we may see plenty of low intensity guerrilla [conflicts] going on for the next 10 years, and you will see no reconstruction, which is a very sad outcome of winning a war.”

“The issue is: is the Government, after the liberation of Deir Ez-Zor and Raqqa, ready and prepared to genuinely negotiate and not simply announce victory, which we all know, and they know too, cannot be announced because it won’t be sustainable without a political process?” he asked.

“[And] will the opposition be able to be unified and realistic enough to realise they did not win the war?”

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

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IFP Editorial Staff
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A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

Iranian newspapers widely covered a response by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, to a letter by top Iranian Sunni cleric Sheikh Abdulhamid. In his response, the Leader urged all authorities to refrain from any discrimination against ethnicities and religions.

Another top story was the Iranian women who were not allowed to watch a FIFA World Cup qualifier between Iran and Syria in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. A number of female lawmakers are going to question the sports minister over the issue.

President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks about the ongoing crisis in the Korean peninsula also received great coverage. Rouhani warned the US against threatening a country like North Korea which possesses nuclear weapons.

The world’s reactions to the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar also continued to be covered in Iranian papers today.

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

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Female MPs to Question Sports Minister for Preventing Women from Going to Stadium

2- Iran Leader’s Response to Letter by Top Sunni Cleric

3- Zarif: Continuation of Nuclear Deal without US Not Impossible

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Rouhani’s Second Cabinet: Conservative or Reformist?

2- President: Threat Should Be Removed from Global Interactions

3- Going to Stadiums among Women’s Civil Rights!

4- Zarif, Tillerson May Meet on Sidelines of P5+1 Meeting

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

  

Ebtekar:

1- Office of Iran Leader Responds to Sunni Cleric’s Letter

  • Everyone Should Work Together for Honour, Dignity of Islamic Iran

2- End of 18-Year Separation between Gov’t, Municipality

  • Najafi Attends Cabinet Session at Rouhani’s Invitation

3- Violent Face of Buddhism

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Etemad:

1- Iran Leader: No Discrimination between Ethnicities, Religions

2- World Witnessing Forced Immigration, Genocide of Myanmar Muslims

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Ettela’at:

1- Leader: Islamic Republic’s Authorities Urged to Avoid Any Discrimination between Iranians

2- Rouhani: Myanmar Gov’t Should Stop Brutal Crimes against Muslims

3- Haaretz: Israel Can Defeat Hezbollah Only in Drills

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Ghanoon:

1- Education Ministry’s Report on Bus Crash: Driver Was First, Last Culprit

2- Women’s Employment Overshadowed by Men’s

3- New Chapter in Iran-Saudi Relations

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Hamdeli:

1- Threatening Nuke Possessors Dangerous Game for Entire World: Rouhani

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Iran:

1- Rouhani: We Shouldn’t Allow Parties to JCPOA to Violate It

 A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Jahan-e San’at:

1- Rouhani: US Policy of Humiliation, Threat Won’t Work

2- Haley Preparing Grounds for Withdrawing from Nuclear Deal

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Javan:

1- Rouhani: Don’t Threaten, North Korea Cannot Be Joked with

2- Women’s Problems Hidden behind Doors of Stadiums!

3- De Mistura: Syrian Dissidents Should Know They Won’t Win the War

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- Int’l Immigration Organisation Warns of Dire Humanitarian Condition of Myanmar Muslims

2- Syrian Army’s Great Victory after Defeating Deir ez-Zor

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Kelid:

1- US Helps ISIS Commanders Flee Deir ez-Zor in Two Heliborne Operations

2- US Confirms Iran Fooled by Nuclear Deal

  • Haley: Even Iran’s Full JCPOA Implementation Doesn’t Mean Compliance!

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Khorasan:

1- US Seeks to Have Nuclear Deal Suspended

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Shahrvand:

1- A Speech Worse than Silence: Aung San Suu Kyi Breaks Silence on Myanmar Events

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

 

Tejarat:

1- Late Confessions of UN Envoy for Syria: Syrian Opposition Failed

2- Turkey’s Exports to Qatar through Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on September 7

Iranian Sculpture, Painting Museum Reopened after over 15 Years

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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Iranian Sculpture Painting Museum 6

Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Ali Najafi reopened the Ali Akbar San’ati Museum, named after a late Iranian painter and sculptor (1916-2006), in a ceremony in the Iranian capital on Tuesday (September 5).

Being home to close to 100 paintings and over 120 sculptures restored during the past three years, the museum had been shut down, for 12 years, and under restoration, for over three years, prior to its reopening.

The building of the museum has been constructed during Qajar era, according to a Farsi report by IRNA.

During his lifetime, San’ati created close to 6,000 paintings and more than 1,000 plaster, stone and bronze sculptures of Iranian and foreign scientific and literary figures as well as ordinary people from different social levels. Some of his artworks are being kept at the museum after undergoing restoration.

The most interesting part of this small and old museum is where sculptures of a group of political prisoners belonging to Qajar era, made by San’ati, have been put on display right at the centre of the art gallery.

Among the other sculptures put on show at the museum are those of Ferdowsi (Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh, 940-1020), Saadi Shirazi (one of Iran’s major Persian poets and literary men), Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (prominent Iranian linguist and the author of the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language ever published, 1879-1956), crucified Jesus Christ, Kamal-ol-Molk (prominent Iranian painter, 1848- 1940), and Karim Khan Zand (founder of the Zand Dynasty, 1751-1779).

Also in display are his sculptures of Jawaharlal Nehru (the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964), Mahatma Gandhi (leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule, 1869-1948), Louis Pasteur (French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, 1822-1895), Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (renowned Iranian poet and scholar, 1884-1951), Shah Abbas the Great (the fifth Safavid king, 1571-1629) and Nader Shah (one of the most powerful Iranian rulers in the history of the country, 1698-1747).

Born in the central Iranian city of Kerman in 1916, San’ati grew up in a Kerman-based orphanage after losing his father early in life. Due to his intense interest in painting, he entered Kamal-ol-Molk School and graduated after 12 years. With an art career spanning some 62 years, San’ati was among Iran’s first contemporary realist sculptors and painters. He was the founder of Iran’s first museum of contemporary artworks.

Ali Akbar San’ati museum was shut down following the initiation of the construction project of Tehran’s metro in 1997. The building of the museum sustained damages during the implementation of this construction project.

Iranian Firm Indigenizes Electronic Equipment Used by Power, Petchem Industries

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The researchers of an Iranian company, involved in the field of electronics, have indigenized and mass produced electronic equipment required by domestic power and petrochemical industries.

According to a Farsi report by Mehr News Agency, commenting on the indigenized products, Massoud Haji Hassan Khansari, the managing director of the company, said his company has successfully implemented a number of projects to manufacture limit, miniature snap-action, push button and electric floater switches.

Expounding on the details of the products, he added the switches comply with EN 60947-5-1 standard and are equipped with 1 NC/1 NO open and closed electrical contacts.

Haji Hassan Khansari put the voltage, frequency, electrical contact capacity and IP Code, also known as International Protection Marking, of the products at 380/250 VAC, 60/50 Hz, 15A and IP 65, respectively.

He listed the other properties of the products as being equipped with power factor correction capacitors, smart regulators to be used in capacitor banks and timers as well as possessing the capability of discharging the capacitor by internal resistances, working in a temperature range of -25°C to +55°C, combining a selection of capacitors to modify factor correction, and setting the entrance and exit time of the circuit capacitors.

Haji Hassan Khansari said the other product of his company is the residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB), which is a device capable of instantly breaking an electric circuit to prevent serious harm caused by an ongoing electric shock and protecting the circuit against short-circuit and overvoltage.

He added that his company’s RCCBs can be used in single-phase circuits and installed on 35mm DIN rails.

The company’s CEO listed the consumers of the products during the past three years as electric power distribution companies, manufacturers of industrial electrical enclosures and automation systems as well as those involved in the mass construction of residential units.

He said currently, his company is manufacturing miniature and automatic switches, bimetallic overload relays, RCCBs and fuse switches.

Haji Hassan Khansari added, “Since all these products and equipment were previously imported, we decided to produce them domestically.”

Iranian FM, Japanese PM’s Envoy Discuss N. Korea Crisis

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian FM, Japanese PM’s Envoy Discuss N. Korea Crisis

During the Wednesday talks, Zarif referred to the agreements signed between Tehran and Tokyo on the expansion of economic ties including the recent deals on financing energy projects in Iran, and expressed the hope that Japan would turn into a strong partner for Iran in such fields as transportation, energy, and oil and gas.

“The two sides are making preparations to achieve the goal, and we believe Iran and Japan can become good partners in politics and economy,” he said.

He called Iran the most stable, secure and democratic state of the Middle East, adding that securing the mutual interests of the two sides requires Japan’s more active and constructive presence in the Islamic Republic.

Zarif also stressed that Iran has based its main principles on opposition to any use of nuclear weapons or threats. He then called for the peaceful settlement of differences and underlined the need for cooperation among main regional players to ease the current tensions.

For his part, the Japanese PM’s envoy and vice-president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party expressed satisfaction with his visit to Iran and holding political and economic talks with Iranian officials.

Komura then praised Iran’s regional role and said Japan respects the Islamic Republic of Iran for living up to its commitments.

He also said preparations to establish lines of credit between the two sides are at their final stages, and once the LCs are finalized, the Iran-Japan economic ties would enter a new phase.

Komura also referred to the ongoing crisis in the Korean peninsula, and expressed his deep concern over the complicated developments regarding North Korea.

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