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Iran Calls for Int’l Action to Stop Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar

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“Global silence on continuing violence against Rohingya Muslims,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet on Wednesday.

“International action [is] crucial to prevent further ethnic cleansing,” Zarif went on to say, stressing that the United Nations “must rally” in this regard.

About 1,000 persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled to neighboring Bangladesh after coming under fire from military soldiers.

Furthermore, the death toll from ongoing clashes between Myanmar’s troops and the so-called advocates of the persecuted Rohingya Muslims recently reached nearly 100.

Thousands of desperate Muslims recently entered Bangladesh, fleeing from intensified crackdown on the minority by Buddhist mobs and security forces over recent attacks on police outposts.

Yemen’s Army Attacks Abu Dhabi Using Ballistic Missile

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The Yemeni TV channel Al Masirah quoted a Yemeni military official as saying that the Army has targeted Abu Dhabi using ballistic missiles.

The official declared that the missile has hit the target with a high precision.

Emirati officials have yet to comment on the attack.

The UAE is a member of a Saudi-led coalition which has been waging an air campaign against Yemen since March 2015.

The war was launched in an attempt to eliminate the Houthi Ansarullah movement and reinstall former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who resigned in 2014 and fled to Riyadh before returning to Aden.

The Saudi-led war, which has been accompanied by a naval and aerial blockade on Yemen, has so far killed over 12,000 people in the impoverished state, left 70 percent of the country’s 27 million population in desperate need of humanitarian aid, and caused the worst cholera outbreak in the world there.

 

Serbia Agrees to Cancel Visa Regime for Iranian Citizens

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A Farsi report by IRNA has quoted Serbian government’s website as announcing that the European country has approved the cancellation of visa requirements for Iranian and Indian citizens during a meeting on August 4.

As a result, tourists as well as investors from both countries of Iran and India can enter the territory of Serbia without any problems.

The government’s website has cited improvements in business ties and the promotion of bilateral relations with Tehran and Delhi as the main achievements of such a decision.

According to IRNA, the new Serbian ambassador to Iran, Dragan Todorovic, recently presented his credentials to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and conveyed the congratulatory message of his country’s president on the re-election of Rouhani, saying that the Serbian government is ready to strengthen its all-inclusive cooperation with Iran and that it has taken early steps to establish a banking relation with the Islamic Republic.

The new Serbian ambassador to Tehran also submitted the official invitation of the president of his country to Rouhani in which he had asked the Iranian president to travel to Serbia. He also said that the Serbian parliament would look into the visa waiver for Iranian nationals in the near future.

Expressionist Artist Holds Exhibition in Memory of Late Wife

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After losing his wife last August, Kiasat created 25 expressionist works focused on human suffering, with more than 20 of them on show in his ongoing exhibition.

Kiasat was born in 1948 in northwestern city of Tabriz. He is a member of the board of the Visual Arts Society of Tabriz.

He is teaching at several universities in Tabriz. He has held more than 50 exhibitions in Iran, Turkey, South Korea, Bulgaria, Austria, Yugoslavia, Japan, Germany, Italy and Belgium.

Kiasat’s gallery has been open to visitors at Sarban Gallery in Tehran as of Friday, August 18.

Here are ISNA’s photos of the exhibition:

Iran Urges UAE to End Destructive Regional Policies

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“Unfortunately, Abu Dhabi in recent years has created many problems in the region by adopting adventurous policies beyond its capacities,” Qassemi said in a Wednesday statement.

The UAE’s participation in Yemen war and the cruel bloodshed there, its efforts to occupy parts of Yemen’s territories, its intervention in Libya, and its effort to provoke regional governments to blockade and boycott other countries are a few examples of such policies, the Iranian spokesman added.

“The UAE is required to end such destructive, inefficient, and provocative policies,” Qassemi added.

His statement came after UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan urged Iran and Turkey on Tuesday to end what it called their “colonial” actions in Syria.

“If Iran and Turkey continue the same historical, colonial and competitive behaviour and perspectives between them in Arab affairs, we will continue in this situation not just in Syria today but tomorrow in some other country,” Sheikh Abdullah said.

Bolton’s Plan to Exit Iran Nuclear Deal to Isolate US: FM Zarif

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“I have read Bolton’s plan, which he apparently has failed to directly send to the White House; it would definitely (bring about) a major defeat for the United States, and will make America more isolated in the international arena,” Zarif said in remarks released on Wednesday.

“This is not the first time that Bolton is present in this field,” he said, adding that Bolton’s policy was followed by the US about 15 years ago, and the Americans are well aware of the result.

“If his policy had been successful, the US would not have needed to come to the negotiating table and reach an agreement with Iran 10 years (after pursuing the policy),” the Iranian top diplomat went on to say.

According to media reports, Bolton has proposed that the US administration “announce that it is abrogating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) due to significant Iranian violations, Iran’s unacceptable international conduct more broadly, and because the JCPOA threatens American national-security interests.”

Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, US, Britain, France, and Germany) on July 14, 2015, reached a conclusion over the text of the JCPOA.

The accord took effect in January 2016 and was supposed to terminate all nuclear-related sanctions against Iran all at once, but its implementation has been hampered mainly due to US policies.

‘US Can’t Afford Costs of Fresh War in Afghanistan’

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Senior Iranian parliamentarian Hossein Naqavi Hosseini has weighed in on the consequences of the US enhanced military presence in Afghanistan.

“A US military buildup in Afghanistan will fuel tensions and disputes inside the United States because the US cannot afford to pay the heavy price for another war,” said Naqavi Hosseini, the spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.

“An increase in the number of US troops in Afghanistan will have repercussions for the regional countries and stoke terrorist violence,” the MP noted, according to a Farsi report by ICANA.

He said US President Donald Trump has come down with “paradoxes” which will be problematic for the US and the president himself.

“In the 2016 US elections, Trump had claimed that the US shouldn’t suffer the expenses of war and lose more troops in US wars overseas anymore, but today he seeks to expand Washington’s military presence in Afghanistan.”

“Today, we are witnessing that Trump is challenging Obama’s policies. Trump asks why the US should not have a military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a clear sign of the US president’s paradox.”

“Paradoxes in Trump’s foreign policy is something which has more extensive dimensions inside the US,” the legislator said.

Iran Reviewing Bill to Protect Women against Violence

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Pooran Valavioun, the Iranian Judiciary’s advisor on women and family affairs, touched upon a bill on protecting women against violence, saying, “The issue is being studied at the Judiciary.”

“Numerous proposals have been submitted to the parliament by the Judiciary, but unfortunately they have been shelved, and in many cases, motions and bills are changing hands between different legal authorities.”

She then underlined the need to enforce law pertaining to women and family affairs, according to a Farsi report by ISNA.

“If even 20% of the [provisions of] the Constitution related to women and the family are implemented, many of the problems in this domain will be solved,” she noted.

“This is while a lot of problems exist in this area, and there are a lot of laws which are not enforced,” she noted.

Valavioun said policies should be made and the existing potential should be tapped to solve the problems in that domain.

The official then described the activity of the National Women and Family Commission as an important step, but at the same time complained why the commission had not held a single meeting during the first four-year tenure of Rouhani’s administration.

 

Iran Blasts Kirkuk’s ‘Unacceptable’ Support for Kurdistan Independence Referendum

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In a statement on Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s independence referendum has been rejected by the Iraqi central government, the United Nations, and many regional and ultra-regional countries.

The decision made by the Council of Kirkuk Province to back and vote in such plebiscite is a dangerous and provocative move, he went on to say.

Qassemi further noted that Kirkuk’s support for the referendum will not only fail to help the recent talks held in Baghdad to settle the differences between the two sides, but will also influence Iraq’s national power and capacities in the path of stabilising the country’s victories over terrorism.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran warns against the wrong decision, which clearly violates Iraq’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” he noted.

“We once again emphasise that the best option for the Iraqi nation is the commitment of all parties to the Constitution and the settlement of differences through dialogue and legal solutions,” Qassemi added.

“Any move that would create fresh crises in the region and the borders of Iraq’s neighbours is intolerable,” he stressed.

Councillors in Kirkuk voted to take part in next month’s Kurdish independence referendum in a session, however, that was boycotted by Turkmen and Arab members.

The central government in Baghdad is strongly opposed to Iraqi Kurdistan’s planned September 25 referendum, which is non-binding but could lead to independence.

Kirkuk, an ethnically-mixed oil-rich province, is not part of the Kurdistan region but has a large Kurdish population.

Iran’s Police Seize Pigeons Used for Carrying Drugs

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The local police came across these drug carrying pigeons in a dealer’s house during one of their operations to cleanse the city’s suspicious neighborhoods from dealers and addicts.

According to a Farsi report by the Mehr News Agency, a local judiciary official said the drug dealer used to tie small drug packages to the legs of these trained pigeons so that they could transfer them to the desired places across the city.

Kermanshah’s anti-drug police have captured all these birds, he added.

Iran’s Police Seize Pigeons Used for Carrying Drugs

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