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Iran Rejects US ‘Meddlesome’ Human Rights Report

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In comments on Saturday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi categorically rejected the 2016 human rights report on Iran that the US Department of States released on March 3.

“Due to its awful and dark human rights record, either inside that country (the US) or at the international level, the US government is in no position to comment on the status of human rights in other countries,” the spokesman underscored.

He made it clear that no international organization or law has authorized the US government to judge the status of human rights around the world one-sidedly and with political motivations.

The spokesman further highlighted a number of brazen cases of US violation of human rights and of national sovereignty of other states, the most recent of which was Washington’s decision to bar citizens of a number of Muslim countries from entering the US.

Qassemi finally slammed such annual “interfering” reports as a “cover-up” and a means to whitewash the US’s own internal troubles and human rights violations, and as an attempt to draw the world public attention away from Washington’s blatant support for certain regional allies with a terrible human rights record whose war crimes against other nations have become clear to the world.

Russian Carmaker UAZ to Launch Assembly Line in Iran

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IFP Media Wire
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Russian car manufacturer

According to the website Russianconstruction.com the project will be jointly undertaken by UAZ and the Iranian company Tavan Khodro Jey Co with the two sides are expected to assembly UAZ Patriot, UAZ Pickup and UAZ Cargo.

Iranian officials have not yet commented on the report.

As part of its larger plan to expand its presence in foreign markets, UAZ is also seeking to launch a similar project in Egypt in 2018, the website noted.

 

Russian Carmaker UAZ to Launch Assembly Line in Iran

 

Vietnam is another target market for UAZ. The company plans to establish a joint venture in the Asian country by the end of this year.

Dorofeyev said Vietnam’s car industry was experiencing an economic boom adding that at present UAZ exports cars to Vietnam to meet the country’s defense needs but the trend is going to change in the near future with UAZ entering Vietnam’s commercial vehicle market.

Based in Ulyanovsk, UAZ produces off-road vehicles, buses and trucks.

UAZ is best known for the UAZ-469 utility vehicle which is widely used as a military vehicle around the world. The Russian car manufacturer started production in 1941 as part of the Soviet war effort. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990s, UAZ turned into a joint-stock company.

Russian Carmaker UAZ to Launch Assembly Line in Iran

Folklore Doll, Symbol of Iranian Girls Deprived of Education

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Girls from Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran are willing to use “Lo’batak”, the famous folklore doll of this region, as a symbol of girls who have been deprived of education; a symbol to stop early marriages.

According to a Farsi report by Vaghaye Ettefaghieh newspaper, the majority of girls in Sistan have heard the tale of Lo’batak, the doll from Sistan.

“Their mothers told them her tale when they were little,” explained Sama, one of these girls who dropped out of primary school after just two years, before telling a Cinderella-like tale about a little girl tyrannized by her step-mother who then marries a prince and lives happily afterward.

Instead of sitting on a golden throne, however, this girl from a deprived village near Zabol wishes other things.

“We make Lo’batak dolls using stitched pieces of cheap clothes, then stick them on pencils,” said the 18-year-old Sama, expressing that the beloved Lo’batak symbolises the ambitions of village girls.

“To us, Lo’batak on the pencil means that we want to study; that instead of classes held in sheds, we want a real school in our village so that its walls and roof never crumble away; that we do not want any more to be forced to get married, never.”

Alongside other girls from the villages of Zabol, she is one of the thousands of school dropout children who live in Sistan and Baluchestan, and now want to open the closed doors of schools to themselves on the verge of Persian New Year by making handicrafts and designing colourful fabrics.

Showing Personal Concerns to Society

Since a few months ago, a group of female household heads and school dropout girls from villages near Zabol are designing and making dolls, coloured fabrics and ceramic bowls with minimum facilities. Other than earning a living, they try to warn Iranian people and authorities about the risks of early marriage for the girls who are deprived of education.

“In fact, it is just a way to show one’s personal talents,” noted Zohreh Sayyadi, a child rights activist.

“The doll is rooted in the region’s folklore. By fusing it to the pencil as the symbol of the right to education, these girls want to show the society what social rights they have been denied.”

“The work somehow empowers the education-deprived girls,” she noted, referring to the artistic activities these girls do to develop their talents and abilities: it prevents early marriages, and provides for further education.

Conditioned Freedom in Iraqi Kurdistan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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According to a report by the French newspaper Liberation, after ISIS advanced on the borders of Iraqi Kurdistan in 2014, the international coalition strengthened its collaboration with the authorities of Erbil, the Kurdish capital, which has become an essential partner in the war against terrorism, being the obligatory passage of diplomats, humanitarian activists and journalists since, especially at the time of Mosul battle.

Meanwhile, the regression of civil freedoms in this autonomous region has been far from being a concern for all these foreigners.  During a recent visit to Arbil, François Hollande, the President of France, spoke of “the values of freedom, respect and human dignity”, saying that he was honoured by the collaboration between France and Iraqi Kurdistan against terrorism; a speech addressed to the Kurdish “President” Masoud Barzani, whom Paris welcomed with great pomp on February 21 at the Élysée Palace. Barzani is a “president” whose second term has ended a year and a half ago, calling into question the legitimacy of his elected assembly; a “president” in whose name the freedoms of the Iraqi Kurds are repressed.

The PUK and the KDP – two prominent Kurdish parties – are assimilated to mafia groups by Soran, a Kurdish professor. “I have friends who joined them; now they have a house, a big car, everything! In exchange, they go so far as to kill people for their party.”

Meanwhile, behind the front, a part of the Kurdish population demands its basic human rights: Access to electricity, water, and a decent wage.

Some protesters, like Soran, call for taking up arms. Others no longer dare to protest after having received a number of death threats and having seen their friends arrested by the security forces and then fleeing to Europe without a word.

“The fashionable Kurdish speeches on democracy … are only duplicitous market goods, successfully sold to Western countries,” said Aras Fatah, Kurdish sociologist and journalist.

Iranian MP Calls for Use of Int’l Standards in Banking Transactions

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Financial Standards

“More international investment will be attracted to Iran if our financial statements and cost and benefit reports are prepared based on the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS),” noted Rasoul Khezri, an Iranian lawmaker.

While unemployment has contributed to social harms in Iran, more jobs could be created by making investment in production sector, he added, according to a Farsi report by ICANA.

“Iran’s economic authorities have to remove the barriers to investment in this area through proper management.”

“Banks and insurance agencies must apply the IFRS to clarify the situation of Iran’s banking and insurance industries,” he added.

“Economic clarification requires proper financial disclosures: it is to be considered as an important parameter in the development of Iran’s international economic and banking relations,” Khezri noted.

“Economic development requires comprehensive coordination between trade and economy sectors,” he added.

Europe Votes to End Visa-Free Travel for Americas

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The call for an end to the visa-free regime for US citizens comes after Washington failed to agree visa-free travel for citizens of five EU countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania – as part of a reciprocity agreement. US citizens can normally travel to all countries in the bloc without a visa.
The vote urges the revocation of the scheme within two months, meaning Americans will have to apply for extra documents for 12 months after the European Commission implements a “delegated act” to bring the change into effect, The Independent reported.

Iranian MP Warns against Formation of Takfiri Front in East Asia

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“Saudi Arabia has cast covetous eyes on Malaysia,” Iranian MP Mohammad Javad Abtahi said, according to a Farsi report by ICANA.
“Riyadh is pursuing the Wahhabi economic and ideological goals there.”
He went on to say that Saudis intend to form an economic, ideological front among the Muslim people living in East Asia in order to recruit Takfiri forces, and achieve further financial resources.
“It was predictable that Malaysia would be the first destination of Saudi Arabian King’s East Asia tour,” he noted.
“Saudi Arabia, however, has now its eyes on India and Indonesia as its next conquests, so that their Muslim population comes under the domination of Wahhabism.”
He assimilated Malaysia to a progressive dragon is south-eastern Asia with considerable industrial assets.
“As the majority of Malaysians are Muslim, it is regarded by Saudi Arabia as a special target for Wahhabi aims,” he added, pointing that Riyadh is to open Wahhabi schools in Malaysia, as it did in Peshawar, to promote Wahhabism in the Far East and south-eastern Asia.
“Saudi Arabia had earlier infiltrated into the East Asia through Abu Sayyaf terrorist group, a former ally of Al-Qaeda. Now, the ISIS will be given a specific operational space thanks to Saudi plans.”
“During a meeting with Mahathir Mohammad, the founder of modern Malaysia, I found that he was seriously concerned about the Saudi influence over this country,” Abtahi mentioned.
“The 680-million-dollar bribe paid by Riyadh during the Malaysia elections led to a turn in Jakarta’s positions against Iran, worrying many Iranian students in this country,” he added.

Iran to Enhance Trade Ties with France: FM

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IFP Media Wire
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“We regard France as an important economic and political partner,” Zarif said in a meeting with French Minister of Finance Michel Sapin in Tehran on Saturday.

Lauding Iran and France’s move to hold joint economic commissions, the foreign minister expressed Tehran’s determination to enhance relations with Paris in all fields.

He also highlighted the Iranian market’s potential and the workforce available in the country, hoping for broader joint investment in the automotive industry.

Sapin, for his part, expressed French politicians and companies’ willingness to use opportunities for closer bilateral ties with Iran.

France seeks cooperation with Iran together with the European Union, the French minister added.

Economic ties between Iran and France gained momentum after coming into force of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a nuclear agreement between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany), in January 2016.

During a January 2016 visit to Paris by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Tehran signed a major contract with Airbus worth about $27 billion to buy 118 planes.

Also in January 2016, Iran Khodro, the Middle East’s biggest carmaker, and French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen signed an agreement over a joint-venture to produce cars, worth 500 million euros ($545 million).

Iran Has No Problem with Arab People: IRGC General

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Mohsen Rezai

“Our problem is not with Arabs, but with their despotic rulers who serve Israel,” Major General Mohsen Rezaei said in a Saturday Farsi post in his Twitter account.

“People of Saudi Arabia and the UAE are thirsty for democracy,” he added.

Spokesman Rejects Saudi-Malaysian Anti-Iran Statement

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IFP Media Wire
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Riyadh and Kuala Lumpur “expressed serious concerns over the Iranian interference in the internal affairs of countries in the region,” as the Saudi king wrapped up his lavish trip to Malaysia on the first leg of a month-long Asia journey.

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Thursday rejected those accusations as “delusional,” saying they are in line with Saudi Arabia’s “improper, totally false, and targeted campaign, which is being waged at a very high cost” against the Islamic Republic.

“The cultural influence and presence of a country has roots in its history, culture and civilization and is an inherent, cultural and quite natural and popular issue, which is basically not achievable through any military, economic and even political leverage,” Qassemi said.

“The principled policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as an effective and peaceful country, is based on mutual respect and non-interference in the affairs of other countries,” he said.

Iran’s policy, he added, is also based on “coexistence and cooperation with all neighbors and countries of the region and the world in order to strengthen stability, security and peace and a relentless fight on terrorism.”

Qassemi further stated that Iran’s “advice to all Islamic countries is that they should analyze regional and global situations with more vigilance and care and avoid being drawn into disputes, which are against the principle of friendship and peaceful relationship.”

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