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Over 45,000 Displaced by Fighting in West Mosul

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On two occasions since Iraqi forces launched a major push to retake west Mosul from the ISIS terrrorist group on Feb 19, more than 10,000 people have arrived in a single day at sites for the displaced, according to IOM figures.

Meanwhile in Syria a total of 66,000 people have been displaced by fighting along two fronts in the country’s fractured north, the United Nation’s humanitarian coordination agency (OCHA) said earlier Sunday.

“This includes nearly 40,000 people from Al-Bab city and nearby Taduf town, as well as 26,000 people from communities to the east of Al-Bab” in northern Aleppo province, OCHA said, AFP reported.

Iranian Calligrapher Receives French Legion of Honour

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Gholam-Hossein Amirkhani, the Iranian calligrapher
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Gholam-Hossein Amirkhani, the Iranian calligrapher

Gholam-Hossein Amirkhani, the Iranian calligrapher who has been working in this field for around 60 years, received the Legion of Honour, the famous French medallion which is given to international artists.

“Your name is linked to the Iran Calligraphers Association, the largest Iranian society of art and culture,” François Sénémaud, the ambassador of France to Iran, told Amirkhani while awarding him the Legion of Honour during a ceremony in France’s Embassy in Iran.

According to a Farsi report by Shahrvand, Amirkhani, 78, started calligraphy when he was 20. As a member of Iran Calligraphers Association since 1965, he was titled ‘Master of Iranian Calligraphy’ in 1979.

He has received the Iranian Order of Culture and Art twice in 1999 and 2009. Amirkhani was also honoured inthe Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame ceremony in 2002.

Several Iranian artists have earlier received the French Legion of Honour, notably the singers Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri, filmmakers Abbas Kiarostami and Dariush Mehrjui, writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, actress Leila Hatami, and graphic designer Kambiz Derambakhsh.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The top story today was a controversial decision by Iran’s parliament to raise the maximum salary of executives to around $6,300, which was widely criticized, and lawmakers finally backed off and decided to set it at $3,300. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani had harshly criticized the opponents for raising false allegations against the legislature.

Newspapers also covered a ‘secret committee’ tasked with choosing the next Leader of the Islamic Revolution and its ongoing efforts to evaluate the candidates’ qualifications.

President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks in a ceremony to appreciate Olympic and Paralympic medallists as well as national champions were also widely covered.

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

 

Abrar:

1- Washington Repeats Anti-Tehran Human Rights Claims

2- Deputy FM: No Choice but to Extend JCPOA

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Afarinesh:

1- Rouhani: Sports Can Counter Iranophobia

2- Larijani: Those Who Say Parliament Has Legalised Astronomical Salaries Are Wrong

3- Science Minister: There Are 500,000 Empty Seats in Iranian Universities

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- President: The Time When Cooking Was All Women Did Is Past

2- Deputy FM: Nuclear Deal Has Done What It’s Supposed to Do

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Asia:

1- Paris Central Bank to Finance French Projects in Iran

2- Iranian Refugees Called on to Return without Worrying about Arrest

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Asrar:

1- Rouhani Criticizes Those Who Always Try to Disappoint People

2- Decrease in Size of Iranian Banknotes

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Besharat-e Now:

1- Formation of Committee Tasked with Choosing Future Iran Leader

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Emtiaz:

1- Rouhani: Society Needs Happiness to Overcome Life Problems

2- Narcotics Inflict $52 Billion in Damages on Iran’s Economy

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Etemad:

1- I’m the Channel that Links Reformists to Iran Leader: First VP Jahangiri

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Ettela’at:

1- Iran Operationalises S-300 Missile Defence System

2- Deputy FM: If It Wasn’t for JCPOA, Trump Would Unite World against Tehran

3- Maximum Salary for Executives Set at 126 Million Rials (nearly $3,300)

 

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

Hemayat:

1- Official: Iran Supports Refugees of War-Torn Countries

2- 1,000 Smugglers of Goods, Foreign Exchange in Prison

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Iran:

1- Don’t Lie: Parliament Speaker [to those who raised claims about increase in executives’ salaries]

2- Power Minister: Gov’t Has Provided 4m Villagers with Access to Water

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

Javan:

1- Parliament Backs Off from Astronomical Salaries

  • Maximum Wage for Executives Reduced from over $6,300 to $3,300

2- Continued Power Struggle in Washington: Sick Obama Had Tapped My Calls!

 

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- President Rouhani Appreciates Olympic, Paralympic Mediallists

2- JCPOA Achievements in Oil, Energy Industries Explained

3- CIA Ex-Chief to Trump: Don’t Accuse a Major World Religion of Extremism

 

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

Kayhan:

1- Parliament Takes Back Bill that Legitimised Astronomical Salaries: In spite of Larijani’s insult to critics

2- How Much Iran Leader’s Guidelines Were Observed in Past Year

3- Bahraini People Brutally Suppressed in 9 Townships

 

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

Payam-e Zaman:

1- Asghar Farhadi Appreciated for Receiving Oscar

  • Farhadi Is Now Master of Iranian Cinema

2- Larijani: Maximum Salary for Executives Is $2,600-$3,300

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Resalat:

1- Rouhani: Mosque, Stadium Should Be Shelters for Youths

2- S-300 Missile Defence System Is Fatal for Enemies

3- US Not in Position to Criticise Other Countries’ Human Rights: Iranian Spokesman

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Shargh:

1- Secret Committee to Select Next Leader

  • Ayatollah Khamenei Said You Should Have 10 Candidates: Spokesman

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on March 5

 

Azerbaijan President in Tehran for High-Level Talks

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Early on Sunday morning, flags of Azerbaijan Republic were raised all around Tehran’s iconic Azadi Square, marking the third visit of Azerbaijani president to the Islamic Republic in three years.

Aliyev arrived a few hours ago at the head of a high-ranking delegation and was officially received by Rouhani in Sa’dabad Palace.

The two sides are going to confer on new grounds of cooperation, acceleration of ongoing projects including a pharmaceutical production factory and a car manufacturing plant as well as the north-south railway corridor

Javad Jahangirzadeh, the Iranian ambassador to Baku, earlier told IRIB that the railway connecting Iran’s Astara to the Azerbaijani city with the same name is expected to be inaugurated by the two presidents through video conference.

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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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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.

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