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Iran Stands at 11th Place in A’Design World Ranking

January 16, 2017

Iran has ranked 11 among the 88 countries that received the A’Design Award this year. The country’s rank shows a two-place improvement compared with the previous year.

The US and Turkey hold the first and second places, while China has outranked Hong Kong and Italy and finished third.

According to the Award’s website, the A’Design Award and Competition is for designers, innovators and companies that want to highlight themselves to attract the attention of media, publishers and buyers.

In a world where there are millions of products and designs launch each year, the award was born out of the desire to underline the best designs and well-designed products.

The award-winning products and designs are highlighted to the international public via the A’ Design Award Gala-Night and Exhibition in Italy and they are communicated to all relevant press across the world.

Iran’s New Nuclear Power Plants Help Save 22 Million Barrels of Oil

IFP Editorial Staff

January 16, 2017

About $10 billion have been allocated for construction of two nuclear power plants, which is regarded as the biggest industrial project in the country, Salehi said.

Russian experts are now involved in the construction of the two new nuclear power plants, he added, as reported by IRNA.

It’s ‘Inappropriate’ to Mention Possible US Embassy Move to Jerusalem: Kerry

IFP Editorial Staff

January 16, 2017

“It is being debated publicly at home and does not belong within international fora at this moment in time. It’s inappropriate,” Kerry told reporters after a meeting of 70 countries on ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A communique from the one-day meeting on Sunday reaffirmed that only a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians could resolve the conflict and warned that they would not recognize any unilateral steps taken by either side that could prejudge negotiations, Reuters reported.

ISIS Terrorists Abduct 13 Afghan Teachers

IFP Editorial Staff

January 16, 2017

At least 13 seminary teachers were abducted by the ISIS terrorist group in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The local officials said that the incident took place in Haska Mina district after a group of ISIS militants stormed into a religious school in Deh Bala area, reports the Khaama Press.

An official speaking on the condition of anonymity confirmed that the 13 abducted teachers were taken to an unknown location.

The terror group has, however, not commented regarding the report so far.

This comes as the loyalists of the terror group torched at least 65 houses in Kot district which was once under its control.

The latest movements by ISIS loyalist in Nangarhar come as the terror group received major blows during the counter-terrorism operations during the recent months.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 16

IFP Editorial Staff

January 16, 2017

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 19

Newspapers today covered the remarks made by Ali Akbar Nateq Noori, a senior conservative politician and an old companion of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a memorial service held for the late chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council on the seventh day after his demise.

They also highlighted the press conference of Abbas Araqchi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister and a nuclear negotiator, on the first anniversary of JCPOA implementation.

The ongoing outrage in Bahrain caused by the Al Khalifa regime’s execution of three young activists also received great coverage.

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

Abrar:

1- Parliament Allows Law Enforcement and Customs Office to Launch a System to Control Cars

2- Fugitive ISIS Leader Arrested in Russia

3- Turkish PM: We Share Our Food with Displaced People, but We Don’t Share Our Territory

4- 130 Tons of Uranium Will Be Imported to Iran Soon

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Still Main Player in 2017 Presidential Votes: Although Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Has Passed Away, Political Observers Believe He Still Can Change Equations in Presidential Election

2- Iranian Students’ Growing Interest in Receiving Ph.D. Degree

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Is Still Alive: People’s Massive Participation in His Memorial Service on 7th Night after His Death

Ebtekar:

1- We Should Consider JCPOA as Result of Iranian Effort: Deputy FM Araqchi in First Anniversary of Nuclear Deal Implementation

Emtiaz:

1- Air Pollution Is Third Cause of Death in Iran: Official

2- US Prevented Certain Foreigner from Attending Iran’s Int’l Fajr Theatre Festival

Etemad:

1- We Won’t Negotiate with Trump: Iran’s Nuclear Negotiator Araqchi

We Don’t Have Any Political Negotiation neither with Current nor with Future US Administration
If They Scrap Nuclear Deal, We’ll Set It on Fire
Those Who Scrap the Deal Should Face Its Consequences

Ettela’at:

1- Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Sought a Developed and Globally Powerful Iran: Senior Conservative Nateq Noori

2- 3 Shiite Dissidents Executed by Al Khalifa Regime: Islamic Resistance of Bahrain Calls for Popular Mobilisation

3- President: Iran Ready to Cooperate with Other Countries in Fight against Terror

4- Charter on Citizens’ Rights, a Demand that Had Been Forgotten

Haft-e Sobh:

1- Fever of Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Little Prince’ in Iran Making It Platitudinous: 15 Different Translations of the Book Have Been Published This Year, Increasing the Number of Farsi Translations to 73 in Past 60 Years!

2- Telegram Messaging App Serves as a Thermometer: Ranking of 15 Telegram Channels with Highest Number of Members in Iran Show How Much Iranian People Are Interested in News and Politics

Iran:

1- Argue with Each Other, but Don’t Raise Accusations: Senior Conservative Nateq Noori’s Advice to Reformists and Conservatives in Memorial Service for Ayatollah Rafsanjani

2- Deputy FM Urges JCPOA Critics Not to Lie

Jame Jam:

1- Immediate Achievements and Promised Outcomes: A Review of JCPOA Implementation

Some Experts Believe the Other Side Has Failed to Fulfil Its Commitments
Past Year’s JCPOA Experience Once Again Proved US Is Untrustworthy

2- Memorial Service on 7th Day after Ayatollah Rafsanjani’s Demise

Javan:

1- Bahrain on Verge of Explosion

2- People’s Presence in Ayatollah Rafsanjani’s Funeral Changed Enemies’ Equations: Nateq Noori

3- Deputy FM Araqchi Says Iran Will Set Fire on JCPOA If US Scrap Nuclear Deal

Kayhan:

1- JCPOA Achievements: Government Claims, People Don’t See!

2- Deputy FM Araqchi: All Sanctions against Iran’s Economy Removed after Nuclear Deal!

3- EP Member: Terrorist Attacks in Europe Result of Our Support for ISIS

4- Al Khalifa Executes 3 Young Bahrainis; Resistance Vows to Retaliate

Khorasan:

1- Women’s Retirement Facilitated: Parliament Approves a Bill that Allows Female Workers to Retire with 20 Years of Service without Any Age Limit

2- Anger Demonstrations in Bahrain

Resalat:

1- Don’t Let Corrupt People Become Role Models for Iranian Society: Ayatollah Javadi Amoli

2- Al Khalifa Executes Three Young Revolutionaries amid Massive Demonstrations of Anger in Bahrain

3- Trump’s Nuclear Symphony: One Government and Two Signals

Rooyesh-e Mellat:

1- Tehran’s Water Conditions Critical

Sayeh:

1- Iran Will Have No Forest in 30 Years: Trees in Need of Artificial Respiration

Setareh Sobh:

1- Trump Accused of Secret Relations: A Report on Increasing Opposition to US President-Elect

Shargh:

1- Babak Zanjani’s Accomplice Arrested by Interpol in Latin America

2- Ayatollah Hashemi Was Not an Opposition Figure, He Was Iran’s Pillar: Nateq Noori

3- We Won’t Have Any Re-Negotiation: Deputy FM

Ayatollah Sistani’s Influence in Iraq from Le Monde’s Point of View

IFP Editorial Staff

January 16, 2017

Iran's President Lauds Ayatollah Sistani’s Vital Role after Controversy

In a recent report, the famous French newspaper Le Monde described Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the grand religious leader of Iraqi Shiites, as the most influential figure in this country: a man whose absence will leave a large void in Iraq.

“Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani receives his visitors at his place; on a modest bench in an almost empty room of his decrepit office in the old town of Najaf; a humility commensurate with his power. This man has no equal in Iraq, nor in the entire Shiite world: his aura extends from Iran to Lebanon, from Afghanistan to India, and to South Asia,” wrote Le Monde.

“In Baghdad, the rulers bow before the edicts of this taciturn clergyman who openly blames their corruption, impotence and turpitude.”

“He never speaks in public, nor receives the press,” Le Monde added. “His relatives update him on latest news, which he follows carefully.”

“His skin is gray and his face is covered with a white beard, under the black turban of the descendants of Prophet. One day he will die. The seminarians of Najaf regularly evoke his succession: his death will be a large void in a country already at war. The Shiite people love and revere him; Sunni leaders respect him. He is a bulwark against sectarian hatred, a crutch for the collapsing Iraqi state.”

“Ali Al-Sistani acquired his aura in April 2003, when the US invasion put an end to Saddam Hussein’s thirty-four years of reign. Najaf was then a bleeding town. Persecuted by the Baathist regime, its clerics had fled from the heart of Shi’ism, the mausoleum of Imam Ali [AS] – the first imam of the Shiites – to take refuge in Qom, Iran. The seminaries were filled with shadows. Ayatollah Sistani, who was living in quasi-house arrest, did not teach at that time. He had published no work, had no political expression. But was already, by far, the most followed among the marja-e taqlids, top Shiite religious leaders,” Le Monde added.

According to a Farsi report by Fars News Agency, Sayyed Ali Hosseini Sistani was born in Mashhad, Iran. He became the head of Najaf seminaries after the demise of Ayatollah Sabzevari. Then he became famous in Iraq, Persian Gulf countries, India and Africa, among the youth in particular.

He began to appear at the top of news after playing a key role in unity and security of Iraq after US invasion of the Arab country in 2003.

How Iranian and Saudi Clerics View Cinema

IFP Editorial Staff

January 16, 2017

Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli-Mufti Abdul-Aziz

Since cinema incorporates and caters to all perceptive dimensions and aspects of human beings, it appeals to people’s taste, Grand Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli said, according to a Farsi report by Entekhab news website.

Commenting on the higher impact of cinema on people compared with other media, the Iranian cleric said human has had different tools to pass on religious teachings and divine truths in different eras.

However, cinema has proven more effective to these ends compared with other media outlets, he added.

He went on to say that in case artists believe in what they say, they will be able to have a greater impact on the audience’s perception.

Ayatollah Javadi Amoli’s remarks came after Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti (top religious cleric) said cinema and concert are totally depraved, and put an end to the recent heated discussions in the Arab country on cinema and issuing permits for holding concerts.

Cinemas “might show movies that are libertine, lewd, immoral and atheist, because they rely on films imported to change our culture,” said Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh in a televised interview on Friday, adding there is also “no good” in singing concerts.

According to the head of the Saudi supreme council of clerics, both concerts and cinemas represent a “call for mixing between sexes.”