Brigadier General Wathiq al-Hamdani, the Police Commander of Nineveh Province, announced that Iraqi forces have arrested one of the ISIS elements, who was the terrorist group’s executioner.
“This person was identified using the photos earlier released by Daesh [ISIS] members, and was arrested in al-Samah district in eastern Mosul,” he noted, according to a Farsi report by Al Alam.
The terrorist’s name has not been declared yet.
Addressing a gathering of foreign and local experts on Thursday, the Kuwaiti politician noted that despite different opinions, the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is hopeful that conditions for resuming dialogue with Iran will be prepared.
The real and constructive consultations would be based on respecting territorial integrity and complying with international principles and non-interference in other sides’ internal affairs, said the Kuwaiti former FM close to the government of Kuwait.
He pointed to political changes in the region over the past years, saying that regional developments have taken such a course in recent years that the US and Britain’s clout in the region has declined, but positions of countries such as Russia, Iran and Turkey has been fortified.
Today, countries such as Syria and Libya are grappling with a number of problems and global community has failed to reach a consensus to resolve the crises, he said.
Arab world is currently paying for extremist groups’ access to power in certain states.
Abbas Sahraei, the 26-year-old criminal, entered two houses in Arak and shot 8 people with a Kalashnikov, killing 5 of them instantly, ISNA quoted the city’s prosecutor as saying.
A sixth victim later died in hospital and another was in critical condition, he added.
The first house targeted was the home of a police officer who had arrested the man last year on charges of complicity in a murder.
The officer, his sister, mother and brother were all killed while another family member was hospitalised.
The suspect then went to the house of the victim who he and two others are accused of killing last year and shot dead his parents. Their son was also injured.
These people had testified against the murderer in a trial.
The shooter managed to escape, but his brother, who allegedly accompanied him in the rampage, was arrested, the prosecutor said.
A few hours later, the gunman was also arrested in Arak when he was preparing money to flee to Tehran. He reportedly was not carrying any gun when detained.
The gunman had been released on bail of two billion rials ($50,000) on January 1, AFP reported.
Gun violence is rare in the Islamic Republic and offenders face severe punishment.
When football is engaged with politics, especially if combined with jealousy and hatred, the green grass yellows and words take on different meanings.
Recently, some Arab media in their delirious words referred to the resignation of Carlos Queiroz from coaching national football team of Iran as his “escape from Iran”.
The well-known Portuguese coach resigned from the management of national football team of Iran a few days ago after a heated dispute with Branko Ivanković, the coach of Persepolis FC, one of the oldest and most popular football clubs of Asia.
Persian Gulf Arab countries were glad to hear that Queiroz resigned from his sensitive post right at the time when the 2018 FIFA World Cup preliminary qualification games were reaching a crucial stage, as these countries consider Iran a difficult hurdle to overcome in football.
So certain media outlets immediately mingled football with politics and tried to forget the bitterness of their defeat in Aleppo conflict and the deadlocked, costly project of Damascus government overthrow with the sweet taste of a disturbance to Iran national team success, which had passed 12 preliminary games with no defeat.
By using the term “escape from Iran”, these countries seem to be attempting to dress their deep wound inflicted by “escape of terrorists from Aleppo”.
This childish joy didn’t last long, though: The “Portuguese man” came back to Tehran. Before his return, Mahdi Taj, the president of Iran Football Federation, showed up in 90, a very popular TV show about Iranian football, to announce that the dispute between Ivanković and Queiroz has been settled, and the Portuguese man has “escaped from Dubai” to Iran.
On the other hand, Iranian national football team had arranged a warm-up match with Morocco to be played in Dubai. Although the team had arrived in this city, the match was cancelled.
“The reasons behind the cancelation had nothing to do with football. They didn’t let us play for some co-ordinated moves,” Taj noted in this regard.
“Other teams were willing to play a match with Iran [which was preparing itself in a camp in Dubai]. But the United Arab Emirates administration didn’t allow it.”
According to a report by IFP, Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, the eldest son of the deceased Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, thanked the Iranian nation for their massive presence in his father’s funeral ceremony.
“It was indescribable! There was such a huge crowd in the streets. During the burial in the Mausoleum of Imam Khomeini, the hall and yard were filled up with people. It showed how people were willing to ardently accompany this friend of Imam for the last time. I thank them all.”
Speaking in a televised talk show on January 11, he pointed the presence of people from different ideological and political backgrounds in the funeral of Ayatollah Rafsanjani.
“People pictured the very maxims which led the Islamic Revolution to victory in 1979: the unity of nation and expression. They kept to the message of Ayatollah Rafsanjani in the most beautiful way possible, and his demise turned to a motivation for unity of expression.”
“We are also grateful to our Leader who decided to hold a ceremony for my father’s demise and attended it.”
“We must talk about Islam in an understandable way so that the youths don’t deviate from it,” said.
“My father didn’t believe in being too strict about Islam to be called a staunch Muslim.”
“He always tried to adopt a moderate approach to everything; be it his private, social or cultural life,” he noted.
“He was really opposed to religious shamming. So everything is clearly written in his memories.”
“Ayatollah Rafsanjani believed in three principles: Islam, Islamic Revolution and moderation in Islamic society. He attached great importance to them, even more than his children! My father considered solidarity among members of Islamic society as a cause for gratification of these maxims.”
According to a report by IFP, Iran is the 29th team in the world rankings with a score of 816, and has remained the top team among Asian teams.
The top 10 football teams in the latest world ranking are as follows:
“A historic water canal has been recently discovered in Isfahan,” announced Alamdar Alian, the head of Archaeology Department of Isfahan Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization.
According to a Farsi report by IRNA, he said the canal was found during the operation of humidity removal from walls of Imam Mosque in Isfahan. “Extended discoveries and studies show that this water canal dates back to Safavid dynasty.”
Located under Imam Mosque and Naqsh-e Jahan Square, the structure shows a large, complicated water distribution network.
“This network had been used to supply the water required for irrigating gardens and farms, and maybe drinking water.”
Alian explained that surface waters entered the canal through a particular mechanism to be distributed among those areas.
“This is a rare type of water supply network in Iran. In Isfahan, we can consider it unique,” he added.
“Very few subsurface water distribution methods and structures have been discovered in Isfahan.”
The canal is made of brick, mud mortar and stone. “It had been used up to the Pahlavi dynasty,” he noted, adding that some parts of canal have been repaired by concrete.
Imam Masque and Naqsh-e Jahan Square of Isfahan are registered together as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Here are IRNA’s photos of the underground water supply network discovered under these two sites:
According to Turkish media reports, brawls erupted as a lawmakers from AK Party tried to prevent CHP MP, Fatma Kaplan from filming the voting session with her mobile.
Lawmakers from two parties traded kicks and punches as acting parliament speaker adjourned the session.
The constitutional changes debated by Turkish MPs would hand President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers as an executive president.
According to a report covered by Al Alam in Farsi, Hamas’ cyber units managed to hack dozens of cell phones belonging to IDF combat soldiers in an attempt to gather intelligence for military operations and preparations on the Gaza border.
The Israeli regime’s investigations discovered that dozens of cell phones belonging to soldiers and officers in both active and reserve duty had been hacked by Hamas.
Hamas operatives would pose as attractive, young Israeli women by assuming their identities and making contact with soldiers, mainly through Facebook. Following contact with soldiers, the Hamas operatives would attempt to engage in an intimate virtual relationship and convince soldiers to download an “application” that would allow for video chatting.
The “application” was a Trojan horse, which gave Hamas total control over the device and allowed the terrorist organization to activate the camera and microphone, access contacts, videos and photos, and even Whatsapp conversations and emails—all without the soldier being aware, Israeli media reported.
Moreover, Hamas also managed to delete the application from the devices, while simultaneously installing more sophisticated monitoring and control applications without leaving a trace.
According to a report covered by Khorasan newspaper in Farsi, with the incoming Trump administration set to take office nine days from now, on January 20, Russian spokeswoman Zakharova has warned that Obama now has just over a week to “destroy” the world.
“Each day, I read the news coming out of Washington: new sanctions against Russia, the supply of MANPADS [portable anti-aircraft missiles] to Syrian cutthroats – completely nonsensical but malicious actions in all areas of foreign policy,” Zakharova wrote.
“God created the world in seven days. The Obama administration has that plus two days more to destroy it,” she added, as reported by Sputnik.
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