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Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation Supporting over 3,000 Christian Families in Iran

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Fattah, the IKRF chief, announced that this organization is funded by three public sources, namely governmental and popular sources and the foundation’s economic complex.

“The government supplies us with 75% of our finances,” he stated. “More than 10% of popular donations are going to our foundation, too.”

“The complex of Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation supports us in providing accommodation such as lodgment and dowry,” he added.

“Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation has covered 3,100 Christian families,” Fattahi added, stressing that philanthropy shouldn’t be limited by religious differences, according to a Farsi report by Tasnim.

“6,000 orphans have been covered in Kordestan Province, western Iran, while only 5,000 of their 15,000 patrons are from the same province. So people from all over Iran are supporting these Kurd children.”

Regarding the homeless who lived in prefabricated graves, he said that this issue isn’t to be addressed by Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation.

“We have a duty to cover the poor families of recognizable addicts. In this regard, 30,000 households have been covered.”

Our Goal Is to Enable the Poor to Stand on Their Own Feet

Fattahi went on to say that 100,000 employment loans are due to be paid by March 2017; and that 85% of the loans have resulted in entrepreneurship.

“The more jobs an entrepreneur creates, the larger is the loan he can receive,” he noted about employment loans.

“Interest-free bank resources will give us about $310m by the end of the [Persian calendar] year. The banks fund 80% of our employment finances.”

As regards a plan for concentration of charities, he stated, “We intend to cut off the expenses of foundation with the help of people and local trustees. This is a permanent process. We try to invest the additional money in helping our target society, the poor.”

“Our goal is to make the poor able to stand on their own feet. Since March 2015, we have managed to eliminate the need for reliefs in 140,000 households.”

He noted that for the first time, there has been a decrease in funded households this year. “We used to support 1.7 million families, but the number has been reduced to 1.6 million. It shows a decrease of 8%.”

Iran’s Government Urged to Extend Int’l Academic Exchanges

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Iranian Lawmakers Endorse Anti-Israel Motion ahead of Quds Day

During the Parliament’s review of the Sixth Development Plan proposed by the Iranian administration, lawmakers approved the articles related to knowledge-based economy which emphasises the country’s need to extend its academic relations with the world, according to a Farsi report by ICANA.

By approving this bill, Iranian Parliament Members tasked the government with improving Iran’s knowledge, academic competition and international relations by establishing centres for higher education, technical and vocational training and applied sciences within the framework of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution policies, in cooperation with credible international universities.

Furthermore, Payam-e Noor University (PNU), an Iranian open university and a mega university in the world with more than 1,100 international students, was allowed to found international hubs for electronic education.

Iran Should Be Congratulated on Syria’s Victory in Fight against Terror: Assad

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Iran and all other states that sided with the Syrian nation are partners in the achievements made against terrorists, Assad said Wednesday in a meeting in Damascus with Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi.

He said the Syrian nation should congratulate Iran on its latest gains against terrorists as they have come about with the Islamic Republic’s support.

Assad thanked the Islamic Republic of Iran for its political and economic support for Syria that greatly helped the Syrian people in their resistance against terrorist groups, Tasnim reported.

The Iranian parliamentarian, for his part, felicitated Damascus on the achievements in its anti-terror fight, notably the recent full liberation from Takfiri terrorists of the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo.

Iran has been offering military advisory support to the Syrian military, which has been battling foreign-backed militancy since 2011.

The victory in Aleppo came in the face of the generous financial, military, ideological and political support provided by the Western states and their regional allies to the Takfiri militants pursuing Assad’s ouster.

“Iran experienced the same circumstances in the days, which witnessed the liberation of Khorramshahr,” Boroujerdi added, as reported by Press TV.

Iranian forces recaptured the southwestern city in April 1982 in a landmark operation code-named Beit ol-Moqaddas from Iraqi forces under the former dictator Saddam Hussein. The invaders were in their second year of waging a foreign-backed imposed war against the Islamic Republic.

Iranian forces captured some 19,000 Iraqi troops during that operation. Some 6,000 Iraqi forces were also killed and thousands of others injured during the offensive.

The Iranian delegation is to later meet with other senior Syrian officials, including the foreign minister, prime minister and parliament speaker.

Turkey Must See Realities in Syria: Iranian Spokesman

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“Unconstructive remarks by Turkish officials will merely further complicate the current situation and add to problems in the way of a political solution to the Syrian crisis,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday.

In a televised interview with the state-run Anadolu news agency on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on Iran to exert pressure on Hezbollah fighters and the Syrian government to stop the alleged violations of a ceasefire in Syria, which he said were jeopardizing planned peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana.

In reaction to the remarks, Qassemi said Iran, as a partner to a trilateral mechanism agreed between Tehran, Ankara and Moscow last month, stresses the implementation of the agreements and expects Turkey not to adopt stances that run counter to its commitments and the facts on the ground in Syria.

The Iranian official added that militants in Syria have committed numerous instances of ceasefire violations, including 45 breaches in just 24 hours.

Qassemi said that Turkish officials need to adopt necessary measures to deal with ceasefire violations by the militants if they seek a lasting truce in Syria and intend to contribute to the upcoming peace talks.

He said that Iran would continue to employ all it has in power to help the ceasefire and facilitate a political solution to the crisis in the Arab country.

The nationwide ceasefire deal between the militants and the Syrian government, which was brokered by Russia and Turkey, came into force on Friday. Daesh and the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham are not part of the truce. Since it came in to force, there have been multiple claims of its violation by all participating parties.

The planned peace talks in Astana are mediated by Russia, Turkey, and Iran. The three countries successfully implemented a similar accord earlier in December last year following the defeat of militants in the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo.

11 Children Injured in Knife Attack on Chinese Kindergarten

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The man slashed the children with a kitchen knife after entering the Xiaocongzai kindergarten in Youyi Township, Pingxiang City local police said. The suspect claimed he was at the kindergarten to pick up his child, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Three seriously injured children have been sent to a hospital in Nanning, the regional capital, for treatment.

The suspect is in police custody. Social revenge attacks by disgruntled people targeting kindergarten schools have become common in China.

Toddler’s Death Highlights Plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugees

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Mohammed Shohayet died trying to escape the country he was born in.

Zafor Alam, the father of Shohayet who died when his family fled Myanmar’s violence, wants the world to know his son’s story.

“When I see the picture, I feel like I would rather die,” the father told CNN.

The photo of Mohammed is being compared to that of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who was found dead on a Turkish beach in 2015, after a boat carrying his family to Europe capsized.

Kurdi’s image did much to draw the world’s attention to the Syrian refugee crisis, and Alam hopes his son’s photo will likewise galvanize the world to address the Rohingya crisis.

He also hopes it will pressure Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, to address reports of state-sanctioned violence against Rohingya villages in Rakhine state.

Many Rohingya, who number about one million, have lived in Myanmar for generations, but many in the country’s Buddhist majority consider them illegal immigrants, and Suu Kyi has seemed largely indifferent to their plight since her party won landmark elections last March.

Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and earned international praise in the West for her pro-democracy activism as a political prisoner, has done little to halt, or even acknowledge, violence against the Rohingya.

Last June, she told the United Nations her government will avoid using the term “Rohingya,” continuing the previous military government’s policy of using the term “Bengalis,” which implies the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Suu Kyi is not Burma’s president — she is its foreign minister — but she is widely considered the country’s true leader, although the military still wields some power, The Star reported.

More than a dozen fellow Nobel laureates recently wrote an open letter to the UN Security Council calling on Suu Kyi to halt the bloody crackdown, warning of a tragedy “amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.”

According to the Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry, about 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled and taken shelter in Bangladesh since October.

Iranian Football Sponsor Arrested for Huge Debts to Banks

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Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, the Prosecutor of Tehran, said a well-known football sponsor has been arrested because of his huge debts to Iranian banks.

According to a Farsi report by Mizan, this man, who has been providing money for an Iranian Pro League football team, was sent to Evin Prison on January 4.

His arrest is expected to cause trouble in football player transfers of his popular team in Iran Pro League.

Tehran Subway Waiting for Government’s Subsidies: Mayor

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According to a report by IFP, in what seems to be the beginning of a clash between the conservative Mayor of Tehran, who is also a possible candidate in upcoming presidential votes, and the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Qalibaf harshly criticized the Iranian government for neglecting the subway industry.

“If the government cares about civil rights, it must try to solve air pollution problem in the first place by improving public transportation,” Qalibaf noted, referring to Rouhani’s recent introduction of Charter on Citizens’ Rights.

“However, the government receives loans for car import but not for public transport.”

“The subway industry was hampered by lack of governmental support. Everything is almost done, we just need subsidy for wagon building. According to Iran’s law, the government has a duty to fund 50% of subway costs. It has failed to meet this obligation until now.”

He went on to say that to negotiate with the world, the government should consider domestic capacities at first.

“Despite being deeply affected by the sanctions, the subway wagons have been made like before through the increasing efforts of our workers.”

“So the sanctions caused a boom in Iranian subway construction,” he added.

 

Interior Minister Vows to Pursue Issue of Subway Trains

Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli later promised to follow up on the issue of subway trains in Tehran, and stressed that the Transport Minister Mahmoud Akhondi has good plans to resolve the problem.

He also noted that the contracts for supply of 2,000 wagons will be signed in the near future.

Rahmani Fazli at the same time urged the Municipality of Tehran to put the issue of subway system high on its agenda to resolve the traffic jam problem in Tehran.

Iranian Parliament Approves Plan on Protection of Nuclear Facilities

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Iranian Lawmakers Endorse Anti-Israel Motion ahead of Quds Day

According to a Farsi report by ICANA, Iranian Parliament added a clause to Sixth Development Program to ensure the protection of Iranian nuclear sites.

“While measures have been taken all over the world to prevent nuclear disasters, there was no regulation on protection and safety control of nuclear facilities in Iran,” stressed Morteza Saffari Natanzi, an Iranian lawmaker.

In order to implement and promote its general policies and Resistance Economy doctrine, the 51st article of Sixth 5-year Development Program urges the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to codify a national plan for emergency in power plants and nuclear facilities.

This proposal is to be arranged based on passive defence principles in cooperation with organizations such as Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Passive Defence Organization before being approved by Supreme National Security Council.

The articles of this proposal put emphasis on its strategic implementation under the supervision of Atomic Energy and Passive Defence organizations of Iran regarding the country’s domestic and international conditions.

“Nuclear sites and facilities demand special attention as any possible danger during their activity can result in irreparable damages,” noted Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, another lawmaker, referring to Chernobyl disaster.

“The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran is responsible for the implementation of passive defence principles and safety control within the facilities. Passive Defence Organization, on the other hand, has the duty to provide security outside the nuclear sites.”

Despite all unilaterally-imposed sanctions against Iran, its nuclear industry has made considerable progress during past years. Now it is one of the best ones in the world and many countries are purchasing the heavy water produced in Iranian sites.

While everyone was focusing on the development of nuclear industry, many neglected the safety measures to protect nuclear power plants and facilities as the basis of industry. Now it is time to address the issue by introducing safety regulations.

Iran’s Mashhad, Capital of Islamic Culture in 2017

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According to a Farsi report by IRNA, each year, the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) selects the capitals of Islamic culture in different regions. Iran’s Mashhad has been selected as the capital in 2017.

Reza Salehi Amiri, Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, announced that the preparations for the Islamic Culture Capital event has been officially started in Mashhad, and the ceremony will be held on January 24 in the presence of foreign authorities.

“This is an opportunity to introduce the Razavi culture – the heritage of Imam Reza, the eighth Imam of Shiites – to the world,” he noted in a meeting with Iran Leader’s representative in Mashhad Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda.

“If the world wants safety, Mashhad is the safest place of the world in 2017. All Muslims can travel to this Iranian city,” he added.

“We have invited the leaders of different Islamic sects to Mashhad for communication, interaction and unification,” he noted, adding that the event will be presented throughout Iran with a focus on Mashhad.

He went on to say that related festivals, conferences and ceremonies are to be held in this regard. The logo of Mashhad 2017 is going to be shown during interludes. Plus, boards on the entrance of cities and venues will inform people of the Islamic Culture Capital event.

“This year, we should try to attract tourists from all over the world to Mashhad,” Salehi Amiri noted, “And to make the event propitious for the people of Mashhad.”

He referred to the revival of ancient Khorasan School among the goals of this event, and said that Iranians should found a new Islamic civilisation on this geographical, historical point, as there has been no new civilisation after Safavid dynasty.

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