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Two Saudi Women Sentenced to 20 Lashes for Using ‘Obscene Words’ on WhatsApp

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Saudi Al-Watan newspaper reported that one of the young women came to the Criminal Court in Jeddah and accused the other of using abusive expressions during their WhatsApp conversation. She then showed her phone at the Court’s request to prove her words.

During the next session, the court confirmed that the woman had indeed sent obscene messages to the other, but the defendant said she was not the first to start the hassle and showed a message which she received from her counterpart two months ago. The court then referred the case to a higher instance and one month later, the judge decided that the two girls were equally guilty and punished both of them. The women will spend 10 days in prison and receive 20 lashes each. Both of them could face a much more severe punishment if the incident is repeated, a source close to the investigation told the newspaper.

According to a report covered by YJC, Saudi Arabia has been repeatedly criticized by human rights groups for violating human rights, including public beheadings and floggings, discrimination against women and restrictions on freedom of expression.

For instance, in 2014 the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced by Saudi authorities to 10 years in prison, 1000 lashes, and a fine for running a liberal-oriented website, which he created for discussion and debate.

Earlier in 2011, Saudi woman Shaima Jastaina was found guilty of violating the driving ban by a Jeddah city court and was sentenced to 10 lashes, provoking an international outcry, Sputnik reported.

In October, 2016 a Saudi Arabian teenager was arrested for “unethical behaviour” after his video chats with a young American woman went viral.

ISIS’ Tunnels Discovered in Iraq’s Tal Afar (+Photos)

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IFP Editorial Staff
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ISIS’ Tunnels

According to a report by IRNA, as translated by IFP, Iraqi popular forces discovered the network of underground tunnels in the suburbs of Tal Afar.

The tunnels were dug under a strategic hill near the southern parts of Tal Afair Airport.

Here are IRNA’s photos of the tunnels:

 

 

Trump Says He Has a Different Solution for Syria

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“We have to solve that problem, because we are going to just keep fighting, fighting forever” Donald Trump told New York Times on Syria, according to a report covered by Al Alam.

“We have to end that craziness that’s going on in Syria,” he added, noting that “I have a different view on Syria than everybody else.”

“I have some very definitive, strong ideas on Syria. I think what’s happened is a horrible, horrible thing,” Trump said, saying that he thinks the deaths in Syria are a shame.

Young Cleric Saves Animals’ Lives

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Here’s IFP’s translation of a report by Iran Newspaper:

The young Iranian cleric Komeyl Nezafati used to visit different hospitals to give hope to patients suffering from special diseases. In one of these visits, he met the eight-year-old Sajjad in the dialysis section. Sajjad had lost both of his kidneys years ago and suffered a lot. Nezafati donated one of his kidneys to the kid, who is a healthy boy today and goes to school.

After three years, this 32-year-old cleric has once again appeared in newspaper headlines; this time because there are photos on the Internet showing him rescuing a sick dog and feeding stray dogs and cats.

In his interview with Iran, he has talked about his life, as well as the day he encountered a puppy dog and couldn`t stay indifferent …

 

We feed more than 100 stray dogs and 150 stray cats in the city and the suburbs. In cooperation with two veterinarians, we also take to clinic the diseased animals or the ones wounded in accidents.

 

He says “I was born in Amol [in northern Iran], I live in Qom and I work in Tehran`s Firouzgar hospital as special diseases advisor!”

“Eight months ago, I went to Eslamshahr [a town near Tehran]. In a street, I encountered a puppy dog in a disastrous condition. Obviously, he was unable to stand on his feet because of excessive hunger. I learned that he was left behind. I should admit that I was afraid of dogs since my childhood and never approached them,” he said.

“But at that moment I tried to overcome my fear. I bought a pocket of milk and poured it in a pot. The excessively hungry animal began to drink it, then he barked and shook his tail for me. I had a good feeling, so I took a photo of the puppy and posted it on Instagram. Less than 24 hours later. I was surprised by people`s numerous thank you messages.”

“I re-counted the story to my father. For many years, he keeps several cats in our house because of the guilt that never left him since his teenage years. As a teenager, he threw a cat into the river and witnessed his death. Thereafter he has a permanent feeling of guilt. My father`s words and encouragement motivated me to be active in protection of animals as a member of a youth group named Mehr … we feed more than 100 stray dogs and 150 stray cats in the city and the suburbs. In cooperation with two vets, we also take to the clinic the diseased animals or the ones wounded in accidents.”

 

 

Islam is the religion of kindness. Our Imams emphasized that we should always be kind towards animals; they even gave their own piece of food to animals.

 

If an animal is unclean in Islam, by no means does it prevent us from helping them and saving them from death. Islam insists on being kind to animals: “Rescuing an animal is no lesser than praying,” Nezafati says.

“If cat or dog is unclean, this is a jurisprudential question, we can`t say our prayers with clothes touched by a wet dog … Islam is the religion of kindness. Our Imams emphasized that we should always be kind towards animals; they even gave their own piece of food to animals. While we hear that dogs are unclean, according to scholars` fatwa there is no problem with buying, selling and keeping guardian dogs, hounds and sheepdogs.”

Jordanian Bedouin Poet Proposes to Trump’s Daughter, Asks Her to Wear Burka!

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According to Rai al-Youm newspaper, Falih Al-Jabour wrote in a poem that Jordanian officials are on their way to the White House to ask for the hand of Tiffany Trump, the president’s youngest daughter. He hoped the offer wouldn’t be turned down.

Al-Jabour proposed to Tiffany in his strange and humorous poem and even offered to pay a substantial price for the bride including 50 camels, 200 thoroughbred horses and a 15.5-acre field.

This Jordanian poet published his poem in social networks and asked the bride’s family not to reject him, as reported by American Herald Tribune and covered by Al Alam.

Falih Al-Jabour’s only condition for the marriage is that after marrying him and going to his home land, the bride has to wear burka, because she’s “so beautiful”, otherwise there will be a chaos in the tribe.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The majority of newspapers today covered the ongoing visit of Slovenian President Borut Pahor to Iran and his meetings with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani.

They also continued covering the reactions to the cancellation of Parliament Vice-Speaker Ali Motahari’s speech in Mashhad.

The US President-elect Donald Trump’s opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran also remained a top story, with several articles and developments covered about it today.

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

 

Abrar:

1- President Says Slovenian Embassy in Tehran Will Be Reopened

2- Rouhani: Iran Is Resolved to Expand Its Ties with Friendly Countries, Particularly in EU

3- US State Department: We Don’t Know Who Buys Iran’s Heavy Water; Iran’s Nuclear Chief: Oman Buys Heavy Water from Iran

4- Persian Gulf International Relations Council Raises Accusations against Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Abrar-e Eqtesadi:

1- Funding of Iran’s Purchase of 77 Airbus Planes Finalized

2- Britain’s Oil Giant Forms Committee for Entering Iran’s Market

3- Parliament OK’s Iran’s Economic Cooperation with Hungary, Slovakia, and Lithuania

4- Industrial Investment in Iran Has Been Doubled

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Afkar:

1- Iran’s Nuclear Chief: Letter Was Received from Other Side for Purchase of Iran’s Heavy Water; Iran Has Exported 11 Tons of Heavy Water to Oman

2- Intelligence Ministry Smashes a Terrorist Cell in Eastern Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Day of Motahari [outspoken vice-speaker] in Iran’s Parliament: Parliament Speaker Larijani Says What Happened in Mashhad [cancellation of Motahari’s speech] Was Regrettable

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Leader: US Has No Plan for Eradication of ISIS

2- 28 MPs to Ask Question from Justice Minister

3- Trump Announces Plan for First 100 Days: No Talks of Cancelling or Revising JCPOA

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Asrar:

1- Deal for Purchase of 112 Airbus Planes Is Finalized

2- US Navy Helps Three Iranian Sailors in Persian Gulf

3- Interior Minister Warns against Increasing Use of Harsh Rhetoric in Iran’s Politics

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Besharat-e Now:

1- Sociologist Explains Why Government Has Become Inefficient: We Have Three Governments in Iran at the Same Time; Government Only Has 30% of the Country’s economy in Its Hands, It Cannot Reform It

2- Women Still Record-Holder in Life Expectancy Rate

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Ebtekar:

1- Renovation of OPEC in High-Ranking Committee

2- Economy Trapped in Swamp of Political Inhomogeneity

3- Spinoza Was a Philosopher Focused on Ethics: Birthday Anniversary of First Liberal Democracy Thinker

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Etemad:

1- Economy Minister: No Imminent Economic Revolution in Iran

2- Iran’s Economy Needs Kemal Derviş and Mahathir Mohamad: MPs

3- Parliament Supports Its Vice-Speaker [Motahari]

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Ettela’at:

1- UN’s Vote of Majority that Gives Palestinian Nation the Right to Choose Their Destiny

2- Iran and Slovenia Sign Three Documents and Three MoUs

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

 

Haft-e Sobh:

1- These Two Wealthy Men: General Soleimani and Zarif Still Enjoy Highest Rates of Public Trust

2- Instagram Hits the Last Nail on TV’s Coffin: Most Popular Social Network Introduces Its Live Video Feature

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Hemayat:

1- Leader Harshly Criticizes Other Side’s Failure to Fulfil Its Nuclear Commitments

2- 220 MPs Call for Government’s Action against US Extension of Anti-Iran Sanctions

3- Syrian Army Continues Progress in Eastern Aleppo

4- ISIS’ Counterattack for Re-Occupation of Tal Afar Airport Is Defused

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Iran:

1- Rouhani and Slovenian Counterpart: Iran and Europe Seek to Use Post-JCPOA Opportunities

2- Sub-Zero Temperature in 20 Iranian Provinces

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Jame Jam:

1- Iran’s Leader Urges Independent Countries to Be Active against Bitter Regional Developments

2- Global Concern for Trump’s First 100 Days

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Javan:

1- 50 Plans in US for Countering Nuclear Deal; Iran’s Parliament Speaker: Leader Repeatedly Warned that We Can’t Rely on Them and Their Promises

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- Leader: Violent Conflicts in Western Asia and Emergence of Such Terrorist Groups as ISIS Are Results of Interference and Imposition of the Will by Certain Powers

2- Former Italian FM Reveals West’s Role in Equipment of Terrorists in Syria

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Kayhan:

1- Leader: US Either Doesn’t Want to Fight ISIS or It Can’t Do So

2- Which One’s Embarrassing: Cancellation of Speech or the Fact that Rouhani’s Government Has Done Nothing?

3- People’s Cooperation with Armed Forces, the Secret behind Army’s Amazing Progress in Mosul

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Resalat:

1- Leader: US Wants to Keep ISIS like an Open Woundl European Countries Failed to Give Asylum to Thousands of Refugees, But Iran Is Now Hosting 3 Million Asylum-Seekers

2- US Starts Breaking Its Promises in Int’l Accords: Trump Says US Will Exit Trans-Pacific Partnership; Japanese PM Says TPP Is Meaningless without US

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Shahrvand:

1- Renovation of Ties in a Snowy Day: Iran’s President Meets His Slovenian Counterpart; Ljubljana’s Embassy in Tehran to Be Reopened after 4 Years

2- Airbus’ Trade Delegation Is in Tehran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Shargh:

1- Hamas’ Problem Is Not Money: Senior Official Talks about Palestinian Group’s Ties with Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Sobh-e Now:

1- Trump to American Media: You’re Liars! US President-Elect to CNN Chief: I Hate You! You’re All Liars! Shame on You!

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

 

Vaghaye Ettefaghieh:

1- Shooting the Nature: A Look at the Impact of War on Dust Crisis on International Day of “Environment in War”

2- Environment Chief: ISIS’ Attack on a Big Sulphur Warehouse near Mosul Caused a Sulphur Blooming that Could Lead to Acid Rain in Iran

3- Iran’s Nuclear Chief: There’s a Relationship between War and Environment

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 23

Iran Rejects ‘Absurd’ Israeli Charge of Terrorism

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IFP Media Wire
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Gholam-Hossein Dehqani

In a letter to the council on Tuesday, Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon leveled a series of accusations against Iran, including smuggling of weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah on board commercial flights.

“The letter, once again, contains a flurry of baseless and unsubstantiated accusations that are leveled against my country without, as usual, a shred of evidence,” Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Gholam-Hossein Dehqani said.

The Israeli accusation of Iran’s violation of Security Council resolutions, Dehqani said, “is equally baseless and this time amusing too, as it amounts to an innovative in-bulk leveling of accusations against a UN Member State.”

“At least, a regime that has brazenly flouted all UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions about the lands it criminally occupies is not in a position to broach such a claim against other nations,” he said.

“In addition, it is absurd and hypocritical for the representative of a regime that has occupied the lands of other peoples for so many decades and denied every basic right of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination, to accuse occasionally my country of violating international law.”

Dehqani also hit out at Israel for accusing Iran of sponsoring terrorism, calling it “equally absurd and hypocritical.”

Israel, he said, “has for long been involved in terrorizing and indiscriminately targeting the Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in their own land and in terrorist targeted killings and assassinating individuals in many parts of the world.”

Dehqani said the accusations are “all a typical Israeli attempt to smoke screen their criminal policies and acts against the innocent Palestinians, including keeping  including keeping a two-million community under siege for 10 years” in the Gaza Strip.

The Iranian diplomat touched on the Israeli “bombing and shelling residential areas, destroying schools and hospitals, demolishing houses, confiscating dwellings, violating the sanctity of the religious shrines.”

Rome-Tehran Trade Ties Must Develop: Italian Industry Minister

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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He called for closer ties between Iran and European countries, and hailed the Islamic Republic as an influential player in the regional issues and the global market.

Calenda added that he would be traveling to Iran along with Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan in early 2017.

He made the remarks during the opening ceremony of a trade fair for Iranian companies in Rome on Tuesday.

He noted that dealing with the US’s continued sanctions, which have limited Tehran’s access to the international banking and financial system, would be high on the agenda of his trip.

“The central issue is to make financing channels work fully, so that all the good projects we have can become reality,” he added.

Iran’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Mine Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, also present at the ceremony, voiced hope that trade and banking ties between both countries progress further in the post-JCPOA era.

Iran and the P5+1 group of countries signed the nuclear deal, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), on July 2015. The deal went into effect in January, and resolved a long-running dispute over the Iranian nuclear program.

Under the deal, Iran agreed to limit certain aspects of its nuclear program in return for sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council, the US and the European Union to be lifted.

However, the Islamic Republic complains that it still does not have access to global financial markets. Many international banks still shy away from financing trade deals and processing transactions with Iran for fear of US penalties.

Iran, Slovenia Sign 3 MoUs after High-Profile Meeting

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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The two sides signed three documents that entail economic cooperation, interaction in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, as well as scientific cooperation in nanotechnology.

Slovenian President Borut Pahor and his entourage, who arrived in Tehran on Tuesday morning, attended the high-profile meeting for talks on a range of issues.

In comments at the gathering, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani voiced Iran’s determination to expand relations with the European Union members after implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a lasting nuclear deal between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).

He also referred to facilitated banking ties and insurance services as the key to enhancement of trade ties between Iran and Slovenia.

Iran, Slovenia Sign 3 MoUs after High-Profile Meeting

President Rouhani stressed that Iran and Slovenia can link the EU and the Middle East region via their closer ties.

For his part, Pahor called for a five-fold increase in the volume of trade ties between the two countries.

He also referred to plans to reopen Slovenia’s embassy in Tehran as a sign of his country’s serious resolve to boost relations with Iran.

Elsewhere, the visiting European president emphasized on the futility of any consensus on the fight against terrorism and the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) Takfiri terrorist group that excludes Iran.

Slovenia, a country in Central Europe, is going to reopen its embassy in Tehran, which was closed in 2013 as part of general austerity policies.

Iran Transfers 11 Tons of Heavy Water to Oman

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IFP Media Wire
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Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said the country sent the cargo of heavy water to Oman after the other parties to the JCPOA expressed readiness to purchase the product.

Heavy water is used in some nuclear reactors, but is not radioactive.

Under the JCPOA, which came into force in January, Iran is allowed to use heavy water in its modified Arak nuclear reactor, but should sell any excess supply of both heavy water and enriched uranium on the international market.

In April, the US Department of Energy, or DOE, confirmed plans to buy 32 metric tons of heavy water from Iran worth $8.6 million.

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