“There have been a few times this past week when all I wanted to do was to curl up with a good book and never leave the house again,” Clinton said in her first public appearance since she lost the US election.
In a cartoon published by Khabar Online, Hossein Safi has depicted Clinton’s disappointment:
According to an editorial published earlier this week in 19 Dey newspaper, as translated by IFP, one of the key factors that helped Donald Trump win the US election was his unflagging focus on domestic affairs of the United States, unlike his contender Hillary Clinton.
During his presidential campaign, Trump had zeroed in on raising the issue of American population’s income, tackling unemployment, reducing tax duties, preventing the arrival of immigrants and restoring glory to the American society.
Having been completely aware of the sociological features of the American population, the US President-elect Trump indeed managed to secure the support of a majority of voters against the media hype created by his rival and her whistleblowing agenda to loosen Trump’s grip on his campaign.
Even Trump’s caustic, haphazard stances on different topics did in fact save him in polls as he seemed persuasive enough for the general public to keep his promises after he won the election. When he attacked the Republicans, saying he would have started his campaign even without their support, Trump managed to secure more votes than was expected.
The people seemed senseless to what Trump’s GOP dissidents said and disregarded his bad temper as a man. What American people cared about was voting for a person who would address their troubles. Maybe Clinton could have won more votes than Trump and become the president-elect if she could put more emphasis on domestic affairs than US foreign policy.
The results of US elections can have implications for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in his campaign for the next presidential election in Iran; he will have to highlight domestic affairs instead of foreign policy. During his presidential debates, Rouhani insisted that besides the nuclear technology, people’s lives must also be considered.
These days, however, Rouhani’s administration seems to be more focused on international relations, regional détente and fulfillment of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the landmark deal Iran struck with world powers. This might be a logical stance when viewed by the elites, but this is not necessarily the case for ordinary people. One thing is for sure: this will not bring many votes for Rouhani in the upcoming election over the next 7 months.
Clinton’s fate could be a lesson for Rouhani’s advisors to alter the administration’s rhetoric from extreme focus on foreign policy and elitism to addressing people’s problems.
“The West’s double standard policies on the nuclear program of the Zionist regime [Israel] have adverse consequences for regional security and the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” Reza Najafi said at a seasonal meeting of the IAEA’s Board of Governors in Vienna, Austria, on Friday.
He added that the Israeli regime’s nuclear program has created serious security concerns for people in the region and the international community at large.
He said the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member states have repeatedly censured Israel’s military nuclear program and urged the IAEA to seriously and closely follow up on the issue.
“The Zionist regime has regrettably continued to advance its nuclear and military program in recent years through disregard of the legitimate demand of the international community, the West’s blind support and the blatant violation of all international rules and regulations,” the Iranian envoy said.
Najafi added that the West must stop any type of cooperation with Israel and the delivery of nuclear substances and equipment to the regime.The Israeli regime, which pursues a policy of so-called deliberate ambiguity about its nuclear bombs, is estimated to have 200 to 400 nuclear warheads in its arsenal. The regime has refused to allow inspections of its military nuclear facilities or to sign the NPT.According to March 2015 emails by former US secretary of state Colin Powell leaked in September, Israel has 200 nuclear weapons “targeted on Tehran.”
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for American and European Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi had a meeting with Christian Masset, secretary-general of France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, held in Paris on Friday, for the second round of Iran-France political negotiations.
The periodical talks began this year, after a January visit to Paris by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, when the two nations signed a number of agreement.
In the Friday’s gathering, Takht Ravanchi and Masset discussed a range of issues, from transatlantic relations to the latest developments in the region, as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Upper Karabakh.
They also talked about the ways to boost trade interaction between Tehran and Paris, calling for closer cooperation in the energy industry, transportation, healthcare, pharmaceutical industries and agriculture.
A major conclusion reached at the meeting was the decision to convene the first session of Iran-France joint economic commission in the near future, to be chaired by foreign ministers of the two nations.
In a separate meeting on Friday, the Iranian diplomat visited French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault for talks that covered mainly regional issues and bilateral economic relations.
The top French diplomat also emphasized the necessity for the full implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a nuclear agreement between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).
The three men have accepted Trump’s offer. However the US president-elect will need the Senate to confirm his Cabinet nominations, and Sessions could face some trouble due to a checkered past around his views on race.
Back in 1986, the Alabama senator was accused of making racist comments while serving as a US attorney in Alabama. He called a black assistant US attorney “boy” and the NAACP “un-American” and “communist-inspired.”
Sessions is a very close ally of Trump, as he was the first senator to endorse his presidential bid. According to media reports, he is one of the key architects of Trump’s immigration, counter-terrorism and trade policies.
The role of Sessions will be vital for the new president, as he opposes any path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and is an enthusiastic backer of Trump’s promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico. But his confirmation, even in a Republican-controlled chamber, is not guaranteed.
National Security Adviser-in-waiting Flynn shares Trump’s harsh criticism of the Obama administration, especially since he was ousted as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014.
Flynn is also a known Islamophobe who used torture on those captured during army covert operations, TeleSUR reported.
He has said the US is “at war with” the “cancer” of Islam, and tweeted that “fear of Muslims is RATIONAL.” His appointment will not require Senate confirmation.
Pompeo, who is affiliated with the tea party movement, is an army veteran who says he graduated at the top of his class at the West Point military academy. He is also a graduate of Harvard Law School.
Pompeo has called for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to receive the death penalty. He wants to reverse post-Snowden reforms of government collection of telephone “metadata.” He has described the Guantanamo Bay prison as a “perfect facility” for interrogating terrorists, and he has called CIA torture “within the law.”
According to a report by Entekhab, as translated by IFP, the naughty cat was trapped under 20 tons of steel, but firefighters lifted the girders and let her go.
Here is how she survived:
The opening ceremony of the event was held in the presence of Iran’s Defence Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan, the Head of Civil Aviation Organisation of Iran Ali Abedzadeh, the Managing Director of Kish Free Zone Organisation Ali Asghar Moonesan, deputies of the Ministry of Road and Urban Development, ambassadors of Senegal and Russia, and heads of aviation firms and some other officials.
Over 100 domestic firms from aviation and aerospace organisations, institutions, research centres, universities and higher education centres and production companies and foreign firms from Germany, Russia, Italy, England, Japan, Poland, Latvia, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey, France and Ukraine participated in the event.
The event is being held in two sections of exhibition and air show, IRNA reported.
In the exhibition section, the potentials of aviation industry, knowledge-based firms, and air plane part designers are put on display, while in the air show section, visitors can see the aircraft flying in the sky.
The event is supported by Kish Free Zone Organization, Ministry of Defence, Iran Aviation Industries Organisation, Iran Civil Aviation Organization, Iranian Airports Holding Company (IAC), The Airline of Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran Air) and the office of Vice-President for Science and Technology Affairs.
The 8th International Iran Air Show will be underway until Nov 19 in Kish International Exhibitions Centre.
Here are photos of the Air Show:
According to a report covered by IRNA, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition Joy Karega made headlines in March after screenshots of her now-deleted Facebook posts, most from early 2015, were publicized by The Tower Magazine and other pro-Israel organizations.
Her posts suggested Israel was behind the 9/11 terrorist bombings in New York City and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. She also wrote that the ISIS terrorist group was not really Islamic, but rather “a CIA and Mossad operation” and that the Mossad was actually behind the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, Washington Times reported.
Oberlin College initially defended Ms. Karega’s freedom of expression, but then suspended the professor in August pending an investigation into her comments. Last Tuesday, the college’s Board of Trustees announced that it was terminating Ms. Karega’s employment.
According to a report by Mizan, as translated by IFP, Esmaeil Esfandyari-Pour, an Iranian agriculture official, said 13.5 million tons of wheat is expected to be produced next year to meet the country’s domestic requirement.
“Using modern irrigation methods and other measures taken by the government, there will be no need for import of wheat next year,” he added.
According to a report by ISNA, as translated by IFP, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko kissed the holy book of Muslims in the opening ceremony of the first mosque of Minsk.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also attending the ceremony last week, was the one who made investment on the construction of the mosque.
Radical Belarussian media compared Lukashenko’s kiss with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pretentious behaviours.
They described it as a totally political kiss, and even compared it with the unconventional kiss exchanged by Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev in 1971.
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