In an article in Kayhan newspaper entitled “The Fabricated Fear”, Hossein Shariatmadari said it is “a great achievement” that Trump fulfils the promises he made during his campaign and rid the Iranian nation of the nuclear deal signed with world powers back in July 2015.
According to the report translated by IFP, Shariatmadari stressed that the nuclear deal is “total damage” for Iran, and Trump should tear it apart to rid Iran of the ‘futile’ agreement.
IRNA has published photos of foreign tourists visiting the tourist attractions of Iran’s Isfahan, which is known for its beautiful Islamic architecture.
Here are the photos:
Two Saudi soldiers were sniped by Yemeni forces in the Arab country’s southwestern Taiz province on Saturday, Lebanon’s al-Ahed website reported.
Also, a Saudi tank was destroyed after coming under Yemeni fire in the province.
Later in the day, the Yemeni snipers hit another Saudi trooper inside Saudi Arabia in the kingdom’s southwestern region of Asir, according to the report.
The attacks came in response to the continued aggression by Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies against Yemen, which started in March 2015.
The Saudi-led coalition has been launching deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in the past year and a half in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Nearly 10,000 Yemenis, including 4,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.
Here is Entekhab’s photo of ex-president Ahmadinejad and the census interviewer:
In an interview with Entekhab, as covered by IFP, Ban was asked whether the US President-elect Donald Trump is able to scrap the nuclear deal with Iran which was passed in the United Nations Security Council.
“This is a work which has been agreed upon by five members of Security Council and Germany and is fully supported by the Security Council. US has been playing a crucial role among the members and UN has been fully supporting this agreement,” the UN secretary general replied.
“Of course this deal may not be a perfect agreement, but we are not living in a perfect world. If there is anything that may not be satisfactory to the newly-elected president, he should discuss it with the parties concerned,” he went on to say.
He stressed that what matters is the implementation of the agreement in a faithful manner.
“Whatever he [Trump] might have said [what he said against the nuclear deal] as political rhetoric and during presidential campaign, I’m sure once he becomes the president in January, he will be committed to the agreement,” Ban reassured.
In response to a question regarding the remarks made by Trump’s Foreign Policy adviser against Iran deal, Ban noted, “I’m not in a position to talk about this, but as a matter of principle, the agreement should be supported.”
“Since UN has been established, we have seen many changes in the US administration from Democrat party to Republicans. But all of them have honoured these agreements,” he added.
During the election campaign, Trump had threatened that he would “tear up” the JCPOA or try to renegotiate its terms if elected president.
Trump’s adviser Walid Phares told BBC radio on Thursday that Trump will demand changes to the nuclear deal
“Ripping up is maybe a too strong of word, he’s going to take that agreement, it’s been done before in international context, and then review it,”
“He will take the agreement, review it, send it to Congress, demand from the Iranians to restore few issues or change few issues, and there will be a discussion,” Phares added.
A new initiative from the Red Cross in Norway and Ikea, a giant furniture manufacturer, designed by ad agency POL, is aimed at bringing the realities of the civil war home by creating an exact replica of Syrian people’s accommodation for shoppers to explore for themselves.
According to a report covered by Hamshahri Online, the project called ’25 metres of Syria’ was nestled among the other showrooms at Ikea’s flagship store outside Oslo. It features stories and more information about Syrian families and the war written on Ikea’s iconic information tags dotted on objects throughout the tiny 25m² installation, as well as calls to action explaining how people can help or donate.
The replica of the Syrian home was an incredibly successful awareness raising project: the campaign’s creators said that 40,000 people visited the store while the installation was up in October, many of them just to see the Syrian home.
The wider fundraising effort raised £19million towards Syrian humanitarian relief, the Red Cross said.
In an interview with Tasnim, as translated by IFP, Nazim Dabbagh, the representative of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iran, said that he is concerned about sectarian violence in Iraq’s Sunni population, which is caused by the lack of a single Sunni religious authority to control the situation.
Referring to the repercussions of the absence of such religious authority in Iraq, he added, “Today, Iraq is a federalist country which must move towards a democracy where everyone have their own share of power in accordance with their political and economic weight.”
However, he added, following the Battle of Mosul, certain groups are acting in such a way to drive a wedge between other ethnic and religious groups in the country.
“As a result, there is fear that clashes may break out between Shiites and Sunnis; Shiites and Shiites; Sunnis and Sunnis; Turkmens, Shiites and Sunnis; Christians and Yazidis and other Christians; Kurds and Sunnis and Shiites; and even Kurds and Kurds,” he said.
“For the time being, the absence of a single Sunni religious authority to have the final say is felt in Iraq pretty tangibly.”
“All this is caused by the dissenting Arab and Sunni countries in the region; Turkey says something, then, Saudi Arabia says something else; Qatar says another thing; then, the UAE says something; there it goes to Egypt which says something totally different from all others; no one agrees with others. In the meanwhile, the Kurds are not united either; had we not been divergent inside, we would have never had our rights violated.”
At least 47 people were killed and over 110 others injured in the bomb blast that hit Shah Noorani shrine in Lasbela district, some 100 kilometers north of the port city of Karachi, on Saturday evening.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday that collective efforts and resolve are essential to uproot terrorism in the region.
He extended his condolences to the Pakistani government and nation as well as the families of the victims of the terrorist crime.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif denounced the bomb attack and called on authorities to speed up the rescue operation.
Reports say some 500 people were in the shrine when the bomb went off.
The Daesh terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.
Pakistan’s restive and mineral-rich Balochistan province is rife with separatist, extremist and sectarian violence and has been the scene of several bomb and gun attacks over the past years.
Mohsen Khazaei, who worked for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), was killed on Saturday while his cameraman sustained injuries and was transferred to hospital.
The Iranian reporter lost his life when shrapnel from a mortar shell hit him in the head. His cameraman, Tamer Sandooq, was injured in the shoulder.
The Iranian reporting team came under mortar fire by terrorists in Minyan district in the western part of Aleppo.
A number of correspondents affiliated to Iranian news stations have fallen victim to the conflict in Syria in the past.
In August 2015, Iranian reporter Mohammad-Hassan Hosseini suffered facial injury in a mortar attack by militants in the port city of Latakia in western Syria.
Press TV correspondent Maya Nasser was also killed in September 2012 after militants attacked Press TV staff in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
On Saturday, Syrian forces regained control of areas in and around Aleppo, which were seized by foreign-sponsored terrorists over the past two weeks.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the army had retaken a couple of strategic areas such as the neighborhood of Dahiyat al-Assad and the village of Minyan on Aleppo’s outskirts.
“We fought them in every street, house, neighborhood and schools, and they used mosques to launch attacks,” an army brigadier general in Minyan who identified himself as Nabil told Lebanon’s al-Manar TV.
Aleppo, once Syria’s second largest city, has been the scene of fighting between Syrian forces and terrorists.
It has been divided over the past four years between Damascus forces in the west and terrorists in the east, making it a front line battleground.
Backed by Russian air cover, the Syrian army in September launched operations to reunite the divided northwestern city.
According to a report covered by IRNA, in an unexpectedly upbeat conversation, the American whistle-blower Edward Snowden told an audience at the Pathé Tuschinski theatre in Amsterdam via a live stream on Thursday that for those concerned about privacy, they should not worry too much about Trump, they are the ones who can make a change.
“This is a dark moment in our nation’s history, but it is not the end of history.”
The bigger question is “how do we defend the rights of everyone, everywhere, without regard to borders?”
“I try not to look at this as a question of a single election or a single president or even a single government, because we see these threats coming across borders,” Snowden said.
“If we want a better world, we can’t hope for an Obama, or fear a Trump. We should build it ourselves,” he said.
In other words, citizens should think about their own security and privacy rather than relying on a politician to make changes. He said that Americans need to think about how to “defend the rights of everyone, everywhere,” rather than defending against Trump in high office.
Snowden spoke remotely from Russia, where he has resided since first disclosing the NSA’s extensive surveillance activities in 2013.
Snowden, 33, is wanted in the United States to face trial on charges brought under the tough Espionage Act. But he said he was unconcerned about the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could send him back once Trump is sworn in.
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