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Iran’s Diplomatic Leverage Inspired by Defense Power: Commander

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Iranian politicians sitting at the negotiating table with a smile are encouraged by the country’s reliable defense power, General Jalali said in an academic conference in Tehran on Sunday.

“The fact that our enemies rule out ground attacks against us does not result from the political smile (of Iranian diplomats), but from the strong military defense in the ground sphere,” he underlined.

Jalali also touched on the display of underground missile facilities of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), stressing the need for putting part of the country’s military capabilities on display to shatter the enemy’s illusions.

However, the commander noted, part of Iran’s military capabilities should be kept dark to serve as a surprise element.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has frequently underlined the need for strengthening the country’s military capabilities, saying Iran has “an inalienable and absolute right” to reinforce its defensive and offensive power.

Iranian President Nominates Three New Ministers

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In a letter to Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani released on Sunday, President Rouhani named Seyed Reza Salehi Amiri, Masoud Soltanifar, and Fakhreddin Ahmadi Danesh Ashtiani as the ministers of culture and Islamic guidance, sports and youth affairs, and education respectively.

The ministerial nominees will take office after they win confidence vote from the Iranian lawmakers.

In separate decrees on Wednesday, Rouhani had appointed Seyed Abbas Salehi, Nasrollah Sajjadi and Seyed Mohammad Bathaei as the acting ministers of culture and Islamic guidance, sports and youth affairs, and education.

The appointments followed resignation of Ali Jannati, Mahmoud Goudarzi, and Ali Asghar Fani after serving as minsters for over three years.

The developments come as the current administration’s term in office will end next year.

Iran’s upcoming presidential elections are due to be held on May 19, 2017.

World Countries Racing to Promote Ties With Iran: Rouhani

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The Iranian chief executive made the remarks in an address to a large crowd of people in the central city of Arak in Markazi Province on Sunday during his 32nd provincial visit ever since assuming office in 2013.

“In previous years, there was a competition across the world for threatening Iran, exercising pressure on it, and subjecting it to sanctions. Today, there is, instead, a global competition for communications with Iran,” he said.

Over the past three years, the country has attracted more than $3.8 billion in foreign investment for 133 development projects, 58 of which have been completed, Rouhani noted.

“Ever since the conclusion of the JCPOA, [as much as] $1.6 billion has found its way into the country in the form of foreign investment in the fields of mining and industry,” he said.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was inked between Tehran and the P5+1 group of world powers, namely Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany on July 14, 2015.

The accord, which took effect in January, ended decades of economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.

“The JCPOA is the result of Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei]’s tactfulness, the Iranian nation’s 10- to 12-year-long resistance [during related nuclear talks] and the policy employed by the Islamic Republic’s establishment,” Rouhani asserted.

In other remarks, President Rouhani pointed to the election campaign ahead of the US presidential race next month, and criticized debates between the two main candidates as immoral.

“The US claims to have 200 years of democracy… There is no morality in that country. We can see to what level they have scooped. You watched the presidential debates. Everybody saw the way they talked… Look at their discourse, accusations and belittlement!”

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

Almost all newspapers on Sunday covered the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s visit to Tehran and his separate meetings with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani.

They also covered the remarks made by President Rouhani about his cabinet reshuffle and the ongoing problems in the country, including unemployment.

The latest developments of the ongoing operation in Iraq to retake the northern city of Mosul also remained a top story today.

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

Abrar:

1- Deputy Health Minister: 38m Iranians Exposed to Air Pollutants

2- ISIS Leader Executes 59 Senior Commanders

3- Erdogan: Mosul Historically Belongs to Turkey

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

 


Abrar-e Eqtesadi:

1- Deputy Oil Minister: Return of Deutsche Bank to Iran’s Oil Deals

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

 


Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Rouhani: Media Should Stop Telling Lies

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

 


Amin:

1- Wives of 12 Foreign Ambassadors Join “I’m Lake Urmia” Campaign

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

 


Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Leader in Meeting with Maduro: West Is Using Oil as a Weapon

2- Violation of Law in Oil Industry during Ahmadinejad’s Gov’t Continues to Be Revealed: Paying $37m for an Oil Rig that Was Worth $5m

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23


Asrar:

1- Rouhani: Childish Fights in Iran Should End

2- 5 Presidents from 3 Continents En Route to Iran

3- Velayati: Al Saud Doesn’t Understand Anything but Force

4- Deputy FM: Iran Has No Problem with Human Rights Talks with Europe

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23


Ettela’at:

1- Leader: With Wise Policies, Plots Can Be Overcome

2- Rouhani in Meeting with Venezuelan President: Iran Supports Any Move towards Fair Oil Price

3- IMF’s Prediction about Continued Decrease of Inflation Rate in Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

 


Hemayat:

1- Germany Ready to Exchange Anti-Corruption Experts with Iran

2- Ramadan Abdullah: Iran Is the Only Country that Supports Palestine

3- Deputy of US Treasury: Imposition of Heavy Sanctions against Countries Affiliated with Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

 


Iran:

1- Iran’s Marine Trade Flourish in Post-JCPOA Era: 16 Giant Shipping Companies Return to Iran

2- Central Insurance: Iran Starts Cooperation with 7 Major Int’l Insurance Companies

3- President: Both Changing the Executives or Keeping Them Are Sometimes Required for Giving Better Services to People

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23


Jame Jam:

1- Leader: It’s a Big Mistake to Think that US Is Invincible

2- Selling Theses Is a Scientific Crime

3- Rouhani: Unemployment Is Iran’s Biggest Problem

4- Saudi Arabia and Turkey Sharply Criticized in World Assembly of Islamic Awakening

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

 


Javan:

1- Banks Have Roles in All Economic Corruption Cases

2- Russian Plant for International Monitoring over US Elections: US State Department Says It Is for Show, But It Welcomes Such Supervisors

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23


Jomhouri Eslami:

1- Iran and Malaysia Agree on Return to Pre-Sanction Level of Economic Ties

2- Rouhani: Tehran Welcomes Expansion of Ties with Latin America, Including Venezuela

3- 3 Candidates to Be Introduced Today by Government to the Parliament for Ministries of Education, Sports, and Culture

4- Rouhani to Inaugurate Longest Power Transmission Line Today

 

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23


Kayhan:

1- Based on Transport Ministry’s Statistics: 8 Months after JCPOA, Transit of Goods from Iran Sharply Declined

2- US Analyst in Interview with Kayhan: Why US Was Engaged in Yemen War

3- Third Released American Also Sues Iran

 

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23


Resalat:

1- Rouhani: We Can’t Respond to the Demands of Those Seeking a Job

2- Head of Civil Defence Organization: Biological Attack Is Possible in Iran

3- Ayatollah Sobhani: Beliefs of Young People in Iran Are Bombarded in Cyberspace

4- US Psychological War Defeated in Mosul: Reports of a Deal between Turkey and Iraq Dismissed

 

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23


Sepid:

1- Iran’s Special Advantages in Medical Tourism: Health Tourism, the Lucrative Sleeping Dragon

2- Decrease in Deaths Caused by Air Pollution in Past Two Years

 

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23


Shahrvand:

1- One President in Iran Every 35 Days: A Report on Reciprocal Visits of Rouhani’s Gov’t in Past 19 Months

2- Football without Pain: About the Campaign ’90 Minutes without Cigarettes’ Launched in Iran by FIFA’s Medical Centre

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

 


Vaghaye Ettefaghieh:

1- Tehran Waiting for a Less-Polluted Winter: Predictions Suggest Some Measures in Controlling Tehran’s Air Pollution Have Borne Fruits

2- Happiness among Kurds Is Much More than Many Other Areas: Sociologist

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 23

Iraqis May Be Fined Up to $21,000 for Alcoholic Drinks

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Based on the new law passed by the Iraqi Parliament, whoever imports, produces, buys, or sells alcoholic drinks in Iraq may be fined from $8,500 to $21,000.

According to a report by Al Alam News Website, as translated by IFP, tens of companies in different parts of the Arab country, particularly in Baghdad, are in the business of producing and selling alcoholic drinks.

However, Iraqi officials say they will introduce alternative jobs for those working in this illegal business.

German Officials to Be Banned from Wearing Burqa

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According to a report by Der Spiegel, citing a representative of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Germany, a bill has been proposed to ban public officials from wearing full Islamic face veils on the grounds that it obstructs clear communication.

The authors of the bill emphasize that the hidden face “restricts the ability of travellers and does not allow to assess the personality”.

“Open communication is a formative part of the ability to live together in a free, democratic society,” the draft bill read.

The proposal, presented by the German interior ministry on Friday, further states that the face veil hinders “the possibility to get to know and evaluate someone’s personality,” as reported by i24news and covered by YJC.

The bill calls on state officials to not wear “clothing that makes open communication impossible or more difficult,” including women employed as public officials.

It further stipulates that women who wear the veil show their faces during passport control, court rulings, and at polling stations.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere came in favour of a partial ban on the burqa in August amid a fierce national debate on integration.

“We agree that we reject the burqa, we agree that we want to introduce a legal requirement to show one’s face in places where it is necessary for our society’s coexistence — at the wheel, at public offices, at the registry office, in schools and universities, in the civil service, in court,” he said at the time.

According to official data collected in 2009, 28 percent of women in German identifying as Muslim wore some kind of covering, including either a headscarf or full face veil.

The number of women who wear full face veils in Germany is thought to be fairly small.

Inclusion of Egypt in Lausanne Talks Was Iran’s Pre-Condition: Report

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According to a Thursday report by The Guardian, as covered on Sunday by Jomhoori Eslami newspaper, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif personally requested that Egypt attend last weekend’s key Syria talks – a move that has sparked concerns that Cairo is being wooed away from its traditional pro-western stance in the region.

Talks convened by the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, in the Swiss city of Lausanne last Saturday evening failed to agree on a common strategy with Russia to end the conflict in Syria, now in its sixth year.

The Guardian has seen emails indicating that the Iranian foreign minister asked Kerry for Cairo’s team to attend the Lausanne talks. When the US secretary of state proposed six-nation talks to “see if a new reasonableness can manifest itself” in Syria, Zarif replied: “Why not Egypt too?”

Iran agreed to attend the talks only once it had secured places for the foreign ministers of Egypt and Iraq at the discussions. Both countries back the pro-Assad stance of Iran but Egypt is seen as significant because it is the most populous Sunni Arab nation in the Middle East.

Iran was also keen not to be outnumbered by an anti-Assad coalition – comprising Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United States – at the Lausanne talks.

Malaysia Keen for Cooperation with Iran in Halal Industry: Minister

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The two countries can have joint investment in the production of halal food, halal medicine and halal cosmetics, he said after a meeting in Tehran with Head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines Gholam Hossein Shafei on Saturday.

He added that in his talks with the Iranian official, they discussed ways for financing joint cooperation in the field of halal, including through Islamic banks.

Halal means permissible in the Islamic Sharia law and covers everything from food to finance, logistics and tourism. The global halal industry is estimated to be worth more than $2 trillion, including a $1 trillion food market which is expanding.

A growing middle-class Muslim population compounded by rising demand from non-Muslim nations has sparked a race among many countries to scrape a niche in the halal market.

Major Muslim countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan as well as non-Muslim nations like Japan, New Zealand and Britain are jockeying for position in the market.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Mustapa Mohamed said he is in Tehran to follow up on the “important decisions” for development of bilateral trade made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Malaysian Prime Minister Minister Najib Razak in their meeting in Kuala Lumpur back on October 7.

President Rouhani, who visited Malaysia during a tour of Southeast Asia, said at the time that Tehran and Kuala Lumpur are resolved to restore their bilateral relations to pre-sanctions levels and then promptly double it.

“We also plan to turn 2016 into the year of development in improvement and expansion of mutual ties in economic, political, scientific and cultural fields,” he added.

ISIS Executioner Shot Dead by ‘Mosul Sniper’ before Beheading Teenager

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According to a report by Al Alam News Website, as translated by IFP, a local source in Nineveh Province announced that the ISIS executioner was beheading a teenager in a street in Mosul when he was shot dead by the sniper.

The teenager had been accused of affiliation with popular resistance brigades and armed conflict against ISIS elements, the source told Sumaria News.

The ISIS terrorists have reportedly started shooting indiscriminately after the sniper’s attack, and finally executed the teenage boy by shooting in his head.

Oil Price Drop Leverage to Pressure US-Independent States: Ayatollah Khamenei

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“Rational resistance and steadfastness along with prudence in the face of pressure will definitely be followed by victory,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Saturday.

The Leader added that the US plots and policies on the West Asian countries have failed.

Ayatollah Khamenei said the issue of oil has been used to impose the current problems on independent countries.

“In the past when some Muslim countries moved to counter the Zionist regime (of Israel) by halting the oil [supply], Westerners made hue and cry under the pretext of the political use of oil, but unfortunately the same countries, together with some members of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) and some states in our region which themselves are suffering from such policies, are now using oil as a weapon in full coordination with the US policies,” the Leader stated.

It is possible to overcome such conspiracies and hostilities by pursuing rational policies and improving cooperation, Ayatollah Khamenei added.

Ayatollah Khamenei also pointed to the failed US policies in the region and said, “Some think that the US cannot be defeated. This is while this imagination is a big mistake.”

The Leader added that Washington’s continuous mistakes over the past 15 years have put it into a very deplorable situation in the region.

Ayatollah Khamenei further said Venezuela’s impact on anti-arrogance moves in the Latin America indicates the country’s great capabilities.

The Leader stressed the importance of making use of the opportunity of Venezuela’s current presidency over the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

Ayatollah Khamenei said the West is not interested in NAM’s progress but independent countries must take steps in a direction contrary to their demands and in that case the “future will definitely be better than the past.”

The Leader also expressed the Islamic Republic’s firm determination to bolster cooperation with Venezuela and said the two countries’ authorities and ministers play an important role in pursuing the precise implementation of agreements.

During the meeting, which was also attended by Iranian First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri, the Venezuelan president commended the Islamic Republic’s strong resistance against the US.

Maduro said the Iranian nation enjoys peace and security while many countries in the region are unfortunately suffering from war and discord.

He pointed to the steep drop in oil prices over the past two years and said the US imperialism made interference and pursued hostile policies on Venezuela several times. However, the Venezuelan people resisted against such an economic war and are getting out of the economic crisis, he added.

The Venezuelan president further pointed to the upcoming presidential election in the US and said either candidate who wins the vote, the next American government will be in decline.