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France’s PSA, Iran’s SAIPA Seal Joint Venture Deal

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SAIPA - PSA Group

Based on the deal, Citroen cars will be produced in Iran’s central city of Kashan at a plant which will be jointly owned by the two companies.

The agreement between Citroen and SAIPA – which has been the French company’s historic partner in Iran since the 60s – lays the foundations for a new strategic partnership between them.

The joint-venture will accordingly invest above €300 million in manufacturing and R&D capacity over the next five years.

“With more than 50 years of presence in Iran, PSA Group through this new strategic partnership is clearly committed to the deployment of a rich product plan that meets the expectations of Iranian clients,” Carlos Tavares, Chairman of the PSA Group Managing Board, has been quoted as telling the reporters after signing the agreement.

The agreement envisages the transfer of technology and a significant level of local content, Reuters reported.

Also, Citroen models will be sold throughout the country through a network dedicated exclusively to the brand. No less than 150 Citroen outlets will open in the next 5 years, Reuters added.

Consistent with the core model strategy deployed in the Push to Pass plan, the production in Kashan of three vehicles adapted to the heart of Iranian market will start in 2018, Business Wire reported. From early 2017, imported vehicles will be staging Citroen’s comeback in the country.

SAIPA, along with Iran Khodro, dominates Iran’s massive market of about 80 million people. It consists of seven manufacturers and roughly contributes at least 30% to the total car production in Iran at above 300,000 cars per year.

Iran is the Middle East’s largest auto market with a population of 80 million. The automobile industry is seen as Iran’s biggest non-oil sector, accounting for nearly 10% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Iran Warns Regional States against Following Warmongers

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“Countries which launched a cruel war against the defenseless Yemeni people, after one year and a half since the beginning of the aggression and [committing] numerous crimes against the Yemeni people, are trying to justify their ignominious defeat through such claims,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Friday.

He urged countries which cannot endure the most minor consequences of wars not to fall for warmongering policies.

In his recent allegations against Iran, the Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Bin Mohammad Gargash, claimed that Iran is sending weapons to Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah fighters and this would only prolong the war in Yemen.

He added that Houthi’s recent targeting of an Emirati military vessel, Swift, is part of systemic aggression and premeditated escalation aimed at undermining any political solution to the Yemeni crisis.

On Saturday, Yemeni forces targeted and destroyed the Emirati military vessel in a rocket attack near the Red Sea port city of Mokha.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman on Tuesday also denied claims made by a US official that a missile used by Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah fighters to destroy the Emirati military vessel was made by Iran.

Qassemi said the US should take a look at its own heavy dossier concerning the supply of arms and weapons to those attacking civilians in Yemen instead of putting the blame on others.

Yemen has been under Saudi military strikes since late March 2015. The war was launched in a bid to reinstate Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who has stepped down as president but is now seeking to grab power by force. The United Nations puts the death toll from the military aggression at about 10,000.

Houthi Ansarullah fighters, allied with Yemeni army factions, and forces loyal to Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have united and are fighting back the Saudi invaders.

Iran, Malaysia to Double Trade Volume

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Rouhani Malaysia

Speaking at a joint press conference with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, President Rouhani urged the Southeast Asian country to invest in Iran in the post-JCPOA and post-sanctions era.

“Iran supports investment by Malaysian companies in the oil, gas and petrochemical sectors,” he added,

According to President Rouhani, the two sides decided today to restore the volume of bilateral trade ties to the pre-sanctions level in the first step and double it immediately afterwards.

The Iranian president underlined intensifying the efforts to stimulate the two countries’ banking ties, and called for collaboration with Malaysia in the Halal food industry, academic and technological fields and tourism industry.

As regards the other subjects discussed in the meeting with Razak, President Rouhani pointed to mutual concerns about conflicts provoked in the Islamic world by foreigners and the threat of terrorism.

Heading a political and economic delegation, President Rouhani embarked on a tour of Southeast Asia on Wednesday that first took him to Vietnam.

He will later fly to Thailand to attend the 2nd Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit.

Iran Denies Diplomat’s Visit to Yemen

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Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Thursday dismissed the report by Saudi newspaper Al-Watan about Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari’s visit to Yemen.

Qassemi described the report as part of Saudi Arabia’s attempts to cover up its successive defeats in the aggression against Yemen.

Saudi media outlets issue such false reports while all routes to Sana’a have been closed for a couple of months and the Saudi military forces do not allow even the Yemeni nationals to travel to Sana’a, he added.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been launching deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement 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.

Basaltic Prisms in Northwestern Iran

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Basaltic Prisms

The high-standing basaltic prisms in Maku, northwest of Iran along the borders with Turkey, emulate the best of its sort in the world. Prisms are the product of slow cooling of molten volcanic lava in Tertiary period.

Here are Mehr’s photos of the prisms in Maku:

 

 

Tehran, Hanoi to Boost Bilateral Trade to $2bln: Rouhani

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Rouhani Vietnam

“The two sides agreed to increase their bilateral trade turnover to $2 billion,” Rouhani said in a joint press conference with his Vietnamese counterpart Tran Dai Quang in the capital Hanoi on Thursday.

Heading a high-ranking delegation of political and economic officials, President Rouhani on Wednesday embarked on a tour of Southeast Asia. After Vietnam, he will visit Malaysia and Thailand, where he will participate in the 2nd Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit.

Hailing the existing potentials for expansion of trade ties between Tehran and Hanoi, the Iranian president said, “There is a great opportunity to export oil, gas and petrochemicals from Iran to Vietnam”.

Tehran, Hanoi to Boost Bilateral Trade to $2bln: Rouhani

He also invited Vietnamese companies to invest in Iran’s oil and gas sectors, and stressed that the two nations should enhance their cooperation in various spheres, including technical and engineering services and economic and trade ties, particularly in banking sector, as well as closer academic and scientific collaborations.

For his part, Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, also stressed the need for enhanced ties between Tehran and Hanoi in all fields, and said, “In economics, cooperation opportunities are still large… but the scale of cooperation and bilateral trade are still modest.”

Additionally, the two presidents on Thursday signed two documents of cooperation in the fields of technology and communication.

The two sides also signed an agreement whereby visa regime between the two countries will be abolished conditionally.

Tehran, Hanoi to Boost Bilateral Trade to $2bln: Rouhani

Iran opened an embassy in Hanoi in 1991 and Vietnam opened its embassy in Tehran in 1997. They established relations in 1973 and since then the two countries have increased political and economic cooperation through exchange of visits by senior officials from both sides.

Trade exchanges between them reached $300 million in 2013 from $80 million in 2010. Those transactions currently stand at $350 million, meaning the two countries have an arduous task to hit the $2 billion mark.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

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Iran Newspaper front pages

Newspapers on Thursday covered the ongoing developments in Iraq and Syria, where the US, Russia, and Turkey are on the verge of a conflict among themselves ahead of an operation to liberate the ISIS-held Mosul in Iraq.

The remarks made by the CEO of Peugeot-Citroen, the French car-maker, about the compensation paid to Iran also received good coverage.

President Hassan Rouhani’s ongoing visit to the Southeast Asia was also a top story today.

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

 

Abrar:

1- Iraqi PM’s Warning to Turkey and Possibility of Regional Conflict

2- Rouhani: Development of Asian Cooperation Is of Great Importance to Iran

3- 2m Yemeni Children Deprived of Education: UNICEF

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Afkar:

1- IRGC Warns Saudi Arabia

2- Iran Seeks to End Takfiri Sedition in Region: Larijani

3- Boeing Not to Deliver Any Plane to Iran This Year

4- Ban Ki-moon’s Biased Report about Iran Human Rights

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Increase in Iran’s GDP after JCPOA

2- IMF Predicts Iran’s Inflation Rate Will Be 9.2% on Average This Year and Next Year

3- We Paid Compensation to Iran: Peugeot-Citroen CEO

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Reformists in Rouhani’s Think-Tank

2- If Rouhani Reshuffles His Cabinet, It’ll Be a Good Point for Him in Next Elections: Reformist Figure

3- Ayatollah Rafsanjani: Human Beings Are Getting Closer to Rationality Today

4- Analyst: Rouhani’s Presence in East Asia Is a Warning to the West

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Asrar:

1- Don’t Approach Iran: IRGC’s Warning to Saudi Warships

2- Iran and Japan Start Banking Cooperation

3- Bahonar Criticizes Those Who Are Running for Presidential Elections Every Time

4- NATO’s Plan for Attack on Syria with 800 Fighter Jets

5- German Minister’s Visit to Iran Means They Have Ignored Their Own Pre-Conditions: Hamshahri

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Ebtekar:

1- 21st Century Belongs to Asia: Rouhani

2- A Report on Canals in Tehran Which Have Turned to Shelters for Junkies

3- Turkey’s Foot in Iraq’s Shoes: Conflict Breaks Out between Two Neighbours

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Etemad:

1- Bahonar’s Advice to Conservatives: Those Who Weren’t Successful in Previous Elections Should Better Refrain from Running Again

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Ettela’at:

1- UN: Hundreds of Thousands of War-Hit Children in Yemen Are Hungry

2- Foreign Ministry Spokesman: UN’s Report about Iran’s Human Rights Is Invalid

3- 100,000 Added to Iran’s Population Each Month: Official

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Haft-e Sobh:

1- Peugeot to Produce 200,000 Cars in Iran Each Year

2- No One Liked German Vice-Chancellor

3- From Rasht to Rhine: 20 Interesting Points about Professor Majid Samii

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Hamshahri:

1- Cars That Pollute the Air Won’t Be Allowed in Tehran Anymore

2- Economy Minister: We Wasted Our Money by Paying Cash Subsidies

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Hemayat:

1- US Is Cheerfully Supporting Wahhabi Terrorists: Larijani

2- Ban Ki-moon’s Unsubstantiated Claim in His Last Day!

3- Peugeot CEO: We Paid Compensation to Iran, and Its Amount Is Secret

4- Argument over Iran’s Nuclear Program: Hot Presidential Debate between Clinton and Trump’s First VPs

5- Secular Thoughts Aimed at Removing Abrahamic Religions Are Regrettable: Iran Official

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Iran:

1- Southeast Asia, the Destination of Iran’s Economic Diplomacy

2- $6.6bn Improvement in Iran’s Food Trade Balance

3- Big Scandal for Yahoo

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Jame Jam:

1- US Sabotage in Banking Transactions

2- Looking at the East, Working with the Wes: President Rouhani in Southeast Asia

3- Deprived Provinces, the First to Take Part in Online Census

4- The Challenge of Children Having the Final Say in Families

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Javan:

1- US and Russia Moving towards Conflict in Syria

2- IRGC: Saudis Shouldn’t Even Approach Iran’s Territorial Waters

3- 29 Wounded in a Fight after Iranian Singer’s Concert

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- New Round of Rouhani’s Diplomacy for Expansion of Ties with East Asia

2- Iran’s 22-Rank Improvement in World Inflation Ranking

3- Joint Plot by US and Saudi Arabia to Attack Syria Revealed

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Kayhan:

1- Spirit of New Oil Contracts Is Based on Being Pawns for Foreigners

2- Iraqi Popular Forces: We’ll See Turkish Military the Same as ISIS

3- 4 Pakistani Pilgrims Killed in Takfiris’ Armed Attack on Shiites’ Bus

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Khorasan:

1- Iran’s Central Bank Governor Criticizes Europe’s Silence over US Violation of Its Commitments

2- USA’s New Gift to ISIS: American Fighters Attack Iraqi Popular Forces on Verge of Mosul Liberation

3- Khorasan’s Interview with Master Farshchian in the US

4- Peugeot Vows to Compensate for the Past

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Mardom Salari:

1- Cyberspace: Cultural Shock or Cultural Prosperity?

2- Rumours of World War in Syria: NATO Fighters Getting Prepared on Pentagon’s Order

3- Imam Hussein’s Movement Showed that Not Any Dirty Means Should Be Used to Achieve One’s Goals

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Quds:

1- 40,000 Green Clothes Sewed in Imam Reza Shrine for Infants Taking Part in Muharram Mourning Ceremonies [their parents want them to wear similar clothes to Imam Hussein’s infant Ali Asghar]

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Resalat:

1- Presence of Nationals from 80 Countries in Syria Is a Threat to Global Peace: Leader’s Advisor

2- Larijani: There’s a Goal behind US Adventures in Middle East

3- Iran Has the Option to Return to Pre-JCPOA Era: Bahonar

4- Chief of Iran’s Human Rights Office: We’ve Guaranteed Civil Rights

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Sayeh:

1- A Curve as Wide as Human Beings: October 7, World Day of Smile

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Sepid:

1- Iran’s High Speed in Controlling Non-Communicable Diseases

2- No to Any Age Discrimination: World Day of the Elderly

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Shahrvand:

1- Peugeot CEO Apologizes to Iranian People: We’re Sorry, We Were Victims of the Sanctions

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Shargh:

1- Yellow Condition in Persian Gulf: IRGC Issues Warning to Saudi Military Drills

2- Guterres Becomes UN’s Secretary General

3- Rouhani Won’t Be Our Candidate for Sure: Conservative Figure

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 6

 

Iran Unveils Satire Book about Nuclear Talks

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Mohammad Javad Zarif Cartoons

In a ceremony held in Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Centre, a book titled The Elegant [which means Zarif in Persian] Aspects of Negotiations was unveiled.

According to a report by ISNA, as translated by IFP, the ceremony was attended by Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, members of Iran’s nuclear negotiation team, and the bereaved families of nuclear martyrs.

Mohammad Javad Zarif CartoonsThe book, which was unveiled on October 1, contains satirical poems, caricatures, and cartoons about the nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers.

In an address to the ceremony, the organizer and producer Abbas Sajjadi, the director of Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, hailed the efforts made by satirists and cartoonists who, since the early days, looked at nuclear negotiations from a different perspective.

“I was thinking that we, as culture and art professionals, can also do something beside what our negotiators did; we wanted to do something that is in fact valuable in global and national level.”

“I shared the idea with Mr. Zarif and the rest of the negotiating team and they said that we should wait until the ratification of JCPOA,” he noted.

The book is a compilation of poetry and caricature which depicts the story of the national epic of the nuclear deal, known as JCPOA, in the eyes of culture and art professionals.

 

Satire, Best Way to Reduce Harshness of Controversies: Culture Minister

During the ceremony, Ali Jannati, the Iranian Minister of Culture, said in a message that “big achievements are often laced with marginal issues that escape people’s attention. Satire is perhaps the most eloquent way and the best means to alleviate the harshness of such controversies and express them openly.”

Jannati stressed that satire is able to provide a sweet wrapping for bitter events of the society and helps people gain a better understanding of contentious issues gently.

“If a diplomat is confident that his efforts will lead to victory, bearing all the difficulties and concerns of negotiations will become easy and even sweet to them,” he added.

FM Zarif also hailed the efforts made by the organizers of the ceremony and said, “I’m actually at a loss for words. Although my last name means elegant, I have to admit that I have been deprived of the elegance of the prominent figures of art and culture who are here today. I would like to sincerely thank them all.”

“I do not deserve all this generosity and kindness,” Zarif expressed humility, and added, “I hope this magnanimity of Iranians, which has been manifested in you artists and intellectuals, remains unfailing.”

He concluded that if it wasn’t for people’s endurance, understanding, wisdom, patience and equanimity, there would be no possibility of any breakthrough on any subject.

IRGC Commander: Iran Stopped ISIS from Overrunning Syria

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The Commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) made the remarks in Tehran on Wednesday during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the killing of Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani (seen below) by terrorists in Syria.

general-hamedani

The senior IRGC commander was killed by ISIS last year during an advisory mission on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo.

“ISIS and Takfiri terrorist groups were not created for war with Syria, they were established to target the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Soleimani said.

He stressed that Iran’s advisory forces in Syria are not only defending the Arab country, but also Iran and the whole Muslim world.

“The Syrian government, with the help of Iran, has been able to withstand pressure and besiegement for five years, so that the world could admit that these groups [fighting the government] are terrorists,” he added.

Soleimani noted that if it were not for Iran’s help and Syria’s resistance, the whole region would have been plagued with the Takfiri scourge.

“Today the Takfiris have been defeated… on all fronts,” the IRGC commander said, adding, “I believe that the Syrian people are invincible if they support their government,” he added.

He also stressed that “the EU is paying a heavy security price for supporting terrorist groups” in the Middle East.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011, which has claimed the lives of some 400,000 people.

Iraqi Volunteer Forces to Treat Turkish Army like ISIS

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Hadi Al-Ameri: Iraqi Volunteer Force

“The Iraqi forces will treat any foreign troops who interferes in Mosul operations exactly the same as ISIS terrorists; Mosul should only be liberated by the Iraqi forces,” al-Ameri said on Wednesday.

Commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces further warned the Turkish army to withdraw its troops from Iraq.

On Tuesday, the Iraqi volunteer forces had vowed to confront the presence of the Turkish army troops in Iraq.

“The presence of the Turkish forces in Iraq is deemed as illegal and Hashd al-Shaabi has the power to confront the Turkish occupying forces,” Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi commander Javad al-Talibavi told FNA.

He reiterated that the Iraqi volunteer forces will not tolerate the presence of the Turkish troops in Iraq.

Ankara, in December 2015, first deployed about 150 soldiers equipped with heavy weapons and backed by two dozen tanks to Bashiqa, located on the outskirts of Mosul. It claimed the deployment was part of a mission to train and equip Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the fight against ISIS. Baghdad rejected the claim, saying it did not need the Turkish military assistance in the fight.

On Saturday, Turkish lawmakers almost overwhelmingly approved the extension by another year of Ankara’s cross-border military incursions into Syria and Iraq. During the parliamentary session, Erdogan urged allowing his country’s troops to participate in the upcoming battle for Mosul, warning Baghdad and Turkey’s Western allies that Turkey must be involved in any operation and included in the decision-making process.

“Turkey cannot be left off the table. The others don’t have such a border with Iraq. They may want us to stay as spectators but that decision is also going to be made here,” the Turkish president said.

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