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IRGC Smashes Terror Cell West of Iran, Kills 12 Terrorists

General Mohammad Pakpour

According to Commander of the IRGC Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, the team of outlaws, affiliated with the anti-revolutionary and terrorist groups that receive support from the US and the Zionist regime of Israel, had plans to sneak into Iran’s territory to cause insecurity.

Forces from the IRGC’s Najaf Base, in cooperation with local residents, could detect the hostile plot in time and confront them in a border area in Kermanshah Province, the commander added, saying the terrorists were all killed in a fierce clash with the security forces.

Brigadier General Pakpour added that 3 IRGC forces were wounded in the operation, and that a significant amount of weapons and ammunition were seized  from the terrorists.

Iran’s FM and Parliament Speaker Cancel Meetings with German Vice-Chancellor

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Sigmar Gabriel had been also scheduled to hold talks with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani earlier in the day, but that meeting was called off as well.
Heading a business delegation, the German vice chancellor arrived in Tehran on Monday.
Gabriel had told Der Spiegel recently that Tehran and Berlin could enjoy amicable relations only when Iran “accepted Israel’s right to exist.”
He had also announced plans to “raise concerns about Iran’s role in the war in Syria and its human rights record” during his visit to Tehran.
The comments sparked bitter controversy in Iran, with Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani saying he would have never permitted such a person to visit Iran if he had been in the administration or the Foreign Ministry’s shoes.

Special Units of Iran’s Police Hold Exercises in Tehran

The Special Units of the Islamic Republic’s Law Enforcement displayed their skills in various fields including hostage release, chasing, acrobatic moves, and shooting in a manoeuvre called ‘The Might of NAJA’s Special Units’.
Here are IRNA’s photos of the drills:

 

 

Qurans Put in Garbage by Saudi Embassy in Morocco Cause Fury

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Some rather strange photos were circulated on Moroccan social media this week. Piles of books, carefully bound in a range of rich colours, lying sadly in the middle of a wasteland, Al Bawaba reported, as covered by Press TV.

Damningly they were copies of the Quran, the holy book of Islam. They were snapped next to a garbage dump causing outrage across Morocco, according to a report by HuffPost Arabi.

According to Islamic hadiths (sayings from the prophet of Islam, Muhammad), the Quran should be treated with the utmost respect when being stored or handled. Aside from being treated with such care, it should not be made dirty.

The source of the abandoned holy texts, it has appeared, is even more shocking. The Qurans came from the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Rabat, says HuffPost Arabi.

quranThe story was reported in various other Arabic-language news sites as well.

In light of the outcry, however, the Kingdom’s representative has issued an explanation for its mistreatment of religious books.

According to the Saudi website Ajel, the books were being kept in the basement of the embassy where they were exposed to rain.

Officials said they instructed workers to carry the books to outside to burn them in a safe place, but their requests were ignored by employees who allegedly dumped the books on the floor.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4

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Newspapers on Tuesday covered the German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s visit to Tehran and the Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) signed between the German and Iranian officials.

They also highlighted the issue of genetically-modified products being imported into Iran, and the lobbies to lift the ban in the Iranian Parliament.

A decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to suspend a nuclear pact with the US also received great coverage today.

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

 

Abrar:

1- UN’s Call for an End to Aleppo Hell

2- Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated Entire Pacific Ocean

3- Over 500 ISIS Elements Killed in Mosul during September

4- Baghdad Condemns Erdogan’s Remarks about Mosul

5- US and South Korea Hold Joint Military Drills to Counter North Korea’s Threats

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Abrar-e Eqtesadi:

1- Iran’s First New Oil Contact to Be Signed Today

2- Foreigners Banned from Possessing Lands in Iranian Free Zones

3- Iran’s Hotel Industry Enters the Capital Market

4- Iran Interested in Expansion of Ties with Germany

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Afarinesh:

1- Larijani: West Is Playing with Terrorism instead of Fighting It

2- Ex-PM of Sweden Meets with Zarif

3- Judiciary Chief: No One Likes and Defends Death Penalty

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Afkar:

1- Israel’s Wishful Efforts Will Lead to Nowhere: Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Judiciary Chief: If I Were in Government’s Shoes, I Wouldn’t Let German Economy Minister Come to Iran

2- Taliban Seizes Afghanistan’s Kunduz

3- Historic Agreement between Germany and Iran’s Central Bank

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Amin:

1- Al Monitor: Rouhani’s Visit to New York Was Successful, But Why Was He Attacked by Opponents?

2- Major Reformist Parties Support Rouhani: Reformists’ Unity Waiting for Khatami’s Decision

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Conservatives Should Appreciate that Ahmadinejad Won’t Run for Presidential Elections: Conservative Figure

2- Analyst: Ahmadinejad Will Vote for Rouhani!

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Asrar:

1- Larijani: Nuclear Deal Has Led to 5% Economic Growth for Iran

2- Iran Starts Oil Exports to Britain

3- Doctors’ Renewed Hope for Curing AIDS

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Donya-ye Eqtesad:

1- 2 Euro Zone Powers’ Economic Offer to Iran: Germans Arrive in Tehran, France Sends Message

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Ebtekar:

1- Iranian Candidates of a Swedish Prize: Experts Discuss Possibility of Giving Noble Peace Prize to Iran

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Emtiaz:

1- Transport Minister: Immediate Sale of 17 Airbus Planes to Iran

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Etemad:

1- Government Communicates Six Major Components of Next Year’s Budget: Foreign Currencies with Single Rates, Increase in Salaries

2- Iran’s Economy Waiting for German Partners: German Economy Minister Arrives in Tehran to Sign 10 MoUs

3- Etemad’s Interview with Nicaraguan Ambassador to Tehran: We Have No Political Prisoner or Imprisoned Journalist

4- For His Medical Error, Kiarostami’s Doctor Is Sentenced to 3 Months Deprivation of Visiting Patients His Own Office in the Hospital, and Nothing More!

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Ettela’at:

1- Rouhani: It’s Necessary to Make a Decision for Increase of Oil Price

2- 50 Civilians Killed in US Airstrike on Deir ez-Zor in Syria

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Haft-e Sobh:

1- Goodbye Constantinople: In Separate Incidents in Istanbul and Pamukkale, Two Iranians Are Killed; Iran’s Embassy Issues Warning against Iranians’ Trip to Turkey

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Hamshahri:

1- Ban on Genetically-Modified Products Waiting for Parliament’s Decision

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Iran:

1- Deputy Prosecutor-General: Twitter Will in No Way Be Unblocked

2- Gradual Decrease of Dust Pollution in Khuzestan

3- German Economy Minister: Investment of German Banks in Iran Will Be Guaranteed

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Javan:

1- Putin’s Order for Cessation of Nuclear Pact with US: Europe’s Nuclear Diplomacy to Save Terrorists

2- After Failure of US-Russia Talks and Putin’s Order for Termination of Nuclear Pact, EU Foreign Policy Chief Starts Talks with Zarif

3- Zionists to Make Iranian Society Infertile through Genetically-Modified Products: 500 Academics, Doctors, and Medical Students Write Letter to Parliament

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- Putin Suspends Nuclear Pact with US in Reaction to Washington’s Wrong and Anti-Russia Policies

2- Syrian Army Gives Ultimatum for Terrorists’ Exit from Aleppo

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Ka’enat:

1- New York Post’s Strong Criticism of White House: Zarif Played with Us with a Simple Trick

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Kayhan:

1- People’s Food Security and Health, a Plaything for Dealers of Genetically-Modified Products: Suspicious People’s Mass Lobby in Parliament for Lifting Ban on GM Products

2- Hassan Nasrallah: Such Takfiri Groups as ISIS Have Their Roots in Yazid I’s Camp

3- Sunnis in a Pakistani City Take Responsibility for Ensuring Security of Shiite Mourners of Imam Hussein

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Khorasan:

1- Return to Cold War: Putin Suspends Nuclear Pact with US over Washington’s Hostile Moves

2- A 16-Year-Old Student Writes a Letter to FM Zarif and Receives a Response

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Resalat:

1- Assembly of Experts Urges Government to Take Firm Stances against US Violation of Its Commitments

2- Transport Minister: We’ll Never Sign a Conditional Plane Deal

3- IRGC General: Interaction with the World Should Not Bring Humiliation to Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Setareh Sobh:

1- US Strategist: Tradition vs. Modernism in US Presidential Competitions

2- Colombians Say No to Peace in a National Referendum

3- Ahmadinejad’s Attempt to Defeat Conservatives

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4


 

Shargh:

1- Urban Development Minister: Previous Government Bombarded the Country’s Housing

2- FIFA World Cup Qualifying Match between Iran and South Korea to Be Held at the Night before Anniversary of Imam Hussein’s Martyrdom

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on October 4

 

Europe Not Sole Option for Trade: Iranian Minister

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Speaking to reporters in the city of Semnan, 220 kilometers (136 miles) east of the capital Tehran, on Tuesday, Tayyebnia said he has reminded his German counterpart in a Monday meeting that “Iran has great potential in various economic arenas, and is not seeking Europe and European economy alone.”

He also underlined that Iran aims to boost exports and investment at all levels.

On Monday, Germany’s vice-chancellor and economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, arrived in Tehran with a big economic delegation and signed a number of agreements with Iran.

In an address to Iran-Germany joint trade meeting, Gabriel expressed Berlin’s readiness to make more commitments in its trade interaction with Tehran in order to assure Iran’s market that German businesses are not only after making profit.

Leader Urges Iran’s Police to Keep Pace with New Technologies

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In a meeting with high-ranking police commanders and officials in Tehran on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei urged efforts to “enhance the readiness and update the capabilities” of police forces considering the rapid scientific and technological progress in the world.

The gathering was held on the occasion of Iranian Law Enforcement Force Day.

Imam Khamenei further hailed police forces as a pillar of security in the country, stressing that secuirty is the origin of personal peace of mind as well as public and social calmness.

Leader Urges Iran’s Police to Keep Pace with New Technologies

 

The Leader also called on the police staff to strengthen their resolve, faith, motive and morale in a constant manner.

Iran’s Police Force is in charge of ensuring security in the cities, on the roads and along the borders.

It has a broad range of responsibilities and includes several divisions, including cyber police, border guard police, traffic police, criminal investigation department, and a bureau for compulsory military service affairs.

Leader Urges Iran’s Police to Keep Pace with New Technologies

Thousands of Polish Women Stage ‘Black Monday’ Strikes to Protest Abortion Law

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Thousands of Polish women dressed in black boycotted work and took to the streets in protest against a plan to ban abortions.

Without half their workforce, government offices, universities and schools in 60 cities across Poland closed their doors.

For the day of action, dubbed “Black Monday”, women donned dark-coloured clothes in a symbol of mourning for the loss of reproductive rights they fear.

Poland already has one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws and opinion surveys show very little support for an even stricter law, despite the nation’s deep Catholicism and conservative political direction.

Under the existing law, a hard-won compromise in force since 1993, abortion is banned except in cases where the woman’s life is in danger, the fetus is irreparably damaged or the pregnancy results from rape or incest.

The new proposal, now being examined by a parliamentary commission, would make all abortions illegal, even in cases of rape or when the woman’s life is at risk, with prison terms of up to five years for women seeking abortion and doctors who perform them, as reported by The Independent.

The proposal for the stricter law came from an anti-abortion citizens’ initiative that had gathered 450,000 signatures in this nation of 38 million, and is supported by the church. The conservative ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), which has a majority in parliament, includes supporters of the proposal but it’s not clear if there are enough to push it through.

Thousands of Polish Women Stage 'Black Monday' Strikes to Protest Abortion Law

Critics say that the new rules would cast suspicion on those who suffer miscarriages. They also say doctors could be put off carrying out routine procedures on pregnant women for fear of being accused of facilitating an abortion.

One group of protesters on Monday blocked the entrance to the central government in Warsaw and chanted: “We want doctors, not missionaries!”

They held posters emblazoned with the message: “A government is not like a pregnancy – it can be terminated.”

Tehran’s Nature Bridge Receives Aga Khan Architecture Award

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Nature Bridge, a pink rubberised park by BIG, Zaha Hadid’s first building in Lebanon, a labyrinthine community centre and a perforated brick mosque, both in Bangladesh, and a library in a Beijing hutong are the winners of the triennial architecture award this year.

The architects of each project will receive a share of a $1 million (£700,000) fund, which makes the Aga Khan Award for Architecture one of the world’s most lucrative architecture prizes.

tabiat-bridgeThe six projects – located in Bangladesh, Denmark, China, Iran and Lebanon – were selected from a shortlist of 19 projects unveiled in May 2016.

They were chosen by a committee including architects Emre Arolat, David Adjaye and Dominique Perrault, and the Aga Khan himself.

Nature Bridge in Tehran was built by Diba Tensile Architecture, Leila Araghian and Alireza Behzadi.

The two-to-three level, 270-metre-long curved pedestrian bridge of varying width has a complex steel structure featuring a dynamic three-dimensional truss. Two continuous deck levels sits on three tree-shaped columns, with a third where the truss meets the column branches.

It was an imaginative leap beyond the basic competition brief of designing a bridge to connect two parks separated by a highway in northern Tehran, without blocking the view to the Alborz Mountains.

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The structural elements are based on a latent geometrical order rotated and repeated in three dimensions. The result is a spatial structure large enough to create an inhabitable architectural space, where people congregate, eat and rest rather than just pass through.

Multiple paths in each park were created that would lead people on to the bridge. Seating, green spaces and kiosks encourage people to linger on a site where greenery has been preserved by the minimal footprint of the bridge, whose curve offers a variety of viewing perspectives.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was set up by the Aga Khan in 1977 to acknowledge and encourage projects that address the needs of Muslims the world over.

A ceremony will be held for the winners of the 2016 award at the Al Jahili Fort – a World Heritage Site in Al Ain that itself received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007 following a significant renovation.

Nature Bridge in Tehran; the awarded structure of 2015

 

US Fears Iran Revolution’s Impact on World: Assad

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Washington is afraid that nations might follow the model of the Islamic Revolution, he told The Tehran Foreign Policy Studies Quarterly.

Ever since World War II, the US has only succeeded in creating challenges to the world and destroying countries, Assad said.

Epicenter of fight against terrorism

The Americans, he added, wanted for the Syrian government to be replaced with a vassal state, which would easily hand the country over to the West.

Had such a scenario materialized, the rights of the Syrian people would have been ignored and the way would have been paved for eventual Western dominance over the Middle East region, he said.

The Islamic Republic has been providing advisory support for Syria’s defense of itself against foreign-backed militancy, which began in 2011.

Referring to an apparent instance of submission to Western demands, Assad said that Saudi Arabia had been told by Western countries to act in line with ethnic divisions in the region.

Riyadh is widely believed to be providing financial and ideological support to the Takfiri terrorists who have been ravaging Syria and Iraq since 2014.