Iranian companies are ready for involvement in and implementation of development projects in Sri Lanka, the president said at a meeting with his Sri Lankan counterpart Maithripala Sirisena, held in Bangkok on Monday.
The two heads of state met on the sidelines of the 2nd Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit.
Elsewhere in the meeting, President Rouhani hailed Iran and Sri Lanka’s identical stances and their support for each other in international organizations, calling for expansion of bilateral relations, economic ties in particular, following the removal of anti-Iran sanctions under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a nuclear agreement between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).
For his part, Sirisena acknowledged Iran’s role in the establishment of peace and stability in Sri Lanka, expressing his country’s resolve for boosting relations with Iran in all fields, mainly in the energy industry and agriculture.
President Rouhani concluded his Southeast Asian tour on Monday, after visiting Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand, where he addressed the ACD summit and held a number of high-profile meetings.
The summit, entitled “One Asia, Diverse Strength”, was attended by senior officials from 34 Asian countries.
The obscene sexual remarks by US Presidential candidate Donald Trump, which were caught on tape in 2005 and led to a scandal for him ahead of the upcoming US election, were widely covered in Iranian newspapers on Sunday.
Here are 19 newspapers that covered Trump’s scandal in their front page headlines:
19 Dey:
Trumpgate: The Big Scandal
Aftab-e Yazd:
1- Trump’s Scandal: GOP Candidate Apologizes after Release of Vulgar Video
2- Trump’s Disability against the Power of Media [Editorial]
Arman-e Emrooz:
Trump Scandal: Republicans to Distance Themselves from Trump
Besharat-e Now:
End of Trump? Worst Electoral Crisis for Trump Because of His Insulting Remarks about Women
Ebtekar:
New Trouble for Trump in US Presidential Elections
Etemad:
Trump’s Scandal: Release of Trump’s Remarks about Women Hits US Like an Earthquake and Leads to His Apology
Haft-e Sobh:
A Dangerous Weapon Named Washington Post: How a Website Close to Democrats Revealed Documents against Trump and Changed Fate of Elections?
Iran:
Trump in Trouble after Leakage of 90-Second Audio File: Radical Candidate’s Apology for His Insult to Women Was Not Useful
Jahan-e Eqtesad:
End of Populist? Scandal Created after Trump’s Vulgar Remarks
Jame Jam:
Trump’s New Goof
Javan:
Death of Ethics ahead of US Elections
Khorasan:
Trump on Verge of Collapse: Worst Crisis for GOP Candidate
Poland can do some cool stuff. To wit: this cool bike path in a town called Pruszków. The path is made of a light-emitting material that charges in the sun and can glow for up to 10 hours in the dark, bathing cyclists in a calming blue glow.
The 100-meter track, created by construction company TPA Instytut Badan Technicznych, is still in test phase, as reported by Polish media, and covered by Khabar Online.
Next Nature Network reported that the bike path illuminates at night thanks to blue luminophores, a synthetic material that emits light after being charged by the sun. The colour blue was chosen for the path because the engineers thought it would best suit the scenic Mazury landscape.
TPA president Ruttmar told Polish publication Gazeta Wyborcza that the material used for their track can emit light for more than 10 hours, meaning it can radiate throughout the whole night and re-charge the next day as it absorbs the sun’s rays.
The company that made it, TPA sp. z o.o is an engineering firm focused on future tech. They expect this sort of road to be useful in larger projects – highways, say – but for now they’re limiting it to bike paths until they can test the material in the wild. They said that this type of path may be installed in Warsaw soon and that it can glow in multiple colours.
It added that the US has committed crimes in many countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Libya, and Bahrain and in recent years its atrocities have included catastrophes such as those in Mina and Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
The IRGC said the most recent example of the US crimes can be seen in the targeting and massacring of the oppressed and defenseless people of Yemen in the most violent manner.
The bloodthirsty regime of Al Saud has been killing the oppressed Muslim people of Yemen simultaneously with Syrian and Iraqi Muslims over the past one and a half years to make up for its political failure in the Muslim world, the IRGC added.
It emphasized that the similarity between the Israeli regime’s child killing in the Gaza Strip and Al Saud’s genocide in Yemen shows the evil intentions of Tel Aviv and Riyadh to target Arab Muslim nations in the region.
The IRGC expressed confidence that the Muslim Yemeni people, led by powerful Houthi Ansarullah movement, would take revenge and give an “unforgettable lesson” to the Al Saud regime and its malicious allies.
It also urged Muslim nations to remain vigilant in the face of plots hatched by Arrogant Powers and Zionists and implemented by the Saudi regime.
The statement emphasized that the brave Iranian people would continue to support the resistance movement of Muslim nations, particularly the oppressed Yemenis, against “the Zionist crimes of the Al Saud regime.”
More than 140 Yemenis were killed and over 525 wounded on Saturday, when Saudi airstrike hit a community hall in south of the capital, Sana’a, where a funeral for the father of Interior Minister Jalal al-Roweishan was being held.
The Saudi missiles tore through the hall with hundreds of body parts left strewn in and outside the building.
In a statement released on Sunday, Yemen’s Supreme Political Council vowed a firm response to the Saudi air raid, calling on people to take to the streets of Sana’a to decry the assault.
The death toll was one of the largest in a single incident since March 2015, when the Riyadh regime began its deadly campaign to crush the Houthis and their allies and restore power to Yemen’s resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
[:ar]It added that the US has committed crimes in many countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Libya, and Bahrain and in recent years its atrocities have included catastrophes such as those in Mina and Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
The IRGC said the most recent example of the US crimes can be seen in the targeting and massacring of the oppressed and defenseless people of Yemen in the most violent manner.
The bloodthirsty regime of Al Saud has been killing the oppressed Muslim people of Yemen simultaneously with Syrian and Iraqi Muslims over the past one and a half years to make up for its political failure in the Muslim world, the IRGC added.
وخلال مراسم عزاء أقیمت بمناسبة ذکری استشهاد الإمام الحسین علیه السلام امس الأحد فی العاصمة التایلندیة بانکوک قال روحاني إن سبب خلود الإمام الحسین علیه السلام وواقعة عاشوراء هو المحبة التي تکنها جمیع القلوب للإمام الحسین مضيفا: إن الإمام الحسین (ع) لم یضح من أجل مجموعة من الناس فهدفه کان تحقیق القیم العالمیة وهو ملک لجمیع الإنسانیة.
واعتبر إن الإمام الحسین هو قتیل الحریة وإنه ضحی بنفسه من أجل تحریر الإنسانیة واصفاً إیاه بأنه شهید الحق والعدل وإصلاح المجتمع.
وأشار روحانی إلی الشعار المعروف الذی أطلقه محرر الهند غاندي والذي قال فیه بأنه اقتدی بالحسین من أجل تحریر بلاده لافتاً إلی ان ملیارات البشر حول العالم یکنون کل الإحترام للإمام الحسین لأنه اختار طریق القیم الأخلاقیة والجهاد والسلام.
ولفت الى إن الإمام الحسین علیه السلام لم یبدأ الحرب بل کان یدافع عن نفسه مشیراً إلی أنه حاول في اللحظات الأخیرة من الحرب هدایة أعدائه وإنقاذهم من الدوامة التی کانوا فیها.
Speaking at a meeting with Vice President of China Li Yuanchao in Thailand on Sunday, President Rouhani said relations with Beijing have always been very important to Tehran, adding that he is willing that the two counties use the post-JCPOA opportunities to quickly realize “strategic” relations.
He further stressed the need to expand banking ties between the two countries, saying that Iran welcomes China’s investment in various sectors of oil and gas, transportation, technology.
The Iranian president added that the two countries can also promote cooperation in scientific and cultural spheres.
Li, for his part, said that a new chapter has been opened in the history of relations between Iran and China, adding that his country welcomes closer cooperation with the Islamic Republic in all spheres.
The remarks come against the backdrop of a new wave of interest in ties with Iran after Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14, 2015 reached a conclusion over the text of a comprehensive 159-page deal on Tehran’s nuclear program and started implementing it on January 16.
The comprehensive nuclear deal, known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), terminated all nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made the remarks on Monday, addressing the second summit of the inter-governmental organization of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD), which has gathered 34 Asian leaders and senior officials in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
“The security of the continent’s east is inseparable from that of its west,” he said. “Meddling by foreign powers in both sides of the continent is a major threat to the security of all of us.”
“With a deep comprehension of the importance of Asia’s security and stability, the Islamic Republic believes that the most challenging crisis is the extremism and violence that has swept our entire continent, from Tokyo to New Delhi, and from Baghdad and Damascus to Istanbul,” President Rouhani said.
Acts of militancy and terror have been a recurrent theme of daily life in a range of countries in the region, including, but not limited to, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, Press TV reported.
Rouhani said Iran has been a strong force in the regional battle against such militancy and terrorism.
“Today, Iran has been standing like a strong barrier against the infiltration and expansion of extremism and terrorism,” he said.
The Islamic Republic has been successfully preserving itself against any spillover of regional violence. It has also been contributing to the regional anti-terror fight through its advisory military assistance to the Iraqi and Syrian governments.
President Rouhani had said in earlier remarks in Malaysia that the Islamic Republic was the reason why the Takfiri [extremist] terrorist group of ISIS has not succeeded in forming a so-called state in Iraq and Syria and has remained a terrorist group only.
‘Let’s Join in Building Asia’
Elsewhere in his Monday remarks, the Iranian president urged regional countries to join hands to build a prosperous region.
“Asia’s future belongs to our children, and its efflorescence hinges on a more dynamic and stable bond [forming] among the continent’s nations,” said the Iranian chief executive.
He pledged an active role on the part of Iran in the production chain, the expansion of new markets for, and the consistent supply of energy on the back of the country’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers.
“Given the nuclear agreement and the removal of the imposed sanctions, the Iranian economy promises remarkable growth in the years to come,” Rouhani said.
Tehran, he said, has set a midterm goal of reaching eight-percent economic growth each year.
In a meeting with the Secretary General of European External Action Service (EEAS) Helga Schmid in Brussels on Sunday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari said the international community must pay attention to the continuation of Saudi Arabia’s brutal killing of the defenseless Yemeni people.
He said double-standard policies should not be adopted on humanitarian tragedies, adding that issues such as the killing of the oppressed Yemeni people should not be overlooked or ignored just because they have no immediate direct consequences for the European Union from a security and refugee standpoint.
More than 140 Yemenis were killed and over 525 wounded on Saturday, when a Saudi airstrike hit a community hall in south of the capital, Sana’a, where a funeral for the father of Interior Minister Jalal al-Roweishan was being held.
The death toll was one of the largest in a single incident since March 2015, when the Riyadh regime began its deadly campaign to crush the Houthis and their allies and restore power to resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
Elsewhere, Jaberi Ansari once again emphasized the need for pursuing a political approach to solve the Syrian crisis.
He said the success of a political solution requires the cooperation of influential foreign actors and serious intra-Syrian dialog “so that the Syrian people would be able to determine their country’s future.”
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy over the past five and a half years, which has claimed the lives of around 400,000 people.In recent months, the Takfiri militants have suffered major setbacks as the Syrian army has managed to liberate several areas.
Schmid, for her part, said Iran and the EU must improve cooperation to pave the way for the dispatch of humanitarian aid to Syria.
Like Iran, the 28-nation bloc believes that the Syrian crisis has no military solution and that all countries must help find a political approach to resolve this crisis, she added.
In a letter penned to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday, Zarif condemned Riyadh’s latest atrocity, which killed over 140 civilians.
“Not only Saudi Arabia, but also those who have supported the aggression by the Saudi-led coalition against Yemeni people should be held accountable for the war crimes perpetrated in Yemen over the past year and a half,” he said, as reported by Press TV.
Iran’s foreign minister also called on Ban to facilitate a proposal by the Iranian Red Crescent Society to send humanitarian aid to the Yemeni capital Sana’a.
“In view of the gravity of the situation in Yemen and the devastation caused by the attacks against the funeral hall, the Iranian Red Crescent Society is proposing to arrange for humanitarian assistance, including medical supplies, to the Yemeni people and evacuating the injured to hospitals in Iran,” he added.
Earlier, Ban called for a swift, independent probe into the airstrike, while stressing that “Those responsible for the attack must be brought to justice.”
More than 140 people were killed and over 525 wounded on Saturday, when a Saudi airstrike hit a community hall in south of the capital, where a funeral for the father of Interior Minister Jalal al-Roweishan was being held.
The death toll was one of the largest in a single incident since March 2015, when the Riyadh regime began its deadly campaign to crush the Yemeni Houthi Ansarullah movement and their allies and restore power to the resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
Iran Urges Secure Air Corridor to Send Humanitarian Aid to Yemenis
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman also called for the establishment of a secure air corridor in a bid to send humanitarian assistance to the wounded Yemenis after Saudi Arabia’s deadly airstrikes.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to dispatch humanitarian aid, including medical teams, medicine and food to the injured and admit the wounded people to Iran’s hospitals for treatment,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Sunday, as reported by Tasnim.
Also, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani denounced Saturday’s carnage in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a caused by a Saudi airstrike that targeted a crowded funeral ceremony in the city.
In a message to his Yemeni counterpart Yahya Ali al-Raee on Sunday, Larijani strongly condemned the attack and expressed sympathy with the Yemeni people, officials and families of the victims.
Larijani expressed Iran’s readiness to take immediate measures to help treat those injured in the attack in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Larijani’s advisor Hossein Amir Abdollahian also announced that Tehran is ready to immediately dispatch air ambulances to Sana’a to transfer the Yemeni injured to the Iranian hospitals.
He further noted that the Saudis should halt the siege of the oppressed Yemenis so they could receive the emergency aid from Iran, IRNA reported.
The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) is expected to facilitate the transfer of Iran’s medical equipment to Yemen, Amir Abdollahian noted.
The debate was held at the Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, on Sunday night.
The two candidates broke traditional debate decorum by refusing to shake hands as they took the stage.
Trump called her Democratic rival a “devil” and Clinton said the business mogul owes all Americans an apology for a campaign driven by insults and degrading comments about women and minorities.
Clinton (L) and Trump debate at Washington University, October 9, 2016. (Photo by AFP)
The debate came as the Trump campaign is in crisis after his sexually obscene comments, made years earlier, were exposed in a video tape, Press TV reported.
The video was recorded in 2005 while Trump was on a bus with former “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush. The former reality TV star can be heard talking about his failed attempt to seduce a “married” woman. “I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it. She was married. And I moved on her very heavily.” He also says, “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful” women. “I just start kissing them. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
The leaked tape angered Republican leaders, many of whom have withdrawn their endorsement of Trump and called for him to drop out of the race.
According to the Associated Press, the debate served as Trump’s “final opportunity to keep his campaign,” following calls by Republican leaders for his withdrawal.
Commenting on his lewd remarks exposed in the recording, Trump pushed back against the criticisms, saying he had never really kissed or groped women without consent and that was just “locker room talk.”
“No, I didn’t say that at all. I don’t think you understand what I said,” he told debate moderator Anderson Cooper, who described the remarks as “sexual assault.”
Clinton, on the other hand, rejected Trump’s defense in his apology following the leak, saying the vulgar comments reflect “who Donald Trump is” and what he “thinks about women, what he does to women.”
“It’s clear to anyone who heard it, it represents exactly who he is.”
Trump is joined by his daughter Ivanka Trump (L) and his wife Melania Trump at the end of the town hall debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 9, 2016.
She further denounced Trump’s other disparaging remarks against not only women, but African Americans, asylum seekers, people with disabilities, prisoners of war and Muslims.
The former first lady shrugged off Trump’s attacks on Bill Clinton’s affair as US president, and suggested that Trump’s apology was not enough as he must apologize to the whole country for the way he has conducted his insult-driven campaign.
Bill Clinton ‘Far Worse’ an Abuser
Trump tore into Hillary’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, for his past infidelities and sexual misconduct.
“If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse,” Trump said. “Mine are words, and his was action. His was, what he’s done to women, there’s never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that’s been so abusive to women.
“So, you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women. Hillary Clinton attacked those same women and attacked them viciously.”
Trump invited three women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct to the debate, along with a fourth who is a rape victim and has criticized Hillary Clinton for defending her accused rapist as the court-appointed defense attorney 40 years ago.
Bill Clinton accusers Kathleen Willey (L), Juanita Broaddrick (C) and rape victim Kathy Shelton are seated for the second debate. (Photo by AFP)
“So don’t tell me about words,” he said. “I absolutely, I apologize to those words. … When Hillary brings up a point like that and she talks about words that I said 11 years ago, I think it’s disgraceful, and I think she should be ashamed of herself.”
Islamophobic Answer to Islamophobia Question
Later during the debate, Trump refused to answer a question about how to stop Islamophobia in the US, asserting that Muslims themselves should report dangerous behavior by terrorists.
The billionaire suggested that American Muslims don’t often share information with law enforcement in order to protect extremists within their communities.
“Muslims have to report the problems when they see them,” he said. “And you know there’s always a reason for everything. If they don’t do that, it’s a very difficult situation for our country.”
Trump also said that his controversial proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US has “morphed” into a plan for “extreme vetting” of refugees who he said might be a “Trojan horse.”
Trump speaks during the debate (Photo by AFP)
Clinton slammed Trump’s stance as “dark and divisive.”
“We are a country founded on religious freedom and liberty. How do we do what [Trump] has advocated without causing great distress within our country?” the Democrat said. “Are we going to have religious tests when people fly into our country?”
Clinton ‘in Jail’ If I Was President
Trump also attacked his Democratic rival over her use of a private email server as secretary of state. The businessman said he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton if elected president.
Clinton said it was good that someone with Trump’s temperament was not in charge of the US legal system.
Trump quipped, “because you would be in jail.”
Clash over Syria Policy
In an exchange over Syria policy, Trump said he disagreed with his running mate, Mike Pence, who earlier urged US attacks against military targets of President Bashar al-Assad if Russia continued to assist the Syrian government with airstrikes.
“He and I haven’t spoken and I disagree,” he said.
“You have to knock out ISIS. Right now,” the real estate tycoon said, using another acronym for the Daesh terrorist group. “Syria is fighting ISIS. We have people that want to fight both at the same time.”
“We have to worry about ISIS before we can get too much more involved,” Trump noted.
The Republican candidate said he did not like Assad, but added that his forces were battling terrorism along with Russia and Iran.
“I don’t like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those three have now lined up because of our weak foreign policy.”
Meanwhile, Clinton accused Russia of being only “interested in keeping Assad in charge” and not paying “any attention to ISIS.”
“We need some leverage with the Russians because they’re not going to come to the negotiation table without leverage,” Clinton said.
She also renewed her calls setting up a no-fly zone in Syria and arming the Kurdish fighters, but acknowledged that sending US troops on the ground would be “a very serious mistake.”
Earlier in the debate, Trump said that the US and Russia should fight Daesh together in Syria. “I think it would be great if we got along with Russia.”
Next Nature Network reported that the bike path illuminates at night thanks to blue luminophores, a synthetic material that emits light after being charged by the sun. The colour blue was chosen for the path because the engineers thought it would best suit the scenic Mazury landscape.
The company that made it, TPA sp. z o.o is an engineering firm focused on future tech. They expect this sort of road to be useful in larger projects – highways, say – but for now they’re limiting it to bike paths until they can test the material in the wild. They said that this type of path may be installed in Warsaw soon and that it can glow in multiple colours.
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Elsewhere, Jaberi Ansari once again emphasized the need for pursuing a political approach to solve the Syrian crisis.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to dispatch humanitarian aid, including medical teams, medicine and food to the injured and admit the wounded people to Iran’s hospitals for treatment,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Sunday, as reported by Tasnim.
He further noted that the Saudis should halt the siege of the oppressed Yemenis so they could receive the emergency aid from Iran, IRNA reported.
