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Deprived People in Northwestern Iran Take Selfies

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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Remote and underdeveloped regions have always been deprived of equipment and technologies used in the modern life.

Noli-Balaghi, Kareh-Nab, Golsen Gursen, and Akbar Kandi are among the most deprived parts of a region in northwest of Iran. These villages are located near the city of Meshkinshahr in Ardabil province.

The residents are deprived of the simplest facilities like drinking water, electricity, and medical and educational facilities. They have never seen any TV, refrigerator, mobile phone, and the like, and some of them even do not know such devices exist.

They show interesting reactions in their first encounter with these modern technologies. Mehr’s photographer has given his cell phone to these villagers, and asked them to photograph themselves and whatever matters to them in selfies.

All these photos are taken by individuals who are using technology for the first time, and some even do not know how to take the phone in their hands.

Each of these people has his/her own story. One of them says his sheep and cows are not his properties; they are rather part of his life. A bare-footed kid is spending all his childhood in unpaved alleys. All of them try to show what matters to them without protesting at what they lack.

The simplicity, the joy, and the regrets portrayed in the photos are eye-catching.

Here are Mehr’s photos:

 

 

Ayatollah Khamenei Writes Note in Praise of ‘Tintin and Sinbad’

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Tintin and Sinbad

The book Tintin and Sinbad, written by Mohammad Mirkiani, is an Iranian book for teenagers that relates the story of Tintin, a fictional character created by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, and Sinbad, a fictional sailor and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin.

On October 28, 1994, Ayatollah Khamanei wrote a short note in praise of the book. The note was unveiled on Monday, August 8, 2016, after 22 years.

In this note, the Leader advices all teenagers to read the book, and voices his pleasure to see the book is relating what he himself has always been telling other people, but they did not believe it.

The book reportedly deals with a failed plot by the Western Tintin against Sinbad, a symbol of the Orient. Here is IFP’s translation of the Leader’s note:

Tintin and Sinbad

“I always used to tell the same story. It’s a pity that not many people believed it. Now it’s good and here’s the evidence! The narrator of this story, who has witnessed everything with his own eyes, has published the story of Tintin and Sinbad. Now my job is easier! The only thing I need to do is to present a copy of the book to all children,” the Leader said about the teen book.

 

Here is what Ayatollah Khamenei’s official website has written about the book:

‘Tintin & Sinbad’ is a work of fiction and metaphor narrating contrasts between two characters of Tintin and Sinbad, each representing western and eastern cultures, respectively, written for teenagers. In this book, characters like Sinbad, Ali Baba and the like, who were once very popular in eastern stories, go to a challenge against exaggerated protagonists and paper tigers of west. Contrary to illogical and aggrandized powers of western heroes, eastern legends take logical and rational measures and stand against their invasion and aggressions with patience and unity and save their land. The repeated story of western invasions on eastern territories and colonialism Asian and African countries suffered, reappears in a new form and with the objective of dominance over minds and cultures is narrated in ‘Tintin and Sinbad.’

Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad Pens Letter to Obama

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IFP Media Wire
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Ahmadinejad

“You took office as the president of the United States amidst a climax in global frustration and protests from nations, following several decades of hegemonic policies and behavior of consecutive US administrations. Your campaign slogan was ‘change’ and you claimed to be determined to change those policies as well as behaviors, recognize nations’ rights and show respects for other nations’ cultures and independence,” reads part of Ahmadinejad’s letter to the US president.
Following is the full text of his letter to Obama:

 

In the Name of God, The Most Compassionate, The Most Merciful

Praise belongs to God, the Lord of heavens and earth, and God’s peace and mercy be upon the seal of prophets, Mohammad and his pure progeny, and upon all prophets and messengers of God.

O’ God, hasten the blessed advent of your savior, and bestow upon him health and triumph, and upon us by being among his best supporters, as well as those who heed for being sacrificed ahead of him

 

President Barack Hussein Obama

The White House

His Excellency Mr. President

As-salamun alaykum

You took office as the president of the United States amidst a climax in global frustration and protests from nations, following several decades of hegemonic policies and behavior of consecutive US administrations. Your campaign slogan was ‘change’ and you claimed to be determined to change those policies as well as behaviors, recognize nations’ rights and show respect for other nations’ cultures and independence.

It is with great regret that your explicitly announced undertakings, mentioned above, including your public as well as written announcements to mend ties with the Iranian nation and to make compensation for about sixty years of oppression and cruelty by different American governments against the Iranian nation were never fulfilled, whatsoever the cause, and the same hostile policies along with the same trend of enmity were pursued, in alternative ways.

Although, it was expected that during your term in office compensation for the past would have been remedied, or at least any new instance of cruel behavior against the Iranian nation would have been prevented, I am afraid that manifold problems were created from which I am going to raise but a particular one that occurred recently.

On June 9, 2014, a court in America, based on unfounded claims without presenting any reliable documents, issued a sentence based on which about two billion Dollars of the Iranian nation’s assets would be seized unlawfully which is an obvious instance of transgression. This sentence was later on upheld by the American judiciary system on April 20, 2016 and consequently those assets were seized, which has raised widespread public protests among the Iranian people nationwide.

It is the clear expectation of the Iranian nation that the particular case of property seizure, which fully occurred during your term in office, and actually toward the end of the term, and which is counter to all international legal principles and rules, be quickly fixed by your excellency and that not only the Iranian nations right be restored, and the seized property released and returned, but also the damages caused be fully compensated for.

Though I believe the Iranian nation will itself restore its right, I passionately advise you not to let the historical defamation and bitter incident be recorded under your name, within the framework of unilateral and unjustified relations of the two states, hence deepening the historical distrust.

My letter is by no means of political nature, but merely from the standpoint of humanitarian rights and for protecting the inalienable rights of my nation and should you have read it up to here from a political point of view, I would recommend reading this all over from the perspective I am taking while I’m writing this down.

Best wishes for the health and well-being of all nations

Mahmoud Ahmady Nejad

Images of 50 Endangered Species on Iran’s Sports Clothing

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian cheetah

Reza Shajie, head of the Environment and Sustainable Development Office at the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, announced that the picture of Iranian cheetah will appear on football players’ shirts once again following the recent talks with the Football Federation.

According to a report by Fars, as translated by IFP, Shajie added that measures have been taken to print the pictures of 50 endangered species on the outfits of 50 different sports.

“The International Federation has no authority over the laws and regulations of Olympics. In order to print the picture of cheetah or other animals on our sports clothing, we had to start required correspondence with the National Olympic Committee two years earlier.”

“The Football Federation, having had the experience before, proposed it once again because it yielded good and tangible results,” he noted.

“This measure enhanced people’s general knowledge about Iranian cheetah and more importantly, we received reports about a decrease in hunting this animal.”

Shajie went on to say that Iran is the first country to print the image of an endangered cheetah, not only on its football players’ shirts, but also on the buses dedicated to its national football team.

“I hope other federations take the same path soon,” he said.

Iran’s Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Federation has put the picture of wild goat on the sleeves of its national team’s shirts; the Squash Federation went for Iranian cheetah, and all the Paralympic athletes had the image of common cuckoo on their shirts in the recent farewell ceremony attended by President Hassan Rouhani.

IAEA’s Leakage of Iran’s Nuclear Data Is Troubling US: Nuclear Chief

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Salehi

“Leakage of the information showed the Iranian negotiators’ wisdom and cleverness because the same issue has turned into a problem in the US,” Salehi told Fars on Monday, August 8.

“The Americans say why Iran’s nuclear breakout has decreased to 4 months from the previous one-year period; therefore, you [the Iranians] shouldn’t worry and they should be concerned,” he added.

Late in July, the Associated Press claimed that it has obtained a leaked document that is the only text linked to last year’s deal between Iran and six foreign powers that hasn’t been made public, although US officials say members of Congress have been able to see it.

The news agency claimed that the document was given to the AP by a diplomat whose work has focused on Iran’s nuclear program for more than a decade, and its authenticity was confirmed by another diplomat who possesses the same document.

The diplomat who shared the document with the AP described it as an add-on agreement to the nuclear deal. But while formally separate from that accord, he said that it was in effect an integral part of the deal and had been approved by the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, the six powers that negotiated the deal with Tehran.

After the report, the AEOI blasted the IAEA for leaking information about the country’s long-term nuclear program, calling on the IAEA to change its methods of keeping the members’ secrets.

“We shall ask the IAEA to review its methods of giving different experts access to the secret information, especially the ones whose job is not related to a specific issue, and give the necessary advice and recommendations to its experts,” AEOI Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said in an interview with the state-run TV in July.

“When the Agency has access to the classified information, it should foresee mechanisms to be able to protect these secret documents and information,” he added.

Israeli Oil Company Ordered to Pay Iran $1.2bn after Losing Appeal

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IFP Media Wire
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oil storage container
A file photo of oil storage containers on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Israel’s Ashkelon, (by Reuters)

The Swiss Supreme Court in Lausanne ordered the Israeli firm, the Trans-Asiatic Oil Ltd., or TAO, to pay the money to the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), the website of Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Monday.

According to the Swiss court, sanctions have been lifted against the NIOC, and there is now no legal obstacle in the way of transferring the long-overdue payment.

The Israeli firm also has to pay roughly $200,000 in court costs.

TAO had been involved in a partnership with the National Iranian Oil Company under Iran’s last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was deposed in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Israeli firm operated a fleet of tanker ships to carry Iranian oil to European customers.

The partnership ended in 1979, but the Israeli firm refused to pay for the Iranian oil already sold to third parties.

The Islamic Republic, which does not recognize the Israeli regime, launched the arbitration process to obtain the money for the oil that had been supplied on credit under the deposed Iranian monarch.

The total sum in dispute is estimated at some $7bn.

The court in Switzerland had ruled in 2015 that Israel pay Iran the money, but the Tel Aviv regime had appealed.

A series of sanctions against Iranian firms and individuals has been lifted under a nuclear deal Iran signed with six world powers in 2015.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Newspaper front pages

Newspapers on Monday covered the ongoing visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the Azeri capital of Baku, where he held a meeting and signed several MoUs with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, and is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin as well.

The execution of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear academic who had spied for the US and given Iran’s secret information to the CIA, also received great coverage. Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei on Sunday confirmed the earlier reports about his execution.

A Saturday night TV debate between the reformist Sadegh Kharrazi, the chief of Vaghaye Ettefaghieh, and the conservative Hossein Shariatmadari, the chief of Kayhan, was also a top and hot story.

The following headlines cover the above issues and many more:

 

Abrar:

1- Negotiations of Rouhani and Putin for Expansion of Military Cooperation

2- WikiLeaks Has Emails that Would Send Clinton to Prison: Julian Assange

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Judiciary Spokesman: Shahram Amiri Has Been Executed; We Outsmarted the US

2- Baku Close to a Trilateral Treaty

3- Government’s Performance in Field of Women Not Acceptable: Academic

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Asrar:

1- Ahmadinejad’s Trips Are Believed to Be Campaigns for Next Year’s Presidential Elections: Tehran Governor-General [it is illegal to start the campaigns as of now]

2- Fordow to Be Constructed in Depth of Earth with Help of Russians: Nuclear Expert

3- Europe to Be Connected to Persian Gulf through North-South Corridor: Rouhani

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Ebtekar:

1- 6 Documents of Cooperation and MoUs Signed between Tehran and Baku

2- Shahram Amiri Had Been Sentenced to Death from Beginning: Spokesman

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Etemad:

1- Tehran-Baku without Need for Visa

2- Trump Is Symbol of Rise of Lower Class against Ruling System: Analyst

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Ettela’at:

1- Promotion of Bilateral and Mutual Cooperation between Iran and Azerbaijan Republic

2- US and Saudi Arabia Were behind Turkey Coup: WikiLeaks

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Jame Jam:

1- Iran’s Apparel Market Infected with ‘Brand’ Virus

2- Liberation of Aleppo Is Like Breaking the Back of Terrorists

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Javan:

1- Iran-Azerbaijan Cooperation against Terrorism

2- Execution of Nuclear Spy

3- American Company that Used to Produce Poison in WWII Is Now Producing Genetically Modified Products

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- Pakistani People Protest at Cooperation of Their Air Force with Zionist Regime [Israel]

2- Iran Has Ties with 450 Foreign Banks: VP

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Kayhan:

1- Fear of the Fate of Aleppo War, the Clue to US Coup in Turkey

2- Bahrain Is Governed by a British Security Team: Sheikh Qassim’s Representative

3- Clinton Has Trade Ties with ISIS: Assange

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Khorasan:

1- Birth Rate in Iran Turns Negative: 18% of Iranian Families Only Have One Child, 14% Have No Child

2- The Good Day of Journalists

3- Hot Debate between Reformist Figure Kharrazi and Conservative Shariatmadari about JCPOA, Huge Salaries, and Ahmadinejad’s Gov’t

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Mardom Salari:

1- WikiLeaks’ Blade on Throat of Hillary Clinton

2- 2 Iranian Prisoners Pardoned by Putin

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Payam-e Zaman:

1- Zarif Warns: US Will Lose Top Gains in JCPOA Breaches

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Resalat:

1- We’re Not Paid for the Oil We Export: Shariatmadari

2- Test of Nuclear Weapon with Destructive Power: What Does It Mean? What Happened to Global Efforts for Nuclear Disarmament?

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Sepid:

1- Officials Visit Sistan and Baluchestan Province When There’s a Storm, and Leave It When It Ends: Endless Hygiene and Medical Problems Caused by 120-Day Winds for People

2- Domestic Water Consumption 80% More than Consumption Models

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Shargh:

1- Oil Conspiracy: Foreigners Spend Money inside Iran to Prevent Oil Contracts, First VP Says

2- Debate between Shariatmadari and Kharrazi Continues between Social Media Users

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Siasat-e Rooz:

1- Special Forces of Resistance Have the Upper Hand: Siege on Terrorists in Aleppo Enters New Phases

2- Iran Ready to Help Resolve Karabakh Dispute: Rouhani in Joint Presser with Aliyev

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Sobh-e Now:

1- Alarming Increase in Number of Parents with Only One Child in Recent Years: Iranian Families Shrinking

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Vaghaye Ettefaghieh:

1- Kharrazi and Shariatmadari Challenge Each Other in Live TV Debate

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

 

Vatan-e Emrooz:

1- Details of a Spy’s Case: US Outsmarted by Iran in Amiri’s Case

2- Secrets behind Cancellation of Concerts: Why Culture Minister Doesn’t Tell the Truth?

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 8

Iran’s Larijani Regrets UN Official’s Statement on Execution of Terrorists

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IFP Media Wire
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Mohammad Javad Larijani

Al-Hussein in a statement released on August 5 criticized Tehran for the execution of 20 terrorists, calling it “injustice”.

Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary general of Iranian High Council for Human Rights, on Sunday sent a letter to the UN official, regretting that the latter’s statement ignores the scope of the terrorists’ crimes and stressing that the Islamic Republic will spare no efforts to ensure security for its people and continue its serious fight against terrorism within the country’s borders and beyond.

In the letter, Larijani noted that Iran has been a victim of terrorism, sponsored by certain foreign governments, since the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and that the Islamic Republic has always taken sincere steps in the fight against extremism and terrorism in the region.

He said while the world is facing the serious threat of terrorism, international bodies, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), are expected to concentrate their efforts on fighting terrorism instead of making statements that not only do not conform to international documents on protecting human rights but send the wrong signals to terrorists.

Larijani further stressed that the terrorist who were recently executed in Iran had a fair trial.

They had access to numerous lawyers and the process of their trial lasted six years and the verdicts were issued following thorough investigations, he said, noting that  all efforts were made to ensure their rights are protected.

The official then enumerated some of the crimes committed by the terrorists, including attempting to establish a Takfiri terrorist group, armed assaults inside the country, killing civilians and assassinating some Sunni Muslim clerics, supplying various types of fire arms, making explosives and planting bombs in different parts of some cities, armed robbery, and kidnapping.

He stressed that the judiciary is obligated to also consider the rights of victims of terrorist activities and carry out sentences, when they are final, in order to uphold justice and ensure security for the people.

Larijani deplored dual approaches to the fight against terrorism, saying it is expected that a common international resolve be formed and global efforts focus on uprooting terrorism in all its dimensions.

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry on Wednesday confirmed that the convicts, belonging to a terrorist cell, were executed after being sentenced to death for carrying out terrorist attacks in western Iran.

The Iranian forces have recently engaged in clashes with terror groups, thwarting their terrorist activities on the border and within the country, arresting several of them and confiscating large amounts of explosives and bomb-making materials.

On July 7, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps killed two outlaws affiliated with counter-revolutionary groups in the province of Kurdistan.

In the same month, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said it had foiled a major Takfiri-Wahhabi plot to carry out bomb attacks in the capital, Tehran, and other provinces and arrested many suspects.

Iran’s Zarif Warns US against JCPOA Violation

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IFP Media Wire
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The enforcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is an obligation and all countries involved in the agreement have made a pledge to implement it, Zarif told IRIB on Sunday.

“We are also pursuing its implementation with seriousness,” he added.

He further raised the alarm about any violation of the deal by the US and noted that American officials are “making a mistake” because the Iranian nation’s distrust of US is growing day by day as a result of Washington’s lack of commitment to the deal.

Iran has foreseen different measures under the guidelines of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei to avoid any potential loss in reaction to the breach of the JCPOA, a lasting nuclear deal between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany), by the opposite side, Zarif added.

Referring to the upcoming US presidential elections, the top Iranian official said, “It is election year for the Americans and they are more inclined to choose a method that will serve their interests in the election.”

Back in June, Ayatollah Khamenei underlined Iran’s commitment to the deal with the group of six countries, but made it clear that any violation of the deal by the US will trigger Tehran’s harsher response.

The Leader reiterated that Iran will never be the first side to violate the JCPOA.

“But” the Leader underscored “if the threats of tearing off the JCPOA made by the US presidential nominees are carried out, the Islamic Republic will set the JCPAO ablaze,” Ayatollah Khamenei added, making a reference to a divine order about mutual breach of commitments.

The Leader then explicated the pluses and minuses of the nuclear deal, noting that, however, the bulk of the advantages that had encouraged Iran to negotiate “have not been met” yet.

Iran and Armenia Lift Visa Regime

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IFP Media Wire
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Kazem Sajjadi
Iran’s Ambassador to Yerevan Kazem Sajjadi says an agreement that it recently signed with Armenia to remove the visa regime between the two countries has come into effect as of 6 August 2016.

Iran’s Ambassador to Armenia Kazem Sajjadi was quoted by the media as saying that the removal of the visa regime between the two countries followed a relevant agreement that they had signed to the same effect recently.

Sajjadi was quoted by the Armen Press news agency as saying that the removal had come into effect on 6 August 2016.

Armen Press also said the Iranian envoy had discussed the issue in a meeting with Armenia’s Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan.

Sajjadi further emphasized that the removal of the visa regime with Armenia is expected to contribute to the development of tourism between the two countries.

Armenia announced in early June that it has approved signing an agreement with Iran to abolish the visa regime between the two countries.

The country’s Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan was quoted by media as saying that the agreement will help develop relations between Iran and Armenia.

The agreement was signed between the two countries on June 5 during a visit to Tehran by Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.

The agreement will allow Iranians and Armenians to travel to the two countries with citizens and diplomatic passports without a visa and stay there for maximum 90 days within a 180-day period, the media reported at the time.

Iran’s officials have already said the country seeks reciprocal visa waiver programs with 28 countries as part of its bid to boost tourism.

Citizens of Turkey, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bolivia, Egypt and Syria can travel to Iran and stay in the country without visa from 15 to 90 days.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani – currently on a visit to Baku – told reporters on Sunday that Iran and Azerbaijan are working on a scheme to remove the visa regime between the two countries.

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