Kianoush Rostami won Iran’s first medal of the Rio 2016 Olympics Games in the men’s 85-kilogram category and broke his own world record after lifting a total of 396 kilograms.
Rostami, 25, a bronze medalist in the same category in London four years ago, made 217kg with his final clean and jerk for a total of 396kg, beating his world record by one kilogram.
China’s Tian Tao claimed silver on 395kg while Romanian Gabriel Sincraian took bronze with a lift of 390 kilograms.
Zarif on Friday visited the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, bombed and damaged during the recent failed coup in Turkey.
Speaking at the visit, Zarif said from the very first moments Iran condemned the coup and announced that it will always support Turkey’s government and nation.
“My visit to the Turkey assembly is a symbol of Iran’s support for the country’s democracy and people,” he added.
Earlier, Zarif and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks about key bilateral, regional and international issues.
The Iranian foreign minister met the Turkish president in Ankara on Friday in the most significant visit by a high-ranking foreign dignitary to Turkey since the July 15 failed coup attempt in the country.
The meeting, which featured luncheon, lasted for more than three hours.
The meeting came after Zarif held talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu and attended a joint press conference with him.
Newspapers on Thursday covered the remarks made by President Hassan Rouhani in an address to an education conference held in Tehran. President Rouhani noted that censorship and filtering do not solve any problem, and that the young generation should be taught how to use the means of communication.
The comments by the Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in praise of President Rouhani also received great coverage. Ayatollah Rafsanjani stressed that the current problems will be resolved in the second term of President Rouhani.
The above issues as well as many more are highlighted in the following headlines:
Abrar:
1- Return of 160,000 Iraqi Families to Areas Cleansed of ISIS Terrorists
2- Smart Roles of Iran and Russia in Turkey’s Failed Coup
Afkar:
1- Iraqi Market Ready for Prosperity of Iranian Brands
2- Iran’s Parliament Planning to Impeach Education Minister
Aftab-e Yazd:
1- Rafsanjani’s Strong Support for Rouhani: President Rouhani Will Be Re-Elected in Next Year’s Elections
2- Iran’s Capital, a Paradise for Beggars: 600 Foreign Beggars Removed from Tehran Streets
Arman-e Emrooz:
1- President Rouhani: Problems Can’t Be Solved by Filtering
2- Rafsanjani: They Set Fire on Foreign Embassies in the Name of Being Revolutionary
Asrar:
1- Judiciary Should Prosecute Previous Government’s Negligence: President Rouhani in Reference to US Seizure of Iranian Assets
2- White House Ignores Ahmadinejad’s Letter to Obama
3- 29 Iranian Prisoners Pardoned in UAE
Asr-e Iranian:
1- New Oil Contracts Will Offer Iran to Foreigners for 30 Years: MP
2- Hundreds of Tons of Saudi Bombs on Yemeni People
Asr-e Rasaneh:
1- 25% Increase in Iran’s Exports of Food and Medical Products and Cosmetics
2- First Iranian City to Be Provided with CNG
3- 1.5m Useless Phones in Tehran: ICT
4- Iran’s Red Crescent Society Ask for Giving Help to Wounded and Needy Syrians
Ettela’at:
1- We Should Interact with the World; Iran’s Ties with the World Should Continue Based on Our Interests and Principles: Rouhani
2- Tens of Terrorists Killed in Drone Attacks of Lebanese Hezbollah on Aleppo
Iran:
1- Rafsanjani: One of Rouhani’s Greatest Works Was to Prevent Expansion of Anti-Iran Sanctions
2- 1,070 Kilometres of Highway to Be Inaugurated by Mid-March 2017
3- All Body Organ Transplant Procedures Will Be Carried Out for Free
Javan:
1- Prosecutor-General to Investigate into Paycheques of 1,600 Executives
2- Weakened ISIS for Controlling Iran: Joint Plan by Think Tanks of Zionists, Saudis, and Americans for Post-JCPOA Middle East
3- Rouhani: It Is Dangerous to Give Mobile Phones to Young People without Care and Guidance
4- IRGC Commander: Danger of Enemy’s Infiltration Has Become Serious after JCPOA
Jomhouri Eslami:
1- German Company Seeks to Make $4bn Investment in Iran’s Petchem Industry
2- Saudi Arabia’s Use of Cluster Bombs in Yemen’s Saada
Kayhan:
1- ISIS Is Useful for Countering Iran, Don’t Annihilate It: Zionist Think-Tank
2- FATF Implementation to Undermine Iran’s Economy and National Security
3- Problems Will Be Solved in Rouhani’s Second Term: Rafsanjani
Khorasan:
1- Iran’s Military Power Has Been Reinforced after JCPOA: Pentagon
Rah-e Mardom:
1- Isn’t It the Time for Moving towards New Energies?
2- Clean Energies Can Create 8m Jobs
Resalat:
1- President: Iran’s Society Isn’t Polarized
2- Oil Minister: We Allayed Concerns of Oil Contract Critics
Sayeh:
1- Iran Poised to Conquer Regional and Int’l Markets
Setareh Sobh:
1- New Record in Oil Output: Average Production of 4.1m Barrels per Day, Average Export of 2.3m Barrels per Day
2- Good News for Iranians: Gradual Revival of Lake Urmia
Shahrvand:
1- In Every Iranian Family, One Is Involved in Video Games
2- Rouhani Urges Judiciary to Pursue Seizure of $2bn
President of the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran Kioumars Hashemi and his German counterpart Alfons Hormann held a meeting in Rio De Janeiro.
According to Tasnim dispatches, the two officials, who are in Brazil for the Rio 2016 Olympics, stressed their resolve for promoting bilateral sports ties.
During the hour-long meeting, Hashemi and Hormann signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on enhanced cooperation in sports fields.
Based on the MoU, the two sides will collaborate in the fight against doping as well in technical areas like exchange of coaches, holding training camps and educational courses, and using one another’s experiences in various sports.
The MoU had been proposed during a visit to Tehran by Hormann back in May this year.
The 2016 Summer Olympic Games, which kicked off in Rio on Friday, will run until August 21.
According to a report by Tasnim, as translated as IFP, discrimination is rife in the Saudi kingdom as, except for royal ladies, the rest of women in the society have been deprived from all their basic rights.
Saudi women are not even allowed to sit behind the steering wheel for saving the life of a family member in a far-flung desert if they have to.
When it comes to hijab, they make a notable exception for royal ladies. Strange though it may seem, the average Saudis have to wear an excessive amount of hijab as far as covering their faces by a piece of veil; otherwise they would be severely castigated.
A council called “Enjoining Good and Forbidding Wrong”, dubbed the Religious Police, has been assigned by the Saudi kingdom to make sure hijab is observed in the society; however, these forces exempt royal women from the restrictions.
While average Saudi women are harshly prohibited from parks and recreational complexes, the female aristocrats freely take trips to Europe and the US regularly and have fun in tourist spots, large malls and shopping centres.
Saudi royal girls and women’s inappropriate behaviour as well as their provocative clothing have sparked anger of Saudis for several times. They openly disrespect the very same rules and laws devised by their kings and imposed on the poor, defenceless women.
This is while the KSA does not even allow Saudi women to drive.
Strangely enough, Saudi kings believe that it is permissible for royal women to wear revealing and nasty clothes and it is in no way against the Islamic jurisprudence; however, women from lower classes will be severely chastised if they violate the dress code of the kingdom. The defiant women will be flagellated and severely punished.
Women of average social status have been deprived from participating in sporting activities. The aristocrats, however, are free to do whatever they want.
Princess Reema, the daughter of Bandar bin Sultan, who is a member of the House of Saud, is a graduate of George Washington University. She has been recently appointed as Vice President for Women’s Affairs at the General Sports Authority of Saudi Arabia. She is also the managing director of Harvey Nichols chain store in Riyadh.
It is worth mentioning that Saudi media outlets have described the unprecedented appointment as a sign of the great potentials of Saudi women.
Royal women like Rimeh are free to pick their favourite types of clothes.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates’ Affairs Hassan Qashqavi said the United Arab Emirates has pardoned 29 Iranian nationals imprisoned in the Arab country.
Iran’s diplomatic mission in the UAE seriously pursues the status of Iranian convicts in the Arab country and makes requests for their release on every occasion, Qashqavi said on Wednesday.
As a result of such diplomatic efforts, a number of them are released from prison in the Arab country each year and this time 29 Iranians have been granted amnesty.
Back in December 2014, Qashqavi paid an official visit to Abu Dhabi to attend Iran-UAE Joint Consular Cooperation Commission.
During his visit, Qashqavi expressed Iran’s resolve to develop relations with the UAE in all areas, especially in consular cooperation, and underlined the need for mutual cooperation and consultation on regional issues.
The two sides also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the conclusion of the meeting.
The 17-clause document includes measures to simplify visa formalities, settle the residence problems of the two countries’ nationals, and enhance judicial ties.
Behdad Salimi, the Iranian weightlifter and the gold medallist in previous Olympic Games, arrived in the Brazilian city of São Paulo as their flight had two special guests: two suspected members of the ISIS terrorist group.
According to a report by ISNA, as translated by IFP, the two suspected ISIS elements were arrested in an operation by the Special Units of Brazilian Police upon their arrival at the airport.
Salimi, who was also accompanied by another Iranian weightlifter Mohammad Reza Barari, said that a huge number of security forces and special units entered the airplane when they arrived in Brazil.
“They arrested the two men suspected of being ISIS members. Both of them had the appearance of ISIS militants [long beards and thawbs], and were handcuffed and transferred by the Police.”
He further referred to those stressful moments, and said, “Everyone was scared. We were all waiting to hear the sound of an explosion, and see the plane exploded. It was a very bad situation, but thank God, it went well.”
Salimi currently holds the world record in the snatch with 214 kg in his weight class. He won the gold medal at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships in Paris, France on November 13, 2011, and set a new snatch world record of 214 kg.
Salimi became the 2012 Olympic gold medallist in the +105 kg category on August 7, 2012 with a 208 kg snatch, a 247 kg clean and jerk for a total of 455 kg.
Despite a torn ACL, total knee re-construction and over two years out of the game, Behdad returned to weightlifting in 2016 to compete in the Fajr Cup, held in Tehran and won gold.
Salimi is all set to make a weightlifting comeback, in the Rio 2016 Olympics.
An Iranian lawmaker from the country’s southwestern province Khuzestan has provoked a controversy by paying a visit to his constituency in an American GMC car.
According to a report by YJC, voices of anger were heard when Ramhormoz representative in the Iranian Parliament oversaw his constituency in a luxurious GMC car.
Here is IFP’s translation of the report:
“Vehicles with the registration plates of Arvand Free Zone are ubiquitous in Khuzestan and I have to mention that the car I used to oversee my constituency the other day was one of them,” Eqbal Mohammadian, the Iranian MP, made the remarks in response to the recent mutterings around him.
He criticized the way the news websites are manipulating people’s minds by fabricating sophistries about the incident and said, “In the bustle of the crowd I actually did not notice the model of the car I was getting on; meanwhile, the car belongs to a friend.”
Mohammadian added that the proximity to Arvand Free Zone is one reason many people in the area drive such luxury cars.
GMC (General Motors Truck Company) is a division of the American automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM).
According to a report by Al-Alam, as translated by IFP, a source from Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk said that some senior ISIS leaders in the southwest of Kirkuk have disaffiliated from al-Baghdadi and pledged allegiance with Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of Al Qaeda.
“Alliance with Al Qaeda is a heavy blow to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi because it will create a gap and sow the seeds of discord among the ISIS terrorists,” the source added.
Following the casualties and heavy losses inflicted upon ISIS in Iraq and also the territorial losses in Salahuddin, al-Anbar, Qayyarah, and al-Shirqat, tensions are rising among ISIS leaders in Iraq’s north-western province of Nineveh inasmuch as they are considering a possibility of replacing al-Baghdadi for his incompetence.
There is a chance of armed clashes between the leaders affiliated to al-Baghdadi and the insubordinate ones who are now allied with al-Zawahiri.
In June 2014, ISIS took hold of the province of Nineveh and west of Kirkuk which used to be the territories of other militants such as Al Qaeda. ISIS members forced them to relinquish weapons and recite the pledge of allegiance to al-Baghdadi; however, this led to exchanges of fire between them.
Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami warned that the Islamic Republic’s adversary has waged a cultural war against the country to make the Establishment passive.
“It would be very naive to think the enemy is not pursuing a dangerous scenario (against the country),” General Salami said on Wednesday, addressing a cultural event in Mashhad, some 900 kilometers east of Tehran.
The enemy seeks to turn the Islamic Establishment into a passive one, he said.
“That is to say, they want to alter the cultural and social roots of our country,”the senior commander observed, stressing the need to counter the scheme.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has also on many occasions urged vigilance in the face of enemy ploys to gain a political and cultural foothold in Iran, warning that the consequences of such infiltration would be much worse than that of enemy’s economic influence.
“Economic and security infiltration is of course dangerous and has dire consequences, but the enemy’s political and cultural infiltration (into Iran) is a much more serious threat that everyone should be vigilant about,” Ayatollah Khamenei said back in September 2015.
As part of plans for cultural infiltration, the enemy has made heavy investment to gradually change the Iranian people’s beliefs, the Leader explained at the time.
Elsewhere in his Wednesday address in Mashhad, General Salami referred to letters by Ayatollah Khamenei to the youth in the West, stressing that the message of the letters “which presented the true image of Islam” should be promoted through the cyberspace.
The Leader in a letter in January 2015 introduced the true image of Islam to youths in Europe and North America, and elaborated on the reasons behind the West’s attempts to spread Islamophobia.
Ayatollah Khamenei wrote his second letter to the youth in the West on November 29, following a series of terrorist attacks in Paris.
In that letter, the Leader underlined that it is only the “youth , who by learning lessons from today’s hardships, will be able to find new solutions for building the future, and block off-roads which have led the West to this current position.”
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