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ISIS Terrorists Cut Sunni Imam’s Ear and Force Him to Eat It (+Video)

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ISIS Terrorists Cut off Sunni Imam Ear and Forced Him to Eat It!

According to a report by Al-Alam News Network, as covered by Mizan, in part of his speech, the Sunni Imam of the Umayyad Mosque Sheikh Ma’moun said that ISIS elements had cut his ear and forced him to eat it.

Here is the video of his remarks:

 

Here is IFP’s translation of what he says in this video clip:

“He [an ISIS commander] ordered him [another ISIS element] to cut his [the Imam’s] ear, because he doesn’t listen to us. And they cut my ear. He cut it and asked me to eat it. Take it and eat. I told him, ‘this is not mine. My body is for God, and Allah is the one who has created it. If you are a Muslim, I should remind you that mutilation is prohibited by Islam.’ He once again said, ‘eat it’. He tried to open my jaw, but he couldn’t do it, even though my jaw was hurting. HeHHHe wanted to force me into eating it. Imagine your ear is cut and someone is trying to force you to eat it. Is there any human being that cuts his or her own body organ and eat it? It’s really strange.”

Prediction of Earthquake, 48 Hours Earlier!

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Two Quakes Hit Iran as Fight against COVID-19 Goes On

Babollah Abedinzadeh is a not very well-known man from the Iranian city of Semnan who claims he can predict an earthquake 48 hours before it occurs.

Here is IFP’s translation of a report by Khabar Online on a claim made by the Semnani man who says he can forecast the occurrence of any earthquake on earth from distance.

Babollah AbedinzadehAbedinzadeh said, “Although no one in Iran takes my words seriously, I predicted the earthquake that recently struck Pakistan 48 hours before its occurrence. I even predicted the earthquake that hit Iran’ East Azarbaijan and informed the authorities in Semnan.”

He has allegedly spent 12 years of his life on doing research about earthquakes and methods of predicting them. He said he is ready to prove his claims; however, officials at Iran’s Seismological Centre have asked him to support his claims by presenting a seismological device.

Abedinzadeh, who has a master’s degree in management, hopes to bring a new revolution to the history of earthquake prediction!

Read more about his claims in the following interview.

Are earthquakes really predictable? We’ve been told since we were kids that only animals are able to sense earthquakes before they occur and that only a few seconds earlier. Have you invented any device? What is your method of forecasting?

I’ve been doing research in this area for over 12 years and have achieved some valuable results. I have been cooperating with University of Tehran’s Institute of Geophysics for a few years and, unlike public opinion, I can prove that earthquakes are predictable 48 hours earlier!

How do you do that? Have you created any specific device?

Some believe that earthquakes are predictable only through magic or in dreams and such superstitions. Put all these aside. If I’m not mistaken, some gases such as argon and neon come out of the earth’s crust as a prelude to earthquake and these gases generate waves by themselves. Some animals react to them.

Does that mean that you notice the occurrence of an earthquake simply by smelling those gases?

I don’t feel the smell of those gases but I can detect the emission of them through examining some animals’ reactions.

What animals?

I’m afraid; I don’t want to divulge such information before the registration of my discovery.

Are these animals found in every country?

Yes. Depending on the magnitude scale of earthquakes, I can predict their occurrences in Pakistan, Japan or even Argentine.

Could you please name at least one of these animals?

Spider is one of them. These insects enjoy very strong senses that are not known to many. You can even measure the earthquake’s magnitude by examining their moves.

spider

What is special about the moves of spiders? They only produce threads to construct webs, catch their prey and sometimes descend from the ceiling.

You do not notice because you haven’t worked on their moves and haven’t examined them precisely.

Well, what do spiders do before an earthquake occurs?

They tend to run in the opposite direction of the earthquake’s focus! I live in Semnan’s Meyami County. In Meyami, if I’m to divide up from where I’m standing now, Bandar Abbas would be in the south, north is clear, Pakistan and Japan would be the in east. I can forecast earthquakes as large as magnitude 4.5 to 6.5.

God forbid! Should we be expecting any earthquakes in Iran?

Not yet; however, I predicted the earthquake that struck Pakistan 48 hours before it occurred.

Did you predict it from here?

Yes, I predicted the one in Japan from here too. I study the moves these animals make. I wish you were here to see it for yourself. There are many things that are hard to elucidate verbally.  The more earth is closer to the centre, our distance from Japan becomes shorter; hence sooner detection.

Are you collaborating with Institute of Geophysics and Seismological Centres?

If anything comes up, I will let the National Disaster Management Organization (NDMO) know. Semnan’s Seismological Centre says that I have to provide proofs or present a device to corroborate my claims; otherwise they reject it. Although I have been working with them for five years, they still want a device. Recently, Jundishapur University of Iran’s southwestern city of Ahvaz built a device for $14,000, but it is just a pendulum.

What I am trying to make them understand is that predicting the occurrence of an earthquake does not need any devices. You can do the prediction through many signs that are prevalent. I forecasted the earthquake that hit Iran’ East Azarbaijan through the same signs; however, no one bothered to listen.

Who did you tell?

I informed the National Disaster Management Organization (NDMO)’s office in Semnan. I went to Tehran’s Seismological Centre too, but they said they could not broadcast baseless news. You give me your phone number; 48 hours before any earthquake happens in the world, I’ll send you a message and inform you of its location!

Kite Festival in Tehran’s Milad Tower

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Flying Kites Festival was held in front of the iconic Milad Tower in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Monday afternoon.

Here are IRIB News Agency’s photos of the festival:

 

Iran’s Non-Oil Exports Jump by 21% in 4 Months

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Iran’s non-oil exports have witnessed a 21 percent increase during the first four months of the current Iranian year (started on March 20), Head of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPO) Valiollah Afkhami Rad announced.

Over the first four months of the current Iranian year, the country’s exports increased by 21% and imports were down by 7% compared to the same period last year, the Public Relations Department of the TPO quoted Afkhami Rad as saying on Tuesday.

The value of non-oil exports, including gas condensate, in the four-month period reached $16.308 billion and the imports stood at $12.865 billion, which improved Iran’s trade balance by 990 percent, he noted.

Afkhami Rad further expressed the hope that with the growing trend, the country’s annual non-oil exports would reach $50 billion by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2016 – March 20, 2017).

Iran has stepped up efforts in recent years to enhance its non-oil exports and reduce dependency on its oil revenues.

In 2014, the country’s exports of commodities and natural-gas condensate reached $50 billion, showing a 19 percent increase.

There was also a boom in Iran’s service exports in diverse sectors, including tourism, engineering, and transit.

Iran Ready to Promote Its Political Ties with Kurdistan Region: Top Security Official

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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani hailed the long-term friendship between Iran and Kurdistan Region, saying that Tehran is prepared to expand its cooperation with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

 

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has long had warm relations with Kurdish groups in Iraq,” Shamkhani said in a meeting with former prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, Barham Ahmad Salih, held in Tehran on Tuesday.

“The deep friendship between Iran and Iraqi Kurdish brothers is the result of cooperation and joint struggles throughout the past years in hard and tense battlefields,” he said, described the friendship as “unbreakable”.

Shamkhani further noted that national unity and solidarity among different Iraqi groups and sects are the overriding priority to deal with the security crisis that has beset Iraq.

“Iraq’s strategic interests and its regional power depend solely on strengthening an integrated and united Iraq,” he added, as reported by Tasnim.

He also warned that ignoring the goal of united Iraq would result in instability and damages, as is evident in the fact that Iraq’s Sunni Muslims have borne the brunt of attacks by the ISIS terrorist group.

Smashing ISIS will strengthen unity in Iraq and boost its national identity, which is why certain foreign countries and regional players are not interested in the settlement of the crisis and are propping up ISIS ideologies, Shamkhani said.

He further reaffirmed Iran’s support for unity among all Iraqi groups, including Kurds, and added, “Increasing integrity and friendship among the Kurdish groups for active partnership in the political and economic structure of united Iraq is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s unchanging policy.”

 

Iran Is Kurdistan’s Strategic Ally: Former PM

The Iraqi politician, for his part, hailed Iran’s constructive measures in the fight against terrorism.

Ahmad Salih also highlighted the importance that the Iraqi Kurdistan region attaches to ties with Iran.

“We regard the Islamic Republic of Iran as our strategic ally,” he underlined.

Since early 2014, Iraq has been facing a growing militancy by the Takfiri ISIS terrorist group and its allied militants, who have taken over areas in the country’s west and north. The crisis deteriorated in June last year, when the terrorists declared a so-called caliphate in the territories they had seized.

ISIS is threatening all communities In Iraq, including Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, and others.

Back in December 2014, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi lauded Iran for standing by his country in very critical conditions, when other countries were hesitant to help the Arab nation in the face of threats posed by terrorists.

He said Iran rushed to help Iraq and “never ever had any doubts” even about assisting the Kurdish residents of Erbil when the city faced the threat of Daesh militants, while Americans were hesitating over whether to support Baghdad or not when the capital city was in jeopardy.

 

Iranian Foreign Ministry Condemns Quetta Terrorist Attack

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Bahram Ghasemi

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi strongly denounced a Monday terrorist attack that left scores of civilians dead at a hospital in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta.

 

Qassemi on Tuesday offered condolences to the Pakistani government and nation on the deadly suicide bombing that claimed the lives of at least 70 and wounded more than 100 others, mainly lawyers and journalists.

He also called for concerted action by the international community to put an end to such barbaric killings, Tasnim reported.

Qassemi attributed a wave of violence and acts of terrorism in the region to the soft approach in dealing with extremism and Takfiri [extremist] terrorism, which he said are being supported by certain regional governments.

Iran believes that tackling the ominous and horrible phenomenon of terrorism is possible only with global determination and without double standards, the spokesman added.

A suicide bomber in Quetta killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 112 others in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta.

The bomber struck as a crowd of mostly lawyers and journalists crammed into the emergency department to accompany the body of a prominent lawyer who had been shot and killed in the city earlier in the day.

ISIS terrorist group and a Taliban faction have claimed responsibility for the attack.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Newspaper front pages

Newspapers on Tuesday covered the letter written by ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the US President Barack Obama. The reactions mainly came from reformist outlets, who described the move as a show-off aimed at gaining more popularity ahead of next year’s presidential elections.

The ongoing visit of President Hassan Rouhani to the capital of Azerbaijan Republic and his trilateral meeting with Russian and Azeri counterparts also received great coverage.

Various other issues including the $400m paid by the US to Iran, the cancellation of concerts in the country, and the attacks against President Rouhani, among others, are also covered in the following headlines:
Abrar:

1- Less than 50 Executives Have Received Unusual Salaries: VP

2- Azerbaijan Republic Have Not Lifted Visa Regime for Iranians

3- Swiss Court Orders Israel to Pay Iran $1.2bn

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Abrar-e Eqtesadi:

1- Iran’s Oil Becomes World’s Most Expensive Oil

2- Iran Frees Export of Its Raw Gold

3- Agreement for Establishment of Iran-Azerbaijan Joint Regional Bank

4- Talks Started for Tehran-New Delhi Gas Cooperation: Iran’s Gas to Be Exported to India Using World’s Longest Pipeline

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Ahmadinejad’s Letter to Obama Is for Show-Off

2- CBI Deputy Governor: Banking Restrictions Are Being Lifted Every Week

3- The Blessed Coup? Turkey Coup Leads to Closer Tehran-Ankara Ties

4- Those Who Insulted Rouhani Are Sued in Special Court of Clerics: VP

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Rafsanjani: Some Are Trying to Restore Anti-Iran Sanctions

2- Interior Ministry Warns Ahmadinejad against Early Beginning of His Campaign for Presidential Elections

3- Female MPs in Previous Parliament Said Iranian Women Should Stay in Their Homes

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Asrar:

1- Rouhani: We Help the Countries Gripped by Terrorism in Any Way Possible

2- Putin: Tehran, Moscow and Baku Can Implement Extensive Regional Projects

3- Government Spokesman: $5bn Foreign Investment in Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Ebtekar:

1- New Season of Cooperation between Iran, Azerbaijan, and Russia

2- Rouhani: Interaction between Tehran, Baku, and Moscow Reinforces Regional Potentials

3- Zarif: Americans Are the Ones Who Incur Losses by Violating Their Commitments

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Etemad:

1- Iran’s Top Security Official Shamkhani in Reaction to Trump’s Remarks: The $400m Was the Money Iran Claimed from a Pre-Revolution Purchase

2- Ahmadinejad Was Summoned to Court for Three Times, But Didn’t Appear: MP

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Ettela’at:

1- Insults to President Rouhani Is Equal to Insulting People’s Vote and Choice: VP

2- First VP: Pace of Iran’s Development Will Be Slow as Long as Corruption Is Not Eradicated

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Javan:

1- Less than 1% of Concerts in Iran Are Cancelled: Interior Minister

2- Judiciary Chief Urges Iranian Officials to Give Up Hope on US Given Their Breaches

3- Apology to Iran for Mahmoud Abbas’ Meeting with MKO Leader

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- After JCPOA, More than $5bn Has Been Directly Invested by Foreigners in Iran: Official

2- Nigerian Shiites Hold Massive Rallies, Call for Release of Sheikh Zakzaky

3- Zionist Sources: Hassan Nasrallah Is Master of Psychological War against Israel

4- Thousands of Americans Call for Psychological Test on Trump

5- Zionist Regime [Israel] Defeated in Appeals Court

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Kayhan:

1- Economy Minister Confirms “Almost Nothing” [Has Been Achieved by JCPOA]: Major Banks Don’t Work with Us Seriously

2- Professor William Engdahl to Kayhan: Turkey Coup Was 100% American

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Payam-e Zaman:

1- Government Stopped Decrease in Oil Exports

2- Army Ground Force Commander: We’re Faced with New Types of Threats

3- Interior Minister: Terrorists Failed to Explode IRGC and Law Enforcement Bases

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Resalat:

1- We Have Options to Counter US Violation of Its Commitments: Zarif

2- We’re Not Waiting for Release of Iran’s Frozen Assets: Gov’t Spokesman

3- Judiciary Chief: Those Who Believe in JCPOA Should Learn Lessons from US Behaviour

4- Al Saud’s Heavy Defeat in Battlefield: Ansarullah Is Now Part of Resistance Axis in Region

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Shahrvand:

1- Less than $6 for Each Follower: Thriving Business of Selling and Buying Followers in Social Media

2- 20,000 Food Packages Distributed among Storm-Hit Residents of Sistan and Baluchestan Province: Red Crescent Society

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Siasat-e Rooz:

1- Take the Responsibility for the “Defeat! Reformists Trying to Pin the Blames on the Establishment for JCPOA

2- Revenge Taken for Regional Convergence: Blast in Pakistan Leaves 200 Dead and Wounded

3- Underdeveloped Regions of Iran Not Deprived of Doctors

4- Coup of ISIS Commanders against Their Leader

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Sobh-e Now:

1- Stories about Execution of a Nuclear Spy; US Should Have Tried to Save Shahram Amiri: John Bolton

2- Coup in ISIS: Al-Baghdadi to Become Lonelier

3- Strokes and Road Accidents Are Main Killers of Iranians

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Vaghaye Ettefaghieh:

1- Ahmadinejad Is Looking for Popularity [Editorial]

2- Rouhani: All Countries Admit Iran’s Role in Regional Security

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

 

Vatan-e Emrooz:

1- Judiciary Chief: We Won’t Give Any Chance to Terrorists

2- Former CIA Agent: We Still Have Spies in Iran

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

Official: Iranian Diplomatic Team to Visit France to Pursue Mina Tragedy Case

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IFP Media Wire
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Saeed Ohadi

Speaking at a television talk show on Monday night, Head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi said the country’s Foreign Ministry has been assigned the task of handling the Mina tragedy case via legal and political channels, adding that a legal committee has been formed to deal with the issue.

He noted that the Foreign Ministry’s consular department is going to release the results of its efforts to restore the rights of the “Mina martyrs.”

Ohadi added that a delegation from the ministry will visit France to pursue the case as France is playing the role of a mediator.

He once again took a swipe at the Saudis for lack of cooperation, saying the families of the victims or those injured in the crush have not yet received any compensation from the Riyadh regime.

Apart from serious efforts to pursue the case legally, Iran is in contact with 24 other countries whose nationals were killed in the September 2015 incident, he explained.

Earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry pledged utmost efforts to restore the rights of the families of the victims.

Not only have the Iranian diplomatic representatives put forward the case in many international circles and organizations, but the country is also in consultation with renowned local and foreign jurists to officially hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the tragic incident, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on August 4.

More than 460 Iranians were among the thousands of pilgrims who died on September 24, 2015, in the crush in Mina, near Mecca, during the Hajj pilgrimage.

The incident marked the worst ever tragedy during Hajj.

Saudi authorities have come under fire for their inability to ensure the safety of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who converge on Mecca every year.

Tehran Ready to Work with Baku on E-Commerce and Financial Post Services

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Mahmoud Vaezi

According to a report by IRNA, as translated by IFP, Vaezi held a meeting with his Azeri counterpart on the sidelines of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Baku.

“We are ready for trilateral cooperation with Baku and Moscow in various fields of communications and information technology, financial post services, electronic commerce, preventing radio-frequency interferences near borders, research and development in the ICT sector, and the expansion of postal cooperation.”

He highlighted the advantages of Iran’s geographical location and infrastructural facilities, adding, “Given the infrastructural facilities of Iran’s Post Office, including the exclusive Payam International Cargo Airport, and the country’s proximity to various regional countries such as Azerbaijan and Russia, we, hereby, voice our preparedness to provide the best postal services in the shortest time.”

Vaezi hailed the impressive progress made by Iran’s Post Office in electronic and logistic fields, adding that the Office is in the final stages of establishing international transactions for e-commerce.

“The time is ripe for trilateral cooperation between Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia.”

Vaezi also invited Azerbaijan’s Minister of Communications and High Technologies Ramin Guluzade to visit Iran.

 

Valiollah Seif

 

Iran, Azerbaijan Plan to Launch Joint Regional Bank

The Iranian and Azerbaijani Central Banks plan to set up a joint regional bank for the development of financial cooperation between the two countries, Iranian Central Bank Governor Valiollah Seif said on Monday, August 8.

The meeting of the Iranian and Azerbaijani central banks’ chiefs took place on the sidelines of the trilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, and Iranian President Rouhani held in Baku.

“We made this proposal to deepen relations between the banks and to facilitate transactions. This idea was the subject of our agreement. We intend to take necessary steps to establish this bank in the future,” Seif said, as quoted by IRNA.

Focusing on regional economic and trade development, the project should give special attention to security of transactions carried out by tourists and businesses, Seif added.

Lebanon Threatens to Reciprocate If Stockholm Deports Lebanese Families

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Sejaan Azzi

In a message to Swedish Ambassador to Lebanon Peter Semneby, Azzi demanded an explanation over the Lebanese Foreign Ministry’s claim that Sweden was preparing to deport around 70 Lebanese families.

“If the deportation was legally unjustified, then Lebanon’s Labour Ministry will take similar measures against Swedish workers in Lebanon, whatever their occupation and status are,” Azzi said in a statement issued by his press office.

Reports circulated earlier this year that Sweden and Finland had decided to deport up to 100,000 immigrant workers who had been living in their countries for many years to make room for Syrian refugees.

Semneby flatly denied those allegations in June; however, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has continued to bring the issue up.

“Sweden has not deported anyone for the purpose of making room for new Syrian refugees, and will not do so,” Semneby said in a letter published in The Daily Star at that time.

“If the Foreign Ministry is responsible for the Lebanese there (in Sweden), then the Labour Ministry is responsible for them when they return to the country, which increases the number of unemployed Lebanese in the country,” Azzi said, according to a report by Daily Star, as covered by IRNA.

In this regard, Azzi said his ministry was gathering the names of Swedes employed in Lebanon.

“We will take this measure against any state that doesn’t respect Lebanese expats, unless their presence is illegal or poses a security threat,” the statement added.

Azzi called on all Lebanese outside Lebanon to respect the rules and regulations in their countries of residence, especially those living in the Persian Gulf.

Bassil last week sent a message to his Swedish counterpart, Margot Wallstrom, warning that the matter of Lebanese being deported would have a negative impact on both nations.

Bassil called on Sweden to take into consideration the number of refugees Lebanon is hosting. “The Swedish government should also realize the reason so many Lebanese were forced to emigrate was due to regional and local instability,” the minister said.

Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees in the world, per capita. There are more than 1 million Syrians registered with UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency for Syrians, in the country.

About another 450,000 Palestinian refugees are registered with UNRWA, the refugee agency for Palestinians, in Lebanon.

In addition to the Syrian and Palestinian refugees, around another 30,000 Iraqi refugees are sheltering in Lebanon, according to the UN.

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