A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 9

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August 9, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vaghaye Ettefaghieh:

1- Ahmadinejad Is Looking for Popularity [Editorial]

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

Vatan-e Emrooz:

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

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

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

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August 9, 2016

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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August 9, 2016

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.

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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August 9, 2016

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.

Mosul Liberation, Ace in the Hole for US Elections: Iraqi MP

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August 9, 2016

Alsumaria News has quoted Nayef al-Shemmri as saying that Mosul will be retaken shortly before the US elections; however, it is regrettably to the benefit of the US 2016 presidential campaign.

“It is very regrettable that the recapture of Mosul is going to be used as a winning card for the US elections,” he noted, as reported by Tasnim and translated by IFP.

Al-Shemmri hailed the potentials of Iraqi army and the volunteer forces and described them as decisive factors in the liberation of Mosul.

“Although an exact time has yet to be set, Iraqi and Western intelligentsia say Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is willing to launch the military operation in October.”

The remarks came after Ashton Carter, the US Secretary of Defence, told the media that Washington has plans to dispatch 650 soldiers to Iraq in a bid to help retake Mosul.

Washington claims that sending troops to Iraq is based on the country’s request.

Iran, Russia Urge Acceleration of Relations Promotion

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August 9, 2016

In a meeting in the Azeri capital city of Baku on Monday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, said Tehran and Moscow need to make more efforts to speed up the development of all-out cooperation.

Putin pointed to his key visit to Iran last November and his meetings with senior Iranian officials, particularly with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, saying that Tehran and Moscow have managed to take very good steps toward the expansion of relations and that the two sides will continue to maintain their consolidated ties.

The Russian leader said that Moscow-Tehran ties have turned into an all-out strategic cooperation in different sectors, including politics and economy, the Kremlin website reported.

“Our friendly relations are strengthening. I am pleased that they are multi-faceted. This applies to the economic relations, political contacts in all areas. It also applies to the humanitarian sphere,” the Russian president said.

Relations between Iran and Russia have developed in all sectors, Putin said, stressing that he saw a bright prospect for the ties between the two countries.

Rouhani, for his part, praised his meeting with Putin as well as the Russian president’s visit to Iran and his talks with Iranian officials last year.

Heading a high-ranking delegation, the Iranian president arrived in Baku on Sunday for a two-day visit to hold talks and discuss matters of mutual interest with his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

On Sunday, Rouhani met and attended a joint press conference with Aliyev, during which the two sides talked about bilateral ties as well as regional developments.

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Iranian Researchers Produce Vaccine for Cancer

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August 9, 2016

Hojatollah Rabbani, who is the project director, said that immunotherapy is a secure method for treating cancer.

The researchers are trying to make body smartly react to growth of cancer cells and control or kill them, Rabbani noted, as reported by ISNA and edited by IFP.

He said that the researchers aimed to produce vaccine to be injected to babies as it is done in many cases of diseases, so that they would never suffer cancer.

Rabbani noted that the vaccine can be used for preventing all kinds of cancers. The vaccine is made of protein anti-genes and studies on its animal phase have been accomplished.

Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan Vow to Create NSTC

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August 9, 2016

The three presidents announced in a joint statement at the end of the historic Baku summit that they would take the required measures to materialize the NSTC with the ultimate objective to exploit the economic opportunities it creates.

The statement was read out after the summit in which Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev had participated.

They also emphasized that their respective countries would try to increase their own shares in efforts to create the NSTC “based on their common interests”.

The NSTC is a multi-modal route to link India and the Middle East to the Caucasus, Central Asia and Europe.

The ship, road and rail route connects India’s Mumbai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and further to Baku in Azerbaijan as well as Astrakhan, Moscow and St Petersburg in Russia before stretching to northern Europe and Scandinavia.

In addition to Iran, India and Russia, countries that are on board to integrate into the transit network include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Turkey, Tajikistan, Oman, Syria and Bulgaria.

Dry runs of the route were conducted in 2014, from Mumbai to Baku and Astrakhan via Bandar Abbas. Results showed transport costs had been reduced by $2,500 per 15 tonnes of cargo.

The NSTC was a central theme in the summit of Putin, Rouhani and Aliyev.

“Our talks will focus on a flagship project – the International North–South Transport Corridor with a total length of 7,200 kilometers,” Russian President Vladimir Putin quoted as saying by the media before leaving for Baku.

“It aims to provide the best possible opportunities for transporting transit cargo from India, Iran, and the Persian Gulf states to Azerbaijan, the Russian Federation and further to northern and western Europe,” he said.

The three presidents also agreed to cooperate on natural gas industry. They said in their statement that they will specifically work together over the transfer of technology as well as the shipment and delivery of gas.

Putin, Rouhani and Aliyev also voiced support for efforts to connect the power grids of their respective countries – what they said would contribute to the sustainable development of the region.

The significance of close banking cooperation to attract investments and bring in new technologies for development projects was also highlighted in the trilateral talks.

Police Arrest Robbers Who Dug Tunnel beneath Synagogue

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August 9, 2016

Iran’s Police arrested four men who were digging a tunnel under the Jews’ synagogue in Iran’s western city of Hamadan.

In an interview with IRNA, as translated by IFP, Colonel Pejman Ghavimi, the Police Chief of Hamadan, referred to a report received about illegal excavations in Baba Taher Street near a synagogue which dates back to Qajar era.

“Once we received the report, we made the required arrangements with the judicial authorities and officials from the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization and investigated the issue immediately,” he said.

The criminals were caught while they were digging a tunnel under the Jewish shrine.

Ghavimi went on to say that the offenders had hired a warehouse next to the synagogue to do their excavations in quest of antiquities.

“They had dug a tunnel to a depth of 30 metres to no avail,” he noted, stressing that the offenders have confessed to all of their crimes.

The warehouse was sealed by judicial warrant and the discovered objects were seized accordingly.

The synagogue, which belongs to the Qajar period, is located in an alley named Jarrahan in Baba Taher Street of Hamadan. It was registered as a national cultural heritage on February 5, 2011.

Iran Breaks Records by Exporting 7m Barrels of Oil in One Day

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August 8, 2016

According to a report by Tasnim, as translated by IFP, Pirooz Mousavi, the managing director of Iran’s oil terminals, noted that the export of more than 7 million barrels of crude oil is just one example of the accomplishments of Iranian terminals in the export of oil.

“In the post-JCPOA era, all records in the export of oil and gas consolidates have been broken by Iran Oil Terminals Company,” he said.

His remarks came as Mohsen Qamsari, the director for international affairs of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), recently announced the country has reclaimed about 80 percent of its share in global oil markets since sanctions against the country were removed.

Iran exports about 2 million barrels of its daily output of 3.8 million and has regained about 80 percent of the market share it held before the anti-Tehran sanctions, Qamsari told Bloomberg in an interview.

He added that oil markets will remain stable this year even as Iran plans to keep boosting crude exports.

“Our exports peak is above 4 million barrels a day, and we have plans for that and are waiting for the right conditions,” Ghamsari stressed.

On June 27, the Atlantas Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), destined for Gdansk, left Iran’s Kharg Island laden with 2 million barrels of crude.

The cargo was the first Iranian crude sold into this part of the Baltic Sea market.

Before sanctions, Iran was exporting about 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd).

The sanctions were lifted after Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14, 2015 reached an agreement on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and started implementing it on January 16.

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