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A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on August 6

August 6, 2016

Newspapers on Saturday highlighted the death of a disabled war veteran, Rajab Mohammadzadeh, whose face had been deformed in the Iraqi imposed war, and suffered lots of pains in all these decades.

They also covered the ongoing attacks against the government and President Hassan Rouhani, who are being criticized more than ever after the recent remarks by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on the fruitlessness of the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.

The above issues, as well as many more, are highlighted in the following headlines:

Abrar:

1- UNSC Condemns North Korea’s Missile Test

2- Iran Has a Valuable Peace in Chaotic Conditions of Middle East: Larijani

3- We Didn’t Pay Any Money to Iran for Release of American Prisoners: Kerry

4- EU’s Interventionist Statement in Protest at Executions in Iran

Aftab-e Yazd:

1- Forgive Us ‘Baba Rajab’: 70% Disabled War Veteran Rajab Mohammadzadeh Dies in Mashhad

2- 3 Iranian Companies Removed from List of Sanctions

3- Putin: We’ll Build 8 Nuclear Power Plants for Iran; Tehran Once Again Trusts Kremlin

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Iran Should Not Use North Korea as Its Role Model: Businessman

2- $400m Was Not Paid to Iran as Ransom Money: Obama

3- Genetic Manipulation of Agricultural Products: Coloured Bananas in Iranian Market

Asrar:

1- Tehran Is Moscow’s Strategic Partner: Putin; We’ll Support Iran’s Full SCO Accession

2- All Concerts Temporarily Cancelled in Iran’s Khorasan Razavi Province [home to holy shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite Imam]

3- In Every 5 Iranian Families, Unemployment Exists in One: Official

Ebtekar:

1- Do’s and Don’ts in the Last Year of Rouhani’s Term [Editorial]

2- Obstacles to Iran’s Accession to WTO: Doing Business in Isolation

3- Golden Triangle of Energy Diplomacy in Caucasia: Rouhani, Putin, and Aliyev to Hold Trilateral Meeting in Baku

4- 31st Edition of Olympic Games Kicked Off in Rio

Emtiaz:

1- Decrease in Rates of Road Accidents

Etemad:

1- Crisis in Iran-Saudi Arabia Ties Is Very Deep: President’s Aide

2- Airplane Trump Had Seen in His Dreams: Donald’s Lies about $400m Paid to Iran

3- [Clerics’] Attacks against President Rouhani:

Rouhani Should Be Tried on Charge of Treason
A Naïve Person Says JCPOA Has Given Honour to Iran
After Leader’s Remarks, Whoever Talks about Ties with US Is Opposed to Supreme Leader

4- Iran-Pakistan Priorities in Security Cooperation Are Different: Analyst

5- 74% Increase in Divorce Rates in Iran within Past 10 Years

Ettela’at:

1- Saudi Arabia’s Tender to Buy Weapons for Terrorists in Syria Revealed

2- Extensive Projects in Oil and Gas, Aerospace, and Power Will Be Planned between Tehran and Moscow

Haft-e Sobh:

1- French Diplomat in Simple Words Talks about Iran’s Commitment to JCPOA and USA’s Violation of Its Obligations

2- Simple Manteaux Sold in Iran from $290 to $5,800: Interview with a Designer

Hamshahri:

1- Ban on Selling Seized Smuggled Goods in Market

2- Don’t Give Money to Beggars: Municipality to Remove Beggars from Streets as of Today

3- Tension in US over Payment of Iran’s 40-Year-Old Debt

4- Amendments to Oil Contracts Couldn’t Satisfy Critics

Iran:

1- Resolution of Nuclear Issue Created Peace in Iran: Larijani

2- People Losing Their Interest in ‘Wall of Kindness’

3- Iranian Female Athlete: Lodging Conditions in Rio Not at Level of Olympic Games

Jame Jam:

1- Dark Side of the Inauspicious Alliance [Saudi Arabia and Israel]

Javan:

1- 5.5m University Graduates Are Searching for Jobs in Iran

2- The Law Based on Which Astronomical Salaries Are Paid Is Non-Islamic and Null: Cleric

3- Mousavian: US Treasury Scares Companies away from Doing Business with Iran; USA’s Semi-Private Campaign against JCPOA

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- Heavy Losses of Terrorists in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon

2- Three-Fold Increase in Number of Flight over Iran’s Sky

3- 3 Iranian Companies Removed from Britain’s List of Sanctions

4- Terrorist Attacks in Germany Have Their Roots in Saudi Arabia: Spiegel

Kayhan:

1- Repeating the Bitter Experience of JCPOA by Making Oil Contracts Secret

2- 400 Takfiri [Extremist] Terrorists Killed in Syrian Army’s Attack on Idlib and Aleppo

3- 14th Edition of Int’l Imam Reza Festival Kicked Off in 77 Countries

4- Why Sanctions Were Not Lifted after Nuclear Deal

Khorasan:

1- 6 Killed in Attack on Bus Carrying Chinese Reporters in Brazil

2- 2 Norwegian Girls Fall Victim to Family Conflict in Mashhad

3- The New Iraq and the Fight against Corruption [Editorial]

Roozan:

1- Why Ahmadinejad Isn’t Afraid of Being Disqualified for Next Year’s Presidential Elections: Zibakalam

2- Necessity for Making the Issue of Human Rights Watch a Top Priority in Negotiations [with Europe]: Analyst

3- Erdogan, a Media and Propaganda Tool for Putin

Sayeh:

1- Predictions Come True: Russia Breaks US Dollar’s Hegemony

2- Olympics under Shadow of Fear and Concern

Shahrvand:

1- Prosperity in Iran’s Sky: Number of Flights Increased from 500 to 1085

2- Monster of Pokemon Go Filtered in Iran without Any Opposition

3- Venezuelan Oil in Exchange for Food

4- If We Plant the Seeds of Grudge, We Will Harvest ISIS: Imam Khomeini’s Grandson

Shargh:

1- Unprecedented Attacks against President; Cleric Says It’s Not an Honour to Receive Italian Fashion Designing Company in Iran

2- Rouhani and Putin to Meet in Baku

3- We Are Going to Prevent Future Shut-Down of Newspapers; Managers rather than the Press Are the Ones to Be Punished: MP

Vaghaye Ettefaghieh:

1- Rio 2016 Olympics to Begin with These 3 Women

2- 50% of University Graduated Are Unemployed: Movement of the Educated Unemployed

3- Insults to President Rouhani on Pretext of JCPOA

4- Controversies in US over Ransom Money Paid to Iran

5- Mousavian: JCPOA Opponents Looking for Iran-US Confrontation

Vatan-e Emrooz:

1- Axis of Evil: Latest Information about American-Saudi Plot to “Drag the War near Iran’s Borders”

2- MP Reveals Untold Stories about Transgenic Products

3- Latest Efforts by Saudi Arabia and the US to Get Terrorists Out of Siege in Aleppo

Iranian Female Flag Bearer Competing in Rio Olympics and Paralympics

IFP Editorial Staff

August 6, 2016

The 31-year-old Nemati had hoped to represent Iran at the Olympics much earlier in life – and in taekwondo rather than archery.

Born in April 1985 in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman, Nemati took up taekwondo when she was only eight.

A car accident as a teenager set the former black belt on a new sporting path after leaving her paralyzed. In 2003, she suffered a spinal injury during a road accident and both of her legs were paralyzed, according to media reports.

After spending two months in the hospital, she returned home in a wheelchair. This would have been the end of a sporting career for most people, but not for Nemati.

She picked up archery a few years later simply because, “I wanted to do some sport.”

On Friday, August 5, Nemati led Iranian athletes as the flag bearer during the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

It’s the start of a busy couple of months for Nemati in Rio de Janeiro. She’ll be pulling double duty and will be back next month for the Paralympics, where she’s the defending gold medallist in the individual recurve W1/W2.

Nemati started her ambitious journey to a first Olympic medal ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony during archery’s qualifying round at the Sambadrome. She shot 72 arrows and accumulated a score of 609 – good for 49th position. The results from the qualifying round are used determine the seedings for the bracketed tournament next week.

“I want to make my goal and get the best result: to make my family and the people around me happy and let them know I’m OK and I’m strong,” she said.

There’s no questioning her talent in archery. Over the last few years, Nemati has turned in a few top-10 finishes at World Cup events. Just last year she was ninth at a tournament in Poland.

At the 2012 London Paralympics, she captured gold to become the first woman from Iran to do so, according to the Rio Olympics website.

Nemati earned her spot at both the Olympics and Paralympics with a strong performance at the 2015 Asian Championships and Asian Para Championships.

She is the only Iranian woman ever to have won a Paralympic gold medal and the only Iranian athlete who has qualified for both the 2016 Olympics and the 2016 Paralympics. She is also the only Iranian athlete who has received the coveted Sport Accord’s Spirit of Sport Individual Award in 2013. She is the first Iranian athlete to be named athlete of the year by the International Olympics Committee.

“I had a dream to be in the Olympics as I was doing taekwondo before my accident,” she said. “Now, this dream came true through archery.”

Nemati is hoping others in a similar situation will follow her path and has been named a United Nations ambassador for her role in empowering women through sport.

“For me, it means a lot to make the people who have big problems in their lives happy,” Nemati said.

Arriving in the stadium in a wheelchair, wearing a green head covering, a smiling Nemati was the flag bearer for a team made up overwhelmingly of men.

JCPOA Proves Washington Is Not Trustworthy: Politician

IFP Editorial Staff

August 6, 2016

In an interview with Tasnim, as translated by IFP, Iran’s former foreign ministry spokesman, Hamidreza Asefi, described Tehran’s decision about JCPOA as a necessity for the Islamic Republic to deal with the crippling effects of sanctions.

He touched upon the strategy of ‘heroic flexibility’ laid out by Leader of the Islamic Revolution and said, “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was a serious measure taken by Iran to vindicate itself and have the imposed limitations lifted.”

Asefi described JCPOA as a win-win deal and added, “I have always said that if the parties fulfil their obligations under JCPOA, the imposed sanctions and limitations on the country will be lifted, and if not, it will at least help prove Iran’s innocence.”

“Despite all the murmurings of discontent and problems ahead of JCPOA, I believe the deal is positive,” Asefi said.

“The experience Iran acquired from JCPOA is like a painting that depicts the US government’s attitude. They have not changed the nature of their approach towards Iran under any circumstances,” he noted.

He went on to say that the United States has not fulfilled any of the obligations under JCPOA so far, and this proves that they are unworthy.

“Not only was the nuclear deal unable to ameliorate the US policies towards Iran, but also confirmed the fact that the US is hypocritical. This is a treasured experience, which indicates the US approach towards Iran never changes”.

“We should seriously refrain from exerting pressure on the intelligentsia and government members inside the country; We should rather join forces to put high pressure on the US government to abide by its JCPOA obligations.”