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Shamkhani Highlights Iran’s Success at Curbing Takfiris

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Extension of UN Arms Embargo to Sound Death Knell for JCPOA: Iran

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Shahbaz Hassanpour Biglari quoted Shamkhani as saying at a closed-door session of the parliament on Tuesday morning that Iran is the only country capable of reining in Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group outside the country’s borders.

Rear Admiral Shamkhani also noted that Iranian security forces managed to thwart plots by the Takfiri groups and the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to carry out attacks in Iran in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the lawmaker added.

On June 20, the Intelligence Ministry announced in a statement that its agents thwarted a major plot by the Takfiri-Wahhabi groups for a series of bombing raids across the country during religious events in the holy month of Ramadan.

A few days later, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alawi said a series of operations to arrest the terrorists had begun on June 14 and continued until June 20.

According to the minister, 10 Takfiri-Wahhabi terrorists were arrested in Tehran and three border and central provinces of the country, saying they had masterminded different operations including planting bombs, detonation of remote control bombs, suicide attacks, and blowing up explosive-laden vehicles.

The terrorists wanted to carry out bombing raids in crowded locations, and had located 50 targets, the minister explained, saying they had even prepared the explosive material for some of the attacks and were preparing or receiving some for the others.

Alawi said 100 kilograms of explosive material -ready for blast- and precursor chemical compounds were confiscated in the operations, while the intelligence activities blocked the delivery of 2 tons of explosive materials to the terrorists.

Iran’s Zarif Urges Muslims to Stand United against Terrorism

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Muhammad Javad Zarif

“There are no more red lines left for terrorists to cross. Sunnis, Shiites will both remain victims unless we stand united as one,” Zarif made the statement in a message posted on his Twitter account on early on Tuesday.

The message by the Iranian foreign minister came after suicide bombers struck three cities across Saudi Arabia on Monday, killing at least four security officers in an apparently coordinated campaign of terrorist attacks.

A suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a parking lot outside the holy Prophet’s Mosque in the holy city of Medina, a Saudi security spokesman told state news agency SPA.

“Security men noticed a suspicious person among those approaching the Prophet’s Mosque in an open area used as parking lots for visitors’ cars. As they confronted him, he blew himself up with an explosive belt, which resulted in his death and the martyrdom of four of the security men,” the spokesman said.

Five other officers were wounded, the statement added.

In Qatif, an eastern city that is home to many members of the Shiite minority, at least one and possibly two explosions struck near a Shiite mosque. The security spokesman said the body of a bomber and two other people have been identified, without providing any more details.

Witnesses described body parts, apparently of a suicide bomber, in the aftermath.

Hours earlier a suicide bomber was killed and two people were wounded in a blast near the US Consulate in the kingdom’s second city, Jeddah.

The Jeddah blast was the first bombing in years to attempt to target foreigners in the kingdom. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Authorities identified the attacker as a 34-year-old Pakistani driver named Abdullah Qalzar Khan, who lived with his wife and family in the city.

AFC Severely Punishes Saudi Club for Its Fans’ Insults to Iranians

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According to a report by Fars, as translated by IFP, the Asian Football Confederation recently fined a Saudi club after its fans were found to have insulted Iranian teams.

During a football game between the Iranian Football Club Sepahan, and Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ittihad, a report was filed against the Saudi club for its fans’ mischief against the Iranian team, based on which the AFC’s Disciplinary Committee issued a $20,000 fine against the Arab club.

AFC gave no further details on the report.

Al-Ittihad was also reprimanded for a delay in entering the football field, and has to pay an additional $1,500. It also received a warning that, if the misbehaviours continue, they should expect more severe penalties.

Given the growing tensions between Tehran and Riyadh caused by Mina tragedy in 2015 and the execution of prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in January 2016, which led to an attack by angry protesters on the Saudi embassy in Tehran, Fars presumes there must be a rational explanation for the punishment.

Iran’s Veteran Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Student, Dies at 90

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Nezam Ameri, Iranian veteran architect

Honar Online issued a report breaking the news about Nazem Ameri’s death, an old hand in architecture. Here is the translation by IFP:

Ameri, the paragon of Iran’s architecture was born in 1926. After finishing his primary education, he left the country to get his diploma in England, and later picked the US for higher education.

University of Kent, Ohio, was where Ameri grew fond of architecture and continued his higher education in this field.

He was a junior in the University of Kent when he first met Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures.

Ameri made every effort to finish his university education one year earlier to join Wright’s School of Arts as quickly as possible.

Ameri once said that Wright did not have any academic degree! Yet he was in the vanguard of architecture arena.

Wright disregarded all the academic papers Ameri had authored through years, and delved into the interview right away.

“Being successful in an interview with an 85-year-old architecture was an onerous job,” Ameri once noted.

He passed the interview and became Frank Wright’s apprentice. After two years of concerted efforts, Ameri finally earned Wright’s trust, to the extent that the American architect used Ameri’s help to design Guggenheim museum, New York City, and proudly introduced him as his representative in the Middle East.

In an unprecedented move, Wright personally designed Ameri’s house.

One year prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, he came back to London and designed Chelsea art galleries, which was given the title “Architectural Jewels” by Art Review Magazine.

Nezam Ameri, Iranian pioneering architecture, took part in the designing of such buildings as Bahman cinema and Pars and Sina hospitals, and established an architecture office in Tehran to implement more than 90 projects for his country before he passed away.

Mirkarimi heads to Paris for Kiarostami’s final flight

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Media sources speculated that Hojjatollah Ayoubi, head of Iran’s Cinema Organization would go to Paris to escort famous director’s body to Tehran. Mikarimi’s delegation to Paris includes Seifollah Samadian the photographer and documentary producer, and a close friend of Kiarostami. Their mission is to arrange affairs for immediate transfer of the popular director’s body to Tehran.

Abbas Kiarostami, 76, was suffering from gastrointestinal cancer and died Monday in a hospital in Paris.

Kiarostami gave new meaning to cinema: Culture minister

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In a message on Tuesday, Ali Jannati said Kiarostami, through his modern, beautiful, and creative works put the name of Iran under the spotlight of world’s art societies.

Jannati, in his message, also sympathized with the Iranian nation, cinema artists, art society, devotees of cinema and members of Kiarostami’s family over his death that happened on July 4, at 76, in France where he had gone to be treated.

The Koker trilogy, series of three films, (1987–94), Close-Up (1990), Taste of Cherry (1997) – which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year, The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), Certified Copy (2010), Like Someone in Love (2012) and Friend’s Home are among famous and popular works of Mr Kiarostami.

International media and prominent figures of cinema have extensively reacted to the death of acclaimed Iranian film maker Abbas Kiarostami.

Great Salt Desert

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Dasht-e Kavir, also known the Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian plateau, about 300 kilometers east-southeast of Tehran. The desert is about 800 kilometers long and 320 kilometers wide, and composed of mud and salt marshes (kavirs).

 

 

President Rouhani vows to eradicate misuse of public funds

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President Rouhani

The president made the remarks in a Monday statement addressed to the nation and in reaction to recent revelations of exorbitant payments made to some high-level managers.

The irregularity, he warned, could damage “deep ties existing between the government and the people that have recently blown new life into the Iranian society and even, God forbid, target the strength of the relation between the people and the establishment.”

“I have not made a pledge of fraternity to anyone,” read part of the statement, signaling that the administration would not spare anyone in the anti-corruption drive.

“We will keep up the fight against corruption and rent-seeking in the administrative and economic system until the phenomena are rooted out.”

The president said irrespective of the fact that some unfair hype has been created around the issue with ulterior motives, he had ordered the establishment of a special committee to investigate the issue.

The task force, the president said, was headed by First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri and pursued three objectives.

It sought to probe the causes of and identifying the cases of misuse, taking firm action to have the funds returned and dismissing the executives who had been involved in wrongdoing, and adopting the necessary decisions to modify executive rules and regulations.

President Rouhani said the committee has reported its findings to him, which he reported to the nation in the statement.

He said the malfunctioning structure left over from the past, disregard for the law, and the lack of due attention by monitoring bodies had led to indiscipline and chaos, the effects of which can still be seen.

The president said he has ordered that a bill be quickly drafted for correcting the payment regime and institutions be obligated to publicize the lowermost and topmost amounts paid to the administrative and military officials.

He, however, said the committee formed with the anti-corruption agenda had found that the issue of misappropriations was limited to a small number of people and that the majority of managers have been clean.

Rouhani also said government officials and ministers had been ordered to take action on the issue “within at most one month.”

The government, he added, was organizing “an information transparency regime” to shed light on the manner of the application of public funds and resources.

Iran Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Saudi Arabia

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In the early hours of Tuesday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned the Monday terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia, two of which occurred in the evening.

Expressing condolences to the families of victims of the strikes, Qassemi reiterated Iran’s strong condemnation of terrorism in any shape and at any part of the world.

He emphasized that all countries should take serious action against the sources of terrorism, its causes and its factors.

The uncontrollable wave of terrorist attacks that have beset the region is a sign that the ominous phenomenon is not confined to a specific country, the spokesman added, stressing that the only way to tackle terrorism would be an international and regional consensus.

His comments came after suicide bombings in three Saudi Arabian cities over a 24-hour period.

Two of the attacks failed but four people were killed in the third one, all of which appear to be coordinated.

The first occurred before dawn on Monday near the US Consulate in Jeddah. The attacker killed only himself after detonating an explosive according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency. Policemen were injured in the attack.

In Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia, a suicide bomber attempted to launch an attack at a Shiite mosque on Monday evening, but failed, killing himself in the process, according to an official with knowledge of the event. There were no injuries.

But the deadliest attack occurred in Medina, where four people were killed and another person was wounded, according to an official with knowledge of the event.

The holy city of Medina is a major spot in Islam because that hosts the shrine of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

The bomber, who died in the explosion, targeted security officers, but it is unknown precisely who was killed, the source said.

World renowned Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami passes away

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Kiarostami

Kiarostami3The 76-year-old award-winning scholar succumbed to a stroke in Paris on Monday, a few days after leaving Tehran.

In March 2016, Kiarostami was diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer, following which he underwent a series of operations.

Following the news of his death, the New York-based cinema magazine The Film Stage said that “the world may have lost its greatest filmmaker.”

Known for their modest style, dark realism, and sly humor, his films were usually shot in real locations, and with the use of non-actors.

His film The Wind Will Carry Us won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice film festival in 1999.

 

Kiarostami4In 1997, Kiarostami’s film Taste of Cherry won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival.

In his late years, Kiarostami started to travel the world, making “Certified Copy” in Italy and “Like Someone in Love” in Japan.

Referring to his travels, he said he was attempting to make a narrative about “universal characters, that can be accessible to everyone.”

 

 

‘Very sad, in total shock’

During an interview with the Guardian from Tehran, Oscar-winning Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi said that he was shocked when he heard the news as he was due to fly to Paris to visit his old friend later that night.

“He wasn’t just a filmmaker,” said Farhadi. “He was a modern mystic, both in his cinema and his private life. “

“He definitely paved ways for others and influenced a great deal of people. It’s not just the world of cinema that has lost a great man; the whole world has lost someone really great,” he added.

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