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Iran’s DM Urges Enhanced Defence Ties with Other Countries

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Golrokh Askarieh
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“While trying to maintain its strength and boost its power, Iran should broaden defence interactions with other countries under logical and balanced conditions,” Dehqan said at a meeting of Iranian diplomats in Tehran.

He also noted that the Defence Ministry has formulated reasonable plans for cooperation with different countries on the basis of constructive and genuine interaction.

Back in April, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani highlighted the necessity for paying equal attention to both diplomacy and the Armed Forces in national doctrine, saying that the country needs both of them at the same time.

“Our diplomacy and Armed Forces pursue the same goal: national security, national might, stability, and development in the country,” Rouhani said at the time.

Iranians Mark National Ferdowsi Day

By
Fatemeh Askarieh
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Iranians on May 14 marked the ‘National Day of Ferdowsi’ to pay tribute to Hakim Abul-Qasim Ferdowsi, the renowned literary figure whose “Shahnameh” is considered the world’s longest epic poetry written by a single poet.

 

 

 

Green Marriage: New Trend in Iran to Protect Environment

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Here is IFP’s translation of a report by IRNA.

We have frequently heard that someone plants a number of saplings or another one conquers a summit to protect mountains. However, it’s been a while that we can find reports from different parts of Iran on couples who set environmental conditions for their marriage. This means that the importance of environment is being integrated into the tradition of marriage, and this is a very fortunate development.

For example, a young couple in [western city] of Kermanshah planted 1305 saplings to mark the beginning of their marriage. It was an admirable move to choose the number 1305, because it was the solar year when Eskandar Firouz, the founder of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization, was born in Shiraz.

A couple in Kerman also tried not to use disposable containers in their wedding ceremony. They also had the trash separated at the end of the ceremony, avoided the sacrifice of animals, and planted a sapling instead.

 

Green Marriage

A while ago, Mohammad Reza Rostami, an official with Iran’s Sport and Youth Ministry, referred to “Green Marriage” as a plan to correct social and environmental patterns.

“The Green Marriage plan was proposed by the sport and youth ministry to Department of Environment on the occasion of ‘Week of Marriage’,” he noted.

“In this plan, we intend to combine environmental elements and marriage as two social and environmental factors, and propose a new model, namely ‘Green Marriage’, to the youth,” Rostami went on to say.

“In this model, we have highlighted such criteria as water consumption pattern, use of plants, and avoiding repeated hoots,” he added.

Mohammad Darvish, the director-general of the Department of Environment’s Public Participations Office, told IRNA on Sunday that the number of Green Marriage cases have recently risen, and expressed the hope that it turns to a social environmental movement.

It is very important to provide further information in this regard, he noted, adding that even in a traditional ceremony like marriage, one can protect the environment.

Asghar Farhadi Dismisses Reports on Qatari Investment on His Latest Film

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“Memento Company and I are the producers of the film,” Farhadi said, rejecting the rumours of Qatar’s role in the production.

“When I decided to make the film …, I was the producer and investor. However, when the scenario was getting completed and in the middle of production, the French company ‘Memento’, which earlier produced the film ‘The Past’ and distributes my other films, asked to take a look at the screenplay.”

“After reviewing the scenario, they requested for making partial investment in the film, and finally, it was decided that Alexandre Mallet-Guy (the company’s director-general) and I co-produce the film,” Farhadi said in an interview with ISNA, as translated by IFP.

“In final stages of filming, they managed to sell the film to different countries in advance. The TV broadcast, for instance, was sold to France’s Arte,” he noted.

The reports that presented “Doha Film Festival” as the producer and investor of the film were prepared either out of ignorance or mischief, Farhadi said.

“Each year, Doha Film Festival pays certain amounts of money to a number of films as a fund, and becomes an associate,” he said, stressing that the fund provided by the Qatari festival for his latest film “The Salesman” was not at all a huge amount compared with the total budget.

“When Memento Company was introduced as a producer in this film, Doha Film Festival authorities contacted them and expressed their willingness to give one of their funds to the Salesman this year. And Memento accepted the offer,” Farhadi noted.

On the film’s credits, it is mentioned that “The Salesman” is made in co-production with Arte France Cinéma and in association with Doha Film Institute, Memento Films Distribution and Arte France.

Therefore, Farhadi emphasized, the main investment is made by me and Memento Films, and this is mentioned in the film’s credits as well.

3 Iranian Works Nominated for Prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The 19 shortlisted projects for the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced on May 9. The projects, which were selected by the Master Jury from amongst 348 projects nominated for the 13th Award cycle, will be competing for US$ 1 million in prize money.

Manouchehri House in Iranian central city of Kashan, Tabiat [Nature] Pedestrian Bridge in Tehran, and the 40-Knots House in the capital are the Iranian entries in this year’s awards.

Habibeh Majdabadi and Alireza Mashhadi Mirza are the architects of the 40-Knots House; Leila Araqian and Alireza Behzadi have designed the Tabiat Bridge, and Akbar Helli and Shahnaz Nader Esfahani renovated the Manouchehri House in Kashan, according to a report by ISNA, as translated by IFP.

The interesting point is that two of these Iranian architects were females under 40 years of age.

 

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) is an architectural prize established by Aga Khan IV in 1977. It aims to identify and reward architectural concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Islamic societies in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community development and improvement, restoration, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment.

It is presented in three-year cycles to multiple projects and has a monetary award, with prizes totalling US$ 1 million. Uniquely among architectural awards, it recognizes projects, teams, and stakeholders in addition to buildings and people.

This year, Iran has the highest number of nominees in the final 19. Entries from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Denmark, Jordan, Kosovo, Morocco, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, and Spain will compete with Iranian works for the one-million-dollar award.

Here are the three Iranian nominees shortlisted for the award:

 

Manouchehri House

The house is the combined reinvigoration of the architectural and craft-work heritage in an old city that has sparked a broader revitalisation.

The site’s design was proposed in 2008 and the renovation was completed in 2010. It was renovated by Helli and Nader Esfahani for three purposes:

1- The revival of historically significant hand-woven textile traditions of Kashan which were on the brink of extinction.

2- The renovation, restoration and revitalisation of a historic house and its surrounding neighbourhood in order to draw attention to the vast treasury of this architectural heritage in danger.

3- Raising awareness of the cultural, artistic and technological traditions embedded in the Islamic architectural traditions of this region.

The project has met with so much success that it has drawn thousands of people from across the world, and has triggered many similar initiatives across the city.

 

 

 

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge

This is also the infrastructure that connects two parks in Tehran, and has become a popular urban space.

It is the largest pedestrian overpass built in Tehran. The 270-metre bridge connects the two public   parks of Taleghani and Abo-Atash by spanning Shahid Modarres Highway, one of the main highways in northern Tehran.

It has won several awards, including the Popular Choice Prize for Highways & Bridges from the Architizer A+ Awards, a global architectural competition based in New York.

 

 

40-Knots House

Creating a small and low budget apartment building in Tehran does not leave much space for creativity, yet an architect can try to do something with the material, textures, outer envelope and light.

The building has been entirely covered with a mesh of bricks impaled on rod bars as contiguous pearl necklaces.

The distances between the bricks have been adjusted to create an opaque effect, through which light does not pass, while when there is a window behind the mesh, it becomes a transparent grid.

 

Iran to Build Wind Farm in Kazakhstan

By
Golrokh Askarieh
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The agreement with sealed between Iran’s Power and Water Equipment & Services Export Company (SUNIR) and Eurasia Invest Group in Tehran on Saturday.

The deal will require the Iranian side to build a 50-megawatt wind power plant in Kazakhstan’s west near the country’s Caspian Sea shores, IRNA reported.

The Kazakh government will finance the 110 million dollar project, SUNIR’s first major so far this year, which is due to complete in 18 months.

Last month, Tehran and Astana reached agreement on a number of economic projects including the establishment of a joint shipping company.

The planned freight shipping line would boost bilateral trade through the Iranian port of Bandar Anzali and Kazakh port of Aktau, both on the Caspian Sea.

Iran and Kazakhstan also decided to increase their volume of rail transport through a railroad that links Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.

In addition, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani received his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev on April 11 in the Iranian capital city where the two oversaw the signing of a number of agreements in different areas.

Rouhani later said Iranian and Kazakh officials had signed 66 documents for cooperation, worth two billion dollars, in the public and private sectors, adding that the agreements mark a “turning point” in mutual relations.

He noted that Tehran and Astana would strengthen cooperation in different fields of economy, agriculture, science, culture, technology and communications.

The Iranian president added that bilateral cooperation in the Caspian Sea including marine transportation, tourism and the determination of the landlocked lake’s legal status were also discussed during talks with the Kazakh leader.

Population Dynamics of Green Sea Turtles in Persian Gulf

By
Fatemeh Askarieh
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Population dynamics of the Persian Gulf green sea turtles is underway in Iran’s southern Island of Qeshm on the basis of a research plan (Chelonia mydas) which studies the climate and geographical situation of a particular area. The plan is considered a chapter for recognizing the effects of climate exchange on global population.

Iran Keen to Have Balanced Defence Relations with Regional States: DM

By
Emad Askarieh
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The ill-wishers in the US and its allies have created roadblocks for implementation of the JCPOA, said the minister.

He made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian ambassadors, diplomats and heads of representative offices overseas in a conference on ‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Economy of Resistance, Opportunities and Capabilities.’

Arrogant powers seek to dominate others by discriminatory measures and injustice toward the free and independent nations, the minister said.

The Islamic Republic of Iran should broaden its defence cooperation with different countries based on balanced and reasonable defence diplomacy, he said.

Iranian defence ministry and its armed forces are to present an exemplary model to broaden cooperation with different countries on defence, Dehqan said.

To attain the goal, the Iranian defence ministry should be in full coordination with the foreign ministry to help broaden defence cooperation with various countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and Central Asia mainly after removal of economic sanctions and implementation of the JCPOA, the minister said.

Parliament Permits Iran’s State Universities to Open Foreign Branches

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IFP Editorial Staff
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tehran university

Based on a motion passed in a Sunday session of the Iranian parliament, the country’s universities will be able to establish branches in other countries and also in Iranian free trade and industrial zones.

The motion, however, states that the branches can be opened only if the ministry of science or ministry of medical education deem it necessary.

Such branches are not state-funded, and should provide their budget by receiving tuition, according to a report by Shabestan, as translated by IFP.

Senior IMF Official in Tehran for Economic Talks

By
Emad Askarieh
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Heading a delegation of IMF economic experts, Lipton arrived in the Iranian capital on Sunday to exchange views with a number of high-ranking Iranian officials on economic issues following a lasting nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.

During his three-day stay, he is planned to sit down with Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Mohammad Nahavandian, Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Chief Valiollah Seif, Vice-President Mohammad Baqer Nobakht and Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh.

Lipton is also scheduled to deliver a speech at an upcoming conference organized by the CBI and also meet with a number of Iranian economists, bankers, and business owners in the private sector.

There has been growing international interest in ties with Iran since Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14, 2015 finalized a comprehensive deal on Tehran’s nuclear program and implemented it on January 16.

The comprehensive nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), terminated all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran after coming into force.

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