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Iran Will Never Backtrack in Face of US Aggression: Commander

By
Emad Askarieh
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Bullying other countries has become a regular thing with the United States and Washington expects states to keep silent on its acts of aggression, Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said on Sunday.

He added that Iran adopted a peaceful attitude to the ten US Marines who had trespassed on Iran’s territorial waters in January although “they were aggressors.”

“However, the Americans did not tolerate even such a peaceful attitude… and we are currently witnessing its signs that they are angry with what happened to their sailors in the Persian Gulf,” Jazayeri stated.

In a statement on January 13, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that the US sailors were released after they apologized for the incident.

The statement read, “Following the illegal and unpermitted entry of two American Navy vessels into the Islamic Republic of Iran’s territorial waters near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf on the evening of the previous day, the vessels stopped, obeying a warning by IRGC vessels, and their crewmembers, who comprised nine male Marines and one female Marine, were placed under arrest.”

Earlier in the day, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, the commander of the IRGC Navy, said the trespassing occurred because of technical problems with the navigation systems of the US vessels. He added that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had demanded an apology from the United States for the trespassing.

Meanwhile, the US Navy on May 13 demoted the commander of the 10 American sailors.

The Navy said in a statement that it has lost confidence in Commander Eric Rasch, who was the executive officer of the coastal riverine squadron. It also blamed Rasch for ‘complacency’ and failure to maintain standards in the 10-member unit.

Young Iranian Journalist Barsaghian Receives 9th Hope Award

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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The award ceremony (which is given in memory of Dr. Mehdi Semsar, a late veteran of journalism in Iran) was held on Friday May 13, attended by journalists and the family of Dr. Semsar.

The prize was presented to Serge Barsaghian. Since 2000, this young journalist has been working with various reformist magazines and newspapers. Currently, he is the editor of the websites History and Iranian Diplomacy. He will soon take up his position at the new website, Vaght-e Iran. He is also the secretary of the sociology group of the monthly publication Mehrnameh.

During the ceremony, Shirin Semsar, Dr. Semsar’s daughter, said, “When we decided to found this award for journalism, we wanted to name it not only after my father, but to call it something related both to him and journalism. Undoubtedly, hope can keep the light of love, friendship and belief on. My father faced many difficulties in his life in journalism, but with faith and belief, he followed the path of truth. He showed the new generation the path to combat negative thoughts and interpretations by translating books that brought them hope. For this reason, he translated “What is to Be Done?”when society felt disappointed and broken after the 1953 coup d’etat.

Serge Barsaghian, the Armenian Christian winner of the award, showed his appreciation and gratitude to the organizers, and said, “Dr. Semsar was one of the journalists whose ink was honour, and whose paper was honesty. This was a very difficult thing to be, for journalists of that time, and it was a noble characteristic. In receiving this award, one should emulate the essence of Dr. Semsar.”

 

IFP extends its congratulations to Serge Barsaghian, winner of the 9th Hope Award.

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Newspaper front pages

On Sunday, Iranian newspapers covered a variety of topics including the remarks by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, on the need for clerics’ presence in cyberspace to counter deviant thoughts.

They also reported the unveiling of two new paintings by master miniaturist Mahmoud Farshchian as well as the special concessions announced by Minister of Economy Ali Tayyebnia to be given to foreign investors.

The name of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first Iranian woman to become a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), was also seen on many front pages.

 

Abrar:

1- Eclectic and American Islam Fighting Real Islam: Leader

2- 2 New Works by Master Miniaturist Farshchian Unveiled in Tehran

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Abrar-e Eqtesadi:

1- Iran to Give Special Concessions to Foreign Investors: Economy Minister

2- Iran Joins Tunisian Power Projects

3- Energy Ministry Sets Preconditions for Cooperating with Japanese Companies

4- Belgium’s $6bn Investment to Construct Plant in Iran

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Arman-e Emrooz:

1- Time for Cabinet Reshuffle: 5 Ministers Likely to Be Replaced

2- Hookah on Delivery! [In Tehran and other large Iranian cities, hookah orders can be received by phone and delivered to the customer’s door]

3- Impossible to Make Someone a Believer by Force

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Asia:

1- Huge Int’l Conference “Iran Finance 2016” to Be Held in Tehran

2- Iranian and Italian Economic Players Convene in Tehran Tomorrow

3- London to Host Large-Scale Conference on Iran’s Economy

4- US Treasury Will Hold Emergency Meeting to Facilitate Iran Banking Ties

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Asr-e Rasaneh:

1- Invitation for Investment: Tax Rates Not to Exceed 25%, Economy Minister Says

2- Phases 20-21 of South Pars [Giant Gas Field] to Come Online This Year with Daily Capacity of 50mcm

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Emtiaz:

1- Contracts for Sale of Oil to Japan Renewed

2- Iran to Unveil Ancient Relics It Received from US

3- 15 Lawyers Arrested in Overnight Party

4- Half of Iran’s Population Are Overweight

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Etemad:

1- Post-JCPOA Era: Gov’t Sends Iranian Ambassador on Economic Missions

2- Conservatives Reportedly Start Their Campaigns One Year before 2017 Presidential Polls

3- Suspected Haft-e Tir Bomber Arrested after 35 Years

[73 leading officials of the Islamic Republic, including Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti were killed in the Haft-e Tir Bombing on 28 June 1981, when a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) in Tehran]

4- Carlos Queiroz Should Know the Gov’t Pays Attention: First VP

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Ettela’at:

1- Al-Nusra Front Criminals Massacre 180 Syrian Women and Children

2- Clerics Must Counter Deviant Thoughts and Questions: Leader

3- Maryam Mirzakhani [Iranian mathematician] Elected to US National Academy of Sciences

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Ghanoon:

1- Some JCPOA Opponents Used to Support Israel

2- Second Cold War Warming Up: War of Words between Obama and Putin

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Haft-e Sobh:

1- Did Asghar Farhadi Go to Cannes Film Festival Using Qatari Investment?

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Hamshahri:

1- Red Carpet for Foreigners, Red Lines for Iranians [on the incentives for foreign investors as proposed by economy minister]

2- Even Europe Objects to US Violation of Its JCPOA Commitments

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Hemayat:

1- US Is Clear Example of State Terrorism: Judiciary Chief

2- Takfiri Shelling Killed Hezbollah Commander Badreddine

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Iran:

1- $73bn Foreign Lines of Credit Opened after JCPOA: Administration Spokesman

2- End of Tehran International Book Fair

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Javan:

1- European Banks Demand $15bn Ransom from Iran

[In unofficial letters, certain European banks have noted that they are ready to resume their ties with Iran on the condition that Tehran compensates them for penalties already paid by European banks to the US for their relations with Iran, and that it gives a guarantee for future penalties.]

2- Enemies Dreaming of Carving Up Iran’s Missiles: IRGC Aerospace Commander

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Jomhouri Eslami:

1- Cyberspace Is the Real Frontline: Leader

2- Shocking Stories Told by Survivors of Takfiri Crimes in Syria’s Hama

3- Iran Should Benefit from Removal of Sanctions: French Ambassador to Washington

4- 330 ISIS Elements Killed in Western Iraq

5- Iran-Europe Banking Ties Start One Month after Giving US an Ultimatum

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Kayhan:

1- French Envoy to US: Why Should Iran Comply with JCPOA When Sanctions Aren’t Removed?

2- Billions of Dollars of Oilseeds Imported in Spite of Domestic Capabilities

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Payam-e Zaman:

1- Iran Doesn’t Want S-400 [Defence] System: DM

2- Germany Ready to Invite Rouhani to Officially Visit Berlin

3- Rumours of Zionist [Israeli] Role in Assassination of General Tehrani Moqaddam Dismissed

4- Iran Is Biggest World Economy Outside WTO: Minister

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Shahrvand:

1- Diplomats Tasked with Making JCPOA Achievements Tangible

2- Normalization of Ties in All Foreign Trade Fields: Deputy FM Araqchi

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Vatan-e Emrooz:

1- From Language of Influence to Linguistic Influence: Damages of English Language Monopoly

2- Standing with Zolfaqar (Mustafa Badreddine)

3- Clerics Protest at Meeting of Rafsanjani’s Daughter with Baha’i Leader

 

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 15

 

 

Araqchi: Zionist Lobbies Using Iranophobia as Tool to Stop JCPOA

By
Golrokh Askarieh
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araghchi

Speaking in a televised interview, Araqchi said the extremist lobbies in the US and some other countries like Saudi Arabia as well as certain elements linked to the Zionist regime [Israel] are trying to prevent the historic deal between Tehran and world powers from bearing fruits.

Although major European banks have yet to start transactions with Iran, some medium- and small-sized ones have already begun to work with Iran and opened LC cases for the country, he noted.

He said a cluster of efforts like the primary sanctions and what the US extremist lobbies are saying, has caused a sort of mistrust in European banks towards Iran and made them uncertain about activities in Iran.

Araqchi stated that the Obama administration as well as the European countries consider the JCPOA as an achievement and want it to survive.

Therefore, he added, they are willing to abide by their commitments, but they are faced with pressures by extremist lobbies.

No Plans for S-400 Purchase: Iran’s DM

By
Golrokh Askarieh
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“No we do not intend to do so,” Dehqan told reporters in Tehran on Saturday, answering to a question about possible purchase of the Russian powerful air-defence system.

His comments came against the backdrop of a long process for the delivery of an older version of the Russian-made air defence system, S-300. Iran has been long waiting to receive the system it had purchased in 2007.

Under the 2007 deal, Russia was required to provide Iran with at least five S-300 defence system batteries. But the contract, worth more than $800 million, was revoked after then-President Dmitry Medvedev banned the supply of those systems to Tehran in 2010.

Later, Iran lodged a $4 billion lawsuit at an international court in Geneva against Russia’s arms export agency. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided in April 2015 to lift the self-imposed ban on the S-300 missile system delivery to Iran.

In April 2016, Iran displayed part of S-300 in a military parade in Tehran, held to mark the National Army Day. The gear unveiled in the ceremony included 2 radar systems of S-300, its carrier and command vehicles as well as the crane for lifting its missiles.

Also on May 10, minister Dehqan said the country’s Khatam al-Anbia Air Defence Base has been equipped with S-300 missile system.

Bomber Linked to 1981 Tehran Attack Arrested in Albania: Iran Police

By
Golrokh Askarieh
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The assailant is a member of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and was arrested in Albania with the collaboration of Interpol, said Iranian police spokesman Saeed Montazerolmahdi during a press conference on Saturday.

He added that the perpetrator would soon be transferred back to Iran.

On 28 June, 1981, a powerful bomb went off at the IRP headquarters, where the party’s leaders were holding a meeting. Tens of Iranian officials, including then Head of Supreme Judicial Council Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, were killed in the bombing by the MKO.

The MKO has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past three decades. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, about 12,000 have fallen victim to MKO’s acts of terror.

Washington and the European Union have removed the MKO from their lists of terrorist organizations. The anti-Iran terrorists enjoy freedom of activity in the US and Europe, and even hold meetings with American and EU officials.

First Iranian Woman Elected to US National Academy of Sciences

By
Golrokh Askarieh
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The 39-year-old mathematician, currently a professor at Stanford University, was recently elected to NAS, by its current members, in recognition of her “distinguished and continuing achievement in original research.”

With past honourees including renowned physicist Albert Einstein, and inventors Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell, being a member of the organization is considered to be as one of the highest achievements for scientists in the United States.

Mirzakhani, along with 83 other new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries, will be formally inducted next April in Washington DC.

The organization, along with its two sister organizations, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) serve pro bono as “advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine.”

Born in 1977 in Tehran, Mirzakhani was raised in the Iranian capital. As a brilliant teenager, she won gold medals in both the International Mathematical Olympiad (Hong Kong 1994), in which she scored 41 out of 42 points, and the International Mathematical Olympiad (Canada 1995) with a perfect score of 42 out of 42 points, ranking her first jointly with 14 other participants.

The math genius received her Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Iran’s prestigious Sharif University of Technology in 1999. She later went to the US to further her education, earning a PhD degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 2004.

She became full professor of mathematics at the age of 31 in 2008 at Stanford University where she is currently lecturing.

Mirzakhani received Blumenthal Award from the American Mathematical Society in 2009. She was also awarded the 2013 biennial Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics by the American Mathematical Society, and garnered the 2014 Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute.

But the most important of all her awards is the 2014 Fields Medal that she won in recognition of her contributions to the understanding of the symmetry of curved surfaces. This medal, commonly viewed as the highest honour a mathematician can receive, is given every four years to mathematicians under the age of 40, by the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU).

Mirzakhani’s research interests mainly include Teichmüller theory and ergodic theory. About her mathematical approach to developing new proofs, she has said “it is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.”

Mirzakhani is married to Jan Vondrák, a Czech theoretical computer scientist who works at IBM Almaden Research Centre. They have a daughter named Anahita.

Master Miniaturist Mahmud Farshchian Unveils New Works in Tehran

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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Director of Cultural Heritage Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) Masoud Soltanifar, and CHTHO deputy director Bahman Namvar Motalq attended the ceremony, Persian media reported.

“Simorgh, which wasproposed by grand Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli, is a symbol of humanity,  and shows  that people are always seeking the truth,” Farshchian said at the ceremony.

He added that the idea of his second tableau Environment, Man and Nature, was prompted last year by the head of Iran’s Department of Environment, Masoumeh Ebtekar.

“In one corner of the painting a monster that has polluted the earth can be seen, and on the other side there are angels who are cleaning up the environment,” he explained.

“I believe protecting the environment is quite simple, and I ask citizens to truly love their environment and to help preserve it.”

Namvar Motalq also said that Farshchian’s painting would be very influential in environmental protection.

“Our environment has been damaged, and we need to improve it, both in Iran and around the world,” said Mohammad Mojabi, a top official at the Department of Environment.

 

 

Photos of the unveiling ceremony were received from IRIB News.

Iran International Cycling Tour Held in Azarbaijan Province

By
Fatemeh Askarieh
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UNESCO to Present Plaque to Iran on Hamoun Lake Registration

By
IFP Editorial Staff
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Head of Iran’s Department of Environment Massoumeh Ebtekar, Director of UNESCO’s Cluster Office in Tehran Esther Kuisch Laroche and Director of Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences Secretary, Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme Han Qunli arrived in this south-eastern Iranian province on Saturday, and are due to attend the ceremony.

The plaque will be unveiled by Ebtekar at Zabol University in a ceremony attended by foreign guests.

As of today, Hamoun will continue living under the supervision of the UNESCO within the framework of the international regulations and cooperation, head of the province’s environment office Saeed Mahmoudi told IRNA.

Hamoun Lake, once a rich natural site, has dried up due to climate change and unkindness of greedy people beyond the borders, Mahmoudi said.

Dryness of Hamoun Lake has caused problems – such as dust storm and drastic heat – for the people of the region, he added.

According to UNESCO, ‘Located in the southeast of the country, the biosphere reserve [Hamoun Lake] includes terrestrial and wetland ecosystems with a total of seven habitat types, including desert and semi-desert areas, as well as Hamoun Lake, with its marshlands and watersheds. The three wetlands of the biosphere reserve are the most important in the region. The area is a hot spot for migratory birds (183 species) and home to 30 mammal species, and 55 plant species. The site is also valuable culturally due to the presence of important historical monuments and ancient temples such as Mount Kooh Khajeh and Shahr-e-Soukhteh.’

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