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Environmental Pollutants Conference Kicks Off in Tehran

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IFP Media Wire
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The conference, co-organized by the Department of Environment (DoE) and the University of Tehran, additionally brought together the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ministries of oil, energy, industry, agriculture, and science, as well as the National Standards Organization.

The three day conference is comprised of 13 workshops which specifically centre on monitoring and sampling environmental pollutants.

The DoE director, Masoumeh Ebtekar; the DoE deputy director Sa’eed Motesaddi; and the national standards organization director, Nayyereh Pirouzbakht all delivered speeches during the opening ceremony of the conference.

 

Monitoring and Sampling Fundamental to Environmental Planning

Motesaddi explained the significance of monitoring and sampling pollutants as the fundamental components of environmental strategy-making.

“Regular monitoring and sampling of pollutants indicates if we are succeeding in minimizing the pollutants or not – whether they are increasing or decreasing.”

“What we seek in this conference is to make improvements in the accuracy and validity of the monitoring and sampling measures,” he added.

 

What the Doe Has Accomplished So Far

Motesaddi went on to say that “We have succeeded in decentralizing monitoring bodies, and currently they have been distributed to cities across Iran.”

Over the past two years, 29 online river monitoring stations have been added to the system, and 188 air monitoring stations across the country, he highlighted.

Motesaddi also stated that “Our dust monitoring stations are now complete, with 50 stations monitoring particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter.”

“We are now able to monitor 200 industrial units online, and we are hoping to increase the number in the future,” he said.

 

Air Pollution Accounts for One Death Out Of Seven

Ebtekar warned that, based on a report by the World Health Organization (WHO), one death in seven is caused by air pollution, and at least 35m Iranians are affected by it.

“Right now, if someone draws blood from us, they could detect traces of dioxin in it, which can affect and damage our immune system,” she explained.

“This shows how important monitoring is, and it is not just limited to our country but is an important subject of the Paris climate change conference as well,” she said.

“Fortunately this conference, which particularly aims at training environmental experts, can pave the way for further improvements.”

 

600 Environmental Standards Set by ISO

Pirouzbakht, for her part, pointed that “Out of 19,000 standards set by the International Standards Organization (ISO), 600 are related to the environment, which emphasizes its global importance.”

“Iran’s National Standards Organization has been working side by side with the DoE for almost three years, and plays a key role in promoting sustainable growth,” she added.

She also highlighted that after the removal of sanctions, Iran’s standards have been approved by the countries in Asia and Oceania.

No Difference between Arab, Iranian, or Afghan Nationals in Iran’s Judiciary

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Speaking in a meeting with judges in Tehran, Jafari Dolatabadi referred to the recent case of Setayesh, the 6-year-old Afghan girl who was killed by an Iranian teenage boy, and said certain media suggested that the judiciary lacked the resolve to follow up the issue, given the victim’s nationality.

However, he added, the rapid and appropriate reactions made in recent days in the criminal case proved the claim to be wrong.

The criminal case is currently under investigation in Varamin, the town in south Tehran Province where the crime took place, and the judiciary of Tehran Province is directly supervising the procedure, Jafari Dolatabadi went on to say.

“In the Islamic Republic, there is no difference between Arab, non-Arab, Iranian, Afghan, black, or white,” he stressed, according to a report published by ISNA and translated by IFP.

Leader: Americans Should Hold Their War Games in the Bay of Pigs

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“They say that Iran should not hold war games in the Persian Gulf. What a foolish remark!” Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said, seemingly in response to an April 28 resolution by the US Republican Representative Randy Forbes regarding Iranian naval actions in the Persian Gulf.

“What are you doing in the Persian Gulf? The Persian Gulf is our home,” the Leader told a group of teachers, according to the Leader’s website.

“They come here from the other side of the globe to stage military drills. What are you doing here? Go back to the Bay of Pigs and hold your exercises there,” Ayatollah Khamenei added.

The Leader seemed to be sarcastically alluding to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by a CIA-sponsored paramilitary group in 1961.

A counter-revolutionary military force, trained and funded by the United States government’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro.

Launched from Guatemala, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, under the direct command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro.

Iran’s Parliament Passes Bill to Boost Defence Budget

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Golrokh Askarieh
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In an open session of the parliament on Monday, the MPs approved the proposal to further reinforce the defence capabilities of the Islamic Republic, as a regional power.

According to the law, President Hassan Rouhani’s administration must allocate at least 5% of the public budget to projects aimed at bolstering the country’s defensive power.

Earlier this year, the head of the Iranian parliament’s defence committee stressed the need to boost the country’s defence budget.

“Currently, the country’s defence budget is meagre in comparison with some regional countries,” Esmail Kowsari told Tasnim in January, adding that it had to increase.

In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in enhancing its defence capabilities.

Tehran has always assured other nations, though, that its military might poses no threat to the regional countries, saying that the Islamic Republic’s defence doctrine is entirely based on deterrence.

Rouhani Welcomes Park Geun-hye

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Golrokh Askarieh
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President Park was accorded an official welcome in Tehran on Monday on the first day of her three-day visit, heading South Korea’s biggest-ever travelling business delegation of over 230 executives.

The two presidents then sat for their first meeting since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1962.

Later in a joint news conference, Rouhani called for peace on the Korean Peninsula, saying Iran is opposed to the manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction of any kind.

He said Iran and South Korea are set to boost their trade volume from the current $6bn to $18bn as the two sides signed 19 cooperation agreements.

For her part, President Park called for further expansion of ties between Iran and South Korea in industrial, trade and cultural sectors.

South Korea has said it is eager to participate in Iran’s development projects and expand economic cooperation on communication technology, information, healthcare and culture.

South Korea has been a major importer of Iran’s crude oil. On Sunday, Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said Iran’s oil exports to South Korea have more than quadrupled to 400,000 barrels a day since sanctions were lifted in January.

Iran, whose exports to South Korea were less than 100,000 barrels a day before sanctions were lifted, has since worked to boost its output quickly. It has focused on selling to its traditional customers in Asia, but has also shipped to Europe.

According to data from Energy Aspects, global imports of Iran’s crude rose in March to 1.90m bpd, from 1.51m bpd in February.

Zangeneh also said Iran and South Korea were working to resolve difficulties in transferring payments for the oil sales.

 

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Iran’s president (L) reviews the guard of honor with his South Korean counterpart at Sa’adabad Palace in Tehran on May, 2, 2016. (Photo by President.ir )

 

World leaders have been visiting Tehran after the implementation of the nuclear agreement, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in July 2015.

In a message on his Instagram account on Sunday, President Rouhani said Iran is open to foreign investment. “Our economy will not improve unless we are able to attract investment,” he said.

“Today, these conditions have been provided and the leaders who travel to Iran bring with them representatives of scores of important trading companies,” Rouhani added.

East Asian nations are scrambling to boost economic links with Tehran after the country reached a nuclear agreement last year. China’s President Xi Jinping visited Iran in January and Japan signed an investment treaty with Iran a month later.

NASA’s Iranian Scientist Devises New Method to Treat Prostate and Uterine Cancer

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IFP Editorial Staff
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According to a report published by ISNA and translated by IFP, ultrasound technology, despite being one of the world’s least dangerous forms of cancer treatment, has yet to be adopted in Iran.

“The method has still neither been brought to Iran or to other regional countries, but if we manage to adopt this special and strategic technology in Iran, we will no longer need surgical operations and chemotherapy for patients diagnosed with cancer,” Chabok said.

“This is an exceptional event for world medicine,” he noted, stressing that the method has been used to cure prostate and uterine cancers, and has worked.

“Even the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed it,” Chabok said.

“We no longer deal with MRI or medical ultrasound (ultrasonography), the traditional ways to diagnose the disease,” he explained.

“In the ultrasound method, there is no need for hospitalization and general anaesthesia, and we use a type of local anaesthesia. This is much more cost-effective for insurance companies,” he added.

In the treatment of prostate cancer, for instance, the disease is cured in two or three 3-hour sessions using mechanical waves, Chabok stressed, referring to the method as being similar to a massage for a human body.

“In the traditional method where radiation was used, the rays themselves were major sources of cancer, but this has been totally removed from the new method,” he added.

“Ultrasound waves are used in this new method on the patient’s skin to remove the tumour,” the Iranian scientist went on to say.

He further noted that the method can also be used for other types of cancer.

“Liver cancer can be treated using this method in 85% of cases, but traditional methods of chemotherapy cannot cure liver cancer at all,” he said, noting that other types of cancer can also be treated with a huge success rate using the new method.

Chabok stated that the invention received the prize for best invention in 2011 as it has increased the success rate of cancer treatment from 10-20% to more than 60%.

Seoul-Tehran Eye Pipeline Cooperation

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Azizollah Ramezani, the director for international affairs of the NIGC, made the remarks in an interview with Shana.

He mentioned the Iran-Oman undersea gas pipeline as another item included in the NIGC-KOGAS cooperation document.

The MoU signed between NIGC and KOGAS involves also other areas for cooperation including mini-liquefied natural gas (LNG), LNG and compressed natural gas (CNG) plants as well as Research and Development (R&D), the official added.

He said that there are good grounds for cooperation between NIGC and KOGAS for optimizing energy efficiency in gas pressure amplifying stations and refineries, as well as in other NIGC facilities.

Ramezani added that the signed MoU between Iranian and Korean gas companies prepared the ground for the formation of joint task forces as precondition to boost cooperation in new areas in the future.

The MoU between NIGC and KOGAS shall be effective for a period of one year and could be extended, he noted.

 

The Managing Director of NIGC, Hamidreza Araqi, and the President of KOGAS Seung-Hoon Lee signed a Memorandum of Understanding for boost of bilateral cooperation on Sunday.

A View of Daily Life in Iran

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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A journey through the heart of Iran, capturing scenes from everyday life.

 

 

Indonesian Ambassdor Calls for Closer Tehran-Jakarta Ties

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Speaking at a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran on Sunday May 1, Octavino Alimudin hailed the close relations between the two Asian countries and their cultural and historical common ground, and stressed the need to further expand the ties.

“In our mission, we are seeking to develop relations in all spheres and increase reciprocal visits by high-ranking delegations,” he noted.

During the meeting, the Indonesian diplomat also submitted a copy of his credentials to the Iranian foreign minister.

Earlier in March, Zarif paid an official visit to Jakarta as the first destination of his tour of Southeast Asia and Oceania, which took him later to Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, New Zealand, and Australia.

During his visit to Indonesia, the Iranian top diplomat held separate meetings with senior officials of the East Asian country, including President Joko Widodo, on the sidelines of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit.

During the meeting, the two sides talked about the growing ties between Tehran and Jakarta as well as regional issues.

TV Show Guest Saves Child’s Life Backstage

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IFP Editorial Staff
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On Thursday, April 28, members of Elixir’s production team were filming the show’s seventh episode in a studio near Tehran’s Sorkheh Hessar Park.

However, the scream of a mother, whose 3-year-old child had seemingly drowned in a fountain outside the studio, alerted those filming inside, and delayed the recording of the episode.

Fortunately, the TV show’s guest Massoud Saberi, a prominent brain surgeon, was there to help the child. Without any hesitation, he resuscitated the child, saving its life.

An ambulance was called which transferred the child to hospital, who has recovered and is in a stable condition.

Farzad Hassani, the popular TV host of the program, is going to talk about the incident in his interview with the surgeon in this week’s episode. A video including the rescue of the child will be aired this Thursday.

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