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MP: Religious Rules Apply if Women Attend Sports Stadia

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Motahhari, a member of the Majlis Cultural Committee, also said if women are going to attend sports stadiums, religious rules should still be observed, Fararu reported on Monday.

For instance, women should enter sport complexes from separate entrances, and their seats should not be very near men’s, the MP explained.

Referring to women’s attendance at volleyball matches in the past, he said there was no particular problem in this regard, and only that religious rules should be taken into account.

The Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs are preparing a bylaw for the presence of women in sporting events, Motahhari said.

Although the vice president for women and family affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi has great efforts for women’s entry into sporting arenas, women were not allowed to watch the 2015 FIVB Volleyball World League in Tehran.

US company seeks Iranian petrochemical products

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Mas’oud Jebraili, head of Abadan’s Petrochemical Co. in southern Iran, has told the official IRNA news agency that the US firm in question has conducted some negotiations with his company through its European branch to buy Iranian petrochemical products.

Jebraili said the US company, whose name he did not disclose over ongoing talks, has requested to purchase PVC products.

He said a number of Italian, Spanish, German and Indian companies have already laid down requests to import products from Abadan’s Petrochemical Co.

The Iranian petrochemical firm says it registered a maximum annual production of 59,800 tons of PVC in 2005.

Iran’s petrochemical production is expected to hit 70 million tons worth $27 billion at current prices in the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20), officials at the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) have said.

The country seeks to more than double this capacity in the next decade, which requires between $7 billion to $10 billion of annual investment.

Officials said Iran’s petrochemical manufacturers were turning to the Europeans for finance, ditching Chinese investors because they were charging high commissions and fees.

Iran Seeks Market Stability: Zangeneh

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Golrokh Askarieh
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During a live radio interview, Zangeneh said certain oil-producing countries opposed lifting of sanctions on Iran right from the beginning and for this reason they tried to keep oil prices as low as possible in a push to bother Iran’s economy.

“Currently, the oil market is glutted by more than 2 mbd which reduce the prices dramatically,” said the official.

“Iran has never had a role in the market’s instability,” he said reacting to claims by rival crude oil producers that Tehran is the causing volatility in the global crude oil market.

By joining the oil freeze plan, Iran would implicitly accede to the sanctions after years of hard work and resistance for having them lifted, he added, saying, “If Iran kept its crude oil output at January levels, it would mean the sanctions were never lifted and exports would need to stay at the time the country was targeted by international restrictions.”

Zangeneh said that the Doha meeting is a beginning for cooperation between OPEC and non-OPEC crude oil producers and would hopefully lead to market stability, saying, “As before, Iran will attempt to play its part in bringing stability back to the crude oil market,”

Jajim Weaving in Namhil Village, Northwestern Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Jajim Weaving in Namhil Village, Northwestern Iran

Jajim is a famous handicrafts in different regions of Iran, including Khalkhal region in the country’s northwest. Women of Namhil village weave his type of rug since a long time.

 

Arab League, Germany, Iran reject Netanyahu claim over Golan Heights

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Golrokh Askarieh
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During a Sunday cabinet meeting in the occupied territory, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any possibility of returning the occupied Golan Heights to Syria.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, Germany, the Arab League and the United States have joined Syria in rejecting Tel Aviv’s claim over the occupied Golan Heights, a day after the Israeli premier said the region will be part of Israel “forever”.

He also demanded that the international community recognize Syria’s Golan as Israeli territory, a call that drew condemnations and rejections from across the world.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari said the Israeli call was in “blatant violation of international law,” and called on the international community to make a serious effort to stop the Israeli regime’s “expansionist and provocative” acts.

Germany also firmly rejected the Israeli claim over the occupied Syrian territory, and called it a violation of international law and the United Nations Charter.

“It’s a basic principle of international law and the UN Charter that no state can claim the right to annex another state’s territory just like that,” said German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer, adding that Tel Aviv lacked the legal basis for annexation.

Meanwhile, Nabil al-Arabi, the secretary general of the Cairo-based Arab League, also denounced Netanyahu’s statement as “a new escalation that represents a brazen violation of international law.”

Separately, Washington rejected Tel Aviv’s claim, saying it would not recognize the occupied region as part of Israel.

“The US position on the issue is unchanged. This position was maintained by both Democratic and Republican administrations. Those territories are not part of Israel and the status of those territories should be determined through negotiations,” said State Department spokesperson John Kirby, stressing that the current situation in Syria does not allow such a move.

The first quick response was from Syria itself on Sunday, when its Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad vowed to liberate the Golan Heights from Israeli occupation at any cost and return it to Syria.

“We are prepared to do anything in order to return the Golan to the Syrian motherland, including using military force,” Mekdad asserted on Sunday.

Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria after the 1967 Six Day War and illegally annexed the region in 1981, a move which was unanimously rejected the same year by the UN Security Council. The occupation has never been recognized by the international community.

Israel has built tens of illegal settlements in the area ever since. It has also used the region to carry out a number of military operations against the Syrian government.

Iranian House wins A’ Design Award 2015

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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Nima Keivani’s design, which used a novel idea to modernize a traditional architectural element (the Orsi window), won the Bronze Award in the world’s largest annual juried design competition, which honours the best designers, architects, and design-oriented companies worldwide to provide them publicity, fame and recognition.

orosi khaneh

“What differentiates A’ Design Award from other international design competitions is its judging process,” said Keivani. “The judging takes place at various levels and with the participation of over 70 judges, including professional experts around the world who are famous academic figures, managers of major companies, engineers or winners of previous editions.”

“The main concept of this project originated from traditional Iranian architecture,” he explained about his design. “We used a special type of window which is locally called Orsi, made of a wooden lattice and stained glass, which had effective technical functions in controlling the interior temperature and natural light.”

orosi khaneh (2)

Keivani continued, “We tried to make a modern Orsi window, with the aim of creating a space with an Iranian spirit, or genius loci, which respects both mental and biological needs of the users. So we highlighted elements like water, plants, and light.”

Zarif: Iran Sees No Hurdle in Establishing ‘Healthy’ Economic Ties with US

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Speaking to reporters upon his arrival to the US city of New York on Monday, Zarif emphasized that as far as Iran is concerned, there is no obstacle in the way to establish “healthy economic relations” with the US.

However, he dismissed the notion that Iran has sought to resume trade ties with the US through the July 2015 nuclear deal with six world powers, saying that the Islamic Republic has not been after establishment of trade relations with the US up to now.

He said Iran agreed to the nuclear deal, also known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to prevent the US interference in Tehran’s economic ties with other countries.

The Iranian top diplomat further stressed the necessity for the US to fully implement the JCPOA, saying that he will discuss the issue in his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry later on Tuesday.

Zarif left Tehran for New York on Monday to attend the upcoming United Nations (UN) climate summit.

While the JCPOA, a 159-page nuclear agreement between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) came into force in January, some Iranian officials complain about the US failure to fully implement the accord.

Last month, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said Americans have yet to fulfill what they were supposed to do as per the nuclear deal.

Iran still has problems in its banking transactions or in restoring its frozen assets, because Western countries and those involved in such processes are afraid of Americans, Imam Khamenei said, criticizing the US for its moves to prevent Iran from taking advantage of the sanctions removal.

Iran Joins UN Conference on Financing for Development

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Golrokh Askarieh
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During the meeting, he outlined Iran’s policies to mobilize internal resources and use them efficiently to boost the country’s potential.

He also called poverty a global challenge and reiterated that eradicating poverty should be at the top of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

He further noted that terrorism, extremism and violence are fundamental obstacles to sustainable development, which cause negative outcomes in sustainable development.

The Iranian official also called on international financial organizations to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to finance the plan seriously.

He further called on the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to increase participation in the UN plan.

Senior representative of countries, international financial institutions and representatives of different UN organizations will discuss strategies for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the UN conference.

The conference wraps up on Wednesday.

Palmyra after ISIS (PHOTOS)

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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IFP: The city of Palmyra, in Syria, was recently recaptured from ISIS [Daesh]. During their occupation, many antiquities were destroyed, including artifacts from the Roman era, and the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel.

The modern city and its inhabitants also suffered heavily during the conflict, and during the ISIS occupation. These photos, exclusively from IRNA, show some of the devastation revealed after the recapture of the city.

 

 

 

Zarif urges effective implementation of JCPOA by US

By
Golrokh Askarieh
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Talking to reporters upon arrival here on Tuesday, he said that during the meeting with his American counterpart on the sidelines of the United Nations events, he will urgently focus on the issue of need for Washington to frankly implement the JCPOA content and demand the US to stop sabotaging world countries’ banking and financial relations with Iran.

He also noted that his visit to New York aims at participating in two UN events namely signing ceremony of Paris Agreement and also the Sustainable Development Goals.

He will also hold bilateral meetings with officials from other countries, the foreign minister added.

Zarif further noted that the visit provided a good opportunity to foil the attempts by certain groups who are seeking to promote Iranophobia spirit in post-JCPOA era by conducting interviews or organizing meetings with the US academic circles and think tanks.

The foreign minister said he was going to have a bilateral meeting with his American counterpart John Kerry to stress the need for the US to seriously start to implement the nuclear deal.

He said he saw no obstacles in holding healthy economic relations with the US but still stressed that Iran has never been asking the US for any economic deals.

However, he added, the signing of the JCPOA was in essence pursuing the goal of having the US stop sabotaging in Iran’s economic relations with other countries not changing those decisions by the US Congress which would affect Iran.

Now it was time for Iran to work to win the trust of those companies and institutions that suffered losses in the past because of their interactions with Iran, Zarif noted.

The foreign minister said Iran should now try to assure such bodies that ties with Iran will no longer hurt them.

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