Larijani: Diplomatic doors still open to Saudi Arabia

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January 24, 2016

Talking to IRNA in the Iraqi capital, Larijani said the diplomatic doors are still open to Saudi Arabia, hoping that Riyadh would return from its wrong way.

Saudi Arabia is an Islamic country, said Larijani adding, ‘We never want to see it to be weakened.’

Iran always makes efforts to help the Islamic countries stand by each other not against, said Larijani.

However, the Saudis have taken steps toward the wrong path, stressed he, hoping that Saudi Arabia would come back to the moderate policies.

Pursuing this wrong policy has got many innocent people killed, injured and displaced, he added.

Referring to the new attitude adopted in the region to solve the problems and crises through Iran’s experience in the nuclear talks, Larijani said any single issue needs its own framework.

However, Iran believes that any complicated problem will be solved through negotiations, he added.

So, the experience gained in the nuclear talks can be also used for the regional problems, he stressed.

Larijani arrived in Baghdad on Saturday evening to attend the 11th Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States, (PUIC).

The conference started work on January 20 and continues until Jan 25.

Some 40 Islamic countries have attended the event. Ten participants have taken part at the level of parliament speaker.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and UAEA have not taken part in the Baghdad conference.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Jan 24

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IFP Editorial Staff

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January 24, 2016

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Seyyed Ali Khamenei received Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday in the last leg of a landmark first visit from Tehran by a Chinese president since 2002.

The leader’s assertions during the meeting grabbed a lot of headlines on the following day, Sunday, January 24, 2016 in Iranian press. The advent of international companies in Iran in the wake of the removal of international sanctions on Tehran’s nuclear program were the topics focused by most Iranian dailies on the day.

Abrar:

1- Sanctions lift will facilitate ties with Ecuador, Rouhani says

2- Kerry: More sanctions on Iran if necessary

3- Air defense capability of monitoring 15k to 20k locations every moment

4- Kerry talks with Persian Gulf Counterparts on Iran nuclear deal

5- Analyses by Pakistani observers on Islamabad’s mediating role in Iran-Saudi tensions

6- Republicans’ quest to hinder $1.7b US payment to Iran

Afkar:

1- Nouri al-Maliki warns against Iraq disintegration

2- State of emergency in US by cold snap

Arman-e Emrouz:

1- China Backs Iran’s SCO Membership in Joint Statement

China supports Iran’s bid to become a full-fledged member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a joint statement published by Iranian media said on Saturday.

2- Leader: 25-year strategic ties with China “right and wise”

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Saturday referred to an agreement between the Iranian and Chinese presidents on 25-year strategic ties, saying that such a deal is absolutely “right and wise”.

3- Oil cheaper than water, milk

A report on the oil price slump in the global energy markets to the 12-year lows.

Asrar:

1- 150 foreign delegations visit Iran in the past 8 months

2- US approach, deceptive, dishonest: Leader

3- New chapter opens in Iran-China ties

4- MP: Country entrapped in rent seeking

5- Zahra Nemati Named Iran Flagbearer at Olympics

Para-archer Zahra Nemati has been selected as the flagbearer for Iran at the Opening Ceremony for the 2016 Olympic Games.

6- Actress Motamed Aria claims award at Dhaka IFF

Iranian actress FatemehMotamed Aria won the special award at Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) in Bangladesh.

7- Barbed exchange between Iran FM, Saudi Prince

Ebtekar:

1- The slaying glory

A report on the illegal hunting of rare sharks in Iranian waters.

2- Editorial: Saudi resistance against change

3- Iran, China sign 17 cooperation docs

4- Rouhani: New chapter in Iran, China relations

5- Equal suffrage for all religions in [Iranian] parliament

Etemad:

1- Rouhani: Iran plans to boost China trade to $600b in 10 years time

2- US returns 3000 paleontological pieces to Iran

Ettela’at:

1- CBI bans dirty money spending in election campaign

The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said the bank will not allow “dirty money” to be used in the election campaigns.

2- Afghan youths recruited for Yemen war from Saudi Arabia: BBC

3- Giant airplane makers in Tehran

4- Iran to replace 90,000 old taxis with new ones to renovate fleet

Hemayat:

1- Human rights violation in Yemen

2- Iran still perusing Mina disaster

3- China to finance $1b to upgrade Tehran subway system

4- Britain: The ‘settlements’ are illegal

Iran:

1- Iran opens 250 clinics in impoverished regions

2- IRR 200m loan for renovation of taxis

Jamejam:

1- Occupiers return to Iraq

2- Heavy shadow of expenses on next year budget

Javan:

– Leader to Xi: Dishonest US policies brings independents closer

JomhouriEslami:

1- UN sanctions committee on Iran dissolved

2- Chomsky: Erdogan, murderer; Turkey, authoritarian regime

Keyhan:

– US poised to usurp victory over ISIL. The US has recruited forces to Afghanistan, Syria and Libya.

Payam Zaman:

– World carmakers to arrive Iran by mid-Feb

Usance, finance path open to carmakers

Resalat:

1- Leader: Youths’ resolve only path to rendering enemy plots barren

2- China can ensure win-win partnership

Roozan:

1- Warm welcoming on cold days

2- Leader to China’s Xi: Iran only independent country in region

Sayeh:

– A report on reviving Silk Road in Iran and how it can revamp Tehran’s economy. “This road is covered by gold” was the report’s title.

Shargh:

– Leader to Xi: Iran never forgets China’s cooperation during sanctions era

Siasat-e Rooz:

– Obama, Kerry coquetry for criminals;US authorities keep supporting the criminal regimes of Zionism and Saudi Arabia.

Iran eyes buying over 100 Boeing jets

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Emad Askarieh

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January 24, 2016

The announcement by Deputy Transport Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan, quoted by Reuters on Sunday, came as Iran opened its first international business event since the lifting of sanctions.

The CAPA Iran Aviation Summit opened in Tehran with the participation of airport, airline, travel and transportation industries exploring prospects for market development in Iran.

Boeing officials were about to attend the Tehran aviation summit but their trip was cancelled due to visa issues.

One official has said Iran was considering to buy narrow-body 737s for domestic flights and two-aisle 777s for long-haul routes from Boeing.

Chairman of Iran Civil Aviation Organization Ali Abedzadeh said Sunday Iran had an immediate demand for 150 aircraft in the 250-seat range and above.

“We also need 300 medium- and long-haul aircraft while there is only nine long-range planes in our current fleet,” he added.

Iran needs 500 new commercial planes in its fleet in the next 10 years, Abedzadeh said.

Minister of Transportation Abbas Akhoundi said Iran’s aviation is open to investment by all international companies barring Israeli firms.

Representatives of Canada’s aerospace and transportation company Bombardier and Brazil’s aerospace company Embraer were among 160 delegates from 35 countries attending the Tehran aviation summit on Sunday.

“The aviation market potential in Iran is immense due to the pent-up demand after decades of sanctions,” CAPA’s Executive Chairman Peter Harbison told the event.

According to CAPA research, the size of Iran’s economy on a PPP basis sits somewhere between that of Turkey and Australia whose commercial airline fleets range between 500-600 aircraft.

“Rapid growth will not come without challenges,” said Harbison.

“This is especially the case as Iran’s aviation ecosystem will need to adapt to a generational leap forward in aircraft technology and develop aviation skills and competencies,” he added.

Commander: Any aggression to receive a crippling response

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Golrokh Askarieh

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January 24, 2016

Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami made the remarks in a TV program.

Elaborating on the issue of the American sailors that entered Iran’s territorial waters recently and were arrested by the IRGC forces, the commander said the issue showed Iran’s power worldwide.

‘They did not enter the Iranian waters on purpose, but such an event happened at a proper time when it was needed the big idol to be broken,’ said the commander.

The arrest of the US sailors happened just a few days before lifting of anti-Iran sanctions and announcement of the ‘Implementation Day’ on January 16.

‘While being stopped, the American crew did not resist very much, but after that a US aircraft started showing provocative behavior for 40 minutes, said he, adding the behavior was to create psychological tension.’

About two weeks ago, when the American sailors were arrested in the Iranian waters in Farsi Island in the middle of the Persian Gulf, they were treated gently, said the commander.

About the impact of the arrest of the US sailors by the IRGC naval forces, the commander said none of the world powers are able to scare Iran in the sea.

About the recent prisoner swap between Iran and US, Salami said there was no relation between the sailors’ arrest and that swap.

About removal of anti-Iran sanctions that happened after the IAEA report on nuclear verification in Iran, Salami said the US was defeated when dealing with the Iranian nation’s resistance.

In the era of sanctions, Iran could grow and achieve the greatest successes, said he.

Country’s armed forces played a leading role in making progress in the nuclear diplomacy, said the commander.

The Iranian armed forces have been making all-out efforts to support the country’s nuclear diplomats, Salami added.

During the past four decades, he said, the US and its partners including the Zionist regime have concentrated on the World of Islam, attacked on 14 Islamic countries and waged four big wars against the Islamic nations.

On the issue of the Saudi behavior in the region and execution of the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr by the Saudi government on January 2, the commander said the Saudi regime has unfortunately had devastating impact on the security in the Muslim nations in recent years.

Abdullah Thanks Iran for Letting Afghan Children Get Schooling

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Golrokh Askarieh

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January 24, 2016

In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency in Tehran, Abdullah hailed the decision to give the Afghan children the opportunity to go to school in Iran as a “historic measure.”

“We are grateful”, he noted, adding that Ayatollah Khamenei’s order has let around 50,000 Afghan students have the opportunity to educate in Iran.

Abdullah, who was in an official visit to Tehran in January, noted that he has held talks with the Iranian officials on the issues pertaining to the Afghan migrants, including the extension of their residence permits in Iran.

Ayatollah Khamenei had already issued an order stressing that all Afghan children, even children of the undocumented migrants living in the country illegally, have the right to register and study in Iran’s schools.

As regards the process of Afghanistan’s peace talks with the Taliban, Abdullah said the government is determined to protect the Afghan people.

“We will take steps decisively and sincerely in order to fulfill the wishes of (Afghan) people, which is establishment of sustainable peace,” he said of the peace talks.

Earlier this month, senior diplomats from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the US met in Islamabad to try to lay the groundwork for a new round of peace talks with the Taliban.

The push for new talks has taken on urgency in recent months, as aggressive Taliban offensives have been seizing large sections of Afghan territory.

Japan to extend oil deals with Iran

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Golrokh Askarieh

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January 24, 2016

Shana news agency – affiliated to Iran’s Ministry of Petroleum – has reported that Japan’s contract will be extended until April 2017. It added that the volume of oil that the country will purchase from Iran will also increase from the current level of 110,000 barrels per day. No figure was nevertheless provided on how much this will increase.

Japan was one of the key clients of Iran’s oil before the US-led sanctions were imposed on the Islamic Republic in 2012. Iran also hosted several leading Japanese companies in its oil and gas projects before the sanctions were put into place to encourage purchases of oil from Iran not only by Japan but also by many other international clients.

The prospects for the removal of the sanctions against Iran encouraged the Japanese officials to look for the avenues to return to the previous status of oil relations with Iran.

Accordingly, Shana says Tehran hosted several major oil delegations from Japan over the past months during which the Japanese officials emphasized that the country is ready to return to pre-sanctions status of oil imports from Iran as soon as the bans against sales of Iranian oil are lifted.

This past Friday, Japan announced that it had lifted sanctions on Iran following the implementation of a historic nuclear deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – with Iran last week.

The implementation of the JCPOA – which Iran sealed with the P5+1 last year – officially annulled sanctions on sales of Iranian oil beyond a ceiling of about 1 million barrels per day.

However, reports say the US is still maintaining certain economic sanctions against Iran.

That has left some companies cautious, with Japanese oil refiners saying they will keep using special government insurance to ship Iranian oil because of uncertainty over whether US insurers can provide coverage, Reuters reported.

Supreme Leader: Iran gov’t, nation keen on enhanced ties with China

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Emad Askarieh

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January 23, 2016

The Supreme Leader made the remarks in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The Supreme Leader acknowledged the 25-year strategic agreement drawn up by Iranian and Chinese presidents.

Ayatollah Khamenei welcomed the proposal made by Chinese president about revival of the Silk Road and expansion of cooperation among the Silk Road states is a fully logical and acceptable idea.

‘The Islamic Republic of Iran will never forget China’s cooperation during sanctions.’

The Supreme Leader said that energy is one of the key issues worldwide.

‘Iran is the only independent state in the region that can be trusted as energy partner because contrary to certain regional countries, Iran’s energy policy is not influenced by foreign factor.’

The Supreme Leader criticized Washington for its hegemonic policies and the US insincerity with other governments, saying that independent states want cooperation with each other and Iran-China agreement for 25-year strategic cooperation falls in the same context.

‘The two sides should be serious to bring agreements to the implementation stage.’

The Supreme Leader referred to Iranian culture’s orientation towards the east and said, ‘Westerners have never been able to win Iranian nation’s trust.’

Calling the US policy on Iran ‘worse and more hostile’ than that of western states, Ayatollah Khamenei said the hostile policies have made Iranian nation and officials to seek expansion of relations with independent states.

Emphasizing that ‘united China’ is among principled and absolute policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei welcomed proposal of the Chinese President to develop Iran-China security cooperation.

‘Unfortunately, our region is now insecure due to wrong policies of westerners and the diversionary and wrong attitude towards Islam; it is feared that its scope will be widened; so it should be checked through wise cooperation.’

The Supreme Leader said that certain regional countries are main source of such a diversionary attitude and that instead of confronting the main source of such an ideology and terrorist groups, westerners are invading and piling up pressure on Muslim communities in Europe and the US, while terrorist wings are completely different from the true Islamic ideology.

The Supreme Leader derided the US and the western governments for insistence on the terminology of ‘Islamic State’ to introduce certain terrorist groups.

Ayatollah Khamenei said such an approach is an insult to Muslims and instead of solving the problem, they indirectly promote terrorist groups.

The Supreme Leader termed US claim of forming anti-terrorism coalition as a deception.

Ayatollah Khamenei hoped that the outcome of talks and agreements in Tehran will be helpful for both sides in true sense.

The Chinese president for his part expressed pleasure with visiting Iran and thanked Iranian nation and government for their sincere feelings. He said such a sincerity is result of cooperation and cordial and long-term exchanges between Iran and China.

Xi pointed to the chronology of Iran-China connection through the ancient Silk Road and said the road is the symbol of peace, progress and friendly exchanges. The countries lying on the road can through expansion of cooperation defend their interests against Americans’ model of stirring regional economic balance, thus attaining their goal, said Xi.

He noted that certain superpowers want to dominate monopoly and policy of jungle ‘either with us or with enemy’, but, the progress of the newly emerging economies will bring the monopoly of power out of their control and provide a suitable atmosphere for ideas and policies of the independent states.

He said his country appreciates Iran’s support for integrated and united China as a model of mutual confidence and independent policies of both countries. We follow the path of independent development and are ready to continue our cooperation in all fields after lifting of sanctions as we stood by Iran during sanctions.’

He also referred to Iran’s abundant geographical, human and energy advantages and said economy of China and Iran are complementary to each other and during the visit, Iran and China reached agreement on planning for 25-year strategic cooperation, being ready to expand and widen cooperation in the cultural, educational, technological, military and security domains as strategic partners.

The Chinese president underlined the need for taking up mechanism for growing mutual security cooperation to confront terrorism and solve complicated regional issues.

He hailed the Supreme Leader’s ‘wise and farsighted’ remarks and said Chinese government and nation have a friendly and sincere approach towards Iranian leadership.

The next poster of Fajr Festival might be designed by Stefan Bondy

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IFP Editorial Staff

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January 23, 2016

Swiss Ambassador to Tehran during the opening ceremony of Stefan Bondy exhibition in Tehran said as I had promised in Iranian Artists’ House, I brought Bondy to Tehran so that I can introduce one of best Swiss designers to Iranians.

According to ISNA, the Exhibition showcasing Stefan Bondy’s design works was opened in ceremony attend by Swiss Ambassador and a group of Iranian art enthusiasts on Jan, 22 in Imam Ali (AS) Art Museum.

Swiss Ambassador in his opening speech said work of this artist has been on display in New York, France and other prestigious galleries across the world.

He said Bondy have won many awards and it is just possible that he designs the next poster of Fajr festival. I hope he does so and you enjoy his works showcased here.

Afghan man cuts off his wife’s nose

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IFP Editorial Staff

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January 23, 2016

An Afghan man fled his home in Faryab Province to join Taliban after cutting off his wife’s nose during a family quarrel.

The young woman has lost almost completely her nose in the violent attack by the psychic man, as Afghan News reported. Seyed Agha Andraby, a local police officer said the attack took place on Sunday January 17 and the woman’s relatives have told the authorities the man has fled to a region controlled by Taliban after committing the crime.

The officials at the Ministry of Health say the young woman needs nose surgery but such medical treatment is not available in Faryab.

In recently years, violence against women has increased in the countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

Saudis and Zionists try to Undermine Nuclear Agreement

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IFP Editorial Staff

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January 23, 2016

Mr. Larijani’s advisor for international affairs, speaking to IRNA on Saturday Jan. 23 said the most important clause in the JCPOA is removal of unjust sanctions imposed on Iran which should be removed altogether.

Mr. Sheikholeslam said so many people are against nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the west and said in the west the main opponent of the agreement is Zionist Regime and in the Middle East, the Saudi Arabia.

According to Mr. Sheikholeslam, Israeli regime is fully aware of US domestic policies and now it has joined hands with Saudis and their money to block implementation of nuclear agreement.

He said opponents of the talks tried to prevent conclusion of agreement in the first place but when the events went against their wishes started their machinations to prevents its implementation and but they again failed to reach their objective.

According to advisor to Parliament Speaker, now, the Saudis and their Zionist partner are trying to prevent proper implementation of the agreement.

Mr. Sheikholeslam who is in Baghdad attending inter-parliamentary meeting of Islamic countries said countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey in order to weaken and destroy the political systems in Iraq and Syria in the past, had been the main providers of financial and military assistance and recruiting centers for terrorist groups in the region but now they themselves have been targeted by such groups.

He said countries supporting terrorism have realized their mistakes adding that Daesh is now claiming to sat up a government in Mecca and Medina and has taken the responsibility for bombings in Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

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Larijani: Diplomatic doors still open to Saudi Arabia

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Jan 24

Iran eyes buying over 100 Boeing jets

Commander: Any aggression to receive a crippling response

Abdullah Thanks Iran for Letting Afghan Children Get Schooling

Japan to extend oil deals with Iran

Supreme Leader: Iran gov’t, nation keen on enhanced ties with China

The next poster of Fajr Festival might be designed by Stefan Bondy

Afghan man cuts off his wife’s nose

Saudis and Zionists try to Undermine Nuclear Agreement

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