The Complex is 1 acre (5,000m2) in area. Iranian-Islamic original architecture, innovative schemes, and fancy stucco master workings, and also arts and decorations have made the complex a candidate for Iranian-Islamic most beautiful residential building.
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‘According to the latest statistics today 8,000 units of rare blood exist in the Rare Bloods Bank of the WHO/ISBT in frozen form,’ said Dr. Mostafa Moqaddam in an interview with IRNA.
He reiterated that having a rare blood bank is one of the indexes of the high standards of a blood transfusion organization since its proves that in addition to meeting the demands of the day it has managed to assist the particular patients in need of such bloods.
The head of Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization’s Immune-Hematology Laboratory said that the Iranians decided to have a native national rare bloods program in our country.
‘In this program instead of running into a rare blood patient accidentally we arrange for programs to be able to assist the patients in need of such bloods wherever they might be,’ he said.
He said in order to do that we divide the people in five to ten thousand member groups for the ten regular blood types, identify the people with rare bloods among them, and then establish our rare bloods bank based on that data.
‘Such individuals also receive plates on which the information about their rare blood is inscribed, are trained and instructed to keep in touch with us constantly so that they will always have access to the blood they might once need,’ he emphasized.
He said that the information about such individuals is updated in the Blood Transfusion Organization’s website constantly.
He said that January 11th is nominated as the National Iranian Rare Bloods Day, because on that day an 18-month-old girl who had heart chamber problems was to go under a surgery and no regular blood type matched her blood.
‘The Blood Transfusion Organization provided the required blood for that little girl and she is now six years old living a healthy life, which is indebted to our organization’s Rare Bloods Bank.’
Dr. Moqaddam said that that little girl was the youngest patient saved thanks to launching this program and that was the reason why January 11th was named the National Iranian Rare Bloods Day.
In an OP-ED for the New York Times published on Sunday, Zarif said that Riyadh’s “active sponsorship of violent extremism” is a global threat.
Zarif noted that many acts of terror, “from the horrors of Sept. 11 to the shooting in San Bernardino and other episodes of extremist carnage in between,” and almost all al-Qaeda and its affiliate al-Nusra Front group members are either Saudi nationals or have been brainwashed by the kingdom’s message of hatred and sectarianism.
The recent mass execution of 47 people, including Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, clearly shows Saudi Arabia’s “barbarism,” he added.
“Saudi Arabia seems to fear that the removal of the smoke screen of the nuclear issue will expose the real global threat: its active sponsorship of violent extremism. The barbarism is clear. At home, state executioners sever heads with swords, as in the recent execution of 47 prisoners in one day, including Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a respected religious scholar who devoted his life to promoting nonviolence and civil rights. Abroad, masked men sever heads with knives.”
Iran’s foreign minister also accused Saudi Arabia of attempting to “derail” the JCPOA—the agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 – the United States, Britain, Russia, China, France, and Germany – in Vienna on July 14, 2015.
He also condemned the targeting of Iranian diplomatic facilities in Yemen, the systematic harassment of Iranian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia as well as Riyadh’s negligence which resulted in the death of hundreds of Iranians during last year’s Hajj rituals in Mina.
He added that Iran has “no desire to escalate tension in the region” and that unity is required to deal with the threat of extremism.
“The Saudi leadership must now make a choice: They can continue supporting extremists and promoting sectarian hatred; or they can opt to play a constructive role in promoting regional stability. We hope that reason will prevail.”
The OP-ED was published after ties between Tehran and Riyadh was severed in the wake of Nimr’s execution.
The full text of his OP-ED reads:
The world will soon celebrate the implementation of the landmark agreement that resolves the unnecessary, albeit dangerous, crisis over Iran’s nuclear program. All parties hoped, and continue to believe, that the resolution of the nuclear issue would enable us to focus on the serious challenge of extremism that is ravaging our region — and the world.
President Rouhani has repeatedly declared that Iran’s top foreign policy priority is friendship with our neighbors, peace and stability in the region and global cooperation, especially in the fight against extremism. In September 2013, a month after taking office, he introduced an initiative called World Against Violence and Extremism (WAVE). It was approved by consensus by the United Nations General Assembly, giving hope for a farsighted global campaign against terrorism.
Unfortunately, some countries stand in the way of constructive engagement.
Following the signing of the interim nuclear deal in November 2013, Saudi Arabia began devoting its resources to defeating the deal, driven by fear that its contrived Iranophobia was crumbling. Today, some in Riyadh not only continue to impede normalization but are determined to drag the entire region into confrontation.
Saudi Arabia seems to fear that the removal of the smoke screen of the nuclear issue will expose the real global threat: its active sponsorship of violent extremism. The barbarism is clear. At home, state executioners sever heads with swords, as in the recent execution of 47 prisoners in one day, including Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a respected religious scholar who devoted his life to promoting nonviolence and civil rights. Abroad, masked men sever heads with knives.
Let us not forget that the perpetrators of many acts of terror, from the horrors of Sept. 11 to the shooting in San Bernardino and other episodes of extremist carnage in between, as well as nearly all members of extremist groups like Al Qaeda and the Nusra Front, have been either Saudi nationals or brainwashed by petrodollar-financed demagogues who have promoted anti-Islamic messages of hatred and sectarianism for decades.
The Saudi strategy to derail the nuclear agreement and perpetuate — and even exacerbate — tension in the region has three components: pressuring the West; promoting regional instability through waging war in Yemen and sponsoring extremism; and directly provoking Iran. Riyadh’s military campaign in Yemen and its support for extremists are well known. Provocations against Iran have not grabbed international headlines, primarily thanks to our prudent restraint.
The Iranian government at the highest level unequivocally condemned the assault against the Saudi embassy and consulate in Tehran on Jan. 2, and ensured the safety of Saudi diplomats. We took immediate measures to help restore order to the Saudi diplomatic compound and declared our determination to bring perpetrators to justice. We also took disciplinary action against those who failed to protect the embassy and have initiated an internal investigation to prevent any similar event.
By contrast, the Saudi government or its surrogates have over the past three years directly targeted Iranian diplomatic facilities in Yemen, Lebanon and Pakistan — killing Iranian diplomats and locals. There have been other provocations, too. Iranian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia have endured systematic harassment — in one case, Saudi airport officers molested two Iranian boys in Jeddah, fueling public outrage. Also, Saudi negligence was to blame for the stampede during the recent hajj, which left 464 Iranian pilgrims dead. Moreover, for days, Saudi authorities refused to respond to requests from grieving families and the Iranian government to access and repatriate the bodies.
This is not to mention the routine practice of hate speech not only against Iran but against all Shiite Muslims by Saudi Arabia’s government-appointed preachers. The outrageous beheading recently of Sheikh Nimr was immediately preceded by a sermon of hatred toward Shiites by a Grand Mosque preacher in Mecca, who last year said that “our disagreement with Shiites will not be removed, nor our suicide to fight them” as long as Shiites remained on the earth.
Throughout these episodes, Iran, confident of its strength, has refused to retaliate or break — or even downgrade — diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. We have until now responded with restraint; but unilateral prudence is not sustainable.
Iran has no desire to escalate tension in the region. We need unity to confront the threats posed by extremists. Ever since the first days after his election, the president and I have indicated publicly and privately our readiness to engage in dialogue, promote stability and combat destabilizing extremism. This has fallen on deaf ears in Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi leadership must now make a choice: They can continue supporting extremists and promoting sectarian hatred; or they can opt to play a constructive role in promoting regional stability. We hope that reason will prevail.
The 12th edition of the KIN festival was held in Yerevan on 3-7 November, 2015 and the Diploma of Honor for the best documentary has been awarded to the documentary Iranian Ninja, directed by Marjan Riahi.
The annual KIN International Film Festival is devoted to film makers whose production revolves around the theme of women (kin means “a woman” in Armenian).
It is narrated by Khatereh Jalilzadeh, the first Iranian ‘ninja’ woman (practicing Ninjutsu) and features the women’s hardships and barriers to practice the sport.
The documentary is the first feature film to depict Iranian ninja women competitions.
The 30-minute documentary has previously attended several international festivals including Hot Docs, Vesoul, Guanajuato, Créteil, Open City, Batumi, Baghdad, Jaipur, Silk Road, Innsbruck, Didor, flEXiff, Media Arts and Tartu winning a number of international awards.
“We will not allow the Saudi tension-creating approaches to have a negative impact on the settlement of the crisis in Syria or to aggravate the problems of people in Syria, Yemen and Europe, which have risen due to the migration of poor Syrians,” Zarif said Sunday in a meeting with the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Tehran.
Denouncing Saudi Arabia for its policy of creating “turmoil” in the region, Zarif said Riyadh is pursuing provocative measures to adversely affect the situation in Syria.
He said the Saudis targeted Iran’s embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a as part of attempts to cover up their negative conduct, while Iran feels responsible to protect the embassies of foreign countries.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has always acted responsibly and constructively on crises,” Zarif added.
The UN envoy, for his part, hailed Iran’s constructive role in the settlement of the crisis in Syria.
De Mistura noted that efforts are underway to release a single list of the wildly different opposition groups in Syria for negotiations with the Damascus government.
The Austrian capital of Vienna has played host to two rounds of multilateral talks over the past months for finding a way out of a lingering crisis in Syria.
Senior diplomats from a number of influential countries, including Iran, the US and Russia, as well as envoys from the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) have attended the negotiations.
Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with Takfiri terrorists from various groups, including Daesh (ISIL), currently controlling parts of it.
According to the United Nations, more than 250,000 people have been killed and one million wounded during the conflict.
Located 24 km from Ardebil in eastern slope of Sabalan Mountain, Sardabeh waterfall has near 15 meters height with strong smell of sulfur and is frozen due to the very low temperature in winter. The place is Ardebil’s one of tourist attraction places.
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Saudi Arabia must be held accountable for the act of aggression against the Iranian mission in Yemen, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said on Sunday.
The attack on Iran’s embassy, which was carried out intentionally, can well be pursued by Iran’s Foreign Ministry in international organizations, he added.
The Iranian legislator also stressed that the Saudi government must compensate Iran for all damage it has inflicted on the country, stressing that the Islamic Republic reserves the right to follow up on this issue by taking legal action through international authorities.
On January 6, Saudi warplanes targeted Iran’s embassy in Sana’a, damaging the mission’s building and wounding a number of security forces guarding the place.
One day later, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari roundly condemned the “deliberate” Saudi attack, saying it was a “violation of all international conventions and regulations” in protecting diplomatic missions under all circumstances.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic has so far exercised patience with regard to negative measures adopted by Saudi Arabia.
“We have so far responded to negative Saudi measures with patience because there is a distance between Iranian wisdom and Saudi officials’ misguided and immature approaches,” Zarif said, emphasizing that Iran does not seek tension in the region.
Speaking in a televised program on the Iranian Channel One network, he said that Saudis have adopted policy of confronting with the realities on the ground and their political geography.
Saudi Arabia has been involved in a game that it was not prepared for it and it can not play the role of an active player in it, the spokesman said.
The Islamic Republic adopted a quite clear stance towards attacks against Saudi missions in Iranian cities and condemned the attacks, he added.
Jaber-Ansari said that Saudi Arabia seeks escalation of tensions and feels hostility towards Iran.
Iran has accepted and understood the developments in the region and moves in line with them and seeks to de-escalate tensions, he said.
Speaking about the possibility of war between Tehran and Riyadh, the spokesman underlined Saudis may feel that a limited war may help them but other regional and international players disagree with such policies.
Jaber-Ansari said that Saudi Arabia should not be permitted to impose the costs of its destructive policies on the region.
Certain states like Sudan are trying to solve their financial problems by Saudi petro-dollars and countries like Bahrain are supported by Saudis and this is the reason why they entered embassy war with Iran, he added.
The spokesman noted that several Islamic countries like Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey avoided entering the embassy war with Iran.
Jaberi-Ansari said Saudi Arabia’s policy of ‘war of embassies’ by cutting its ties with Iran and putting pressure on other countries in doing so will not bear any benefit to the Riyadh regime.
He said Saudi rulers who are facing economic and political woes inside their country will not reap any fruit from their policy of creating tension in the region to ward off their challenges.
Jaberi-Ansari urged the House of Saud to be ready to accept the realities at home, in the region, and worldwide and stop destructive and war-mongering policies which have adversely affected their image.
The spokesman also reiterated that diplomatic contacts between Iran and US in recent days have been solely on the issue of nuclear agreement saying that Washington cannot mediate between Tehran and Riyadh while it has no diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic.
Despite being hobbled by sanctions, Iran is in the midst of a shopping mall boom. Several modern shopping malls, some of them just catering for luxury brands, have opened in the capital, Tehran, in the past few years. Several more are currently under construction — with the biggest concentration being in the city’s well-heeled, tree-lined northern neighborhoods.
Yet none of those in the capital can match the size and ambition of the Isfahan City Center shopping mall on the outskirts of Iran’s fabled historic city and former capital.
Speaking in the Majlis (parliament) public session this morning, Larijani said that certain members of US Congress are trying to sabotage the process of execution of Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA).
US recent measures which limits travel to Iran is against the spirit of JCPOA, Larijani added.
He said that if US government does not prevent congress’s anti-Iranian measures, Iranian Majlis will adopt reciprocal measures.
The speaker underlined that if US Congress continues its hostile actions against Iran’s defensive capabilities; Iran may review its activities in defense and nuclear field.
Addressing the US Congress, Larijani said that if Iran’s Qods force did not stand against the terrorist groups, hundreds of terrorist actions similar to the Paris event could happen.
The Iranian speaker called the anti-Iranian US congressmen as Zionists recruits, adding that CIA is in fact a terrorist organization which has links with terrorist groups in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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