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A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Sept. 22

September 22, 2015

Comments by President Rouhani in an interview with CBS News that he has no plan to meet with or contact US President Barack Obama during his New York trip dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday.

Ettela’at: “The majority of the Iranian people approve of the Iran nuclear deal,” said President Rouhani in an interview with CBS News.

President Rouhani: Things will definitely change if we set aside the language of threat and pressure and talk with each other respectfully.

President Rouhani: The United States should make up for the multiple mistakes it has made in dealing with Iran.

President Rouhani: The deal that was struck [between Iran and P5+1] means that we can logically settle key issues through talks.

President Rouhani: Doors are open for the Americans, Europeans and others. They can come to Iran and have economic relations with the country.

Highlights of Ettela’at newspaper on September 21

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Sept. 22

Abrar: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that he will meet with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York.

Abrar: The impeachment of the minister of roads and urban development for his poor performance

Afarinesh: “The US private sector can invest in Iran’s economy,” said President Rouhani in an interview with CBS News.

Afkar: The culture minister has said that the developments of the Middle East will take center stage in President Rouhani’s address at the UN General Assembly.

Aftab-e Yazd: The remaining steps toward a meeting

Before his trip to New York [to attend the 70^th UN General Assembly], President Rouhani said in an interview with CBS News that he has no plan for a meeting with President Obama, adding that more steps should be taken before the two countries reach that point.

Aftab-e Yazd: Parliament’s motion to cut the monthly cash subsidies the government doles out to people was killed after a number of MPs withdrew their signatures.

Aftab-e Yazd: Ahmadinejad’s supporters were off target.

The top prosecutor of the Supreme Audit Court has said that there is no evidence on [First Vice-President Eshagh] Jahangiri’s wrongdoing.

Arman-e Emrooz: “We have yet to reveal all the losses the country suffered in the past eight years [a reference to the tenure of former president Ahmadinejad],” said Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Arman-e Emrooz: The mission of Kerry and Zarif in the absence of Obama and Rouhani

Asrar: The chairman of parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has said that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action will clear parliament in one week.

Asrar: “The motion to impeach the minister of roads [and urban development] is politically motivated,” said a member of parliament’s Energy Committee.

Asrar: Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has said that obstacles are thrown in the way of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in the name of Islam and revolution.

Ebtekar: Women have been invited to enter [the race for] the Assembly of Experts.

Iranian officials have said that there is no ban whatsoever for women to field their candidacy for the [Assembly of Experts] elections.

Etemad: Exoneration of the first vice-president

The Supreme Audit Court’s chief prosecutor has rejected corruption charges against Eshagh Jahangiri.

Iran: Europe’s investment in Iran’s medicine and agriculture sectors

Iran: [IAEA chief Yukiya] Amano has confirmed the authenticity of the samples Iran has taken from Parchin.

Javan: “I have no plan to meet with or call Obama,” said President Rouhani in an interview with CBS news.

Jomhouri Islami: The spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization has said that Iranian experts took samples from Parchin in the absence of IAEA inspectors.

Jomhouri Islami: Six months after the Saudi aggression against Yemen and the warnings of international and human rights organizations, the United States called for an end to Saudi airstrikes against Yemen.

Kayhan: Conflicting comments on inspection of Parchin

[IAEA chief] Amano officially conducted a ceremonial inspection of Parchin!

Mardomsalari: Iran and P5+1 will hold their first joint session in New York.

Mardomsalari: “The Iranian nation will never renounce its rights,” said President Rouhani.

Rah-e Mardom: Tehran’s longest subway line was inaugurated in a ceremony with President Rouhani in attendance.

Resalat: The chairman of parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has said that the chamber will not approve or disapprove of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. [It will simply underline the red lines and allow the government to implement the deal with P5+1.]

Rooyesh-e Mellat: Alexis Tsipras has once again won parliamentary elections in Greece.

Sharq: A countdown to the end of police custody

A member of a committee in charge of pursuing the case of Babak Zanjani [a young billionaire accused of massive corruption] has said that Zanjani is close to being released from custody.

Highlights of Ettela’at newspaper on September 22

Emad Askarieh

September 22, 2015

♦ “The majority of the Iranian people approve of the Iran nuclear deal,” said President Rouhani in an interview with CBS News.

President Rouhani: Things will definitely change if we set aside the language of threat and pressure and talk with each other respectfully.

President Rouhani: The United States should make up for the multiple mistakes it has made in dealing with Iran.

President Rouhani: The deal that was struck [between Iran and P5+1] means that we can logically settle key issues through talks.

President Rouhani: Doors are open for the Americans, Europeans and others. They can come to Iran and have economic relations with the country.

♦ The minister of mines, industries and trade has asked the president for a cut in interest rates Iranian exporters should pay [for the loans they take out].

Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh has said that formation of powerful, well-organized export agencies can help raise exports.

♦ The Yemeni forces have captured three villages in Jizan, Saudi Arabia.

In their operation, the Yemeni forces also destroyed as many as 15 Saudi tanks.

Three Saudi troops were killed in the operation.

♦ Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani has said that social security should also cover people’s housing, pocketbook issues, education and employment.

The Expediency Council chairman also said that the revengeful enemies and mysterious hands are trying to foment insecurity [in the country].

He further said that we need to make a role model of moderation in all affairs.

♦ “We are having economic growth, but no job creation,” said the minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare.

♦ Standard diesel will be distributed in six big cities in the country.

A deputy director of the Environment Protection Organization has said that diesel 50 ppm (parts per million) will be distributed in Tehran, Arak, Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad and Ahvaz

A city councilor takes a dip, of a different sort

Fatemeh Askarieh

September 22, 2015

In a symbolic act inspired by Hans Brinker in The Little Dutch Boy Who Saved Holland, a member of Bandar Abbas City Council has parked himself in front of a sewage pipe that empties wastewater into the sea.

Kianoosh Jahanbakhsh took the symbolic measure one hour before the city council convened and attended the meeting soaked simply to draw the attention of fellow councilors and other officials in the southern port city to the release of dirty water into sea.

In explaining the move, he later said that the Water and Sewage Authority of the port city has been releasing wastewater into the sea for a dozen years. “What law in the country allows this company to take such a destructive measure against the environment?”

The provincial Environment Protection Department and environment activists have been protesting the move for years but their efforts to stem the flow of dirty water into sea have not produced any results yet.

The following photos have been released by Fararu.com:

Iran inks gas deal as Omani minister visits

Golrokh Askarieh

September 22, 2015

Iran and Oman have signed an agreement on studying an undersea gas pipeline across the Persian Gulf in a project worth $60 billion, the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Exports Company (NIGEC) said.

Two separate agreements were signed for studies in the offshore and onshore sections, with Omani Oil Minister Mohammad bin Hamad al-Rumhy visiting Tehran, Alireza Kameli said.

The offshore deal was signed by the Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company (IOEC) and Oman’s Oil Ministry. For the onshore section, an agreement was signed between the Pars Consulting Engineering Company and the Omani side.

The offshore section envisages laying 200 km of pipes from Kuh-e Mubarak in Iran to Oman’s Sohar port in five months. The onshore section of the pipeline in Iran will be built for another 200 km from Rudan to Kuh-e Mubarak in six months.

The $60 billion deal was concluded during President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Muscat in 2013 to ship 28 million cubic meters per day of Iranian gas to Oman for a period of 15 years.

The two countries signed another deal in 2007 to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Oman to process the Iranian gas.

Oman has undertaken to pay the entire cost of the pipeline and the related infrastructure, according to Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh.

“Gas exports to Oman and entry into its retail market will make it possible to sell the Iranian natural gas to the region, especially Asian countries,” he has said.

In July, Kameli said the Persian Gulf littoral states are Iran’s top priority for gas exports despite requests by European companies.

“Currently, many countries have voiced readiness to invest in our upstream and downstream gas sector and are seriously pushing for imports of Iranian gas.

“Although we cannot ignore the European gas market, exports to Europe come later on the list of our priorities,” Kameli said.

Iran welcomes boosting cooperation with Total

Golrokh Askarieh

September 22, 2015

Iran’s deputy oil minister has said Tehran welcomes expansion of energy cooperation with French oil giant Total.

“National Iranian Oil Company welcomes expansion of cooperation with Total,” Rokneddin Javadi was quoted as saying.

“Total has already voiced readiness to sign new contracts with Iran,” said Javadi after a meeting with Arnaund Breuillac, the president of exploration & production at Total Company.

He also pointed to the new contracts prepared by the NIOC and said great cooperation opportunities will open up once the contracts are unveiled.

Arnaund Breuillac also held separate meetings with senior officials including Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh Sunday.

Closer cooperation on exploration, production and marketing crude and LNG as well as petrochemical products was among issues discussed at the meeting.

New oil deals

Iran’s oil officials have announced that they will unveil new contracts in early November.

“The first phase of the new contracts will be unveiled in November in Tehran and a follow-up conference will be held in one month or two in London,” NIOC chief Rokneddin Javadi has been quoted as saying.

Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said in August that new oil development contracts will be unveiled at a conference in London slated for December.

“New agreements with foreign companies will be signed within the framework of Iran Petroleum Contract (IPC) which I think will be more attractive,” he said.

The IPC will be a modification of the traditional buy-back risk service contracts and have been specifically designed to increase the attractiveness of Iranian oil projects to foreign investors.

It offers different stages of exploration, development and production to the contractors as an integrated package.

Iran sits on the world’s fourth-biggest oil reserves and seeks to raise its crude output in a bid to regain its market share.

The country had the second-biggest output in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) before the US-led sanctions banning the purchase, transport, finance and insuring of its crude began in July 2012.

Iran currently exports more than one million barrels of oil per day. It has already unveiled plans to add another million to its export capacity within six months after the removal of sanctions as a result of the nuclear agreement between Iran and P5+1.

The removal of the sanctions is expected to take effect in the first half of 2016.

France business development office inaugurated in Tehran

Golrokh Askarieh

September 22, 2015

France has inaugurated a business development office in Tehran as part of efforts to strengthen economic ties with Iran.

French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll and Minister of State for Foreign Trade Matthias Fekl inaugurated the “Business France” office on Monday.

Leading a 100-strong delegation, the French officials have already held talks with their Iranian counterparts to discuss ways to boost bilateral trade ties between Tehran and Paris.

Two cooperation agreements were signed during a meeting attended by senior Iranian and French officials on Monday.

Mohammad Reza Najafimanesh, a member of Iran-France Joint Chamber of Commerce, said two French delegations including representatives from major oil and auto companies will visit Iran to hold talks with their Iranian counterparts later this year.

Facilitating bilateral trade

French Minister of State for Foreign Trade Matthias Fekl also held a separate meeting with Minister of Industries, Mines and Trade Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh on Monday.

The two sides agreed on forming a joint working group to facilitate trade and industrial ties between Iran and France.

“The new round of cooperation should lead to joint investment and transfer of technology,” Nematzadeh was quoted as saying.

He said Iran sets no limits on the activities of European companies, including French firms, but insists that products should be made inside the country.

The French official said that Paris seeks to establish long-term economic ties with Iran through joint ventures.

Iran welcomes French investment in tourism: VP

Golrokh Askarieh

September 22, 2015

Iran is interested in French companies’ investment in hotel construction and training in hotel management, Vice-President and Director of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization Masoud Soltanifar said in a meeting with a visiting French trade delegation Monday.

Soltanifar welcomed French investment in the field of hotel construction and hotel management and added that France’s participation in building two hotels near Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) marks the beginning of Tehran-Paris cooperation in the tourism industry.

France Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll recalled the millennia-old civilization of Iran and France and said that Iran has plenty of historical sites and excellent handicrafts.

He pointed to a lot of similarities between the two countries and said tourism will be boosted between Iran and France.

On top of infrastructure development, Iran needs training for restaurant and hotel management. France can share its experience in this field with Iran, Le Foll said.

Soltanifar said that Iranian and French businessmen should draft an agreement to be signed by the two countries’ presidents when President Rouhani flies to Paris later this year.

IAEA hails ‘significant progress’ in Iran roadmap implementation

Golrokh Askarieh

September 22, 2015

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has hailed the “significant progress” made in the implementation of a roadmap signed between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog in July.

“Significant progress has been achieved,” Yukiya Amano told reporters in the Austrian capital Vienna on Monday, a day after visiting Iran.

The IAEA chief, however, stressed that “much work remains” to be done so that the agency could complete its investigation of Iran’s nuclear program before the December 15 deadline set in the roadmap.

During his short stay in Iran, Amano met with several high-ranking Iranian officials, including President Rouhani, and also visited Parchin military site near Tehran.

[Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi hailed the visit too, and said Yukiya Amano was quite content when he left Tehran. “Amano’s visit to Iran was very successful,” Salehi told reporters.]

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced that Iranian experts took samples from Parchin site in accordance with relevant directives and procedures, and submitted them to the UN nuclear agency.

“Iranian experts took environmental samples from specific locations at Parchin complex without the presence of the Agency’s inspectors,” said the spokesman of the AEOI Behrouz Kamalvandi.

He said the sample-taking followed recent talks between Iran and the IAEA on mutual cooperation within the framework of the roadmap.

Parchin samples authentic: IAEA

Amano confirmed the “authenticity” of the Parchin samples, saying the UN nuclear agency “monitored” the sampling process.

“The agency can confirm the integrity of the sampling process and the authenticity of the samples, which were taken at places of interest to the agency at the particular location in Parchin,” he stated, adding, “Authentication by the agency of the samples was achieved through use of an established verification process. The process was carried out under our responsibility and monitoring.”

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Peace-themed artwork to be created by 2,000 individuals

Fatemeh Askarieh

September 21, 2015

Hachure, an artwork by Iranian cartoonist Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour, has been put on display at “Art for Peace” exhibition at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center. Honaronline.ir has asked the artist what inspired him to present an artwork which gives the exhibition visitors a chance to contribute to its creation. The following is the translation of his remarks in the interview: Old magazine games in which numbered dots had to be connected to create an image inspired me to create Hachure. I decided to put 2,000 numbered dots in the work, so that every visitor can draw a line on it and thus contribute to the creation of the final image. Some 2,000 people should cooperate to create the peace-themed image and I think such unity for creation of art can be a symbol of peace by itself. The picture is dedicated to children who can’t bear war and violence. After I was asked by organizers of the exhibition to take part in the expo, I told them I definitely would if I came up with a creative idea. The exhibition of 3^rd Art for Peace Festival which opened on September 11 ran through September 21 which marks International Day of Peace.

Disabled veterans conquer Mount Sepidan in southern Iran (PHOTOS)

Fatemeh Askarieh

September 21, 2015

A group of war veterans who lost their limbs in the Iran-Iraq war scaled a 3,760-m peak in Mount Sepidan in Fars Province on September 18 to mark the anniversary of Sacred Defense Week.

Photos of the ascent posted online by Mehr News Agency: