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Saudi aggression on Yemen constitutes war crime: Iran

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani says Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen amounts to “war crime.”

“Targeting residential areas, hospitals, service providing centers and the carnage of innocent women and children along with the inhumane blockade of the Yemeni people are flagrant examples of war crime,” Shamkhani said in a meeting with a delegation from Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee in Tehran on Tuesday.

He added that all international organizations must protest Saudi Arabia’s ongoing aggression against Yemen.

Shamkhani said the Saudi government’s use of weapons containing toxic gas in its missile attacks on residential areas in Yemen is aimed at “genocide and suppressing the legitimate resistance” of the Yemeni nation.

The SNSC secretary called on the international community to seek a political solution to the Yemen crisis.

“Dialog among Yemeni groups and prevention of any foreign intervention in the country are the only way to establish understanding and restore security and stability to Yemen,” Shamkhani said.

He expressed Iran’s full support for the resistance of the Yemeni people against foreign aggression.

For his part, the head of the Yemeni mission, Naef Khaef, hailed Iran’s support for the Yemenis and slammed international circles’ silence in the face of the Saudi government’s crimes in Yemen.

He said the Yemeni people would continue their resistance against foreign aggression and insisted on diplomacy as the only solution to the crisis in the impoverished country.

Yemen has been under military strikes on a daily basis since Saudi forces launched their military aggression against their southern neighbor on March 26, in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, an ally of Riyadh.

About 6,400 people have reportedly lost their lives in the Saudi airstrikes, and a total of nearly 14,000 people have been injured since March. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 505 children are among the fatalities.

Bodies of 316 pilgrims killed in Mina crush repatriated: Official

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Golrokh Askarieh
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The head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization says the remains of a total of 316 Iranian pilgrims killed in last month’s tragic crush in Mina, Saudi Arabia, have so far been repatriated.

Saeed Ohadi said that a third cargo plane carrying 98 bodies of Iranian pilgrims touched down in Tehran early Tuesday, Fars news agency reported.

He noted that 116 Iranian pilgrims are still missing following the deadly stampede in Mina.

The crush took place after two large masses of pilgrims converged at a crossroads in Mina, a few kilometers east of the holy city of Mecca, during the symbolic stoning of the Satan in Jamarat.

Saudi Arabia claims nearly 770 people were killed in the incident, but officials at Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization say about 4,700 people, including 464 Iranians, lost their lives in the tragedy.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African affairs Hossein Amir- Abdollahian said on Tuesday that Iran is determined to shed light on the fate of all pilgrims unaccounted for following the disaster.

He said Iran’s former ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi is still among the missing pilgrims, noting that efforts are underway to determine his fate.

Amir-Abdollahian also said that no Iranian would be buried in Mecca without permission from families.

On September 28, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham rejected as “incorrect” and “hasty” reports that Saudi authorities have no official record on the entry of Roknabadi to the kingdom for Hajj.

Afkham said that the Iranian ministry has documents showing that Riyadh had approved an ordinary Hajj visa for the missing diplomat.

Iran says Saudi Arabia’s incompetence in handling the safety at the rituals caused the deadly incident. Riyadh has so far refused to accept responsibility or apologize for the deadly incident.

Ozbaki Hill (PHOTOS)

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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Ozbaki Hill in Alborz Province, near Tehran, is an important historical site. Archeological studies suggest that the civilization that originated there dates back to the 7th millennium B.C.

The site was discovered in 1969 and registered on Iran’s list of national monuments in 1973.

Internationally, Ozbaki Hill is only known for being the origin of the first man-made adobe handed over to the United Nations.

Originally, the owner of the land where the Ozbaki Hill is located wouldn’t allow experts to carry out studies and excavations at the site. Fortunately after 19 years of efforts, the site has been handed over to the public sector.

Photos of the hill posted online by different websites:

Fuel cell electric vehicle unveiled at university in Tehran (PHOTOS)

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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A fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) has been unveiled at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of Tehran’s Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology.

The following is the translation of a report Mehr News Agency filed on the hybrid car:

The battery of the vehicle is charged either by electricity or by chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen.

It has taken experts three years to design and produce the car on a $26,000-plus budget as part of a project sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology at the Presidential Office.

The zero-emission car is expected to be commercialized and Tehran cabs are to be fitted with the technology in the future.

The main advantage of the car is that it emits water rather than fumes and thus helps ease air pollution.

 

 

Cancer specialty center opens in northeastern Iran

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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Cancer specialty center

Mehr Razavi, a specialty center where cancer research, training, screening, diagnosis and treatment are carried out, opened on October 3 in Razavi Hospital in Mashhad, the capital of Khorasan Razavi Province.

The medical center aims to help with early diagnosis of cancer and promote the quality of the patients’ lives. The facility is unique in Iran and the region. Apart from an oncology center in Turkey which is a subsidiary of a US cancer center, no similar medical facility can be found in the Middle East.

The center raises public awareness about cancer, ways of preventing it, self-examination and cancer symptoms through workshops and courses, informative booklets as well as publication of articles.

The hospital’s administrator has said that October 3-9 has been designated as hospital’s Cancer Week and added, “Days of this week are named: Public Contribution and Cancer, Mental Security and Cancer, Family and Cancer, The Environment and Cancer, Nutrition and Cancer, Lifestyle and Cancer, Sports and Cancer.”

Images of the cancer center in Mashhad released online by the Young Journalists Club:

The gymnastics boy wonder from Iran aged two (PHOTOS)

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Fatemeh Askarieh
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Arat Hosseini, aged two, is already able to perform complicated gymnastics moves. He began practicing gymnastics poses when he was just nine months old. The Iranian toddler has already amassed 18,000 followers on Instagram. Arat’s father hopes his son will one day become ‘unattainable’ in the sport.

 

[The sentences above and below are part of a report, complete with still photos and video, Britain’s Daily Mail filed on the Iranian wunderkind in September.]

Backwards somersaults, balancing splits and walkovers – these are moves even the most accomplished of gymnasts would be proud to pull off.

But new gymnastics boy wonder Arat Hosseini, two, is already able to perform the complicated poses after taking up the sport when he was just nine months old.

Arat has been perfecting his technique for more than half his life – and the Iranian toddler is taking social media by storm with his amazing stunts and flexibility.

His parents Mohammad and Fatemeh, who live in Babol in Iran’s Mazandaran Province, say their son has had no professional training and practices for just 10 to 20 minutes daily.

Mohammad said: “One day when I returned home from work and put my finger in Arat’s hand, he got up slowly and, gripping my finger very tightly, pulled his legs off the ground.”

The following images of the Iranian wunderkind have been released by the British daily:

 

 

Akhundi remains at helm of Ministry of Roads

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Golrokh Askarieh
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President Rouhani’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development has survived a vote of no-confidence in parliament.

Out of 252 MPs present at the impeachment hearing in the Islamic Consultative Assembly Tuesday, 175 MPs voted to keep Abbas Akhundi in office. Seventy-two voted for his dismissal and five abstained.

The in-house vote of the chamber came after speeches by deputies, both for and against the impeachment, and statements by the minister in defense of his performance.

Former Iranian diplomat still missing in Saudi Arabia: Deputy FM

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Golrokh Askarieh
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A senior Iranian diplomat has said that the Islamic Republic is seriously pursuing the fate of Iran’s former ambassador to Lebanon who remains unaccounted for after the tragic September 24 crush in Mina, Saudi Arabia.

“The [Iranian] Foreign Ministry is seriously pursuing the fate of Ghazanfar Roknabadi, the missing diplomat in the Mina catastrophe in Saudi Arabia, because he was a well-known figure in the region,” Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Ghashghavi said on Monday.

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On the possibility of Roknabadi’s abduction in Saudi Arabia and his transfer to the occupied Palestinian territories, Ghashghavi said that the issue was a speculation, adding that such a claim can neither be confirmed nor rejected.

He said that the time and location of the Mina stampede, circumstances as well as individuals who were accompanying Roknabadi before he went missing do not confirm the likelihood of his abduction.

It is possible that those who are still missing in the tragic incident could be among the dead, or wounded, the Iranian diplomat said.

He added it is even possible that certain Iranian pilgrims have been arrested.

On September 28, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham described as “incorrect” and “hasty” reports that Saudi authorities have no official record on the entry of Roknabadi to the kingdom for Hajj. She said that the Iranian ministry has documents showing that Riyadh had approved an ordinary Hajj visa for the missing diplomat.

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Zarif defends his performance in UNGA session

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he hopes he has fulfilled his responsibility on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly in New York through holding meetings with the world dignitaries.

Winding up his stay in New York on Monday, Zarif told reporters that as foreign minister he has been trying to express the views of the country he represents in the international forums.

“In addition to meeting the heads of state and diplomatic representatives from Latin America to Europe and Middle East, I held meetings and talks with the US policymakers whether in the field of public relations or in research centers,” he said.

He said his meetings focused on three areas which were mainly around the tragic Mina incident which left hundreds of Hajj pilgrims dead.

“The next topic was the incremental and thorough implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action so that the Western side should have the readiness to perform its duties,” Zarif said.

Another important topic which was discussed with the counterparts, he added, was the crises in the Middle East, especially in Yemen and Syria.

Zarif expressed regret that some of Iran’s neighboring countries are not after a political solution to the crisis and said that they try to impose their political intentions and regional goals on the people of Yemen by killing them.

The Iranian top diplomat also said that in the meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry, the issue of possible problems in the implementation of JCPOA inside the US was discussed.

In answer to a question on the reaction of certain political groups in Iran to his handshake with US President Barack Obama, Zarif said in the capacity of foreign minister it was his duty to take part in international forums and meet world leaders and that he hopes he has been able to fulfill his duty in the best manner.

Gov’t priority is to increase production, cut unemployment: President

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Golrokh Askarieh
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President Rouhani has said that his government’s priority is to increase production and lower unemployment.

Speaking to Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio (NPR) on the sidelines of his visit to New York to attend the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, President Rouhani said Iran’s revenues in the post-sanctions era will be spent on the country’s economic development.

He said the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has created a new atmosphere in the region and the world, adding “That’s a very important message for the world. It was a complicated issue on which discussions have been held for long years. A group of people believe that negotiations were no solution. We did see that the two sides were patient enough in following the talks for about two years; what matters now is that the talks bore fruit at last.”

He said in the weeks ahead, his government will hand in the draft of the Sixth Development Plan to parliament for ratification.

The plan specifies the country’s priorities in the next five years as well as the volume of investment, said the president, adding that Iran’s population is very young: 65 percent of the Iranian population are below 35 years and many of them are still students. Annually a large number of students graduate and need jobs.

The president said, “In the next two decades 1,300,000 students will graduate who should be provided with employment opportunities. To create necessary jobs and find a solution to the unemployment problem, we need an eight percent economic growth and that means we will need $150 billion in investment annually based on economic estimates.

For the same reason, many companies and those active on the economic front come to Iran from Europe and Asia, study our programs and hold talks. In order to attract their capital to the country and gain an eight percent economic growth for the youth, our priority will be to create employment opportunities. Our priority is to scale down unemployment.”

President Rouhani said insecurity in the region can have adverse consequences for all regional states, adding “So security in Syria and or Iraq is of high importance for us. We will follow any solution which will lead to stability and security so that the entire regional countries will be secure.”

On JCPOA, President Rouhani quoted Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying if nuclear agreement is fully implemented and the US abides by its promises in action, other issues might also be taken into consideration.

On Syria, he said Iran is in talks with regional countries as well as the European Union.

He added, “So we are not indifferent to the Syrian issue. We are concerned both about Syria and the Syrian people. A number of people are killed or displaced daily and you know even old and historical monuments are destroyed and ruined by terrorists. All of these are sources of concern. Iran will do what it can within its power in connection with Syria’s security.”

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