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A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

By
Emad Askarieh
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Iranian Newspapers Headlines
Iranian Newspapers Headlines

President Rouhani’s important comments on elections and the nuclear deal his administration has cut with six world powers dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday. The verdict issued in the fraud and accessory to murder case of Saeed Mortazavi, a former director of the Social Security Organization, was also on the cover of most dailies.

 

Ettela’at: “The nuclear deal is a unique achievement,” President Rouhani told a joint meeting of his Cabinet and governors general from across the country.

He further said that the stage is set for major transformation in the country.

Highlights of Ettela’at newspaper on August 20

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Abrar: “A single party or faction won’t dominate the future parliament,” President Rouhani said.

Abrar: An MP has described the performance of the minister of economy and financial affairs as “very positive”.

The impeachment of Dr. Ali Tayyebnia is likely to be shelved.

Abrar: Saeed Mortazavi, a former director of the Social Security Organization, has been sentenced to one year in jail. Six months of his prison term is suspended.

Mortazavi has been found not guilty [on charges of being an accessory to murder] in the case related to Kahrizak detention facility.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Afarinesh: President Rouhani has said that Iran’s approach centers on dialogue to settle global problems.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Afkar: “Parliament will either vote on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or will prepare a report on it,” said the chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Aftab-e Yazd: “The Guardian Council oversees the elections; it does not organize them,” President Hassan Rouhani said.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Arman-e Emrooz: President Rouhani has said that electoral oversight and implementation should not mix.

Speaking at a joint meeting of his Cabinet and provincial governors from across the country, the president said that the Iranian people make decisions for the country.

Arman-e Emrooz: “There are some efforts [behind the scenes] to disrupt ties between Iran and Turkey,” said Chairman of the Expediency Council at a meeting with the Turkish ambassador to Tehran.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Asr-e Iranian: Thanks to the ineffective diplomacy of Oil Ministry officials in the past seven months, the drop in oil prices has cost Iran $13 billion dollars in revenues.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Asrar: The chief of staff of President Rouhani has said that the nuclear deal opens up an opportunity for the country to expand ties with the rest of the world.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Ebtekar: A parliamentary committee dominated by MPs critical of Foreign Minister Zarif

Members of the JCPOA Review Committee have been named.

Ebtekar: Unmarried women above 30 years of age can adopt children.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Emtiaz: Road accidents across the country claim as many as 90 lives each day.

Emtiaz: Some 60 percent of Iranian towns do not have movie theaters.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Esfahan Emrooz: Production of a new SUV at Iran Khodro [Iran’s largest automotive company] has started.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Etemad: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is to be reviewed in the 9+6 committee.

Critics of Foreign Minister Zarif have the upper hand in the 15-member parliamentary review committee.

The six members of the committee who support the nuclear deal will have a difficult job on their hands.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Hemayat: Political figures and representatives have supported the Supreme Leader’s comments on the need for public vigilance to frustrate enemy inroads.

“They can’t create divisions in Iran,” said Gholamali Haddad Adel.

“The Supreme Leader’s warning on American efforts to infiltrate the country is realistic,” said Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani.

“JCPOA won’t change our policy of standing up to hegemonic powers,” said Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Jomhouri Islami: Iran and Japan are to hold talks on investment in Iran in the post-sanctions era.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Kayhan: The key turned, but for elections! [A sarcastic reference to candidate Rouhani’s campaign theme that he holds the key to the country’s problems]

The thought-provoking comments of the president on the role of the Guardian Council

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Mardomsalari: International companies have expressed readiness to explore oil in the Iranian-owned section of the Caspian Sea.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

 

Rah-e Mardom: “Having economic sanctions terminated all at once is a great achievement,” President Rouhani said.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

Roozan: “Top clerics have not opposed the presence of women in sports stadiums,” said the deputy governor of Tehran Province.

“We are being accused on the world stage of failure to respect the most basic rights of women,” he said.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on August 20

 

US, allies thwarted in Mideast: IRGC commander

By
Emad Askarieh
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General Salami

A senior Iranian commander says the Islamic Republic has frustrated the schemes of the United States and its allies in the Middle East, adding that Tehran is turning into a major international power.

Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the second-in-command of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), made the remarks at gathering in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad on Wednesday.

Salami slammed the 1953 US-led coup against the government of democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, saying Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution changed the “balance of power” in the world, and the country is no more dependent on foreigners like in the past.

“Today, we are thwarting all allies of the United States in the region,” stressed the Iranian general.

In August 1953, the British and American intelligence agencies initiated a coup by the Iranian military, setting off a series of events, including riots in the streets of the capital, Tehran, which resulted in the overthrow and arrest of Mosaddeq.

Six decades after the notorious coup, the US spy agency CIA for the first time published a document in August 2013 which confirmed Washington’s role in the coup d’état.

Salami further pointed to Washington’s efforts to bring the nuclear talks with Iran to fruition, saying the White House would never opt for diplomacy should it find weakness in a country.

Washington’s recourse to “the path of diplomacy” shows the failure of its “sanctions strategy,” he added.

“Iran is now turning into a major international power,” Salami said.

The US uses military measures to deal with other countries, the Iranian commander said, adding that the country, however, does not make such a move in the case of Iran as Washington is well aware of the Islamic Republic’s might.

On July 14, Iran and P5+1 reached a historic agreement, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which is aimed at ending years of Western standoff with Tehran over the latter’s nuclear activities.

 

Iran achieved its goals in nuclear talks: Rouhani

By
Emad Askarieh
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Rouhani

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday hailed the recent conclusion of nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers, saying that the country achieved its goals in the talks.

Speaking in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Rouhani said Iran managed to realize its major objectives in the important negotiations.

He went on to say that the termination of financial, bank, transport, and other economic sanctions was among the most important goals Iranian negotiators managed to accomplish.

It is a “great and outstanding” achievement that a country manages to make the United Nations Security Council nullify its previous resolutions against it and get its enrichment right ratified by UNSC members, he added.

Iran and 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14 reached a conclusion on a lasting nuclear agreement that would terminate all sanctions imposed on Tehran over its nuclear energy program after coming into force.

The 159-page deal has its own opponents and proponents both in Iran and the other countries that are parties to JCPOA, including the US.

While the United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution to endorse the deal, the text of the document needs to be ratified by both Iran’s Parliament and the US Congress.

ISIL presence in Turkey ‘not unlikely,’ Iran’s Rafsanjani says

By
Emad Askarieh
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Rafsanjani-Turkey

Iran’s Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warns the Turkish ambassador in Tehran of ISIL presence in the neighboring country.

The chairman of the Expediency Council met with Hakan Takin in the Iranian capital on Wednesday, calling on Ankara to watch out for the Takfiris.

“It is not unlikely for Daesh [the Arabic term for ISIL] to have built bases for itself in Turkey” since its emergence in the Middle East, Hashemi said, likening the regional situation to “poison” that can harm the Turkish society.

The Takfiri terrorists have been wreaking havoc in Syria and subsequently Iraq, after their infiltration into the region through Turkey and Jordan.

The senior Iranian politician said Turkey’s “important parties” should be “serious” in running the country and put “national interests” on top of their agenda.

He also commented on Tehran-Ankara ties, warning, “It is evident that (hidden) hands are at work to ruin relations between the two states.”

Rafsanjani called for more bilateral cooperation, noting that it would “strengthen and sustain internal security” in both courtiers.

Iran-Saudi ties

In response to Takin’s question regarding Tehran’s ties with Saudi Arabia, Hashemi said “Iran has declared several times that it seeks to expand relations in an atmosphere of mutual respect especially with Muslim and neighboring states.”

“In practice, we have proven that we cause no trouble for regional states and they (Saudis) should not be deceived by the Zionists.”

The Turkish envoy, for his part, said regional powers should “negotiate” despite differences, which he described as “natural”, otherwise it would pave the way for the “presence and intervention of foreign forces in the region.”

Tehran’s concerns

Turkey is currently engaged in battles with Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in Iraq and has been targeting alleged position of the Daesh Takfiris in Syria, which has made the east of the country relatively insecure.

On August 7, an Iranian bus was attacked in the Dogubayazit district of the eastern Agri province and its driver was fatally shot.

An Iranian truck carrying bitumen was also set on fire in the region late on August 11.

A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official voiced Tehran’s concerns over the situation there, specifically in regard to terrorist attacks against Iranian nationals and vehicles, in a Wednesday meeting with Takin.

“We are also concerned… and pursue the matter seriously,” said the envoy, vowing to declare the results immediately.

Highlights of Ettela’at newspaper on August 20

By
Emad Askarieh
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Ettelaat Highlights-post

♦ “The nuclear deal is a unique achievement,” President Rouhani told a joint meeting of his Cabinet and governors general from across the country.

He further said that the stage is set for major transformation in the country.

♦ A pipeline will be built to transfer Iraqi oil through Iranian soil.

The Iraqi ambassador to Tehran said that political reforms that have the support of the Iraqi people are underway in his country.

♦ IS terrorists have mounted an attack on Turkey-Syria border, killing 52 people.

The suicide attack that targeted a Kurdish security center left an additional 70 wounded.

♦ “Iran supports the Iraqi government’s fight against IS,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.

He further said that his recent regional tours have been aimed at consulting with regional leaders and finding a way out of the ongoing crises in the region.

♦ Tehran’s prosecutor has underlined the immediate implementation of verdicts issued by courts in the capital.

He further said that the rulings in 102,000 cases, some dating back to at least four years ago, are waiting to be implemented.

♦ A six-month leave for women who seek to adopt children.

The announcement was made by the deputy director of the Welfare Organization.

♦ A third of urban dwellers in the country live on the edges of cities.

The minister of roads and transportation said that currently there are no proper systems for suburban transportation in place.

Iran ready to work with Germany to resolve Mideast crises

By
Emad Askarieh
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Amir Abdollahian-Germany

Iran is ready to step up its cooperation with Germany to resolve the crises in the Middle East, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian said in Berlin on Wednesday.

Amir Abdollahian, who was meeting with his German counterpart Markus Ederer at the German Foreign Ministry, was joined at the talks by the head of the Iraq department at the Iranian Foreign Ministry and Iran’s Ambassador to Germany Ali Majedi.

He pointed to Berlin’s positive approach in settling regional crises and stressed that both countries have common viewpoints when it comes to a realistic political solution to the crises in the Middle East.

Abdollahian further said it could be the basis for boosting bilateral consultations which in turn could result in an effective and constructive cooperation.

He also outlined Tehran’s views on regional crises, especially in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

The Iranian diplomat expressed concern over attempts by certain regional players who are using terror groups for their own political objectives.

Meanwhile, the German deputy foreign minister who was accompanied in his talks with Abdollahian by Political Director of the German Foreign Ministry Sabine Sparwasser and Regional Director for the Middle East and Maghreb, Miguel Berger, expressed concern over the ongoing crises in Syria and Yemen and the growing terrorist activities in those countries.

Ederer said the Iranian nuclear agreement actually paved the way for cooperation between Germany and Iran in stabilizing and pacifying the Mideast.

He underscored the importance of continuing and intensifying bilateral cooperation geared at resolving regional crises.

Earlier in the day, Abdollahian held talks with top German Chancellery officials focusing on the latest developments in the Middle East.

Abdollahian is scheduled to depart Germany on Thursday for political meetings in Switzerland.

Iran parliament elects members of JCPOA Committee

By
Golrokh Askarieh
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Parliament-Iranian

The Iranian parliament has appointed 15 lawmakers as members of an ad hoc committee tasked with reviewing the recent agreement reached between Tehran and P5+1 over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

An open session of the chamber on Wednesday elected, in an in-house vote, 15 of the 24 lawmakers who had volunteered to be members of the committee.

Among members of the committee are First Vice-Speaker Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard, Hossein Naghavi Hosseini and Esmail Kowsari, both members of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, as well as Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.

The decision to form the committee was made after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attended a session of parliament one week after the conclusion of the agreement to hand over a copy of the agreement and brief the lawmakers on it.

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The election of the members of the ad hoc committee comes as there are arguments about institution should ratify the agreement. Both parliament and the Supreme National Security Council are considered to be entitled to having the final word on the agreement.

Kazemi Mansion in Tehran (PHOTOS)

By
Fatemeh Askarieh
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Kazemi Mansion0

Kazemi Mansion is a historical house in the vicinity of a holy site in an old neighborhood in southern Tehran.

The century-old building is 2,033 square meters in area and was owned by Mirza Seyyed Kazem, who became a civil servant under Mohammad Shah Qajar. Later during Naser al-Din Shah Qajar’s reign, he was put in charge of the Royal Stable.

As part of an anthropology project, Tehran Municipality has put on display in the mansion a number of models and dolls which represent the jobs and traditions of the people who lived in Tehran 150 years ago.

Snapshots of the mansion released by tpaa.ir:

Had it not been for General Soleimani, Iraq would have failed

By
Golrokh Askarieh
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Hakim01

The head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) has said that Iraq would not have been able to stand up to terrorist groups if Iranian forces, led by [Commander of IRGC’s Quds Force] Major General Ghasem Soleimani, had not helped the country.

Ammar al-Hakim made the remark in an interview with AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA) on August 18 and added that Iran’s assistance has contributed a lot to the improvement of conditions in his country. The following is the translation of what else the visiting Iraqi cleric and politician said in the interview:

Terrorism in Iraq

Over the past ten years, Iraq has been targeted by different terrorist groups such as the one led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who was succeeded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi after his death.

During the transition of power in the terrorist entity, only the Shiites made losses because they were branded [by the terrorists] as Rafida [a derogatory term used by Salafis to refer to Shiite Muslims].

Any new terrorist group which emerged in Iraq tried to act more violently than its predecessors. The state of affairs in Iraq and the threat of terrorism – which haunted the country – did not improve even with the American boots on the ground. The US forces failed to turn the tide in Iraq.

Following the departure of US forces from Iraq and the formation of a nascent Iraqi Army, Alqaeda terrorists found the conditions ripe to enter Iraq. The weakness of certain Iraqi politicians was to blame for this.

Alqaeda used divisive measures as a tool. The terror group paved the way for its infiltration into Iraqi soil by creating a gap between Sunnis and the Iraqi government and spreading rumors that the government overlooked the problems of the Sunni-dominated areas.

How is it possible for 300 ISIL terrorists to force as many as 90,000 fighters to abandon the city and leave behind their military hardware? To develop a better understanding of the situation on the ground then, I should say that the predominantly Sunni cities were in the hands of ISIL at nights and were run by the government during the day, but it did not take long before the city of Mosul fell.

We have to wait for the result of investigations into what really happened [in Mosul]. What is good about such investigations is that they will reveal our weak points, both militarily and politically.

Things got worse by the day in Iraq in the wake of penetration of terror groups, but the tables were turned after Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Al-Sistani [a Shiite source of emulation] released a fatwa and the country’s Popular Mobilization Forces – directly backed by Iran – fought with great bravery [against the terrorists].

The [US-led] international anti-ISIL coalition has not fared well. The question here is: how is it possible for 64 countries participating in this coalition with all their military hardware to fail to counter a small terrorist group such as ISIL? Given the formation of groups like the Taliban and Alqaeda, the presence of ISIL has always been the trump card for these countries in the region, so how can they possibly dispense with their own trump card?

ISIL, building on these countries’ support, sells oil in global markets. Is it possible to do so without someone’s support? This coalition is expected to act against terrorism the way we want, not their own way.

Undoubtedly, Iran was the first country to support us in trying times. The religious fatwa and assistance by Iran’s forces led by Ghasem Soleimani greatly helped improve the Iraqi situation. Everybody knows that Iraq would have been unable to resist if General Soleimani and his colleagues had not offered consultation to us.

 

Soleimani

Yemen

As the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran has put it, nations are the [ultimate] winners. People in Yemen can help their country get out of this tough situation. A diplomatic solution is needed in Yemen. If Saudi Arabia is seeking to help Yemen, it should do so by treating the Yemenis humanely, not killing people there.

Iran’s capital relocation plan rejected

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Tehran-Capital

The Ministry of Roads and Urban Development (MRUD) has announced that a plan to move the capital from Tehran has been rejected.

After releasing a 239-page report, the ministry said that a meeting chaired by the first vice-president has unanimously dismissed the transfer of the country’s political capital, citing the results of a research conducted by the ministry.

In a report on August 18, Fararu.com quoted news.mrud.ir as saying that for years the question of moving the capital was a talking point for media, officials and members of the general public. The following is the translation of the report:

One year after the end of the Sacred Defense [the Iraqi-imposed war] (1988), a number of Tehran residents began to complain about the lack of urban services in the city and the inattention of the capital’s managers to its development. Eventually, those complaints turned an urban question – which needed the attention of mid-level management – into an issue of macro-managerial proportion. As a result, the then government held multiple sessions bringing together officials and experts at the Council on Supervision of Tehran’s Development and raised the question of moving the capital.

Since then, the question of the transfer of the capital has been repeatedly put forward. A number of MPs of the ninth parliament introduced a motion on the relocation of the capital in the Councils and Internal Affairs Committee and when the committee adopted the motion, they put it forth on parliament floor [for debate].

For some reasons, the proponents of the motion outnumbered its opponents on the floor. Although the Islamic Consultative Assembly’s Research Center had – years ago – built on compelling evidence to prove that such relocation is not to the benefit of the country, the supporters of the new capital insisted on their own motion.

Afterward, the Iranian parliament approved new legislation on the formation of a committee comprising representatives from different cultural, political, military, economic, developmental, social and security bodies which gavethe government a few months to carry out feasibility studies into the movement of the capital.

The 239-page report – which was reviewed in the meeting also attended by a host of MPs, Cabinet ministers, Tehran’s governor general, the head of Tehran’s City Council as well as senior experts from the University of Tehran – was handed over to the top Iranian officials.

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