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A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25

Iranian Newspapers Headlines
Iranian Newspapers Headlines

Comments by the government spokesman that fuel prices won’t increase next year dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday. Also on the cover of dailies were the remarks of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on issues such as talks with P5+1 and Iran’s continued support for Iraq in the fight against IS terrorists.

 

Abrar: “We have no plans to walk away from the negotiating table,” said the Iranian FM after talks with his US counterpart in Geneva.

His comments came as the US State Department spokeswoman said some progress has been made in nuclear talks.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Arman-e Emrooz: “Energy prices won’t go up for now,” said government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Ebtekar: “Handing out cash subsidies was wrong in the first place,” said the first vice-president.

Ebtekar: “We have a tough year ahead in meeting the water and electricity needs of citizens,” said the energy minister.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Etemad: “We have a good record in dealing with corruption cases,” said Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani.

Etemad: A meeting between Iran’s Abbas Araghchi and the IAEA chief has set in motion closer cooperation between Tehran and the UN nuclear watchdog.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Ettela’at: “Steps have been taken forward in nuclear talks,” Zarif said.

The Iranian top diplomat further said that he and his team are in quest of a solution that fully recognizes the rights of the Iranian nation.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Hemayat: “Some 90 percent of cases cyber police deal with have to do with fraud,” said Police Chief Brigadier General Ahmadi Moghaddam.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Jamejam: Persepolis had a stellar performance in their Asian Champions League opener, beating a Qatari team 3-0 at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Jomhouri Islami: Nine tankers carrying gas extracted from South Pars gas field have set out for global markets.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Kar va Kargar: “We will continue to help Iraq crack down on IS,” said the Iranian foreign minister at a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart.

Kar va Kargar: Women’s wrestling has been officially launched in Iran.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Kayhan: Water crisis management commissions have been ordered set up.

Kayhan: “In case the ministry of culture does not deal with Etemad Daily, the culture minister will be dealt with,” warned the chairman of parliament’s Cultural Committee.

[The MP has alleged that the reformist-leaning daily has insulted the second Shiite Imam]

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Khorasan: Under a parliamentary decision cash subsidies will remain unchanged next year.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Mardomsalari: “Parliament seems to lack resolve to settle the problem of dust storm [gripping the southwest],” said the deputy director of the Environment Protection Organization.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Resalat: “The case involving Mehdi Hashemi [a son of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani] includes 12 charges,” said a deputy judiciary chief.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Rooyesh-e Mellat: “Today is not the time to air grievances against Rouhani, we need to help him,” said Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25


 

Shahrvand: “Government faces more than $5 billion in deficit to pay out cash subsidies,” said the first vice-president.

Shahrvand: “The Judiciary is looking into up to 15 million legal cases,” said Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Larijani.

 

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 25

 

Iranian researchers convert injecting chemo drugs to edible forms

Nano

Iranian researchers at Tehran University of Medical Sciences have developed a drug carrying system, capable of converting injecting chemo drugs to edible form.

Shahrouz Saremi, the lead author of the research, said studies were made to produce mucoadhesive nano-particles using chitosan polymer for transferring edible anti-cancer drugs.

He said the study is focusing on designing a system which converts injecting drugs to edible forms so that patients could undergo chemotherapy through edible medicines without having to visit medical centers.

The researchers produced the edible drug using thiolated chitosan and polymethyl methacrylate polymers.

He said the drug combinations are kept within the nano-particles and are absorbed by body gradually.

The Iranian researcher said the method also increases the level of drug absorption. The nano-system can be used for carrying drug in chemotherapy. The studies were conducted on Docetaxel chemo drug.

US media try to keep Ayatollah Khamenei’s message under wraps: Flounders

Sara Flounders

Sara Flounders, a senior member of the International Action Center, says that American media which are run by figures with militaristic mentality seek to hide the content of the valuable message of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to the youth in Europe and North America from the Americans, in particular the youth.

What comes next is the translation of an interview with Sara Flounders the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) posted on its website on February 24:

The American author and anti-war activist described the letter of the Leader as immensely important and told IRNA that she had read the message which was released at a perfect time.

Flounders is a senior member of the International Action Center founded by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Flounders, who is in Lebanon to take part in a gathering dubbed international justice for Palestine, said that in the letter the Leader has appealed to the youth to conduct in-depth studies about Islam and its teachings, so that they could secure an insight into the objectives of the enemies of Islam who seek to paint an unrealistic image of this great religion.

She stressed that the enemies of Islam seek to set the stage for continued aggressions against Islamic countries.

A dream success story you don’t wanna miss

Abbas Barzegar in the village of Bazm in Fars Province
Abbas Barzegar in the village of Bazm in Fars Province

It all started when Abbas Barzegar, a villager in southern Iran, bumped into two foreign tourists and their interpreter who had lost their way. The hospitable rural man invited the trio over to his humble abode, served them local food, and put them up for the night.

According to a February 23 issue of SMT daily, that is how the village of Bazm in Fars Province made a name for itself as a foreign tourist mecca. The following is a partial translation of the newspaper report:

On a rainy night two German tourists are invited to the humble house of Abbas Barzegar, a resident of Bazm, a small village near Bavanat in Fars Province, and are served local food.

When Barzegar finds one of the two German tourists pretty down, he inquires about the reason behind his sadness. Through the interpreter the young German tells his host that the following day is his birthday and he is unhappy about being unable to be with friends and family back home to celebrate his birthday.

When the children of the young villager learn about the German tourist’s birthday, they hastily arrange a party to celebrate the occasion. The German guy, who is elated by the arrangement, films the impromptu party and takes it back home.

In Germany the young man’s mother who is a journalist publishes a report on what has happened to her son in Iran. And that marks the start of Barzegar Tourist Village, which allows visitors to experience Iranian rural life during their stay.

The owner of the hotel says he is expanding business, preparing as many as 15,000 tents to accommodate foreign tourists.

In its tourism guide, UNESCO has described the nomadic tour as one of the most exciting tourism experiences in Iran.

Presently, Barzegar charges tourists, who are mostly from Spain, Portugal and Poland, 700 euros [!] a night for their stay in the tent village he runs.

Experts say if the quality of services offered in this unique complex is improved, its revenues can top those of five-star hotels in the Middle East and across the world.

Barzegar says he is now training locals on how to host foreign tourists and that some 100 youngsters have learned English already to be able to communicate with visitors. These future tour guides of sorts are supposed to help foreign tourists experience firsthand what rural people do, including taking trips to nearby mountainsides to pick medicinal herbs and attending nomadic functions.

The owner of the tourist hotel which is booked solid through early 2017 says honesty holds the key to his success. He says he doesn’t do anything that might dent the trust that has been established between him and the guests.

 

Imports, contraband inflicting damage on Iran’s economy: Leader

Supreme Leader Ayatallah Khamenehi
Supreme Leader Ayatallah Khamenehi

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei warned of the detrimental effects of imported and smuggled goods on Iran’s economy, stressing the need for measures to make the homegrown products a priority.

Back on January 26, Ayatollah Khamenei had a meeting with a group of officials tasked with commemorating the National Engineering Day, which falls on February 24.

The comments in that meeting, which were made public on Monday, indicate the Supreme Leader’s great concern for the country’s economy and the negative effects of uncontrolled imports on it.

“Today, the pressure of imports is crippling the country, and there are very peculiar figures for the inflow of contraband to the country,” the Leader had announced.

Imam Khamenei, however, had made it clear that allowing huge imports is no way a logical justification for the fight against commodity smuggling and for earning profit through customs.

The Leader had also called for measures to prevent the imported goods from undermining the indigenous products manufactured by the talented, skillful and genius local youth.

In February 2014, Ayatollah Khamenei in a proclamation outlined a series of general policies to boost the country’s economy and lower its vulnerabilities.

In a speech in March 2014, the Leader described resistance-based economy as a dynamic and long-term strategy that can help Iran realize its economic objectives.

“Resistance economy is not just for the present circumstances; rather it is a long-term solution for the country’s economy and for achieving the lofty economic goals of the Islamic establishment,” Ayatollah Khamenei said at the time.

Iran, Japan sign MoU on health cooperation

Minister of Health Dr. Hassan Hashemi and Japan's Minister of Health Yasuhisa Shiozaki
Minister of Health Dr. Hassan Hashemi and Japan's Minister of Health Yasuhisa Shiozaki

Iran and Japan have agreed to expand their cooperation on healthcare, and medical issues.

Minister of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education Dr. Hassan Hashemi, who is on an official visit to Japan, signed an MoU with Japan’s Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare Yasuhisa Shiozaki on Monday on expansion of bilateral cooperation in health field.

According to the MoU, the two countries will cooperate in areas such as treatment, education, health, medicines, and research.

Holding scientific seminars and closer cooperation between medical schools of the two countries were also emphasized by the two ministers.

At the invitation of the government of Japan and heading a delegation, Dr. Hashemi arrived in Tokyo on Sunday.

He met with his Japanese counterpart on Monday and visited Medical Research Center (MRC) in Tokyo.

In his visit to the MRC, Dr. Hashemi suggested that the two countries cooperate on vaccine production which was welcomed by the Japanese side.

On Tuesday, the Iranian minister will give a speech in a meeting of Iran-Japan Commerce Chamber and meet the Chairman of Japan External Trade Organization Hiroyuki Ishige and President of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Dr. Hashemi leaves Tokyo for Tehran on Wednesday.

Some progress made on some nuclear issues: Zarif

Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that there is a long way ahead before clinching the final deal but the two sides made progress in certain areas of the negotiations.

Speaking to reporters after his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry, he said that the two sides had very serious, useful and constructive talks.

The two sides made headway in some issues but there is still a long way ahead before clinching the final deal, he said.

He said that the negotiations will proceed until a final deal to be struck.

Representatives of Iran and P5+1 agreed to proceed with talks next Monday.

Zarif thanked the active and useful presence of Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi in the meeting.

Kerman police seize 512 Kg of narcotics in surprise operation

Narcotics Seized by Police in Iran

The commander of Kerman Police Force said on Monday that provincial police launched a surprise operation in which 512 kilograms of narcotics was seized and a drug trafficker was arrested.

‘Officers of Rayen District of Kerman Police Headquarters carried out an operation upon a tip-off about the transfer of a large haul of narcotics from Jiroft to Kerman,’ said Brigadier-General Abdolali Ravanbakhsh.

He said that the police officers set up checkpoints along the probable routes, and undercover agents kept an eye on the desert areas in the region until Sunday night.

He said that the police officers ordered a suspected van’s driver to stop, he did not heed and fled the scene, but to no avail. The police eventually caught and arrested him.

Brigadier-General Ravanbakhsh said that 52 bags of opium, weighing 512 kilograms were seized.

He said that the seized narcotics and the arrested trafficker were handed over to judiciary officials.

Israel knows Iran nuclear program is peaceful, leaked Mossad report shows

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel has been aware that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful and does not include “the activity necessary to produce weapons,” shows a leaked Mossad report, dated shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Tehran of having “plans to build a nuclear weapon”  at his 2012 UN speech.

According to a secret cable, released Monday by Al Jazeera television network, the Israeli spy agency sent a top-secret cable to South Africa’s State Security Agency (SSA) in October 2012 which presented a “bottom line” assessment of Iran’s nuclear work.

In the report, Mossad concluded that Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons.”

The document, which is in stark contrast with Israel’s anti-Iran rhetoric, was sent a few weeks after the Israeli premier’s September 2012 address at the UN General Assembly in which he claimed that Iran had covered 70 percent of the way to build a nuclear weapon.

“By next spring (2013), at most by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move[d] on to the final stage. From there, it’s only a few months, possibly a few weeks before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb,” Netanyahu alleged at the time.

Last week, Netanyahu’s office repeated the claim in a statement that “Iran is closer than ever today to obtaining enriched material for a nuclear bomb.”

However, the leaked report said Iran “does not appear to be ready” to enrich uranium to the higher levels necessary for nuclear weapons.

The Mossad report was published ahead of Netanyahu’s planned address to the US Congress on March 3, a move strongly rejected by the Obama administration amid the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

A similar CIA report, leaked on February 20, disclosed that Washington tried to mislead the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about Iran’s nuclear program through the provision of doctored evidence.

The Mossad and CIA’s leaked information appears to attest Iran’s argument that it is pursuing non-military goals in its nuclear program.

In addition, the IAEA has also conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Iran’s civilian nuclear program has been diverted to nuclear weapons production.

Iran and the West have been engaged in negotiations in an effort to ink a high-profile deal over the matter as Tel Aviv continues attempts to block any agreement. The fact that Israel has been aware of the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities raises doubts over the credibility of Netanyahu’s Congress speech, planned against the backdrop of a row between dominant US parties.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24

Iranian Newspapers Headlines
Iranian Newspapers Headlines

The comments of Ayatollah Khamenei at a meeting with members of a commission charged with organizing National Engineering Day ceremonies dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday. At the meeting the leader urged local engineers and experts to demonstrate “Yes we can” in action. Also in the headlines was the conclusion of four days of nuclear talks between Iran and the US in Geneva, Switzerland.


Abrar: A representative of the EU has joined Zarif and Kerry for nuclear talks in Geneva.

It came as the Chinese top negotiator said a next round of talks will be held by the end of the month.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Aftab-e Yazd: Nuclear talks made progress

At the close of four days of sensitive, intense and serious talks between Iran and the US, the two sides reiterated that there had been some progress and that the talks would be picked up next week.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Arman-e Emrooz: Adel Ferdowsipour has been summoned to court

The summons was issued after the coach of Esteghlal Football Club filed a complaint against the host of 90, a very popular sports talk show.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Ebtekar: Revelation of a big lie

President Hassan Rouhani has criticized those who are trying to suggest that Iran is hiding something in its enrichment program.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Etemad: Serious, useful and constructive, with a little progress

Four days of intense nuclear talks [between Iran and the US] at the highest level came to an end.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Ettela’at: Feasibility studies to move the political and administrative capital

President Rouhani called for such studies in a message to a gathering on decentralization.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Ghanoon: They have smiling looks on their faces; deep down they are worried, though.

The caption of a photo of a smiling Zarif and Kerry said. The same story quoted President Rouhani as criticizing Russia for its failure to honor its promises during nuclear talks.

Ghanoon: It seems Ahmadinejad has no intention of letting go of this country.

A new round of provincial and foreign visits of the former president has gotten underway.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Hemayat: “Failure to reform the banking system will result in more corruption cases,” warned Attorney General Seyyed Ebrahim Raeesi.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Kaenat: “Tehran is the safest capital,” said Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam.

His comment came as Tehran Mayor Ghailbaf said switching the administrative and political capital is impossible.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Kayhan: “Paying lip service to resistance-based economy won’t solve anything,” said the Supreme Leader.

In a meeting with members of a commission charged with organizing National Engineering Day ceremonies, Ayatollah Khamenei also said the country is reeling under the pressure of [excessive] imports.

Kayhan: “Whenever we feel our national interests are not served, we will walk away from the negotiating table,” said an Iranian nuclear negotiator.

The warning by Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi came in response to threats by the US secretary of state that the US might walk away from the talks.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Mardomsalari: A hundred MPs have expressed concern about the denial of legitimate freedoms for critics of the government!

The representatives made their concern known in an open letter to President Rouhani.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Resalat: “We want to build a few nuclear power plants,” said Ayatollah Rafsanjani.

The chairman of the Expediency Council also said that building power plants is within Iran’s rights.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Rooyesh-e Mellat: Another attempt by the Russians not to pay compensations to Iran over their failure to deliver a promised missile system

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


Shahrvand: More than 100 robbers have been arrested in a police operation.

Interpol has now become part of an investigation into cases involving robbery and mugging.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24


SMT: “Non-oil exports have registered a 25 percent increase,” said President Rouhani.

His comment came at a National Engineering Day conference during which it was also said that Iran’s foreign trade has hit the $94 billion mark.

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Feb. 24