World No.12 ranked Iran beat world No.1 Brazil 3-1 (25-22, 25-19, 23-25, 28’26) in its FIVB World League match on Friday.
Iran will play US on Friday night at the Nelson Mandela Hall in Florence, Italy.
“In the days that the hapless people in Gaza have come under the most brutal Israeli attacks, Iran volleyball team gained a good result and we dedicate that (victory) to the family of Gaza’s martyrs as well as family of Iran’s martyrs,” Davarzani told Iran’s Volleyball website.
The Iranian men’s national volleyball team overpowered Brazil 3-1 (25-21, 25-19, 23-25 and 28-26) in Florence, Italy, this afternoon.
Iran had lost its first match against the Russians 3-2 on Wednesday, gaining 1 point and giving 2 to the 2013 world champions.
Brazil won Russia 3-1 on Thursday and reserved a place in the semifinals with 3 points.
Iran now stands atop Group 1 with 4 points, Brazil are the second with 3 and Russia are placed third and last with 1 point.
Now Iran and Brazil from Finals Group 1 along with Italy and USA from Finals Group 2 will prepare for the FIVB Men’s Volleball World League semifinals in Italy tomorrow.
The final round of the FIVB Men’s Volleyball World League group matches was held from July 16 to 20 in Florence, Italy, and Iran’s national volleyball team had been pooled in Group 1 with Russia and Brazil. Italy, USA and Australia were in Group 2.
Iran should now prepare for their semifinal match against the USA and Brazil should play against Italy who stood atop Group 2 after beating Austrialia and the USA.
To advance to this last episode of the 2014 World League, Iran played 12 games in the preliminary round of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) 2014 World League against Brazil, Italy and Poland, winning six games and losing as many. The Iranian volleyball athletes began their performance in the preliminary round on May 30 with a game versus Italy in that country’s Christie City, and played their last preliminary round game on July 5, in Poland’s Gdansk, gaining 19 points all together and standing second only to Italy who had gathered the same points, but had a better sets ratio.
Italy who host the finals and stood first in the preliminary round, Iran who stood second in preliminary Pool A, and Brazil who stood third in Pool A as well as USA, the Pool B winners, Russia who stood second in preliminary round in Pool B and Australia who championed in a series of matches among the winners of other pools were the six nations present in this year’s World League Finals in Florence.
Australia qualified for this round after it fought against Belgium (Pool C winners), France (Pool D winners), the Netherlands (Pool E winners) in Sydney from July 12 to 13 and collected more points than others.
Now after the end of this round in Italy, winners of each group will play with the second team of the other group (19 July), and the winners of these matches will fight for the title of volleyball world league champion (20 July). Iran will play against USA tomorrow and if they win, they will wait to see the winner of the Italy-Brazil match in the final on Sunday.
Experts have expressed deep surprise after Iran powerfully qualified for this round. In their previous performance in the FIVB World League in 2013 – Iran’s first ever presence – under their former Head Coach Julio Velasco, they gained the 9th place, registering an effective and historical presence in the world volleyball competitions.
At the end of the preliminary round earlier this month, Iranian volleyball athlete Mohammad Moussavi Araqi was selected as the best defender of the FIVB 2014 Men’s Volleyball premier league with 96 points.
The Russian and Italian volleyballers stood second and third, respectively.
The Iranian national team is comprised of Saeed Ma’roof, Mohammad Moussavi Araqi, Farhad Ghaemi, Adel Gholami, Mojtaba Mirza Jaanpour, Farhad Zarif, Mehdi Mahdavi, Amir Ghafour, Armin Tashakori, Milad Ebadi Pour, Pourya Fayyazi, Reza Ghara, Abdolreza Alizadeh and Saeed Mostafavand.
Iran’s head coach, Slobodan Kovac, started training sessions to get his men prepared for the final round of the World League after inviting three new players to the team last week.
Saeed Mostafavand, Alireza Mobasheri and Abdolreza Alizadeh were called last Wednesday to help Iran in the finals.
The Iranian national team flew to Italy on Monday morning. Iran’s coach, Hossein Ma’dani, is not accompanying Kovac because of medical problems.
Brazil (9), Italy (8), Russia (3), Cuba, the Netherlands, Poland and USA (all 1) are the seven countries who have won the World League during its previous 24 editions. Serbia and France join as the only countries to have medaled in the past.
The tomb was awarded with certificate of excellence for the site’s unique architecture and the perfect behavior of its staff, said the director of Fars Province Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization, Mosayyeb Amiri.
The agency also expressed its positive view on the historical tomb for the great facilities offered to its visitors.
While the view released after conducting a survey from visitors who are members of TripAdvisor, the website has recently named Hafez Tomb one of the world’s top historical sites, Amiri added.
Hafez tomb (Hafezieh) is one of the most popular attractions of Iranian southern city of Shiraz that is situated in a garden on the banks of Rukn-Abad river.
Built in 1773, the mausoleum acquired its present form in 1935 and designed by the French architect and archaeologist André Godard.
Hafez (1315-1390) is best known for his melodious sonnets and for intertwining a taste of Persian culture into his poetry.
Hafez has greatly influenced Persian and Western writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Goethe.
His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry (Divan) was first translated into English in 1771 by William Jones.
His poetry has also inspired many artists and musicians and his verses are recited during national occasions such as the Persian new year (Nowruz).
‘Passed Times of the Elderly’ illustrates the lives of trees generation of a rural family who describe the past events from their own views. One of the main characters of the novel is Abdous, A MAN who has had to work from childhood as the breadwinner of his family and the harsh realities he has faced has turned him into a hard-boiled man.
Dowlatabadi who has an international reputation, is a master of combining rural speech with the lyrical feature of Persian poetry. He is particularly gifted in portraying the social and moral difficulties of the poor specially in rustic areas where he has himself lived.
His key works such as ‘Kelidar’; ‘The Colonel’ and ‘Missing Soluch’ were translated into Norwegian, German, English, Italian and have been released in the West.
The exports, which involved 3.079 million tons of products, show a 10 percent rise from a year ago, Bushehr customs chief officer Ahmad Pour-Heydar said.
The products were mainly exported to the United Arab Emirates, India, China and Qatar, he said.
The Commodities included petrochemicals, chemicals, fishes, agricultural produce and cement.
During the same period, Pour-Heydar said, more than 412,000 tons of commodities worth 2.179 billion dollars were imported through Bushehr, showing 282 percent rise in value compared with the preceding year.
The imported products – cement, vehicles, audiovisual kits, banana and rice – mainly came from South Korea, UAE, China and India.
According to the poll conducted by The University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and the Program for Public Consultation, 61 percent of the American people believe Washington should seek to cooperate with Iran in Iraq, according to Press TV.
The Takfiri militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been wreaking havoc in Iraq since June 10 when they took control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, which was followed by the fall of Tikrit, the birthplace of former Baathist dictator Saddam Hussein.
Iraqi armed forces have been pushing back the ISIL terrorist militants, who enjoy support from loyalists of Iraq’s former Baathist regime. Media reports said on Tuesday that the Iraqi army regained full control of Tikrit during a major offensive against the terrorist militants.
Last month, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the Obama administration is “open to discussions” with Iran and does “not rule out” military cooperation with the Islamic Republic to help the Iraqi government beat back ISIL militants.
However, Iran said the Iraqi army is capable of dealing with the crisis itself and Tehran sees no need to negotiate with Washington on the issue.
Several reports, observers, and even some US officials like Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) have said that the US has been behind the rise of ISIL.
Last month, Paul said the US has been arming the ISIL militants in Syria. “I think we have to understand first how we got here,” Paul said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union.’ “We have been arming ISIS in Syria.”
In a phone interview with Press TV on June 30, Wayne Madsen, an American investigative journalist, said that CIA director John Brennan who is “a known Saudiphile” has been instrumental in training and arming these militants in Iraq and Syria.
The little-known stockpile is officially known as War Reserve Stockpile Ammunition-Israel (WRSA-I) and has been maintained inside Occupied Territories since the 1990s by United States European Command. It is a congressionally approved program that has grown in scope in recent years.
The location of the stockpile as well as the types and quantities of ammunition it stores are classified. However, a Congressional Research Service report from April says “the United States stores missiles, armored vehicles and artillery ammunition” in the stockpile.
A U.S. defense official says “this program consists of U.S. owned and U.S. managed ammunition stockpiles in Israel for use by either U.S. or Israeli forces”. Though the weapons in the stockpile belong to the United States they are essentially for the Zionist regime’s use when they ask for it should they run low on certain stocks of ammunition in emergency situations.
The official said the occupying regime of Israel has not requested to use ammunition stored in this stockpile as it did during the 2006 war with Hezbollah.
The size and scope of the arsenal has grown since it was first established in the 1990s. It initially held $100 million worth of ammunition, but by 2010 Congress had authorized $800 million worth of ammunition to be stored there. The defense official says the amount of ammunition in the stockpile is now worth about $1 billion.
The Zionist regime’s access to the American ammunition can be done fairly quickly once there is presidential approval.
“If the president authorizes release to Israel, an “emergency” Foreign Military Sales case is processed by the DoD (Department of Defense) and the ammunition is sold to Israel,” said the official.
Use of the stockpile in case of an emergency “is defined and authorized by the president”, said the official. The transfer of the munitions to Israeli control “can take place in a matter of hours of a presidential authorization”.
The Congressional Research Service Report says “the government of Israel pays for approximately 90% of transportation, storage and maintenance costs associated with the WRSA-I program”.
Iran strongly condemned the killing of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, urging an immediate end to the Zionist airstrikes and the years-long blockade on the coastal enclave.
“I have made my views clear on other occasions; the President (Hassan Rouhani) has made his views very clear. It is incumbent upon the international community to stop the Israeli aggression against the defenseless people of Gaza, to stop the siege on Gaza, to stop this humanitarian nightmare that has been prevailing in Gaza for the last many years,” Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif said at a press conference in Vienna.
He added that the UN Security Council and other forces within the international community must put all the pressure that can be brought to stop the siege of a population under “inhuman” conditions and to end Israel’s atrocities.
“That is our position, and we will continue to insist on it,” the Iranian foreign minister said.
He emphasized that every Iranian has his heart go out for the people in the Gaza Strip, particularly for children, women and elderly who are being massacred.
“We support ending Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza and ending the siege which has tried to, in fact, strangulate a whole population,” Zarif pointed out.
Mohammad Karimi and Ezzatollah Najafi were researchers of the project.
Sulfonamides are fed to chickens to increase growth but its excessive use in chicken feed may lead to gastrointestinal problems, backache, headache, vertigo, diarrhea, anorexia, nausea and jaundice.
Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles were synthesized by a molecularly imprinted polymer for easy extraction and determination of sulfonamides in the samples of chicken meat.
The magnetic nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction pattern, thermal analysis and scanning of electron micrograph.
The template was removed by methanol elution. Sulfonamide separation was performed by liquid chromatography–UV.
Results of the study indicated that the nanoabsorbent is useful in quick determination of sulfonamides in chicken meat.
Sulfonamides (sulfa drugs) are derived from sulfanilamide, a sulfur-containing chemical.
“The United States is by far the biggest loser of all sanctions enforcing nations. From 1995 [when the US imposed trade embargo on Iran] to 2012, the US sacrificed between USD 134.7 and USD 175.3 billion in potential export revenue to Iran,” the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) concluded in a report.
During the same period, the report said, the United States lost 51,000 to 280,000 jobs a year due to the sanctions slapped on Iran.
Texas and California are likely the biggest losers in terms of lost employment, due to their size as well as the attractiveness of their industries to Iran’s economy.
The US sanctions also cost the European economies billions of dollars in losses through the 2010-2012 period.
In Europe, Germany was hit the hardest, losing between USD 23.1 and USD 73.0 billion between 2010 and 2012, with Italy and France following at USD 13.6-USD 42.8 billion and USD 10.9-USD 34.2 billion respectively.
The think-tank recommended that the US government consider lifting sanctions against Iran as nuclear negotiations are under way between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the Unites States, Britain, France, Russia and China – plus Germany.
“Decision-makers must… ask themselves if the cost of sanctions to the US economy is worth shouldering if other options do exist,” it said.
At the beginning of 2012, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on Iran’s oil and financial sectors with the goal of preventing other countries from purchasing Iranian oil and conducting transactions with the Central Bank of Iran.
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