#Abbas Ghasemi

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Just 3 HUGE ROIDED muscle bros pumping up at the gym and feeding off of each others' TESTOSTERONE AND ROIDED MUSCLES DAY AND NIGHT! *Drools*

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hey guys! ^_^ would you happen to have any fc recs for iranian women with period resources? (that aren't medalion rahimi and shohreh aghdashloo since im already using them) any age is fine, since im looking to cast a character in their late 20's-early 30s as well as that character's mother. if you can't find anyone, that's okay! i'll also take arab women with period resources too and make adjustments to the characters. thank you so so much for all the help! 🖤

Soraya Ghasemi (1940) Iranian - Gildokht.

Azita Hajian (1958) Iranian - Najla.

Roya Teymourian (1959) Iranian - Jeyran.

Fatemah Motamed-Aria (1961) Iranian - Abba Jaan.

Fariba Kowsari (1966) Iranian - Mokhtarnameh.

Nasrin Moghanloo (1968) Iranian - Mokhtarnameh.

Parivash Nazarieh (1970) Iranian - Gildokht.

Merila Zare'i (1971) Iranian - Jeyran.

Shabnam Moghadami (1972) Iranian - Women's Secret Network, Abba Jaan.

Shaghayegh Farahani (1972) Iranian - Gildokht.

Leila Hatami (1972) Iranian - Women's Secret Network.

Shaghayegh Dehghan (1979) Iranian - Women's Secret Network.

Sareh Bayat (1979) Iranian - Muhammad: The Messenger of God.

Nazanin Boniadi (1980) Iranian - The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Mina Sadati (1981) Iranian - Walnut Tree, Muhammad: The Messenger of God.

Behnoosh Tabatabaei (1981) Iranian - Mokhtarnameh.

Zar Amir Ebrahimi (1981) Iranian - Tomorrow We Are Free.

Nasim Pedrad (1981) Iranian - Aladdin.

Rana Azadivar (1983) Iranian - Jeyran, Muhammad: The Messenger of God.

Samira Hassanpour (1984) Iranian - Jeyran.

Mona Farjad (1984) Iranian - Women's Secret Network.

Baran Kosari (1985) Iranian - Women's Secret Network.

Setareh Pesyani (1986) Iranian - Jeyran.

Elham Nami (1986) Iranian - Jeyran.

Parinaz Izadyar (1985) Iranian - Jeyran.

Minoo Sharifi (1987) Iranian - Walnut Tree.

Mitra Rafee (1990) Iranian - Gildokht.

Nahal Dashti (1992) Iranian - Jeyran.

Fatemeh Masoudifar (1996) Iranian - Jeyran.

Hey anon! There's everyone I managed to find regardless of age for those also looking for Iranian suggestions too. 💜

[grazynasiedlecka]

Burnt Generation. Iranian photography

Editors of the special issue Karol Liver (photo editor), Grażyna Siedlecka (research and text)

PRISM Contemporary Photography Journal, special edition 03: October 2014, ISSN 2009-4558, Dublin

"Burnt Generation" – this is the name given to the show that ran between 10th of April and 1st of June in Somerset House in London.  This is also the name of the generation of Iranians encompassing those born between 1963 and 1980. In Iran they are known as Nasl-e-Sokhte. Before the 1979 Iraq-Iran war, which was also known as the First Persian Gulf War, their parents mostly belonged to the major part of the society of this time – the middle class. Children have been taught the beautiful principles: the value of high education, hard work and morality. Following them, they were supposed to earn a glorious future in welfare and peace. Nobody could predict the revolution, which brought with it death and darkness.

Included artists: Babak Kazemi, Abbas Kowsari, Newsha Tavakolian,  Rana Javadi, Bahman Jalali, Sadegh Tirafkan, Shadi Ghadirian,  Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Nadjian and Ramyar Manouchehrzadeh, Gohar Dashti, Morvavid K.

Read the whole material: https://issuu.com/prism_photomagazine/docs/prism_se03

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fcs for the starks?

thanks for the question anon! the starks are a little tough to match and only a few of them have period resources, but we were still able to round up a good amount fc options:

for the dowager stark queen: hiam abbas, emmanuelle chriqui, nebahat çehre, meltem cumbul, annie parisse, and vahide perçin. 

for the stark princes: gregg chillin, marwan kenzari, arsalan ghasemi, aria shahghasemi, alexander koch, and elyes gabel.

for stark princesses: saadat aksoy, natacha karam, nadia aboulhosn, sofia boutella, aiysha hart, and fahriye evcen.

i hope this helped! please feel free to drop us another question if you need to!

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ZAV Architects creates colourful domed cultural retreat on Iranian island of Hormuz

Iranian practice ZAV Architects drew on the colourful landscape of the island of Hormuz for this holiday community that is housed in around 200 brightly coloured domes overlooking the Persian Gulf.

Described by ZAV Architects as a "cultural residence", the group of buildings is located around five miles from the main town on the Iranian island of Hormuz.

The domed accommodation was designed to encourage tourists to visit the island while being an alternative to standard high-rise holiday apartments.

ZAV Architects designed the colourful holiday accommodation on Hormuz

"Presence in Hormuz intends to bring visitors to the forgotten island of Hormuz in order to increase the national and local GDP (gross domestic product) with the help of architecture," explained the studio.

"Often the answer of architecture to designing accommodation by the seaside is a tall elevated structure that overlooks the surrounding landscape," it continued.

"This project scales down a larger development into a multitude of smaller spatial units, forming a field of colonies that interlace in a fluid fabric similar to that of a neighbourhood."

Around 200 brightly coloured domes contain holiday homes and facilities

In total, the development contains 15 holiday homes that occupy multiple interconnected domes of varying sizes. These structures stand alongside other interconnected-domed buildings that contain restaurants, cafes, souvenir shops, tourist information and reception areas.

ZAV Architects arranged the domes closely together to create a sense of community and give the development a distinctive outline that was drawn from the island's natural forms.

The domes were informed by the islands geography and colours

"The domes have several types and sizes in their arches, which combined create a skyline matching that of the island of Hormuz which was studied thoroughly in our work," said the studio.

"As the project is located in an open area a few kilometres away from the city, its spatial compartments, domes of different colours and sizes, create a skyline topography that matches itself to the colourful landscapes of the island."

Interconnected domes contain holiday residences

All of the domes in development have been painted in bright shades of red, yellow, blue and green to give the community a colourful exterior.

This bold use of colour continues inside the structures, where the interior walls are painted in matching shades and furniture is coloured red, yellow, blue and green to match.

The residences have colourful interiors

"You cannot remove colour from the island of Hormuz – its coloured sand beaches change even the colour of the blue sea, nor of its people, for whom colour is an important mean of expression be it in their clothing, the interior of their houses, or even their food," said the studio.

"The colours surrounding us in Hormuz gave us the courage to be bold like the island."

Furniture is also brightly coloured

Each of the domes was constructed using a low-tech method with a structure made of stacked sandbags, which were filled with soil and sand dredged from Hormuz dock. The sandbags forms were supported with steel and finished with cement.

According to the studio, construction method meant that the buildings could be largely completed by people in the local community.

Furniture is coloured yellow, red, blue and green

"It is built with low-tech construction methods which makes possible the contribution of unskilled workers possible, they all became trained masters and operators after work was due and continue to collaborate in projects inside and outside the island," said the studio.

"There are upcoming programs in a community and learning centre where people can improve their hospitality skills as well."

Larger domes contain facilities like restaurants

ZAV Architects hopes that the project will contribute to increasing tourism and supporting the local community on the island.

"Architecture is a medium for creating and spreading a sensibility that reconsiders the conventional ways of seeing the status quo, in order to move towards change and improvement," said the studio.

The multicoloured domes overlook the sea

"Architecture is a platform for changing the world and its mission is to spark innovation," it continued.

To do so it needs to design processes rather than objects because processes can take a project to places one cannot predict or imagine at the beginning of the work. So we constantly seek to bring architecture out of its comfort zone."

The accommodation has views across the Persian Gulf

ZAV Architects is a Tehran-based architecture studio.

It previously designed The Rong Cultural Centre on the island of Hormuz, which was named Cultural project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019.

Photography is by Tahmineh Monzavi, Soroush Majidi and Payman Barkhordari.

Project credits:

Owner: Ali Rezvani Client: Ehsan Rasoulof Structural design: Behrang Baniadam, Rouhi Touski Civil engineering: Farhad Beigi Electrical engineering: Pejman Moradian Mechanical engineering: Saeid Afsharian Culinary manufacturer: Matbakh Ara Environment consultant: Salman Rasouli, Roya Yazdizadeh Accommodation consultant: Nasim Mosavar Project constructor: Amir Tehrani Nobahari Construction manager: Hormat Ghasemi Construction vice-manager: Ramin Koulaghani, Amin Timas Mechanical constructor: Javad Irandegani, Hamid Haji Posht-e-Gol Floor constructor: Davoud Etemadi Fenestration builder: Mehra Company Interior plaster: Gholamali Abbasi Exterior plaster: Esmaeil Salimi Construction painter: Farzad Moharami Logistics: Nabiollah Timas, Borhan Pouyan, Ali Ghanbari, Ayoub Owj Hormozi, Khalil Owj Hormozi, Abdolhamid Hormozi, Davoud Hormozi, Ali Ghalandari Zehi, Farhad Shadan, Assad Gedri, Abbas Gedri, Ali Ghazi, Majid Bazmandeh, Ali Nasernia, Rahmat Ghalandari, Davoud Mohtaji, Morteza Mohtaji, Mohammad Vahedi, Mosayeb Zarei, Kambiz Naroui, Yasser Naroui, Nassir Narouii, Din Mohammad Naroui, Mojtaba Farhadi, Abbas Nasaji, Esfandiar Khorshidi, Khoubyar Khorshidi, Jalal Bameri, Ghassem Bameri, Enayat Karami, Reza Amirian, Eshgh Ali, Nabi Akrami, Mohammad Moallemi, Sajad Gholampour, Seyfollah Rasouli, Ali Golzari, Soheil Khedmatkari, Hosein Zohouri

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Identificação dos corpos de cinco aeronaves ucranianas mortas

De acordo com a agência de notícias, rádio e televisão , Abbas mesquita na conferência de imprensa disse que 800 amostras dos corpos no local do incidente tomadas e submetidas ao legista foi que desde o primeiro dia do acidente, de acordo com padrões científicos e os testes mais recentes, identificar o nosso . Ele disse que do total de 9 passageiros iranianos até agora, suas famílias vieram e os amostraram. "O segundo passo é identificar os corpos de passageiros não iranianos no voo porque eles precisam nos enviar amostras genéticas", disse Masjedi.Os nomes de 50 pessoas, incluindo 49 iraniana e um ucraniano são como anunciado: 1 - Kiana Ghasemi 2 - Pegah Safarpur 3 - Daniel Ghandchi 4 - Avin Arsalani 5 - Krdya Molaei 6 - Hiva Molaei 7 - mais filosófica 8 - F. filosófico 9 - Dorsa Ghandchi 10 - Maya beleza 11 - Shahrzad Hashemi 12 - MM Elyasi 13 - Mahmoud Attar, 14 - H Ahmadi 15 - Mohsen Ahmadi 16 - Sakineh Ahmadi 17 - Pune georgiano 18 - M. Naguib Lahooti 19 - Parsa Hasannejad 20 - mola Haj Esfandiari 21 - Mirmohammadi Mehdi Sadeghi; - Anissa Sadeghi; - Hamidreza Javadi Asl; - Kian Javadi Asl; - Novo Pedram 26 - lírio Razzaghi Khamsi 27 - A. Ibn al-Hamidi 28 - Kamyar Ibn al-Hamidi 29 - Arad Zarei 30 - Amir Moradi 31 - E. Nabaei 32 - Rahima escriba 33 - Olga Kvbyvk 34 - Samira Shobeiri 35 - Mohammad Amin Beirute 36 - Z Naghibi 37 - MJ mediador 38 - Ali Jewel 39 - Mehdi tadjique 40 - Mehdi Rezaei 41 - fé Qabaly 42 - Siavash Ghafuri Azar 43 - Mohammad competente 44 - dia Rahman artigo 45 - A. Kaveh 46 - D Dadashzadeh 47 - Sara momento 48 - Raja prometendo 1 - Siavash Maghsoudlou 2 - Darya Maghsoudlou Diretor Geral de Direito Médico da Província de Teerã:Entrega de 5 corpos identificados pelo avião ucraniano Hoje, o Diretor Geral de Medicina Forense da Província de Teerã disse: Depois de entrar em contato com as famílias do falecido, hoje o processo de entrega dos 7 corpos identificados começará e as famílias do falecido serão contatadas após o contato. Na entrevista coletiva, Mohammad Forouzz acrescentou: "O avião matou 4 pessoas, incluindo dois passageiros iranianos e três não-iranianos". Ele disse que de um total de 4 passageiros não iranianos, 2 eram tripulantes ucranianos, dois eram ucranianos, 2 eram afegãos, 2 eram suecos e dois eram canadenses. Forouzeh acrescentou: "Desde o início, o trabalho começou a identificar os números coletados no local e de um total de cinco passageiros iranianos. Até agora, cinco famílias enviaram suas amostras e outras cinco residem no exterior quando chegam. São países. "Identificamos cinco corpos na primeira etapa, três dos quais pertencem a viajantes iranianos e um a Olga Kubiuk, de origem ucraniana, que começará a ser expedida hoje", disse a diretora de Medicina Forense de Teerã. Ele continuou: "Estamos tentando entregar o restante dos corpos nos próximos dias após a correspondência das amostras e recebemos um caso de 6 cidadãos ucranianos para viajantes não iranianos e outros estão enviando amostras pela Interpol". Forooz disse: "Realizamos o trabalho de identificação com base nas mais recentes tecnologias do mundo através dos kits de Allen e a probabilidade de erro é próxima de zero. Em resposta a uma pergunta sobre se a qualidade dos cadáveres coletados é diferente de outros eventos de queda de avião? "Não há diferença entre o acidente e outros acidentes de avião em termos da extensão do

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The Well _a Play from Iran_ at ITFoK 2019 The Well, a play in one act, will be performed by an Iranian troupe at the International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK) 2019, this January. The Well, written by Alireza Tavana and directed by Abbas Abolhasani, was first performed in the city of Babol, Iran, last year. But this January it is going on stage in English, in the city of Thrissur, India. “The Well” is a play in one act. It starts with Khalil and Maryam (an Iranian couple) sitting in a small backyard in the middle of nowhere. They begin reviewing their lives and past experiences. Surprisingly we soon learn that they are both dead, and the yard where they are in and their talks are all but imaginary. It is through their rumination of the past that we learn Khalil and Maryam were/are two passionate lovers who found each other and fell in love with each other through arts and theater. Passionate lovers Khalil & Maryam are, but their lives were not all sweet & smooth. Mr. Abolhasani initially took The Well to the stage in the city of Babol in Mazandaran in both Persian and English at the same time last year. He used the same cast to perform in both languages. They would first perform the English version, and then later in the very day, they would perform in Persian. To the best of our knowledge, this has never been done in the province of Mazandaran or the country as a whole. The translation from Persian to English was done by Sina Ghasemi (Sinarium). Both versions of the play were published in a single volume as the play was premiered in Babol. The Well is officially selected to participate at the International Theatre Festival Kerala (ITFoK 2019). It is the 11th edition of this festival, and 13 groups from 6 different countries are selected to participate. Besides Abolhasani Art Group, there is one more theatre group from Iran participating at ITFOK, but The Well is the only show from the province Mazandaran to attend this festival. Abolhasani Art Group is going to take the English version of the play to the city of Thrissur in the state of Kerala of India on January 19. The group going to perform 3 times on the 20th, 21st, and 22nd of January. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsuJyecFgbP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=td2m2of611kt

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Le 70e Festival de Cannes - La sélection

Pour sa 70e édition, le festival de Cannes présidé cette année par Pedro Almodovar sera sous le signe de la qualité avec des grands réalisateurs habitués (Haneke, Hazanavicius, Desplechin, Kawase) avec qu’un bon cru indépendant. Pour la première fois, Netflix aura deux films en compétition officielle, le nouveau Noah Baumbach et Bong Joon-Ho et la réalité virtuelle sera présente avec un évènement signé Innaritu.

Cannes 2017 marquera l’événement chez les séries avec l’avant-première mondiale de Twin Peaks (deux premiers épisodes) et la saison 2 de Top of the Lake de Jane Campion.

Film d’ouverture

Les Fantômes d'Ismaël de Arnaud Desplechin

Compétition

Aus Dem Nichts (In the Fade) de Fatih Akin The Meyerowitz Stories de Noah Baumbach Okia de Joon-Ho Bong The Beguiled de Sofia Coppola Rodin de Jacques Doillon Happy End de Michael Haneke Wonderstruck de Todd Haynes Le Redoutable de Michel Hazanavicius Geu-Hu (The Day After) de Sangsoo Hong Hikari (Radiance) de Naomi Kawase The Killing Of A Sacred Deer de Yorgos Lanthimos A Gentle Creature de Sergei Loznitsa Jupiter's Moon de Kornel Mandruczo L'Amant Double de François Ozon You Were Never Neally Here de Lynne Ramsay Good Time de Benny Safdie / Josh Safdie Nelyubov (Loveless) de Andrey Zvyagintsev

Hors Compétition

Mugen Non Jünin (Blade of the immortal )de Takashi Miike How To Talk To Girls At Parties de James Cameron Mitchell Visages, villages de Agnès Varda et JR

Les séances de minuit

Prayer Before Dawn de Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire Bulhandang (The Merciless) de Sung-Hyun Byun Ak-Nyeo (The Villainess) de Byung-Gil Jung

Séances spéciales

An Inconvenient Sequel de Bonnie Chen et Jon Shenk 12 Jours de Raymond Depardon They de Anahita Ghazvinizadeh Keul-le-eo-ui Ka-me-la (Clair's camera) de Sangsoo Hong Promised Land de Eugène Jarecki Napalmde Clau de Lanzmann Demons In Paradise de Jude Ratman Sea Sorrow de Vanessa Redgrave

Compétition court métrages

Katto (Ceiling) de Teppo Airaksinen Pépé le morse de Lucrèce Andreae A Drowning Man de Madhi Fleifel Lunch Time de Alireza Ghasemi Across My Land de Fiona Godivier Koniec Widzenia (Time to go) de Grzegorz Molda Xiao Cheng Er Yue (A Gentle night) de Yang Qiu Damiana de Andés Ramirez Pulido Push It de Julia Thelin

Un Certain Regard

Film d’ouverture : Barbara by Mathieu Amalric

La Novia del desierto (The Desert bride) de Cecilia Atan et Valeria Pivato Tesnota (Closeness) de Kantemir Balagov Aala Kaf Ifrit (Beauty and the dogs) de Kaouther Ben Hania L'Atelier de Laurent Cantet Fortunata (Lucky) de Sergio Castellitto La Hijas de Abril (April's daughter) de Michel Franco Western de Valeska Grisebach Posoki (Directions) de Stephan Komandarev Out de Gyorgy Kristof Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha (Before we vanish) de Kiyoshi Jurosawa En attendant les hirondelles de Karim Moussaoui Lerd (Dregs) de Mohammad Rasoulof Jeune femme de Léonor Serraille Wind River de Taylor Sheridan Après la guerre de Annarita Zambrano

Réalité Virtuelle

Carne y arena de Alejandro G. Iñarritu

Evènements du 70e anniversaire

Top of the lake : China girl de Jane Campion et Ariel Kleiman 24 Frames de Abbas Kiarostami Twin Peaks de David Lynch Come Swim de Kristen Stewart

Le festival de Cannes 2017 se déroulera du 17 au 28 mai. 

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Bones breaking underneath strain: Iranians on laborious hitting sanctions imposed by US

http://tinyurl.com/yxvvz9vy Because the US piles sanction after sanction on Iran, it is the common one that feels it essentially the most. From a subway performer’s battered leather-based hat devoid of ideas, to a bride-to-be’s empty purse, the dearth of money from the financial strain dealing with Iran’s 80 million individuals may be seen all over the place. Many blame President Donald Trump and his maximalist coverage on Iran, which has seen him pull out of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear cope with world powers and levy punishing US sanctions on the nation. Individuals store on the previous most important bazaar in Tehran, Iran, on June 23, 2019. (Picture: AP) In current weeks, Iran has threatened to interrupt out of the deal except European powers mitigate what it calls Trump’s “financial warfare.” Iran additionally appeared able to push again towards the buildup of US forces within the area, after capturing down an American drone it says violated its airspace final week. In response, US officers have introduced but extra stringent sanctions. However alongside Trump, many Iranians blame their very own authorities, which has careened from one financial catastrophe to a different since its Islamic Revolution 40 years in the past. “The financial conflict is a actuality and persons are underneath excessive strain,” mentioned Shiva Keshavarz, a 22-year-old accountant quickly to be married. She mentioned authorities leaders “preserve telling us to be robust and endure the pressures, however we will already hear the sound of our bones breaking.” A carpet vendor sits at his store within the previous most important bazaar in Tehran, Iran, on June 23, 2019. (Picture: AP) Strolling by any cash change store is a dramatic reminder of the hardships most individuals are dealing with. On the time of the nuclear deal, Iran’s forex traded at 32,000 rials to $1. Right this moment, the numbers listed in change store home windows have skyrocketed – it prices over 130,000 rials for one US greenback. Inflation is over 37%, in line with authorities statistics. Greater than three million individuals, or 12% of working-age residents, are unemployed. That charge doubles for educated youth. Depreciation and inflation make every part dearer – from vegetables and fruit to tires and oil, all the way in which to the big-ticket objects, like cell phones. A easy mobile phone is about two months’ wage for the common authorities employee, whereas a single iPhone prices a 10 months’ wage. “When importing cell phones into the nation is blocked, sellers need to smuggle them in with black market greenback charges and promote them for costly costs,” mentioned Pouria Hassani, a cell phone salesman in Tehran. “You possibly can’t anticipate us to purchase costly and promote low cost to clients. We do not wish to make a loss both.” Depreciation and inflation makes every part dearer, from vegetables and fruit to tires and oil all the way in which to the big-ticket objects, like cell phones. (Picture: AP) Hossein Rostami, a 33-year-old bike taxi driver and deliveryman, mentioned the value of brake pads alone had jumped fivefold. “The reason for our issues is the officers’ incompetence,” he advised The Related Press as fellow bike drivers known as out for passengers in Tehran. “Our nation is stuffed with wealth and riches.” The riches half is true – Iran is residence to the world’s fourth-largest confirmed reserve of crude oil and holds the world’s second-largest confirmed reserve of pure fuel, after Russia. However underneath Trump’s maximum-pressure marketing campaign, the US has lower off Iran’s means to promote crude on the worldwide market, and threatened to sanction any nation that purchases it. Oil covers a 3rd of the $80 billion a yr the federal government spends in Iran, which means {that a} fall in oil revenues cuts into its social welfare applications, in addition to its navy expenditures. The remainder of the nation’s finances comes from taxes and non-oil exports, amongst them oil-based petrochemical merchandise that present as much as 50% of Iran’s $45 billion in non-oil export. A younger employee takes a break on his cart on the previous most important bazaar in Tehran, Iran. (Picture: AP) In Tehran’s Laleh park, retired faculty instructor Zahra Ghasemi criticized the federal government for blaming “each downside” on US sanctions. She says she has hassle paying for her fundamental livelihood. The worth of a bottle of milk has doubled, together with that of greens and fruit. “We’re dying underneath these pressures and an absence of options from officers,” Ghasemi mentioned. Years of in style frustration with failed financial insurance policies triggered protests in late 2017, which early the next yr spiraled into anti-government demonstrations throughout dozens of cities and cities. The present issues take root in Iran’s faltering efforts to denationalise its state-planned financial system after the devastating conflict with Iraq within the 1980s, which noticed 1 million individuals killed. However Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh mentioned earlier this month that the crunch on oil exports is hitting more durable at this time than throughout the 1980s conflict, when Saddam Hussein’s forces focused Iran’s oil commerce. “Our scenario is worse than throughout the conflict,” Zanganeh mentioned. “We didn’t have such an export downside when Saddam was concentrating on our industrial items. Now, we can not export oil labeled Iran.” Nonetheless, many Iranians pin the financial disaster on corruption as a lot as the rest. “Our downside is the embezzlers and thieves within the authorities,” mentioned Nasrollah Pazouki, who has bought garments in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar since earlier than the 1979 Islamic Revolution. “When individuals come to energy, as a substitute of working sincerely and severely for the individuals, we hear and skim after a number of months in newspapers that they’ve stolen billions and fled.” He added: “Whose cash is that? It is the individuals’s cash.” Sanctions do trigger a few of the issues, mentioned Jafar Mousavi, who runs a dry-goods retailer in Tehran. However most of the woes are self-inflicted from rampant graft, he mentioned. “The financial conflict isn’t from outdoors of our borders however inside the nation,” Mousavi mentioned. “If there was integrity amongst our authorities, producers and other people, we may have overcome the pressures.” But individuals come and go every day to work on Tehran’s crowded metro, seemingly incomes much less every day for a similar work. In a single practice automobile, Abbas Feayouji and his son Rahmat play mournful-sounding conventional love songs often known as “Sultan-e Ghalbha,” or “King of Hearts” in Farsi. “Individuals pay lower than earlier than,” mentioned the elder Feayouji, a 47-year-old father of three, as he took a brief break to talk to the AP. “I do not know why they do, but it surely exhibits individuals have much less cash than earlier than.” !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '605311446619075'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); fbq('track', 'ViewContent'); Source link

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Iranians Say Their 'Bones Breaking' Under US Sanctions

Published June 24, 2019 | AAWSAT | Posted June 24, 2019 |

As the US piles sanction after sanction on Iran, it's the average person who feels it the most. 

From a subway performer's battered leather hat devoid of tips, to a bride-to-be's empty purse, the lack of cash from the economic pressure facing Iran's 80 million people can be seen everywhere. 

Many blame President Donald Trump and his maximalist policy on Iran, which has seen him pull out of Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and levy punishing US sanctions on the country. 

In recent weeks, Iran has threatened to break out of the deal unless European powers mitigate what it calls Trump's "economic warfare." Iran also appeared ready to push back against the buildup of US forces in the region, after shooting down an American drone it says violated its airspace last week. 

In response, US officials have vowed to pile on more sanctions. 

But alongside Trump, many Iranians blame their own government, which has careened from one economic disaster to another since its Islamic Revolution 40 years ago. 

"The economic war is a reality and people are under extreme pressure," said Shiva Keshavarz, a 22-year-old accountant soon to be married. 

She said government leaders "keep telling us to be strong and endure the pressures, but we can already hear the sound of our bones breaking." 

Walking by any money exchange shop is a dramatic reminder of the hardships most people are facing. At the time of the nuclear deal, Iran's currency traded at 32,000 rials to $1. Today, the numbers listed in exchange shop windows have skyrocketed - it costs over 130,000 rials for one US dollar. 

Inflation is over 37%, according to government statistics. More than 3 million people, or 12% of working-age citizens, are unemployed. That rate doubles for educated youth. 

Depreciation and inflation make everything more expensive - from fruits and vegetables to tires and oil, all the way to the big-ticket items, like mobile phones. A simple cell phone is about two months' salary for the average government worker, while a single iPhone costs a 10 months' salary. 

"When importing mobile phones into the country is blocked, dealers have to smuggle them in with black market dollar rates and sell them for expensive prices," said Pouria Hassani, a mobile phone salesman in Tehran. "You can't expect us to buy expensive and sell cheap to customers. We don't want to make a loss either." 

Hossein Rostami, a 33-year-old motorbike taxi driver and deliveryman, said the price of brake pads alone had jumped fivefold. 

"The cause of our problems is the officials' incompetence," he told The Associated Press as fellow motorbike drivers called out for passengers in Tehran. "Our country is full of wealth and riches." 

The riches part is true - Iran is home to the world's fourth-largest proven reserve of crude oil and holds the world's second-largest proven reserve of natural gas, after Russia. 

But under Trump's maximum-pressure campaign, the US has cut off Iran's ability to sell crude on the global market, and threatened to sanction any nation that purchases it. Oil covers a third of the $80 billion a year the government spends in Iran, meaning that a fall in oil revenues cuts into its social welfare programs, as well as its military expenditures. 

The rest of the country's budget comes from taxes and non-oil exports, among them oil-based petrochemical products that provide up to 50% of Iran's $45 billion in non-oil export. 

In Tehran's Laleh park, retired school teacher Zahra Ghasemi criticized the government for blaming "every problem" on US sanctions. 

She says she has trouble paying for her basic livelihood. The price of a bottle of milk has doubled, along with that of vegetables and fruit. 

"We are dying under these pressures and a lack of solutions from officials," Ghasemi said. 

Years of popular frustration with failed economic policies triggered protests in late 2017, which early the following year spiraled into anti-government demonstrations across dozens of cities and towns. 

The current problems take root in Iran's faltering efforts to privatize its state-planned economy after the devastating war with Iraq in the 1980s, which saw 1 million people killed. 

But Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said earlier this month that the crunch on oil exports hitting harder today than during the 1980s war, when Saddam Hussein's forces targeted Iran's oil trade. 

"Our situation is worse than during the war," Zanganeh said. "We did not have such an export problem when Saddam was targeting our industrial units. Now, we cannot export oil labeled Iran." 

Still, many Iranians pin the economic crisis on corruption as much as anything else. 

"Our problem is the embezzlers and thieves in the government," said Nasrollah Pazouki, who has sold clothes in Tehran's Grand Bazaar since before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. "When people come to power, instead of working sincerely and seriously for the people, we hear and read after a few months in newspapers that they have stolen billions and fled." 

He added: "Whose money is that? It's the people's money." 

Sanctions do cause some of the problems, said Jafar Mousavi, who runs a dry-goods store in Tehran. But many of the woes are self-inflicted from rampant graft, he said. 

"The economic war is not from outside of our borders but within the country," Mousavi said. "If there was integrity among our government, producers, and people, we could have overcome the pressures." 

Yet people come and go each day to work on Tehran's crowded metro, seemingly earning less each day for the same work. In one train car, Abbas Feayouji and his son Rahmat play mournful-sounding traditional love songs known as "Sultan-e Ghalbha," or "King of Hearts" in Farsi. 

"People pay less than before," said the elder Feayouji, a 47-year-old father of three, as he took a short break to speak to the AP. "I don't know why they do, but it shows people have less money than before." 

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TEHRAN: Iran said Monday that the Afghan Taliban have visited Tehran for a second round of peace talks in just a few days aimed at bringing an end to 17 years of conflict.

Iran has made a more concerted and open push for peace in neighbouring Afghanistan since US President Donald Trump indicated there would be a significant withdrawal of American troops.

“Yesterday (Sunday), a delegation of Taliban were in Tehran and lengthy negotiations were held with Iran’s deputy foreign minister… (Abbas) Araghchi,” said spokesman Bahram Ghasemi at a televised news conference.

That came just days after Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, visited Kabul and told reporters that talks had been held with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

“The Islamic Republic has always been one of the primary pillars of stability in the region and cooperation between the two countries will certainly help in fixing Afghanistan’s security issues of today,” Shamkhani told the conservative Tasnim news agency.

There have been reports in the past of talks between Iran and the Taliban, but they have typically been denied by Tehran.

Ghasemi said Iran’s priority was “to help facilitate negotiations between Afghan groups and the country’s government”.

The current peace push will be viewed with concern by hawks in Washington, who fear that Trump’s planned withdrawal of troops from Syria and Afghanistan will cede regional influence to Iran.

An American official told AFP on December 21 that Trump had decided to pull out “roughly half” of the 14,000 US forces from Afghanistan, but the White House has yet to confirm the widely-publicised move.

Senior Republican senator Lindsey Graham met with Trump on Sunday and urged him to delay any withdrawal from Syria to make sure “Iran doesn’t become the big winner of our leaving”.

Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of US and international forces in Afghanistan, told ABC: “Iran has increased influence across the region now. If you pull American influence out, you’re likely to have greater instability.”

‘Peace development’

The Taliban also met with the United States, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in the United Arab Emirates earlier in December, but refused to meet a delegation from Afghanistan.

Araghchi will travel to Afghanistan in the next two weeks, Iran’s foreign ministry said, without giving further details.

“Considering our long border with Afghanistan and the cultural and historical ties, and our important role in the region’s stability, the Islamic republic was interested… to enter and play a more important role in peace development in Afghanistan,” Ghasemi added.

Iran and Afghanistan share a nearly 600-mile border, and have had a complex relationship in recent years.

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Iran warns world to prepare for US nuke deal withdrawal Tehran says Washington will face 'appropriate and heavy response' if Trump administration walks away from 2015 accord

(via Iran warns world to prepare for US nuke deal withdrawal | The Times of Israel)

Tehran (AFP) - Iran warned the world on Monday to prepare for the possible withdrawal of the United States from the landmark nuclear deal agreed in 2015. "The international community must be prepared for the US possibly pulling out of the JCPOA," said deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, using the technical name for the nuclear deal. Iran signed the accord in 2015 with six world powers, agreeing to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of many international sanctions. US President Donald Trump openly despises the deal -- a central foreign policy achievement of his predecessor Barack Obama -- but has so far continued to waive the nuclear-related sanctions at regular intervals as required to stay in compliance. The next deadline for Trump to waive sanctions falls on Friday. "It's been more than a year that the US president has sought to destroy the JCPOA with all his efforts," said Aragchi, speaking at the Tehran Security Conference. The next deadline for Trump to waive sanctions falls on Friday. "It's been more than a year that the US president has sought to destroy the JCPOA with all his efforts," said Aragchi, speaking at the Tehran Security Conference. "We in Iran are prepared for any scenario. The international community and our region will be the biggest loser, since a successful experience in the international arena will be lost," he added. "Our region will not become a safer region without the JCPOA." A withdrawal by the US will lead to an "appropriate and heavy response," added foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi. "The US administration will definitely regret it," he said on state television. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to travel for talks with the European parties to the deal -- Britain, France, Germany and the EU -- at the end of the week. Zarif denied reports that the talks would focus on the recent protests in Iran that claimed 21 lives, saying such claims were "baseless and unfounded". "Given the importance of JCPOA these days, and in particular considering the US destructive policies, based on talks we've had, we agreed to have a consultative meeting between Iran and the three European Union members," said Zarif, according to state broadcaster IRIB.

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Effect of application of Nitrogen and Potassium fertilizers on some vegetative and reproductive traits in Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) - IJAAR

Effect of application of Nitrogen and Potassium fertilizers on some vegetative and reproductive traits in Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) – IJAAR

Shiva Ghasemi, Khadijeh Abbaszadeh, Mostafa Ghasemi, Morteza Salari, Fatemeh Zarei

Department of Horticulture, Hormozgan University, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Key words: Roselle, Nitrogen, Potassium, Vegetative, Reproductive.

Abstract

A pot experiment was carried out to examine the effect of application of nitrogen and potassium fertilizers on some vegetative and reproductive traits in Roselle (Hibiscus…

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Evaluation of some quantitative and qualitative characteristics of 5 cultivars of tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum) grown in Hormozgan Province – IJAAR

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Shiva Ghasemi, Mostafa Ghasemi, Khadijeh Abbaszadeh, Morteza Salari Department of Horticulture, Hormozgan University, Bandar Abbas, Iran Key words: Tomato, Cultivars, Qualitative, Quantitative, Hormozgan, Iran. Abstract The goal of this investigation was to evaluate some qualitative and quantitative traits in fruits of five tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum) cultivars. These traits were vitamin C content, pH, total soluble…