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\u00bb<\/span> Iranian Government Confesses its Weakness<\/span><\/strong> \u00bb<\/span> Iran\u2019s Banking System Crisis<\/span><\/strong> \u00bb<\/span> Conservative Reformism<\/span><\/strong> \u00bb<\/span> Will Rate of Interests in Banks Increase?<\/span><\/strong> \u2666 <\/span>Lawmaker: Iran not benefiting from construction in Iraq<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Rouhani: We will not tolerate insults against police<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Lawmaker: Interior Minister must resign<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Narges Mohammadi: Judiciary system dominated by security-military entities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Jahangiri: $30 billion contracts signed with foreign parties<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Iran-China joint meeting to develop economic and trade relationship<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>4.6 earthquake hit near West Azerbaijan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Latest on espionage case in cover of environmental activities in Iran<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Ghassemi: Sweden ambassador summoned to foreign ministry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Students Basij ready to confront \u201cstreet miscreants\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>IRGC drones in search of crashed airplane<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Deaths of environmental activists in plane crash<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Molavi Abdulhamid warns against dividing Sistan and Baluchistan Province<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Ahmad Montazeri: Ahmad Khomeini was after becoming leader<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Omid Fraction to follow up death of Seyyed Emami<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Lawmaker: Unknown future of second biggest lake in Iran<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Rahim Safavi: Syria, Iraq to become place for U.S.-Russia geo-strategic competitions<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>UN calls for immediate stop of executing juveniles in Iran<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Health Minister: 24% of Iranians suffer from mental disorders<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Tehran welcomes bolstering relations with New Delhi<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2666 <\/span>Protests in Munich against Zarif\u2019s presence in Germany<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00bb Iranian Government Confesses its Weakness This editorial addresses contradictory words of Iran\u2019s Vice President Mohammad Bagher Nobakht regarding the government\u2019s incapability in dealing with corruption. The editorialist starts by saying that following the unrests in Mashhad which were triggered by the bankruptcy of financial institutions, the government announced it had paid the 11-thousand-billion-toman debt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2284,42,1296,865,452,895,318,1967,844,464,2032,12,351,355,667,430,102,361,2427,2382,314,1034,2428,956,73,2426,38,44,2425,98,83,28,624,59,1924,39],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-in-a-week","tag-2284","tag-agcis","tag-arabian-gulf-center-for-iranian-studies","tag-assassination","tag-baluchistan","tag-cia","tag-constitution","tag-drones","tag-earthquake","tag-germany","tag-ghassemi","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-irgc","tag-jahangiri","tag-jcpoa","tag-khomeini","tag-media","tag-molana-abdulhamid","tag-molavi-abdulhamid","tag-montazeri","tag-narges-mohammadi","tag-new-delhi","tag-omid","tag-press","tag-rahim-safavi","tag-rouhani","tag-russia","tag-seyyed-emami","tag-sistan","tag-syria","tag-tehran","tag-u-s","tag-un","tag-west-azerbaijan","tag-zarif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis editorial addresses contradictory words of Iran\u2019s Vice President Mohammad Bagher Nobakht regarding the government\u2019s incapability in dealing with corruption.
\nThe editorialist starts by saying that following the unrests in Mashhad which were triggered by the bankruptcy of financial institutions, the government announced it had paid the 11-thousand-billion-toman debt of those financial institutions from Bayt al-Mal (the state\u2019s treasury).
\nWhile Iran is severely suffering from lack of capital, its government has paid such amount of money on behalf of some individuals whose names Nobakht refused to reveal. Instead, he asked media to find them out, fearfully adding, \u201ceach of them was related to an institution or a branch.\u201d Yet he immediately contradicted his own words by saying he did not mean governmental institutions or those of the establishment.
\nThe editorialist holds that Nobakht\u2019s contradictory words are a testament to the government\u2019s weakness. According to Vice President, it was due to some individuals\u2019 endorsement which those financial institutions could defraud people. The names of those individuals should be published by the very government, which paid 11 thousand billion tomans out of people\u2019s treasury, not by the media. How come Iran\u2019s Central Bank, intelligence ministry, and economy ministry do not know the names of these debtors? How come the principlist media have remained suspiciously silent about the identity of those institutions\u2019 owners?
\nAt the end, the editorialist infers that such individuals get away scot-free as the government does not have the guts to announce their names.
\nAn Editorial in Ghanoon daily on February 21, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nThis editorial deals with financial crises of banks in Iran.
\nAccording to the latest statistics of Iran\u2019s Central Bank, the net debt of banking system to the private sector and people amounted to 500 thousand billion tomans in December. This amount equals 35% of the country\u2019s liquidity. The private banks\u2019 share from the net debt of banking system to people and private sector is 4 thousand trillion rials.
\nThe editorialist then compares the current net debt of banking system to that of four years ago to the private sector which was 690 trillion rials \u2013 14% of the country\u2019s liquidity. In the past four years, while Iran\u2019s liquidity has risen three-fold and its economic income has had 50% increase, the net debt of banking system has risen seven-fold.
\nThe editorialist ends his piece with two major questions. The first one is: How can Iran\u2019s banking system clear its debt of 500 thousand billion Tomans to people as well as the private sector? The second question is: Given Iran\u2019s economy, how can banks pay the annual profit of 200 thousand billion Tomans for their customers\u2019 deposits?
\nAn Editorial in Tejarat Online on February 20, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nThe editorial of Jahan Sanat addresses the issue of changes in the discourse of political factions in Iran, particularly that of reformists, after 2009 events.
\nAccording to the editorial, after the 2009 events in which people took to streets in protest to result of the election and the country reached a political deadlock, there were changes in the discourse of political sphere in Iran. One noteworthy change was that \u201cnationalism\u201d became significant, and the other was the growth of political conservatism.
\nThe editorial then goes on to say that the second change was more serious: reformists became too much conservative. The main core of this position is: the negation of the idea of revolution and the concept of \u201chardliners\u201d. In past years, reformists have talked about hardliners more than anything else. But now one can witness a shift in reformists\u2019 jargons, focusing more on denial of monarchists and members of MEK than hardliners.
\nThe editorial adds: reformists do not tolerate any protests against the status quo while calling the critics of the existing situation as \u201cenemies of Iran\u201d. They consider small changes in Rouhani\u2019s government as \u201cbig achievements\u201d. The first logical result of this approach was a loss of, or reduction in, their social acceptability.
\nThe editorial concludes: the reformists are now facing the question of legitimacy and can hardly create another social mobilization in the upcoming election.
\nAn Editorial in Jahan Sanat on February 19, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nThe editorial of Shorou newspaper deals with this question: will Iranian government be able to deal with the sudden rise in prices in the currency market by increasing rate of interests in banks?
\nAccording to the editorial, selling 20% of government bonds announced by the government is a positive sign for Iranian banks to raise the rate of interests, thus attracting more customers to deposit their money in banks. It seems that the government and the Central Bank have both agreed for the interest rate to go up, which doesn\u2019t seem right. The right thing to do is to move towards economic freedom and transparency in the field of economy.
\nThe editorial continues: the reality is the price of foreign currency has grown with considerable speed for different reasons. Of course, the Central Bank and the government do not offer any reasons in this regard, just saying that they have enough foreign currency, and this increase is due to false -and not economic or scientific – reasons.
\nThe editorial urges that the current situation in the currency market must be explained: what has happened that people are so much worried? Are people worried about sanctions? Are they worried about the U.S. threats? Is it because people are worried about recent unrests in the country?
\nThen the editorial offers other reasons for this situation in the currency market. The government has suppressed the rate of foreign currency for a long time, thus not allowing a gradual growth to happen in proportion with the inflation rate. The other issue is that the government massively increases the liquidity. The third reason is lack of credibility of financial and banking system, which means some financial institutions are bankrupted and cannot pay people\u2019s money. And people are accordingly trying to withdraw their money from banks.
\nIn conclusion, the editorial proposes that the government should go towards transparency in the economy and economic freedom, in which there are no rent-seeking or special concessions.
\nAn Editorial in Shorou on February 18, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nMember of National Security Commission in Parliament said, \u201cdue to weak economic diplomacy, we haven\u2019t been able to enjoy benefits of construction in Iraq.\u201d Mojtaba Zolnoor added the government hasn\u2019t created the necessary mechanism for the private sector to enter other countries, urging that the necessary infrastructure must be created for the presence of the private sector in Iraq.
\nYoung Journalists Club<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nPointing out to recent events in Pasdaran Avenue, northern Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, \u201cwe will not tolerate any insults or violent actions against the police.\u201d While expressing his respects for all convictions and ideas and accepting different kinds of thoughts, Rouhani condemned any violent actions by any group. According to interior ministry\u2019s report, recent events and unrests, in which Gonabadi dervishes clashed with law enforcement forces, resulted in deaths of a number of police and Basij forces. Many dervishes have been reportedly arrested.
\nTasnim news<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nMP Nader Ghazipour strongly criticized the performance of interior ministry with regard to events of Pasdaran Avenue, northern Tehran. Pointing out to deaths of police and Basij forces in these events, he said, \u201cit is unfortunate that some people do not express their views about such important issues.\u201d Ghazipour urged that if the interior minister cannot do his job, he must either resign or apologize, adding what has happened is due to the incompetence of interior minister and imprudence of Iranian president.
\nYoung Journalists Club<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nNarges Mohammadi, human rights activist and political prisoner, wrote an open letter to Iran\u2019s Chief Justice Sadegh Larijani, calling his claim as to the independence of judiciary branch \u201ccontrary to reality, deceitful, and ridiculing the justice.\u201d In this letter published on February 21, Narges Mohammadi considered the judiciary branch at hands of security-military entities, writing, \u201cthe influence of interrogators in the most basic rights of the prisoners, such as their vacations, shows lack of independence of the judiciary branch.\u201d According to Narges Mohammadi, \u201cas a result of corruption and lack of financial and ethical health of some judges and judiciary officials, this branch has become a tool in the hands of regime\u2019s entities, instead of securing justice for all citizens.\u201d
\nNarges Mohammadi was sentenced to 16 years of imprisonment in 2016, on the charge of \u201cpropaganda against the regime, assembly, and collusion with intention of actions against national security\u201d.
\nIran International<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nIranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said during past year, Iran has signed more than $30 billion contracts with foreign parties and has a credit line, adding that when Europeans saw that their banks resist working with Iran, they found another way. According to Jahangiri, Italy was the first country to sign a $5 billion contract, Austria signed 5.1 billion euros of contracts, South Korea 8 billion euros, China more than $10 billion, and negotiations are underway for more than $30 billion.
\nWith regards to change in the constitution, Jahangiri said many years after the ratification of the constitution, \u201cwe are facing problems with regard to implementation and the relation between 3 branches\u201d, adding that some of the parliament\u2019s legislation are openly interference in the executive branch\u2019s duties.
\nIran<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nThe meeting was held, headed by Iran\u2019s First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, for studying policies to develop economic and trade relations with China. In this meeting, Jahangiri called China as a significant trade partner for Iran, saying that promoting a level of trade and economic relations with China is one of the main direction of the country. Iran\u2019s First Vice President demanded that Iran\u2019s foreign ministry formulate a long-run, implementable, operative plan for developing the relations on the two countries and create the grounds for increasing economic relations.
\nMehr news<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nA 4.6 earthquake hit the area near West Azerbaijan Province on Monday night. According to Geophysics Center of Tehran University, the quake took place in Iraq and close to Mirabad (West Azerbaijan). Closest cities to the quake are Mirabad, Sardasht, Piranshahr.
\nISNA<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nGholamhossein Esmaili, head of Justice Department in Tehran Province, explained the latest condition of \u201cespionage case in the cover of environmental activities\u201d, urging that currently this case in still being investigated. He added other people\u2019s names have been mentioned in this case, and there will be more arrests if the interrogator of the case decides to.
\nIran\u2019s judiciary system claims that the suspects, in this case, led by CIA and Mossad officers, were after \u201cenvironmental issues, infiltrating Iranian scientific society, and collecting data from sensitive, vital locations including missile bases\u201d. Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi has claimed that \u201cabout 10 years ago, these people, with guidance from two U.S. intelligence officers, founded an institute within the framework of environmental activities and installed a number of cameras to apparently monitor environmental issues, but to actually monitor the country\u2019s missile activities.\u201d
\nA group of Iranian environmental activists has been recently arrested on the charge of \u201cespionage\u201d. Among the detainees was Kavoos Seyyed Emami, who, according to Iranian judiciary officials, took his own life in Evin Prison. Many consider Seyyed Emami\u2019s death as \u201csuspicious\u201d and have demanded further investigations in this regard.
\nMehr news<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nSpokesperson of Iranian foreign ministry announced summoning Swedish ambassador to this ministry. Bahram Ghassemi said following unorthodox measure of the Swedish government in granting citizenship to Ahmad Reza Jalali, Swedish ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry. Ghassemi said in meeting with Swedish ambassador, the strong objection of the government of Iran in this regard was announced.
\nAhmad Reza Jalali, the university professor, is sentenced to death on the charge of \u201cespionage\u201d in Iran. After granting Swedish citizenship to Jalali, Swedish foreign minister announced that as he is a citizen of a European country, he shouldn\u2019t be executed.
\nYoung Journalists Club<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nFollowing the clashes between Gonabadi dervishes and police forces and death of 3 police officers, coordination council of students Basij in Azad universities of Tehran Province sent a message to Iranian chief of police, saying that \u201cif for any reasons, the hands of that force is tied in countering these thugs, Basij forces are ready to deal with them\u201d.
\nIn clashes between Gonabadi dervishes and law enforcement forces, 3 policemen and 2 Basijis have been reported killed. 300 hundred dervishes have been arrested so far.
\nFars news agency<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nFollowing the airplane crash in southern Iran that killed 66 people, IRGC spokesperson said IRGC drones are active in the area of the crash, adding that due to adverse weather conditions, \u201cit is very difficult to find the exact location where the airplane has crashed\u201d. Brigadier-General Ramazan Sharif added search-and-rescue operation still continues, but \u201cno reliable news as to whereabouts of the location of airplane crash has been received so far\u201d.
\nFars news agency<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nHead of Environment Fraction in Parliament said a group of environment and natural resources experts, who in recent days had come to the Parliament to defend activists in this field and their activities, died in the plane crash in central Iran.
\nAsseman Airline passenger plane with 66 people on board crashed during a flight from Tehran to the city of Yasuj. All 66 people were reportedly killed in the crash.
\nRecently, some Iranian environmental activists have been arrested on the charge of \u201cespionage\u201d, and one of these activists, Kavoos Seyyed Emami, is said to have taken his own life while in custody \u2013 a death that is considered as \u201csuspicious\u201d by many.
\nISNA<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nIn a part of his sermon in Friday Mass Prayer for Zahedan\u2019s Sunnis, Molavi Abdulhamid warned against adverse consequences of a possible plan for dividing Sistan and Baluchistan, asking those who are for this division to try to erase discriminations and create jobs.
\nMolavi Abdulhamid, Friday Mass Prayer leader, said two lawmakers from this province insist on dividing Sistan and Baluchistan Province and raise the issue in the Parliament, while the interior minister considered it not to the advantage of the province, and the government is not willing to do it. According to Abdulhamid, the biggest issues in this province are discrimination, unemployment, and not using the potentials.
\nTabnak<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nAhmad Montazeri, son of late Montazeri, said in an interview with Radio Farda that \u201cAhmad Khomeini [son of Khamenei] gave certain information to Khomeini to eliminate Montazeri and become the future leader. But the sudden death of Khomeini disrupted his plan.\u201d
\nLate Montazeri had been appointed as the deputy leader but was later removed from his position by Khomeini.
\nKhabar online<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nMP Bahram Parsaee, member of Omid Fraction in the Parliament, said this fraction has formed a committee to deal with the issue of death of Seyyed Emami, environmental activist and university professor, and arrests of other environmental activists. He said this committee is going to meet with families of those arrested and hold sessions with officials in this regard.
\nRecently some political activists have been arrested on a charge of \u201cespionage\u201d, and Kavoos Seyyed Emami was reported to have committed suicide while in custody; many consider his death as suspicious, calling for investigations in this regard.
\nIn this regard, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi had pointed out to two recent cases of suicide in Evin Prison, emphasizing the necessity of supervising the prisons and detention centers.
\nShahrvand<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nMP Asghar Massoudi warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Iranian Energy Minister about Iran\u2019s second biggest lake. He said: \u201cBakhtegan, Iran\u2019s second biggest lake, is being destroyed due to lack of precipitation, mismanagement of water, watering of upstream dams, and not paying right of water of environment\u201d. He added dust and draught are determined to destroy this land, there is no water, and people who know nothing but husbandry and farming have lost their jobs.
\nMostaghel<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nMajor-General Rahim Safavi, the advisor to commander-in-chief (Ali Khamenei), said Syria and Iraq have been \u2013 and will be \u2013 places for geostrategic competitions between the U.S. and Russia. He added that West Asia is in geopolitical transition, and this region will be the place for competition among great powers including the U.S., Russia, and EU, and in near future, China and India will be present in this region to compete with the U.S. According to Rahim Safavi, the U.S., if possible, intends to divide Syria and Iraq, and to undermine Iran\u2019s influence in these countries.
\nISNA<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nUnited Nations says the number of execution of juvenile delinquents in Iran has considerably increased, calling for its immediate stop. According to UN Human Rights Office, in the first two months of 2018, 3 juveniles have been executed, while this number was 5 for all year of 2017.
\nZeid Raad al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in this regard that no country in the world has this number of juvenile executions. He has issued a statement, saying: \u201cIran must observe all international laws immediately and stop the execution of juveniles who had committed under the age of 18.\u201d
\nAccording to this report, currently, more than 80 people who had committed crimes under the age of 18 are in Iranian prisons with a death sentence.
\nIran International<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nHealth Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi said one of five Iranians experiences mental disorders annually, and according to existing statistics, 24% of the country\u2019s population suffers from mental disorders. He said those with access to platforms, for personal or partisan reasons, started slandering others and promoted despair in the society, thus creating such disorders.
\nArman Emrouz<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nIranian President Hassan Rouhani took a 3-day trip to India for deepening relationship between the two countries. In bilateral meetings between the Iranian president and India\u2019s prime minister Narendra Damodardas Modi, both countries emphasized on strengthening and expanding the relationship between Tehran and New Delhi and considered using all cooperative capacities to the advantage of both countries, as well as regional countries.
\nRouhani expressed satisfaction with the forward moving relationship between Tehran and New Delhi, saying that the relationship between Iran and India is not to the disadvantage of any countries, and there are extensive capacities for expanding and deepening the relationship between the two countries.
\nThe Iranian president also said Iran can provide India\u2019s required energy within long-term strategic contracts, adding that such long-term contracts in fields of energy and transportation will make both countries strategic partners.
\nArman Emrouz<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nMany Iranians took to Munich streets in protest against Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif\u2019s presence in Germany for taking part in Munich Security Conference 2018. Demonstrators condemned the presence of a representative of \u201cIran\u2019s religious-fascist regime\u201d in this country, calling for his expulsion. They chanted slogans like \u201cZarif, get lost!\u201d and \u201cDeath to Velayat-e Faqih!\u201d
\nThe Munich Security Conference is one of the major global forums for the discussion of security policy, in which senior decision makers from around the world engage in a debate on current and future security challenges.
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