** IRAN DAILY
-- FM: Long-term cooperation main focus of Turkey visit
The Iranian foreign minister said issues pertaining to the preparation and signing of a comprehensive document on long-term cooperation between Tehran and Ankara will be a main focus of his consultations in Turkey.
Making the remarks in an address to reporters upon arrival at the airport in Ankara on Monday, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian added when the administration of Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi took office in August 2021, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu took a trip to Tehran, during which “we discussed diverse issues, including the preparation of the long-term comprehensive cooperation document”.
-- Over 130 power stations fully operational in Iran: CEO
Managing Director of the Thermal Power Plants Holding Company Abdolrasoul Pishahang said on Monday that 132 power plants are currently producing electricity at full capacity in Iran.
Pishahang noted that 4,300 MW of electricity has been added to the production capacity of thermal power plants since mid-March.
-- Unity and diversity of border dwellers in West Azarbaijan Province significant
Located on the slope of a mountain between the two cities of Orumieh and Salmas, in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, Moghul village looks like a dead-end valley. A number of large grape orchards are seen in the area, while numerous sunflower fields, dazzling the eyes of every viewer, are situated next to each other near Khoy, the other city of the province.
Mohammad Mahmoudzadeh, working in the village as a shepherd, said “I was born in the village when it had one Christian and 10 Mogul households. The villagers, who were skilled carpet weavers, migrated to Tabriz later when the industry flourished there. Presently, the residents of the village are Kurdish and Azari people, speaking in both Kurdish and Azari Turkish languages.
Before reaching Mogul village, I found out that some Sunni Azari people are living in the province. The residents of many villages are Sunni Azaris, of whom half are Shafei and half Hanafi, two of the four major traditional schools of Sunni Muslims.
** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
-- Need for Iran’s Increased Cooperation in D-8 Projects
After an unexplained lull of several years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has begun to show renewed interest in activation of cooperation with economic blocs of which, in most cases, it is a senior member.
The latest indication in this regard is the visit to Tehran of the Secretary-General of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation and his meeting with the Iranian President and other senior officials.
-- Iran Approves Plan to Set Up Separate Ministry for Trade
Iranian government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi has said that the cabinet had agreed to the establishment of the trade ministry.
“The Iranian government has approved a plan to set up a separate ministry for foreign trade amid efforts to facilitate exports and imports and to help better regulate prices of consumer goods,” he said.
Bahadori said in a Twitter post that the government’s main objectives of setting up a trade ministry include having “a more effective control on prices, facilitating and boosting foreign trade and providing stronger support to consumers”.
-- Iran Runner-Up in Asian Taekwondo Tournament
Iranian taekwondo team finished runners-up in second place in the 25th edition of the Asian Taekwondo Championships on Monday. The competition was held from June 24 to 27 in Chuncheon, South Korea.
Iranian taekwondo practitioners claimed three gold medals, five silvers and two bronzes, Tehran Times reported. The Iranian women made history in this edition by winning three gold medals, as opposed to the men who failed to win a single gold. Nahid Kiani defeated Uzbekistan’s Charos Kayumova in the -53kg weight class to register Iran’s first gold in the competition.
** TEHRAN TIMES
-- Leiden Ranking: 44 Iranian universities among world’s top
Leiden ranking system published the 2022 report, according to which 44 Iranian universities were among the 1,318 top universities in the world.
The Leiden Ranking is produced by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University in the Netherlands. The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2022 offers a sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators that provide statistics at the level of universities on scientific impact, collaboration, open access publishing, and gender diversity.
-- Miniseries to depict General Soleimani failed assassination plot
The Avini Art and Cultural Institute has said that plans to make a miniseries featuring a 2019 plot to assassinate Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, former IRGC Quds Force chief. Sirus Moqaddam, director of the popular TV series “Paytakht”, “Madineh” and “Mikail”, will helm the miniseries entitled “Assassination”.
This docudrama “intends to depict the higher political and military status of the soldier of Islam,” the institute said in a press release on Monday.
-- Hormozgan to boost tourism sector
A budget of 840 billion rials ($2.8 million) has been allocated to develop some tourism-related projects across the southern province of Hormozgan, the provincial tourism chief has said.
“A sum of 840 billion rials has been approved to be distributed to 22 tourism-related projects since the beginning of the current Iranian year (begins on March 21),” CHTN quoted Sohrab Banavand as saying on Monday.
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