*** Iran DAILY
-- Iran vows ‘harsh response’ to any mistake by US, allies
President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi warned that Iran would give a “harsh and regrettable response” to any “mistake” by the United States or its allies.
“I tell the Americans and their regional allies that the Iranian nation will not accept any crisis or insecurity in the region, and that any mistake made in this region will be met with a harsh and regrettable response,” Raeisi said in televised remarks during a visit to the western province of Kermanshah on Thursday.
The warning came after US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a security pact on Thursday during a visit to the Middle East.
Biden said the US will not “wait forever” for Iran to respond to the terms his administration had set out to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, a day after saying he’d be willing to use force against Tehran as a “last resort”.
-- Iran’s annual mineral water production capacity at 14b liters: Association
Iran enjoys the potential to produce about 14 billion liters of bottled mineral water annually, announced the secretary of the Iran Mineral and Drinking Water Producers Association, adding that the export of the product can fetch a considerable amount of forex for Iran.
Talking to Iran Daily, Peyman Foruhar said Iran's mineral water is among the best water in the world, with the highest quality in terms of dissolved salts.
Referring to the need of neighboring countries for bottled water, he stated, “Considering the upcoming World Cup event in Qatar, this country needs millions of liters of water and Iran can help the country in this field with increasing exports of bottled water.”
He added that, on the other hand, considering that Iran is in a water-scarce region, and most of the Persian Gulf littoral states need to import drinking water, there is a suitable capacity for increasing the export of Iran’s bottled water.
-- Keeyow Lake: Blue gem of Khorramabad
Keeyow Lake in Khorramabad, the capital city of the western province of Lorestan, is situated alongside a park by the same name. As a combination of natural and manmade beauties, it is known as a unique tourist attraction which leaves every viewer mesmerized. Keeyow means blue in the Lori language. The seven-hectare natural lake is a turquoise-blue expanse of water having a very pleasant air. It adds beauty to Khorramabad, which is also home to numerous historical places.
You don’t have to travel a long distance to reach the blue lake located in the northern part of the city, thus many people go to the amazing tourist site on foot.
*** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
-- Iran, Iraq to Enter Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation
From the very outset of its peaceful nuclear energy programme the Islamic Republic has offered to cooperate in this vital field with neighbouring Muslim states and share the fruits of its successes for development in various sectors in order to break the stranglehold of the big dangerously nuclear-armed powers.
None, however, summoned up the courage to accept Iran’s offer because of their fears of the US and its politicization of Tehran’s peaceful IAEA-certified nuclear projects, although they knew that cooperation with the Islamic Republic was to their benefit and in the interest of regional stability.
-- Iranian Track and Field Athletes to Miss Worlds Over U.S. Visa Delay
Head of the Iranian Track and Field Federation Hashem Siami has said that the United States has refused to issue visas for Iranian track and field athletes for the World Championships so that they have failed to attend the competitions.
Siami said that Mehdi Pirjahan, an Iranian athlete that was going to take part in the event, and two other managers of the Iranian team had gone to the U.S. embassy in Armenia and did all the necessary measures to take the U.S. visa but the embassy did not issue visas for them.
He said that Ehsan Haddadi, another Iranian athlete who had taken the U.S. visa before, denied to attend in the event in solidarity with his compatriots.
-- Navy Unveils Iran’s First Drone Division in Indian Ocean
Iran on Friday announced its first naval drone-carrying division in the Indian Ocean as U.S. President Joe Biden fired a volley of threatening shots during his visit of the Middle East to purportedly rally Arab support to against the Islamic Republic.
Each ship carried 50 drones in the division which also included submarines. The drones that were displayed on Friday included the Pelican, Arash, Homa, Chamrosh, Jubin, Ababil-4 and Bavar-5.
The division, as part of Iran’s southern naval fleet, is capable of carrying various combat, surveillance, and suicide drones.
Other than drones that use vertical takeoff systems that were launched from vessels, combat drones were launched from submarines including homegrown Fateh and Tareq.
*** TEHRAN TIMES
-- Shamkhani tells Aliyev external factors shouldn’t affect Tehran-Baku ties
Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), who has traveled to Baku, met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Friday.
Shamkhani stressed the importance of relations between the two friendly and fraternal countries of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, noting that Iran sees no constraints in promoting comprehensive relations and collaboration with Azerbaijan.
“Our priority, especially in the incumbent government, is to deepen and expand relations with our neighbors, and in this framework our country's firm will is to increase cordial relations with Azerbaijan as a Muslim neighbor and Shia country in all fields as much as possible,” Shamkhani stated.
-- INSTC: A sanction-proof route with great economic prospects
Earlier this week, the first Russian cargo heading for India via the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) arrived in Iran, making the sanction-proof transportation corridor operational nearly 22 years after it was launched in September 2000.
The transportation of cargo through the INSTC has entered the operational phase after completing a trial phase in June when two 40-foot containers of wood departed from St. Petersburg toward Nhava Sheva Port in India.
Traveling from the Astrakhan Port in southern Russia to the Iranian ports of Anzali on the Caspian Sea and Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf, the consignment successfully reached the west coast of India earlier this month.
-- Celebrated Iranian globetrotter Abdollah Omidvar dies at 91
Celebrated Iranian globetrotter Abdollah Omidvar, who along with his brother created one of the world's first travel documentaries, died Thursday at the age of 91. “Iranian adventurer, researcher and documentarian Abdallah Omidvar passed away yesterday… He lived in Chile over the past couple of years,” Mehr reported on Friday. In the 1950s, the Omidvar brothers travelled the Congo, the Arctic and the Andes on motorbikes and in a 2CV.
Throwing their film-making kit on their bikes and with just $90 each to spend, they set out to see the most remote people they could find. En route, they created a visual record that is now a milestone in film history, a documentary record of a vanished world: peoples, cultures and even entire countries that no longer exist.
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