** IRAN DAILY
-- Iran can meet 30% of Russia’s agricultural products market: MP
About 5.6% of the Russian agricultural products market is provided by Iran, said the vice chairman of the Agriculture Committee of the Iranian Parliament, adding that considering the existing potentials, the figure can easily be increased to 30%.
Jalal Mahmoudzadeh told Iran Daily that Iran enjoys suitable capacities in the export sector, noting that the potentials in Iran’s agricultural export sector have not been well-utilized.
“Currently, the share of agricultural products in non-oil exports of the country is about six percent; we can increase the figure to 25%,” he said.
-- Envoy: Iran-Turkey $30b trade target is realistic
Iran and Turkey can increase annual bilateral trade to $30 billion, said the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to Ankara, describing the target set by the two countries in the 2010s as realistic and within reach.
Mohammad Farazmand made the remarks in an interview with ISNA, adding that in the 2000s, the value of annual trade between the two countries reached $20 billion, and even stood at $22 billion during a period.
The importance of achieving the $30 billion target was highlighted by Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi in his recent meeting in Tehran with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he said.
-- Isfahan’s Hotel Abbasi to be registered in UNESCO Memory of the World: Official
Abbasi Hotel in Iran’s central province of Isfahan will be registered as a cultural gem and a large permanent exhibition of Iranian arts in UNESCO Memory of the World, said Secretary General of the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO Hojatollah Ayyoubi.
He made the statement in a meeting on Saturday with Iran Insurance Company, Saba Holding, to sign an agreement to expand cooperation in insurance diplomacy, holding educational and vocational courses and registering monuments to increase the quality of life, and national identity and Iranian lifestyle.
The UN body tried not to be political and proved that the scientific, educational and cultural credibility of Iran cannot be removed from international organizations and that Iran is highly influential in various fields of education, culture and cultural heritage, the Iranian official added.
** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
-- Iraq Facing Grave Threats from its Sworn Enemies
Iraq, or more properly Iraq’s long suppressed majority, which following the collapse of the repressive Ba’th minority clique, has briefly enjoyed freedom and formal control of the executive branch of the government, is facing grave threats from its sworn enemies.
The archenemies of the 70 percent Shi’a Muslims of Iraq are not the 17 percent ethnic Kurds, neither the 10 percent Sunni Arab minority that had wielded power since Britain created the modern state in 1921 by crushing the popular revolution of the deprived majority and installing an imported king in Baghdad, nor Turkey which often indulges in cross-border raids in the mountainous north on the pretext of targeting terrorism.
Yes, you have guessed it right. The mortal enemies of not just the Iraqi majority or Iraq as a whole, but also the entire Islamic Ummah, are the US and the illegal Zionist entity.
-- Iran Launches Rial-Ruble Trading on ICE
Iran Currency Exchange (ICE) has listed the ruble-rial pair trading, as the first stage of the Iran-Russia banking measures package agreed upon during Iran’s CBI governor’s trip to Moscow.
Tehran and Moscow have agreed to accept their national currency in their trades, which means they want to say goodbye to the dollar by allowing settlements by the rial and the ruble.
Analysts believe under the world’s present political circumstances where major currencies have been used as political tools by certain powers, using local currencies and signing bilateral and multilateral monetary pacts can be an effective way to neutralize major powers’ policies to dominate other countries.
The two oil and gas rich countries, both targeted by sanctions, have joined hands to neutralize economic pressure exerted by the U.S. and Europe.
-- Iran Young Weightlifter Wins Gold at Asian Contests
Junior Iranian athlete, Alireza Moeini lifted the 166kg weight in the snatch at the 2022 Asian Youth and Junior Championships in Uzbekistan to win a gold medal for Iran and break the Asian record in the youth category.
The 2022 Asian Youth and Junior Championships started in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on July 15.
Another Iranian representative Ali Keshtkar won a bronze medal after he successfully lifted the 175, 182 and 186 kg weights to win the bronze medal in the clean and jerk and overall.
** TEHRAN TIMES
-- Saudi, Iranian foreign ministers to meet in Baghdad: Iraqi FM
Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to hold the first public meeting at the level of foreign ministers in Baghdad in years after five rounds of closed reconciliation meetings facilitated by the Iraqi government, Iraq’s foreign minister told Rudaw on Saturday without elaborating when the meeting will take place.
Both rival countries have had thorny relations for years. Saudi Arabia-Iran diplomatic ties severed in 2016 when Iranian protesters attacked Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic missions in the country after the kingdom executed Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
Iraq has hosted five closed rounds of talks between both rival countries at the level of intelligence and security heads since April, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein told Rudaw on Saturday.
-- Iran’s biggest solar panel production line goes operational
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi inaugurated the country’s biggest solar panel production unit in central Markazi Province on Friday, IRIB reported.
This unit is currently able to produce solar panels with a total capacity of 500 megawatts (MW) annually, and in the final development phase, it will be able to produce solar panels for the annual supply of 1500 MW of electricity.
Considering that some components of solar panels are currently imported by this factory, the production unit is planned to manufacture all the necessary equipment and parts needed in the production of solar panels by the Iranian calendar year 1404 (starts in March 2025).
-- Medieval tomb towers of Iran: Gonbad-e Aali
Perched on a small desert hill, Gonbad-e Aali is a mudbrick domed tomb tower located three kilometers to the east of Abarkuh, along a road that leads to Yazd in the central Iranian plateau.
The monument was built in c. 1055 for a local figure Amid ad-Din Shams ad-Daula and his wife, whose name is not known. According to Archnet, the tomb tower consists of an octagonal chamber that sits on a low base with eight unequal sides and a tall, projecting muqarnas cornice.
The chamber tapers inward on the exterior so that the structure is wider at the bottom than it is below the cornice. The entrance to the chamber was located on the northeast side of the building. The structure is now domed, but the extension of the cornice beyond this dome suggests that it was also capped by a pyramidal roof, as was customary for tombs in this region.
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