** Iran Daily
-- Iran-Afghanistan water dispute has far-reaching consequences
The Hirmand River, also known as Helmand, originates in Afghanistan’s Helmand province and feeds into the Hamun Lake. The Hirmand River functions as a natural system that originates from one place and overflows to another, like a wetland, and does not recognize borders. It stands as the dividing river between Iran and Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s noncompliance with the allocation of water rights for Hirmand has created troubles in this region, particularly for the Iranian southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, which is dependent on the Hamun Wetland. Over the years, negotiations between Iran and Afghanistan have been conducted to secure Iran’s water rights, with recent months witnessing intensified efforts by the current Iranian government.
-- Senior Saudi trade delegation due in Iran: Deputy FM
A high-ranking trade delegation from Saudi Arabia will visit Iran in the upcoming days to tour a major economic exhibition in the country, according to a senior Iranian official.
Mehdi Safari, who leads economic diplomacy affairs at the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said on Thursday that the Saudi delegation is to take part in Iran EXPO 2023, an event slated for May 7-10.
-- Monochrome and white wares in Safavid era
Persian potters had been imitating Chinese white wares as far back as the Song period, and each generation in Iran seems to have produced some kind of white ware reminiscent of the Chinese prototype.
White wares with delicately incised floral designs entered the princely collections of the Muslim world in the early fifteenth century. Small Safavid bowls copy the lien-tzu shape of early fifteenth-century incised white porcelains.
Carved celadons, well represented in the Ardebil collection, might have inspired some of the decoration, but we do not know why the incised monochrome whites became so popular with Safavid potters in the second half of the seventeenth century. They were not a major Kangxi export. Different techniques of decorating distinguish the various phases of Safavid white-ware production.
** Kayhan International
-- Tehran to Host China Film Week
Iran’s capital Tehran is to host the third edition of the China Film Week. The prestigious event will be inaugurated by screening five movies made by the new generation of Chinese filmmakers.
Tehran-based Abbas Kiarostami Hall of the Farabi Cinema Foundation will be hosting the attendees, including Chinese Ambassador Chang Hua, Cinema Organization of Iran director Muhammad Khazaei, a number of Iranian filmmakers and Chinese film students. The Chinese film festival will open at 5 pm with the screening of the disaster-adventure film ‘The Captain’ by Andrew Lau.
-- Official: Homemade Power Plant Parts Replacing U.S. Models in SE Asia
CEO of Iran’s Thermal Power Plants Holding Company (TPPH) Abdolrasul Pishahang has said that spare parts manufactured by Iranian companies that are used in power plant maintenance services are replacing rival models from the U.S. in electricity stations in Malaysia and Indonesia, according to an official in the Iranian Energy Ministry.
Pishahang added that domestic firms had manufactured some 100,000 parts needed in servicing operations in Iran’s power plants in recent years. Pishahang said Iranian-made parts are being supplied to power plants in the region and in Southeast Asia where countries previously relied on parts supplied by U.S. companies.
-- Iran Advance to IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s Asia Championship Semis
The national Iranian women’s ice hockey team defeated the UAE team 14-0 on Thursday night to book a place at the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s Asia and Oceania Championship semifinals.
Iran had gained an emphatic victory against Kyrgyzstan at the event. Iranian women thrashed Kyrgyzstan 26-0 in group B and advanced to the semifinals of the competition.
Earlier on Monday, Iran gained an emphatic victory against Kuwait 20-0 in group B of the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s Asia. The event started on April 30 in Bangkok, Thailand and will finish on May 8.
** Tehran Times
-- IRGC to build aircraft carrier
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is working to build a unique aircraft carrier with no par in the world, a senior IRGC commander announced late on Thursday.
Alireza Tangsiri, who is the chief of the IRGC Navy, said the aircraft in question will be developed by Iran for the first time in the world. “In the future, we will see an aircraft carrier that does not exist in the world,” he said, according to Iranian media. “This carrier has both the ability to carry aircraft and the ability to carry a number of missile-launching boats inside it, which has no equivalent in the world.”
-- Tehran exhibit celebrates Mexican artist couple Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera
An exhibition underway at the Blue Hall of Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Historical Complex is showcasing collections of artworks on the Mexican artist couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Entitled “Frida and Diego: Life Chronicles”, is being organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Mexico in Tehran.
The exhibit comprises three sections, the first of which is putting on view a collection of 60 family photos of the couple loaned by a museum in Mexico City, the First Secretary of the embassy, Diego Ruiz Gayol, has said. La Casa Azul, Kahlo’s home in Coyoacán, was opened as a museum in 1958, and has become one of the most popular museums in Mexico City.
-- London exhibit delves into luxury and power in Persia, Greece relations
- London’s British Museum is currently hosting a fascinating exhibition titled “Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece”, which explores the relationship between luxury and political power in ancient Iran and southeastern Europe between 550-30 BC.
“Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece” is aimed to spotlight how the royal Persian court used luxurious objects as markers of authority and political tools so that it challenges the perception framed by ancient Greek writers, that their enemies in Persia were weak due to decadence.
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