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Hello Jammu News at 11:50:00 PM 0


Tehran, Mar 21 :  Iran said Saturday that 123 more people had died from coronavirus, raising the official death toll to 1,556 in the Islamic republic, one of the world's worst affected countries.

Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 966 more cases had been confirmed over the past 24 hours and 20,610 people were now known to have been infected in Iran.

A total of 7,635 people have recovered from the disease, he told a televised news conference.

The Islamic republic is among the three countries hardest hit by the virus with an official death toll behind only Italy and China.

The authorities have asked people to avoid all travel during the Persian New Year holidays, which usually sees almost all citizens take to the roads.

But the pleas have been ignored by many.

According to the Iranian Red Crescent, around three million people have left the 13 most virus-affected provinces by road since March 17.

Jahanpour said there was "a minority who did not follow the guidelines", warning that provinces popular with tourists would not welcome visitors for the Nowruz holiday.

Some provinces have ordered hotels and other accommodation to close.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani pledged Friday that the country would triumph over the virus.
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Hello Jammu News at 8:30:00 PM 0


Tehran, Jan 25 :  Iran condemned Saturday what it called the "illegal and inhuman" treatment of its nationals by US border security officers, after reports a student was deported despite having a valid visa.

"Such absolutely discriminatory measures that only happen over people's race, nationality or religion are against international human rights laws and principles," foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said.

"These individuals were questioned by America's border security over their political views and beliefs, and their social media accounts were forcefully entered," he said in a statement.

US media reported on Monday that an Iranian student headed to a Boston university had his visa cancelled at the airport and was deported by immigration officials.

Tensions have soared between Tehran and Washington since a US drone strike killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3.

Iran retaliated five days later by launching a wave of missiles at US troops stationed in Iraq.

Tehran was still on high alert hours later when its air defences mistakenly shot down a Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet, killing all 176 people on board.

"These actions against Iranians are in line with the American regime's hostile and hateful policy against Iran... now manifested in harassing Iranians at America's borders," Mousavi said.

The spokesman warned the United States could face action "through human rights bodies", without elaborating.
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Hello Jammu News at 9:07:00 PM 0
Iran backtracks on plan to send flight recorders to Ukraine


Tehran, Jan 19 :  The Iranian official leading the investigation into the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally shot down by the Revolutionary Guard appeared to backtrack Sunday on plans to send the flight recorders abroad for analysis, a day after saying they would be sent to Kyiv.

Hassan Rezaeifar was quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency as saying the flight recorders from the Ukrainian Boeing are in Iranian hands and we have no plans to send them out.

He said Iran is working to recover the data and cabin recordings, and that it may send the flight recorders commonly known as black boxes to Ukraine or France.

But as of yet, we have made no decision. The same official was quoted by the semi-official Tasnim news agency on Saturday as saying the recorders would be sent to Ukraine, where French, American and Canadian experts would help analyze them.

Iranian officials previously said the black boxes were damaged but are usable.

It was not immediately possible to reconcile the conflicting accounts. Iran may be hesitant to turn over the recorders for fear that more details from the crash including the harrowing 20 seconds between when the first and second surface-to-air missiles hit the plane will come to light.

The Guard's air defenses shot the plane down shortly after it took off from Tehran on Jan. 8, killing all 176 people on board.

Hours earlier, the Guard had launched ballistic missiles at U.S. troops in Iraq in response to the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's top general in Baghdad. Officials say lower-level officers mistook the plane for a U.S. cruise missile.

Iranian officials initially said the crash was caused by a technical problem and invited countries that lost citizens to help investigate. Three days later, Iran admitted responsibility after Western leaders said there was strong evidence the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile.

The victims included 57 Canadian citizens as well as 11 Ukrainians, 17 people from Sweden, four Afghans and four British citizens. Most of those killed were Iranians.

The other five nations have demanded Iran accept full responsibility and pay compensation to the victims' families.

The plane was a Boeing 737-800 that was designed and built in the U.S. The plane's engine was designed by CFM International, a joint company between French group Safran and U.S. group GE Aviation. Investigators from both countries have been invited to take part in the probe.
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Hello Jammu News at 4:16:00 PM 0

Tehran, Sep 22: Gunmen attacked a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday, killing at least eight members of the elite Revolutionary Guard and wounding 20 others, state media said.

The state-run IRNA news agency reported that the wounded included a woman and a child but did not elaborate.

Earlier reports described the assailants as "Takfiri," a term previously used to describe the Islamic State group.

The semi-official Fars news agency, which is close to the elite Revolutionary Guard, said two gunmen on a motorcycle wearing khaki uniforms carried out the attack.

State television showed images of the immediate aftermath. In it, paramedics could be seen helping someone in military fatigues laying on the ground. Other armed security personnel shouted at each other in front of what appeared to be a viewing stand for the parade.

The semi-official ISNA news agency published photographs of the attack's aftermath, with bloodied troops in dress uniforms helping each other walk away. The attack struck on Ahvaz's Quds, or Jerusalem, Boulevard.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Saturday's attack comes after a coordinated June 7, 2017 Islamic State group assault on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.

At that point it marked the only attack by the Sunni extremists inside of Shiite Iran, which has been deeply involved in the wars in Iraq and Syria, where the militants once held vast territory.

At least 18 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in the 2017 operation that saw gunmen carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives storm the parliament complex where a legislative session had been in progress, starting an hours-long siege.

Meanwhile, gunmen and suicide bombers also struck outside Khomeini's mausoleum on Tehran's southern outskirts. Khomeini led the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed shah to become Iran's first supreme leader until his death in 1989. The assault shocked Tehran, which largely has avoided militant attacks in the decades after the tumult surrounding the Islamic Revolution.

Ahvaz is the capital of Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan province, which in the past has seen Arab separatists attack oil pipelines.  (AP)
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Hello Jammu News at 2:05:00 PM 0

Tehran, Sep 22: President Hassan Rouhani vowed on Saturday to boost Iran's ballistic missile capabilities despite Western concerns that were cited by his US counterpart Donald Trump in May when he abandoned a landmark nuclear deal with Tehran.

"We will never decrease our defensive capabilities... we will increase them day by day," Rouhani said at a military parade.

"The fact that the missiles anger you shows they are our most effective weapons," he said, referring to the West.

Iran has ballistic missiles with a range of up to 3,500 kilometres (2,200 miles), enough to reach both Israel and US bases in the Middle East. (AFP)
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Hello Jammu News at 12:56:00 PM 0

Tehran, Jul 11: Authorities say an overnight bus crash in western Iran has killed at least 11 people.

State television reported today that a tanker carrying tar crashed into the passenger bus in Sanandaj, a city in Iran's Kurdistan province some 400 kilometers west of Tehran.

Authorities say the tanker ran into the bus just after it left a bus terminal in the city. Both vehicles burst into flames.

Police say the tanker's brakes failed, causing it to slam into the bus.

Official say at least nine people were injured in the crash.

Kurdistan province has declared three days of public mourning over the crash.

UNICEF says Iran's rate of traffic crashes is 20 times the world's average, as the country suffers from poor roads and lax traffic enforcement. (AP)
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Hello Jammu News at 12:14:00 PM 0

Tehran, Jul 7: Iran said today it executed eight people convicted in the 2017 Islamic State group attack on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.

The June 7, 2017 attack has so far been the only assault by the Sunni extremists inside of Shiite Iran, which has been deeply involved in the wars in Iraq and Syria where the militants once held vast territory.

The judiciary's official Mizan news agency and semi-official news agencies in Iran acknowledged the executions Saturday, but did not say when they took place. Executions in Iran are carried out by hangings.

While Iran is one of the world's top enforcers of the death penalty, such mass executions are rare. The last mass execution reported in August 2007 saw Iran hang seven men convicted of rape in Mashhad at the same time.

The news agencies on Saturday named those executed as Soleiman Mozafari, Esmail Sufi, Rahman Behrouz, Majed Mortezai, Sirous Azizi, Ayoub Esmaili, Khosro Ramezani and Osman Behrouz.

The Islamic State attack killed at least 18 people and wounded more than 50.

Over a dozen others remain on trial over the attack. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard responded to the attack by launching six missiles into eastern Syria targeting IS militants. (AP) CPS

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Hello Jammu News at 5:52:00 PM 0

Tehran, May 15: Iranian households use cooking oil. Lots of it, as of 2004, a government survey found that more than 12 per cent of calories consumed were from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, the main source of trans fats.
Trans fats included more than a third of the fatty acids in those oils, or nearly 5 per cent of daily calorie consumption—double the trans fat intake in the United States of America in 2007, according to a study published that year in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a WHO report on Tuesday said.
“Most of the food consumed in the Middle East/North Africa region is high in fat, trans fat and total saturated fat,” says Dr. Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh, regional nutrition adviser for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. “Food produced in our region is different from what is produced in Europe and North America. It has higher trans fat and uses palm oil.”
Over the past few decades, Iran has seen a steady increase in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related risk factors. In 2010, Iran had the second-highest rate of CVD death and was third in trans fat intake out of 20 Middle Eastern and North African countries.
As cooking oil is used in such large quantities in Iran, it was among the first foods targeted for trans fat reduction. Between 2006 and 2013, trans fats were reduced in Iran from nearly 20 per cent in most edible oils and fats, to under 2 per cent.
According to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran, fractionation of vegetable oil—a technology that does not change the chemical nature of the fatty acids through controlled separation of oil and fat fractions—has been a common practice in Iran to replace partial hydrogenation.
As in other countries, the changes were phased in and required government agencies, civil society and industry to work together. The health and agriculture ministries, Iran Food and Drug Administration (FDA), oil manufacturers, nongovernmental organisations and oil importers all collaborated to reduce trans fats.
In 2005, the National Standards Organisation of Iran, the government arbiter, mandated a 10 per cent cap on trans fats in corn oil, palm oil, frying oil and mixed liquid oils—a reduction from the previous 20per cent. Government organisations were mandated to use oils with less than 10 per cent trans fat content.
The trans fat standards were reduced to less than 5 per cent in fats and oils in 2011, and to less than 2 per cent in 2013, with a 2016 compliance deadline. The ultimate goal is to limit trans fats to less than 1 per cent by 2019. According to the Iranian FDA, that target had already been reached by 2018.
Iran’s FDA Post Marketing Surveillance results showed that average trans fat of almost all of frying and liquid oils was below 1 per cent and within the acceptable limit, according a report on Iran’s efforts by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute (NNFTRI).
While these measures reduced trans fat in cooking oil, regulations have not fully addressed trans fat in bakery products. The trans fat limit for margarine and shortening used in bakery products is 5 per cent, rather than 2 per cent. 
While there is still work to do to reduce trans fat in the food supply in Iran, the achievements so far have been impressive, particularly considering Iran had the highest recorded intake of trans fat in the world. 
“Iran has achieved a relatively safe position with trans fat levels in edible oils by regulating trans fats, using appropriate alternatives and by collaborating with food industries,” said Dr Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh. “As a pioneer in the region, Iran is now aiming to comply with WHO’s goal of to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by 25% by 2025. We need to reach 0 trans fat to achieve this goal.” UNI


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Hello Jammu News at 6:29:00 PM 0

Tehran, Nov 13: A strong quake hit western Iran on Sunday night, killing at least 350 people and injuring 3,950 more, as rescuers battled to find survivors trapped under collapsed buildings while aftershocks were felt during the day on Monday, Iran's state-run news agency IRNA reported. 
But the country's Fars news agency put the toll at 350 and said the quake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale rattled all cities and towns along Iran's Western border with Iraq.  The seismological centre of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University said the quake was felt across Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Turkey and Lebanon at 21:48 hours local time (23:48 IST).
The quake has so far been followed by over 135 aftershocks ranging from 2 to 5 in magnitude.
Kermanshah is the hardest-hit province in Iran and that more than 140 victims were from a single town, Sarpol-e Zahab, located about 16 km from the Iraq border. The powerful jolt that jolted half of Iran and Iraq made people in Tehran and other cities, including Tabriz and Isfahan, pour into the streets in panic. Reports reaching here said rescue and relief teams deployed in the area have intensified their operation amid fears that the death toll could rise. 
President Hassan Rouhani asked the relief agencies in affected and neighboring provinces to collaborate and use all facilities available to provide relief, accommodation and care for those injured. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a message extended sympathy to the families of the victims of the deadly earthquake. "My thoughts are with all those who have lost their loved ones in the tragic earthquake that has affected parts of Iran and Iraq. I pray that those injured recover at the earliest," Modi said in a tweet. Iran is one of the world's most seismically active countries. In 2003, some 31,000 people were killed as 6.6 magnitude earthquake that flattened Bam in southeastern Iran, the historic city's ancient mud-built citadel. UNI
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