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President Urges Speedy Information Dissemination

Nation Able To Make Further Scientific Progress

Political Desk

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on officials to address the demands of the nation and increase interaction with the people.
Addressing the Third Communications and Information Technology Festival in Tehran on Saturday, the president stressed, ‘speedy and timely dissemination of the information’ should be among the top priorities of the officials.
He noted that the public relations offices under the control of the government should provide service to the people and the country.
Ahmadinejad also hailed the country’s scientific and technological progress, saying the nation can make progress in every field and arena.
“We should believe in our local talents in the country and produce as many equipment as we can inside the country,” said Ahmadinejad.
He underlined Iran’s astounding progress in various scientific and technological fields, and said, “The Iranian nation has been the flag-bearer of knowledge and industry in the world for thousands of years and experience has shown that the Iranian nation has had a leap in progress in every arena that it has entered.”
Ahmadinejad underlined Iran’s achievements in different fields, including nuclear, aerospace, nanotechnology and biotechnology, and said when the Iranian nation can make progress in these areas which are considered as the frontiers of knowledge, achievements in other less important fields is not at all difficult.

Call for Swift Action On Myanmar

Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaei has urged a swift end to the violence and the breach of human rights against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
In a meeting with the ambassadors of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Khazaei said suppression and violence against Muslims are taking place despite Myanmar’s claims of democratization and reform, Press TV reported on Saturday.
He criticized a lack of consensus and coordination among Muslim countries to adopt a resolution condemning the atrocities against the Muslims in Myanmar, stressing the importance for Myanmar’s government to take effective measures to stop the violence.
“At a time when Muslim countries are concerned about the situation in Myanmar, the political whim of certain western states to establish better relations with the Myanmar government has weakened the process of looking into the situation of Muslims in the country, and Muslim countries, unfortunately, are not using all their means [to push for an end to the violence],” Khazaei said.
The Iranian envoy further stated that the silence and inaction of the international community have resulted in the further violation of the Muslims’ rights in the Southeast Asian country.
He urged the UN General Assembly to hold a special meeting on Myanmar and pass a resolution to stop the brutalities against the Muslims.

West Warned Over Arming Militants in Syria

With growing international pressure to end the two-year-long conflict, Iran--which maintains strong connections with President Bashar-Al Assad’s government--has come out strongly in favor of Syria’s legitimate government, warning the West against arming the militants.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili reiterated his government’s standpoint to euronews:
“The price is not only being paid by Syrian people. Rather it is also being paid by the people of Europe. Insisting on this wrongful behavior they have given opportunities to terrorists to come thousands of kilometers from Afghanistan to the borders of Europe. I think that this is something that the people in Europe need to be worried about.”
The Syria crisis began in March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of soldiers and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.
The Syrian government says that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.
Several international human rights organizations have accused foreign-sponsored militants of committing war crimes in Syria. Jalili, who is currently leading Iran’s negotiations on the country’s nuclear dispute with major world powers, added, “We have provided the Agency (IAEA) with the widest level of cooperation that is possible. I would go so far as to say that our cooperation with the Agency is unprecedented.”

Stuxnet Virus Improves Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities

When the Stuxnet computer virus attacked Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities in 2010, it was widely acknowledged to be the most successful cyber attack of all time.
However, new research shows that the Stuxnet virus was not only unsuccessful, it might have actually improved Iran’s ability to improve its nuclear capacities, according to a new report, New York Post newspaper reported.
According to the report published in a British academic journal, Stuxnet had no discernible effect on Iran’s ability to enrich uranium--which Iran uses it for nuclear fuel--and that it might have actually improved Iran’s nuclear capabilities by exposing vulnerabilities that the government might not have found for years.
The Stuxnet computer virus, designed by the US and Israel, attacked Iran in a series of digital attacks in 2009 and 2010, and it was believed at the time that a number of centrifuges used to enrich uranium at Iran’s facility at Natanz were severely damaged during the attack, setting back production by two years. Supporting this version of events, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that 1,000 centrifuges were decommissioned and replaced in late 2009 or early 2010.

Iranian Shield Prevents Corrosion in Electronic Circuits

Iranian experts at a knowledge-based company in the southern city of Bushehr have designed and manufactured a shield to prevent corrosion in...

Mahabad Petrochem Plant 70% Complete

Mahabad Petrochemical Complex, which is underway in the framework of Mehr-e Mandegar (Lasting Kindness) Plan, is more than 70 percent complete.

Indian Insurance Services for Oil Imports

New Delhi has announced its decision to provide Indian importers of Iranian oil with insurance services, media reports said.
Secretary for India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Vivek Rae made the decision in this respect after senior managers of Indian refineries expressed concern about the lack of sufficient cash to cover their oil imports from Iran.
The Indian government has said that it will offer insurance coverage worth 240 billion rupees (about $4.4 billion) to importers of Iranian oil, Times of India reported on Friday.
The Indian newspaper wrote that the US-led Western sanctions against Tehran have created difficulties for Indian oil refineries and that is the reason why the New Delhi government intends to establish a special fund to insure the country’s crude oil imports from Iran.
In March, the Indian government announced that “it plans to provide Indian importers of Iranian oil with their needed insurance services”.
“According to the proposal, public sector insurance companies and the Oil Industry Development Board under the Petroleum Ministry would contribute money for the fund that would provide reinsurance to state-owned insurers,” Rae said at the time.

8 Killed, 10 Policemen Kidnapped in Iraq

Suspected Sunni militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred.
The four “Sahwa” militia fighters were killed in an attack on their headquarters on the outskirts of Garma, 9 km (six miles) east of Falluja, a city in the western province of Anbar, Reuters reported.
Gunmen also ambushed and kidnapped 10 Sunni policemen near Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, a Sunni heartland bordering Syria.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni militant groups have been behind previous violence targeting security forces in a campaign to destabilize the Baghdad government.
When Sunni-Shiite bloodshed was at its height in 2006-07, Anbar was in the grip of Al-Qaeda’s local affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, which has regained strength in recent months.
Sahwa or “Awakening” fighters are Sunni tribesmen who helped US troops subdue Al- Qaeda in 2006. They are now on the government payroll and are often targeted by Sunni militants. In other violence, tribesmen clashed with security forces and set four of their vehicles ablaze after a woman and three of her young children were killed in an army raid north of Ramadi.

Global Shift in Investments Forecast

Over the next decade and a half, a major global shift will result in the developing world controlling roughly half of the world’s capital, up from less than a third.
According to new scenarios released on Thursday by the World Bank, developing countries could control some $158 trillion (at 2010 rates) by 2030, particularly in East Asia and Latin America. By that time, the developing world could account for 87 to 93 percent of global growth, IPS wrote.
Under certain scenarios, financial markets in economies like Brazil, India and those of the Middle East will develop considerably. These countries will attain, by 2030, a level of financial development comparable to the United States in the early 1980s, a new report from the Washington-based development lender states.
Similarly, the quality of institutions in developing countries will tend to improve significantly.
This analysis suggests that developing countries will soon gain the resources necessary to bankroll the major investments that the bank said will be necessary, particularly in infrastructure and services. This would mark a stark contrast with the past.
Furthermore, World Bank analysts foresee a massive escalation of global investment from these countries. Whereas in 2000, international investment from developing economies constituted just a fifth of the global total, this could now triple over the next decade and a half.

IAEA’s Prejudiced Management

By Emad Abshenass
Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano believes that Iran has not been cooperating with the IAEA in its effort to understand the true nature of its nuclear activities.
Amano told the International Relations Institute (MGIMO) in Moscow on Friday that the IAEA does not know whether Iran’s nuclear program has a ‘military goal’.
Well, sometimes some things are beyond the knowledge of certain persons specially if they are biased.
Mr. Amano should express himself and avoid issues that might ruin the reputation of a professional agency such as the UN nuclear watch dog.
As the IAEA director general, Mr. Amano should remain impartial and act independently whatever the circumstances. Former heads of various UN agency used to conceal their loyalty to big powers but recently a new form of management has been emerging in the world body and its subsidiary agencies. New chiefs are competing in a rat race to prove loyalty to the US and Israel.
Maybe Mr. Amano can remind us:
1 – What international law authorizes his agency to inspect Iranian military sites?
Iranians didn’t turn away IAEA inspectors from some military sites, However, they wanted a modality deal agreed between the two sides. Tehran’s major demand is assurances the IAEA should give about keeping the top secret information confidential.
Previously Iran granted the IAEA access to some of its sites, (though it was not obliged to do so) but all information gathered by IAEA inspectors was directly delivered to western and enemy spy agencies and they used the information to assassinate some of the Iranian scientists interviewed by IAEA representatives.
To rephrase Amano’s demand, what he is actually saying is: “Iran’s nuclear program is considered of military nature and whatever Iran does to build trust, we will never accept Iran’s efforts. Iran also has to let enemy spies undercover of IAEA inspectors to travel throughout Iran”.