Barekat Charity Foundation, affiliated to Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam also known as Setad-e Ejraiy-e Farman-e Hazrat-e Emam, will construct some 110 schools in deprived areas across the country by the end of this year (March 20, 2020).
The main focus of the foundation is on employment and economic empowerment of the underprivileged, but development measures in deprived areas is also on agenda, Ali Vaezinejad, the Foundation’s deputy director for construction and infrastructure affairs, said.
Among the development plans, educational buildings are the most important field that we are trying to provide for those residing in deprived areas, he noted, adding, “Our main goal is to achieve sustainable development in those areas.”
He went on to highlight that knowledge, education, and literacy levels are among the main factors of development, adding, “So, we decided to take steps toward this issue building schools.”
However, the Foundation only provides the budget in this regard and the organization for renovation, development and equipment of schools will take construction measures, he added.
Referring to the Foundation’s target to build some 1,670 schools across the country, he stated: “We have so far inaugurated 1,111 schools and will built the rest in the near future.”
Most of the schools are constructed in the provinces of Khuzestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, as well as rural and deprived areas, he added.
Currently, 2,500 schools are being supported by the Foundation which educate some 160 students, he noted, YJC reported on Saturday.
“In Tehran, we have not built any schools, but in its surrounding areas there are some educational units built by Barekat Foundation,” he also said.
“We tend to provide these vulnerable groups of the society with 110 educational buildings, and 10 of which will be constructed in quake-stricken Kermanshah province,” he concluded.
Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, also known as Setad-e Ejraiye Farman-e Hazrat-e Emam, was founded in 1989. In the Iranian calendar year 1386 (March 2017-
March 2018) Barekat Charity Foundation- the social arm of the organization- with the aim of promoting social justice was established.
Socio-economic empowerment of the communities by encouraging entrepreneurship prioritizing breadwinner women, developing infrastructure such as water supply schemes, power grid, and road building, constructing schools and increasing educational spaces, promoting health for all, granting non-repayable loans and insurance especially in less developed areas and regions most affected by 1980s war and natural disasters are of the priorities of the charity foundation. / Tehran times /
The Islamic Republic of Iran stands at the world’s 9th rank in thermal power plants’ capacity with 65-gigawatt production.
According to the Ministry of Energy, thermal power plants account for 80.8 percent share of total power plants in the country.
The total production capacity of power plants in the world stands at 6,628 gigawatts and thermal power plants have a 61 percent share with the production capacity of 4,017 gigawatts.
Among non-thermal power plants, about 14.8 percent of total nominal capacity of power plants of the country is related to the hydroelectricity power plants, 0.9 percent to the renewable units, 1.3 percent to nuclear power plants, 0.5 percent to the diesel-powered units while the rest 1.8 percent is related to the small-scale gas units.
In Iran, gas-, steam- and combined cycle power plants with the production capacity more than 25 megawatts are known as mega thermal power plant.
In thermal power plants, thermal energy in the initial fuel is turned into electrical energy.
Iran made history by winning the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men’s U21 World Championship for the first time ever.In the match held at the Isa Sport City Hall C, Iran earned a hard-fought win over the European giants.
Iran defeated Italy 3-2 (25–17, 17–25, 23–25, 25–22, 12–15) in the 2019 FIVB U21 World Championship final.
Porya Yali led Iran with 23 points and Daniele Lavia had 19 points for the Italian team.
“The final was such a difficult match. Italy really tried their best in this championship. Nobody could beat them in the earlier rounds. We knew it was going to very difficult, so we also tried to do all we could for the win. My players really worked hard in this match. They are the best and I have the honor that I can be their coach. I dedicate this win to all the people in my country,” Iran coach Behrouz Ataei told fivb.org.
Earlier on the day, Brazil won the bronze medal by defeating Russia in straight sets (25-21, 27-25, 25-12). / Tehran times /
Shāhnāme (“Iranian Book of Kings”) comprises a collection of epical poems by the great Iranian poet FerdowsiTusi (Firdawsi of Tus). The book as exerted a determining role in preserving Persian as a live language among the Persian-speaking countries, as well as on the Indian Subcontinent. Prince Bayasanghor’sShāhnāme is among the oldest, most precious copies of the book, that enjoys international fame for its makeup delicacy, beauty, artistic features, as well as its intact content on pages. It, also, presents the world with a masterpiece of Iranian decorative arts on texts.
Prince Bayasanghor’s Book of the Kings (Shāhnāme)
The mentioned decorative arts include its paintings, as well as such furnishing arts as gilding and binding, that have been done skillfully. The text comprises 60,000 lines of poems in Persian, furnished in the, so called, Rahli (roughly, “bookrack”: extended dimensions) size, and appears on 700 pages. The book was ordered in 1430 AD by Prince BayasanghorMirzā (Son of Shāhrokh, and nephew of TeymurGurkān, the Mongol king).
The Deed For Endowment: Rab’ I-Rashidi
KhājeRashidoddinFazlollahHamedāni, the Ilkhanid Period vizier of Iran, is famous to have ordered, among his other contributions, for the establishment of a comprehensive scientific, educational, and research town, titled Rab’-iRashidi , on the suburbs of Tabriz (north-west of Iran), to organize, centralize, and promote scientific and cultural research and activities. The mentioned comprehensive complex used to encompass libraries, higher education institutes, hospitals, nurseries, and industrial workshops, among its other activity centers. The vizier endowed a great deal to the complex to support it with the needed financial backing to facilitate its management.
The Deed For Endowment: Rab’ I-Rashidi
To put an order on the management procedure, and to protect the endowed properties, he managed to edit a deed of endowment in 382 pages in his own handwriting. Following the vizier’s murder, the complex was ruined; however, the only one surviving copy of the Deed of Endowment points to the majesty of the scientific and social complex of the period.
Administrative Documents of Astan-e Quds Razavi in the Safavid Era
This collection comprises 69,000 pages of documents for the 1589-1735 AD period, and is related to a vast geographical territory including Iran, especially, Khorassan (to its east), and parts of Afghanistan.
The collection preserves valuable information on organizational, social, economic, agricultural, endowment, and religious issues, and provides the reader with a transparent picture of the city of Mashhad (to the northeast of Iran, nowadays, the capital of Khorassan Province), as well as the social life-styles of the Safavid Period, in the history of the country.
Al-Tafhim li Awa’ilSana’at al-Tanjim
The only book in Persian by AbureyhānBiruni, the prominent scientific (973-1048 AD), preserved to the present time, is Al-Tafhim li Awa’ilSana’at al-Tanjim. The book constitutes the oldest among the Persian texts on mathematics and astrology, and is almost unrivaled among the works of the Islamic Period in the history of Iran compiled in Persian, as regards the accuracy and validity of its content, and the literary value it bears.
Al-Tafhim li Awa’ilSana’at al-Tanjim
The author has succeeded in editing the material in an educational manner, easy to grasp by newcomers to astrology and mathematics; the text consists of 530 problems and the author’s endeavor to answer them. The easy to grasp, straightforward exposition has not, however, affected the strength of the text, the wellestablished message, and the vigorously constructed scientific method. The numerous renderings of the book into a number of living languages point to its importance.
Collection of Nezami’sPanjGanj
Also known as Khamse the PanjGanj of NezāmiGanjavi, the Iranian poet and story recite (1133-1222 AD) comprises five collections of poems, namely, Makhzan-ol-Asrār, KhosrowvaShirin, LeylivaMajnun, Haft Peykar, and Eskandarnāme, all enjoying great fame as prominent literary stories in Persian. The collection constitutes one of the masterpieces of Persian literature, and includes the sweetest among Iranian lyric and Gnostic poetry manifestation.
The mentioned stories are deeply rooted throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent, and still function as easily and sweetly grasped poetry by native speakers of varieties of Persian. The mastery established by Nezāmi in organizing and editing his poetry has inspired more than 100 of the poets of the later periods to follow his style.
Dhakhīra-yiKhārazmshāhī
(A Reserve for the King of Khwarezm) Dhakhīra-yiKhārazmshāhī is the most famous and prestigious medical book by the Thirteenth Century. The book is a fundamental and comprehensive reference in the traditional medicine compiled by the scientist and physician Sayyed Ismail Jorjani (1040-1136) and dedicated to Qutb al-Din, King of Kharazm.
In addition to its valuable and organized content in the field of diagnostics, making medicines, and remedies, the book is of a high literary value because it is written in an easy language using genuine Mid-Persian words. It is now one of the linguistic references for research especially in the field of medical words and terms. Dhakhīra-yiKhārazmshāhī has drastically influenced the scientific language in Persian literature.
Al-MasaalikWa Al-Mamaalik (The Ways and the States)
Al-MasaalikWa Al-Mamaalik is a valuable work by the famous Iranian geographer, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al Istakhri, written in the Tenth Century. The book contains a relatively detailed account of the Islamic Territory, which included the North of Africa, Arab regions, Muslim Regions of Europe, Indian Subcontinent, the whole Iranian Plateau, Middle Asia and Central Asia.
Istakhri has divided the Islamic World into twenty regions. Because he has personally travelled to all those regions and done field research, his book is loaded with invaluable information to make it a unique work. In addition to geographical information, the book contains knowledge regarding the scattering of nationalities, lifestyles, agriculture, monuments, beliefs, and the rituals in the mentioned regions and their maps.
Kulliyyāt-iSadi (The Compendium of Sadi’s Works)
Sadi is a famous poet (Thirteenth Century). People like his poems and prose because of their brevity, music, comprehensibility, satire, elegance, and morals. That is why it has been propagating in different countries and various languages for centuries. Kulliyyāt-iSadi is a collocation of Sadi’s works in verse and prose among which are Bustan, Golestan, sonnets, etc. whatever the famous poet has written.
The very copy inscribed in the Memory of the World Register is kept in the National Library of Iran. Written 80 years after the poet died, it is one of the oldest, most complete and most certified copies ever. Having been prepared in an exquisite royal manner, the copy represents an example of Shirazi Array in the Timurid Era.
A Collection of Selected Maps of Iran in the Qajar Era
The collection includes 500 hand-made, woodprint, or lithographic maps prepared in the Qajar Era. A total of 404 titles, the maps are selected from the documents in the Document Treasury of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1779 and 1925. These maps can serve as a valuable reference for geographical and demographical studies in the area of the Iranian Plateau, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Send and Punjab, and a relatively vast part of the Silk Road. Among valuable features of the mentioned maps are lack of publishing, their reports, historical divisions by international sources and their uniqueness. The Document Treasury of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with more than 50 million documents including reports, treaties, and historical maps since the Qajar Era until the present time is the largest archive of diplomatic documents in the Middle East.
Sources:
Rezvanfar, Morteza, Iran’s World Heritage Site (Introducing Iranian Sites Inscribed on unesco’s world heritage lists), Institute of Iranian Cultural Exhibitions, 1396
Iran won the title of the 10th Asian Junior Taekwondo Championships on Monday.The Iranian delegation claimed 10 gold medals, six silver and one bronze in the competition and won the title with 179 points.
Alireza Hosseinpour (Juniors Male -48), Amirhossein Bahrabadi (Juniors Male -73), Ali Najafi (Juniors Male +78), Negar Esmaeili (Juniors Female -44), Yalda Valinejad (Juniors Female -63), Ali Tavakoli (Juniors Male -51), Amir Sina Bakhtiari (Juniors Male -59), Mobina Kalivand (Juniors Female -42), Ghazal Soltani (Juniors Female -52) and Anahita Tavakloi (Juniors Female -68) won 10 gold medals.
Pasha Atarodi (Juniors Male -55), Hamed Asghari (Juniors Male -63), Nastaran Valizadeh (Juniors Female -55), Amir Moevalede Shahrestani (Juniors Male -45), Pedram Jamshidi (Juniors Male -68) and Tina Modanlou (Juniors Female -59) claimed six silver medals.
Ali Akbari also won a bronze medal at the Juniors Male -78.
South Korea came second with 110 points (3-4-7) and China finished in third place with 77 points (3-1-2).
A total of 385 athletes of 31 countries competed in the two-day competition which was held at the Princess Hamza Hall in Amman, Jordan. / Tehran times /
Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said that Iran’s international ranking of innovation has raised 4 steps compared to the corresponding period last year.
Sattari made the remarks on the sidelines of cabinet session on Wednesday.
Sattari mentioned that Iran’s international ranking of innovation has raised 4 steps, added that Iran’s rank in innovation was 120 in 2013, now it is 61.
Iranian VP said that Iran has improved its ranking in the global innovation index, adding that this is the result of the attempts of all the universities, research centers, the country’s economy system, as well as science and technology parks, innovation centers, startups and knowledge-based companies./MNA/
Iranian biology students won four colorful medals at the 30th International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2019) which was held on 14-21 July 2019 in Szeged, Hungary.
Iranian students won 3 silver medals and one bronze medal at IBO 2019 among 285 competitors.
The Iranian team was composed of four competitors, Alireza Tanoori, Ali Yazdizadeh Kharrazi and Mohammadamin Kharaghani, each received a silver medal, Shayan Bagheri Baragoori who won a bronze medal at the international competitions.
The International Biology Olympiad (IBO) is a yearly Biology competition for secondary school students, who are winners of their respective National Biology Olympiad. Their skills in tackling biological problems, and dealing with biological experiments are tested. For a successful performance interest in biology, inventiveness, creativity and perseverance are necessary. IBO gathers young people from all over the world in an open, friendly and peaceful mind. IBO is hosted every year by a different IBO member and takes one week. / MNA /
Iran national football team are going to arrange a friendly match with Bangladesh in Doha, Qatar.
Two federations are negotiating for the match scheduled for Sept. 5, five days before Team Melli’s first match in the 2022 FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 against Hong Kong.
Iran, who have been drawn along with Iraq, Bahrain, Cambodia and Hong Kong, will be aiming for a third consecutive appearance in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Bangladesh are in Group E along with Oman, India, Afghanistan and Qatar.
The eight group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals and the final round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
The next best 24 teams from the second round of the joint qualifiers will compete in a separate competition for the remaining 12 slots in the 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023.
Iran defeated Argentina 3-1 (25-19, 23-25, 25-22, 32-30) in Pool F of the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men’s U21 World Championship on Monday.
The Iranian team, headed by Behrouz Ataei, earned two 3-0 wins over Tunisia and Czech Republic but lost to Russia 3-2 in Pool C.
Morteza Sharifi scored 24 points, with captain Amirhossein Esfandiar adding 23 more for Iran’s win at Isa Sport City.
Argentina opposite Luciano Palonsky scored 27 points in the loss, but has breached the 100-point mark (107 points) after four matches in the competition.
Iran will face Italy on Tuesday.
The top two sides in each pool will qualify for Pools E and F, which will in turn offer two places each in the semi-finals.
The final will be held on July 27.
The 20th edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s U21 World Championship is taking place in Riffa, Bahrain. / Tehran times/
Iranian hospitals admitted 70,000 foreign patients over the last [Iranian calendar] year (March 2018 – March 2019), said the head of medical tourism department at the Ministry of Health.
According to Saeid Hashemzadeh, 169 hospitals which have the necessary permits, admit foreign patients in Iran, ISNA reported on Saturday.
Some 90% of foreign patients in Iran are from Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and other countries around the Persian Gulf, said Hashemzadeh.
“The number of foreign patients in Iran grew by 1.5 percent over the last year compared to its preceding year; and this year we expect the figure to double as we have done some medical marketing,” he said.
“Only over the first three months of the current year (March 21 – June 21), 17,000 foreign patients were admitted to Iranian hospitals,” he added.
Medical tourism made an economic contribution of around $1.2 billion to the country in the last Iranian calendar year (March 2017-March 2018), according to data compiled by the medical tourism department at the Ministry of Health.
In April 2018, the rotating presidency of the International Health Tourism Conference of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) was handed to the Islamic Republic for a three-year term.
In May 2018, Mohammad Jahangiri who presides over a national center for developing health tourism said that Iran has the capacity to annually earn $7 billion in medical and health tourism, though the sector now brings in only one-seventh or even lesser of the sum.
Iran has set its goals to exceed its yearly medical travelers to around 2 million in [calendar year] 1404. / Tehran times/
