Three Iranian knowledge-based companies offered their latest products developed by nanotechnology in Aquatech China 2018 exhibition.

The Iranian companies presented their latest achievements and nano products in water field in Aquatech China 2018 exhibition.

This was a great opportunity for Iranian companies to expand their trades with high-potential Eastern Asia.

Aquatech China 2018 was held on May 31 to June 2, 2018 at National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) (NECC), China.

As the must-attend event in Asia, Aquatech China focuses on products and services within the water technology supply chain such as wastewater treatment equipment, point of use, and membrane technology; these segments are matched with relevant visitor target groups. / Mehr news /

The two-time Academy Award winner Asghar Farhadi will hold masterclass at the Training Ground section of the New Directors/New Films Festival.

New Directors/New Films Festival is a unique gathering and celebration of emerging filmmakers. This annual event in a beach resort of Espinho is the most vibrant film festival in Portugal, focused on the discovery of new talents worldwide.

Training Ground hosts more than 30 masterclasses and 10 workshops during the festival where the participants –emerging filmmakers, film students, film enthusiasts from all over the world – experience first-class training through workshops and masterclasses lectured by some of the film industry’s top experts with highly acknowledged achievements. Beside learning from the experts, participants are able to share their experience and widen their contacts with other trainees in a relaxed but energetic environment. The Training Ground section is going to be held on June 19-24.

Writing, producing and directing most of his films, Farhadi has been nominated for over 100 awards in festivals all over the world and has won over 60 awards inside and outside Iran.

Definitely one of the foremost filmmakers in international cinema of the moment, who is known for how his dramas examine ethical problems and contradictions arising from social class, gender, and religion in modern Iran.

Farhadi won his first Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year in 2012, with ‘A Separation’, becoming the first Iranian filmmaker to ever win an Academy Award and also being nominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.

Five years later, in 2017, his film ‘The Salesman’ earned Iran the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year award once more and earned Asghar the Best Screenwriter prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

His latest work, ‘Everybody Knows’ (2018), shot in Spain and in Spanish with a cast led by Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, premiered at this year’s edition of Cannes Film Festival as the opening screening and received great reviews. / Iran daily /

Iran is planning to establish an export base in Indonesia for its domestically-manufactured nano products, director of INIC working group for international affairs said Monday.

Ali Beitollahi, Director of the Working Group for International Affairs at Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC), told Mehr News correspondent on Monday that INIC is working toward boosting 10 domestic nano markets to have a two per cent share in the global market.

“Recently, we have begun our cooperation with Indonesia,” he said. “We are planning to establish an export base there that will allow us to export our high-tech products.”

So far, we have exported our nano products to over 45 countries across the world, he said, adding that China is among those targeted countries.

“It is necessary to increase the volume of exports in order to reach bigger markets,” he said. “To realize this objective, we need to expand cooperation with all interested countries.”

He added that Asian countries are high on the list of Iran’s targeted countries for nano cooperation.“Our vision is to make nanotechnology a part of the country’s economy,” he said. / mna/

Three Iranian short films will be screened at the 15th In the Palace International Short Film Festival in Bulgaria.

Vahid Hossieni’s ‘Whole to Part’ will compete with 14 other short films in ‘documantary and experimental competition’ section.

‘Whole to Part’ is the story of destroying and melting the iron statue of a dictator, which continues to survive in smaller objects entering the lives of ordinary people.

‘Light Side’ directed by Moslem Tabatabaie and ‘Nobody’ directed by Elham Toroghi are the two other films attending at ‘best student animation category’ of the festival.

In the Palace International Short Film Festival will be held from June 23-30 in Balchik, Bulgaria. / mna/

According to Essential Science Indicators (ESI), Iranian scientific papers have been cited more than 1,770,000 times globally during last 10-year period which ranks Iran at the top of all Islamic countries in this regard, said the director of ISC Mohammad-Javad Dehqani.

The number of Iran’s highly cited papers have grown from 47 in 2008 to 411 in 2017 which shows the average 24.21 percent annual growth, he said, highlighting, “this shows that Iran has the most significant growth among Islamic countries regarding the quality of scientific productions.”

21.2 percent of total citations of Islamic countries belongs to Iran, he said, adding that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia stand next ranks.

Dehqani emphasized that other metrics such as Web Of Science (WOS) focus on the quantity of papers, however, ESI concentrates on the quality of them.

According to Libguides, essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an analytical tool that helps individuals identify top-performing research in Web of Science Core Collection. ESI surveys more than 11,000 journals from around the world to rank authors, institutions, countries, and journals in 22 broad fields based on publication and citation performance. Data covers a rolling 10-year period and includes bimonthly updates to rankings and citation counts.

/ Mehr news /

Iranian football coach Katayoun Khosrowyar has been shortlisted for World Soccer United (WSU) Coach Award. Khosrowyar will vie with Anouk Bruil and Liga Patupa for the award.

Katayoun Khosrowyar grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As an Iranian-American she has been able to bring her own “revolution” to Iran. It’s a beautiful story that has allowed her to shape the national landscape of Iranian women’s football, womenssoccerunited.com reported. She has empowered Iranian women in football.

In 2014, she was the first Iranian woman to have earned a FIFA/AFC “A” license. At such a young age, she has been able to inspire many girls to pursue their dream of playing football.

Kat has opened up many doors for future generation of girls through her tenacity and persistent. Few of her girls have received offers from Europe.

In addition, Kat not only manages the U-19 side of Iran’s women’s national team, but advises the U-16/U-14 side as well. She is doing the job of three or more people simply because she believes she can create a pathway for a better future for these girls.

Furthermore, she has built communications and bridges with other nations to empower more women in various other countries. This lady single-handedly has been able to build a better relationship with the United States through football. This by itself is great for diplomacy. / Tehran times /

Some three million Iranians have organ donor cards and some 10 percent have signed online consent forms for organ donation, Farahnaz Sadeq-Beigi, head of organ procurement program in Masih Daneshvari Hospital, a national research institute for tuberculosis and lung diseases, has said.

She made the remarks on the occasion of the National Organ Donation Day, May 21, Fars reported on Sunday.  The day commemorates the issuance of a decree by the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, on May 21, 1989, authorizing organ donation.

Traffic accidents are the main reasons of brain deaths in Iran, she said, lamenting that out of 4,000 brain deaths reported by forensics only 1,000 donate their organs.

The hospital’s manager Ali Akbar Velayati, for his part, noted that some 10,000 people are waiting in transplant lists and every day some 10 people waiting for an organ lost their lives. Moreover, he added, some 14 individuals will be added to the list.

The head of the hospital’s transplant surgery department, Azizollah Abbasi, explained that all transplant surgeries performed in Masih Daneshvari Hospital are free of charge and covered by the Ministry of Health.

Organ donation, how and why?

Organ donation is the process of surgically removing an organ or tissue from one person or the organ donor and placing it into another person, also called the recipient. Transplantation is necessary because the recipient’s organ has failed or has been damaged by disease or injury.

Organ transplantation is one of the great advances in modern medicine, but unfortunately, the need for organ donors is much greater than the number of people who actually donate.

Individuals who wish to become organ donors can join a donor registry to legally give consent for the anatomical gift of organs, tissue, and eyes.

Masih Daneshvari Hospital

In 1986 this hospital became a sub division of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical sciences and the hospital served as a center for tuberculosis and lung diseases. In 1992, the research institute was established and merged with the hospital entitled “National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Masih Daneshvari Hospital”.

Lung transplantation, heart transplantation, simultaneous heart-lung and heart-kidney transplantation for the first time in Iran, transplantation of an artificial biologic trachea, and construction of bio artificial liver are some of the achievements of the center.   / Tehran times /

The EU is planning to switch from US dollars to euros in payments for oil supplies from Iran, a diplomatic source has told the Russian Sputnik.

According to Sputnik, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday that after talks with the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Iran in Brussels that the sides had agreed to work out practical solutions in response to the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, within the next few weeks. In particular, the European Union and Iran would maintain and deepen economic ties, including in the area of oil and gas supplies. The source did not disclose more details about the plan.

The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held a meeting with the Foreign Ministers of France (Jean-Yves Le Drian), Germany (Heiko Maas), the United Kingdom (Boris Johnson) as well as EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday evening in Brussels to discuss the ways to guarantee the interests of Iran and other remaining signatories of the JCPOA. / Mehr news /

Adviser to the Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade for International Affairs Mohammad-Reza Fayyaz said that Iran is planning to increase trade volume with Qatar to $1 billion.

He put the trade volume between Iran and Qatar in the past Iraian fiscal year (ended March 20, 2018) at $320 million and added, “after a 12-year hiatus, Iran and Qatar Joint Commission was held in Qatari capital Doha, during which an agreement was inked between the trade ministers of the two countries.”

He added, “Iranian trade and economic delegation, headed by the minister of Industry, was composed of 40 businessmen from the private secto and 40 others from the public sector. During the expert-level meeting, the two sides discussed ways to exapnd trade and economic cooperation.”

Although trade volume exchanged between the two countries already stood at a good level but such bilateral trade was not satisfactory, he said, adding, “with the coordination made in this regard, it has been envisioned that trade volume between the two countries will experience a considerable jump in 2018.”

The two sides held constructive talks in the following fields: facilitating entry of Iranian traders and merchants, easing visa issuance with regard to the economic, trade, business and banking issues, making investment in transport, information technology (IT), free zones, agriculture and environment, oil, gas, petrochemicals and tourism, Fayyaz noted.

Moreover, the two sides exchanged their views in the field of export of technical and engineering services from Iran to Qatar and vice versa as well as making investment in the mining sector.

Fayyaz further pointed to the necessity of facilitating transportation between the two countries and said, “it is hoped that Iran and Qatar will take more giant strides in future to broaden trade and economic ties.”

The next meeting of Iran and Qatar Joint Economic Commission will be held in Tehran.

Iran freestyle wrestling team claimed the title of the 2018 Cadet Asian Championships.

The Iranian team grabbed six gold medals and two bronzes in the competition held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Rahman Amouzad in 45kg, Mohammad Baghi in 65kg, Mohammad Nokhodi in 71kg, Mohammadreza Ghiyasi in 80kg, Ali Abdollahi in 92kg and Amirabbas Zare in 110kg claimed six gold medals for the Iranian wrestling team.

Seyederfan Jafarian in 51kg and Sajjad Goudarzi in 55kg won two bronze medals.

Iran claimed the title with 196 points, followed by Kazakhstan (171 points) and Uzbekistan (146 points).

RESULTS

45kg

GOLD – Rahman Mousa AMOUZADKHALILI (IRI) df. Sultan KURMANALIYEV (KAZ), 10-0

BRONZE – Myrza ZHYRGALBEK UULU (KGZ) df. Chaehwan SHIN (KOR), 10-0

BRONZE – Sarvarbek KHUDAYBERGANOV (UZB) df. Otgonbaatar BOLDBAATAR (MGL), 13-2

48kg

GOLD – Umidjon JALOLOV (UZB) df. Assylzhan YESSENGELDI (KAZ), 10-0

BRONZE –  Saurabh Madhukar IGAVE (IND) df. Munkh Erdene BATKHUYAG (MGL), 12-6

BRONZE – Kento YUMIYA (JPN) df. Elnur AKMATOV (KGZ), 14-2

51kg

GOLD – Arslan RAKHIMOV (UZB) df. Kenessary TAIYRBEK (KAZ), 4-2

BRONZE –  Seyederfan JAFARIANGELYERDI (IRI) df. Faisal ALDOSSARY (KSA), 0-0

BRONZE –  Abdymalik KARACHOV (KGZ) df. Rasuljon INOYATOV (TJK), 4-2

55kg

GOLD – Hayato FUJITA (JPN) df. Auyez SEITBAYEV (KAZ)

BRONZE – Sajjad Ali Reza GOUDARZI (IRI) df. Oseong HAN (KOR)

BRONZE –  Parvinder PARVINDER (IND) df. Rayan Mazen B HAWSAWI (KSA)

60kg

GOLD – Ravinder RAVINDER (IND) df. Iassaui MUKHTARULY (KAZ), 8-1

BRONZE – Yamato HAGIWARA (JPN) df. Amir Arsalan Yousef DARABI GORGELANI (IRI), 4-3

BRONZE – Mirkamol BESHIMOV (UZB) df. Muhammad Asad ULLAH (PAK), 10-0

65kg

GOLD – Mohammad Baghi KARIMISEIFABAD (IRI) df. Bekzat ZHALGASSOV (KAZ)

BRONZE – Masaki SATO (JPN) df. Inayat ULLAH (PAK)

BRONZE – Stambul ZHANYBEK UULU (KGZ) df. Khairullo KULULOV (TJK)

71kg

GOLD – Mohammad Asghar NOKHODILARIMI (IRI) df. Alinur TAKIROV (KGZ)

BRONZE – Azizbek FAYZULLAEV (UZB) df. Hikaru TAKATA (JPN)

BRONZE – Islyambek ILYASSOV (KAZ) df. Kumar ANKIT (IND)

80kg

GOLD – Mohammadreza Ezatollah GHIYASI (IRI) df. Mukhammadrasul RAKHIMOV (UZB)

BRONZE – Yudai TAKAHASHI (JPN) df. Batmagnai ENKHTUVSHIN (MGL)

BRONZE – Ankit VATS (IND) df. Erzo Shamil T ISAKOV (JOR)

92kg

GOLD –  Ali ABDOLLAHI (IRI) df. Yunus GAFUROV (KAZ), 12-2

BRONZE – Shokhjakhon AVAZOV (UZB) df. Banzragch MUNKHBAT (MGL), 2-1

BRONZE –  Monu DAHIYA (IND) df. Ismoil RADZHABOV (TJK), 6-0

110kg

GOLD – Amir Abbas ZARE (IRI) df. Kumar ANIRUDH (IND), 10-0

BRONZE –  Rahmonjon MAHMADBEKOV (TJK) df. Islam TAGIROV (KAZ), 10-0

BRONZE –  Qiang LI (CHN) df. Baehyeong JEONG (KOR), 10-0

TEAM SCORES

GOLD – Iran  (196 points)

SILVER – Kazahstan  (171 points)

BRONZE – Uzbekistan (146 points)

Fourth – India (134 points)

Fifth – Japan (111 points)

/ Tehran times /