Iran’s weightlifter Sohrab Moradi lifted a total of 403 kilograms at the 94-kilogram category of Rio 2016 Olympics Games to win the second gold medal for the Iranian outfit in the world biggest sporting event on August 14, 2016.

Iran’s weightlifter Sohrab Moradi has lifted a total of 403 kilograms at the 94-kilogram category of Rio 2016 Olympics Games, and won the second gold medal for the Iranian squad at the event.

On Friday, Iran won its first gold in the games as weightlifter Kianoush Rostami won the men’s 85-kilogram category with a world record of a total of 396 kilograms. These two golds put Iran in the 20th spot of the Rio Olympics rankings between Switzerland and Sweden.

Moradi first requested 178 kilograms but failed to lift it, but easily lifted it in his second try. Despite being top of the list, for his third attempt he lifted 182 kilograms to raise the bar even further.

Moradi showed an even better performance in the clean and jerk by lifting 221 kilograms in his first try, which was enough to win the gold as the other participants did not lift anything similar in all their three attempts.

In his remaining attempts, he asked for 231 and 233 kilograms to increase the gap with his rivals but he was not successful to change the world record in the category.

Vadzim Straltsou of Belarus claimed silver with a total of 395 kilograms and Lithuania’s Aurimas Didzbalis won bronze on 392 kilograms.

Iran’s other lifter in the 94-kilogram category, Ali Hashemi, finished in the seventh place with a total of 383 kilograms.

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The State Welfare Organization of Iran has facilitated the process for prospective foster or adoptive families, an official with the organization announced.

The adoption and foster laws which dated back to some 44 years ago were revised and modified in 2013 and are going to be implemented in the near future, Habibollah Masoudi-Farid said, Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.

Within the new law kids could be adopted up to the age of 16 while the former law states that kids aged 12 or less could be adopted, Masoudi-Farid noted.

The old law differs from the newly adopted law in that only families with no child could adopt a kid previously but now families with one kid and single women are able to apply for adoption, he added.

The official went on to explain that “the law formerly authorized adoption only for orphans while the new law permit adoption for children with dysfunctional families as well in case the judge concludes that the new family is suitable for adoption.”

He further pointed that earlier the adoptive families were required to sign over one third of their property to their child to-be but some could not afford to do so and now the judge gets to decide how a family, depending on their financial status, should be treated.

Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution some 12,000 kids were being taken care of in the orphanages and other centers of the kind but now the number have diminished to 9,800 as the new laws have facilitated adoption and also allow foster care which was not practiced in Iran beforehand, he stated.

According to the law, Masoudi-Farid said, it takes two months for families who apply for adoption to get approved to adopt or foster.

It is interesting to know that a great deal of families ask for adopting a girl, he said.

/ Tehran Times /

The Iranian Foreign Ministry is going to introduce two women as new ambassadors, an unnamed source from the ministry told the Shargh newspaper.

The Rouhani administration, especially the current foreign minister, believes in the competence of women and are looking forward to make more use of women in high-ranking diplomatic positions, the daily reported on Tuesday, quoting the source.

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Parviz Shahinkhu, the Iranian star of Tunisian filmmaker Nacer Khemir’s 2005 acclaimed drama “Bab’Aziz – The Prince That Contemplated His Soul”, died of respiratory problems at his home in Tehran on Saturday. He was at 101.

“He passed away in the early hours of Saturday while he was bedridden over the past month,” his daughter, Mina, told the Persian service of MNA.

Shahinkhu’s last public appearance was in last September when he attended the 17th Iran Cinema Celebration, during which his 100th birthday was also celebrated.

Shahinkhu was also famous for his parts in the popular series “Qarib’s Life”, filmmaker Kianush Ayyari’s biopic on Mohammad Qarib (1909-1974), the founder of pediatrics in Iran, and Amrollah Ahmadju’s “Once Upon a Time” about Hesam Beik and Morad Beik, the leaders of two major bandit gangs that attacked travelers before Reza Shah came to power in Iran in 1925.

Born in 1915, he acted in “Haji Agha, the Cinema Actor” (1934) and “Abi and Rabi” (1935) Iran’s first and second movies directed by Ovanes Oganians, a Russian-Armenian migrant.

He played the parts of many wise characters in dozens of movies, telefilms and series.

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An international Olympiad of math, chemistry and statistics will open today in Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University, Tasnim news agency reported.

Starting from Sunday the event will last for five days and students from Russia, Tatarstan, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Aljazeera, India, Iraq, Poland, and Slovenia along with Iranian students will compete against one another for the first three places.

50 foreign students, 12 foreign professors and 15 Iranian students will take part in the examination.

Students will take the exams for two days and get the final results after two days on Thursday and those come into first three places in each field will be awarded with medals on the closing ceremony of the event.  / Tehran times /

“Green Relief”, a scheme co-developed by Iran’s Red Crescent Society (IRCS) and the Department of Environment (DoE) aims to reduce environmental damages in the near future.

This scheme is intended for minimizing detrimental effects on the environment by taking preventive measures as well as training  volunteers and promoting the culture of environment protection among the public, Tasnim quoted IRCS official Farahnaz Rafe’ as saying.

She noted that waste problem, water crisis, deforestation, desertification, forests fire, air pollution, sustainable development, etc. would be the issues which receive priority in this scheme.

/ Tehran times /

The 8th round of the Razavi International Cardiovascular Congress opened on Wednesday at Razavi Hospital in Mashhad, the capital of northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi. The three-day meeting will present the latest research and scientific achievements in treatment of cardiovascular diseases and provide a platform for sharing experience between foreign and local experts, medcongress.ir reported. Over 400 domestic and foreign surgeons, cardiologists and doctors from Germany, Britain, US, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Turkey, India, Egypt, South Korea, Vietnam and Ireland are participating.

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Golestan Gallery in Tehran will, like in the past years, hold the exhibition ‘100 Works, 100 Artists’ this summer too. The show is set to open on July 22.

Known as the oldest visual arts event run by the private sector in Iran, this year it will present 220 paintings, calligraphy paintings and sculptures from 195 artists, Mehr News Agency reported.

“The presence of artists from outside Tehran and presentation of sculptures are significant in this year’s edition,” gallery director Lili Golestan said.

High quality of artworks as well as reasonable prices are the two factors considered in the 24th edition.

The highest price tag is for a painting by the late contemporary poet Sohrab Sepehri ($70,000); however, in order to attract and encourage people from different social strata to purchase pieces of art, the gallery will also present works costing as low as $30.

Since the gallery motto is “Any Iranian Home, One Art Piece”, it has always paid serious attention towards the ordinary people by providing them with affordable artworks.

Of the 195 artists, 130 are women and 65 men. A total of 190 paintings and calligraphy paintings will be put on display besides 30 sculptures.

Born in Tehran, Lili, 72, studied dress and textile design at the Decorative Art Institute of Paris. Simultaneously, she attended classes on world art history and French literature at La Sorbonne. While in Paris, she also participated in pottery classes.

After she returned home she took up a job as a textile designer at a textile factory. Later, she worked in national television as a dress designer for TV shows.

She quit her TV job after seven years and published her first translation of a novel in 1967: ‘Life, War and Then Nothing’ by Italian author Oriana Fallaci. The book was welcomed and encouraged her to translate more novels. She has since published more than 20 books.

Lili founded Golestan Gallery in 1988 and since then has tried to make it easy for people to buy art, support new talent and young artists and take strong steps to expand the horizons of art in society.

She is the daughter of well-known filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan and sister of the late photojournalist Kaveh Golestan. Filmmaker Mani Haghighi is her son.

The exhibition will run till August 17, at No. 34, Shahid Kamasai Ave., Darouss.

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