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First member of ‘B team’ omitted/ Trump: I disagreed strongly with many of John’s suggestions

First member of 'B team' omitted/ Trump: I disagreed strongly with many of John's suggestionsUS President Donald Trump has fired National Security Adviser John Bolton, saying he has “disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions.”
“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning,” Trump said in a tweet.

John Bolton resignation letter
“I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Adviser next week.”
This comes about 90 minutes before Bolton was expected to appear at a press briefing with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Bolton offered a different version of events than Trump, saying: “I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, ‘Let's talk about it tomorrow.’”
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Iran U23 football team squad announced for Thailand 2020

Iran U23 football team squad announced for Thailand 2020 TEHRAN – Farhad Majidi has named his 22-man team for the 2020 AFC U23 Championship Thailand.
The Iranian team will travel to Tashkent to play two friendly matches with Uzbekistan as part of preparation for Thailand 2020.
The Persians will face Uzbekistan on Sept. 6 at the Metallurg Stadium in Olmaliq in their first match.
Iran will also play Uzbekistan three days later at the Pakhtakor Central Stadium in Tashkent.
The 2020 AFC U23 Championship will be held in Thailand from Jan. 8 to 26.
The top three teams qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July, although should Japan emerge as one of them, the fourth-placed side will advance.
Iran, a powerhouse of the Asian football, have not been in the Olympics since the 1976 games in Munich.
The Qualifiers
Group Winners – Group A: Qatar; Group B: Bahrain; Group C: Iraq; Group D: UAE; Group E: Jordan; Group F: Uzbekistan; Group G: DPR Korea; Group H: Korea Republic; Group I: Japan;..

Leader: Small and medium-sized enterprises are main tools in promoting resistance economy

Leader: Small and medium-sized enterprises are main tools in promoting resistance economy TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet team on Wednesday that production is the key to the resolution of economic problems facing the poor and middle classes.
The Leader also said promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the main tools in resistance economy.
Ayatollah Khamenei said all officials are unanimous on the importance of SMEs and promised to work on this.
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Iran freestyle team runners-up at Cadet World

Iran freestyle team runners-up at Cadet World TEHRAN – Russia produced three World champions on the final night of men’s freestyle action to edge out Iran by two points in the team race on Wednesday at the 2019 Cadet World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Winning gold medals at 51 kg, 60 kg and 71 kg, Russia collected 168 team points, while Iran went 1-2 in its gold-medal matches to finish with 166 points.
The first champion of the night for Russia was two-time U15 European champion Mukhamed KHANIEV (RUS). Wrestling at 51 kg, Khaniev defeated Zhakhongir AKHMAJANOV (KAZ), 10-5.
Following up Khaniev’s performance was Arip ABDULAEV (RUS), who is also a two-time U15 European champion, unitedworldwrestling.org reported.
Abdulaev won a crucial head-to-head over Iran’s Erfan Mohammad ELAHI (IRI), 9-6, in the 60 kg finals. The win was critical in helping push Russia past Iran in the team race.
At the very next weight, 71 kg, Soslan TIGIEV (RUS) wrapped up his first World tournament with..

Tehran hosts conference on boosting production via reviving small mines

Tehran hosts conference on boosting production via reviving small minesTEHRAN- A national conference on boosting production through reviving and developing small mines was held at Eram Hotel in Tehran on Tuesday, IRIB reported.
The conference was attended by Deputy Industry, Mining and Trade Minister Jafar Sarqini, Head of Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) Khodadad Gharibpour, a number of directors and experts in mining sector, entrepreneurs active in projects related to the small mines, and some economists who offered their suggested strategies for reviving the small mines in the country.
Attracting the government’s aids for operating small mines, and recognizing investors and investees for reviving these mines in line with materializing “Resistance Economy” were some objectives of the event.
Establishment of high-capacity industrial units recently in Iran indicates the need for the supply of more minerals as feedstock for these uni..

Iran basketball win Portugal four-team tournament

Iran basketball win Portugal four-team tournamentTEHRAN – Iran national basketball team claimed the title of the Oliveira de Azeméis International Tournament.
Team Melli defeated hosts Portugal 74-70 in their third match.
Iran had already defeated Denmark and Slovakia in the tournament.
Iran will leave Portugal for Russia to take part in a four-team tournament with participation of Russia, Greece and Hungary, scheduled for Aug. 8 to 11.
Mehran Shahintab’s team will also partake at a tournament in China, where they will face Nigeria, Montenegro and Poland from Aug. 19 to Aug. 25.
Iran have been drawn with world’s second-ranked Spain, Puerto Rico and Tunisia in Group C of the 2019 FIBA World Cup.
The competition will be held in China from 31 Aug. to 15 Sept.
The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams.
Rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, this edition will be the first FIBA Basketball World Cup ..

Over $6b of loans paid to SMEs, semi-finished projects in 3 months

Over $6b of loans paid to SMEs, semi-finished projects in 3 monthsTEHRAN – Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade announced that in the first three months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-June 21), some 256.17 trillion rials (nearly $6.1 billion) worth of bank loans have been offered to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and semi-finished industrial projects with an over 60 percent physical progress.
Over 37500 projects and production units received bank loans in the mentioned time span, IRNA reported on Monday.
Last week, the industry ministry released a report which indicated that banks and credit institutions provided both industrial and mining sectors with 300 trillion rials (about $7.14 billion) worth of loans in the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May 21), registering a 41.5 percent rise year on year.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade, the total amount of loans offered to the country’s..

Zarif: Europeans should be concerned over failure to ‘assert’ themselves

Zarif: Europeans should be concerned over failure to ‘assert’ themselvesTEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that European countries’ failure to establish an effective financial channel to trade with Iran is a “source of concern” since “they have not been able to assert themselves” despite having a larger collective economy than the United States.
Zarif made the remarks in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria broadcast on Sunday, as he was asked by Zakaria “Are you surprised by how week the Europeans have been? They talk about providing an alternative payment system. They sort of set one up. But, let’s face it. It’s not working.”
Zarif answered, “Well, it hasn’t started to work. It should. It is a source of concern, I think, more for the Europeans than for us, that they have not been able to basically assert themselves.”
“Europe is, together, a larger economy than the United States. Certainly if all European oil companies, plus the Chinese and Indians an..

Details of Mogherini’s trip to Baghdad: Iraq’s clear messages about Iran

Details of Mogherini’s trip to Baghdad: Iraq’s clear messages about IranTEHRAN – Federica Mogherini, the high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, heading a diplomatic delegation, arrived in Baghdad on Saturday. This was Mogherini’s first trip to Iraq since 2014.
Over her trip to Iraq, Mogherini visited top Iraqi officials including President Barham Salih.
Over the meeting, the two sides discussed recent events in the Middle East and methods to develop mutual relationships. After the meeting, the Iraqi Presidency released a statement.
According to the statement, “in his meeting with Mogherini, the Iraqi President highlighted the importance of coordination and collaboration in order to address the current issues in the region.”
The statement added, “The Iraqi and European sides agreed that there should be joint plans and cooperation for saving the region from war and conflicts.”
During her trip, Mogherini also met Iraqi Foreign Minister ..

۴۴ martyrs of sacred defense transferred to Iran via Shalamcheh border

۴۴ martyrs of sacred defense transferred to Iran via Shalamcheh borderThe remains of 44 soldiers martyred during Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran in the 1980s were transferred to Iran via the Shalamcheh border on Thursday and were honored by the people of the border cities of Abadan and Khorramshahr in Khuzestan Province.
General Mohammad Bagherzadeh, the commander of the search committee for the missing soldiers, said the remains of the 44 martyrs were discovered during the past two months in the regions of Shalamcheh, Katiban, East Euphrates, and Zebidat.
General Bagherzadeh said they were martyred in 1988.
The international Shalamcheh border region is 15 kilometers off Khorramshahr and 20 kilometers from the Iraqi city of Basra.

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