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Iranian ‘Mr. Director’ awarded in Spanish festival

reporter 1222 — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:04:35 +0000

TEHRAN– ‘Mr. Director’ directed by Ali Erfan Farhadi won a prize worth 200 euros and a statuette at the Spanish film festival ‘Atlantis Film Awards.’

The Spanish festival has been organized to screen social films, and Farhadi’s film was featured in a special section dedicated to narcotics.

The Atlantis Film Award Festival initially received 300 films from 20 countries, and selected and screened 50 of them on December 28 – 29.

The summary of ‘Mr. Director’ reads “some boys and girls are playing in an alleyway; Sina has a box in his hands using it as a camera.”

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Spanish Judge Withdraws Arrest Warrant for Carles Puigdemont

reporter 1222 — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:45:57 +0000

TEHRAN – A Spanish judge has withdrawn the European arrest warrants for the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, who fled to Belgium after the Madrid government fired him, and four of his ministers.

The judge, Pablo Llarena, said the former president and the Catalan cabinet members in Belgium had shown a willingness to return to Spain while withdrawing the warrants also prevented more than one European jurisdiction overseeing the case, The Guardian reported.

Court sources however said Spanish arrest warrants were still in force against the five and they would be detained upon arrival in the country. Official campaigning for a 21 December regional election, called after Puigdemont’s government was dissolved, began on Tuesday.

More than a dozen Catalan leaders are facing possible charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds in Spain over their roles in October’s illegal independence referendum and the subsequent unilateral declaration of independence.

Llarena also argued that the European warrant would complicate the overall probe into Catalan leaders. He said Belgium could reject some of the reasons behind the warrant, which could possibly reduce the charges and create inequalities with those back in Spain.

Six former Catalan cabinet members facing charges were on Monday granted bail but the deposed Catalan vice-president, Oriol Junqueras, looks set to contest this month’s regional election from a prison cell after a judge at Spain’s supreme court denied him bail, saying it remained to be seen whether his pledge to abide by Spanish law was “truthful and real”.

A Belgian court had on Monday given the five Catalans a 14 December date for a decision on whether to grant a European arrest warrant and extradite them.

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Spanish exhibit explores beauty of Persian, Islamic architecture

reporter 1222 — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 10:15:01 +0000

TEHRAN – Spanish architect Jose Maria Simon showcased a collection his photos depicting the glory of Persian and Islamic architecture in an exhibition at the University of Almeria in his country.

The beautiful tiles and geometric motifs used in the religious and civil structures of Iran were highlighted in the exhibit “Fascinating Persia, Beauties of Islamic Geometry”, the university announced.

The exhibit, which was held from October 6 to November 13, put 30 photos on display that Maria Simon took during a trip to Iran.

In the closing ceremony held at the university on Monday, Iranian cultural attaché to Spain Alireza Esmaeili said that the photos represented a small part of the sustainable Islamic Iranian architecture, whose examples are observed in Spain by the presence of Islam.

The rector of the University of Almeria, Carmelo Rodriguez Torreblanca, also gave a short speech during the ceremony, in which he thanked Esmaeili for organizing the exhibition.

He also expressed his hope that there would be more opportunities for Spanish people to become better acquainted with Persian art.

Also at the closing ceremony, Pilar Garrido Clemente, the professor of Arab and Islamic studies at the University of Murcia, delivered a speech titled “Spiritual Geometry and Architecture in Iran”.

Iran’s Cultural Office in Spain organized the exhibit in collaboration with the University of Almeria.

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Turkey says Spanish Territorial Integrity Is key

reporter 1222 — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:30:50 +0000

TEHRAN – Turkey’s foreign ministry spokesman says respect for Spain’s territorial integrity is a main “principle.”

Huseyin Muftuoglu said in a statement issued early Tuesday that it was important that both sides abide by Spain’s laws and avoid violence.

His comment follows Sunday’s independence referendum in Catalonia that Spain’s courts deemed illegal. More than 800 people were injured as riot police clashed with unarmed civilians trying to cast their ballots, AP reported.

Muftuoglu said Turkey believes Spain will overcome “such tests.”

Turkey, which is battling a Kurdish insurgency, has strongly opposed a referendum on independence by the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in neighboring Iraq, threatening economic sanctions and military action.

Labor unions and grassroots pro-independence groups are urging workers to hold partial or full-day strikes throughout Catalonia to protest alleged brutality by police during a referendum on the region’s secession from Spain that left hundreds of people injured.

The strike call comes as Catalan leaders ponder a possible declaration of independence this week following the referendum that Spain said was illegal and invalid.

Port workers were being called to demonstrate Tuesday outside the regional headquarters of Spain’s ruling Popular Party while firefighters planned a rally outside the Interior Ministry’s regional office in the Catalan capital of Barcelona.

Protests were also to be staged outside polling stations where police acted with force to try to prevent Sunday’s poll being held.

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