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TEHRAN In a statement on Friday, the Taliban Ministry of Water and Energy announced that Kabul is committed to the Iran-Afghanistan Water Agreement and announced the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan is ready to implement the water rights agreement with the Iranian side.

The pronouncement of commitment to water share was made by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid through Twitter.

The statement said that in connection with the management of the Helmand River, it will adhere to all legal, technical issues and annexes to the water treaty signed between Iran and Afghanistan in 1351.

The ministry stressed that it is ready to cooperate with friendly and neighboring country of Iran in an atmosphere of trust to implement the provisions of this permanent agreement.

On March 13, 1973, Iran and Afghanistan signed a water agreement on the Helmand River water rights.

According to the agreement, Iran must receive 820 million cubic meters of water from the Helmand River.

In his press briefing on January 31, Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, stressed that the ministry is seriously pursuing the implementation of the water rights agreement.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that the governing body of Afghanistan has announced that this right is definite and they have opened the dam, but the water has not arrived. It is important to us how committed the governing body is to international and bilateral law, Khatibzadeh said in response to a question posed by the Tehran Times correspondent.

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The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Islamic Republic of Irans peaceful nuclear activities was inked by the United Nations Security Councils five permanent (P5) members China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States plus Germany on one side and Iran on the other in Vienna, Austria, on June 14, 2015, and was adopted by the UNSC in Resolution 2231 on July 20, 2015.

But as Donald Trump took the saddle of the US presidency and rode into the Oval Office, he trampled on this international agreement, which resulted not only in the US withdrawal on May 8, 2018 but its unilateral exertion of more sanctions, which ran the implementation of the JCPOA into numerous problems.

Yet, in spite of vicissitudes during past years, the JCPOA, exerting toils and entente of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is still alive and the worlds effort to safeguard it indicates the multilateralism significance of this international deal in the political, security and economic gamut not only for its signatories but for the international community.

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Iranian banks refuse to give government-mandated mortgages and loans to people, saying they dont have the needed funds to comply with regulations.

According to a report by Aftab news on Friday, loans to help people pay their mortgages and rents were ratified by the government and the ministry of roads and urban development but the Central Bank of Iran has sided with the banks that say they dont have the necessary funds.

Some applicants say when they tell the banks that the ministry has approved the $2,800 loans, the banks reply that the ministry may have decided, but no one has provided funding for such loans.

Under heavy pressure to help citizens impoverished by current economic crisis, the government has made promises to help low-income citizens.

The government has also increased the amount of the marriage loans to increase the population a favorite goal for the countrys Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The banks are told to offer $4,000 loans, but according to reports about 35 percent of applicants didnt manage to receive any money.

The government has also proposed loans for childbearing in next years budget, with the amount increasing with each additional child.

According to Irans head of the Center for Strategic Research on Population, Iran has now the lowest birth rate in the Middle East after experiencing the fastest decline in births during the past three decades.

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TEHRAN Iran Between Two Revolutions by Ervand Abrahamian, an Iranian-American historian of the West Asia, has been published by the Ney publishing house in Tehran.

Originally published in 1982, the book has been rendered into Persian by Ahmad Golmohammadi and Mohammad-Ebrahim Fattahi.

Emphasizing the interaction between political organizations and social forces, Abrahamian discusses Iranian society and politics during the period between the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909 and the Islamic Revolution of 1977-1979.

Presented here is a study of the emergence of horizontal divisions, or socio-economic classes, in a country with strong vertical divisions based on ethnicity, religious ideology and regional particularism.

Abrahamian, who is widely regarded as one of the leading historians of modern Iran, focuses on the class and ethnic roots of the major radical movements in the modern era, particularly the Constitutional Movement of the 1900s, the communist Tudeh party of the 1940s, the nationalist struggle of the early 1950s, and the Islamic upsurgence of the 1970s.

In this examination of the social bases of Iranian politics, Abrahamian draws on archives of the British Foreign Office and India Office that have only recently been opened; newspaper, memoirs, and biographies published in Tehran between 1906 and 1980; proceedings of the Iranian Majles and Senate; interviews with retired and active politicians; and pamphlets, books and periodicals distributed by exiled groups in Europe and North America in the period between 1953 and 1980.

Abrahamian explores the impact of socio-economic change on the political structure, especially under the reigns of Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah, and throws fresh light on the significance of the Tudeh party and the failures of the Shahs regime from 1953 to 1978.

Abrahamian is a distinguished professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Photo: A combination photo shows Ervand Abrahamian and the front cover of the Persian translation of his book Iran Between Two Revolutions.

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A senior Iranian military commander says the Islamic Republics Armed Forces will not allow any aerial objects to enter the countrys airspace without authorization, warning of a crushing response to such an intrusion.

Brigadier Ali Asadi, commander of Irans Western Air Defense Zone, made the remark in a ceremony held in the western province of Hamedan on Friday to commemorate the 43rdanniversary of the Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the former US-backed Pahlavi regime in 1979.

Highlighting the role of the military division under his command over the years, Asadi said, The [Iranian] air defense will not allow any unauthorized aerial vehicleto enter the country's skies and will give a crushing response with great aplomb.

The senior Iranian commander also pointed that,The most important and fundamental factor in the victory of the Islamic Revolution was the uprising of the people who had faith in the thoughts of the founder of the Revolutionwho had no apprehensions other than the dignity of Iran and the Iranian nation and not being dependent on foreigners.

The high standing of Iran, especially the countrys Armed Forces, has been established with the support of the Iranian people and the commitment and patriotism of its youths.

The Iranian nation toppled the despotic regime of Pahlavi, which was fully supported by the United States, in the winter of 1979 after the shah regime was forced to allow the late founder of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return from exile.

On the 43rd anniversary of the auspicious occasion, Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) unveiled on Wednesday a new ballistic missile with a range of 1,450 kilometers (900 miles).

Theprecisionstrike ballisticmissile, dubbed Khaybar Shekan,is capable of striking its designated targets with pinpoint accuracy.

A Pentagon study has recently acknowledgedIrans missile power, saying its arsenal is larger than that of any other country in West Asia.

"Iran has an extensive missile development program, and the size and sophistication of its missile force continue to grow despite decades of counter-proliferation efforts aimed at curbing its advancement," it said.

Despite decades of sanctions imposed by Washington, Iran has madesignificant achievements in its ballistic missiles program.

Last month, an American political analyst said Irans missile program has disrupted the strategic military calculations of the United States in West Asia, altering the balance of power in a region where Washington has long sought to maintain a military edge.

The USfears Iran is upsetting the hitherto American-enforced regional balance of power whereby Washington and its allies were supposed to have a decisive military advantage over the Islamic Republic, Andrew Korybko, a Moscow-based American political commentator, told Press TV.

Irans missile program, he said, has increased the cost of a potential military confrontation for the United States. It has caused Americans to second-guess their policies and resort to unconventional means to destabilize Iran, including through proxy warfare against its regional partners, Korybko said.

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