Iranian Cancer Researcher Detained Despite Valid Visa
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Art & Culture July 13, 2017 3 This Day in History Iranian Cancer Researcher (July 13) Today is Thursday; 22nd of the Iranian month of Tir 1396 solar hijri; corresponding to 18th of the Islamic month of Shawwal 1438 lunar hijri; and July 13, 2017, of the Christian Gregorian Calendar. Detained Despite Valid Visa 1069 lunar years ago, on this day in 368 AH, the pleasure-seeking Ezz od- Dowla Daylami, son of Moiz od-Dowla the Buwaihid conqueror of Baghdad, to return to Iran around 9 p.m., was killed in battle with his cousin, Adhud od-Dowla, the son of Rukn od- Dowla, near the River Tigris after rebelling against the central authority of the despite having a valid work visa then Shiraz-based Buwaihid confederacy. Adhud od-Dowla, a few years later to join the Boston Children’s after the passing away of his father, became the senior-most Buwaihid Amir of Iraq and Fars, at a time when Baghdad was wracked by violence and instability. Hospital, according to the Boston He restored peace and patronized scholars such as the celebrated Shaikh Mufid, Globe. besides renovating the holy shrines in Najaf and Karbala. An observatory was It’s not clear as why Dehnavi built by him in Isfahan, and the dam known till this day as “Band-e Amir” was built on his orders between Shiraz and Istakhr. He dug the Haffar Canal joining and his family are being detained the Karun River to the Arvand Roud at the confluence of the Rivers Tigris and — but they’ll likely be deported Euphrates. The port of Khorramshahr is built on the Haffar, at its joining point back to Iran Tuesday, the hospital with the Arvand Roud. He embellished Baghdad with numerous public buildings including the famous public hospital known as “Bimaristan-e Adhudi”. It is said. worth noting that the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali (AS), had centuries In an emailed statement, Boston earlier prophesied the coming to power of the Iranian Buwaihid Dynasty and the death of one cousin at the hands of the other with the words: “The licentious son children’s hospital said Dehna- of the one-handed will be killed by his cousin, beside the Tigris.” The reference vi was traveling on a J-1 visa, one-handed is to Moiz od-Dowla who had lost one of his hands in a battle. a non-immigrant visa issued to 840 lunar years ago, on this day in 598 AH, the prominent theologian, Mohammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Idris al-Hilli, passed away at the age of 55. A child highly skilled research scholars, prodigy, he became a prominent scholar at a fairly young age. He believed that professors and exchange visitors. selecting the right path is the duty of every sane and grown up person, and anyone who does not make use of this blessing of the intellect has committed Late last month, the U.S. Su- a self-destructive blunder. Among the valuable books written by him is “as- preme Court allowed a revised Sara’er”. version of Trump’s travel ban 696 solar years ago, on this day in 1321 AD, the most prominent Sufi preacher of the Deccan (Southern India), Seyyed Mohammad Zaidi Hussaini, popular to take effect, banning migrants as “Band-e Nawaz Gesudaraz”, was born in Delhi into a family of migrants from six countries, including from Herat, Khorasan, that traced its lineage to Martyr Zaid, the son of Imam Boston Logan international airport. Iran, from entering the U.S. Zain al-Abedin (AS). A disciple of Seyyed Naseer od-Din titled “Chiragh-e Dehli” (Lamp of Delhi), he spent several years in Qandahar and Baluchestan BOSTON (Dispatches)-An Ira- detained at Boston Logan inter- President Donald Trump’s revised The court ruled that the ban as a preacher, before returning to Northern India. In 1398, at the age of 77, he nian cancer researcher traveling national airport with his wife and travel ban came into effect. could not apply to travelers who moved south to Daulatabad in the Deccan, and settled down in Gulbarga, at the invitation of Taj od-Din Firouz Shah of the Bahmani Dynasty of Iranian origin. to the U.S. on a valid visa has been three children , two weeks after Dr. Mohsen Dehnavi was forced already had valid visas. He died at the age of 101, and his shrine in Gulbarga is a site of pilgrimage. He wrote about 195 books in Arabic, Persian and the Deccani form of early Urdu. His book on Prophet Mohammad (SAWA) titled “Me’raj al-Asheqin” for the instruction of the masses is regarded as the first one of its kind in vernacular language, rather than in Persian or Arabic. He was a devout follower of the Parts of Sixth Mass Extinction Taking Place, Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt. 317 solar years ago, on this day in 1700 AD, the Treaty of Istanbul was signed Scientists Warn between Czarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire, ending the 14-year long Koohnak Russo-Turkish War. Peter the Great saw the futility of continuing the war against NEWYORK (Dispatches) _ the Turks, and secured his occupation of the Azov region, thereby ending 230 Scientists report there have been years of Muslim rule, and gaining a vital outlet for Russia on the Black Sea. The treaty was superseded by the Treaty of the Pruth in 1711, which returned Azov Castle five mass extinction events on to the Ottomans and remained with them until the 1783 war when the Russians Earth in which a wide diversity again occupied it. of species on this planet sudden- 246 solar years ago, on this day in 1771 AD, the three-year scientific voyage of Discovered in ly died off. Now, there’s growing British sailor, James Cook, to the Earth’s southern hemisphere came to its end. A team of biologists, during this voyage, studied the plants, animals, and residents evidence that a sixth mass extinc- of southern hemisphere, and another team observed the Planet Venus in this long tion is taking place. journey, which commenced on July 26, 1768. Eastern Iran In a new study, researchers 184 lunar years ago, on this day in 1254 AH, the prominent scholar and theologian, Mohaddith Mirza Hussain Noori, was born in the city of Nour in TEHRAN (IRNA) - Parts of from Stanford University and Mazandaran. He strove to scrutinize the vast hadith literature and became an the National Autonomous Uni- the fortifications of Koohnak authority in this regard. He authored several valuable books, including “an- versity of Mexico unveiled a Najm ath-Thaqeb” on the Imam of the Age, and the encyclopedic work in over Castle and its adjacent area granular look at population twenty volumes titled, “Mustadrik Wasa’el ash-Shi’a”. He was the teacher of were discovered during ex- Shaikh Abbas Qomi, the compiler of the prayer-supplication manual, “Mafatih trends among 27,600 species in species considered at low risk lar location — “which will have al-Jenan” or Keys to Paradise. ploration operations in the of birds, amphibians, mam- of extinction. In general, they negative cascading consequenc- 139 solar years ago, on this day in 1878 AD, as per the Treaty of Berlin, the ancient site of Koohank in mals, and reptiles — half of the found that the world’s temper- es on ecosystem functioning and European powers redrew the map of the Balkans. As a result, Serbia, Montenegro Sarbisheh, South Khorasan and Romania became completely independent of the Ottoman Empire. world’s known terrestrial ver- ate regions are losing species at services vital to sustaining civi- 103 solar years ago, on this day in 1914 AD, the prominent scholar of Province. tebrates — including detailed equal or even higher rates than lization,” the researchers wrote. Persian literature and Iranian studies, Mohammad Moin, was born in Rasht, The Public Relations Office of analysis of 177 species of mam- the tropics. “We describe this as a ‘biolog- Gilan Province. He learned Arabic at a young age, and completed his studies at Tehran’s Dar al-Fonoun Academy, where he obtained BA in literature and the Research Institute of Cultural mals. “Earth is experiencing a huge ical annihilation’ to highlight philosophy in 1934. He went to Belgium and graduated in applied psychology, Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), They found an “extremely episode of population declines the current magnitude of Earth’s anthropology and cognitive science. On returning to Iran he did his doctoral quoted head of the fifth archeo- high degree of population de- and extirpations” — when a spe- ongoing sixth major extinction research at Tehran University in Persian literature and linguistics. Gradually, he cay” among vertebrates, even cies ceases to exist in a particu- event.” became professor at Tehran University. In 1946, with the start of publication of logical exploration season Mo- the famous Persian lexicon “Lughat-Nameh Dehkhoda” by Allamah Professor hammad Farjami as saying on Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, he began cooperation with him and contributed valuable Wednesday that the architectural articles to the project. His magnum opus is the 6-volume “Farhang-e Moin” (Moin Dictionary). structures date back to the Sel- 73 solar years ago, on this day in 1944 AD, Hungarian mathematician and juk up to the Ilkhan periods and educator, Erno Rubik, famous for inventing “Rubik’s Cube”, was born in Budapest. In 1974 he invented the Cube which consists of 26 small cubes that their dominant materials include rotate on a central axis. It has nine coloured cube faces, in three rows of three strata, bulk stone, adobe, mud each, form each side of the cube.