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Qeshm, IRNA – Hawksbill sea turtles, likely to become extinct, have hatched out of the eggs and are on way to the southern Iranian waters of the Persian Gulf early on Sunday.

The first group of hawksbill sea turtles (eretmochelys imbricata) crawled to the water from the beach of a village in southern Iranian island of Qeshm.

A few days ago, the head of the Qeshm environment department predicted that over 2,000 turtle eggs would hatch here.

Mohammad Dakhteh said that about 80 percent of those eggs are fertile.

Tehran, IRNA – Four Iranian entities are going to sign memoranda of understanding worth 2.8 billion dollars for development studies of oil and gas fields.

The National Iranian Oil Company, Iranian petrochemical companies, the National Iranian Oil Industry Pension Fund, and the Parsian Sepehr Refining Company will ink four MoUs to allocate 2.8 billion dollars for development studies of oil and gas fields, collecting flare gases and ethane extraction.

Tehran, IRNA – Secretary of Islamic Republic of Iran Human Rights Headquarters Kazem Gharibabadi called on the international community to make a stand against the Zionist regime's "unspeakable crimes".

"How can one expect the blood-thirsty Israeli regime which headshots journalists to respect their dead bodies?" Gharibabadi asked in a Twitter message on Saturday.

"Enjoying the United States’ unwavering support for decades, the regime’s unspeakable crimes will continue with no end in sight – unless the intl. community makes a stand!" he added.

Tehran, IRNA – President Ebrahim Raisi has underscored that unity among Shias and Sunnis is considered as a strategy, not a tactic, from the standpoint of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In a meeting with a number of Sunni scholars, Raisi said on Sunday that clerics and scholars enjoy significant position in Iran’s history.

“You Sunni clerics and thinkers have provided many services in their own country,” the president said, adding, “Shiites and Sunnis have lived together in Islamic Iran for many years.”

TEHRAN, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Navy has thwarted a pirate attack on an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, Iranian Press TV reported on Saturday.

Unidentified pirates attacked the ship on Friday, but facing the fire from the Iranian Navy's 80th fleet they fled, the Navy said in a statement.

The Iranian vessel is now sailing to its designated destination, it added.

Over the past years, Iran's Navy has managed to foil several attacks on both Iranian and foreign vessels in international waters.

12 May 2022; MEMO: An Asiatic cheetah has given birth to three cubs at a facility in Iran, marking the first time the critically endangered species have been bred in captivity.

12 May 2022; MEMO: Qatar's ruler, Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, has arrived in Iran, Iranian state media reported today, as the Gulf state tries to help end a row between Tehran and Washington over the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, Reuters reports.

TEHRAN, May 11 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on Wednesday that two European individuals aimed at causing "unrest", "social disorder" and "instability" in the country were arrested.

The ministry said in a statement that the two individuals from a European country, who had entered Iran seeking to "abuse the rightful demands of some of the country's associations and social classes and change the direction of the normal requests toward unrest as well as social disorder and instability", were identified and arrested by its forces.

11 May 2022; MEMO: Iran's Revolutionary Guards shelled an area north of the Kurdish Iraqi capital of Erbil today, targeting what Iranian state television described as terrorist bases, Reuters reports.

Iraqi Kurdish media reported that an artillery shell had landed in a village in the Sidekan area near the Iranian border, around 100 kilometres northeast of Erbil.

Iranian state TV said no casualties had been reported and details of the attack would be announced shortly.

11 May 2022; MEMO: Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said yesterday that Turkey's decision to build dams which would harm the Iranian people and negatively affect water flowing into the Islamic Republic is "not acceptable", local news agency IRNA reported.