Iran’s Marivan, Sirjan Registered as World Cities of Handicrafts
TEHRAN (Dispatches) – The World Crafts Council has registered the Iranian cities of Marivan and Sirjan as well as the village of Kalpourgan for their well-known handicrafts.
Bahman Namvar-Motlaq, a deputy of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran, said on Sunday that the World Crafts Council had sent inspectors to Marivan in the western Kermanshah Province, Sirjan in the southern Kerman Province, and Kalpourgan in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
After studying reports prepared by the inspectors, the council members voted to register Marivan and Sirjan as the world cities of rugs and traditional shoes called Kalash respectively, as well as Kalpourgan as the world village of pottery, he said.
The official further expressed hope that other Iranian cities would be nominated for the title in the future.
Mashhad, Lalejin, Isfahan and Tabriz have already been recorded as the world cities of gemstones, pottery, handicrafts and hand-woven carpets, respectively.
Iran now holds the first place in terms of the number of its cities and villages registered by the World Crafts Council.
Abadi described the upcoming Kurdish vote as "unconstitutional” and "illegal,” noting that Baghdad was resorting to all legal processes it has at its disposal in response to the referendum.
"If you challenge the constitution and if you challenge the borders of Iraq and the borders of the region, then ... this is a public invitation to the countries in the region to violate Iraqi borders as well [which] would be a very dangerous escalation,” he warned.
Asked whether the use of force was on the table, the Iraqi premier stressed that if the Iraqi population is "threatened by the use of force outside the law, then we will intervene militarily.”
The Kurdish vote, he said, jeopardizes gains achieved by the Iraqi Kurds under a self-rule government and opens "the gate for regional intervention in the KRG. Not in the rest of Iraq, but in the KRG."
Asked whether he would ever accept an independent Kurdistan, Abadi said it was a "constitutional matter.”
"It's not up to me, there is a constitution. … I don't have legal authority to accept this referendum. … If they (the Kurds) want to go down that road, they should work toward amending the constitution,” he pointed out.
Bahman Namvar-Motlaq, a deputy of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran, said on Sunday that the World Crafts Council had sent inspectors to Marivan in the western Kermanshah Province, Sirjan in the southern Kerman Province, and Kalpourgan in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
After studying reports prepared by the inspectors, the council members voted to register Marivan and Sirjan as the world cities of rugs and traditional shoes called Kalash respectively, as well as Kalpourgan as the world village of pottery, he said.
The official further expressed hope that other Iranian cities would be nominated for the title in the future.
Mashhad, Lalejin, Isfahan and Tabriz have already been recorded as the world cities of gemstones, pottery, handicrafts and hand-woven carpets, respectively.
Iran now holds the first place in terms of the number of its cities and villages registered by the World Crafts Council.
Abadi described the upcoming Kurdish vote as "unconstitutional” and "illegal,” noting that Baghdad was resorting to all legal processes it has at its disposal in response to the referendum.
"If you challenge the constitution and if you challenge the borders of Iraq and the borders of the region, then ... this is a public invitation to the countries in the region to violate Iraqi borders as well [which] would be a very dangerous escalation,” he warned.
Asked whether the use of force was on the table, the Iraqi premier stressed that if the Iraqi population is "threatened by the use of force outside the law, then we will intervene militarily.”
The Kurdish vote, he said, jeopardizes gains achieved by the Iraqi Kurds under a self-rule government and opens "the gate for regional intervention in the KRG. Not in the rest of Iraq, but in the KRG."
Asked whether he would ever accept an independent Kurdistan, Abadi said it was a "constitutional matter.”
"It's not up to me, there is a constitution. … I don't have legal authority to accept this referendum. … If they (the Kurds) want to go down that road, they should work toward amending the constitution,” he pointed out.