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విషవాయువు లీకై 46 మంది ఆస్పత్రిపాలు
కెనడాలో ఘోర దుర్ఘటన జరగింది. కార్బన్ మోనాక్సైడ్ ప్రమాదకర స్థాయిలో విడుదలైన కారణంగా మాంట్రియాల్ నగరంలోని ఓ హోటెల్లో 46 మంది అస్వస్థతకు గురయ్యారు. వీరిలో 15 మంది పరిస్థితి విషమంగా ఉంది.
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Published : Jul 10, 2019, 11:25 AM IST
విషవాయువు లీకై 46 మంది ఆస్పత్రిపాలు
కెనడాలోని ఓ హోటల్లో విషవాయువు లీకైన కారణంగా 46మంది ఆస్పత్రి పాలయ్యారు. 15మంది పరిస్థితి విషమంగా ఉంది. మాంట్రియాల్ నగరంలోని 'సూపర్ 8 మోటెల్'లో ఈ దుర్గటన జరిగింది.
'ఇది చాలా పెద్ద ప్రమాదమని' ఓ అధికారి వ్యాఖ్యానించారు. విడుదలైన వాయువును కార్బన్ మోనాక్సైడ్గా గుర్తించామని వెల్లడించారు. ఈ దుర్ఘటన మోటెల్లోని గ్యాస్ లీక్ కావడం వల్ల జరగలేదని మరో అధికారి స్పష్టం చేశారు. ప్రమాదకర వాయువు ఎక్కడ నుంచి వచ్చిందో తెలుసుకునే దిశగా అధికారులు దర్యాప్తు చేస్తున్నారు.
విషవాయువు లీకై 46 మంది ఆస్పత్రిపాలు ఇదీ చూడండి: రూ.200 కోసం కెన్యా నుంచి భారత్కు..!
కెనడాలోని ఓ హోటల్లో విషవాయువు లీకైన కారణంగా 46మంది ఆస్పత్రి పాలయ్యారు. 15మంది పరిస్థితి విషమంగా ఉంది. మాంట్రియాల్ నగరంలోని 'సూపర్ 8 మోటెల్'లో ఈ దుర్గటన జరిగింది.
'ఇది చాలా పెద్ద ప్రమాదమని' ఓ అధికారి వ్యాఖ్యానించారు. విడుదలైన వాయువును కార్బన్ మోనాక్సైడ్గా గుర్తించామని వెల్లడించారు. ఈ దుర్ఘటన మోటెల్లోని గ్యాస్ లీక్ కావడం వల్ల జరగలేదని మరో అధికారి స్పష్టం చేశారు. ప్రమాదకర వాయువు ఎక్కడ నుంచి వచ్చిందో తెలుసుకునే దిశగా అధికారులు దర్యాప్తు చేస్తున్నారు.
విషవాయువు లీకై 46 మంది ఆస్పత్రిపాలు ఇదీ చూడండి: రూ.200 కోసం కెన్యా నుంచి భారత్కు..!
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Tehran - 7 July 2019
1. Wide of Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister during interview with the Associated Press
2. Close-up of reporter's face listening
3. Low angle of interview
4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister:
"Many politicians around the world have served in their intelligence services. The current US Secretary of State has worked as the CIA chief. Mr. (Vladimir) Putin as the Russian president used to be at the KGB. Is there any problem with having a background in the Iranian intelligence apparatus?"
5. Tilt-up of reporter listening
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister:
"Other politicians who might consider this as a negative point, such as Mr. (Mike) Pompeo (US Secretary of State), have taken part in operations against the people and there is lots of evidence of their actions against humanity."
7. Azari Jahromi being interviewed
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister:
"We believe that this is a very effective network and the fact that I use it means that we think it is effective."
9. Wide of interview
10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister:
"I believe efforts should be made to make access possible for everyone."
11. Cutaway of interview
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister:
"Today, the small states of this region, which are the cradles of dictatorship and have no free elections in them, are investing a lot in social networking to promote Iranophobia in the region."
13. Wide of interview
14. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister:
"They have organised networks and do psychological work to mislead (world leaders) about what the Iranian public is thinking."
15. Wide of interview
16. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister:
"Iran's missile programme is transparent and it doesn't have any hidden dimensions."
17. Tilt-down of letter on wall of the minister's office from a 6th grader to his drawing of an Iranian fist punching through a US flag
18. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister:
"No one doubts America's evil in attacking our infrastructure. We have experienced that in the case of the Stuxnet virus they previously carried out. They always use cyberweapons against other countries and they are carrying out cyberterrorism in the world as a government."
19. Cutaway of interview
20. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister:
"Those who do not want to be up-to-date with the current world where everyone is connected to each other and do not want to keep up with the new world, might like to say that Mr. Jahromi's activities are aimed at future purposes. I have no problem with their speculations."
21. Wide of interview
STORYLINE
A young, social media-savvy Iranian minister who is generating speculation about a presidential run is drawing concern because of his past as an intelligence officer.
Iran's first government minister born after its 1979 Islamic Revolution is a carefully manicured, charming internet engineer who sends Instagram pictures of his weekends with his family and spends 30 minutes a day reading letters from his constituents.
He also once worked for Iran's Intelligence Ministry.
Meet Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, whose quick rise through the Islamic Republic's carefully managed political system already generates speculation he could be a candidate for the country's upcoming 2021 presidential campaign.
From his post as Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister, Jahromi already oversees the country's tightly controlled internet and a satellite programme the US alleges serves as a cover for experiments on intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Despite being heralded as the new, accessible civilian face in a Shiite theocracy now 40-years-old, Jahromi's past as an intelligence officer already has sparked political concern.
However, the 37-year-old politician doesn't see it that way.
"Many politicians around the world have served in their intelligence services," Jahromi told The Associated Press in an interview this week in Tehran.
"The current US secretary of state has worked as the CIA chief. Mr. (Vladimir) Putin as the Russian president used to be at the KGB. Is there any problem with background in the Iranian intelligence apparatus?"
Jahromi in the interview made a point several times to simply describe himself as an engineer.
However, during his parliamentary confirmation hearings in 2017, he acknowledged helping design the ministry's surveillance systems.
He left the ministry in 2009, the year of former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election that sparked mass protests violently suppressed by the government.
European nations and Iranian exile groups accuse Iran's Intelligence Ministry of being involved in assassinations abroad and spying campaigns since its founding.
In Iran's political system, it serves under the direction of elected officials headed by the country's president, now the relatively moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani.
That's contrasted to other intelligence services like those under Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Guard and the Intelligence Ministry routinely find themselves at odds.
The Guard has been behind the internationally criticised arrests of Iranian dual nationals and those with Western ties.
Jahromi defended his work, but did not go into detail in describing it.
"Other politicians who might consider this as a negative point, such as Mr. Pompeo have taken part in operations against the people and there is lots of evidence on their actions against humanity," Jahromi said, without elaborating.
From his post at the ministry, Jahromi oversees the internet in Iran and maintains a Twitter account like other top Iranian officials, such as Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
There, he interacts with those messaging him and occasionally makes news in a country where all radio and television stations remain state controlled.
However, Twitter has been banned for the Iranian public since the 2009 unrest, something many get around by using virtual private networks and other workarounds.
That being said, Jahromi believes Twitter should be unblocked. He blames the judiciary's fears of the microblogging site for keeping the block in place.
"We believe that this is a very effective network and the fact that I use it means that we think it is effective," he said.
"I believe efforts should be made to make access possible for everyone."
Jahromi framed the block on Twitter as a national security risk, saying Gulf Arab states and Iranian exile groups exploited the absence of Iranian voices on the site.
Some 46 million Iranians use the internet and access social media not blocked in the country, predominantly through mobile phones
"Today, the small states of this region, which are the cradles of dictatorship and have no free elections in them, are investing a lot in social networking to promote Iranophobia in the region," Jahromi said.
"They have organised networks and do psychological work to mislead (world leaders) about what the Iranian public is thinking."
Iran plans to launch three satellites later in the year, two that do remote-sensing work and another that handles communications, Jahromi said.
While his ministry is responsible for building the satellites, the Guard's aerospace programme launches them from the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province.
Two earlier satellite launches this year failed to reach orbit.
The US alleges such launches defy a UN Security Council resolution calling on Iran to undertake no activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
Iran, which has long said it does not seek nuclear weapons, maintains its satellite launches and rocket tests do not have a military component.
Tehran also says they don't violate a UN resolution that only "called upon" it not to conduct such tests.
Jahromi stressed Iran's programme is "peaceful."
"Iran's missile programme is transparent and it doesn't have any hidden dimensions," he said.
Jahromi's ministry also controls Iran's internet access, where Western websites are slowed or otherwise filtered.
He acknowledged reports of a recent uptick in US cyberattacks on the country amid tensions over its unraveling nuclear deal with world powers, but said Iran continued to fend off such assaults.
"No one doubts America's evilness in attacking our infrastructure," Jahromi said, mentioning the suspected US and Israeli Stuxnet attack targeting its centrifuges prior to the nuclear deal.
"They always use cyberweapons against other countries and they are carrying out cyberterrorism in the world as a government," he said.
Jahromi appears to have aspirations beyond his current position. He started a programme allowing people to write him postage-free at his office and he said he spends 30 minutes a day reading and responding to letters, a habit of former US President Barack Obama.
Two letters hung taped to the wall in his office, one including a child's drawing of an Iranian fist punching through a US flag.
"Those who do not want to be up-to-date with the current world where everyone is connected to each other … might like to say that Mr. Jahromi's activities are aimed at future purposes," he said. "I have no problem with their speculations."
Pressed on his answer, Jahromi smiled and answered in English: "I think I said something that is good for you."
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