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Female Developers And Consumer Demand Drive Fashion Tech Startups In Iran Forbes Hedieh Oveisi quit her job on the digital team of a large advertising agency to work full-time on a fashion startup. She and six of her team mates are developing a personal styling app after winning first place at Iran's first Startup Weekend focused ...

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DUBAI Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it was no time to build walls between nations and criticized steps towards cancelling world trade agreements, without naming new U.S. President Donald Trump.

Trump on Wednesday ordered the construction of a U.S.-Mexican border wall, a major promise during his election campaign, as part of a package of measures to curb illegal immigration.

"Today is not the time to erect walls between nations. They have forgotten that the Berlin wall fell years ago," Rouhani said in a speech carried live on Iranian state television.

"To annul world trade accords does not help their economy and does not serve the development and blooming of the world economy," Rouhani told a tourism conference in Tehran. "This is the day for the world to get closer through trade."

The protectionist-minded Trump formally withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on Monday, fulfilling a campaign pledge to end American involvement in the 2015 pact.

Rouhani, a pragmatist elected in 2013, thawed Iran's relations with world powers after years of confrontation and engineered its 2015 deal with them under which it curbed its nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions.

For Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, the agreement was a landmark foreign policy achievement but the new president has threatened to annul it or seek a better deal. The other five powers party to the deal have reaffirmed their commitment to it.

Rouhani said earlier this month that Trump could not unilaterally cancel the nuclear deal and that talk of renegotiating it was "meaningless".

Since sanctions were lifted, Iran has signed major deals with Western firms, particularly with planemakers Airbus (AIR.PA) and Boeing (BA.N).

Rouhani said on Saturday: "Today is the time for peaceful co-existence, not the time to create distance among nations."

Rouhani made no direct reference to Trump's order on Friday curbing the entry of refugees into the United States and temporarily barring travelers from Iran and six other Muslim-majority countries. Trump said the moves would help protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

(Reporting by Dubai newsroom; editing by Mark Heinrich)

GENEVA The United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration on Saturday to continue offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, saying its resettlement program was vital.

BEIRUT Several Syrian Islamist factions including al Qaeda's former branch in the country said on Saturday they were joining forces, as clashes between jihadists and more moderate rebels raged on in northwestern areas.

ANKARA British Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday signed a $125 million defense equipment deal with Turkey and promised to push for more trade between the NATO allies, but cautioned Ankara on human rights following last year's failed coup.

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No time to create walls between nations: Iran's Rouhani - Reuters

Iran's president and Berlin's mayor have added their voices to criticism of Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the US border with Mexico.

Hassan Rouhani said the new US President had "forgotten the Berlin wall fell years ago" as he attacked the planned construction, aimed at tackling illegal immigration.

"Today is not the time to erect walls between nations," he said in a speech carried live on Iranian state television.

Separately, Berlin's mayor said his city, which was divided from 1961 to 1989, "cannot look on without comment when a country plans to build a new wall".

"We Berliners know best how much suffering the division of a continent, cemented by barbed wire and concrete, caused," Michael Mueller said.

Recalling former US President Ronald Reagan's challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall", he urged Mr Trump: "Dear Mr President, don't build this wall."

Mr Rouhani also criticised Mr Trump's moves to pull out of global trade deals.

He said: "To annul world trade accords does not help their economy and does not serve the development and blooming of the world economy.

"This is the day for the world to get closer through trade."

The US President has previously threatened to unilaterally cancel a nuclear deal with Iran which has seen sanctions lifted.

On Friday, he signed an executive order which temporarily prevented travellers from Iran and six other Muslim-majority nations from entering the US.

The plan to build the Mexico border wall has prompted anger in America's southern neighbour, with some calling for a boycott of US brands, the expulsion of American law enforcement agents or the halting of inspections of north-bound lorries for drugs.

Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto scrapped a planned meeting on Tuesday with Mr Trump after the American president tweeted that it would be better to cancel if Mexico was unwilling to pay for his proposed wall.

However, the two men spoke on Friday morning with Mr Piena Nieto describing the call as "constructive and productive".

Mr Trump said afterwards: "Great respect for Mexico, I love the Mexican people.

"We have really, I think, a very good relationship, the president and I, and we had a talk that lasted for about an hour this morning, and we are going to be working on a fair relationship."

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Chairman for the Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security of Iran Alaeddin Boroujerdi made the remarks in a press conference with the Pakistani press Friday night in capital Islamabad.

He further highlighted the need for closer cooperation between Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia, adding we believe that major regional countries, particularly Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia, need to have closer strategic cooperation for establishing sustainable peace and security in the region and bringing about economic prosperity for their respective countries.

He went on to maintain that during his visit to Islamabad, certain new steps have been taken toward expansion of cooperation between Iran and Pakistan, noting the resolve for the completion of Iran-Pakistan gas line, the sisterhood status between Irans Chabahar Port and Pakistans Gwadar, as well as the formation of border and security committees for monitoring the two countries' shared borders for any criminal or drug trafficking activity.

Boroujerdi also referred to the upcoming international conference in support of the Palestinian cause in Tehran, adding I have extended the invitation of Irans Parliament Speaker to his Pakistani counterpart and a number of other officials for participation at the conference. Both countries follow the same policy on supporting the oppressed Palestinian nation.

We also conferred on the current developments in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. We both hold the common view that these conflicts cannot be settled through a military approach, rather political efforts are needed to put an end to the crises, he added.

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