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• Military chief says Iran will see remarkable progress in air defense power P2 • Iran has no problems in borders with Afghanistan, border guard official saysP2 8 Pages | Price 50,000 Rials | 1.00 EURO | 4.00 AED | 43rd year | No. 14022 | Monday | AUGUST 30, 2021 | Shahrivar 8, 1400 | Muharram 21, 1443 • Iran to meet Czech at 2021 FIVB U19 World C’ship round of 16 P3 • Esteghlal midfielder Rigi signs forSepahan P3 • Iran FM holds extensive talks in Baghdad P3 Iran embarks on a new • Mining projects worth $1.9b to be put into operation by next March P4 • Average daily gasoline consumption stands at 83.4m liters in a month P4 Page 3 • Housing prices rise 3.1% in Tehran City P4 regional policy • France, Britain to propose Kabul “safe zone” P5 Interview • Iranian, Persian Gulf officials “meet” in Baghdad P5 Ties between Iranian judo athletes • 90 historical objects restored in UNESCO- registered Susa P6 Israel and Persian win two gold medals at New book explores Portuguese fort in Gulf monarchies southern Iran P6 Paralympics 2020 • Over $125 million allocated to take place in dark: nanotechnology sector P7 • Iran awaiting 100m doses of coronavirus Scottish activist vaccine by yearend P7 • Reading promoter says Iran is lingering hope for Afghan migrants P8 By Mohammad Mazhari TEHRAN - An anti-racist activist from Scotland • Composer Hushang Kamkar dedicates says Israel and most Persian Gulf Arab states have “Another Grieved Land” to Afghan people P8 clandestine relations. “Naturally most of these relations between Israel and the (Persian) Gulf monarchies take place in the dark and so it’s difficult to gauge their extent,” Mick Napier tells Ten lessons to be the Tehran Times. “We know however that the UAE hired an Israeli learned from the American mercenary company, Spear Operations, to carry out a program of killing political figures, U.S. disastrous war members of the Al Islah Party in Yemen who were opposed to the UAE military presence in the country,” on Afghanistan adds Napier. Nobody doubts that Persian Gulf Arab countries are competing to earn modern technologies of espionage. It By Andrew Korybko is safe to say that they may have gained access to Israel’s The U.S. panicked retreat from Afghanistan technological skills, including Pegasus, to spy on their following the Taliban’s complete takeover of the foes and dissidents. country leaves many lessons to be learned from “Knowing that Israel and the UAE cooperated Amir Ostovari America’s longest-ever war. Tens of thousands on an assassination program against political of lives were lost and over $2 trillion was wasted figures in Yemen we can safely conclude that their TOKYO – Iranian judo athletes Vahid Nouri and Nouri seized the gold in the men’s -90kg weight Latchoumanaya by waza-ari in a close bout. only for the situation to revert back to how it was collaboration on matters of repression and illegal almost exactly twenty years ago. Now’s the time Mohammadreza Kheirollahzadeh won two gold category. Nouri finally defeated Elliot Stewart by ippon in surveillance goes much further,” the Scottish for its decision makers, strategists, media, and medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games on Sunday. He defeated Brazilian Cavalcante da Silva the final match and seized a gold. activist notes. civil society to somberly reflect on what went Iran’s Nouri wins gold in judo in Paralympics Arthur by ippon. The Iranian judoka also Kheirollahzadeh also won a gold in judo in the wrong in the hopes that nothing like this ever Napier says, “Just on the last few days, NSO’s 2020 emerged victorious over French athlete Helios men’s +100kg weight category. Page 3 Pegasus spyware has been shown to have infected the happens again. Here are the ten lessons to be phones of nine activists in Bahrain opposed to the Royal learned: dictatorship.” Issuance of industrial unit establishment permits up over 13% in 4 months Legitimate anti-terrorist actions mustn’t be “There is no doubt that Israel will continue not only to exploited for ulterior motives repress and kill Palestinians but also to profit worldwide TEHRAN – According to the latest data released to the last year’s same four months. The official further said that 1,500 idle industrial The U.S. had the international legal right to from the sale of the skills and technology they have by Iran’s Industry, Mining and Trade Ministry, As announced by Deputy Industry, Mining, and units have been revived in the country during the militarily respond against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan developed to do so,” he argues. during the first four months of the current Iranian Trade Minister Mehdi Sadeqi Niaraki, the issuance previous year. out of self-defense after it concluded that the calendar year (March 21-July 22) 2,169 permits Actually, the spyware is used to collect information of establishment licenses for industrial units in the Touching upon the Industry Ministry’s plans for terrorist group’s leader there was responsible have been issued for establishing new industrial about journalists and rights activists, especially in Arab country increased 40 percent in the past Iranian the realization of the motto of the current year which for planning the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but its units in the country, which marked a 13.3-percent monarchies that have normalized their ties with Israel. calendar year (ended on March 20). is named the year of “Production: support and the greatest mistake was exploiting this as the increase year on year. Page 5 “The number of establishment licenses increased to elimination of obstacles” by the Leader of the Islamic pretext to engage in so-called “nation-building”. The estimated investment making for these units more than 36,000 last year, which shows that people Revolution, the deputy minister said: “In the year “Nation-building” will never succeed was more than 858.7 trillion rials (about $20.4 billion), that has been dedicated to the production sector by are encouraged to invest in the productive sectors”, the It’s impossible to sustainably support the 174.8 percent more than the figure for the previous the Leader of the revolution, the orientation of all Permanent official has stated. cause of so-called “nation-building” whereby year’s same time span, IRNA reported. government organizations and executive bodies should He also said that over 6,500 new industrial units a foreign country aggressively imposes its be towards supporting the country’s industrial and The units are going to create 54,000 job were established across the country during the past completely different way of life onto a targeted exhibitions of mining units.” Page 4 opportunities to register a 46-percent rise compared year, which created jobs for over 121,000 people. state’s inhabitants who historically organized knowledge-based their society on the basis of other morals, ethics, Lavish gifts: 10 souvenir principles, and values. companies to be set Local allies must be held to account ideas your family & After regrettably getting caught up in the up in 7 countries Afghan quagmire, America had the responsibility friends will love to hold its allies there to account instead of letting TEHRAN – Iran National Innovation Fund has them steal from their people, enrich themselves embarked on establishing permanent exhibitions TEHRAN - Tired of bringing home the same old from the drug trade and other forms of organized in seven countries to showcase products of magnets and postcards from your trips? On your crime, and carry out extrajudicial killings on the domestic knowledge-based companies. next trip to Iran, bring home something they’ll (or pretext of targeting the Taliban. Page 5 The exhibitions will be set up in Turkey, Syria, you’ll) not only love but also be able to make good Russia, Iraq, Kenya, the United Arab Emirates, and use of. India, IRNA quoted Marziyeh Shaverdi, an official Also, many people like to take a little something Nationwide U.S. with the Fund as saying. home with them as a reminder of where they have The Fund has held a total of 163 exhibitions been. Not to mention, displaying such a memento protests against overseas since March 2019 in the fields of around the home can be a great conversation communication and information technology, starter when you have guests. Here are 10 great voting rights oil and gas, health, transportation, agriculture, Iranian souvenirs to take home: energy, mining, textile, and food industries, she Minakari Tens of thousands of people have staged protests in explained. Minakari is the ancient art of painting natural Washington and dozens of other U.S. cities to protest Knowledge-based companies and creative motifs such as flowers and birds on the surface against laws in several Republican-led states that critics startups have grown over the past five years, and Mohammad Eslami appointed Iran’s nuclear chief of metals, mostly copper. It is generally crafted in say will make it harder for minorities to vote. Iran has risen 45 places in the Global Innovation Isfahan. In 1965, the U.S. Congress adopted the Voting Rights Index, according to the UNESCO 2021 Report. TEHRAN – In a decree on Sunday, President Ebrahim Raisi appointed Mohammad Eslami as Act, meant to ban discriminatory election measures. vice president and chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). Over the ages, the art of Minakari has The Global Innovation Index in Iran from 2015 fascinated many famed people including French However, since then some states, mainly in the South, to 2019 has risen from 106 to 61 with continuous Eslami was born in 1956 in Isfahan. He got his BS in civil engineering from Detroit University traveler Jean Chardin and American orientalist passed often technical changes that ultimately made it improvement, showing 45 steps growth. in 1979 and master’s degree in the same field from Ohio University in 1981. He also got MBA Arthur Pope. The prices are diverse, therefore harder for African Americans and other minority groups, in global aviation management from the University of Sharif and Royal Rhodes University in The development of accelerators and you can either spend a lot or little money on who tend to be reliably Democratic, to vote. 2004. Page 2 innovation centers over the last five years has led these special pieces of art. 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Page 5 POLITICS Military chief says Iran will see remarkable progress in air defense power AUGUST 30, 2021 Straight Truth U.S. exiting Afghanistan with ‘humiliating defeat’, Baqeri notes 2 TEHRAN TIMES TEHRAN – Major General Moham- ghanistan with a lot of killings, loot- mad Hossein Baqeri, the armed forces ings and many other crimes, but left chief of staff, said on Sunday that Iran the country with a humiliating defeat. will see a remarkable progress in air It left the oppressed people of this Iran’s drones have customers in the defense system. country in the throes of problems, “Due to increased cooperation that troubles and turmoils without a clear the General Staff (of the Armed Forc- future,” he said, according to Press TV. world: ex-defense minister es), Army, Guards, and Law Enforce- “Despite spending $2 trillion (in Af- ment Forces have with the Ministry of ghanistan), the U.S. turned the Afghan Defense we will witness an incredible National Army into a useless army that on October 19 that “as of today, the Islamic Republic of progress in air defense system,” Baqeri could resist against that attacking Iran may procure any necessary arms and equipment said in ceremony to welcome new De- group (Taliban) for only 11 days,” the from any source without any legal restrictions and fense Minister Mohammadreza Ash- top commander explained. solely based on its defensive needs.” tiani. He added, “The United States has The Foreign Ministry added Iran can now “export de- This will take place by also tapping not left the region in all these 42 years, fensive armaments based on its own policies.” the potential of knowledge-based and as time passes, it concocts more companies, universities and highly tal- conspiracies and threats against the The U.S. was overwhelmingly defeated by other UN ented youth in the country. region.” Security Council members when it attempted to extend the arms embargo in August. It subsequently declared The armed forces chief of staff went In remarks on Saturday, Leader a “snapback” of nearly all UN sanctions on Iran against on to say that the Ministry of Defense of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah the opposition of the 2015 deal’s European, Russian and has been on the road to progress over To boost defense power is an “un- vide Iran even with the shape of their Seyed Ali Khamenei denounced the Chinese signatories, who called the move void. the years. avoidable duty” in view of the situation Iskander missile, which is a ballistic U.S. as the source of all the crises in Afghanistan, saying, “The U.S. com- For the vast majority of the Security Council, lifting “In the past four years, Brigadier in the West Asia region, Baqeri pointed missile with a range of 300 km, Iranian mitted all sorts of atrocities during the embargo is crucial to the Iranian nuclear deal’s sur- General Amir Hatami made great and out. experts managed to gain the technical their 20-year occupation of that vival, says RUSI’s Tabrizi. effective efforts and considerable pro- He said the Defense know-how to manufac- country. These ranged from bombing gresses were made in the country’s Ministry has a primary ture homegrown ballis- “It was part of the (2015 Iran nuclear) agreement wedding and mourning ceremonies, defense capability,” Baqeri stated. responsibility to en- Major General tic missiles with pinpoint since the beginning, and not meeting their obligations to imprisoning individuals, and in- hance defense power accuracy. would mean that the agreement collapses,” Tabrizi Hatami was defense minister during Baqeri says cluded increasing the production of and maintaining military “U.S. leaving Afghan- told CNBC. “So there is a risk that Iran comes out of the the second four-year presidency of addictive drugs by tens of times. They agreement completely.” Hassan Rouhani. readiness. boosting istan in dire situation” TEHRAN - Former defense minister Amir Hatami did not take a single step for the de- Baqeri added in the new leadership The top general also He also pointed to the said on Saturday that Iran’s arms exports in the previ- The embargo’s expiration allowed Iran to buy major velopment of Afghanistan.” of Brigadier General Ashtiani at the praised the Armed Forc- defense power U.S. invasion of Afghan- ous Iranian calendar year 1399 amounted twice the year conventional weapons systems, including everything Explaining the position of Iran on Defense Ministry this policy will “defi- es’ remarkable achieve- istan and its ultimate before. from battle tanks and large caliber artillery to combat Afghanistan, Ayatollah Khamenei said, ments despite all diffi- is a must withdrawal from that aircraft and warships, and perhaps most importantly, nitely continue successfully.” “We support the Afghan nation. Gov- The year 1398 fell between March 2019-March 2020, culties. country after a humiliat- missiles and missile launchers — the latter group al- He said Ashtiani has splendid record ernments come and go. It is the Afghan and the year 1399 between March 2020-March 2021. ing defeat after 20 years, ready highly developed indigenously in Iran. in different military posts. The performance of the Armed nation that will remain. The nature of saying the Americans have pulled out Hatami said this took place despite all hostilities Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the hawkish Forces in view low military budget in our relations with other governments Major General Baqeri went on to say as the oppressed people of Afghani- against Iran. Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, comparison to other countries is in- depends on the nature of their rela- that a constant increase in defense stan have been left in a dire situation The former defense chief went on to say that now D.C., has acknowledged that Iran has succeeded to in- comparable in quality, he pointed out. tions with us. May God bring the best capabilities is a must, noting it is im- without a bright prospect. Iran exports arms to 42 countries, adding Iran’s drones digenize military industry. possible to keep security without de- According to Tasnim, Baqeri also situation for the nation of Afghani- “The United States occupied Af- have customers among “other countries”. “With a likely emphasis on homeland defense and velopment and capable defense power. said while Russians refused to pro- stan.” Hatami was defense minister during the second long-range strike capability,” Iran will likely pursue term of the Hassan Rouhani presidency. more selective modernization, Taleblu said. He went on to say that during four According to CNBC, Iran’s specialty is Iran has no problems in borders with Afghanistan, border guard official says years of his management of the ministry “Very good asymmetric warfare, honed under years more than 300 products used in ground of sanctions with the help of reverse battles were produced. measures” engineering to replicate other countries’ TEHRAN - The Deputy Commander of Iranian Po- and stay in their own country, so that, their problems Hatami made the remarks at a cere- missiles and smaller arms — and in lice Border Guard Jalal Setareh said on Sunday that will be solved.” mony welcoming new Defense Minister have been some cases, make them better. Afghan immigrants are treated with respect and The border police official also warned about plots dignity and are often returned to their home country. Mohammadreza Ashtiani. taken in field Kirsten Fontenrose, director of the by the United States against Iran in cooperation with The former defense minister went on Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative The top police official said that every day an -av its puppets in certain states in the southern shores to say that “very good measures” have of ballistic and at the Atlantic Council, predicts this ca- erage of 2,000 Afghan nationals are requesting to of the Persian Gulf. also been taken in the field of ballistic pability will only get stronger. enter Iran from the borders. “Given planning new conspiracies by the United and cruise missiles. cruise missiles “What we’re worried about is not so Large numbers of Afghans are trying to flee their States with cooperation of their agents in the Persian “Today, we are also in a very good con- much the drones themselves, but the country fearing a renewed new civil war as the Tali- Gulf countries, we must be careful of their tricks,” dition in the areas of air and electronic pieces on them, so things like high- ban took over the capital Kabul on August 16. How- the police official cautioned, according to the Tasnim defense and electronic warfare.” er-quality engines for the units and optical lenses to ever, Taliban has sought to allay concerns and prom- news agency. improve targeting,” she said during a webinar hosted by ised to establish a comprehensive Setareh who was speaking at On October 19, 2020, a 13-year-old UN arms embar- Washington-based think tank AGSIW. government. go on Iran was lifted as part of the 2015 Iran nuclear a ceremony honoring the former deal. It happened against vociferous opposition from “What Iran has shown is that even if they buy a small The Afghan army as well as “Afghans are asked and introducing the new border The top police official stated that Bushehr prov- the Trump administration. Since that date Iran was le- number of weapons, within 20 years they will produce tribal leaders and groups from commander of Bushehr province, ince has an important position in the country due gally allowed to export and import arms. a variant of that which in some instances is even better different ethnic groups did not not to go to the said maintaining the security of to resistance and sacrifices that they made during than what they bought,” Dave DesRoches, an associate resist the Taliban and that was the Persian Gulf region is one of different periods in history, especially countering Then Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif professor and senior military fellow at the National the chief reason that the Taliban borders and stay in the country’s main priorities. the British colonialism under the command of Rais- hailed October 19 as a “momentous day”. Defense University in Washington, D.C., said during the took the control of country imme- their own country, so To maintain the security of the ali Delvari. Iran has been insisting that arms industry is based same webinar. diately. Persian Gulf, the Coast Guard of Elsewhere in his remarks, Setareh said that the on defensive needs. “So as they make incremental improvements, as they “There are no special problems that, their problems the Islamic Republic of Iran has Police Border Guards welcome any plan to improve “A momentous day for the international community, reverse engineer new technologies, integrate new im- on the eastern borders. However, been interacting with the coun- the livelihood of the people living in the coastal ar- which — in defiance of malign U.S. efforts—has pro- ported motors, they’re getting much more quickly op- a number of oppressed Afghan will be solved.” tries of the region for a long time, eas, stating, “In this regard, several plans are being tected UNSC Res. 2231 and JCPOA,” Zarif tweeted on erational, lethal and reproducible capability.” people go to the eastern borders he underscored. considered by Iran’s Police Border Guards Command.” Sunday, referring to the 2015 agreement. Initial purchases for Iran might be solid fuel rock- to enter the Islamic Republic of Iran The deputy commander of Iran’s Border Guard Po- He also emphasized the importance of preserving According to UN Security Council Resolution 2231, et motors, guidance systems, optical jammers that which they are treated with the utmost respect and lice also said it is necessary to take decisive approach aquatic resources in the Persian Gulf. dignity,” he stated. which confirmed the JCPOA – the official name for the could counter drones or anti-tank missiles, and small against the smuggling of goods and narcotics. It is necessary to increase aquaculture projects, nuclear deal, arms embargo against Iran ended last arms like upgraded anti-tank guided missiles, Des- The police official said, “We share the pain and “Considering the change of the transit route of the police official said, underlining that fishing boats year. Roches said, with China and former Soviet states as suffering of the Afghan people and sympathize with narcotics from land to sea, all countries in the region should be organized in order to preserve aquatic re- The Iranian Foreign Ministry also said in a statement key sellers. them…. Afghans are asked not to go to the borders should work in this regard,” he suggested. sources.

Expert says Baghdad summit could be basis for comprehensive regional talks Iran must supply fuel to resistance front states: lawmaker

TEHRAN - A senior expert on re- a prominent role in this area. France tiations for the next rounds and final- An Iranian legislator says the Islamic Republic must ships have already been sent to Lebanon and there has gional issues has said that the “Bagh- has a weak role in the region, but the ly reaching an agreement. supply needed fuel to countries that are members of been no problem. the resistance front, so that those states would not dad Regional Summit” could be the Americans have a more prominent But what will happen in Baghdad Beiginejad stressed that Lebanese traders are re- be harmed in this regard and could ease their energy basis for serious negotiations be- role,” he stated. at the moment is not an agreement sponsible for the security of the Beirut-bound fuel crises. tween the countries of the region for The senior expert on Iraq highlight- between the participating states, be- shipment, and they certainly know how to protect the the next rounds and eventually lead ed that since the Baghdad Regional cause the positions of these states “We must offer any help we can to the resistance cargo. to signing of agreements between the Summit did not commence with a are very different at the moment, he bloc, so that they would not face any problem for pro- “The Lebanese nation is currently under pressure countries in the region. clear agenda and previous consul- remarked. vision of fuel, which is among the basic needs of any and in hardship. Therefore, we must not withhold any country,” Hadi Beiginejad, a member of the Energy In an interview with IRNA on Sat- tations had not taken place, it would Commenting on the Iraqi public’s help to solve their problems as a friendly country and Commission at Iran’s Parliament, told Iran’s labor news urday, Sadullah Zarei went on to say, just lead to issuing a statement in the view of the summit, Zarei said, “Iraqi an ally,” Beiginejad underscored. “Perhaps the Baghdad Regional Sum- end. agency, ILNA, in an exclusive interview on Sunday. political groups mostly say that On Friday, a senior official from the Hezbollah re- mit is unique in its kind in the last “Expectations from this summit while the country is experiencing all Beiginejad, who was elaborating on Iran’s recent sistance movement said shipments of fuel from Iran eight years because it was attended seem to be much higher than what is kinds of security, political, cultur- measure to send fuel tankers to Lebanon, added, “Sell- to Lebanon in order to ease crippling shortages there by representatives from European, on the real agenda of the summit. At al and economic problems, holding ing oil derivatives and fuel, which have more customers, will thwart all plots that the United States has crafted African, Asian and Arab the same time, we hope He went on to say that the water the summit at this level is much is easier than selling crude oil, whose buyers are lim- in this regard. and non-Arab coun- that this meeting, even higher than the current state of af- ited.” shortage crisis and the crisis in Yemen The vice president of the executive council of Hezbol- tries.” “It does not if it leads to just a state- fairs in Iraq. They see the summit as and Lebanon are among the import- He described it as important to Iran to meet the lah, Sheikh Ali Da’moush, said that his group is utilizing As the expert says, ment and no agreement a personal move by al-Kadhimi to ant agendas of the Baghdad Summit. needs of a strategic and friendly country like Lebanon. all means at its disposal to address livelihood challeng- representatives from seem that a is reached, can be the improve his position in the October The countries participating in the “Countries like Lebanon, Syria, and Venezuela are es facing the Lebanese people and alleviate their suf- Egypt, Jordan, France, basis of a series of talks 10th elections.” conference do not have the same very important to Iran, because they stood by our side fering, stressing that the decision to import fuel from the United States, Iran, common issue on resolving regional opinion on the issues raised as the Regarding the possibility of reviving in time of need. Therefore, we must take steps to solve Iran is aimed at tackling the fuel supply crisis. Saudi Arabia and Turkey issues, and the Bagh- relations between Tehran and Riyadh can bring the agenda of this summit, he said, add- these countries’ problems as much as we can,” the Ira- “Hezbollah’s decision to import diesel and gasoline attended the meeting, dad summit can achieve with the new administration in Iran, ing as for Yemen, the position of the nian parliamentarian highlighted, according to Press from Iran was not politically-motivated, and does not some at the level of clear goals in the sec- he said, “I believe that the relations participating Saudis and Iran will definitely be dif- TV. fall within the context of political or factional bicker- heads of state or for- ond, third and fourth between Iran and Saudi Arabia will be ferent, and Turkey will take the posi- “Just as [late Syrian President] Hafez al-Assad firm- ing. It was rather a decision taken on humanitarian and eign ministers or am- countries to a rounds,” he commented. restored in the new administration of tion not in support not in opposition, ly stood by Iran’s side during the Iran-Iraq War (1980- moral grounds,” Sheikh Da’moush said. bassadors. Regarding the pos- Iran, but not as quickly as we expect. and the Jordanians will take a position 1988) and did not withhold any help, we must rush to He pointed out that point to make sibility of a meeting In my opinion, in the next two years, Hezbollah head Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has said a similar to Saudi Arabia. assist countries like Syria and Lebanon, which are now the meeting at this level between the Iranian the two countries will move towards third shipment of Iranian fuel has been agreed to ease So, Zarei said, it does not seem that in trouble,” he added. required the technical a decision” and Saudi delegations the reopening of embassies and rela- crippling shortages in Lebanon. a common issue can bring the partic- committee to consult be- in Baghdad, Zarei under- tions will be normalized, but naturally The lawmaker went on to say that several fuel-laden ipating countries to a point to make a tween the countries beforehand and scored, “There have been three meet- this will not be easy and will require decision. to reach an agreement on the agenda ings between Iranian and Saudi offi- negotiations and mediation.” “I think we are just witnessing and the issues under discussion and cials in Baghdad hosted by Iraqi Prime The one-day regional summit on Mohammad Eslami appointed Iran’s nuclear chief consultation and dialogue between to approve the general points. Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, so the Iraq ended on Saturday, but many the countries participating in the “These preparations have not been meeting between the two sides is not observers who attended the summit Baghdad summit, and it is more of a From page 1 He was also confirmed as presidency. made and in fact what has happened a new event. I must remind that Iran expressed hope that the participating joint conference than an intergovern- housing and transport minister by the parlia- is the presence of countries that pur- and Saudi Arabia are not the only ones countries would abide by their com- Eslami also served as the managing director mental summit aimed at reaching an ment in the autumn of 2018 after nomination sue different issues in this regard. For participating in this summit, and it is mitments and remarks on resolving of Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Com- agreement,” Zarei said. by President Hassan Rouhani. Eslami became example, the role of Egypt and Jor- unlikely that anything special happen disputes and promoting economic pany and deputy chief of between Tehran and Riyadh during At the same time, he said, the sum- minister after Abbas Akhondi resigned his post. dan in this region is a weak role, but development and deny foreign inter- Eslami kept the job until the end of Rouhani’s Aerospace Industries Organization among Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia have the Baghdad summit.” mit can be the basis for serious nego- ference in Iraq’s internal affairs. other top managerial posts. TEHRAN – From the beginning, the cooperation, particularly in economic new Iranian government of Ayatollah arenas. Seyed Ebrahim Raisi made it clear that Iran embarks on a Abdollahian pointed to this new change in the executive branch would pivot and said, “With great pleasure, IRAN IN FOCUS bring about a shift in foreign policy. I declare, at the inauguration of Iran’s The new Iranian foreign minister, new regional policy new government, that our foreign AUGUST 30, 2021 Hossein Amir Abdollahian, indicated how policy, being ‘balanced, active and smart’, this shift would play out under Ayatollah emphasizes the priority of relations with Straight Truth Raisi. In his speech at the Baghdad neighbors and other countries in the summit, Abdollahian reiterated what region, and we warmly shake hands with TEHRAN TIMES 3 his predecessor often underlined in all neighboring and regional nations.” such regional platforms: that Iran wants Whether this new approach would closer cooperation with the countries of lead to the normalization of ties with the region, especially Iran’s neighbors. regional heavyweights such as Saudi But at the same time, he was keen Arabia remains to be seen. But it seems to let it be known that this cooperation that there is still a long road ahead until should be done in a new spirit, one that relations are fully normalized. would respect the legitimate interests Two things happened at the Baghdad of Iran and refrain from pursuing a zero- summit that dampened hopes for closer sum game. In addition, the top Iranian regional cooperation. First, Syria was diplomat made it clear that no one not invited to the summit despite being should seek to change the balance of a major neighbor of Iraq. Some press power in the region by relying on outside reports suggested the exclusion of Syria Iranian judo Taremi scores forces. was due to foreign pressure on the Iraqi athletes win as Porto defeat Underlining Iran’s support for the Iraqi rivalry. Iran expresses its support for the Iraqi government. efforts to create areas for cooperation In addition, the Iraqi government government and people and its internal Iran objected to this exclusion both two gold medals Arouca and interaction among the countries was eager to convey the message that decisions including the withdrawal before and during the summit. “We of the region, Abdollahian noted, “Our they want, and are able, to work with of foreign troops and holding early believe that Syria, as one of Iraq’s at Paralympics TEHRAN - FC Porto returned to winning ways as they region has all the religious, cultural and all countries of the region regardless of elections, and it welcomes Iraq’s important neighboring countries, should hosted Arouca at the Estádio do Dragão. civilizational characteristics as well as their political standing. constructive role in promoting a culture have been invited to this meeting, too” 2020 material and spiritual capacities for of dialogue and regional cooperation. said Abdollahian before leaving Tehran Sérgio Conceição’s team scored three unanswered regional cooperation and convergence, Iran considers for Baghdad. goals and collected three important points. Iran welcomed From Page 1 He started the campaign in the but unfortunately, due to foreign cooperation During the summit, Abdollahian FC Porto’s goals were scored by Mateus Uribe (24), the Iraqi efforts +100kg category with a win over Jamaican Theador interventions and the dominance of within the region once again alluded to Syria’s absence. Mehdi Taremi (34), and Ivan Marcano (64). security-oriented ideas, it has many and underlined the Abdollahian as the basis for Subba by ippon. “I would like to emphasize the role and After four rounds in the Liga Portugal Bwin, FC Porto problems, including war, instability and need to strengthen establishing He emerged victorious over Korean Gwang Geun Choi underlined that Iran support of regional nations in stabilizing currently sit in first place, while rivals Benfica and insecurity.” regional security stability and peace in his second match and qualified for the final match. and resorting security to Iraq including Sporting Lisbon both have a game in hands. In pointing to a foreign role in the through dialogue is adopting a new in this way. The the friendly and brotherly country of Kheirollahzadeh defeated Georgian judoka Revaz region, the Iranian foreign minister among the players approach toward Islamic Republic of the Syrian Arab Republic. I would like to Chikoidze in the final bout and claimed second gold put the focus on the main thrust of the in the region. “What Iran, emphasizing express regret that Syria is not attending in judo. we need today more the important role Baghdad summit. The Iraqi government the region under this summit,” he said. Iran have won seven gold medals so far in the Iran wheelchair than ever before of other countries in put much energy and effort into holding Second, there were no reports of a 2020 Paralympic Games. is “sustainable the region, declares basketball fall this summit to bring closer the views of Ayatollah Raisi meeting between Abdollahian and his regional security” its readiness to Rouhollah Rostami has won a gold medal in the stakeholders of a region suffering from Saudi Arabian counterpart Faisal bin with the advance these powerlifting. short against political divergence and polarization. Farhan in Baghdad. This is while many participation of regional countries. goals.” Judo athletes Nouri and Kheirollahzadeh have also The Iraqis portrayed the summit as a important meetings were held on the Regional security will materialize claimed two gold medals. Britain unique platform to foster intra-regional At the end of his speech, the top sidelines of the summit. One such cooperation and partnership. From their depending on the use of economic Iranian diplomat underlined that Iran meeting was between the emir of Qatar Amir Jafari and Hamed Solhipour have snatched point of view, bringing together officials resources to build a coalition for peace is adopting a new approach toward the and the president of Egypt. Another two silver medals in powerlifting. TOKYO – Iran wheelchair basketball team lost to and development,” Abdollahian told the from rival countries would make Iraq region under Ayatollah Raisi, who has meeting was between the emir and the And Amanollah Papi and Alireza Mokhtari have Britain 69-57 in Group B of the 2020 Paralympic Games more secure and spare it the prospect summit. reiterated more than once that Iran’s governor of Dubai who also met with seized two silver medasl in athletic. on Sunday. foreign policy should focus on regional of being collateral damage for regional He added, “The Islamic Republic of Abdollahian. Iran has sent 62 athletes in 10 sports to Tokyo. Mohammadhassan Sayari led Iran with 27 points while Briton Terry Ibywater scored 18 points. It’s the nation’s smallest team since sending 40 to Sydney 2000. Iran had previously suffered two losses against Iran FM holds extensive talks in Baghdad Australia and the U.S. and defeated Algeria. Since then, Iran sent 89 athletes to Athens 2004, 72 to Beijing 2008, 79 to London 2012 and 110 to Rio 2016. The Iranian team will meet Germany on Monday in TEHRAN – In his foreign trip as foreign minister, of Iraq’s economic and trade relations by exporting significant and hailed Iran for its support for Iraq. their last game. Iran finished 15th in the medal table in 2016 with Hossein Amir Abdollahian held several meetings technical and engineering services, gas and electricity.” The Iranian foreign minister and the Iraqi president 24 medals after winning eight golds, nine silvers and with Iraqi and non-Iraqi officials during his stay in He pointed out, “The rise of Daesh was one of the also exchanged views on other topics, including regional seven bronzes. Baghdad, where a regional summit was held with the most important dangers faced by the region and left developments, economic and trade cooperation among participation of Iran. irreparable damage. Unfortunately, Iraq has suffered regional countries and the necessity for the expansion of About 4,400 competitors from more than Shot putter Heading a political and parliamentarian delegation, a lot from the emergence of terrorist groups. Were it economic ties between the two countries. 160 countries are competing at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics before it was delayed by a year. Alireza Mokhtari the new Iranian foreign minister arrived in Baghdad on not for the will of the Iraqi people, the support of the Abdollahian has also sat down with Iraqi Parliament Saturday and was received by his Iraqi counterpart Fuad honorable religious authority and the convergence of Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi as the top Iranian takes silver Hossein. Upon his arrival, he visited the place where Iran’s the Iraqi people from all walks of life, it would not have diplomat continued his meetings with high-ranking top commander General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi been clear what would happen to Iraq and other regional Baghdad officials on the sidelines of the Baghdad IPL: Rasoul TOKYO – Iran’s Alireza Mokhtari Hemami claimed comrade Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes were assassinated countries and how deeply the region and the world regional summit. in an American drone strike in early 2020. After paying would be endangered by terrorist threats.” a silver medal at the men’s shot put F-53 at the 2020 homage, Abdollahian vowed to legally pursue the matter. In the meeting, Amir Abdollahian congratulated the Khatibi takes Paralympic Games on Sunday. Underlining Iran’s aid to Iraq, Abdollahian said, top parliamentarian on the successful holding of the He won the silver medal with a throw of 8.48 meters. In Baghdad, the top Iranian diplomat met with “The Islamic Republic of Iran rushed to the aid of the summit, and once again extended Iranian Parliament charge of several dignitaries and participated in the Baghdad friendly and brotherly country of Iraq in its fight against Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf’s invitation to Gold medal went to Elvin Astanov from Azerbaijan regional summit. Before the summit, he welcomed terrorism and did not withhold any assistance in this al-Halbousi, according to a statement by the Iranian Aluminum who threw 8.77 meters and also broke the Paralympics the Iraqi initiative but said that Syria should have been direction. The Iraqi people, parties, various groups and foreign ministry. record by five centimeters. invited to the summit. Abdollahian said Iran embraces the Iraqi government have sacrificed thousands of TEHRAN - Rasoul Khatibi was named as new head Ales Kisy from Czech Republic snatched the bronze any regional initiative by Iraqi officials which gets lives for independence and the fight against terrorism. Also, given the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary coach of Aluminum football team on Sunday. with a throw of 8.25 meters. regional countries on board. However, the US government committed a heinous election, Amir Abdollahian highlighted Tehran’s support for an early legislative election as an arena for the Khatibi, 43, will lead the Arak-based football club for “We believe that Syria, as one of Iraq’s important crime and martyred two fighters of the anti-Takfiri and manifestation of the Iraqi people’s will and demands. the second spell. neighboring countries, should have been invited to counterterrorism front, Martyr Sardar Soleimani and this meeting, too” said the top diplomat before leaving Martyr Abu Mohandi Al-Mohandes. Not only did the US The Iraqi parliament speaker, in turn, congratulated He left Aluminum in February and took charge of FIFA appoints Tehran for Baghdad. not bring peace and security to the people of this region, Amir Abdollahina on his appointment as Iran’s foreign Tractor but was dismissed as the Tabriz based football but it’s the main cause of insecurity, and this is clearly minister, and announced the Iraqi parliament’s readiness team coach following poor results. five female to “Of course, we are in contact and holding visible in many countries in the region.” to further enhance mutual relations. consultations with the Syrian leader on security and He has returned to Aluminum for the 2021/22 officiate at 2021 sustainable development in the region, and we will have He further said, “The fate of the governments and Abdollahian and Iraqi Premier Mustafa al-Kadhimi season of Iran Professional League (IPL). direct consultations with Damascus on the Baghdad nations of this region are intertwined according to have exchanged views on the latest developments Khatibi replaced Alireza Mansourian in Aluminum. Futsal World Cup conference and the importance of the regional countries’ common religious and cultural, traditional, historical regarding Tehran-Baghdad relations on all fronts. key role in whatever regional initiative,” he added. and geographical interests. The Islamic Republic of During the talks, which were part of Amri Abdollahian’s TEHRAN – For the first time in its history, FIFA Iran has always emphasized that peace is possible only meetings on the sidelines of a regional summit in During the summit, expressed regret that Syria was appointed five ladies, including Iranian referee Gelareh through dialogue and negotiation within the region Baghdad, the top Iranian diplomat conveyed Iranian Iran to meet not attending the summit. “I would like to emphasize Nazemi, to officiate at the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup and hopes that regional nations will agree that security President Ebrahim Raisi’s greetings to al-Kadhimi and the role and support of regional nations in stabilizing will only be achieved through mutual trust, reliance Czech at 2021 in Lithuania. and resorting security to Iraq including the friendly and congratulated him on the successful holding of the on national capabilities, strengthening relations and The competition will be held from Sept. 12 to Oct. 3 in brotherly country of the Syrian Arab Republic. I would Baghdad summit. good neighborliness as well as through the non- FIVB U19 World the European country, Tehran Times reported. like to express regret that Syria is not attending this intervention of extra-regional Amir Abdollahian said his presence at the event as summit,” Abdollahian told the Nazemi had already officiated the men’s competition. governments. This common Iran’s representative indicated Tehran’s firm resolve to C’ship round of 16 Baghdad summit. She has most recently whistled in the 2021 FIFA Futsal belief can pave the way for support Iraq. World Cup qualifiers held in Sharjah, the UAE in May In his summit speech, ”I would like to many joint political, economic The two sides also discussed bilateral economic TEHRAN – Iran defeated Nigeria 3-0 (25-19, 25- along with her compatriot Zari Fathi. the Iranian foreign minister and cultural efforts in the projects, which would benefit both sides, as well as 13, 25-19) in the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U19 World underlined Iran’s policy of express regret Gelareh Nazemi also officiated in the 2018 Summer region and guarantee the Iranians’ pilgrimage to holy sites in Iraq during Arbaeen. Championship. fostering regional cooperation. grounds for all-round growth Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina. that Syria is not The Iraqi prime minister, in turn, described good- Iran had previously lost to France and defeated India. “This meeting, with regional and development of regional neighborliness as important and called Tehran- countries in attendance, attending this countries in the shadow of Baghdad relations strategic. The Iranian team will play Czech Republic on Monday confirms the efforts of the common and lasting security in the Round of 16. Al-Kadhimi also appreciated Iran’s constructive and Lyon submit 11€m Republic of Iraq in creating summit.” and by utilizing their God- lasting role in supporting Iraq as well as the presence The 2021 FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U19 World areas for cooperation and given wealth.” Championship is the seventeenth edition of the FIVB bid for Iranian interaction among the of Iran’s high-ranking delegation in the Baghdad The top Iranian diplomat added, “Our region has all Volleyball Boys’ U19 World Championship, contested countries of the region, and I hope that, through these regional summit. the religious, cultural and civilizational characteristics by the men’s national teams under the age of 19 of the striker Azmoun meetings, we can make a prosperous, developed and as well as material and spiritual capacities for regional Abdollahian also met foreign leaders attending the members of the FIVB, the sport’s global governing body. free region,” he said, adding, “Today, Iraq is playing an cooperation and convergence, but unfortunately, due Baghdad summit. Abdollahian sat down with his Kuwaiti important role in the region thanks to its constructive The tournament will last until Sept. 2 in Tehran. TEHRAN – French football club Lyon have made to foreign interventions and the dominance of security- counterpart Ahmed Nasser al-Mohammed Al-Sabah on efforts and vision. The Islamic Republic of Iran was one an opening €11m bid for Iranian international striker oriented ideas, it has many problems, including war, the sidelines of the Baghdad summit. of the first regional countries to recognize the new Iraq Sardar Azmoun, who is currently plying his trade at instability and insecurity.” In the meeting, the top Iranian diplomat thanked Russian Zenit St Petersburg. and to develop its political, economic and trade ties with his opposite number for taking part, on behalf of the Esteghlal Iraq by supporting the political processes in this country.” The Iranian foreign minister also expressed support The Iranian international striker Sardar Azmoun for the Iraqi government and people, underlining that Kuwaiti Emir, in the swearing-in ceremony of new Iranian Abdollahian noted, “The new Iraq, liberated from has received a new bid from French football club Lyon Iran welcomes Iraq’s role in promoting dialogue. President Ebrahim Raisi, and discussed with him issues midfielder Rigi terrorism, today needs internal reconstruction and of mutual interest. after the Italian and German clubs of Rome and Bayer strengthening, and the expansion of cooperation in the During his stay in Baghdad, Abdollahian met with signs forSepahan Leverkusen. a number of Iraqi leaders including President Barham In the meeting, Amir Abdollahian reviewed Iran- region. The Islamic Republic of Iran, while supporting Kuwait relations in different political and economic The French football website “www. Salih, Parliament Speaker Mohammad al-Halbousi, getfootballnewsfrance.com” says that the Russian the stability, security, independence, territorial integrity, areas, and highlighted the need to further enhance TEHRAN - Esteghlal football team midfielder Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, and Fuad Hussein. side had been seeking €20m for the 26-year-old at dignity, authority and promotion of Iraq’s regional and mutual ties and implement the agreements already Masoud Rigi joined Sepahan. international status, declares its readiness to develop In his meeting with Salih, Abdollahian while conveying the beginning of this window and it is currently unclear reached between the two countries. Rigi penned a two-year contract with Sepahan for an bilateral and regional cooperation. In recent years, the Iranian president’s greetings and congratulating whether or not their stance has since softened. the Iraqi president on holding the Baghdad summit He added Iran stands ready to forge closer cooperation undisclosed fee. trade between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the OL cannot really offer much more owing to their successfully, reiterated the Islamic Republic of Iran’s with Kuwait. Republic of Iraq has reached more than 12 billion dollars. He joined Esteghlal from Padideh in 2019 and played financial constraints and without making more sales support for independence, national sovereignty and The existence of eight official active border crossings Amir Abdollahian expounded on the Raisi in the first team over the past two years. – they are still hopeful of selling Houssem Aouar and territorial integrity of Iraq. between the two countries and the continuation of administration’s stance on good neighborliness as well He had also been linked with a move to Emirati and Maxwel Cornet before next week’s deadline. trade exchanges via these crossings, even despite During the meeting, Salih, in turn, thanked the Iranian as on the significance of cooperation between regional Qatari teams. Azmoum has just 12 months remaining on his the Coronavirus pandemic, indicate the economic delegation for participating in the regional summit countries, voicing support for whatever move aimed at The 30-year-old defensive midfielder started his existing contract while few weeks have passed since entanglement of the two nations. In recent years, Iran for cooperation and partnership. He said the Iranian activating the Joint Iran-Kuwait Economic Cooperation playing career in 2011 in Fajr Sepasi. the start of the Russian league. has made a significant contribution to the development foreign minister choosing Iraq for his first foreign visit is Commission by utilizing innovative approaches. ECONOMY Housing prices AUGUST 30, 2021 Straight Truth rise 3.1% in 4 TEHRAN TIMES

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permits up over 13% in 4 months TEHRAN - Average housing price second and first Iranian calendar 85 percent in the previous Iranian cal- ket regulation headquarters for the increased 3.1 percent in Tehran City months, respectively, compared to endar year (ended on March 20) com- housing sector to monitor the activi- during the fifth Iranian calendar the same months last year. pared to its preceding year. ties of dealers and real estate agen- From page 1 He also mentioned an month of Mordad (ended on August The number of real estate deals in- The highest monthly price in- cies in order to balance the prices. 85-percent rise in the allocation of land 22), compared to its previous month, creased 8.4 percent in the past month crease of 12.5 percent occurred in the Housing prices in Iran have been for establishing industrial units across according to a report by the Central to reach 5,500 deals. The number of Iranian calendar month of Mordad constantly rising over the past year the country and noted that over 4,500 Bank of Iran (CBI). deals, however, fell 39.4 percent in (July 22-August 21, 2020), while the due to various internal and external hectares of land were handed over to ap- According to the CBI data, the av- comparison to the last biggest monthly price factors. plicants in the previous calendar year. erage price for one square meter of year’s same month. decrease occurred Coronavirus has been reported to According to the official, there are over a residential unit in the capital city The housing market The year-on- in Azar (November be a major factor affecting the hous- 46,000 small and medium-sized indus- during the mentioned month in- in Tehran was the sec- year trend 21-December 20, ing prices in Iran as the pandemic has trial units in Iran’s industrial parks and creased 34 percent compared to the ond-highest returning 2020) with a decline of stoked concerns about losing one’s zones, of them about 9,200 units are in- same month in the previous year, IRIB market in Iran among of the price 8.1 percent. savings and more people entered the active. reported on Sunday. the country’s four ma- increase Back in April, the housing market. Iran’s industrial parks play a significant As reported, despite the month- jor markets in the pre- has been head of Iran’s Proper- “People are turning to the housing role in making the country independent on-month increase, the year-on-year vious Iranian calendar ty Advisers Union said market in order to protect their sav- through boosting production, which is a trend of the growth for housing prices year (ended on March downward. housing prices in the ings in the face of rising inflation. No major strategy of Iran to combat the U.S. in the capital city since the beginning 20) with 85 percent country should de- one sees housing as a short-term sanctions. of the current fiscal year (started on annual growth. crease at least 25 per- consumer commodity. Even real con- In fact, strengthening domestic produc- March 21) has been downward be- The information obtained from Ki- cent in order for people to be able to sumers view purchasing a home as tion to achieve self-reliance is the most cause the prices had increased 43.7 lid website (which is a major platform afford to purchase. a long-term investment,” Mehdi Sol- important program that Iran is following fy the effects of the U.S. sanctions on its percent, 56.6 percent, 69.7 percent, for housing trades) indicated that the Mostafa Gholi Khosravi stressed tan-Mohammadi, a housing expert, up in its industry sector in a bid to nulli- economy. and 91.7 percent in the fourth, third, housing price index in Tehran grew by the need for establishing a mar- said. 5 large-scale TEDPIX falls 2,300 points on Sunday smart transport TEHRAN– TEDPIX, the main index of Economic Affairs Ehsan Khandouzi nor stakeholders and finally providing ment on the mentioned day, the parlia- firms start Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), dropped has underlined the capital market as incentives for people to invest indi- ment’s Economic Committee had stated 2,354 points to 1.573 million on Sunday. one the major priorities of his ministry rectly in the capital market have been that Khandouzi’s capital market reform operating Over 16.056 billion securities worth during his tenure, outlining the pro- mentioned as the major programs plan was one of the reasons why the 142.13 trillion rials (about $3.384 bil- grams for improving this market. that the economy ministry is going to committee approved the minister. TEHRAN – Five large-scale smart transportation lion) were traded at the TSE on Sunday. As ISNA reported, increasing the pursue in order to improve the capital The mentioned report also under- companies that operate in the road transportation market. sector have been launched across Iran, an official The first market’s index fell 1,867 role of the capital market in financing lined some of the expectations that production companies and projects, According to Khandouzi, the stock the parliament and people would have with the country’s Road Maintenance and Trans- points, and the second market’s index portation Organization (RMTO) announced. lost 4,301 points. diversifying financial market is one of the regarding the stock market, including instruments in the cap- most important pillars the promotion of information trans- According to Gholam-Hossein Daghagheleh, the TEDPIX rose 50,000 points, or three ital market, eliminating TEDPIX closed of the economy as it will parency in the market, strengthening mentioned companies have been established with percent, in the past Iranian calendar unnecessary regulations play a significant role in commodity exchanges, expanding the the aim of increasing productivity in the mentioned week. and barriers, facilitating at 1.55 million financing government energy exchange activities through sector and accelerating freight transportation The index closed at 1.55 million the entry of companies projects and supporting the supply of crude oil and petroleum using the information technology capacities for points on economic development using sus- points on Wednesday (the last working into the stock market, economic growth. products in this exchange, and design- smartening the road transportation process. tainable, safe, and low-risk methods,” day of the week). reducing the cost of is- Wednesday. ing new financial instruments, launch- The minister had Khandouzi said on Thursday, the first Referring to the advantages of setting up smart suing bonds by facilitat- ing securities market rating agencies During the past week, the indices of previously mentioned day of his work as economy minister. companies in the transportation sector, the direc- National Iranian Copper Company, Mo- ing relevant regulations, financing the government and ensur- and cooperating with the capital mar- tor-general of the RMTO Freight Transport Office Earlier on Wednesday, the parlia- barakeh Steel Company, Social Secu- canceling monopolies and facilitating ing economic growth as the main pri- kets of other countries. added: “One of the most important features of ment had approved Khandouzi to take rity Investment Company, Iran Khodro licensing for stock market-related ser- orities of the Economy Ministry during The report also emphasized the in- forming large-scale smart transport companies is office as the new Economy Minister Company, and Barekat Pharmaceutical vices such as portfolio management, his tenure. stitutional reform of corporate gover- the possibility of being monitored and controlled by mainly because of his comprehensive Group were the most widely followed marketing and brokerage, reforming nance for public corporations and fi- corporate governance to manage con- “The main responsibility of the Min- plans for improving the capital market. indices. istry of Finance and Economic Affairs is nancial institutions in order to develop flict of interest between major and mi- In a report presented to the parlia- Iran’s new Minister of Finance and to finance the government and ensure the capital market. ‘Supplying fuel to power plants during Average daily gasoline consumption winter should be a priority’ stands at 83.4m liters in a month

fuel reserves in power plants compared to the declined 20 percent in the past Iranian calendar year, as compared to its preceding year due to ra- the Intelligent Road Fleet Management and Control previous year, the fuel condition is very import- Center.” ant.” tioning this fuel and also the coronavirus pandemic. The Islamic Republic, which was an importer The official also mentioned online payment of The increase in gas consumption by house- the driver’s wage in the destination, increasing holds in winter causes less gas to be supplied to of gasoline for decades, exported over $1.4 billion worth of the fuel in the first seven months of the the performance and productivity of the fleet of power plants, and if liquid fuel storages are not the mentioned companies, reducing intermedia- full, power plants will face problems operating on past Iranian calendar year (March 20-October 21, 2020). tion and brokerage in the transportation of goods, full capacity, he explained. drivers’ ease of access to the owners of the goods The official pointed to the state of overhaul and The significant increase in the country’s gasoline through the companies, reducing administrative periodic repairs of power plants as the second production and exports comes despite the fact that bureaucracy and having a greater scope of opera- reason and added: “This year, due to the intensive nearly two years ago Iran was shipping in over 4.5 tion as other advantages of such smart companies. TEHRAN- The average daily consumption of gas- million liters per day of the strategic product. operation of the power plants from mid-April un- According to RMTO, the Iranian road freight TEHRAN - Meysam Jafarzadeh, the direc- til today, we will definitely face many units that oline in Iran stood at 83.4 million liters during the Iran became a net gasoline exporter in February tor-general of the Crisis Management Office in fifth Iranian calendar month Mordad (July 23- Au- transportation fleet is currently comprised of need overhauling, and this issue has a serious 2019, after the inauguration of the third phase of 387,000 trucks. Iranian Energy Ministry, has stressed the need for impact on the country’s power generation situ- gust 22). the Persian Gulf Star Refinery (PGS) project which taking necessary measures to ensure sustained ation.” As reported, gasoline consumption was the same added 120,000 barrels to the country’s daily gaso- A big part of the country’s cargo transportation supply of fuel to the country’s power plants is carried out through the road network and in this He further mentioned not using hydroelectric in the fifth month of this year as the fifth month of line production. during the cold season, IRIB reported. regard, the development of this sector has been power plants as the third reason and said: “Con- the previous year. The increase in the exports of the mentioned “Given last winter’s experience, if we do not one of the major priorities of the Transport and Ur- sidering that hydroelectric power plants have Gasoline consumption in Iran has fluctuated commodity is a result of the increase in the coun- ban Development Ministry over the past few years. provide fuel for power plants in late autumn and been used to control the network load this sum- since the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country. try’s refining capacity and the decline in domestic winter this year, we will have a lot of difficulty Renovating the country’s road transportation mer and also the weather forecast predicts that In the early days of the pandemic, concerns over consumption following the implementation of a ra- in meeting electricity demands; we must think there will be no serious rainfall in catchments this tioning program. fleet, establishing new transportation companies, about the necessary preparations for the winter the virus minimized the travels across the coun- developing the country’s road network, and mod- cold season, we will definitely face some problems In mid-November 2019, the Iranian government of 1400 (the current Iranian calendar year started try and led to a record decrease in consumption in ernizing the equipment and machinery used in this in operating hydroelectric power plants.” started rationing of subsidized gasoline and in- on March 21) from now on,” Jafarzaeh was quoted the last Iranian calendar year’s first month (March sector are some of the measures that the ministry considering the new approach of the Oil Min- creased fuel prices as it plans to use the revenue for by the portal of Power Generation, Distribution, 20-April 20, 2020). has taken for promoting the country’s road cargo istry, which has made the supply of fuel to power supporting underprivileged families. and Transmission Company (known as Tavanir). On some days in April 2020, gasoline consump- transportation. plants one of the short-term priorities, stable Since then, implementation of the rationing plan He pointed out three main reasons for the im- tion even fell to 40 million liters and the average Last August, RMTO signed a tripartite deal with and accurate planning for the overhaul of power has led to the reduction of gasoline consumption, portance of fuel supply to power plants during daily consumption did not exceed 50 million liters Bank Saderat Iran (BSI) and some private compa- plants can ensure the stability of the electrici- while promoting the consumption of compressed the cold season, saying: “first, considering the that month. nies for the renovation of the country’s suburban ty network during the cold season, Jafarzadeh natural gas (CNG) in the country. fact that we are witnessing a decrease in liquid stressed. In general, gasoline consumption in the country cargo transport fleet. Quarterly canned fish export falls 10% yr/yr Mining projects worth $1.9b to be put into operation by next March TEHRAN - Iran has exported 165 tons official said that cooperation with the ing China, South Korea, and the Eurasian of canned fishes in the first quarter of the relevant organizations such as chambers Union nations opened up for Iranian fish- country’s economy from oil and moving toward a current Iranian calendar year (March 21- of commerce, Trade Promotion Organi- ery products. resilient, oil-free economy, the mining sector has be- come one of the major areas of focus in recent years, June 21), which was 10 percent lower than zation (TPO), and the Ministry of Foreign As announced by the head of the Is- the figure for the same period of time in Affairs, as well as the non-governmental since the country is one of the world’s top 10 miner- lamic Republic of Iran Customs Adminis- al-rich countries where 68 types of minerals have the past year, according to an official with sector to open new markets in the inter- tration (IRICA), the value of Iran’s non-oil Iran Fisheries Organization (IFO). national arena is one the agenda of the been identified so far, including the world’s largest exports reached $10.7 billion in the first deposits of copper, zinc, and iron. Isa Golshahi, IFO’s director-general for IFO’s plans. three months of the current Iranian cal- ly exported to Iraq, the Commonwealth quality improvement, processing, and Over the past two years, the efforts of endar year, up 69 percent compared to Expansion and exploitation of these huge sources of Independent States (CIS), Persian Gulf market development, had previously an- the Aquatics’ Production and Trade Union the last year’s same period. of income have become a top priority for the gov- littoral states, and Armenia. ernment in recent years, and various programs have nounced that Iran exported 6,210 tons of of Iran, and the non-governmental sec- According to Mehdi Mir-Ashrafi, Iran Golshahi has also announced that the been defined for the improvement of this industry. canned fish valued at $24 million in the tor have led to the addition of markets in exported 30 million tons of non-oil com- country’s fishery export has increased TEHRAN – Head of Iranian Mines and Mining In- past Iranian calendar year 1399 (ended countries such as Oman and Malaysia to modities in the mentioned three months, Reviving idle small mines, increasing the tariffs on nine percent during the first quarter of dustries Development and Renovation Organization on March 20). Iran’s target export markets in this field, registering a 38-percent rise compared the exports of some raw minerals, defining new ex- this year. (IMIDRO) Vajihollah Jafari announced that 30 proj- He had said that the country’s canned he further noted. to the figure for the last year’s Q1. ploration projects, signing memorandums of under- He said that over 28,000 tons of dif- ects worth $1.916 billion in the mines and mining standing with domestic and foreign manufacturers fish export was 3,115 tons worth $15 mil- Fishery production has increased no- Iran’s top five non-oil export destina- ferent types of fisheries worth over $52 industries will be inaugurated across the country by for the renovation of the country’s mining equipment lion in year 1398. ticeably in Iran in recent years. tions during this period were China with million has been exported in the three- the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March and machinery, and allocation of funds for the com- Canned fish is exported from Iran, Enjoying high quality, Iran’s fishery $3.1 billion worth of exports, Iraq with month period, indicating 12 percent 20, 2022). pletion of semi-finished projects in this sector can be which can help factories, especially for products were sold easily in the export $2.3 billion, the United Arab Emirates growth in terms of weight as well. The official said that the mentioned project will mentioned as some of the programs introduced by those that use imported fish, the official markets, and also some new export des- (UAE) with over $1.3 billion, Turkey with create 4,700 direct and 18,600 indirect jobs. the government for the development of the country’s said. In terms of accessing some new tar- tinations welcomed these products in the $595 million, and Afghanistan with $570 get markets in the field of fisheries, the In line with Iran’s major plans for distancing the mining sector. He said that Iran’s canned fish is main- past two years; as new markets includ- million. Ties between Israel and Persian Gulf monarchies take place in dark: Scottish activist INTERNATIONAL AUGUST 30, 2021

From page 1 “Internationally, produce its secret nuclear weap- Straight Truth Israel has monetized its mass kill- ons arsenal in the face of U.S. op- ings and repression of Palestinians position at the time,” Napier points TEHRAN TIMES 5 by selling surveillance products out. through companies such as NSO Apparently, the tradition of in- whose Pegasus software is the dustrial espionage and theft of means of repression of choice for technology from the U.S. has been dictatorships worldwide,” the ac- continuing up until the present Nationwide U.S. protests against tivist says. day. He adds, “It’s natural that they “Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard voting rights should learn from the masters.” stole industrial quantities of sen- Some political commentators sitive documents on behalf of Isra- From page 1 Civil rights leaders, including restrictive election laws, with dozens of others keep saying that most of the coun- el, caught and served 30 years in Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, and under consideration, Those laws range from a re- tries that bought the Pegasus American prisons before being re- the Reverend Al Sharpton, were leading marches quirement to have a fixed address in order to reg- program are countries ruled by leased in 2015 and allowed to im- in Washington, D.C., Houston, Miami, Phoenix, and ister to vote to a ban on the drive-through voting authoritarians in which freedom is migrate to Israel last year,” he says. more than 40 other cities. Organizers of the pro- that was popular in some states last year amid the heavily suppressed. “Now Israel is by no means tests have denounced what they labeled as “racist, Covid-19 pandemic. Historical facts show how Israel alone in conducting industrial and anti-democratic voter suppression laws”. The Democratic-controlled House of Represen- has spied on its friends as much as surveillance company NSO Group. According to the Haaretz, Rafi economic espionage against the According to the Brennan Center for Justice, a tatives has passed two draft laws to limit such re- it did on its foes, but Pegasus was It has been used to mainly spy Eitan, the head of Israel’s main spy U.S., and is not even the only U.S. nonprofit public policy institute, since January this strictions, but they are given virtually no chance of a new tool for Israel’s widespread on journalists, human rights activ- agency Mossad, Israel was not only ally to do so,” Napier concludes. year, at least 18 states have adopted a total of 30 passing the closely divided Senate. spying activities. ists, and political leaders by some right to spy on allies but that it has “But it is the only country to spy As a powerful hacking tool, Peg- Arab monarchies that have black always done so systematically. on the U.S. systematically while re- asus has been sold to governments records in their human rights re- “Industrial espionage including ceiving vast amounts of aid from around the world by the Israeli cords. theft was necessary for Israel to the same country it targets.” Absence of Syria, presence of Macron shortcomings of Baghdad summit: Turkish politician Ten lessons to be learned from the U.S. disastrous war on Afghanistan TEHRAN (MNA) – Hailing posi- ing this Conference. It was long Macrom must have made certain tive regional effects of the Bagh- overdue. The fact that even with bilateral commitments to Iraq to From page 1 The international coalition it’s Afghanistan, China, or whatever else. dad Summit, Turkish politician different levels of representation, be invited to the Conference. In Osman Faruk Logoglu believes the counties of the region came short, it will detract somewhat doesn’t have impunity Inevitable military withdrawals must be car- that presence of France’s presi- together is a positive sign what- from the value of the Conference America and its international coalition al- ried out responsibly dent and absence of Syria as an ever the short-term outcome. as a regional affair, but if and lies arrogantly thought that they could commit The U.S. inevitable withdrawal wasn’t carried important regional country were The impact and the consequenc- when there is a next Conference crimes against the Afghan people with impuni- out responsibly since America should have en- major shortcomings of the sum- es of the Conference will not be of the sort, only regional coun- ty, but that was impossible since the rest of the sured that it didn’t leave any military equipment mit. immediately apparent. That will tries should be invited. world inevitably found out about their killings behind, established tripwires for deterring Tali- Iraq hosted a regional confer- take time. Having always empha- Don’t you think that the Sum- and other such unsavory acts even if justice isn’t ban attacks until it already left the country, and ence on Saturday. It brought Iraqi sized the need for the ownership mit could have better results yet served to the culprits. compelled former President Ghani to politically neighboring countries and the of the challenges of the region if all regional countries were Winning hearts and minds is compromise towards a transi- countries of the region together by the countries of the region, I present including Syria? more important than winning tional government. feel that all the participants will to support Iraq ahead of early The major shortcoming of territory Taliban’s fast Political proxies sometimes sense the value of talking to each elections. Surprisingly France’s the Conference if one has to Strategically speaking, the war defy their patrons other rather than talking at each president that his country has a pinpoint one is the absence of was lost shortly after it began conquest of other. One measure of where Part of the problem with the destructive role by supporting Syria at the table. Syria is an once the U.S. and its allies started things might go from here will be Afghanistan U.S. withdrawal was that its po- just fell, which shows how unreliable the U.S. is terrorist groups active against important country, still be- abusing the Afghan people in ter- whether there is a follow-up to litical proxy, former President as an ally that it would leave its local allies to the interests of the regional set with many problems. Iraqi rible ways and therefore turned this Conference. I hope there is. shattered the Ghani, refused to make any mean- fend for themselves under such uncertain condi- countries was present in the hosts understandably did not their hearts and minds towards ingful compromises towards a tions instead of letting them relocate to America. summit while Syria as an import- France itself is one of the call on Syria to attend for fear the Taliban, which therefore made countless lies transitional government that America will never be able to make amends for ant regional country was absent. backers of terrorist groups in that some others would then it impossible for the government could have facilitated a smoother destroying Afghanistan but it can hopefully nev- To know more about the issue, the region, what do you think of not come to Baghdad. However, to hold its ground despite being spread by the transfer of power and prevented er repeat this travesty if it learns these ten les- we discussed the pros and cons Macron’s presence at the Sum- one cannot hope to make much backed by the U.S. military. Western media America from being humiliated sons from that war. Everything that went wrong of the meeting with Dr. Logoglu, mit? progress regionally at the po- The Western mainstream me- even more than it already was in was entirely foreseeable and many even warned a senior member of Turkey’s CHP. French President Macron’s litical and economic levels, dia always lies recent days. about what was happening but their concerns How effective do you see presence at the Conference is an without the participation of The dramatic developments of the past two Local allies must be rescued during the with- were dismissed as so-called “propaganda”. The the significance of the Bagdad anomaly. France is not a coun- Syria. Syrian participation is a weeks during the Taliban’s lightning-fast con- drawal truth finally came out though and now every- Summit in reducing regional try of the region and does not sine qua non for regional peace one knows that the entire war was built upon a quest of the country shattered the countless lies The U.S. shamefully abandoned tens of thou- tensions? possess any special qualifica- and stability. What needs to be spread by the Western mainstream media about mountain of lies and easily avoidable mistakes. tions setting it apart from other done therefore is to amend this sands of its Afghan allies who fear for their fu- “Iraq must be applauded for the true state of affairs there, proving that they The U.S.’ reputation is ruined and it’s no longer non-regional states to be part situation by inviting Syria to the tures after their American-backed government taking the initiative and organiz- can’t ever be trusted about anything, whether regarded as a superpower. of this Conference. I suppose next Conference.” France, Britain to propose Does Afghanistan mark the end of American Empire?

Kabul “safe zone” Indeed, there are other similar moments in histo- Union collapsed. ry where America has shown weakness. There is the At an emergency, United Nations Security By Zalan Khan As the U.S. came to dominate the globe, the order Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour that decimated the Council meeting set for Monday, France, and it was morally underpinned by its belief in “manifest As Afghanistan continues to be in the spotlight U.S. Pacific fleet in 1941, which was followed by the Britain will submit a resolution on Afghani- destiny” and economically underpinned by the U.S. of international media after the Taliban takeover of loss of the Philippines to invading Japanese forces. Bu stan proposing a safe zone in Kabul to try and dollar as the reserve currency maintaining the mas- Kabul, familiar tropes are being regurgitated by the then the U.S. rebuilt its navy and within three years protect people trying to leave the country. usual suspects. The “graveyard of empires” – is there sive gap between its economic might and its nearest brought Japan to its knees. rivals and its control of the airways and oil supply Speaking to French media, French Presi- a more used and abused orientalist trope? – is a fa- There is also the 1973 war in which Egyptian and lines. dent Emmanuel Macron says “our resolution vorite reference in analyses and commentaries, as Syrian forces supported by the Soviet Union launched proposal aims to define a safe zone in Kabul, if Afghanistan, like other places, has not been con- This global order has unraveled mostly at the a surprise attack on territories occupied by Israel. under UN control, which would allow humani- quered and ruled by foreign forces countless times hands of the U.S. itself. Its moral dimension started to When the U.S. started airlifting arms to its ally, Arab tarian operations to continue.” in history. come apart, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, not oil producers reacted by imposing an oil embargo only disregarding the United Nations but also propa- Earlier, Macron said that Paris was hold- Questions and doubts abound about whether Af- which badly hit the U.S. economy. gating lies about Saddam Hussein’s regime possess- ing preliminary discussions with the Taliban ghans are “fit” for the trappings But ten years later, it had mini- ing Weapons of Mass Destruction. The credibility of about the humanitarian situation in Afghan- of civilized society, as if these mized Soviet influence in the re- the economic order was in turn damaged by the great istan and the possible evacuation of more trappings are reserved only for The Kabul fall gion and detached Egypt from the recession of 2008 when major U.S. financial institu- people from the country. western nations or whether Arab nationalist bloc. as “noble savages” they were tions collapsed one after the other. It is unclear how the Taliban, which is pre- other wounded. reminded me of well-intentioned but just too Perhaps it is too soon to de- All of this coincided with the resurgence of Russia paring a new cabinet as the American-led American President, Joe Biden, has warned weak or naïve to fight for and a comment by clare the decline of the U.S., and the emergence of China as the global economic military evacuation nears its end, would react that another terror attack at Kabul airport is preserve what was given to them. but the last two decades have powerhouse. In the 2010s, signs of the internal so- to the joint French, British proposal. “highly likely” in the next day or two while at brought significant shifts in glob- But as the western narrative Kissinger – “it may cio-political crisis America was going through also U.S. military forces, which have guarded the same time vowing further U.S. airstrikes al geopolitical dynamics. As Indi- focuses on Afghans and their started to emerge, reflected in the rise of Trumpism, the airport in Kabul, are due to withdraw by a against alleged Daesh targets. be dangerous to be an-American political commen- supposed “failures”, few have the growing racial injustice that triggered the Black Tuesday deadline set by President Joe Biden. tator Fareed Zakaria argued in his The swift airstrikes by the Pentagon on reflected on what the events in Lives Matter movement and the near-collapse of the France is among the countries that have also America’s enemy, 2008 book The Post-American what it calls “Daesh targets” has led observ- Afghanistan say about America, health system amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ended evacuations from Kabul airport. Mean- World, “The fact that new pow- ers to question whether Washington had pri- the retreating superpower, and Viewing the humiliating withdrawal from Afghan- while, Britain has confirmed its final flight but to be America’s ers are more strongly asserting or knowledge of Daesh leaders and facilities’ its increasing inability to decide istan within this larger context, one can say that the carrying military personnel out of Afghani- their interests is the reality of the whereabouts and why the U.S. did carry out global matters. century of American dominance may well be coming stan has left Kabul airport, the country’s De- friend is fatal”. post-American world.” the airstrikes before the deadly terror attack to an end. fense Ministry said. at Kabul airport. As I was watching Kabul fall Only, he unconvincingly argued to the Taliban, I was reminded That, of course, does not mean that the U.S. has be- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the “rise of the rest” was the Elsewhere, UN officials have warned that of a comment by former Secretary of State Henry come irrelevant. Historically, empires in decline – like is convening a meeting on Afghanistan with consequence of other powers adopting U.S. policy Afghanistan faces a humanitarian catastro- Kissinger – “it may be dangerous to be America’s en- the Ottoman in the 19th century and the Russian in the UN envoys for Britain, France, the United principles and ideas. phe, with large parts of the country suffering emy, but to be America’s friend is fatal”. the late 19th and early 20th century – have continued States, China, and Russia; the Security Coun- from extreme drought conditions. The econo- Looking back, America’s debut on the world stage to wield imperial power and dominate world events. cil’s permanent, veto-wielding members. my, shattered after decades of war, also faces The richest country with the most powerful mili- was dramatic and epoch-making. By 1913, it had be- tary in the world spent two trillion dollars, deployed The U.S. remains the world’s biggest military pow- Meanwhile, the Taliban’s main spokesman, a financial crisis. come a major economic power, albeit one with little as many as 775,000 military personnel since the er. The size and sway of its economy remain formi- Zabihullah Mujahid, has condemned an over- interest in global matters. This would change with its However, Mujahid insists the economy will invasion in 2001, and trained, equipped and na- dable. What has changed, however, is its appetite for night U.S. drone strike against alleged Daesh intervention in World War I on the side of the Allied improve once the new government takes of- tion-built for two decades. And when it decided to direct and indirect conflict to maintain its power. Its terrorists following Thursday’s attack near Powers, ensuring their victory. After the end of World fice. He said “the fall of Afghani against for- pull out, its Afghan allies surrendered within a week. allies – in Afghanistan and elsewhere – are the first the airport as a “clear attack on Afghan ter- War II, it became clear that the U.S. was replacing eign currency is temporary and it is because to feel this growing American aversion to global ritory”. of the situation that suddenly changed, it will Is Afghanistan marking the end of the American the British Empire as a dominant power in much of century or is it just a temporary blip in its world dom- the world. And less than 50 years later, Washington dominance. The Pentagon claims the airstrikes killed come back to normal once the government inance? stood victorious, as the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet (Source: Al Jazeera) two high-profile Daesh targets and left an- system starts functioning” China blasts ‘mendacious’ U.S. report on virus origins tracing

China has blasted a “mendacious” report cently compiled a so-called report on the of the coronavirus with the two main hypoth- community. A team of international experts from the from the Wuhan Virology Institute was origi- by the U.S. intelligence community that con- origins of COVID-19. It is a mendacious report eses being “natural exposure to an infected Ma said in the statement that Washington World Health Organization (WHO) visited nally hyped up by, among others, the adminis- cluded a months-long investigation into the made up for political purposes and there is no animal” and “a laboratory-associated inci- should stop slandering Beijing over the epide- Wuhan in January 2021 to produce a first- tration of former U.S. president Donald Trump origins of the coronavirus, warning Washing- scientific basis or credibility in it,” Ma said in a dent.” miological crisis while the U.S. itself could turn phase report, which was written in conjunc- as part of his hawkish anti-China policies. ton against politicization of the issue. statement. One agency, which was not named, argued out to have a role in the origin of the viral out- tion with their Chinese counterparts, but Since infecting its first victims in Wuhan in The strong condemnation by China’s Vice “The virus origins tracing is a complex sci- with “moderate confidence” that the virus break after investigating its own labs. it failed to find a conclusive position on the late 2019, the pandemic has spread to nearly origin of the virus. Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu on Saturday entific matter and it should and can only be originated in a Chinese government lab while “We once again urge that the U.S. should every country across the globe, killing more came a day after the U.S. intelligence report jointly done by scientists around the world, four others leaned towards the natural caus- immediately stop poisoning the internation- The WHO’s report said the virus jumping than four million people so far. on COVID-19 origins was made public and but the U.S. has been obsessed with political es with “low confidence.” al cooperation on virus tracing and under- from bats to humans via an intermediate China has on several occasions called stopped short of ruling out the possibility of manipulation and intelligence tracing in dis- The Chinese vice foreign minister said mining global unity, and return to the correct animal was the most probable scenario, and on the U.S. to give a full clarification on its the virus coming from a laboratory in the Chi- regard of science and facts,” he added. the United States’ attempts to politicize ori- path of scientific origins tracing and cooper- that a leak from the Wuhan virology labs was bio-military activities at home and abroad, a nese city of Wuhan. The released report on Friday said the U.S. gins tracing have found no support and met ation in the fight against the pandemic,” Ma “extremely unlikely.” matter of concern shared by Russia and oth- “The U.S. intelligence community has re- spy agencies remain “divided” on the origins widespread opposition from the international added. The theory that the contagion had leaked ers. TOURISM Lavish gifts: 10 souvenir ideas

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6 TEHRAN TIMES From page 1 Persian carpets some contemporary artists worked and rugs in this field such as the famous Handmade Persian carpets are painter, Mahmoud Farshchian. sought after internationally for There are some shops all around UNESCO-designated garden reopens after two- their delicate designs and their Iran, which sell diverse types of good quality. They are almost ex- paintings, including Miniature. So it pensive but they are worth every is one of the Iranian souvenirs ac- month closure amid coronavirus pandemic penny. cessible almost everywhere. However, if you can’t or don’t Termeh TEHRAN – Shazdeh Garden, which is an want to spend much money, you can Termeh is a cloth that is hand- enigmatic green oasis in the heart of a desert check out some other types of rugs made with silk thread and usually in the southeast Kerman province, reopened such as Gilim (Kilim) and Gabbeh used as a tablecloth. It is expensive on Sunday after being closed for two months (Gabba). They are both made of nat- because of its quality and special amid the coronavirus pandemic. ural handspun wool yarn, and the yarn and perfect design. Nowadays “Shazdeh Garden has reopened to tourists colors are created by natural plant Termeh is mainly made with me- again… and holidaymakers are allowed to en- dye. Unlike carpets, they don’t have chanical tools, but the handmade joy the exquisiteness of this World Heritage any plans, and they’re inspired by ones are more valuable. The most site if they observe public health protocols,” daily events so they can’t be copied. beautiful pieces of Termeh are found in the city of Yazd. IRNA quoted a provincial tourism official as There are some differences be- the ones with no space between the carving drawings on the surface of saying on Sunday. tween Gabbeh and Gilim. These polygons. The main centers of this metals such as gold, silver, copper, Ceramics and pottery Many visitors consider Shazdeh Garden as items are found everywhere in Iran, art are Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran. and bronze using a bar and a ham- Pottery and ceramics are also not a miracle because of its location. It is claimed but the carpets of Tabriz and the Objects made of Khatam are mainly mer. Ghalamzani is mostly done on specific to Iran, but Persian culture to be one of the biggest and most beautiful rugs made by Bakhtiari and Fars practical objects, dishes such as vas- and history of art have specialized gardens in the semi-arid country. tribes, have higher qualities. therefore they can es and big plates. this art in Iran. Most Iranian cities The garden was constructed under the Sweets, nuts, and spices be very useful sou- Majority of Iranians Artists working have shops that sell pottery and venirs. in this field are command of Mohammad Hassan Khan, the Many Iranians have a sweet tooth ceramics. The center of this art in mainly in Isfahan, ruler of Kerman during the Qajar era (1789– and that is why hundreds of types Turquoise have a sweet tooth Iran is the city of Lalejin in Hamed- Shiraz, Kerman, 1925). Apart from the beauties of the garden, of sweets are produced in every an, which is known as the center of Turquoise is one Kermanshah, and two-storey mansions in the western and corner of the country. Those who and that is why pottery in the Middle East. So if you of the Iranian sou- Tehran. So if you eastern parts of the garden perfectly repre- love sweets will be fascinated by want to buy small and cheap pieces venirs, that is not hundreds of types of pass through the sent Persian architecture. The main material Sohan of Qom and Gaz of Isfahan. of Iranian souvenirs and you care specific to Iran. But center, south, east, used in them is brick and the art of tiling is Besides, Iran is considered to be the about its Persian look, pottery and you can find one of sweets are produced or west of Iran you easy to recognize. center of pistachio production in ceramics are good choices. a symbolic representation of paradise on the best types of will have the chance the world and is the best place for in every corner of the Traditional fabrics In 2011, a selection of nine Iranian gar- Earth. Turquoise in Iran to see these artists foreign tourists to buy it as a souve- dens, including Shazdeh Garden, which bear The genuine concept of the Persian Gar- because it is sol- country. and their art. Each city in Iran produces its important architectural, traditional, and cul- nir. Saffron is another famous sou- id and hard and is unique type of fabric. It is also ob- den that is deeply rooted in time interweaves Miniature tural elements, were collectively inscribed natural elements with manmade compo- venir of Iran, known as red gold, and proper for making servable in the traditional and local on the UNESCO World Heritage list under the nents to embody an idea of creating a para- is widely used in Iranian foods and jewelry. Miniature is the art of drawing costumes of different cities. For pastries. Mashhad is the main city title of “The Persian Garden.” dise on Earth by the means of artistic, phil- Turquoise is Iran’s national gem- small pictures, which was used to example, Qalamzani is a special producing saffron in Iran. Rosewa- One outstanding feature of Persian gar- osophical, figurative, and religious notions. stone and is centered in the city of decorate ancient or medieval man- print technique used in Isfahan to ter is another great souvenir of Iran dens is the arrangement of a pond in the Neishabour. So if you have a spe- uscripts. It is a worldwide art and create Iranian patterns on fabrics. UNESCO says the flawless design of the that is mainly produced in Kashan. has been developed in both Europe center of the structure. The dance of foun- Persian Garden, along with its ability to re- cial taste in jewelry, don’t forget to Pateh, which is traditionally prac- tains in the middle of Shazdeh Garden has Khatam check out the northeast of Iran. and Asia according to their differ- ticed by women in Kerman, features spond to extreme climatic conditions, is the ent cultures. Therefore you can given an admirable view to it that leaves ev- Khatam is the art of putting wood- abstract patterns on thick woolen result of an inspired and intelligent appli- Metalworks see Miniature all around the world, eryone in wonder and appreciation. en or bone-made polygons together fabrics with colored cotton sutures. cation of different fields of knowledge, i.e. Iranian metalworks are famous but it is different in every country. with special glue. It is a very delicate Termeh comes originally from Yazd For millennia, Iranian gardens have com- technology, water management and engi- around the world. Ghalamzani is In Iran, Miniature continued its de- art and needs many different spe- and is the art of printing paisley de- bined the magic of nature with the aesthet- neering, architecture, botany, and agricul- one ancient metalwork that has a velopment as a type of painting and cialists. The best types of Khatam are signs on silk fabrics. ic qualities of art and architecture to create ture. long history in Iran. It is the art of 90 historical objects restored in UNESCO-registered Susa Projects worth $13.6 million to TEHRAN - A total of 90 historical the modern city of Shush, formerly In addition, there are traces at Susa covered. In the Parthian age, the relics have been restored by teams belonged to the Elamite, Persian, of a village inhabited around 7,000 city minted coins. of cultural heritage experts and re- and Parthian empires. BC and painted pottery dating from During the Sasanian age, the buttress tourism storers at the UNESCO-registered Situated in the lower Zagros ca. 5,000 BC at the site. city had a large Christian commu- site of Susa in the southwestern mountain range, around 250 kilo- Artifacts discovered at the site nity. It was sacked by the Sasanian Khuzestan province, IRNA reported meters east of the Tigris river and include carved cylinder seals, jew- king Shapur II, who transferred the in northern Iran on Sunday. between the Kharkeh and Dez riv- elry, clay balls, and clay tablets population to Iwan-e Karkheh, but The objects, which were un- ers, Susa is identi- with cuneiform in- Susa was sufficiently recovered in earthed as part of various seasons fied as Shushan in scriptions recording the early seventh century to fight of archaeology, represent diverse the Book of Esther Archaeological business transac- against the Arabs, who neverthe- historical periods, from prehistoric and other Biblical tions, political his- less captured the city which re- to Islamic eras, the report added. books. evidence suggests tory, and mathe- 379 CE), it was renamed Iranshahr mained important until the thir- Among the restored items are It was once the that Susa has matical calculations. Shapur and later helped in the re- teenth century CE. some painted potteries, a Parthi- winter residence of It is said that Al- sistance against the Arab invasion Different archaeological seasons an-era earthen coffin, a Sassan- Persian kings after been continuously exander of Mace- of 645. in Susa have yielded ample relics id-era statue, and a number of the having been cap- donia captured After the fall of the Achaemenid including pottery, arms, ornamen- globally-famed Luristan Bronzes. tured by Cyrus the inhabited since Susa in 330 BC and Empire and the reign of Alexander tal objects, metalwork, bronze ar- Many of the cited objects are Great. Susa became 4,200 BC. plundered the city, the Great, who married in Susa, the ticles, as well as clay tablets. Susa being kept at treasure troves of part of the Persian seizing some 40,000 city became part of the Seleucid is also a gateway to several wor- the Museum of Susa (Shush Muse- Empire under Cyrus talents of gold and empire. It was now called Seleucia thy destinations such as the UN- um) whose authorities aim to have II, the Great in 538 or 539 BC. silver from the treasury. Alexan- on the Eulaeus. A palace in Greek ESCO-tagged ziggurat of Tchogha them prepared for going on display. Archaeological evidence sug- der the Great initiated Shushan’s style was erected, next to Darius’ Zanbil, the ruins of Achaemenid decline by favoring Babylon and Apadana Castle, Shush Castle (Ak- Ancient Susa is one of Iran’s gests that Susa has been contin- palace. The administrative center, uously inhabited since 4,200 BC shortly after, following a revolt, the however, was in the southern part ropol), Prophet Danial Shrine, Mu- most treasured sights. The UNES- city was burnt to the ground. Sub- seum of Susa, the archaeological CO-designated city, now flanked by placing it among the oldest contin- of the city, where nearly all Greek uously inhabited cities in the world. sequently rebuilt by Sapor II (309- and Parthian inscriptions were dis- mount of Haft Tapeh. A view of the UNESCO-registered Gonbad-e Qabus in Golestan province

New book explores TEHRAN – New tourism projects worth Office dedicated to Great Wall of Grogan to be built in northern Iran $13.6 million are expected to advance tourism Portuguese fort in infrastructure across the northern Iranian Golestan province. TEHRAN – Iran is scheduled those on Hadrian’s Wall about Of the projects, 15 worth almost 140 billion southern Iran to construct a special office for threefold. rials ($3.3 million at the official exchange the Great Wall of Grogan, which According to UNESCO, the rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) are scheduled the country pursues its possible Gorgan Wall is remarkable not to be put into operation on the occasion of inscription as a UNESCO World only in terms of its physical the Government Week (August 24-30), the Heritage. scale but even more so in terms provincial tourism chief said on Friday. Stretched across Iran’s of its technical sophistication. Moreover, some ground-breaking ceremonies northern Golestan province, To enable construction works, are scheduled to be held during the week with the defensive wall is about 200 canals had to be dug along the the attendance of local officials and travel km in length and it was built course of the defensive barrier, insiders, CHTN quoted Ahmad Tajari as saying to prevent the invasion of the to provide the water needed on Friday. northern tribes. It is said to be for brick production. These the longest architectural work canals received their water from Completed projects comprise ten eco- of ancient Iran, which was built supplier canals, which bridged lodge units, two traditional restaurants, two TEHRAN – A book authored by Iranian ar- in 90 years. the Gorgan River via qanats. travel agencies, and restoration of a historical chaeologist Esmail Yaghmaei has recently archeological objects, a photo far been unearthed and even One of these, the Sadd-e Garkaz, monument, he explained. gone out of print to turn the spotlight on a “Due to the huge scale of the exhibition, a demonstration restored to former glory. wall and its related facilities as survives to 700 m in length and The new ones include eco-lodge unites, Portuguese fort, which was constructed on of handicrafts, a prayer hall, Archaeological excavations well as providing the necessary 20 m in height but was originally agritourism farms and accommodation centers Iran’s Qeshm Island in the 16th century. and a tea room to show off the have so far identified ditches, foundation for the possible almost one kilometer long. worth 433 billion rials ($10.3 million) will also be Furthermore, the 300-page book, entitled activities in the region, he noted. brick kilns, earthen dams, global registration of the wall, The Gorgan Wall and its commenced, he mentioned. “Colonial Stronghold”, features archaeological Also known as Red Wall, water canals, 38 forts, and while archaeological studies associated ancient military A total investment value of 573 billion rials excavations conducted in/around the fortress, which in some watchtowers and restoration projects are monuments provide a unique (about $13.6 million) has been channeled Mehr reported on Sunday. ancient texts is attached to the underway, constructing an testimony to the engineering referred to as the The Great Wall wall, and more through the projects, which are expected to The stronghold was built upon the orders of office that will provide tourism, skills and military organization Red Snake, this than 25 castles develop tourism across the northern province, Portuguese commander Alfonso de Albuquer- protection, and research of the Sassanian Empire. They wall is the longest of Gorgan is in the southern the official said. que when his forces seized the islands in the services are on the agenda,” the help to explain its geographic brick ancient margin of the wall The projects will add some 560 beds to early sixteenth century. provincial tourism chief Ahmad extent, from Mesopotamia to the barrier between remarkable in as well as several the hospitality sector of the province and will Tajari said on Sunday. west of the Indian Subcontinent, The Portuguese also left other military Central Europe ancient sites generate 170 job opportunities for the locals, and how effective border defense structues on the Iranian islands of Hormuz A budget of 14 billion rials and China, longer terms of its from prehistoric, the official added. contributed to the Empire’s and Larak and in the port of Kong as legacies ($334,000 at the official than Hadrian’s Wall historic, and physical scale prosperity in the interior and its Golestan is reportedly embracing some of their colonialism in the Persian Gulf. exchange rate of 42,000 rials and the Antonine Islamic eras. longevity. These monuments are, 2,500 historical and natural sites, with The Persian–Portuguese war took place per dollar) has been allocated to Wall put together and technical The gigantic in terms of their scale, historical UNESCO-registered Gonbad-e Qabus – a from 1507 to 1622 and involved the Portuguese the project, the official said. and the third- barrier is also importance, and sophistication, one-millennium-old brick tower – amongst Empire and the Kingdom of Ormus, its vassal, largest wall in the “Covering an area of 900 sophistication. more than three of global significance. its most famous. Narratives say the tower on one side, and the Safavid Persia (Iran) with square meters and a rectangular world after the times the length has influenced various subsequent designers Golestan is reportedly the help of the Kingdom of England on the oth- plan, the one-storey office will walls of China and of the longest late of tomb towers and other cylindrical embracing some 2,500 historical er side. be similar to the castles of the Germany. Roman defensive wall built from commemorative structures both in the region and natural sites, with UNESCO- In 1622 when the Persians retook Hormuz wall.” Most parts of the gigantic scratch, the Anastasian Wall and beyond. The UNESCO comments that the registered Gonbad-e Qabus – a and other occupied lands, the Portuguese Em- monument are still hidden west of Constantinople. The tower bears testimony to the cultural exchange Various sections of the office one-millennium-old brick tower pire was one of the largest and most powerful underneath the surface through combined area of the forts on between Central Asian nomads and the ancient will be comprised of a lecture – amongst its most famous. empires in the world. and film room, an exhibit of some segments that have so the Gorgan Wall exceeds that of civilization of Iran. TEHRAN – As of the start of a na- ficial noted. tional plan to develop the nanotech- Prioritizing nanotechnology in Iran nology sector 15 years ago, more Over $125 million has led to this country’s steady place- than 5,283 billion rials (about $125.7 ment among the five pioneers of the million at the official exchange rate SOCIETY nanotechnology field in recent years, of 42,000 rials) has been allocated and approximately 20 percent of all to nanotechnology projects, IRNA re- allocated to AUGUST 30, 2021 articles provided by Iranian research- ported on Saturday. ers in 2020 are relative to this area of Straight Truth Nanotechnology’s trend of de- technology. velopment is growing in Iran, as the nanotechnology Iran has been introduced as the 4th TEHRAN TIMES number of nanoproducts and equip- 7 leading country in the world in the ment developed in the previous [Ira- field of nanotechnology, publishing nian calendar] year (ended March 20) 11,546 scientific articles in 2020. increased to 750, compared with 647 sector a year before. The country held a 6 percent share of the world’s total nanotechnolo- Some 223 product manufacturing gy articles, according to StatNano’s companies and 59 equipment manu- monthly evaluation accomplished in facturing companies are active in the WoS databases. field of nanotechnology and by the Flora of Iran end of last year, which developed a There are 227 companies in Iran total of 750 products and equipment. registered in the WoS databases, manufacturing 419 products, mainly Of the 750 products and equip- in the fields of construction, textile, (Part 4) ment registered in the nanotechnol- medicine, home appliances, automo- ogy product database, 535 were re- Elements of the flora lated to nano-products and 215 were tive, and food. The Arcto-Tertiary element. Certain genetic ele- related to nano-equipment, both of According to the data, 31 Iranian ments of the flora must have been decisive for the which have experienced a growing universities and research centers plant colonization of the Near East. One of them was trend over the past few years, al- published more than 50 nano-arti- the Arcto-Tertiary flora, which apparently spread though nano-products have grown cles in the last year. over the entire temperate zone of the northern more significantly. hemisphere in the Pliocene. It must have retreated toward the south as the continental glaciers ad- The field of “civil engineering and vanced in the Pleistocene. construction” with 20 percent had the For the time being, largest share among nano products Today, many plants that died out in Europe and and equipment, followed by “medicine, 725 nanotechnology northern Asia during the Ice Age have survived in refuges in the southern Caspian lowlands and on the health” and “industrial services and China, India, Indonesia, Syria, Tur- 49 countries in five continents, he supplies” each with 13 percent. products in 10 fields northern foothills of the Alborz mountains, as well as key, and Iraq have received Iranian added. in the forested areas of ?alesh, the Caucasus, and the Saeed Sarkar, the head of Iran’s nanotechnology products and ser- of industry are southern coast of the Black Sea (Probst, 1981). Nanotechnology Innovation Council, For the time being, 725 nano- vices. Tertiary genetic element, but a series of plant-geo- said in June that Iran has created cen- technology products in 10 fields of manufactured. Examples include Parrotia persica (the last graphical discoveries supports such an identifica- ters in six Asian countries for export- Iranian-made nanotechnology industry are manufactured relying representative of a widespread and species-rich tion. The Tertiary flora of Africa can be divided into ing nanotechnology products. products are currently exported to on indigenized technologies, the of- genus in the Tertiary), Celtis australis, Pterocarya two categories, the rain-forest flora of the Congo fraxinifolia, and Zelkova carpinifolia. During the basin and the Paleo-African flora, which consists for late Tertiary forests of Euxino-Hyrcanian type must the most part of xerophytic vegetation. have been widespread in the Near East, as is sug- Iran awaiting 100m doses of coronavirus vaccine by yearend gested by the presence of Cedrus, Abies, and Os- Species of the latter spread across Ethiopia and trya in modern Lebanon. Beside this mesophytic Arabia into the Near East. For example, of twen- component of the Arcto-Tertiary element there was ty-five species of Acacia known in the Near East lition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), will be imported. a xerophytic component, to which the many native most occur in southwestern Arabia. However, only Persian species of Crataegus, Amygdalus, Cera- a few have reached Persia; they probably migrat- Gavi-The Vaccine Alliance, and the WHO, alongside “All public and private sectors, real and legal per- sus, Prunus, Pistacia, and Rhamnus and the spe- ed across the Eritrean-Arabian land bridge in the key delivery partner United Nations Children’s Fund sons, and individuals must be coordinated and unan- (UNICEF). cies-aggregate related to Quercus brantii are to early Tertiary. imous to control the spread of this dangerous virus,” be traced. These xerophytic descendants of the The Mesogean element. Finally, the term Me- Iran has purchased 16.8 million doses, while Raisi said on August 14. roughly 5.8 million doses have Arcto-Tertiary flora conquered the arid mountain sogean refers to the flora of a territory that encom- Raisi highlighted that it is already arrived in the country, ranges on the interior of Persia. Today, they belong passes the three hot and mostly arid regions con- and three million is expected not solely enough to draft and to Irano-Anatolian elements. stituting the eastern Holarctis: the Mediterranean, to receive by the coming days, A total of 20.390 announce health protocols, The Indo-Malesian element. A second genetic el- Saharo-Arabian, and Irano-Turanian floral regions. he stated. adding that if an individual ement was the tropical Indo-Malesian flora, which This element seems quite heterogeneous today, yet million doses of the disobeys the protocols and it includes a large number of common genera, which The Iranian Red Crescent started spreading from southeast Asia in the Cre- causes people to get sick, he suggests a fairly uniform evolution of the flora over TEHRAN – As per contracts signed with inter- Society head Karim Hemmati taceous, and in the early Tertiary had reached as far vaccine have been has violated their rights. the entire area. national manufacturers, some 100 million doses of said on August 26 that a total north as the fiftieth parallel in Europe (e.g., the Pa- leocene flora of London). Evidence of a Near Eastern coronavirus vaccine should be imported by the end of 20.390 million doses of the imported so far. In his August 11 televised Of more than ten thousand species found distribution of this element has been found only in of 2021, Nasser Riyahi, the head of the Association of vaccine have been imported address, Leader of the Is- there more than two-thirds are indigenous. Zo- Lower Egypt and the Negev. It is nevertheless quite Medicine Importers, said on Sunday. so far. lamic Revolution Ayatollah hary (1973) considered this flora an independent probable that a group of plants found today in the element, for it seems improbable that such nu- Moreover, negotiation is underway with one or Ali Khamenei suggested that The COVAX facility has pledged to provide Iran Euxino-Caucasian-Hyrcanian province are relics of merous and richly differentiated taxa developed two European countries to purchase Pfizer and Mod- containing the rapidly increasing wave of the Coro- with 16.8 million doses of the vaccine, IRIB quoted this tropical flora, for example, Diospyros lotus, Albi- from Indo-Malesian and Arcto-Tertiary stock in erna coronavirus vaccines, Alireza Raisi, the spokes- navirus is the first and foremost issue of the country. Riyahi as saying. zia julibrissin, the genus Buxus, Nelumbo speciosum, the comparatively short span of time after the man for the National Headquarters for Coronavirus Placing great emphasis on the fulfillment of du- Russia has also signed contracts to export 30-50 and Dioscorea caspica. Tethys Sea receded. The distribution of numerous Control, has said. ties and the implementation of decisions regarding million doses of the vaccine to Iran, but it has re- A few genera that are naturalized in the Near xeromorphic genera like Eurotia, Artemisia, Fag- the Coronavirus pandemic, Ayatollah Khamenei said neged on the promise, he noted. Referring to good efforts made to import vac- East and the Mediterranean basin also belong onia, Suaeda, Kochia, and Tamarix, which are at cines, he said: “By the end of September, we will “the vaccine, whether imported or domestically pro- home in the band of deserts encircling the Old “It had been planned to import 50 million doses of to the xerophytic descendants of the tropical definitely import about 30 million doses of vaccine. duced, must be provided with double effort and in Indo-Malesian flora, for example, Ceratonia si- World, is evidence of a pre-Tertiary origin for this Chinese vaccine from Sinopharm, but to date around With another memorandum of understanding from any way possible made available to all people.” liqua; Cercis siliquastrum; Laurus nobilis; Myr- element. During the Tertiary, the Mesogean flora half of the amount has been delivered.” October, we will receive another 30 million doses. “Fortunately, with the production of the domestic tus communis; species of Olea, Tamus, Smilax, split into different components: the Central Asian, On August 25, World Health Organization (WHO) So, if we receive 60 million doses of vaccine, we vaccine, its foreign import route is also paved, while and Ruscus; and Danae racemosa. The western- the Turanian, the Irano-Anatolian, the Paleo-Sa- representative to Iran Jaffar Hussain announced that can vaccinate the age group of 30 by the beginning before that, despite the payment for the vaccine, for- most traces of this element today are the laurel haran, and the Mediterranean. The Turanian and three million doses of vaccine will be delivered soon of November.” eign sellers failed to fulfill their commitments,” the forests of the Canary Islands. Irano-Anatolian components have further evolved to the country under the COVAX facility. Meanwhile, President Ebrahim Raisi has con- Leader said, urging officials to take importation and The Paleo-African element. It is not entirely cer- into a large number of species. The COVAX Facility is a partnership, co-led by Coa- firmed that 30 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine production of vaccine seriously. tain whether or not there was a third, also tropical, (Source: Encyclopaedia Iranica)

Permanent exhibitions of knowledge-based companies Ocean surface climates may disappear to be set up in 7 countries by 2100: study From page 1 The report has also private sector. The fields of aircraft maintenance, mentioned various reforms and leg- steel, pharmaceuticals, and medical Up to 95 per cent of Earth’s ocean surface will have changed by the end of the century unless humanity The Iranian banking system has paid reins in its carbon emissions, according to research published on Thursday. islation designed to remove barriers 127.1 trillion rials (about $3.02 billion) equipment, oil, and gas are among the to competition in the Iranian market, of facilities to knowledge-based com- sectors that researchers in technology Ocean surface climates, defined by surface water temperature, acidity and the concentration of the mineral calling it an effective step in provid- panies during the first three months companies have engaged in, leading to aragonite -- which many marine animals use to form bones and shell -- support the vast majority of sea life. ing innovation of the current import reduction. The world’s seas have absorbed around a third of all carbon pollution produced since the Industrial Revo- and significant Iranian calendar Vice President for Science and Tech- lution. improvement year (March 21- nology Sourena Sattari told the Teh- But with atmospheric CO2 levels increasing at a rate unprecedented in at least three million years, there are of science and Since March 2019, June 21). ran Times in October 2020 that “U.S. fears that ocean surface climates may become less hospitable to the species it hosts. technology in According sanctions caused exports of knowl- US-based researchers wanted to see what effect carbon pollution has already had on ocean surface since the Islamic Re- a total of 163 to the Central on the country, a unique opportuni- edge-based companies to decline three the mid-18th century. They also projected the impact of emissions through to 2100. public. Bank of Iran ty was provided for business devel- years ago, however, it has returned to exhibitions have To do so, they modelled global ocean climates across three time periods: the early 19th century (1795-1834); (CBI) data, the growth and is projected to reach the The report opment and the activity of knowl- the late 20th century (1965-2004); and the late 21st century (2065-2014). states that in- been held overseas. amount of the edge-based companies in the country. pre-sanctions level of more than $1 novation in Iran mentioned fa- billion by the end of the current [Iranian They then ran the models through two emissions scenarios. The first -- known as RCP4.5 -- envisions a Currently, over 7,000 knowl- has developed cilities, paid to calendar] year (March 20, 2021). peak in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 followed by a slow decrease across the rest of the century. edge-based companies are active in rapidly over the 558 companies, Fortunately, last year, companies The second scenario -- RCP8.5 -- is a “business as usual” approach, where emissions continue to rise past five years, and by the end of last has increased by 247.4 percent com- the country, manufacturing diverse achieved a record sale of 1.2 quadrillion throughout the next 80 years. year, 49 accelerators and 113 innova- pared to the previous year’s same products to meet the needs of the rials (nearly $28.5 billion at the official Writing in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, the researchers found that under the RCP4.5 scenario, 36 tion centers had provided services to period. domestic market while saving large rate of 42,000 rials), which is expected per cent of the ocean surface conditions present throughout the 20th century are likely to disappear by 2100. start-ups with the participation of the Despite sanctions putting pressure amounts of foreign currency. to increase by 40 percent this year.”

ENGLISH IN USE COVID-19 UPDATES ON AUGUST 29 LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION New cases 31,516 ‘City-friendly schools’ scheme New deaths 581 آغاز طرح »مدارس دوستدار شهر« launched in Tehran Total cases 4,926,964 در تهران The “city-friendly schools” scheme was launched in the capital to promote environmental protection and urban development issues Total deaths 106,482 طرح »مدارس دوستدار شهر« با هدف آشنا کردن دانش آموزان با حقوق و .among students, ISNA reported on Wednesday تکالیف شهروندی، محیط زیست و پسماند، حمل و نقل و ترافیک، و ایمنی و -Mojtaba Daneshvar, director general of citizenship education at Teh New hospitalized patients 3,614 مدیریت بحران در مدارس منتخب شهر تهران آغاز شد. ,ran Municipality, said that the project covers more than 550 schools به گزارش ایسنا مجتبی دانشور، مدیرکل آم وزشهای شهروندی شهرداری .consisting of 160,000 students It aims to familiarize students with the rights and duties of citizens, Patients in critical condition 7,877 تهران، گفت این طرح بیش از ۵۵۰ مدرسه شامل ۱۶۰ هزار دان شآموز را -the environment, waste, transportation and traffic, safety and securi Total recovered patients 4,146,742 در بر می گیرد. .ty, crisis management, he explained برنام ههای آموزشی این طرح در قالب برگزاری کارگ اههای آموزشی، تولید ,The training programs will be in the form of workshops, role plays cultural and educational camps, production of educational content Diagnostic tests conducted 28,668,156 محتوای آموزشی در قالب کتاب، بروشور و پوستر، اجرای نمایش و برگزاری such as books, brochures and posters, he concluded. اردوهای فرهنگی و آموزشی خواهد بود. Doses of vaccine injected 28,668,156 TEHRAN TIMES Reading promoter says Iran is www.tehrantimes.com lingering hope for Afghan migrants Managing Director: Mohammad Shojaeian noted Musavi, a foreign member of Editor-in-Chief: Ali A.Jenabzadeh the Iranian Association of Writers for Children and Youth. Editorial Dept.: Fax: (+98 21) 88808214 — 88808895 However, he said that it will take a Email: [email protected] long time for Afghan immigrants to adapt themselves to Iranian society. Switchboard Operator: Tel: (+98 21) 43051000 He also said that one of the main Advertisements Dept.: Telefax: (+98 21) 43051430 problems of the Afghan immigrants Public Relations Office: Tel: (+98 21) 88805807 will be their children’s education in Subscription & Distribution Dept.: Tel: (+98 21) 43051603 Iranian schools. 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Musavi expressed his thanks to the Iranian government and teachers Imam Ali (AS) and said, “I have worked as a teacher A file photo shows Afghan book reading promoter Nader Musavi attending a class at an Iranian school for for a long time and I know how it is a Afghan children. difficult job, especially when you have to teach Afghan children who have Prayer Times Noon:13:05 Evening: 19:53 Dawn: 5:08 (tomorrow) Sunrise: 6:36 (tomorrow) problems with their language and are TEHRAN – Afghan book reading He called Iran, Pakistan and nominated by Iran for the IBBY-iRead facing with mental problems.” promoter Nader Musavi has said that Tajikistan their destination and added, Outstanding Reading Promoter Iran houses about 3 million Afghan Award and the IBBY-Asahi Reading Art in Iran: Neolithic to Median Iran has is a main lingering hope for “Iran is one of their main hopes, refugees, who have been warmly Promotion Award in 2022. Afghan people feeling in terror as because they have close friends and received, at least, by the cultural Taliban insurgents have taken over relatives in Iran.” “Iran has also been Afghan tourists’ community in the country. Part 1 Afghanistan. “In addition, they have no problem popular destination in peacetime,” he However, the deep recession facing Geography as a determinant for the Speaking to the Persian service of with language and culture in the added. Iran following the U.S. withdrawal development of art MNA on Sunday, he noted, “Whoever country and they have a lot in “Anyway, the remarkable cultural from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal Topographically Iran is a varied country and its art has the ability to flee will leave the common with Iranians on religious affinities between Afghanistan and caused undocumented Afghan is regionally diversified. This variation in the artistic country anyway.” issues,” said Naderi, who has been Iran draw Afghan people to Iran,” migrants to return to their country. products from different areas of the country sets off the art of Iran as a whole from that of countries in which greater uniformity can be observed, such Composer Hushang Kamkar dedicates as Mesopotamia where major differences exist only between north and south. The artistic provinces of Iran do not remain “Another Grieved Land” to Afghan people constant, however. In the earliest periods, when art, insofar as it is preserved, consisted of clay TEHRAN – Celebrated Iranian composer Hushang Kamkar has composed numerous symphonies, figurines, painted pottery, and engraved stamp Kamkar dedicated his latest piece “Another Grieved including “Anfal”, “Khorramshahr Symphonic Poem” seals, the principal areas of its production can be Land” (“Faghanestani Digar”) to the oppressed and “In Golestaneh”. enumerated as follows: people of Afghanistan. The Tehran Symphony Orchestra choir and Italy’s 1. South and southwest Iran, the modern He has recorded the symphony based on a World Youth Orchestra perform his symphony provinces of Fars and Khuzestan with the Susiana, melody from the old love song “Let’s Go to Mazar”, “Where Art Thou, Divine Martyrs” at the Basilica di the area around Susa, artistically the most which has been sung by various Afghan and Iranian Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 2017. significant. singers. Iranian artists have always shown a reaction to 2. Central west Iran, the modern provinces of “It took several days to write the piece, which the oppression of Afghan people in various periods Lorestan and Kermanshah, where the sites of Tepe is strongly inspired by the unhappy situation in of history. Giyan (Gian) and Godin Tepe yielded the longest Afghanistan and leaving Afghan people alone In May, Oscar-nominated Iranian filmmaker sequences. hastily and inhumanly by the countries that claim to Majid Majidi strongly criticized the world for not 3. Northwest Iran, the provinces of Azarbaijan and protect human rights,” Kamkar said in a statement speaking out against the bomb attack outside the Kordistan, where the sites of the Hassanlu project on Sunday after the release of the recording. Sayed Al-Shuhada School in Afghanistan in the have provided most of the available information. “I had deep grief in my heart that I could just Afghan capital of Kabul that claimed the lives of 4. The area southeast of the Caspian Sea, and express through music. I hope the collective over 60 people including schoolgirls. the adjacent regions of Gorgan, and Khorasan endeavors and resistance will bring peace back to “I regret having to live in a time when justice is where the most important sites are Tepe Hissar the sad land soon,” he added. a meaningless word in this age of futility… I wish (Hesar) and Tureng Tepe, closely related to Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel (ca. “‘Another Grieved Land’ is a symphony written we had died and not seen the death of justice the Namazgah sequence and other sites in 3100–2900 BC, Proto-Elamite) for oud based on ‘Bia ke Berim be Mazar’, a popular and humanity, and we would not have witnessed Turkmenistan of the USSR. Afghan melody; for Mazar-i-Sharif that is not safe such tragic silence over the sad martyrdom of Iranian composer Hushang Kamkar. (Mehr/ 5. Central south Iran, mainly modern Fars with fourth millennium BC to the elegant rams and enough to travel to anymore.” dozens of oppressed girls from the Afghan Hazara Mohammadreza Abbasi) the prehistoric site of Talle Bakun close to where bucks of the Sassanid silver plates. He also thanked his brother, Arslan, a master of community,” he wrote in a statement. Persepolis was to rise several millennia later. In Another important element of the art of Iran stringed instruments, for his contributions to the In addition, Iranian pianist Bardia Sadrenoori of the children killed in the terrorist attack on the the same general area the all-important site of is the presence of composite beings. One type, recording. released a single titled “Afghan Child” in memory school. Talle Malyan was discovered, which later texts here called demon, is a combination of man and serve to identify with Anshan, which vied with animal walking on two legs. Susa for being the most significant site of Elam. An example is the demon with the head of Persian translation of “The Maidens” comes two months after 6. Southeast Iran, the modern province of a mountain goat or a moufflon. That type of Kerman, Sistan, and Baluchestan with the sites creature was especially long lived, lasting from release of English edition of Tell Elbis, Tepe Yahya, Bampur, and Shahr-e early stamps of Lorestan to the stele of Untash- Sukhteh (Burnt City). Napirisha and to a Sassanid stamp seal. Dependence of the chronology of art on The second type, called here monsters, TEHRAN – British-Cypriot but troubled group therapist who Mariana’s obsession with proving archeology consists of creatures composed of several author Alex Michaelides’s novel becomes fixated on The Maidens Fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, From the listing of archeological sites, it is animals walking on four legs. The most important “The Maidens” has been published when one member, a friend of threatening to destroy her credibility obvious that the study of the art of Iran depends of these for the history of art in general is the in Persian two months after the Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found as well as her closest relationships. for criteria of geographical origin and date on griffin with the foreparts and wings of a bird publication of its original English murdered in Cambridge. But Mariana is determined to stop this the results of excavation. of prey and the rest of the body that of lion. The edition. Mariana, who was once herself killer, even if it costs her everything— including her own life. This is also true for the historical periods. Only griffin was one of several monsters created Maryam Hosseinnejad has a student at the university, quickly very few works of art, found in the earliest phase of translated the book published by suspects that behind the idyllic Michaelides was born and raised with one or two exceptions cylinder seal engraving. Sang in Tehran. beauty of the spires and turrets, in Cyprus. He has an M.A. in English at Susa or neighboring Serpents with feline The book illustrates that Edward and beneath the ancient traditions, literature from Trinity College, Chogha Zanbil, can be Understanding heads are another type of Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana lies something sinister. And she Cambridge University, and an M.A. dated on the basis of their monsters which had a long is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. becomes convinced that, despite his in screenwriting from the American inscriptions. of the psyche life in the art of Iran; the A handsome and charismatic Greek alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the Film Institute in Los Angeles. murder. But why would the professor Most of the dates earliest clearly recognizable tragedy professor at Cambridge “The Silent Patient” was his first which will be cited in of animals was creatures of this type are University, Fosca is adored by staff target one of his students? And why novel and was the biggest-selling this survey are therefore found on carved vessels and students alike, particularly by the does he keep returning to the rites debut in the world in 2019. It spent expressed in animal members of a secret society of female Front cover of the Persian of Persephone, the maiden, and her approximations based on of chlorite or steatite, translation of Alex Michaelides’s more than a year on the New York students known as The Maidens. journey to the underworld? the stratigraphy of sites representations especially a vase in the novel “The Maidens”. Times bestseller list and sold in a where objects, which are British Museum said to Mariana Andros is a brilliant When another body is found, record-breaking forty-nine countries. related to those selected throughout Iranian have come from Khafajeh. here as significant for the art. Moreover, serpents with study of art, were found. or without feline heads “Redhead by the Side of the Road” arrives in Iranian bookstores Unfortunately, several of were widespread in Iranian these objects come from art, probably because their TEHRAN – A Persian translation of American poorly equipped to handle. unknown or insufficiently undulating bodies were writer Anne Tyler’s novel “Redhead by the Side of Can Micah, a man to whom those around him recorded excavations. equated with the winding courses of streams the Road” has been published in Tehran. always seem just out of reach, find a way back to Iconographical motifs as links between of life-giving water. Representations may show Tadaei is the publisher of the novel rendered his perfectly imperfect love story? regions and periods the entire body of the serpent in monumental into Persian by Nazli Nasrollahi. Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in The links which connect works of art made size, as in an offering table from Susa, or in very The novel is about Micah Mortimer who 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. small size, as in the diadem of the archer on the in various periods and regions of Iran are all measures out his days running errands for work, She graduated at nineteen from Duke Hassanlu bowl. iconographic. Of these the representation of maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and University and went on to do graduate work in animals is the most distinctive. Other iconographic use of animals seems to going for runs at 7:15, every morning. Russian studies at Columbia University. have been limited in time and space; for example, Studies of early food production have shown He is in a long-term relationship with his She has published 20 novels, her debut novel leonine, bovine, or other horned creatures acting that man in Iran had a remarkable talent for the woman friend Cassia, but they live apart. His being “If Morning Ever Comes in”. Her eleventh like humans are portrayed in small sculptures domestication of different species of horned carefully calibrated life is regular, steady, novel, “Breathing Lessons”, was awarded the of the period called by Amiet Paleo-Elamite or animals. balanced. Pulitzer Prize in 1988. protourban and appear to correspond to the This implies a feeling for and understanding Jamdat Nasr phase of Mesopotamian art. Front cover of the Persian translation of Anne But then the order of things starts to tilt. Cassia In 2012, she received the Sunday Times Award of the psyche of animals such as was expressed is threatened with eviction, and when a teenager for Literary Excellence. Source: Encyclopedia Iranica Tyler’s novel “Redhead by the Side of the in animal representations throughout Iranian Road”. shows up at Micah’s door claiming to be his son, Tyler is a member of the American Academy of art, from the clay figurines of the seventh to the To be continued he is confronted with another surprise he seems Arts and Letters.