Things to Do in Washington When the JCPOA Is Dead
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WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 8 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13894 Monday MARCH 1, 2021 Esfand 11, 1399 Rajab 17, 1442 General Nasirzadeh Azizi Khadem elected Exports from mining 18th Mobarak says Iran capable of head of Iran football sector stand at over Puppet Theater building jet engine Page 2 federation Page 3 $5.6b in 10 months Page 4 Festival opens Page 8 Tehran rules out discrimination See page 3 against ethnic groups TEHRAN – Iran’s top human rights official in which she had criticized Iran’s code- on Sunday ruled out alleged discrimination of-conduct toward minorities. against ethnic groups, saying the Islamic Ethnic groups in Iran are not minority, Republic observes the rights of all citizens rather they are citizens of “the whole Iran”, regardless of their ethnicity. Baqeri Kani asserted, according to IRNA. Ali Baqeri Kani, secretary of the High Writing on his Twitter account, he said, Council for Human Rights, made the re- “Ms. Commissioner, Iranian ethnic groups marks in response to a statement by UN are not ‘minority’, they are ‘the whole Iran’.” High Commissioner on Human Rights Continued on page 2 Production by major automakers exceeds 817,000 in 11 months TEHRAN - Three major Iranian carmakers, produced in the eleventh Iranian calendar namely Iran Khodro Company (IKCO), month of Bahman (January 20 – February SAIPA Group, and Pars Khodro, manu- 18, 2021). factured 817,069 vehicles during the first SAIPA manufactured 291,220 vehi- eleven months of the current Iranian cal- cles in the mentioned period, of which endar year (March 20, 2020-February 18, 29,452 were manufactured in the elev- 2021), the data released by Codal website enth month. showed. Pars Khodro also manufactured 93,843 According to the data, during the vehicles, of which 12,828 were manufac- mentioned period, IKCO manufactured tured in the eleventh month. 432,006 vehicles, of which 43,912 were Continued on page 4 Second Iranian COVID-19 vaccine enters clinical trial Things to do in Washington TEHRAN – Iran started the human trial trial, 133 people will receive the vaccine, of its second coronavirus vaccine, Razi 13 of whom are injected in the first group Cov Pars, by injecting into two volunteers and the rest in four groups consisting of during a ceremony on Sunday. thirty members, he noted. The vaccine is both injectable and in- After 23 days, phase one of vaccination tranasal based on recombinant COVID-19 should be completed. “The second dose of when the JCPOA is dead proteins, Mohammad Hassan Fallah, the vaccine will be injected to the volun- deputy head of Razi Vaccine and Serum teers 21 days later and the third dose will Research Institute, said. be inhaled 51 days later,” he explained. File photo Through the first phase of the human Continued on page 7 Car scrapping Vast majority of terror victims are Yemenis target Saudi soil with 15 UAVs industry dormant; Muslims: scholar and ballistic missile scrap imported BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI returned to European countries. How do Yemeni forces targeted the Saudi soil with 15 UAVs will be more extensive,” he added. TEHRAN - Noting that most of the people who you analyze this phenomenon? and a ballistic missile on Saturday night, the spokes- Saree called on the people of Saudi Arabia to BY MAHNAZ ABDI are victims of terrorism are Muslims, a British My feeling is that you have this the wrong man for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General stay away from all military positions and places t’s a couple of years that Iran professor of communication says that Islamo- way round. Trump came to power because Yahya Saree says. and airports. has launched a car scrappage phobic rhetoric makes reconciliation and peace of the same impulse to return to extremes In a press conference on Sunday, Saree provided details Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it intercept- scheme, mainly aimed at reduc- harder to attain. that pushed Europe to the right. I see this as about the Yemeni Armed Forces’ attack on Saudi soil. ed a missile attack over its capital and bomb-laden I “The vast majority of victims of these acts a function of both the economic downturn “The operation titled the “Fifth Response Bal- drones targeting a southern province. ing air pollution, especially in the capital Tehran. of terror have themselves been also Muslims,” of 2008 and the destabilization caused by ance” was carried out jointly with drones and ballistic The Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Ye- Although a considerable number of Nicholas Cull says. the emergence of widespread social media, a missiles,” he said. “Sensitive positions and places men’s yearslong war announced a ballistic missile was worn-out vehicles were junked in line with “Responding to terror with exaggerated mechanism that amplified the confirmation of in Riyadh, the capital of the enemy, were targeted launched toward Riyadh and three booby-trapped the mentioned scheme, the scheme has Islamophobic rhetoric rather than solid existing ideas, privileged extremes and pro- with a ballistic missile of the type ‘Zulfiqar’ and nine drones toward the province of Jizan, with a fourth not been carried out as scheduled, and police action plays into the hands of the moted conspiracies. In a time of instability, “Samad-3” UAVs. Six Qasef K2 UAVs also targeted toward another southwestern city and other drones there are many worn-out cars waiting to extremists in the Middle East (West Asia) people seek certainties either in a vision of the military positions in the Abha [capital city of Aseer being monitored. The U.S. embassy in Riyadh issued be scrapped. and makes reconciliation and peace harder future or in the idealization of the part. The Province near the Red Sea in southwest Saudi Arabia] a warning to Americans, calling on them to “stay The chairman of the Association of to attain,” the scholar in the USC Annen- rhetoric of the far-right focused on an ideal and Khamis Mushait areas [a city in southwest Saudi alert in case of additional future attacks.” Car Scrapping Centers has recently said berg School for Communication tells the past that they could also present as disrupted Arabia, located east of Abha].” The Saudi-led coalition has faced widespread that there are currently three million Tehran Times. by an outside influence. In many cases, the According to him, the operation lasted from international criticism for airstrikes in Yemen that worn-out vehicles in the country, and This in the text of the interview: rhetoric stressed a victim narrative and the Saturday evening until this morning. have killed hundreds of civilians and hit non-military the number will reach eight million by After Trump came to power in 2016, extent to which a people had suffered. “As long as the attacks and siege on our country targets, including schools, hospitals, and wedding the Iranian calendar year 1404 (March it seems that the threat of far-right ideas Continued on page 5 [Yemen] continue, our operations will continue and parties. 2025 – March 2026). “If this condition continues in this way, we need a thousand years to scrap such high number of cars”, Mahmoud Tourism, transport ministers ink MOU to boost maritime tourism Jalaluddin Rakhmat Mashhadi-Sharif lamented. TEHRAN- Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Hand- Promoting the culture of using the sea as a tradition for future generations. was victim of slander Making the remarks in a press confer- icrafts Minister Ali-Asghar Mounesan on Sunday tool to increase social vitality, development of Speaking on the sidelines of the signing cere- ence, he said 150 out of 220 centers for signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) coastal activities in the form of environmental- mony, Mounesan said that the tourism ministry by takfiris: Indonesian scrapping and recycling the light and heavy with Transport and Urban Development Minister ly-friendly plans and programs, and creating the tries its best to leave single product tourism behind vehicles in the country are now closed, Mohammad Eslami to deepen cooperation and necessary grounds for cooperation and exchange and diversify tourism products. professor and the rest are active with a less than expand bilateral ties. of knowledge and information were also among A focus on the country’s natural capacities BY M.A. SAKI 10 percent of capacity. The MOU aims at developing maritime tour- the topics of the agreement. along with the historical and cultural capacities TEHRAN – Jalaluddin Rakhmat, a top Sia figure in “While it was planned to scrap 30 ism and make the best use of its potential in the The traditional skills of building and sailing could attract more domestic and foreign tourists Indonesia, lived under harassment and slander by percent of the worn-out vehicles since southern and northern coasts of the country, Iranian Lenj boats in the Persian Gulf was another as well as create more job opportunities in some takfiris, especially in recent years, an Indonesian [the Iranian calendar year] 1388 (March according to a press release issued by the tour- issue discussed by the two ministers to find a way deprived areas, he explained. academic says. 2009 – March 2010), but in the past year, ism ministry. to safeguard the endangered UNESCO-registered Continued on page 6 “As is the case in many parts of the world, the just 8,000 out of the 360,000 worn-out Shia’s emergence was met with negative reactions cars were scrapped. from takfiri groups linked to Saudi Arabia,” Professor As stated by Amir Ahmadi, the sec- Otong Sulaeman tells the Tehran Times.