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 43rd year No.13994 Saturday JULY 17, 2021 Tir 26, 1400 Dhul Hijjah 6, 1442 China urges U.S. Iran learn fate at TSE’s main index Social Security Law: to lift ‘illegal’ sanctions Asian Volleyball rises 23,000 points a new reform in on Iran Page 3 Championship Page 3 in a week Page 4 health system Page 7 Iran insists talks is only solution Washington intensifies to Afghan crisis TEHRAN — Tehran is insistent on its posi- in Afghanistan. tion the crisis in neighboring Afghanistan Iran supports efforts to resolve the must be resolved through negotiations, a crisis through dialogue, Mousavi added. intimidatory propaganda to cover senior Iranian diplomat said on Thursday. He also noted that the Iranian people Rasoul Mousavi, the director of the and government are in favor of ending the Western Asia Department at the Iranian long war in Afghanistan, according to IRNA. See page 3 Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a Abdullah expressed his appreciation up lack of options on JCPOA meeting with Abdullah Abdullah, chairman for Iran’s support of the Afghan peace of the High Commissioner for National process and highlighted the importance Reconciliation of Afghanistan (HCNR). of cooperation among the countries of At the meeting in Kabul, the Iranian the region to ensure peace and stability diplomat emphasized that Tehran is in in his country. favor of a negotiated solution to the crisis Continued on page 2 Transport, urban development projects worth over $5.1b inaugurated TEHRAN - President Hassan Rou- in the 81st series of inauguration ceremo- hani on Thursday inaugurated sev- nies since the previous Iranian calendar eral major transportation and urban year (ended on March 20). development projects worth 214.23 Some 321 kilometers (km) of highways trillion rials (over $5.1 billion) across and main roads, eight road transport de- the country through video confer- velopment projects, 16 port projects, as encing, IRNA reported. well as two multi-purpose sports halls, The mentioned projects, including and 262 other sports venue projects were 37 transport projects and numerous among the inaugurated projects. sport-venue projects, were inaugurated Continued on page 4 Pastu Covac neutralizes new COVID-19 strains TEHRAN – Preliminary results of studies lent in Cuba, and the New York variant, show that the Pastu Covac coronavirus which combines several strains, including vaccine, developed by the Pasteur Institute Indian, he stated. of Iran, fights very well against new variants He continued that one of the people’s of South Africa and India, and in other concerns about the prevalence of African words, neutralizes them, Alireza Biglari, and Indian strains was whether they neu- head of the Pasteur Institute, has said. tralize the effect of vaccines, while the study, The studies also showed that the vaccine showing the effectiveness of the Iran-Cuba Reuters performed very well against the South joint vaccine, also alleviated public concern. African mutation, which is most preva- Continued on page 7 Tehran derby not an Centuries-old bathhouse designated as First nation group calls on Canadian government interesting game, national heritage to release residential school records football expert says TEHRAN - Hammam-e Haj Lotf-Ali, a Qajar-era Over the years, the 230 square meters pub- An indigenous group has called on the Canadian graves, widely believed to hold the remains of (1789-1925) public bathhouse in northeast Iran, lic bathhouse has undergone many changes. government and the Catholic Church to release indigenous children, have stunned Canadians. BY FARROKH HESABI has recently been added to the national herit- There is a staircase that leads to the footpath the attendance records of a boarding school to However, the exact figure is difficult to ascer- ehran derby between Estegh- age list. and an area of about 45 square meters with help identify unmarked graves. tain as new research suggests “all residential lal and Persepolis might not Located in the city of Feizabad, Khorasan a cruciform plan as the entrance space. Ad- In May, the First Nation announced the initial school landscapes are likely to contain burials have been the most interest- Razavi province, the bathhouse was constructed ditionally, there is a rest area and a prayer discovery of 215 unmarked graves of children of missing children”. T next to a caravanserai upon the orders of Haj room, and the main area is covered with a near the Kamloops Indian Residential School Canada’s first prime minister authorized the ing game for the football fans in terms of the quality of the game, Lotf-Ali, who was an elite of the city, to bring dome and a multiplicative arch. after using ground-penetrating radar equipment creation of a residential school system, established according to Iranian football ex- comfort to the natives and travelers, deputy Bathhouses or ‘hammams’ are of great sig- to search two acres of land. This is believed by Christian churches and the government, with pert Mehdi Pashazadeh. provincial tourism chief Marjan Akbari has said. nificance in popular Iranian culture. They were to be the largest government-funded, Chris- the intention of assimilating indigenous people Esteghlal football team defeated Perse- A restoration project is currently underway not only places for bathing and cleaning up. tian-run school. Now, in a report presenting in Canada. Residential schools were compulsory polis 4-3 in a penalty shootout in Iran’s on the historical structure, which has been en- They also had a social concept for people who new scientific evidence, an indigenous group for children aged 7 to 15. Some 150,000 First Hazfi Cup quarterfinals. Two teams shared dowed by its builder; ISNA quoted Akbari as gathered at these places weekly. says more than 160 acres near the school still Nations had been forcibly taken from their homes, the spoils in a 0-0 draw after 120 minutes saying on Thursday. It was a place where people talked with each needs to be searched where more graves are with parents surrendering them under the threat at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran. The project, which is being carried out by other about their daily life and shared humor expected to be discovered. of prosecution. The last school closed in 1996. When Esteghlal goalkeeper Hossein Feizabad Municipality aims at repairing and and news. There are still bathhouses in Iranian A First Nation Chief has appealed to the According to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Hosseini had pushed aside the final at- renovating the bathhouse and repurposing it cities but they do not have their social function government and the Catholic Church to release Commission, children died from causes like tempt by the Persepolis’ young striker to a cultural center, the official added. anymore since most people have bathrooms in the records of those who attended the school to disease and neglect amid physical and sexual Mehdi Abdi, it was over. His save set off The public bathhouse was in use until 2013, their homes due to the modern lifestyle. speed up the search and identity of the children. abuse. The report describes the policy behind a wild celebration for the Blues. she noted. Continued on page 6 Since spring this year, the findings of some 1,100 the system as “cultural genocide”. Pashazadeh, former Esteghlal and Iran national team defender, talked about the match in an interview with Tehran Times. “It was not a high-quality game. Both Iranian heavy crude oil price rises 7.4% in June: OPEC Regional powers are teams played very cautiously in a timid TEHRAN- Iranian heavy oil price increased $4.96 2021 up to the report’s publishing day, in compar- OPEC basket prices also rose $4.98 or 7.4 engaged in diplomacy showing,” he said. in June to register a 7.4-percent rise compared to ison to $37.68 in the previous year’s same period. percent to reach $71.89 a barrel in June from “Persepolis didn’t want to lose as Yahya the previous month, according to OPEC’s latest The report put Iranian crude output for March the same month in 2020. with Taliban: academic Golmohammadi desired to continue the monthly report published on Thursday. at 2.47 million barrels per day (bpd) indicating In addition to the devastating impacts of the unbeaten run that his side had shown in Iranian heavy crude oil price followed its up- a 33,000-bpd increase compared to the figure coronavirus pandemic on the global oil industry BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI the league. Therefore, their priority was ward trend since the beginning of the current for the previous month. which resulted in the drastic fall in oil prices, the TEHRAN – Calling for a multilateral Astana-like not to concede a goal. year to reach $71.68 per barrel in the mentioned Based on OPEC data, the country’s average crude Iranian oil industry has also been under pressure initiative, an associate professor from the University “On the other hand, Esteghlal were month, compared to May’s $66.72 per barrel. output in the second quarter of 2021 stood at 2.443 from the U.S. efforts to isolate the country by of South-Eastern Norway, says the regional powers determined to prove that they are deserved According to the report, the country’s average million bpd indicating a near 229,000-bpd rise com- re-imposing sanctions. prefer diplomacy with the Taliban. to win a trophy, given all the management heavy crude price was $63.63 from the beginning of pared to the average figure for the year’s first quarter.