WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13703 Monday JULY 6, 2020 Tir 16, 1399 Dhi Al Qada 14, 1441 We won’t let IAEA Archaeological survey Volleyball can become Bust of Commander complete espionage circle identifies 205 relics, popular as football: Soleimani unveiled at of hostile countries 3 ancient sites in Kerman 8 Salehi Amiri 11 Tehran’s Vahdat Hall 12 Imports of 2,500 products banned in a quarter TEHRAN— Iranian Acting Industry, on the quarterly performance of his ministry, Mining, and Trade Minister Hossein and said the imports of 1,500 products had Modares Khiabani said that the imports been banned during the past calendar year, of 2,500 commodities have been prohib- while the figure was 2,500 items just for the ited during the first quarter of the current first quarter of this year. No hidden Iranian calendar year (March 20-June For the moment, 85 percent of the im- 20), Shata reported. ported items are raw materials and the Speaking in an open session of the parlia- rest 15 percent are the consumer products, ment on Sunday, the official released a report Modares Khiabani added. 4 issue in Some 3,000 tourism workers in Kish lose job over coronavirus outbreak TEHRAN — Some 3,000 tourism workers dent of Kish Tour Operators and Travel Iran-China in Kish Island have lost their jobs tempo- Agencies. rarily as the coronavirus has nearly closed Instead of halting all tourism activities down all travel hotspots across the Persian across the island, the authorities could Gulf island, ILNA reported. monitor the implementation of health Shutting down the tourist sites in the protocols strictly, he added. island as well as cancelling all cultural Last week, Masihollah Safa, the head of agreement and entertainment festivals, which led the Association of Kish Hoteliers announced to the unemployment of almost 3,000 that the Kish Island’s tourism industry has people, could be more destructive and taken 15 trillion rials (over $357 million) challenging than the risks posed by the hit from the coronavirus outbreak over virus, said Ali Khodadadi, the presi- the previous months. 8 IRGC at full capacity in fight against coronavirus TEHRAN – The deputy chief of the Is- threat to Iran, and that is why we will lamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) strongly stay at the frontline to fight the Foreign Minister Zarif says for health Brigadier General Ahmad Ab- epidemic.” dollahi said on Sunday that IRGC will use He said that the IRGC’s medical centers he met with General its full capacity to battle the pandemic in are still offering services to the people, add- Maryam Kamyab See page 2 the country. ing that in the provinces with high infected Qassem Soleimani every week Stating that the IRGC defends the na- cases, according to the needs of the medical tion against any threat, he emphasized universities and the Ministry of Health, the Mehr/ thate “W still consider COVID-19 a great IRGC’s health forces are on duty. 9 No IAEA member British government is major partner in killing Protesters burn American flag outside states can civilians in Yemen White House accept endless The British website “Declassified UK” published four years, while 90 Saudis receive training on Far-left protesters burned an American flag Both groups have frequently spoken out inspections: a report saying that hundreds of Saudi soldiers “Typhoon” aircraft at Koningsy base in Lincoln- near the White House on Saturday, chanting against the Trump administration and its policies. and other Persian Gulf Arab countries had re- shire, west of England in 2019. “America was never great,” just moments after The demonstration outside the White House Chinese expert ceived their military training in Britain at a time While the British Ministry of Defense did not President Trump finished delivering a speech comes as many citizens reflect on Independ- when the Yemen war continued. reveal the nature of the trainees, if they were at the “Salute to America” Independence Day ence Day in the context of nationwide protests TEHRAN — Jin Liangxiang, an associate The investigation revealed the British role pilots or crews operating on the ground, Saudi celebration. against police brutality and racism. Some of research fellow at the Center for West and its relationship with Saudi Coalition against Arabia acquired “Typhoon” aircraft in a deal Video shows the flag being burned in Black those protests have featured calls to tear down Asian and African Studies in Shanghai, to train soldiers to lead fighter jets. with “BE Systems”, the arm of the British army, Lives Matter Plaza, just outside the White House. Confederate statues or monuments that com- tells the Tehran Times that Iran has been British soldiers have trained hundreds of at a value of 20 billion pounds. Activists can be heard chanting: “One, two, three, memorate figures who supported slavery. very cooperative with the IAEA and that Saudi-led coalition forces at other bases in Britain. The investigation stated that Yemen was four, slavery, genocide and war. Five, six, seven, Trump has criticized such protesters, in- “no member states can accept endless Declassified UK, a British organization that subjected to thousands of raids carried out by eight, America was never great.” cluding in his speech at the “Salute to America” inspections” and “limitless access” to has been exploring Britain’s role in the world for coalition warplanes, which killed 785 civilians The flag-burning was organized by the Revo- where he called out the “radical left.” locations in their territories, specifically a year, said that hundreds of Saudi soldiers have last year, including 77 children. lutionary Communist Party. A speak out before “We are now in the process of defeating the without “solid evidence.” received training in the Royal Air Force”RAF” The investigation stated that 189 Saudis the event was held by Refuse Fascism, which also radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the Dr. Jin, a senior research fellow in the bases, noting according to data obtained from received their training at the Defense College held protests nationwide on July Fourth calling agitators, the looters, and people who in many Institute for International Strategic Studies the British Ministry of Defense, that 310 Sau- of Oxford for technical training in Shropshire, for the removal of Trump and Vice President instances have absolutely no clue what they are (SIIS) also says the EU cannot stand up to dise hav been trained in Six British Air Force western England last year, indicating that the Pence from office. Refuse Fascism posted on doing,” he said in his address. the U.S., as “the EU is vulnerable both be- military sites in England and Wales. British Ministry of Defense refused to reveal its website that it also created and then tore The president has also fiercely criticized flag cause of its internal division, particularly as The site confirmed that the training of Saudi the nature of the courses that the Saudis had down a “statue” of Trump outside of Trump burning, saying last month those who burn the a result of U.S. intentional divide-and-rule pilots continues, as some military courses take restricted to the College of Oxford, 10 Tower in New York. American flag should go to jail. 10 policy toward the EU, and its dependence on the U.S. for security protection.” On the future of Sino-Iranian rela- tions, he notes, “The future will see that Iran has underground missile cities along southern coasts, commander says Establishing 8 new the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The commander of The “missile-launching floating cities” about, like a “nightmare”, the admiral warned. is growing stronger and stronger as po- the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy would be put on display at the discretion Tangsiri pointed to the IRGC Navy’s initiative FTZs across Iran on litical elites on both sides attach great said Iran has established onshore and offshore of authorities, the commander noted, to form “naval Basij” on 2,200 km of Iran’s agenda importance to such relationship, and trust missile cities all along the coasts of the Persian adding, “The enemy knows that the Army southern coasts, excluding the islands, saying and friendship between the two peoples Gulf and the Sea of Oman that would be a and the IRGC have underground (missile) the force involves 428 flotillas and more than TEHRAN — Secretary of Iranian Free Zones High are growing stronger.” “nightmare” for the enemy. cities all along the Persian Gulf and the 23,000 servicemen. Council Morteza Bank said on Saturday that eight The text of the interview with Jin Li- In an interview with Sobh-e Sadeq weekly, Makran coasts, but its information is not “All of our coasts are armed and the under- new free trade zones (FTZ) are going to be established angxiang is as follows: Rear Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri said the IRGC accurate.” ground cities of the Army and the IRGC with across the country, ILNA reported. The International Atomic Energy Navy, like the IRGC Aerospace Force, has es- The IRGC Navy is present everywhere in various defense utilities have scattered over “Currently, in addition to the current eight free Agency’s Board of Governors adopted a tablished underground and offshore missile the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, in every the entire southern coasts. The coast is fully zones, the creation of eight new zones is on the agen- resolution drafted by the UK, France, and cities containing coast-to-sea missiles.