Bibi's Big Mistake: Fall of Fake Regime?
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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 43rd year No.13941 Wednesday MAY 12, 2021 Ordibehesht 22, 1400 Ramadan 29, 1442 Iran: Tehran-Riyadh Daei, Hejazi the best Blood donation dialogue conducted by Iranian players of up 27% during Felicitation special envoys Page 2 century: IFFHS Page 3 Qadr nights Page 7 on Eid-al Fitr Iran rejects Pentagon’s claim, denounces U.S. ‘unprofessional’ behavior in Hormuz Bibi’s big mistake: Fall TEHRAN - The Islamic Revolutionary committing “provocative, gratuitous and Guards Corps Navy has reacted to a claim unprofessional behaviors such as flying heli- by the Pentagon that the IRGC speed- copters, firing flares and aimless shooting.” boats unprofessionally came close to an The statement said the IRGC boats See page 3 American vessel. maintained a legal distance from the The IRGC Navy said in a statement on American vessels in accordance with of fake regime? Tuesday that IRGC boats did not act unpro- international maritime regulations and fessionally and while they were conducting warned them against “dangerous and a regular and conventional operation, they unprofessional behavior.” encountered seven American Navy vessels Continued on page 3 Iranian COVID-19 Electricity projects worth over $320m vaccine enters large- put into operation TEHRAN – Iranian Energy Minister projects, as well as installing new PV sys- Reza Ardakanian inaugurated major tems for nomadic households. scale production phase electricity projects worth 13.45 trillion The national electricity network’s rials (about $320.2 million) across the new dispatching center which has been country on Tuesday, in the sixth week of completed with 11.44 trillion rials (about the ministry’s A-B-Iran program in the $272.3 million) of investment is using current Iranian calendar year (started on world’s latest technologies in Energy March 21). Management System (EMS), Supervisory The inaugurated projects include Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) the national electricity network’s new and Wide Area Management System and dispatching center, numerous power Control (WAMS) systems. network modification and optimization Continued on page 4 TEHRAN – The first batch of COVIRAN the vaccine will be launched by the next BAREKAT, equaling 300,000 doses of two months. the first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine COVIRAN BAREKAT was unveiled manufactured by the Headquarters for on December 29, 2020, and started to Executing the Order of the Imam, was be mass-produced on March 29. unveiled in a ceremony on Tuesday. Iran is among the first countries which The first large-scale production line started developing a vaccine against of the vaccine with a capacity to produce coronavirus, and now four companies three million doses is ready for operation, are endeavoring to release their products ISNA reported. by September and inoculate the whole Masoumeh Aliakbar The second production line with a population. capacity to produce 17 million doses of Continued on page 7 ISNA/ Israel likely to Tehran, Yerevan discuss ways to UN says Daesh committed genocide intensify tensions deepen tourism ties against Iraq’s Izadis before a JCPOA TEHRAN – Iranian tourism minister Ali-Asghar [implementation of] a visa waiver [program].” A UN team investigating Daesh (ISIL terrorist group) a special court. Mounesan and Yerevan’s ambassador to Teh- The envoy, for his part, said many Armenians atrocities in Iraq says it has established evidence that “It is time for the international community to do, revival: professor ran Artashes Toumanian on Monday discussed are not being introduced to Iran’s attractions. the crimes committed by the terrorist group against more than listen. It is time to act. If world leaders ways to deepen ties in the realms of tourism and “The people of Armenia do not know much about Izadis amounted to “genocide”. have the political will to act on this evidence, then BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI cultural heritage. The officials exchanged views Iran’s tourist attractions, if [enough] information Karim Khan, the head of the UN team, said there justice is truly within reach,” Murad, who won the n American professor says it on how to boost travel when the coronavirus is is provided and tourism officials and tour oper- was “clear and convincing evidence” that the crimes 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to end the is possible that Israel as the controlled with help of vaccines. ators of the two countries work in this regard, committed by Daesh against the Izadi people as a use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, told the chief opponent of the 2015 “We are ready to increase the tourism ties they would be interested in traveling to Iran.” religious group “clearly constituted genocide”. Security Council Monday. A between the two countries. It seems, within the Joint work on the restoration of historical sites The team, he told the UN Security Council, identi- Referring to the report of the UN team, Murad nuclear deal can raise tension over a possible revival of the agreement next few months, the tourism sector would re- and monuments was another issue discussed fied the perpetrators “that clearly have responsibility said, “The Council must now prioritize and accelerate before it tones down its rhetoric or sume as [COVID-19] vaccination is underway in the Tehran meeting. for the crime of genocide against the Yazidi (Izadi) concrete action to address the findings.” stop its malicious acts. worldwide,” Mounesan said. “The arena of Iranian cultural heritage is community.” Khan is a British lawyer who is due to become Noting that both Iran and the U.S. want The Iranian minister attached great im- important to us because it dates back to thou- Back in August 2014, Daesh terrorists overran the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor to get back to the Joint Comprehensive portance to tourism as a tool, which can foster sands of years ago,” Toumanian said. Sinjar, killing, raping, and enslaving large numbers next month. Plan of Action (JCPOA), Karl Kaltenthaler peace and friendship between various nations. “We have good experience in the field of intangi- of Izadi Kurds. According to Press TV, the report of the team, which tells the Tehran Times that “It will possibly “We pay special attention to tourism with ble cultural heritage and there are many similarities The region was recaptured in November 2015. started work in 2018, also found the “repeated de- raise tensions before it would lower them.” our neighbors because we believe tourism, in between the two countries in this regard. Armenian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad, an Izadi ployment of chemical weapons by ISIL (Daesh) Iran and the five remaining parties to the addition to economic matters, helps to promote specialists can also help to restore the engravings woman who was enslaved and raped by Daesh, urged against civilian populations in Iraq between 2014 nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Com- friendship between the nations. Such relation- of Iranian churches,” the ambassador explained. the UNSC to refer the genocide against her people and 2016, as well as the testing of biological agents prehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), coupled ship with Armenia has been improved after the Continued on page 6 to the International Criminal Court (ICC) or create on prisoners.” with the United States have started talks in Vienna, to convince the Biden administration to return the multilateral agreement. Kaltenthaler says Israel and Saudi Arabia Russia says Iran’s deal with IAEA likely to be extended Bribed normalisation: do not want the United States to move back TEHRAN – A top Russian diplomat at the tended,” he said, adding, “But, as of the strictly restrict cooperation with the IAEA The reverse effects into the nuclear deal but Tehran and Riyadh Vienna nuclear talks has said that a February moment, our task is different- we need in case the West failed to lift sanctions. deal between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog to reach an agreement on restoration of According to a joint statement issued by are in the process of normalizing ties and BY BATOUL SBEITY will “most likely” be extended. JCPOA by 21 May.” the International Atomic Energy Agency and the sides have so far held talks in Baghdad. In mid-August of 2020, former U.S. President Russian ambassador to the Vienna-based The Russian diplomat was referring to a the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, the Israeli officials have warned about military Trump started brokering the normalisation of ties international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov February deal between Iran and the IAEA IAEA and AEOI agreed: “1. That Iran continues escalation if the JCPOA is revived. After between the Wrong State (Israel) and a series of told Laura Rozen that the deal has a good chance which allowed the latter to continue its to implement fully and without limitation its targeting Iran’s ships and some sabotage Arab nations, with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and to be extended. monitoring activities in Iran ahead of the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with operations in the Iran nuclear facilities, Morocco forged open and official ties. From the “I think the February understandings implementation of a parliamentary nuclear the IAEA as before. the world is witnessing Israeli aggression outward, it may seem as though the Wrong State most likely have a good chance to be ex- law obligating the Iranian government to Continued on page 3 against Palestinians. has the upper hand and is dictating the rules of It seems that since the Israeli regime engagement on its own terms, but this couldn’t have failed to find a solution to its domestic be further from the truth- indeed, the Wrong crises and its international isolation it State is only escaping forward.