2 November 14, 2020 DOMESTIC NEWS 8 Iranian COVID-19 Vaccines on WHO’s Promising Candidates List Say: Nothing will af- flict us save what Allah Kayhan Group of Newspapers has ordained for us; He is our Patron; and on Allah let the believers Editorial Dept. Tel.: 33911561, 33110251-9 rely. Ext.: 2334, 2336, 2337 The Holy Qur’an (9.51) Advertising Dept.: 33110251-9 Ext. 2336 Subscription Ext.: 2322 PRAYER TIMINGS Facsimile: 33114228 & 33111120 Noon (Zohr) 11:49 Website: www.kayhan.ir/en Evening(Maghreb) 17:17 E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box: 11365/9631 Dawn(Fajr)“ Tomorrow” 05:13 Address: Martyr Shah Cheraghi Street, Ferdowsi Avenue, Sunrise “Tomorrow” 06:40 Tehran – Islamic Republic of Iran Ringleader In the Name of the Most High Viewpoint Behind Ahvaz Terrorist Attack A scientist works at a lab in the Pasteur Institute of Iran. Nabbed WHO Hails Iran’s TEHRAN (Press TV) – Iran says and WHO guidelines, out of which The country is currently grappling eight of the vaccines it is formulating four have reported promising results with a new wave of the outbreak TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Innovative Efforts in against COVID-19 have made their in tests on animals, Iranian Health as the number of infections and the Iran’s Intelligence Ministry way onto the World Health Organiza- Minister Saeed Namaki said late last death toll keeps soaring and break- in a statement said its forces tion (WHO)’s list of 48 promising can- month. ing records. Coronavirus Antidotes have arrested the ringleader didate vaccines. Namaki also said Iran hoped to The Health Ministry on Friday re- By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer Kianush Jahanpur, the spokesman start human trials of three vaccines ported 11,738 daily infections, push- of a separatist militant group of Iran’s Food and Drug Adminis- in the coming weeks, and that it had ing the total number to 738,322. It said behind the 2018 deadly terror The recent news that the World Health Organization (WHO)’s tration made the announcement on already informed the United Na- 461 patients have also lost their lives attack in the Iranian city of Friday in a tweet, which included tions’ health organ of its achieve- to the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, list of 48 promising candidate vaccines as antidotes to the Coro- Ahvaz. a screenshot of WHO’s ‘draft land- ments. bringing the death toll to 40,582. navirus pandemic, includes eight of the vaccines that medical scape of COVID-19 candidate vac- In parallel with efforts at develop- Earlier this week, the Iranian ad- The Intelligence Ministry scientists in the Islamic Republic are in the process of manufac- cines.’ ing home-made vaccines, Iranian ministration tightened the corona- said Farajollah Chaab also turing, need not come as a surprise to anyone, especially those Iranian scientists, along with re- authorities have said the county has virus curbs, ordering a month-long known as Habib Asyud, the keenly following Iran’s spectacular progress in the pharmaceu- searchers from around the world, plans to pre-purchase foreign ver- nightly curfew on businesses in ringleader of the so-called have been racing to develop safe and sions that pass safety and efficiency Tehran and 30 other major cities and tical and related fields. Arab Struggle Movement effective vaccines aimed at stopping tests. towns. Where there is a will there is a way, as shown by Iranian medics the spread of the highly-infectious Iran, one of the hardest-hit coun- Deputy Health Minister Qassem for the Liberation of Ahvaz and scientists over the past two decades in almost all the medical respiratory disease. tries by the outbreak, reported its Janbabaei has also said the country’s terrorist group (SMLA), had fields. As many as a dozen teams of Ira- first cases of the fast-spreading national coronavirus task force also been identified and arrested True, Covid-19 seems to have taken a heavy toll in Iran, but this nian specialists have been working disease in late February, around a plans to discuss a two-week nation- on the back of a set of “spe- round-the-clock in the field while month after the virus first showed up wide lockdown proposal this week- has not deterred the relevant authorities from searching for cure adhering to international standards in China. end. cialized and combined meas- to this multifaceted virus which has so far claimed the lives of ures” by Iranian intelligence 40,582 people out of 738,322 infections, since the Coronavirus forces. wave hit the country some nine months ago. Riyadh in No Position to Accuse Chaab had planned several Indeed, the situation in Iran is alarming, but this has not shak- abortive terrorist operations en the faith and hopes of the Iranian experts, who are virtually Tehran: Official in Tehran and Khuzestan in working round-the-clock to combat this pandemic with full con- recent years, the statement TEHRAN (Dispatches) – A high- respecting its neighbors. Iran has In comments in September, Iran’s fidence of defeating it. read, adding that he was ranking Iranian official has slammed always been the main supporter Foreign Ministry spokesman stat- This is not an exaggeration in view of WHO’s acknowledge- the Saudi king for his anti-Tehran of peace and security of neighbors ed that successive political and planning a new assault when ment of the efforts in this field by Iranian researchers and sci- accusations, saying the regime in and the region,” he said in a tweet. military defeats in Yemen have he was taken into custody. entists. Riyadh need to free itself from the Saudi Arabia’s King Salman plunged the kingdom into a “state The militant group is di- This speaks volumes of the Islamic Republic’s progress in the yoke of the Zionist regime and start bin Abdulaziz urged the world of delirium.” rectly supported by the in- respecting its neighbors. on Thursday to take “a decisive At the time, Saeed Khatibzadeh medical, hygienic, and pharmaceutical fields despite the illegal Hussein Amir-Abdollahian, a stance” to address efforts by Iran highlighted the Saudi regime’s telligence agencies of Saudi sanctions imposed by the US. senior aide to Iran’s parliament to develop nuclear and ballistic atrocities and civilian massacre in Arabia and Israel. It man- It is interesting to note that on a global scale, 56% of 500,000 speaker in international affairs, missile programs, in his annual Yemen, saying the Saudis are en- aged terrorist operations in- medical equipment items available in the world market have Ira- says the Saudi monarch, who has address to the Shura Council, the gaging in a blame game to “escape side Iran despite internation- ordered the invasion of Yemen and kingdom’s top government advi- responsibility for their own war nian versions. In pharmaceuticals, around 80% of Iran’s $4.5 al arrest warrants against its stood by American-backed Daesh sory body. crimes against Yemeni women and billion-market is made up of domestic products. terrorists in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, The Saudi king warned about children.” ringleaders, according to the In 2018, 97% of pharmaceuticals consumed in the country and Yemen, has no right to level what he called “dangers of Iran’s “As the birthplace and origin of statement. were manufactured locally. In 2018, 90% of the active pharma- any accusations against the Islamic regional project,” and accused the ideas of Takfiri terrorist groups “The main perpetrator of ceutical ingredients (APIs) used to produce drugs in Iran, were Republic of Iran. Tehran of “interference” in other and as the main financial and logis- the bloody terrorist attack “Riyadh had better stop serv- countries, fostering terrorism and tical supporter of terrorism in the made locally. on September 22, 2018 in ing the Israeli regime, and start fanning the flames of sectarianism. (Continued on Page 7) According to the World Health Organization, Iran ranks 30th Ahvaz is now in the hands of in healthcare and 60th in health-system performance, which the Intelligence Ministry,” it means, according to Bloomberg News, Iran ranks the 25th most Envoy: IAEA Has to Take ‘Unbiased’ Stance on added. efficient healthcare system ahead of the United States and Bra- The terror outfit has been af- zil. Saudi, Zionist Nuclear Activities ter separating the southwest- TEHRAN (Dispatches) – it should act in a very trans- agreed to work in good faith to As a matter of fact, Iran exports its medical products to a large Iran’s UN Ambassador Majid parent manner and allow the resolve these safeguards-related ern province of Khuzestan number of countries, both in the region and beyond. Most of the Takht-Ravanchi has expressed agency’s inspectors to verify its questions,” he stressed. — home to the country’s Iranian manufactured medicines are better than similar prod- concerns about secretive nuclear activities.” In late August, IAEA Director Arab population — from the activities by Saudi Arabia and Is- Additionally, he noted, the General Rafael Grossi visited ucts from other countries. rest of Iran through engaging rael, calling on the International IAEA needs to take “an unbi- Tehran, where he held talks with In view of these facts, the coming months are likely to once Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ased and professional approach” Iranian officials over safeguards in armed conflict against the again prove the ingenuity of Iranian experts and this time in ef- the UN nuclear watchdog, to toward Israel, which has refused implementation issues. Iranian government. forts to overcome Coronavirus, much to the chagrin of the US, adopt an “unbiased” approach to adhere to the agency’s safe- The two sides then issued a In September 2018, it which thought that sanctions, or more properly economic terror- towards both regimes. guards, is not a party to the Nu- joint statement and said they claimed responsibility for Takht-Ravanchi made the re- clear Non-proliferation Treaty had agreed “to further reinforce ism, will destroy Iran. the attack on military parade marks at a virtual meeting of the (NPT) and is widely believed to their cooperation and enhance Nonetheless, Iran needs to be on guard against Covid-19 and UN General Assembly that en- possess nuclear weapons. mutual trust to facilitate” the in Ahvaz, Khuzestan’s pro- other maladies by observing full vigilance and that includes the dorsed the IAEA’s annual report. Referring to Iran’s cooperation full implementation of Iran’s vincial capital. The assault tightening of the Coronavirus curbs, which presently have seen He said it is “of utmost impor- with the IAEA, Takht-Ravanchi Comprehensive Safeguards killed 25 people, including a month-long nightly curfew on businesses in Tehran and 30 tance” for the IAEA to consider said Iran alone accounts for 22 Agreement (CSA) and the Ad- members of Iran’s Islamic available information on Ri- percent of all the agency’s in- ditional Protocol (AP) thereto, Revolutionary Guard Corps other major cities and towns. yadh’s nuclear activities, add- spections even during the coro- which has been provisionally By the Grace of God Almighty, the Islamic Republic of Iran will ing, “If Saudi Arabia is seeking navirus pandemic. applied by Iran since 16 January (IRGC) and civilian bystand- soon emerge victorious in the campaign against Coronavirus. a peaceful nuclear program; “Iran and the agency have 2016. ers, and injured 70 others.