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Israeli Hubris Par Excellence Sports Minister Soltanifar Slams U.S 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.13939 Monday MAY 10, 2021 Ordibehesht 20, 1400 Ramadan 27, 1442 Zarif calls on U.S. Nemati nominated for Nearly 10,000 national ICRC asked to provide to end JCPOA IPC Athletes’ Council housing units ready to be 2m COVID-19 vaccines lawlessness Page 3 elections Page 3 handed over to applicants Page 4 for Afghan refugees Page 7 Iran dismisses sending Syrian youth to Yemen See page 3 TEHRAN — The Iranian embassy in Ankara and inhumane war against the Yemeni Israeli hubris par on Sunday dismissed a claim by Turkey’s people. The Islamic Republic of Iran Anadolu News Agency claim that Iran was has always called for an end to this war sending troops from Syria to Yemen, calling and has supported UN efforts to find a it a “lack of information about the realities political solution.” on the ground in Yemen.” Anadolu News Agency had recently On Sunday, the Iranian embassy claimed that Iranian forces stationed in excellence issued a statement saying, “This false Syria would send Syrian youth to Yemen claim contradicts the Islamic Republic to fight in the country. of Iran’s approach to the catastrophic Continued on page 2 Over 130,000 public transport vehicles to become dual-fuel TEHRAN - The Director of the National of a program launched back in May 2020, Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution for the promotion of CNG consumption Company (NIORDC)’s compressed instead of gasoline. The program is aimed natural gas (CNG) programs Moham- at converting over 1.46 million public ve- mad-Hossein Baqeri has said that hicles into dual-fuel ones. 132,000 public transport vehicles are According to Baqeri, so far over 306,000 going to become dual-fueled across the vehicles have registered in this program of country. which only 132,000 have met the required The mentioned vehicles are going to criteria to become dual-fuel. become dual-fuel under the framework Continued on page 4 Turkish translation of Claire Jobert collection of Quran stories reviewed TEHRAN – A Turkish translation of a for children’s books. collection of stories that the Tehran-based The review session organized by the Iran French writer and illustrator Claire Jobert Book and Literature House was attended (Joubert) has created based on Quranic by Jobert, translator Milad Salmani and concepts was reviewed during an online Nar director Tayfur Esen. session on Sunday. Seyyed Ahmad Mirzadeh, the dep- The collection entitled “A Fiction uty director of Beh Nashr, the Iranian with Quranic Concept” is composed of publisher of the collection, also attended eight books published by Nar Cocuk, the session. Reuters a major Turkish publishing house Continued on page 8 Iranian plateau in Over 50,000 ha of desert areas to be Death toll rises to 58 in Kabul school Pleistocene: a bridge rehabilitated district attack between East and West TEHRAN – At least 50,000 hectares of the country’s According to Jafarian, the most important The death toll from an explosion outside a school Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said the Talib- desert areas will be protected and rehabilitated approach of these guidelines is defined based on in Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul has risen to 58, an militant group was responsible for the attack. BY AFSHIN MAJLESI through implementing sustainable exploitation the participation of people. Afghan officials say. The Taliban, however, did not claim respon- new study reinforces a hy- projects with the participation of local communi- Annually, about 25,000 hectares of land undergo Officials said on Sunday that medical staff in sibility for the blast. pothesis that the Iranian ties, Vahid Jafarian, an official with the Forests, reforestation in Iran, which is more than twice the hospitals were struggling to provide medical care Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khat- plateau was like a bridge Rangelands, and Watershed Management Organ- annual deforestation. However, the reforested land to at least 150 people, mostly schoolgirls, who were ibzadeh condemned the terrorist attack in Kabul. A ization said. may not have the same biodiversity and vegetation injured in the blast on Saturday. Khatibzadeh described the attack against ci- between East and West during the Pleistocene epoch, which began Technical and executive guidelines on desert re- as the original forests. The blast occurred in front of a school in the vilians as detestable, particularly as the targets about 2.6 million years ago and habilitation have been prepared based on the latest Reforestation is the natural or intentional Shia majority neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi were girl students. He offered condolences to the lasted until about 11,700 years ago. scientific achievements and experiences of successful restocking of existing forests and woodlands in western Kabul. survivors and families of those killed in the attack. In an article published in the International projects in the country and the world, he stated. (forestation) that have been depleted, usually An eyewitness reported that the victims of the The violent attack came a week after the Unit- Research Journal of Modernization in Engi- Studying, identifying, and managing the phenom- through deforestation. Reforestation can be used attack were mostly female students headed on their ed States and its NATO allies began pulling their neering Technology and Science (IRJMETS) enon of desertification and controlling wind erosion to rectify or improve the quality of human life by way back home after finishing school. troops and military hardware out of Afghanistan. in April 2021, Iranian researchers Mohsen in the desert areas of the country are among our tasks, soaking up pollution and dust from the air, rebuild The death toll in the blasts might increase, U.S. President Joe Biden announced the sched- Zeidi, Cyrus Barfi, and Shahram Zare con- he explained, ISNA reported on Sunday. natural habitats and ecosystems, mitigate global Tariq Arian, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, ule to complete the drawdown of US forces by cluded that the Iranian plateau served as a Using windbreaks, planting, care, and irrigation, warming since forests facilitate biosequestration said on Sunday. September 11. The Taliban have issued a warn- human migratory pathway in the Pleistocene. reforested forest management, runoff manage- of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and harvest for According to the ministry, there were a total ing, pledging to attack U.S. troops if they failed “Increasing Paleolithic finds in this ment, protection, and seeding were among the resources, particularly timber, but also non-timber of three consecutive blasts in the afternoon near to withdraw as scheduled. region and neighboring countries (Pa- plans implemented since the beginning of the forest products. Kabul’s Seyyed ul-Shohada Girls School in Dasht- Twenty years on, violence is increasingly ram- kistan and Afghanistan) reinforces the current Iranian calendar year (March 21), he said. Continued on page 7 e-Barchi. pant in the conflict-stricken country. hypothesis that the Iranian Plateau has been used as a human migratory pathway in the Pleistocene linking East and West.” Sports minister Soltanifar slams U.S. sanctions against Iran “The results of the archaeological This Zionist apartheid survey we presented here emphasized BY FARROKH HESABI including sports. in the last three years. Other Iranian clubs, such regime: An outlawed the great potential and the importance TEHRAN - Iran’s Minister of Sports and Youth, “The Iranian football federation, as an example, as Esteghlal and Tractor, should be also paid of south-eastern Iran in general and south- Masoud Soltanifar, slammed the international has not been able to use its funds at the FIFA. money rewards by advancing to the knockout state and an ern margins of Lut Desert in particular, sanctions against Iran and mentioned them as Also, Iranian football clubs, who have participated stages of the ACL,” he added. for the understanding of the Pleistocene the root of “the most of the current problems of in continental competitions, were not awarded According to the AFC and FIFA rules, any international terrorist culture history of this region,” stated the Iran’s sports” in a webinar with provincial sports their prize money relating to the AFC Champions financial payments to be made by these football military base authors of the research. managers on Sunday. League,” Soltanifar said. governing bodies are subject to all applicable Over the years, sanctions against Iran, mostly “The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) laws, regulations, orders, by-laws, and interna- The survey was conducted in parts of BY AMAL WAHDAN the Fahraj-Rigan area in Kerman province, imposed by the United States, have taken a seri- owes more than $3m to Persepolis club that has tional sanctions. ous toll on Iran’s economy in different domains, reached the AFC Champions League final twice Continued on page 3 This year, and while millions of the free people believing that new Paleolithic localities of the world rallied on international Quds day in bear great potentials for this region for support for the Palestinian cause and to call for an understanding the dynamics of Pleistocene end to the Zionist apartheid regime’s atrocities and hominin populations in south-eastern Iran. occupation of Palestine, Palestinians in Jerusalem During summer 2020, and in the frame- are escalating their protests against the continuous work of a Paleolithic survey in the Fahraj-Rigan policies of ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem from its area in the southern margins of Lut Desert, Palestinian indigenous people, who have lived there one of the authors collected a series of surface for thousands of years, at the hands of the apartheid stone artifacts and as a result of this, 12 new military occupying power.
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