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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 12 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13591 Monday JANUARY 27, 2020 Bahman 7, 1398 Jumada Al thani 1, 1441 U.S. border Rouhani felicitates Iran win two gold Art Bureau to make doc security officers India on medals at Karate on Martyr Soleimani’s harassing Iranians 2 Republic Day 3 1-Premier League 11 affection for children 12 Iran’s steel production hits record of 30% growth in 2019: WSA TEHRAN — Iran’s crude steel production 1.848 billion tons in 2019. Zarif advises increased by 30 percent in 2019 while According to the WSA report, China the average global growth in this sector was the world’s top steel producer in stood at 3.5 percent, according to a report 2019, with 996.3 million tons of pro- released by World Steel Association (WSA). duction. Based on the report, Iran produced 31.9 In its previous report, WSA had put million tons of the mentioned commodity Iran’s steel production at 23.648 mil- Trump to base during 2019 compared to the last year’s lion tons in the eleven-month period nearly 24 million tons. of 2019, rising 5.3 percent from 22.452 WSA says that crude steel production million tons in the same time span of in the world has risen 3.5 percent to reach the previous year. 4 his decisions Europe’s security indebted to Soleimani’s anti-Daesh efforts: vice president TEHRAN — Current security in the Eu- rorists to restore peace and security in ropean and the Middle-Eastern countries the region.” on facts is as a result of martyr General Qassem “The Middle Eastern countries and See page 2 Soleimani’s anti-terrorism efforts, the even European ones owe their lives to the vice president for parliamentary affairs efforts of Gen. Soleimani,” he underlined. said on Sunday. General Soleimani was assassinated in In an interview with Mehr, Hossein-Ali a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad on January 3. Amiri said, “Lieutenant General Qassem In a retaliatory move, Iran fired dozens of Soleimani, the commander of the Quds ballistic missiles at a major U.S. military Force of the Guards, fought against ter- base in Iraq on January 8. 2 Syrian forces capture towns in advance on rebel-held Idlib Syrian government forces have taken advance, backed by heavy Russian air- control of several towns in northwestern strikes, has brought Assad’s forces to the Idlib province, a war monitor and Syrian outskirts of Maarat al-Numan, a strate- state media reported. gic urban center about 33 km (20 miles) The Syrian Observatory, a war south of the city of Idlib on a highway that monitor, said Sunday that six towns connects Damascus to Aleppo. in the Idlib countryside had fallen to Syria’s al-Watan newspaper reported Syrian government forces in the past that army forces were “just around the File photo 24 hours. corner” from the city, whose “doors are The Observatory said the government wide open”. 10 EDITORIAL Iranian docs enrich international understanding of Iran: DocPoint exec ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi By Samaneh Aboutalebi Other Side of Burkha”. and relevance. “A unique voice is always good,” Damir Nazarov Tehran Times editor-in-chief TEHRAN — Kati Juurus, the artistic di- “Family Relations” by Iranian filmmaker Nasser she stated. Journalist from Russia @ghaderi62 rector of DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Zamiri, about a father whose family members are She also said that the Cinéma Vérité, Iran’s Film Festival has said that the screening of against him, will also be screened at the official major international documentary film festival Iranian documentaries in such international section of the festival. and Iranian documentaries are not widely known The U.S. thirst for oil events can expand public understanding of “I had seen ‘Starless Dreams’ and got cu- in Finland. Sacral motive for Iranian society. rious about Oskui’s career,” said Juurus, who “Iranian drama films are more famous here,” he Americans, including Trump, “This year the festival will screen five Iranian is also the curator of the international section she said and added, “I’m a fan of Asghar Farhadi’s the murder of the claim that they are standing next documentaries, which can increase at least the of the festival. films. And Abbas Kiarostami is very well-known Tto the nations and defend human Finnish audience’s knowledge of Iranian doc- “He seems to be one of the directors here.” legendary General rights and the freedom of nations. umentary films,” Juurus told the Tehran Times who keep telling the same story with vari- “There’s wonderful filmmaking and interesting Their claims of human rights are hyp- in an email interview on Friday. ations. So I decided to find out more about filmmakers in Iran, so I hope that there will be o you know the story of attempts ocritically shown in their unprecedented The DocPoint festival plans to hold a retro- Oskui’s work and to run a retrospective of cooperation [between Iran and Finland] in the by Mossad, MI6, and the Central sanctions in history on the Iranian people. spective of Iranian documentarian Mehrdad his works as he’s not well-known in Fin- future,” she concluded. DIntelligence Agency to find traces A look at some Americans’ behavior Oskui by screening his award-winning docu- land,” she added. The DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film of the presence of Imam Mahdi (“peace reveals other facts. mentaries “My Mother’s Home, Lagoon”, “Nose, She also noted that the festival is choosing Festival will open in the Finnish capital on Monday be upon him”) in Iraq? You should read 1. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Iranian Style”, “Sunless Shadows” and “The films based on their cinematic qualities, topics and will continue until February 2. about it. January 3, 2020 in Baghdad, the expressed hope that the Libyan oil facilities Americans during an air strike killed the be reopened due to the Berlin conference legendary General of the Islamic revolu- held to examine Libya’s crisis. When the judge and the accused have the same identity tionary guard Corps Qasim Suleimani. 2. The U.S. Embassy in Libya also I believe that the search for the hid- violation of law and customs applicable in armed as well. In other words, due to veto authority, called for the resumption of oil exports By Tohid Raeisi den Imam (a.s.) and the fight against the conflicts and deemed as a war crime. However, an international prosecution of the U.S. will be from Libya. The year 2020 began with shocking news: Qassem Islamic Republic of Iran are part of the will international organizations be capable of impossible. 3. After the meeting with Jens Stolten- Soleimani, a top Iranian military general, was unified policy of the “Big Satan”. In the prosecuting a superpower? For example, in September 2018, White House berg in London, at the beginning of the assassinated by a direct order of the U.S. president. actions of imperialism, there is always a The International Criminal Court (ICC) was National Security Adviser John Bolton threatened NATO summit, Trump said, “We have The news became the headline of the majority of mystical-religious doctrine with the prefix established in 1998 with the signature of many to arrest and sanction judges and other officials total control of the oil. And, frankly, we news outlets in the shortest time. Consequently, “Satanism” and the service of “Antichrist”. countries to end impunity. They stressed: “Most of the ICC if it moves to charge any American who had a lot of support from a lot of different the New Year has commenced with the highest The Imperial forces will be led by the ideas serious crimes of concern to the international served in Afghanistan with war crimes. He said people. But, right now, the only soldiers level of tension between Iran and U.S. never seen of Satan and Dajjal under the cover of community as a whole must not go unpunished.” the U.S. was prepared to slap financial sanctions we have, essentially, in that area, are the since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. military and political aggression against While 123 nations are party to Statute of the and criminal charges on officials of the court if soldiers keeping the oil. So we have the oil, From that event till now, a significant num- independent sovereignty with a revolu- ICC, the status of the U.S. in this international they proceed against any Americans. and we can do with the oil what we want”. ber of top Iranian military and political officials tionary ideology based on monotheism. document is confusing. On the one hand, be- In brief, the approach of the U.S. government 4. Russian Defense Ministry released have threatened a hard-revenge as a self-defense Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran cause of disputes between the successive U.S. to international prosecution is hypocritical. For satellite images of some areas in Syria on action. On the contrary, Donald Trump uttered and its allies are the only representatives administrations, this country is not a party to example, the approach of the U.S. in the case of October 26, 2019, showing oil was ac- if Iran shows a military reaction, the U.S. will of Imam Mahdi (a.s.). The Islamic World the Statute. On the other, according to Article foreign situations like Darfur and Libya is quite tively extracted and massively exported attack 52 locations, including the cultural targets.