Zarif, Borrell Discuss Nuclear Deal
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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.13596 Tuesday FEBRUARY 4, 2020 Bahman 15, 1398 Jumada Al thani 9, 1441 Iran missed OIC Elections manifest Jahanbakhsh wins Polish troupe performs meeting due to lack of excellence of Match of the Day goal “Silence” on child cooperation by Saudis 2 national security 3 of the month 11 victims of wars at Fajr 12 Steel ingots, products export up 46% in 9 months on year TEHRAN — Iran’s export of steel in- in the nine-month period of this year, Zarif, Borrell discuss gots and steel products has increased 46 from 3.675 million tons in the same time percent during the first nine months of span of the past year. the current Iranian calendar year (March And the steel products export regis- 21-December 21, 2019), IRNA reported tered a 27-percent rise to 2.828 million on Monday citing the data released by the tons in this year from 2.148 million tons Association of Iranian Steel Producers. in the previous year’s nine-month period. The released data put the country’s export As previously reported, production of nuclear deal of steel ingots and steel products at 7.797 steel ingot rose four percent in Iran during million tons during the nine-month period. the first nine months of the current Iranian See page 2 As reported, steel ingot export has calendar year from the same period of risen 38 percent to 5.069 million tons time in the previous year. 4 ‘Deal of century’ shows Iran is not enemy of Arabs: Zarif TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Moham- in the region in order to make the Arabs mad Javad Zarif said on Monday that the accept the Zionist regime’s demands,” he so-called U.S. “deal of the century” shows said during a speech at the AJA University that Iran is not an enemy of the Arab world. of Command and Staff, known as DAFOOS Politicians and analysts say that through the in its Persian acronyms. deal of the century the Trump administration is Zarif said when the Zionist regime was formally giving the Palestinian lands to Israel. making arrangements for the Oslo and Madrid Palestinian Authority President peace processes in 1991, the former ambassa- Mahmoud Abbas has called the U.S. dor of the Zionist regime’s to Iran during the proposal the “slap of the century”. Shah regime had said that “they have decided “A procedure has been started since 10 to replace Arabs with Iran for animosity and years ago to portray Iran as the main threat make peace with Arabs”. 2 OIC rejects Trump’s Middle East plan The Organization of Islamic Cooperation istration in implementing it in any form”. (OIC) has rejected U.S. President Donald The deal would, among other conten- Trump’s so-called “deal of the century” on tious things, enshrine Jerusalem al-Quds the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. as “Israel’s undivided capital” and allow the Behnam Tofighi The OIC convened in Jeddah on Mon- regime to annex settlements in the occupied day to discuss the plan Trump unveiled West Bank and the Jordan Valley. alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin All Palestinian groups have angrily reject- Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday. ed the plan, while Israeli groups of different The 57-member organization said it “calls political persuasions have enthusiastically Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ on all member states not to engage with this embraced it, hailing it for offering them plan or to cooperate with the U.S. admin- more than they expected. 10 ARTICLE PERSPECTIVE Mahnaz Abdi “Qasida of the White Cow”, mediocre movie with big questions “A House on 41st Street” by Hamidreza Qorbani, has been executed for a murder charge a year ago. Azadeh Abbaszadeh Head of the TehranTimes By Samaneh Aboutalebi “Life Hanging” co-directed by Hossein Amiri She tries to get her life together, take good care Director of “Down Syndrome” Economy Desk TEHRAN — Numerous films of Iran’s post-rev- olution cinema have considered social issues such Dumari and Pedram Puramiri and “Yalda, a Night of her child and make both ends meet. However, cellular-molecular research as women’s rights, addiction, poverty, the younger for Forgiveness” by Masud Bakhshi are some of her life gets more sorrowful when she finds out center of Iran FTA with EAEU, a generation’s problems and lex talionis. the movies on the subject. that her husband was innocent. Productions on lex talionis — the law of “an “Qasida of the White Cow” by Behtash San- While most of the films on the subject pro- Iceland: a genocide turning point for eye for an eye” applicable in Iran — have always aeiha is the latest case, which is competing in mote forgiveness rather than revenge, this film provoked controversy. the 38th Fajr Film Festival currently underway brings up a very frightening question: Since the in silence; hidden Iran’s trade “Beautiful City” by Asghar Farhadi, “Corridor” in Tehran. sentence is irreversible — after all, no one can anti-47 army by Behruz Shoeibi, “Lanturi” by Reza Dormishian, The film is about Mina, a young woman who return from death — what if the person executed lives along with her deaf child while her husband was actually innocent? fter several years of nego- 12 ook at these numbers and votes: tiations, Iran and Eurasian Approved with 48 votes in favor, A Economic Union (EAEU) fi- 2 abstentions, and 0 against. After nally reached a free trade agreement L World Cancer Day: national plans to improve patients’ lives counting the votes and adopting this (FTA) in 2018 based on which about resolution, known as United Nations By Faranak Bakhtiari Cancer Control (UICC), World Cancer Day is which is below the world average (219 and 183 862 commodity items are subject to General Assembly Resolution 217, they preferential tariffs. TEHRAN — Iran has developed several na- an opportunity to rally the international commu- for men and women), Malekzadeh stated. nity to end the injustice of preventable suffering In the world and in Iran, cancer prevalence called it the Universal Declaration of The interim agreement enabling tional cancer control programs since the Ira- Human Rights. formation of a free trade area between nian calendar year 1392 (March 2013- March from cancer. will almost double over the next two decades, Year 2020 marks the midway point of the which is higher in developing countries than in Iceland, as a country in favor of the Iran and the EAEU was signed on May 2014), for reducing prevalence and mortality resolution, signed the Universal Dec- 17, 2018 and officially came into force while improving the quality of patients’ lives, 3-year ‘I Am and I Will’ campaign, which ac- developed ones, due to increased life expectancy knowledges that everyone has the capacity to and the aging population, he said. laration of Human Rights in 1948. This on October 27, 2019. deputy health minister has stated. resolution was signed about 70 years Iran is a very important market in Reza Malekzadeh made the remarks on the address the cancer burden. He went on to add that another reasons contribute The incidence of cancer in men and women to cancer are unhealthy lifestyles and environmental ago and today, Iceland is considered as the region and development of ties with occasion of the World Cancer Day, February 4. the only country in the world which has in Iran is 163 and 140 per 100,000, respectively, factors, IRNA reported on Monday. 9 this country is of high significance for Organized by the Union for International eradicated Down syndrome people. Is the EAEU members (Russia, Belarus, eradication of Down syndrome people Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan). who are a part of society any different The free trade agreement between Contradictory reports as Turkey claims bombing Syrian troops than genocide? Did Iceland fail to read Iran and this union has laid the ground Article 1 of the Universal Declaration Turkey says it launched airstrikes against Syrian up its presence in the region and warned of a “We are determined to continue our operations for the expansion of trade ties between of Human Rights? troops advancing in the last terrorist bastion military offensive if the ongoing operation by for the security of our country, people and our the two sides. Article 1 of the Universal Declaration in Idlib, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Syrian government forces against foreign-backed brothers in Idlib,” he told reporters in Istanbul. Iran’s signing the agreement with the of Human Rights: claiming the raids were in response to attacks Takfiri militants continues.Turkey’s Defense The Turkish president said Ankara had urged bloc has increased the country’s exports “... All human beings are born free and on Turkish forces. Ministry said four Turkish soldiers were killed Moscow which supports the Syrian army in the to the EAEU member states significantly, equal in dignity and rights and should Erdogan said Monday Turkey’s F-16 warplanes and nine others injured in intense shelling by offensive “to stand aside” in the escalating conflict. which is a turning point for the Islamic act towards one another in a spirit of were involved in the attack against 40 points in Syrian government forces in Idlib earlier Monday. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the Turkish mil- Republic to boost its export under the brotherhood ...” Idlib, claiming that 30-35 Syrians were “neu- Erdogan said, “We have responded in kind to itary came under fire from Syrian government sanctions time.