I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 SOCIETY DECEMBER 19, 2019

Legendary goalkeeper UN global forum lauds Iran for Nasser Hejazi’s bust unveiled in Tehran hosting refugees SOCIETY TEHRAN — A bust of legendary Iranian goal- 1 Pointing out that Iran is not only national borders and unable to return deskkeeper Nasser Hejazi was unveiled in Tehran deprived of international aid, it has also to their homes. during a ceremony on Tuesday. been subjected to unilateral sanctions In Asia, some 9.5 million people – The ceremony was attended by Hejazi’s family, fans and former that have seriously affected support for including refugees, internally displaced players of Esteghlal club, IRNA news agency reported. the displaced, he added that it should not people (IDPs) stateless people – are in Hejazi played for Iran be expected that refugee hosts provide critical need of the solidarity, enhanced national team as a goal- conditions for the displaced beyond in- responsibility-sharing and practical keeper in the late 1960s ternational legal norms. commitments towards solutions being and 1970s. He won the Stating that refugee support is a global stimulated by the Forum. AFC Asian Cup twice for responsibility but only a few developing Afghans remain the largest and long- Iran and also played for the countries are burdened with that, he called est displaced refugee population in the country in the 1976 Olympic on the international community to dis- region. Today, four decades since their Games and the 1978 FIFA cover the best solution to the displaced initial displacement, there are over 2.7 World Cup. people such as voluntary return to their million registered Afghan refugees, the He also earned 62 caps countries. vast majority of whom have been host- for Iran from 1968 to 1980, Over 70m people displaced ed by Iran and Pakistan. Iran currently and received an offer from has some one million registered refugees Manchester United after by war Worldwide, over 70 million people from Afghanistan. In addition, over two the 1978 FIFA World Cup, million Afghans are estimated to live in and trained with them for are displaced by war, conflict, and per- secution. More than 25 million of them Iran either without documentation or a month, appearing in a on national passports. reserve match against are refugees, having fled across inter- Stoke City. In his coaching career, he led Esteghlal club from 1996 to 1999 and later in 2007. FAO allocates $395,000 for flood management in Iran Hejazi died on May 23, 2011, at the age of 62 after a long ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — The Food and Agriculture orological Organization; Forests, Range, and Watershed battle with lung cancer. deskOrganization of the United Nations (FAO) Management Organization; Disaster Management Organ- One month ago, a boulevard in Tehran where Esteghlal Camp inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran’s ization; and Ministry of Agriculture. is located, was renamed to Hejazi. Ministry of Agriculture to provide $395,000 for flood man- The goal of this project is to improve food and nutrition agement projects in the country, IRNA news agency reported. security in agricultural areas affected by floods, he added. Deputy Agriculture Minister, Alimorad Akbari, and FAO Transferring the experiences of other countries to Iran Representative to Iran, Gerold Bödeker, signed the MOU in dealing with natural incidents and training of farmers Australia registers hottest during a meeting in Tehran on Wednesday. are among objectives of the project; we will train 210 people day in recorded history Funded by FAO, this two-year Technical Cooperation during 6 training courses with the aim of increasing resilience Programme (TCP) project will assist Iran in flood forecasting to climate-related disasters, he explained. and management. Sanctions not to limit FAO’s cooperation with Iran Australia has endured its hottest day ever recorded, as hundreds Through allocating $395,000 to this project, FAO assists Bödeker, for his part, said that FAO spends 13-14 percent of violent bushfires continue to rage across the country. Iran to improve flood forecasting and management tech- of its total budget on TCP projects and can allocate up to Bureau of Meteorology data shows temperatures hit a startling nologies, while using knowledge and experience of different $500,000 per project depending on the region. new high of 40.9C on average on Tuesday – 0.6C higher than countries for training of experts. Pointing out that U.S. sanctions do not limit FAO’s co- the record set in 2013 – with experts warning Wednesday would Some 30 percent of the fund will be spent on providing Gerold Bödeker, FAO Representative to Iran (L), and Reza operation with Iran, he stated that FAO’s activities does not likely be even hotter. required equipment and facilities and the rest on training Sarafrazi, director of water and soil department of the interfere with regional and geopolitical issues, so it will not It came as a special statement on climate change from the and implementation projects. Ministry of Agriculture. be subject to sanctions. bureau revealed an unprecedented season of bushfire risk, with The Iranian official for his part said that the TCP flood with key bodies including FAO Regional Office for Asia and He further expressed hope that the project goes well with Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) statistics showing record high management project is being implemented in collaboration the Pacific; FAO Office in Iran; Ministry of Energy; Mete- the cooperation of Ministry of Agriculture. indicators for spring had been observed in every state and ter- ritory in 2019. The record levels of heat have been exacerbated by very low humidity, gusty winds and a severe lack of rainfall, combining to 2,200 Iraqi nationals under social insurance coverage in Iran push bushfire danger levels into the “catastrophic” category, the SOCIETY TEHRAN — Currently, some 2,200 Ira- As per the article 5 of Iran’s social security law, statement revealed. deskqi nationals are under coverage of social foreign nationals who are employed in Iran in ac- On Wednesday, the temperature in Birdsville – a Queensland insurance in Iran, head of Social Security Organization’s cordance with the pertinent labor laws and regula- outback town situated on the edge of a desert – soared to 47.7C, department for foreign nationals has said. tions, except in cases where according to protocols making it one of the hottest places on Earth. Similar temperatures Some 1,530 of the retirees and pensioners of the Social and bilateral and multi-lateral treaties between Iran were recorded across the country. Security Organization are also Iraqi citizens, IRNA quoted and other countries special arrangement have been Meanwhile, hundreds of bushfires continued to burn in states Ahmad Reza Khazaei as saying on Tuesday. provided for, shall be covered by social insurance across the nation, with at least 100 in New South Wales and 70 in Out of 1.1 million registered foreigners (men and women) law provided that they are not subject to the law for Queensland, where several people were treated for burns amid living in Iran, some 35,000 are Iraqi nationals, he highlighted. the protection of staff employees against the effects evacuations and power cuts. He went on to say that about a thousand of retirees and of old age, disability and death. A catastrophic, or “code red” fire was issued across much of pensioners live in Iraqi Kurdistan. Iran is host to one of the largest and most protracted south Australia, which is the nation’s highest rating and indicates Pointing to the foreign students residing in Iran entitled refugee populations worldwide. fatal fire conditions. to social insurance benefits, he noted that “About 7,000 According to UNHCR, more than 3 million Afghans, The New South Wales fires began two months ago, destroying Iraqi students are studying in Iran who can use social se- including registered refugees, passport holders and undoc- 768 homes, leaving six people dead, and killing hundreds of curity services.” umented, reside in Iran. endangered koalas and other species. Beleaguered firefighters in the state said on Wednesday they had saved more than 65,000 homes this spring. Sydney, Australia’s largest city, has been choked by smoke How quantum computing could beat climate change for weeks as a result of the fires. On Monday, more than 20 lead- Imagine being able to cheaply and easily “suck” In 1995 I first learned that quantum comput- cent announcement of quantum supremacy: know how to use such fully-fledged quan- ing medical groups including the Royal Australasian College of carbon directly out of our atmosphere. Such ing might bring about a revolution akin to the “[T]he point where quantum computers can tum computers for many important tasks Physicians warned of a “public health emergency”, as hospitals a capability would be hugely powerful in the agricultural, industrial and digital ones we’ve do things that classical computers can’t, re- across science and technology. One such reported a dramatic spike in casualty visits. fight against climate change and advance us already had. Back then it seemed far-fetched gardless of whether those tasks are useful”. task is the simulation of molecules to de- The warning came as it emerged prime minister Scott Morri- towards the ambitious global climate goals set. that quantum mechanics could be harnessed The question now is whether we can de- termine their properties, interactions, and son was on holiday overseas amid the crisis, with acting PM Michael Surely that’s science fiction? Well, maybe to such momentous effect; given recent events, velop the large-scale, error-corrected quan- reactions with other molecules – a.k.a. McCormack telling reporters in his absence: “Everybody deserves a not. Quantum computing may be just the it seems much, much more likely. tum computers that are required to realize chemistry – the very essence of the ma- break. He worked hard this year, achieved great things for Australia.” tool we need to design such a clean, safe Quantum supremacy profoundly useful applications. terial world we live in. (Source: The Independent) and easy-to-deploy innovation. Much excitement followed Google’s re- The good news is we already concretely (Source: weforum.org) WORDS IN THE NEWS ENGLISH IN USE Operation to separate twins LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION (August 05, 2002) Surgeons at a Los Angeles hospital are set to perform a rare operation later today to separate twin girls who are joined at the top of their heads. The skulls of the one-year-old girls from Non-repayable loans for e-bikes must تاکید رئیس شورای شهر تهران بر افزایش وام .Guatemala are joined with their faces in opposite directions This report from David Willis: increase: Tehran City Council chairman بالعوض خرید »موتور سیکلتهای برقی” The twins can’t see each other, but they can hold hands. They came to Los Angeles with their twenty-two-year-old mother two While an important strategy to contain Tehran’s air pollution محســن هاشــمی رئیــس شــورای شــهر تهــران بــا اشــاره بــه اینکــه یکــی از راههــای months ago after a non-profit group made arrangements for their treatment here. They’ve already undergone surgery to is using clean energies, non-repayable loans to incentivize the کاهــش آلودگــی هــوای تهــران اســتفاده از ان رژیهــای پــاک اســت، گفــت: رقمــی کــه stretch their skin. Doctors planted tiny expandable balloons under owners to replace their motorcycles with electric ones is not بــه عنــوان وام بالعــوض خرید موتورســیکلت برقــی برای تشــویق دارندگان متورســیکلت each baby’s scalp so they’ll have enough skin tissue to cover their sufficient and must increase, Mohsen Hashemi, Tehran City heads one they’re separated. The actual separations will take ten پرداخــت شــده اســت، پاســخگوی ایــن شــرایط نیســت و ایــن رقــم بایــد افزایــش یابــد. .hours and involve more than fifty medical staff. Council chairman, has said وی تصریــح کــرد: جایگزینــی کردن موتورسـ ـیکلتهای برقــی به جای موتورسـ ـیکلتهای Although their brains function independently, some of the veins are The scheme on encouraging the citizens to replace carbureted joined. The doctors need to preserve and re-route those veins or both motorcycles with electric ones has started over a few years ago, کاربراتــوری از چنــد ســال پیــش آغــاز شــده اســت امــا ایــن کار بــا کنــدی پیــش رفتــه twins risk suffering a stroke. Doctors have been rehearsing the اســت و امیدواریــم در ســال آینــده با تخصیص اعتبــارات الزم و حمایــت از تولیدکنندگان، ,operation using life-size models, which not only replicate the however, the process has been evolving slowly, he said, adding میــزان اســتفاده از موتورسـ ـیکلتهای برقــی افزایــش یابد. babies blood vessels. But show their veins. we hope to increase the use of electric motorbikes by allocating Conjoined twins occur roughly once in every two hundred the necessary funds along with supporting the manufacturers بــه گــزارش روز شــنبه خبرگــزاری تســنیم هاشــمی بــا اشــاره بــه میــزان تســهیالتی thousand live births. Many cannot be separated and often, when surgery is possible, one of the twins dies. next year (March 2019-March 2020). کــه تــا بــه امــروز ب هعنــوان وام بالعــوض بــرای خریــد موتورســیکلت برقــی در نظــر Words The handouts supporting the residents to purchase the motorbikes گرفتــه شــده اســت، یــادآور شــد: بــا توجــه بــه افزایــش قیمــت خریــد موتورســیکلت treatment: the things done to make a sick person better has been about 25 million rials (nearly $600), which is not surgery: medical treatment that involves cutting open a person’s برقــی، رقــم 2 میلیــون و 500 هــزار تومــان رقــم قابــل قبولــی بهعنــوان وام بالعــوض body in order to repair it adequate anymore given the current economic condition, he نیســت و بایــد ایــن رقــم افــزاش یابــد. .tissue: groups of cells that make particular parts of the body stated, Tasnim reported on Saturday veins: the tubes in your body which carry blood to the heart re-route: to arrange differently the way one place leads to another suffering a stroke: experiencing a sudden severe illness that affects the brain PREFIX/SUFFIX PHRASAL VERB IDIOM rehearsing: practicing replicate: artificially copy “-an, -ian” Hand something out Browned off blood vessels: veins, arteries and capillaries - the tubes in your Meaning: a word ending used to form nouns and mod- Meaning: to give something to each person in a Explanation: if you are browned off, you are bored, body which carry blood to and from the heart and around the body ifiers that shows something belongs to a group, place, etc. group; distribute fed up or disheartened conjoined twins: identical twins who share internal organs or For example: I like to learn how to cook Mexican For example: Could you start handing these books For example: “Tom is browned off with his job.” other parts of their bodies at birth food. out please? (Source: BBC)