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 42nd year No.13928 Monday APRIL 26, 2021 Ordibehesht 6, 1400 Ramadan 13, 1442 Iran expresses Ali Davoudi takes gold China, Iran are highly Book on Rumi thoughts on condolences to Iraq over at Asian Weightlifting complementary: women, gender equality deadly hospital fire Page 2 Championships Page 3 Chinese professor Page 5 published in IndonesianPage 8 Zionist will receive ‘fundamental Iran among pioneers in response,’ Iran’s top general warns TEHRAN – A top Iranian general has of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major warned that the Resistance Front will General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said give Israel a “fundamental response” on Sunday. after press reports suggested that an oil “The measures taken in the recent days COVID-19 vaccine development tanker off the Syrian coast may have been and the future measures that would threat- See page 7 targeted by a drone. en their (Israel’s) interests will definitely “Zionists think they can target the bring them to their senses, and the future Syrian soil constantly and conduct acts of the resistance front is bright,” he con- of mischief in various places and in the tinued, according to Tasnim. sea without receiving a response,” Chief Continued on page 3 Iran ranked world’s 10th largest steelmaker in Q1 2021: WSA TEHRAN - Iran was ranked the world’s The Islamic Republic’s steel output tenth-largest steel producer in the first stood at 2.6 million tons in March, three-month of 2021, Iranian Mines and indicating a 10.7 percent rise year on Mining Industries Development and Reno- year. vation Organization (IMIDRO) announced Based on the mentioned data, the referring to the data released by the World world’s top 64 steel makers managed to Steel Association (WSA). produce 648.9 million tons of steel in the According to the WSA’s data, Iran pro- mentioned three months to register a 10 duced 7.5 million tons of crude steel in Q1 percent rise from the figure for the last 2021, registering a 10.7 percent growth year’s same period. compared to the same period in 2020. Continued on page 4 TEHRAN - On Sunday, the Iranian Army General Kioumars Heydari. unveiled seven indigenously-developed high- The ceremony rolled out a radar warning tech military equipment, including air defense system capable of detecting and jamming systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) airborne interception radars used in drones, and electronic warfare devices. helicopters and fighter jets, in addition to an The equipment developed by experts at the alarm system for detection of laser-guided Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organ- weaponry and airborne threats, which can be ization of the Army Ground Force were put employed against the enemy’s short-range Army unveils turbojet on display during a ceremony at the presence air defense systems and has the ability to Morteza Zangene Morteza of Deputy Chief of Army for Coordination send alerts to UAV ground control stations, engine, new radar Affairs Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari and Press TV reported. Army Ground Force Commander Brigadier Continued on page 2 IRNA/ Iran is serious about Tens of Iranian relics returned home from U.S. protests: 1 verdict, then 6 police killings regional dialogue British institute across America in 24 hours ranian Foreign Minister Mo- TEHRAN – A total of 100 Iranian relics, which stitute of Persian Studies used to be home to Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in are a tragic reminder of the difficult and dangerous hammad Javad Zarif has em- were on loan to the British Institute of Persian groups of British archaeologists and Iranologists memory — the reading of the verdict in a Min- decisions law enforcement face daily. barked on a new regional tour Studies (BIPS) for some half a century, have been who came to Iran to study, visit, conduct field neapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former An unidentified man in San Antonio. Another I finally returned home, ISNA reported on Saturday. studies and archaeological excavations…,” the police officer, the jubilation at what many saw man, killed in the same city within hours of the first. to deepen and expand Iran’s ties amid reports of a possible thaw in “Through cultural diplomacy, another collection minister explained. as justice in the death of George Floyd — even A 31-year-old man in central Massachusetts. Iranian-Saudi relations. of [Iranian relics, which contains] 10,000 cultural BIPS was founded in 1961 to promote and then, blood flowed on America’s streets. The circumstances surrounding each death Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman materials, including 100 museum objects have encourage the study of Iran, its history, civilisa- And even then, some of that blood was shed differ widely. Some happened while officers in- Saeed Khatibzadeh announced Saturday been returned to the National Museum of Iran tion, and culture in all periods of history. Much at the hands of law enforcement. vestigated serious crimes. Police say some of the that Zarif will head to Iraq and Qatar on after half a century. The objects were on loan to of BIPS research and work in its early years was At least six people were fatally shot by officers people were armed with a gun, knife or a metal Sunday to hold talks with senior officials the British Institute of Iranian Studies,” the news in the field of archaeology. across the United States in the 24 hours after pole. One man claimed to have a bomb that he of the two Arab countries, which enjoy agency quoted Iran’s tourism minister as saying. In 1976 BIPS opened its purpose-built centre jurors reached a verdict in the murder case threatened to detonate. In several cases, little is warm relations with Iran and, in some We hope to set up a public exhibition of in northern Tehran, designed by Reza Khazeni against Chauvin on Tuesday. The roll call of known about the lives of those killed and what cases, acted as a go-between to soothe the relics at the National Museum of Iran in architects. The Tehran centre houses an extensive the dead is distressing: happened in their final moments. tensions between Tehran and Riyadh. near future, Ali-Asghar Mounesan added, the library that exceeds 40,000 English and Persian A 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio. An oft-ar- The deadly encounters are only a small snapshot Khatibzadeh put Zarif’s visit in the report said. language volumes, journals and periodicals as rested man in Escondido, California. A 42-year-old of the thousands of interactions between American broader context of improving bilateral The museum objects are made of stone, pot- well as epigraphic material, maps, photographic man in eastern North Carolina. The deaths, in police officers and civilians every day, most of which relations and following up on regional tery, bone, brick, etc., and the documentation and fieldwork archives; a unique resource that some cases, sparked new cries for justice. Some end safely. Uneventful encounters between the and transregional talks. of these works is on the agenda of the National is open to Iranian students, scholars and mem- said they reflect an urgent need for radical changes police and the populace, however, are not an issue. Zarif began his tour with a message of Museum of Iran, the official noted. bers of the public. to American policing — a need that the Chauvin It’s a very different story when a weapon is sympathy to Iraq over the tragic incident “The Tehran headquarters of the British In- Continued on page 6 verdict cannot paper over. For others, the shootings drawn and a life is ended. in a Baghdad hospital that killed 82 people and injured more than 100 others. “I condole with the brotherly nation WHO considering malaria eradication certificate for Iran Oxford professor says and government of Iraq and the families TEHRAN – Iran has not had any indigenous female Anopheles mosquito. The mosquito bite laria infection in the country over the past three of the victims on the tragic incident and cases of malaria for three years in a row, so introduces the parasites from the mosquito’s saliva years, and patients in Iran brought the disease Israel’s adventures huge catastrophe of Baghdad’s Ibn Khatib the World Health Organization is considering into a person’s blood. from outside the borders, from Pakistan and Hospital. I wish divine mercy for the mar- against Iran ended up granting a certificate of malaria eradication to It causes symptoms that typically include Afghanistan, he stated. tyrs of this incident and speedy recovery the country, Mohammad Mehdi Gooya, head fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. In According to the World Health Organization, for the injured,” Zarif said on Twitter. strengthening its enemies of the health ministry’s center for infectious severe cases, it can cause yellow skin, seizures, a country that has not had a local case for three A massive explosion rocked Ibn al-Khat- diseases, has said. coma, or death. Symptoms usually begin ten years is eligible for a malaria eradication certificate, BY MOHAMMAD SARRAF ib hospital of Baghdad on Saturday after an Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious dis- to fifteen days after being bitten by an infected and this year a team from the organization will TEHRAN - A professor of history at the University oxygen cylinder exploded in an intensive ease that affects humans and other animals; the mosquito. travel to Iran to verify its certification, he stated.