Straight Truth WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM From Inside • Tehran-Moscow relationship at its peak, says Defense Ministry officialP2 • Foreign minister nominee: Iran favors negotiations accorded with 8 Pages | Price 50,000 Rials | 1.00 EURO | 4.00 AED | 43rd year | No. 14018 | Wednesday | AUGUST 25, 2021 | Shahrivar 3, 1400 | Muharram 16, 1443 commitments P2 • New version of Iranian missile defense Opinion system to outdo S-400: general P2 • Iranian judoka Nouri aims gold at Hosting right depends Paralympics P3 • Iran prisons chief apologizes amid on payment of TV Iran Articulates leaked footage controversy P3 • Zarif bids farewell to diplomacy, starts broadcasting right academic career P3 • Iran’s export to Syria increases 36% in 4 months on year P4 By Farrokh Hesabi • RIPI to conduct over $142m of research TEHRAN – The football federation is deter- projects in upstream oil industry P4 mined to make it possible for Iran national team Nuclear Positions to host their home matches of the third round of • NIMA returns over €56b of export the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in the country. revenues to economy P4 Iran will start their training camp form Aug.25; • Taliban warns U.S. extension of Afghan however, it is still unclear whether Iran can play exit a “red line” P5 their home matches on their home soil. • Tensions escalate in Gaza P5 There are some reasons that the Asian Foot- ball Confederation (AFC) has not still announced Ahead of Vienna • Despite hosting UNESCO sites, Kerman the host venue for Iran’s home matches. The tourism potential still unappreciated P6 Covid-19 issues are still in question in the coun- • Southern Iranian province continues try; however, the Football Federation of the Is- building boom with new tourism lamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has announced that most of the problems in the way of Iran’s hosting projects P6 have been solved except for one issue that seems Page 3 • Workshop launched to restore statues a big obstacle. Talks at Tehran palace complex P6 Based on the comments of the FFIRI’s officials, • Water donation campaign begins in 4 from president Shahabeddin Azizi Khadem to the drought-ridden provinces P7 secretary-general and some members of the FFI- RI’s Board of Directors, the issue of hosting the Chabahar port becomes Discover Iron Age • 203 travelers suspected of COVID-19 World Cup qualifiers now only depends on the quarantined P7 payment of the TV broadcasting right of the com- burial in Gilan: bizarre • “Sculpture” by Mehdi Kazemi wins IAAP petitions by Iran’s radio and television known as permanent member of World FZO Ribbon at Photo Emotion exhibit P8 the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) patterns and rituals to the AFC. TEHRAN – The World Free Zones Organiza- Chabahar port holds great significance for the • Leila Hosseini on panel of Apricot Tree tion (World FZO) has approved Chabahar port in country both politically and economically. The Iran lost its hosting right in the second round TEHRAN – Bounded by the Caspian Sea on the Ujan doc festival P8 southeastern Iran to become a permanent mem- country has taken serious measures for devel- of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers due to what north, the province of Gilan situated in northern ber at this organization, IRNA reported on Tues- oping this port in order to improve the country’s has been mentioned by the AFC as commercial, Iran is extremely rich in Iron Age cultural sites day. maritime trade. broadcasting, and logistics problems. especially cemeteries. Also, Gilan was within the According to the Chabahar Free Zone’s Office of In this regard, the Islamic Republic has been sphere of influence of the successive mighty The FFIRI does not want to host the rivals out- Public Relations, Samir Hamrouni, the CEO of the welcoming investors from all over the world to empires of Achaemenian, Seleucid, Parthian, and Report side Iran for the second time in a row. So far, Iraq World FZO has announced the approval of Chaba- take part in the development of this port and Sasanids that ruled Iran until the 7th century CE. have announced their home match against Iran har port as a permanent member of his organiza- benefit from its distinguished position as a trade at the 2022 World Cup qualification Round 3 will The Iron Age in Iran and Gilan is divided into Habitat destruction, tion through a letter addressed to the Managing hub in the region. take place in Doha, Qatar, as a neutral venue. three sections: Iron Age I, II, and III. Furthermore, Director of Chabahar Free Zone Abdolrahim Kordi. Chabahar port consists of Shahid Kalantari some archaeologists believe the existence of The Iranian football federation has taken mea- illegal hunting threat Based on the said decision, from now on, Cha- and Shahid Beheshti terminals, each of which has Iron Age IV, which continues until the middle sures to solve the problems related to the lighting bahar, as a permanent member with the right to five berth facilities. The port is located in Iran’s of the Parthian (Ashkanian) period (end of 1st or high-speed internet of Azadi Stadium so far. Persian red deer vote, can actively and effectively participate in the Sistan-Balouchestan Province and is about 120 Millennium BC). However, the TV and media right is still a problem decisions and events of the mentioned organiza- kilometers southwest of Pakistan’s Baluchistan According to a scientific article conducted that the directors of the IRIB should solve. TEHRAN – Maral, the Iranian red deer, is push- tion. province, where the China-funded Gwadar port is by the senior Iranian archaeologist Yousef ing toward extinction due to habitat destruction Mirshad Majedi, a member of the FFIRI’s Board In his letter to Kordi, Hamrouni has also ex- situated. Fallahian, in almost all Iron Age sites of Gilan, and illegal hunting. of Directors, spoke bluntly in this regard: “If the pressed hope that the Chabahar Free Zone and In May 2016, India, Iran, and Afghanistan signed the dead had been buried on the right shoulder money for the broadcasting right is not paid to Maral, along with “Roe deer” and “Persian fal- the World Free Zones Organization will be able a trilateral agreement for the strategically-locat- or left shoulder and bent legs with low and the AFC within the next few days, we will lose the low deer”, are three species of deer in Iran. to have constructive cooperation with each other ed Chabahar to give New Delhi access to Kabul high curvature degrees. Only a small number of hosting right of our matches. I hope that, with Recently, the head of the provincial depart- and with other free zones around the world. and Central Asia. bodies had been buried supine (face up) in some the measures taken by the officials of the IRIB, cemeteries. ment of environment Hassan Abbasnejad an- World FZO is a non-governmental, non-profit Based on an agreement with Iran, India is go- in coordination with the football federation, the “A particular conclusion cannot be drawn nounced the implementation of a plan on the organization based in Dubai, United Arab Emir- ing to install and operate modern loading and requested amount by the AFC will be paid so we on this relationship at present… however, conservation of Persian fallow deer and red deer ates. unloading equipment including mobile harbor can host our rivals at the Azadi Stadium, like the almost in all Iron Age cemeteries of Gilan, the in Arasbaran forests in the northwestern East As Iran’s only oceanic port on the Gulf of Oman, cranes in Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar. previous years.” tradition of burying objects as grave goods, Azarbaijan province. Iran will start the 2022 World Cup qualification near the dead bodies, was common. In most Explaining that there are two types of man- Round 3 with a match against Syria on Sept. 2. cases, these objects included pottery, porcelain, agement for wildlife management, he said that and metal objects, pottery and metal figures, one type of management is “long-term”, which metal weapons including daggers, spears, axes, is based on the restoration and protection of the Interview swords, maces, ornaments made of stone, habitat so that the animal can reproduce natu- metal, etc.” rally in the safe area with the required resources. Terrible U.S. defeat “It seems that their richness and abundance As the situation becomes more critical, along were related to the degree of wealth or social with this long-term action, “short-term” action is in Afghanistan position of the person. This means that more taken, which is captive breeding, through which, valuable objects are more show that the person the animal reproduces under certain conditions who has died was of higher social standing,” and is released into nature in order to increase its tilts power balance Fallahian says. population, he further added. in China’s favor: His intensive field studies have revealed that The Department of Environment is in charge Iron Age burial customs include Page 6 of wildlife management and should increase the professor population of endangered species to the desired level, or reduce the population of some species, Interview he said, noting, it is done well across the country, but the focus is on the restoration. By M. A. Saki Arasbaran forest has unique animal and plant TEHRAN - A leading Indian academic says Chi- Afghan exit was species and a special climate, and is being reg- na can play a leading role in the region through istered by UNESCO so that the most important partnership with Afghanistan now that the Unit- worst-ever defeat in species of the forest must be revived, he high- ed States has failed terribly in the Central Asian lighted.