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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 8 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13890 Tuesday FEBRUARY 23, 2021 Esfand 5, 1399 Rajab 11, 1442 Zarif warns Israeli Leading Iran at ‘Israel won’t be able Complutense University attack on Iran will Olympics is exciting: to survive for next of Madrid to review be suicidal Page 3 Vladimir Alekno Page 3 generation’ Page 5 Majidi’s films Page 8 Qalibaf: Any cooperation with IAEA Leader: Parliament’s nuclear beyond safeguards is illegal TEHRAN - Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, and IAEA director Rafael Mariano Grossi speaker of the Iranian Parliament, says any in Tehran on Sunday, cooperation between the Atomic Energy Qalibaf tweeted, “Based on the Par- Organization of Iran (AEOI) and the In- liament’s law, implementation of the law must be implemented ternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Additional Protocol will completely stop See page 2 beyond the Safeguards Agreement will be from February 23 and any access beyond against the law ratified by the parliament. the Safeguards Agreement is absolutely In reaction to a “temporary bilateral forbidden and illegal.” technical understanding” between Iran Continued on page 2 Iran’s non-oil trade stands at $65.5b in 11 months TEHRAN - Iran has traded 134 million were imported, Mehdi Mir-Ashrafi said. tons of non-oil commodities worth $65.5 Iran’s top five non-oil export destina- Israeli dead end billion in the first 11 months of the cur- tions during this period were China with rent Iranian calendar year (March 20, $8.1 billion worth of exports, Iraq with $6.8 With military and 2020-February 18, 2021), according to billion, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran with over $4.1 billion, Turkey with $2.2 diplomatic options off Customs Administration (IRICA). billion, and Afghanistan with $2.1 billion. As reported by IRIB, during the men- According to the official, the mentioned five tioned period, 103 million tons of commod- countries accounted for 72 percent and 75 percent the table, Israel faces impasse ities worth $31.2 billion were exported to of Iran’s total non-oil exports in the said period, foreign destinations, while about 30.8 million in terms of weight and value, respectively. tons of non-oil goods valued at $34.3 billion Continued on page 4 TEHRAN – Israel is in limbo, pure and forces Aviv Kochavi warned the U.S. new simple. It faces an Iran bent on making president, Joe Biden, against rejoining the economic or nuclear progress. And the 2015 Iran nuclear deal –formally known Israelis seem to have accepted these brute as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action facts. (JCPOA) – and even threatened Iran with Having woken up to the fact that Iran military action. weathered the storm of Trump-era “max- “With the changing of the administra- imum pressure,” Israeli officials began tion in the United States, the Iranians have rehashing claims and issuing threats said they want to return to the previous against Iran that they have never been agreement. I want to state my position, able to put into practice. the position that I give to all my colleagues In a rare comment on American for- when I meet them around the world: File photo eign policy, Chief of Staff of Israel’s armed Continued on page 3 The curious case of Gigantic kilim carpet unveiled in U.S.-backed SDF militants steal 140,000 barrels Iran football southern Iran per day of Syrian oil in Hasakah BY MASOUD HOSSEIN TEHRAN – A gigantic handwoven kilim carpet was When used specifically the term refers to a Militants of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces controlled areas in Syria. ran football needs six more days unveiled on Sunday during an official ceremony more limited number of techniques, including (SDF), which is supported by the United States, The Syrian governor also revealed that the U.S. to know its new president. The cri- held in the town of Ghirokarzin, southern Iran. slit tapestry, warp sharing, and various forms steal 140,000 barrels of crude oil on a daily basis forces have ordered the SDF militants not to allow sis-hit football is running by Hey- “The kilim carpet, measuring 84 square meters of interlocking tapestry weave. from oil fields in Syria’s northeastern province of the Damascus-controlled areas receive oil. I (14 by 6 meters), was made in 35 days by eight prom- The kilims are often woven on narrow looms, Hasakah, a report says. Khalil added that while the Syrian people are dar Baharvand since December 2019 and it’s the curious case of our football. inent local weavers,” Ghirokarzin’s tourism chief, and two mirror-image pieces are sewn together Ghassan Halim Khalil, governor of Hasakah, suffering from the cold weather and hunger, these The Football Federation of the Islamic Mohamadjafar Ebrahimqiri said, IRIB reported. along the long edge to produce the completed announced the grim news in an interview with the U.S.-supported militants plunder Syria’s national Republic of Iran (FFIRI) confirmed the The colorful kilim carpet was made to order by kilim. The vertical color junctions involve a Lebanese al-Akhbar newspaper on Saturday, adding oil resources. final four candidates for the presidential Qatar, the official said, addressing the unveiling discontinuity of the wefts, the colored yarns that Syrian oil is being plundered by the SDF mili- The U.S. looting of Syrian oil was first confirmed elections which is slated for Feb. 28. ceremony attended by Ghirokarzin’s governor that produce the design. At these boundaries, tants in various ways, all with the participation and during a Senate hearing exchange between South The elections have been postponed and a host of local officials and craftspeople. there are small slits in the fabric. Extremely fine support of American forces deployed to the region. Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and due to FIFA›s objections over the FFIRI “Last year the largest kilim of the country, kilims of silk were woven for the Safavid court He stressed that precise intelligence collected then U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo last July. statutes for several times. covering an area of 60 square meters, was wo- (1502–1735), possibly in Kashan. and received show that U.S.-backed militants use During his testimony to the Senate Foreign FFIRI was involved in a long process ven in this town that is considered as a hub of Persian carpets are sought after internationally for tanker trucks from Taramish area in the vicinity of Relations Committee, Pompeo confirmed for the with the world governing body over alleged hangwomen flooring,” Ebrahimqiri explained. their delicate designs and their good quality. Among Tigris and in al-Malikiyah to smuggle the Syrian first time that an American oil company would begin government interference. Kilim is a pileless floor covering handwoven Persian carpets, particularly those of the classic period, oil to neighboring Iraq. work in northeastern Syria, which is controlled by FIFA demanded changes to the FFIRI in most places where pile rugs are made. The the medallion may represent an open lotus blossom Khalil further noted that many tanker trucks the SDF, which is an alliance of Kurdish militants statutes more than a year ago and rejected term is applied both generally and specifically, with 16 petals as seen from above, a complex star pass through the illegal al-Mahmoudiyah crossing operating against Damascus and currently controls amended documents submitted on sev- with the former use referring to virtually any form, or a quatrefoil with pointed lobes. into Iraq every day, adding that the SDF militants areas in northern and eastern Syria. eral occasions. Finally, it was in the last rug-like fabric that does not have a pile. Continued on page 6 also regularly send mounts of stolen oil to their Continued on page 5 month that FIFA approved the football federation’s statutes. Iran, a nation of largely football mad Engineers endeavor to change the world for the better Biden admin not serious people, is not where it should be because the basic needs have not been met over the BY FARANAK BAKHTIARI theologian, physician, and a prolific writer. etry as a separate mathematical discipline. He to stop war in Yemen: past decades. While football is the most TEHRAN – Iran marks National Engineer’s Toosi was born in Toos in the year 1201 and also wrote extensively on biology and is one of coveted sport in Iran and could generate Day on February 23, honoring the efforts and began his studies at an early age. He studied the early pioneers of a kind of evolutionism in Yemeni politician income, the infrastructures have not yet achievements of the engineers who are behind Arabic, the Quran, Hadith, logic, philosophy, scientific thought. been equipped after many years. nearly any development to change the world for mathematics, medicine, and astronomy. What is the role of engineers in our life? BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI For example, the Iranian football offi- the better. The Mongol ruler, Hulagu Khan, built an Engineering is a profession in which scien- TEHRAN - A senior member of the political office of the cials have previously said over and over National Engineer’s Day commemorates the observatory in Maragheh for Toosi. Toosi is tific knowledge and mathematics are used and Yemeni Ansarullah says the new Biden administration is again they would use Video Assistant birthday of Khajeh Nasir al-Din Toosi, a polymath considered the first of the Maragheh School of experimented with to develop ways that benefit not serious to put an end to the Saudi-led war on Yemen Referee (VAR) at the stadiums.