July 13, 2021 Border open ’s Deputy Commander of Police Brigadier General Ghassem Rezaei said that trade continues in Mahiroud border crossing with Afghanistan, after it was 2 recently captured by the Taliban, Mehr News Agency reported. National

Zarif commemorates Raeisi: Effective measures required to Srebrenica massacre victims improve people’s livelihoods, tourism sector Iran’s foreign minister marked the 26th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, saying the Islamic Republic of Iran is proud to have stood by the oppressed people of Bosnia and Herzegovina since their inde- pendence. In a letter read out at the commemoration of the anniversary of the genocide on Sunday, paid tribute to those killed in the horrific crime and condoled with the government and people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially the bereaved. The events of July 1995 are one of the darkest chapters in the con- temporary history of mankind, Zarif said, stressing that while the event should not be a source of hatred among different ethnicities, it should not be forgotten either, Press TV reported. He maintained that the Sunday event reminds the international community of the need for a commitment to justice, non-violence and a sense of responsibility in defending the oppressed. It also urges the international community, particularly those claim- ing to uphold human rights, to adhere to genuine human values, the Iranian chief diplomat stated. IRNA IRNA Thousands of people in Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered on Sun- Iran’s President-elect Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi (R) holds talks with Justice Minister Alireza Iran’s President-elect Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi (R) holds talks with Minister of Cultural Heritage, day to mark the 1995 execution of more than 8,000 Muslim Bos- Avaei in on July 12, 2021. Tourism and Handicrafts Ali Asghar Mounesan in Tehran on July 12, 2021. niaks, also known as the Srebrenica massacre, which is Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II. National Desk The president-elect stressed that the State June 18 presidential election, Avaei presented tions, saying Iran is home to a large number They also held the reburial of 19 victims, including 16 men, two Discretionary Punishment Organization must, a report of his ministry’s latest plans and mea- of pristine regions that are capable of being teenaged boys and a woman, whose remains were found in mass ran’s President-elect Seyyed Ebrahim in cooperation with the country’s supervi- sures. developed and used to improve the tourism graves and were recently identified through DNA analysis. Raeisi urged more effective measures sory organizations, play a more significant In his meeting with Minister of Cultural sector. Newly identified victims are given a dignified burial each year on Ito improve people’s livelihoods and the role in fighting goods smuggling and bring- Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Ali Asghar He said that the tourism industry has a high July 11 – the anniversary of the day the killing began in 1995. country’s tourism sector, in separate meetings ing down exorbitant prices in the domestic Mounesan, Raeisi urged for accelerating the capacity for boosting employment, stressing with outgoing ministers on Monday. market. process of public vaccination to bring greater that those involved in the sector must be pro- In an address to his meeting with Justice Raeisi highlighted the necessity of as- prosperity to the domestic tourism sector. vided with further support. Minister Alireza Avaei, Raeisi noted that the sessing measures by the State Discretionary He described as efforts to create greater Mounesan also congratulated Raeisi on State Discretionary Punishment Organization Punishment Organization and its current situ- added-value in the domestic tourism industry, his election win and presented a report of his must play a more effective supervisory role in ation, calling for drawing up a plan to reform promoting the national culture and generating ministry’s plans and measures. regulating the domestic market, restoring eco- the organization’s structure, status and pro- revenues through the sector. Raeisi is set to be sworn in on August 3, nomic stability and improving the people’s cesses to transform it. Raeisi added that among God’s blessings to succeeding President , who livelihoods, IRNA reported. Congratulating Raeisi on his victory in the Iran are the country’s numerous tourist attrac- has served two four-year terms since 2013. Foreign Ministry submits

AFP quarterly report on JCPOA to Parliament Bosnian Muslim women, family members of a victim of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, cry during the burial ceremony of caskets with the remains of their Iranian Foreign Ministry submitted the 22nd three- mitted to the Parliament in 213 pages and 14 sections, The US left the Iran deal in May 2018 and re-imposed relatives at the memorial cemetery in the village of Potocari, near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, on July 11, 2021. month report on the implementation of the 2015 Iran according to IRNA. the anti-Iran sanctions that the JCPOA had lifted. It also nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive It elaborated on the implementation process of the placed additional sanctions on Iran under other pretexts “As soon as I got up and had coffee, I came to visit the graves of Plan of Action (JCPOA) to the Parliament. JCPOA in recent years and the latest developments in not related to the nuclear case as part of the “maximum my husband and his brother, to say a prayer,” said Kadefa Rizva- Vienna negotiations for revival pressure” campaign. novic, who lost 20 male relatives in the slaughter and still has not of the agreement. On June 20, the sixth in-person round of the talks found the remains of all of them. Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s came to an end so that the negotiators would return to “My paternal and maternal uncles are also buried here. I said a spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh their capitals for further consultations, which turned out prayer for them and for all the victims of Srebrenica,” she added, ac- on Monday pointed to progress to be the longest break the diplomats have taken since cording to the Associated Press. made in the Vienna talks and the beginning of the negotiations. On July 11, 1995, Srebrenica fell to Bosnian Serb forces led by said that the parties are close to The parties to the nuclear deal are expected to convene General Ratko Mladic. the end of the negotiations. in the Austrian capital once again for the seventh round Srebrenica’s Muslim population fled the town, which had been de- He told reporters that some of talks, which is speculated to be – as usual – the final clared a UN “safe haven” for civilians, and rushed to the UN com- issues have still remained unre- round. pound where its peacekeepers were supposed to protect them. solved but what matters is that The US administration, under President Joe Biden, The Dutch peacekeepers, however, handed over the base to Ser- the number of resolved issues says it wants to rejoin the deal, but it is showing an over- bian troops, who separated out men and boys for execution and sent is much more than unsettled riding propensity for maintaining some of the sanctions the women and girls elsewhere to a territory under their control. ones, according to the Foreign as a tool of pressure. In less than two weeks, the Serbian forces systematically murdered Ministry’s official website. Tehran insists that all sanctions should first be re- more than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys and dumped their bodies in The remaining parties to the moved in a verifiable manner before the Islamic Repub- numerous mass graves in an attempt to hide their crime. JCPOA have been engaged in lic reverses its remedial measures. ICANA talks since early April to bring Iran has also announced that the country’s stance on The report – the last one prepared by the administra- the United States back into the deal, three years after the the JCPOA will not alter with a change of administra- tion of outgoing President Hassan Rouhani – was sub- former hawkish US president Donald Trump withdrew. tion.

Mohammad Ali Rajabi COVID-19 Iran, Sweden discuss cooperation death toll tops on resolving Yemen crisis

86,000 National Desk Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power and crushing the Houthi movement. The death toll from the COVID-19 in Iran ex- Iranian and Swedish officials in a meeting discussed lat- Yemeni armed forces and allied Popular Committees ceeded 86,000 on Monday as the number of the est developments in the war-torn Yemen, cooperation on have, however, gone from strength to strength against new positive cases and the hospital admissions resolving its crisis and ways to end the humanitarian ca- the Saudi-led invaders, and left Riyadh and its allies soared amid the fifth wave of the pandemic. tastrophe in the Arab country. bogged down in the country. Speaking at a daily press conference on Mon- Iran’s Senior Advisor to day, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Foreign Minister on Special Lari put the death toll from the coronavirus in Political Affairs Ali Asghar Iran at 86,041, saying the disease took the lives Khaji hosted Sweden’s Spe- of 182 patients in 24 hours, Tasnim News Agen- cial Representative for Ye- cy reported. men Peter Semneby in the She added at least 3,041,541 patients have re- Monday meeting in Tehran, covered from the coronavirus infection so far or which was also attended by have been discharged from hospitals across the the European country’s Am- country. bassador to Tehran Mattias The number of people tested positive for CO- Lentz, according to the For- VID-19 infection surpassed 3,394,200 following eign Ministry’s official web- the detection of 20,829 new cases since Sunday, site. the spokeswoman added. Both sides also talked The number of the new cases and deaths has about the latest consultations been on the rise in recent weeks. by the Swedish representative On Friday, the ministry reported a rise in the on Yemen issues and efforts number of “red” cities across the country, say- made by Iran to lift a siege IRAN’S FOREIGN MINISTRY’S OFFICIAL WEBSITE ing that 143 cities are now classified as red – the imposed by the Saudi-led co- Iran’s Senior Advisor to Foreign Minister on Special Political Affairs Ali Asghar Khaji (R) highest category in the country’s coronavirus alition on Yemeni people, es- greets Sweden’s Special Representative for Yemen Peter Semneby before a meeting in risk ranking. tablish cease-fire and peace in Tehran on July 12, 2021. President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday the country. The Saudi war has left hundreds of thousands of Ye- that in spite of the measures taken by the gov- Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and regional allies, menis dead, and displaced millions more. The war has ernment to contain the spread of the coronavirus, launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015, also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread fam- some parts of the country have entered the fifth with the goal of bringing the government of fugitive ine and infectious diseases across the Arab country. wave of the pandemic.