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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 43rd year No.14000 Wednesday JULY 28, 2021 Mordad 6, 1400 Dhul Hijjah 17, 1442 Iran Majlis speaker Iran basketball Mangrove forests: a arrives in Syria for to meet the U.S. in miracle of nature Congratulations on Eid al-Ghadir economic talks Page 3 super tough match Page 3 Page 7 WB sees Iranian economy continuing positive growth until 2024 TEHRAN - Iranian economy is projected the next two fiscal years (2022-2024), to grow by 2.1 percent in the current fiscal expanding by 2.2 and 2.3 percent, re- year (March 2021-March 2022) as the spectively. domestic markets are getting back on track “Despite an initial COVID-19 induced Unfulfilled and the negative impacts of the coronavirus shock to GDP, a strong rebound in mid2020 pandemic begin to wane, according to led to a modest economic expansion in the World Bank’s Macro Poverty Outlook 2020/2021. The COVID-19 output loss (MPO) report for spring 2021. since Feb 2020 was less pronounced [in According to the mentioned report, Iran] than in other countries,” the report Iran’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is stated. expectations going to continue its positive growth over Continued on page 4 UNESCO grants world heritage status to Uramanat of Iran TEHRAN – UNESCO added Iran’s Ura- area embraces dense and step-like rows of manat cultural landscape to its list of world houses in a way that the roof of each house heritage sites on Tuesday. forms the yard of the upper one, a feature The UN body accepted the landscape, which that adds to its charm and attractiveness. holds hundreds of villages, 106,000 hectares Last September, Hessam Mahdi, the rep- of land, and 303,000 hectares of surrounding resentative of the International Council on properties, during the 44th session of the World Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), announced Heritage Committee, which will be running that the case for the inscription of the Uramanat through July 31 in China’s Fuzhou. cultural landscape on the prestigious list had Stretched on the slopes of Sarvabad been well prepared and he was “impressed” U.S. fails to meet Iraqi county, and shared between the provinces by the status of the rural landscape. of Kordestan and Kermanshah, the rural Continued on page 6 demands on foreign troops withdrawal Iranian Intelligence Ministry deals ‘heavy blow’ to Mossad agents TEHRAN — A network of agents aligned to The Mossad agents intended to use the Zionist regime’s spy service (Mossad) has the equipment to carry out assassinations been captured after entering bases in Iran’s after causing urban riots. western borders, the director-general of the The intelligence official said the weap- counterintelligence department at Iran’s In- ons included pistols, grenades, Winchester, telligence Ministry announced on Tuesday. assault rifles, and ammunition, some of AP See page 3 Heavy cargo of weapons and ammuni- which, like Winchester and grenades, were tion were seized from the Mossad agents, used to quell protests. Joe Biden(R) and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 26, 2021. the ministry official added. Continued on page 2 British imperialism Iran opens first ion therapy center America’s gun violence epidemic had an adverse in West Asia has no vaccine effect on Iran- TEHRAN – Iran inaugurated on Tuesday an fully financed by the investors. Its construction Over the past several weeks, gun violence has the father is fighting for his life in hospital. The advanced ion therapy center for the first time also costed a total of 10 trillion (nearly $238 dominated the headlines in America. Rightfully reality is not many places are safe in America. India cultural ties: in West Asia, which will provide definitive treat- million at the official rate of 42,000 rials). so, as of late, shootings have come at a relentless Many civilians are caught in the crossfire. ment for all types of cancer by the next year. The center is unique in West Asia and is the pace. There have been records almost broken, Following a spate of mass shootings earlier historian With the aim of definite treatment of cancer seventh hospital in the world to be built with but no records to be proud of. According to the this year, President Joe Biden described gun using radiation with a synchrotron system, the advanced equipment, he added. Gun Violence Archive, from Saturday, July 17 violence as an “epidemic” and “international BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI center was designed in 2016 and its construction Ion therapy is a unique and innovative form until Friday, July 23, at least 1,018 shooting embarrassment”. The facts on the ground suggest n Indian academic says Brit- started in 2019. of radiation therapy in the world for the treat- incidents had been documented. he is correct. No place in the United States is ish imperialism had an “ad- This project is one of the largest national ment of cancer, as the radiation can be focused That accounts for a shooting incident every immune to this “epidemic”. According to the U.S. Averse effect” on the cultural projects that has been pursued in cooperation exactly on the area of the tumor, ensuring that ten minutes. The 1,018 shooting incidents during President, every day in America, 316 people are interaction between India and Iran. with several countries around the world. This radiation-sensitive organs are best protected. that time frame killed 404 people and injured shot and 106 of them are shot dead. According “British imperialism had an adverse technology exists only in six countries around The method of therapy is based on the phys- nearly 950 others. These numbers are updated to the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, effect on culture interaction between the world. ical characteristics of ions – electrically charged so the figure could end up higher. every year, gun violence is estimated to cost the India and Iran,” Syed Ali Kazim tells the Today, with the presence of Ali Akbar Sale- particles, which enter the human tissue with The injured may succumb to their wounds. If United States $280bn. Money that could go to Tehran Times. hi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization, enormous speed and accuracy, thereby releas- somebody didn’t know better, they would have helping the nearly 600,000 homeless Americans. “In modern India, the impact of Iranian the equipment testing phase was performed ing energy. thought a war had just taken place. The latest Gun violence has proven to be a difficult scholars could not remain what it was and it will be ready by the next year (March The released energy causes damage to the gun violence occurred at places of work, places of challenge for consecutive U.S. administrations earlier because of the British imperialism,” 2021-March 2022). DNA of the cancer cells and destroys the tumor worship, grocery stores, on the streets, at parks, to tackle, but recent figures are very concerning, Kazim adds. Salehi said that some 200 million Euros have without damaging the healthy tissue. even at a baseball stadium. A 7-year-old girl was to say the least. Beyond political and economic rela- been allocated to equip the center, which was Continued on page 7 shot dead at a Drive-Thru at a fast-food chain, Continued on page 5 tions, Iran and India have centuries-old historical and cultural ties. But these ties were greatly affected after Britain colonized the Indian subcontinent. Hajj and the struggle against the apartheid regime of Israel Turkish historian says “Age-old ties between these two great BY DR. DINA YULIANTI or a specific gender or race. Therefore, Muslims more special rights and facilities than Palestinians. Tehran and Ankara can nations suffered a lot from the British im- One of the messages of Hajj is to fight racism. Every- should fight racism in this world. One nation that The legal term “apartheid” has long been used perialism from which that they haven’t one who performs Hajj must perform tawaf and is still a victim of racism is the Palestinian nation. by observers, writers, or diplomats who support the stabilize Afghanistan been able to come out,” the assistant sa’i. During tawaf, a pilgrim must also circle the Palestine is colonized by the Zionist-Israel group, Palestinian cause. The 1973 International Convention professor at the History Department of tomb of Sayidah Hajar, which is attached to one who claimed to be nobler and had the right to on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime BY ALI A. JENABZADEH Aligarh Muslim University notes. part of the Kaaba. Then, he or she must perform carry out occupation and various crimes against of Apartheid and the 1998 Rome Statute for the TEHRAN - A Turkish historian and political Following is the text of the interview: sa’i, to run back and forth, from Safa to Marwah. humanity against the Palestinian people. International Criminal Court (ICC) define apartheid scientist is of the opinion that Iran and Turkey How do you read the contribution Sa’i is a Hajj ritual that imitates what Hajar In April 2021, Human Rights Watch issued a as a crime against humanity as consisting of three as two important countries in the region can of Iranian ulama and scholars to did. Who is Hajar? She was a black slave who report describing Israel as committing apartheid main elements: the intention to maintain the dom- restore peace in Afghanistan.
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