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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.13871 Saturday JANUARY 30, 2021 Bahman 11, 1399 Jumada Al thani 16, 1442 ‘Do not rush for FIFA President Infantino Iran registers 3rd Iran issues permit annihilation,” Iranian mourns loss of Mehrdad highest production to use Russian general warns Israel Page 2 Minavand Page 3 growth in world Page 4 COVID-19 vaccine Page 7 Iran’s Vaezi: We have not quit Saudis betting on the nuclear deal to rejoin it TEHRAN - Mahmoud Vaezi, the Iranian Secretary of State Antony Blinken has President’s Chief of Staff, said on Friday said Iran should first return to the deal. See page 3 that Iran has never withdrawn from the “For us there is no difference between nuclear deal so that it would be the first to the Trump and Biden administrations; return to its obligations, IRNA reported therefore, Iran’s stance will not change,” wrong horse on Friday. he noted. “We held negotiations once and the He stressed, “As President Rouhani issue of the JCPOA has been closed. Our has repeatedly said, only when the U.S. stance on the JCPOA was clear and we returns to its obligations, Iran will fulfill have maintained our past approach,” its commitments.” Vaezi said when asked that the new U.S. Continued on page 2 39th Fajr Theater Festival to kick off today TEHRAN -- The 39th Fajr Theater Festi- would be a great interruption causing the- val, with no international section because atrical figures to lose their connections of coronavirus restrictions, will be inau- with theater,” Minister of Culture and gurated with a selection of 107 plays in Islamic Guidance, Seyyed Abbas Salehi Tehran today. said during a meeting with the organizers “Perhaps during the very first months of on Thursday. the pandemic canceling events that had less “The energy and passion and dynamism of a historical record was much easier, but in Iranian society indicate that art will canceling the Fajr Theater Festival, which not be shut down. is almost as old as the Islamic Revolution, Continued on page 8 Water, wastewater management projects worth $1.33b inaugurated TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Golestan province. Rouhani, on Thursday, inaugurated Inaugurated in the 43rd series of in- 3,569 projects worth 56.1 trillion rials auguration ceremonies in the current (about $1.33 billion) aimed for natural Iranian calendar year (started on March resources and watershed management, 20, 2020), the mentioned projects are as well as the development of irrigation going to create job opportunities for over and drainage networks in the country’s 105,771 people. western and northwestern regions and Continued on page 4 File photo Soleimani showed Iran diplomat says ‘window is closing’ for Biden U.S. establishing new military base U.S. and Israel are to rejoin nuclear deal in Hasaka sources of terrorism: Iran’s highest-ranking diplomat in the USA of JCPOA, which will benefit all sides,” said Majid The U.S. occupation forces have begun to build a nomic interests in controlling the oilfields in warned the Biden administration it “must act Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s ambassador to the United new military base in al-Yaroubia area in Hasaka, the country. Islamic Jihad official quickly” to return to the 2015 nuclear deal aban- Nations, in exclusive remarks to USA TODAY. Syria, deploying logistic materials and military On July 30, 2020, and during his testimony to doned by President Donald Trump “because If Iran’s deadline passes without some kind equipment there, according to the Syrian Arab the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, former BY REZA MOSHFEGH the window is closing” for Washington to lift of compromise, it could effectively push Iran News Agency (SANA). U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed TEHRAN – A senior official of the Pal- economic sanctions before Tehran’s deadline, one step closer to the 90% uranium enrichment Citing local sources on Thursday, the news for the first time that an American oil company estinian Islamic Jihad says that General USA Today reported on Thursday. level required for a nuclear weapon. Iran has agency said 10 military troop carriers were would begin work in the Syrian Democratic Forces Qassem Soleimani succeeded to show the Iran’s parliament set a deadline of Feb. 21 been enriching at about 20%, a violation of the brought to al-Malikiyah city in northeast of (SDF)-controlled northeastern Syria. peoples of the region that America and for Biden to lift U.S. sanctions as part of a move accord, as part of its response to the U.S. exit Hasaka to be moved to al-Yaroubia area near The practice of seizing or taking advantage Israel are sponsors of terrorism. back into the now-breached agreement known from the deal. the Iraqi border. of oil resources in a foreign country, without “The martyr Qassem Soleimani used to as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or Ravanchi said in the interview the UN nuclear The United States claims its forces are there the consent of the sovereign authority, amounts see the American and Zionist occupation JCPOA. If the United States fails to act, Iran inspectors would not be expelled from Iran, but to “fight terrorism,” but Syria says Washington to a violation of international law. as the source of terrorism and sponsorship plans to suspend some inspections of its nuclear additional access to its nuclear sites it provided is plundering its oil. A U.S.-led military coalition has been bom- of terrorism in the world,” Khalid al-Batsh sites by United Nations nuclear inspectors – a on a voluntary basis would be halted. Since late October 2019, the United States barding what it claimed was positions of the tells the Tehran Times. key provision of the accord – and further boost Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the has been redeploying troops to the oilfields Daesh terrorist group inside Syria since Sep- “He considered that the occupation of uranium enrichment. United States will rejoin the accord only after controlled by Kurdish forces in eastern Syr- tember 2014 without any authorization from Palestine, the invasion of the Lebanese “We have said time and again that if the U.S. Iran comes back into compliance. This means, ia, in a reversal of former President Donald the Damascus government or a UN mandate. lands and the presence of American forces decides to go back to its international commit- in part, limiting uranium enrichment to less Trump’s earlier order to withdraw all troops The strikes have on many occasions resulted in Syria, Iraq, the Persian Gulf and Afghan- ments and lift all the illegal sanctions against than 4%. from the country. in civilian casualties and failed to fulfill their istan are terrorism and occupation,” the Iran, we will go back to the full implementation Continued on page 2 Trump has said Washington sought eco- declared aim of countering terrorism. Palestinian politician argues. The following is the text of the interview: Why do we find a sharp difference between the scourge of “terrorism” Iran’s IAEA envoy: Extra-ordinary cooperation may be no longer on agenda Intl. festival of Iranian between the Western world powers TEHRAN- Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s Ambassador deal once Tehran meets its commitments. confirmed President Joe Biden’s willingness to return tribes goes online and the axis of resistance? and Permanent Representative to international or- In a tweet, Gharibabadi wrote, “Cooperation and to the accord rejected by his predecessor but refused Undoubtedly, there is a big difference ganizations in Vienna, has warned about a possible good-will are two-way streets NOT a one-way boulevard. to accept Iran’s demand from the U.S. to act first. TEHRAN – Iran’s 14th edition of the International between the concept of the oppressed peo- change in the level of cooperation between Iran and The new law of the parliament has given also another “Iran is out of compliance on a number of fronts. And Festival of Tribes Culture has commenced virtually ple of terrorism and the major powers’ the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). chance to maintain the extremely unprecedented and it would take some time, should it make the decision to due to the outbreak of coronavirus. colonial concept of terrorism. Gharibabadi’s remarks came in response to the impressive cooperation with the IAEA by removing do so, for it to come back into compliance and time for Hosted by the northern city of Gorgan in Golestan The Western powers, sponsored by conditions set by the new U.S. administration for re- the sanctions.” us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations,” province, the festival seeks to promote the vibrant the U.S. administration and Israel, see turning to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action In another tweet, he asserted, “Let’s hope to see the Blinken told a news conference on Wednesday. nomadic cultural heritage of the country, Golestan’s every person resisting their project as a (JCPOA), the common name for the 2015 nuclear deal. opportunities won’t be missed and the extra-ordinary Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, governor-general Hadi Haqshenas said, addressing terrorist, and believe that everyone who Antony Blinken, the new U.S. secretary of state, has cooperation is not back to ordinary.” has urged the U.S. rejoin the deal first by lifting eco- the opening ceremony on Thursday. opposes the Zionist project and seeks to said the United States will only return to the nuclear On his first day as the top U.S.