WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13732 Monday AUGUST 10, 2020 Mordad 20, 1399 Dhul Hijjah 20, 1441 Tehran urges IAEA to shed Belgium suspends Alireza Beiranvand Iranian cartoonist Mojtaba light on Saudi ‘covert’ issuing arms export fumes at Persepolis Heidarpanah runner-up at nuclear program 3 licenses to Riyadh 10 officials 11 City of Trento contest 12 Industrial projects to create 41,000 Iran ready to help rebuild direct jobs by next March TEHRAN — Iran’s acting minister of projects under the framework of a program industry, mining, and trade said that called “Persistent Production-Effective inaugurating 200 major projects by the Employment-Sustainable Exports”. end of the current Iranian calendar year “In this program, large industrial and (March 20, 2021) is going to create 41,000 mining units are inaugurated and go places damaged in Beirut new direct jobs across the country, Mehr operational every week; In this regard, news agency reported. it is planned for 200 leading industrial Outlining the ministry’s major projects with a total investment of 1.7 See page 2 programs for the realization of the motto for quadrillion rials (about $40.4 billion) Zarif signs memorial the current Iranian year which is “Surge in to be inaugurated by the end of the year Production”, Hossein Modarres Khiabani which will create direct employment for notebook for victims said that one of the major plans of the more than 41,000 people”, the official of Beirut explosion ministry is completing semi-finished moted. 4 Saudi Arabia halts oil supply to Pakistan as rift widens over Kashmir Saudi Arabia has suspended the supply of Islamabad $3.2 billion worth of oil a year oil to Pakistan as the latter complains about on deferred payments. Riyadh’s foot-dragging on a meeting of the On Saturday, Pakistani media reported Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) that the provision expired two months ago to address India’s contentious measures and that Saudi Arabia did not renew it. in Muslim-majority Kashmir region. Instead, the reports said, Islamabad In 2018, Pakistan borrowed a $6.2 bil- prematurely returned a $1 billion Saudi lion loan from Saudi Arabia that included loan, four months ahead of the repay- a provision, under which Riyadh granted ment period. 10 Book of interviews with Italian Iranologists published in Rome TEHRAN — The first volume of a book Hatami, the Iranian Culture Center in containing thirty interviews with Ital- Rome announced on Sunday. ian experts on Iran has recently been The book has been published by the published in Rome. International Association for Mediter- “Simorgh: Trenta Interviste con ranean and Oriental Studies (ISMEO). Mohsen Morsali Iranisti Italiani” (“Simorgh: Thirty The book begins with prefaces by Interviews with Italian Iranologists”) ISMEO director Adriano Rossi, for- MFA/ has been compiled by a team of schol- mer Iranian attaché Akbar Qowli and ars in a project initiated by Abolhassan Hatami. 12 ARTICLE U.S. bid to extend UN arms embargo on Iran Protests in U.S.: Oregon trooper injured, Mohammad Mazhari hits a dead end 24 arrested in Portland Editor in Chief of Arabic Mehr News Agency TEHRAN — While the U.S. attempts to build its participation in the nuclear deal, which Protesters in Portland, Oregon, defied police protests over racial injustice and police brutality an international consensus on the extension deprives the U.S. from the right to extend the orders to disperse and threw rocks, frozen or have occurred nightly for 70 days. of a UN arms embargo on Iran, an analyst tells arms embargo. hard-boiled eggs and commercial-grade fire- Portland police declared an unlawful assembly Ulterior motives the Tehran times that the U.S. is going to face U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on works at officers as unrest in the Northwest Friday night at the Penumbra Kelly public safety opposition from some of the UN Security Council Wednesday that the U.S. is going to move forward city continued early Saturday. building, ordering everyone in the area to leave. in attacks on permanent members. with its efforts to extend the arms embargo. An Oregon State Police Trooper was struck Authorities had previously warned people not As the UN Security Council prepares to vote “The United States will put forward a resolution in the head by a large rock and suffered a head to trespass on the property. Lebanese ministries on a U.S.-drafted resolution this week, the U.S. in the Security Council to extend the arms embargo injury, police said in a release. The trooper’s Protesters remained for several hours before seems to be on a collision course with the inter- on Iran,” Pompeo said, adding, “The proposal we condition was not immediately known, AP officers began to rush the crowd away from hile Lebanon as a crisis-rid- national community. It is pushing for a vote on put forward is eminently reasonable. One way or reported. the building using crowd-control munitions den country needs unity more extending UN arms embargo on Iran, despite another we will do the right thing. We will ensure Some demonstrators filled pool noodles early Saturday. Several people were arrested, than ever these days to get W diplomatic warnings that the measure lacks that the arms embargo is extended.” with nails and placed them in the road, caus- police said. out of this complex and sensitive sit- international support. Citing UN-based diplomats, the Foreign Pol- ing extensive damage to a patrol vehicle, police “As arrests were made, certain crowd mem- uation, some sides make every effort The UN arms embargo is slated to expire on icy magazine reported that the U.S. is expected said. Oregon State Police worked with Portland bers began throwing rocks towards officers,” to obstruct the path to tranquility in October 18 according to the terms of the Iran to formally table the resolution on Monday, officers to clear the protesters. police said in a statement. “As this criminal the country. nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Com- with plans to put it to a vote on Tuesday. The “Officers are having rocks and chunks of con- activity occurred, the crowd also blocked all The Lebanese had not yet recov- prehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). However, U.S. measure sets the stage for a diplomatic crete thrown at them,” police said on Twitter. lanes of traffic on East Burnside Street, not ered from the shock of the devastating the U.S. is spearheading a diplomatic campaign clash between the U.S. and other Security “Individuals in the crowd are shining lasers allowing vehicles to pass by. Several people blast in Beirut with an unimaginable to extend the international embargo on Iran, Council members including Washington’s trying to blind officers.” in this group wore helmets and gas masks as number of casualties that they sud- despite the fact that it has unilaterally ceased European allies. Since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, well as carried shields.” denly noticed that many residential 2 10 houses around Jabal al-Mashgara in the Bekaa Plain in southeastern Lebanon have caught fire. Gender gap in literacy rate declines significantly in Iran Coronavirus: Iran to Less than a day after the second incident, there were reports in the TEHRAN — The literacy rate difference provinces such as Sistan-Baluchestan, the rate “It is not yet possible to say that the illiteracy introduce all-inclusive Lebanese local and foreign media out- between men and women has declined from is 83 percent, which is lower than the national rate in any province has reached zero,” he said. lets that some people had attacked 26 percent before the 1979 Islamic Revolution average, he said. Nearly 1.8 percent of the population in any health protocols for ministries and government buildings. to 2.8 percent, head of the Literacy Movement According to the latest census, the literacy rate country are exceptional children or people with Who are the beneficiaries of the Organization has stated. is 96.2 percent, which increases by 0.5 percent lower Intelligence Quotient (IQ), on the other hand, inbound travelers street riots in Beirut? The average literacy rate in the age group of every year, he also noted. eight-tenths of the people have learning disabilities TEHRAN— Iran will unveil all-inclusive health Regardless of the purpose of the 10 to 49 has reached 96 percent, IRNA quoted Mohammadzadeh, stating that the distribution and eventually can only be trained, he stated. protocols for inbound travelers within the next attackers on government buildings Shapour Mohammadzadeh as saying on Sunday. of illiteracy in the provinces is very high, added He went on to conclude that some 50 percent week, as the country is still fighting the coronavi- and committing sabotage acts such The literacy rate in some provinces such as that in some provinces, one illiterate can be found of the activities of the Literacy Movement rus pandemic, Mohammad Qasemi, the director for as burning tires and destroying min- Tehran, Isfahan, Mazandaran, Yazd, and Semnan every 20 square kilometers because the number Organization is focused on literacy empowerment marketing and advertising at the tourism ministry, istry buildings, along with trying to has reached up to 98 percent, but in some other of illiterates has decreased. so that there is no return to illiteracy. announced on Sunday. destroy or steal many important cor- As the coronavirus outbreak has severely damaged ruption files, and whether they were the tourism industry in the world and caused huge really protesting or sabotaging, the big financial losses, countries need to adopt a peaceful question that comes to mind is that 20 wonderful coexistence with the virus to reduce its negative and who will benefit from these riotous social effects, therefore, while protecting the health behaviors in such a critical situation.