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.13719 Saturday JULY 25, 2020 Mordad 4, 1399 Dhul Hijjah 4, 1441 ‘We should wait for IOEC starts constructing Sardar Azmoun Iran’s Graphic Design details of Iran-China Iran’s longest underwater wins RPL Week to pay tribute to agreement’ 2 gas pipeline 5 Golden Boot 11 Morteza Momayyez 12 Harassment against Iranian passenger plane: Agricultural projects worth $809.5m inaugurated in 3 provinces TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan and a greenhouse complex in the central Rouhani, on Thursday, inaugurated three Yazd Province, were inaugurated as part major agricultural projects valued at 34 of the government’s programs for the re- Iran seeking expulsion trillion rials (about $809.5 million) via alization of the surge in production motto. video conference in three provinces, IRNA Speaking in the inauguration ceremony, reported. Rouhani said: “We cannot meet the agri- The mentioned projects, namely an cultural needs of the country traditionally, irrigation system in southern Hormozgan so we must change the traditional culti- Province, 4,040 hectares of gardens in the vation and irrigation ways to industrial of U.S. from the region sloping lands of western Lorestan Province, methods.” 4 See page 2 Zarif: ‘Outlaws must be stopped Iran plans building desalination plants before disaster’ along Persian Gulf, Sea of Oman TEHRAN – The Department of Envi- been identified in Hormozgan province. ronment (DOE) is preparing a plan to According to him, the project, which Foreign Ministry says Iran will deploy desalination plants on the shores is to be carried out in cooperation with of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman the Ministry of Energy, will supply water not let hostile acts go unpunished in order to supply drinking water to the for 17 drought-ridden provinces. coastal provinces. The country’s coastline stretches to Ahmad Reza Lahijanzadeh, deputy chief about 5,800 kilometers, which includes Guardian Council of the marine environment of the DOE, the Caspian Sea in the north and the announced that suitable areas that cause Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman in calls for reciprocal the least damage to the environment have the south. 9 steps against U.S. Coronavirus causing habit of going to Deputy parliament cinema to fade away: filmmaker TEHRAN – Filmmaker Mohsen Dama- during the home quarantine,” Damadi speaker likens di has said that coronavirus is gradually said. causing the habit of going to cinema to He said that no one can predict the harassment to using fade away, and is imposing a great pause future and added, “I believe corona- in all areas. virus has given the biggest blow to human shield for “One of the major things in these the habit of watching films in movie hard days of the pandemic, is the issue theaters. Of course a large portion of military purposes of going to movie theaters and watching Iranians did not have the habit of going File photo movies, which has made people show to cinema, but even that small number more interest in watching films at home has dropped”. 12 ARTICLE U.S. ugly face exposed to the world: U.S protests: Chicago on edge over Afshin Majlesi ambassador Trump’s federal forces, violence Tehran Times journalist TEHRAN – Iranian Ambassador to China Washington D.C. It was not clear why it was Amid a surge in gun violence and protests sparked they are right now,” the Reverend Michael Pfleger, Mohammad Keshavarzzadeh has said the ugly singled out. by the alleged killing of George Floyd, the United a Roman Catholic priest and longtime activist on face of the United States has been exposed Tensions have been rising between the U.S. States’ third-largest city is on edge, awaiting the city’s South Side told the Associated Press. Trump’s Muslim to the world by closing the Chinese Consu- and China over several issues. possible greater tension in the form of a plan Much of the strain stems from the fact that it late General in Houston and its other illegal The Trump administration has clashed re- by President Donald Trump to dispatch dozens remains unclear exactly what the federal officers will ban: For the sake measures. peatedly with Beijing over trade and the coro- of federal agents to Chicago. do here. The plan seems to be a repeat of what “The U.S. once again showed its hegemonic navirus pandemic. The White House plan emerged days after happened in Kansas City, Missouri, where the of safer America or nature to the world by violating international Keshavarzzadeh said the United States a downtown protest over a statue of Christo- administration sent officers to help quell violence laws in closing the Chinese Consulate General has exposed its ugly face to the entire world pher Columbus devolved into a chaotic scene after the shooting death of a young boy. anti-Muslim bigots in Houston,” Keshavarzzadeh wrote in a series by unilaterally withdrawing from the Iran of police swinging batons and demonstrators Mayor Lori Lightfoot sought to ease fears ouse Democrats on Wednes- of tweets on Thursday. nuclear deal, imposing a policy of “maximum hurling frozen water bottles, fireworks and other that the surge will resemble the kind of scene day voted to pass a legisla- “A country that claims to be an advocate of pressure” on Iran, invading Iraq based on projectiles at officers. that unfolded in Portland, Oregon, where un- tion that would revoke the peace and saving the world is in practice the baseless allegations, waging war on Afghan- Then, on Tuesday in another neighborhood, identified agents in camouflage have beaten H orchestrator of chaos and turmoil in the world,” istan and the trade war and all-out pressure a spray of bullets from a car passing a gang unarmed protesters and stuffed some of them U.S. President Donald Trump ad- ministration’s controversial order he said. on China. member’s funeral wounded 15 people and sent into unmarked vehicles. banning entry to immigrants from On Tuesday, the U.S. government ordered The United States’ view of international law dozens running for their lives. Lightfoot said she has been told the US Attor- mostly Muslim-majority countries. China to close its consulate in Houston, Texas, and diplomacy not only threatens world peace Tension in the city has climbed to a level ney’s Office will supervise the additional agents by the end of the week. and stability, but the ramifications of this behav- that, if not unprecedented, has not been felt supporting the Chicago offices of the FBI, the Drug The ‘NO BAN Act’ received broad The Chinese consulate in Houston was one ior will be to the detriment of the United States in a long time. Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, support in the Democratic-controlled of five in the U.S., along with the embassy in itself, the envoy continued. “I’ve never seen things worse in this city than Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. House with 233 votes in favor and 183 3 10 against, however, it is unlikely to advance in the Republican Senate. At least, it can be regarded as a symbolic victory for civil The kind of ‘balanced ties’ that Iraqi PM seeks to establish Egypt, Turkey on clash rights groups. Trump’s initial ban targeted Iran, Libya, TEHRAN — Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa visit to Baghdad on July 19, two days before the Tehran Times that al-Kadhimi’s push to establish course over Libya Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, generating al-Kadhimi paid a visit to Iran on Tuesday and Iraqi prime minister starts a trip to Iran. balanced ties with neighboring countries like Iran By Salman Parviz criticism that it amounted to unlawful Wednesday, in a bid to establish what some Iraqi Al-Kadhimi echoed the same remarks during doesn’t mean that Iraq’s relations with Iran is at religious discrimination. Trump then officials call ‘balanced ties’ with Iran and other his visit to Tehran, saying that Iraq is “eager to risk of being undermined, because all Iraqi prime In a sign of hope for peace and stability in Libya, early expanded the ban to include Venezuela countries like Saudi Arabia and the U.S. have cooperative relations with Iran on the basis ministers have sought to establish balanced ties July Turkey announced its banks and companies’ and North Korea, and later added Nigeria, “Iraq wants balanced ties with neighboring of the principle of non-interference in internal with Iran, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. plans for an assessment trip within two weeks to Myanmar, Sudan, and three other coun- countries on the basis of Iraq’s interest and affairs.” “No prime ministers in Iraq can take only one rebuild post-war Libya and secure its energy in- tries to the list. non-interference in internal affairs,” Iraqi For- The remarks have been widely interpreted side, and that Iraq can’t rely on only one country. frastructure. The ban has affected millions of Muslim eign Minister Fuad Hussein said during a joint by Saudi and American news media outlets as Baghdad is just like Beirut, where there are many Unfortunately, there has been no follow up of Americans. It has cut them off from their press conference with his Iranian counterpart an effort by the prime minister to distance his competing forces,” Amir Mousavi, who was Iran’s this plan that could help trigger peace and stability families, friends, and loved ones who are Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was on a one-day country from Iran.