WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13617 Sunday MARCH 1, 2020 Esfand 11, 1398 Rajab 6, 1441 Iran ready to host Tehran categorically Tehran slams Washington’s Publisher Amut trilateral Syria summit rejects BBC Persian’s fake offer of help against organizing “Reading in as Idlib war raging 2 coronavirus death toll 3 coronavirus 3 Quarantine” contest 12 Domestic steel consumption Global action needed to surplus to reach 10m tons TEHRAN — Head of Tehran Iron and Steel market, can also export to target markets,” Traders Union says the country’s domestic Hamidreza Rastegar told IRNA on Saturday. steel consumption is expected to reach 17 Earlier this week, Iranian Mines and Min- million tons in the current Iranian year (ends ing Industries Development and Renovation fight coronavirus outbreak on March 19), and considering the production Organization (IMIDRO) announced that plans there will be a 10 million-ton surplus based on the latest report released by the WHO sends fifth batch of COVID-19 diagnostic kits to Iran 9 this year, IRNA reported. World Steel Association (WSA) Iran’s crude “Today, our country has reached a po- steel output has increased 46.7 percent in sition in terms of steel production that, in January while the global average growth See page 2 addition to meeting the needs of the domestic rate stood at 2.1 percent. 4 Russia cites Syria agreement but Erdogan sounds belligerent Russia says it has agreed with Turkey to “On both sides, the focus has been on ease tensions in Syria’s embattled Idlib reducing tensions on the ground while con- province, the last major terrorist strong- tinuing to fight terrorists recognized by the hold in the war-torn country. United Nations Security Council,” the state- In a statement released on Saturday, ment read. Turkish President Recep Tayyip the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Erdogan, however, said that he had asked Moscow and Ankara had during high-level his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, talks reached a consensus on reducing to step aside in Idlib and leave Ankara to Idlib tensions. deal with Damascus alone. 10 Afghanistan’s Taliban, U.S. sign peace deal U.S. officials and Taliban representatives withdraw its troops. have signed a final peace deal after months The two sides have long wrangled over of negotiations in Qatar’s capital to end the U.S. demand for a ceasefire before the the United States’s longest war, fought final peace agreement was signed. in Afghanistan since 2001. Earlier on Saturday, the Taliban or- Saturday’s agreement, signed in Doha dered all its fighters to halt fighting and in the presence of leaders from Paki- “refrain from attacks”. stan, Qatar, Turkey India, Indonesia, Mohammed Naeem, a Taliban repre- File photo File Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, will pave the sentative in Doha, described the deal as way for the United States to gradually “a step forward”. 10 REPORT World changed after martyrdom of Lt. General Soleimani: Colombian analyst ARTICLE Fatemeh Salehi TEHRAN (MNA) — The Colombian analyst “The next factor is a very interesting tactic The Colombian analyst further noted, “If Diego Vida Mehr News Agency Carlos Santa Maria said in an interview that Not called “active resistance”. This tactic works to these three factors are present in a revolution, Italian writer and director journalist only Iran but also the world has undergone a strengthen the executive, legislative, judicial, it is stable and will not lose efficiency. Iranians transformation after the martyrdom of Lt. Gen- and even military powers of the revolution. possess Awareness and knowledge along with eral Soleimani. Military reinforcement is of utmost signif- foresight. There have always been attempts to The Idlib battle In an interview with Mehr News Agency, Carlos icance. Since the lack of this factor leads to destroy the Islamic Revolution, however, due to Coronavirus Santa Maria said, “Three factors have always been the destruction of all nations by imperialism these qualities, none of these efforts have been shows Turkey’s involved in the survival of revolutions, which is and the corrupt powers of the world. For ex- successful so far.” pandemic shows just real face also true for the Islamic Revolution of Iran. The ample, during the Iraqi-imposed war against Referring to US efforts to disappoint Iranians first one is patriotism. Iranian people have always Iran, these powers failed to do anything. If and lead them to failure, he said, “The United another business urrent developments in Idlib province defended their land, religion, and family with a a country is militarily powerful, no one will States has not benefited from anything in this field. scam worldwide in northwestern Syria are obviously special sense of patriotism. If a nation does not ever dare to invade it. The third prominent The US has always strived to take illegal revenge have such a feeling, they will lose everything. factor is the sense of dignity and honor. The against Iranian people. Washington wants this a series of violations of internation- he name of Coronavirus was born C The same is true for Cuba. The Cuban people do anti-imperialist Iranian people maintain dig- revolution to be toppled. This is when everything al law and the United Nations Security last century to classify in Asia the not allow anyone to invade their territory. If this nity and seek social welfare, thus they have is going the opposite way. The US has realized its Council resolutions by the Turkish troops breathing disease as the Pneumonia and officials as the world is witnessing a patriotic factor is not involved, all revolutions remained steadfast in their revolutionary own decline and the continued progress made by T as well. Since 150 years ago the Pneumonia will be destroyed.” path”, he added. the Islamic Revolution of Iran.” 7 double-standard policy by Ankara toward was almost impossible to cure because the crisis in that part of the war-hit Syria. the antibiotic wasn’t existed yet. After 1 Though Turkey has been claiming that century with the come of the antibiotics it has been implementing the agreements Yemenis encircle strategic city in al-Jawf as Saudi countermeasures fail finally it was possible cure the Pneumonia approved by the trilateral committee be- Yemen’s armed forces have encircled the strategic looking provincial government buildings in the city. According to the report, Saudi Arabia expelled disease. tween Turkey, Iran and Russia, evidenc- city of al-Hazm - the capital city of the northern Up to 70 percent of the province is currently as many as 370,000 Yemeni workers from the Now a days this illness hit many es show that Turkey has only been using al-Jawf province - as Saudi attempts to break under the control of the Yemeni forces, he added. kingdom in 2013 to put pressure on the former people for the following causes like pol- terrorist groups as a tool to materialize Yemeni advances failed, a report says. According to the report, Saudi Arabia has Yemeni government shortly after Yemen’s Safer lution, smoke, virus, flu, cold, bronchitis, its own objectives in Idlib. The Beirut-based al-Akhbar newspaper re- sent dozens of military vehicles along with hun- oil company started operating the first oil well and the patients affected by terminal Obviously, occupying the Syrian terri- ported Saturday that the advances by Yemeni dreds of mercenaries from the central Ma’rib in al-Jawf province. diseases like COPD (Chronic Obstruc- tories and ruling over the seized lands are forces, led by the popular Houthi Ansarullah and southern Shabwah province in a bid to push Saudi Arabia launched its war on Yemen in tive Pulmonary Disease a second letal among the most important objectives of movement, continue towards the strategic city back the Yemenis advances. March 2015, with the goal of bringing back to terminal disease forcing patients to use the Ankara officials who have been con- and that major Saudi positions surrounding al- Saudi Arabia has also sought to win the loyalty power the government of former president Abd oxygen therapy till they die), Cancer, tinuously denying. Hazm have fallen. of Yemeni tribes against the Yemeni forces in Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and crushing the popular Leuchemia and several immune defi- As soon as the Syrian resistance forces A tribal source loyal to Ansarullah told al-Akh- the region by offering money, the report added. Houthi movement. ciency like Asma either. kicked off their large-scale operation to bar that advances are currently ongoing northwest Yemen’s al-Jawf province had been under The US-based Armed Conflict Location and According a diagnosis Pneumonia liberate Idlib province from the militants’ of the city, adding that a Saudi counteroffensive Riyadh’s control for up to 50 years. Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit con- need the following therapy, on the first occupation, the Turkish officials showed seeking to recapture the al-Ghail region south Due to Saudi intervention and influence, al- flict-research organization, estimates that the 2 weeks the antibiotics do their job over their real face and openly targeted the of al-Hazm had failed. Jawf province was effectively deprived of using Saudi war has claimed more than 100,000 lives and over together the Aereosol as the Syrian Army positions. The source added that the Yemeni forces have its oil reserves, which are largest in Yemen, and since the war broke out. other medicines properly injected to erase The Turkish assaults on the Syrian gained control over a number of positions over- attracting needed investment, it added.