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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.13911 Tuesday APRIL 6, 2021 Farvardin 17, 1400 Sha’aban 23, 1442 Iran biggest victim of Sepahan edge Saipa Over 6,000 jobs created Iranian cartoonist Nosrati landmines: defense to move top of for women heads of wins top prize at Russian minister Page 2 Iran league Page 3 households Page 7 contest on environment Page 8 Deals worth €165m inked for recovering Iran and China make Iranian fields’ flare gas TEHRAN – Iran’s southern Persian Gulf as Rag-Sefid’s flare gas recovery station. Bid Boland Gas Refining Company has As reported, the deals for construction, signed three deals worth €165 million installation, and commissioning of 24 cen- with domestic companies for collecting trifugal compressors worth €75 million history with strategic deal and recovering flare gases of Rag-Sefid were signed with Oil Turbo Compressor See page 3 offshore oilfield, Shana reported. Construction Company (OTC) and Mapna The deals were signed in a ceremony at- Turbine Engineering and Construction tended by Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Company (TUGA), while the contract for Zanganeh and the Managing Director of Per- the construction of the Rag-Sefid flare gas sian Gulf Bid Boland Gas Refining Company recovery station worth €90 million was China’s Wang proposed Mahmoud Amin-Nejad on Monday. signed with Energy Industries Engineering The mentioned deals cover construc- and Design (EIED). five-point initiative tion of 24 centrifugal compressors as well Continued on page 4 Iran among world’s richest in to achieve security biodiversity, genetics By Faranak Bakhtiari there are 2,100 endemic plant species and stability in West TEHRAN – There are 11 types of ecosystems in Iran, Eskandar Zand, the national in the world, 9 of which are identified in authority for the Convention on Bio- Iran, On the other hand, out of 42 types logical Diversity said. Asia, ambassador tells of wetlands, 41 types exist in the country. Five ecoregions, rich biodiversity Therefore, Iran is one of the 20 countries Each region is defined by its charac- rich in biodiversity and genetics. teristics that play a significant role in a Biological and genetic diversity in land’s biodiversity and richness, based Tehran Times our country has caused many plants and on which, animals to be native to Iran, currently, Continued on page 7 TEHRAN – Chang Hua, the ambassador regional and international peace. of China to Iran, tells the Tehran Times “We believe the China-Iran compre- that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hensive cooperation plan will not only proposed a “five-point initiative on achiev- benefit the two peoples of China and Iran ing security and stability in West Asia” but also contribute to regional and world during his recent visit to the region, which peace,” Ambassador Chang notes tells the also included Iran. Tehran Times. The ambassador also says the 25- Some political and economic analysts year strategic partnership between have said the “25-year strategic roadmap” China and Iran, which was signed by can help reduce tension between Iran and the two countries’ foreign ministers some of its neighbors on the Persian Gulf’s on March 27 in Tehran, will benefit southern shores. both Iran and China and help promote Continued on page 2 Strategic Smuggled Iranian relics returned home ‘Boycott UAE’ campaign over Israeli cooperation of from Austria normalization goes global emerging powers: TEHRAN - A total of 28 Iranian relics, which had by the head of the Vienna police criminal investi- A pro-Palestinian boycott campaign targeting God willing, we will launch a large campaign to been smuggled abroad decades ago, were finally gation department. the United Arab Emirates for normalization of boycott the UAE…Be with us!” they tweeted. Beyond regional returned home on Sunday. Last year, the objects Among the seized objects, there are examples relations with Israel is starting to gather mo- The UAE and Bahrain signed normalization were recovered and surrendered to a representative of bronze objects known as Lorestan’s pins, similar mentum around the world. deals with Israel in a ceremony hosted by former instability, towards of the Islamic Republic in Vienna. examples of which are being kept at the museums The campaign was originally launched last president Donald Trump at the White House “28 historical and archeological Iranian objects, of Reza Abbasi and the National Museum of Iran. December, advising a boycott of Emirati products last September. The event was joined by Israeli a new global order which had been illegally taken out of the country, In May 2019, Iran’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, in protest at the normalization that took place four prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. were transferred from Vienna to Tehran by a diplo- Tourism, and Handicrafts called for the return of months ago. Back then, the initiative announced Palestinians have condemned the accords as a BY AMIR MOHAMMAD ESMAEILI matic shipment today, and returned home by one relics, which were discovered from a safety-deposit the hashtag #Boycott_Emirati _Products as its stab in their back and a direct affront to their cause omme Malade de l’Europe of Iranian diplomats,” Mehr reported on Sunday. box of a bank in Austria months earlier. rallying point. to liberate their lands from Israeli occupation. was eventually divided by “The transfer was made under the joint su- “In Azar 1398 (the Iranian month falling on On Sunday, campaign organizers announced The White House event was followed by an Hthe Allied Powers at the end pervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and November 22 to December 21, 2019) through a their intention to expand the drive across the unprecedented secret trip by Netanyahu to Saudi of World War I. The Ottoman Em- the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and telephone call from the head of Iran’s Interpol, world’s entire “Arab and Islamic nations.” They Arabia, where he met with Saudi Crown Prince pire, which had been declining for a Handicrafts,” the report added. the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and cited their success so far, which has motivated Mohammed bin Salman. long time, was finally disintegrated Last July, the antiquities were handed over to Handicrafts was informed of the discovery and them to go global, Press TV reported. The United Arab Emirates has reduced offi- by the Western spirit of expansion- Iran’s representative in Austria flowing a series seizure of some ancient objects of Iranian origin “This campaign has had strong reverberations cial contacts with Israel in protest at Benjamin ism. As a result, the nation-states of legal investigations and as the result of judicial form a safety-deposit box of a bank in Austria,” and impacts in several areas,” the organizers Netanyahu’s attempts to involve the UAE in his were born whose nations had little assistance between the two countries and in co- according to Mohammad-Hassan Talebian, the said, naming Monday as the day, when the drive re-election campaign, Israeli and western officials to do with their own destiny. operation with Interpol departments in the two deputy minister for cultural heritage affairs. would reach farther fronts. said, in what is the first diplomatic crisis since Indeed, the seemingly civilized Eu- countries. The extradition session was attended Continued on page 6 “To discipline the Emirati regime, tomorrow, the two countries normalized relations last year. ropean nations inevitably took over the uncivilized but historically glorious, West Asian nations to lead them towards de- velopment and prosperity. The word U.S. can afford to take some early steps to restore nuclear deal: Fitzpatrick Iran athletics “Al-Aistiemar” for colonization was BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI Fitzpatrick says that the United States can take nian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, a widely used by the region’s optimistic TEHRAN – Mark Fitzpatrick, an associate fellow some early steps to break the impasse on reviving senior negotiator in the talks. should be grateful people, as they naively thought that the at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the nuclear pact. Here is the full text of the interview with Fitz- Western interventionists decided to bring says that the U.S. can afford to take the first steps Iran, China, Russia, France, Germany and Brit- patrick over his expectation of this round of talks: to Ehsan Hadaddi: about prosperity and developments into to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. ain — all parties to the 2015 deal — discussed on What is your prediction in regard to Hashem Siami the region. Iran and the Ottomans, who “I do think the United States can afford to take Friday the possible return of the United States to the results of ongoing negotiations over were experiencing a long period of de- some early steps such as releasing some of the the agreement and how to ensure its full and effec- reviving the JCPOA? Are you optimistic TEHRAN - Head of Athletic Federation of Islamic cline under authoritarian regimes, did Iranian funds frozen in South Korea,” Fitzpatrick tive implementation by all sides including the U.S. about the outcome of the talks? Republic of Iran (AAFIRI) Hashem Siami said not have the power and will to resist this tells the Tehran Times. In Friday’s talks the participants agreed to It should not have taken two months for talks the country’s athletics should be grateful for what civilized invasion. Pointing to the position of Washington and meet in person in Vienna on Tuesday, April 6, to begin on restoring the JCPOA. Ehsan Hadadi has done over the past years.