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.13635 Wednesday APRIL 8, 2020 Farvardin 20, 1399 Sha’aban 14, 1441 Iran pushing Iran starts smart Olympics postponement Congratulations to raise petchem screening program to an opportunity not a on birthday of Imam output 4 contain coronavirus 9 threat: Salehi Amiri 11 Mahdi (AS) 122 nuclear achievements in one EXCLUSIVE year: Salehi INTERVIEWSee page 12 TEHRAN — Ali Akbar Salehi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Coronavirus urges the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which herald a new chapter in expansion has said that Iran unveiled 122 nuclear of the organization’s activities,” he said in achievements over the past Iranian cal- a statement published on Tuesday on the endar year. occasion of National Day of Nuclear Tech- The Iranian year, 1398, ended on nology, which falls on Wednesday, April 8. people to change: March 19. Salehi, a nuclear physicist, also said “I announce with honor that this organ- that production in nuclear medicine has ization’s 122 new achievements in the past increased, noting it is essential to meet the year have been the result of untiring efforts country’s medical needs given the “cruel cartoonist made by a large number of researchers of sanctions”. ‘Unilateralism virus’ infects collective Einstein actions, Iran says TEHRAN — Foreign Ministry spokesman does its coordination task well, though Abbas Mousavi said on Tuesday that the ‘unilateralism virus’ infects collective coronavirus crisis is an opportunity if the actions,” he tweeted. global fight on COVID-19 lead to global Confirmed coronavirus cases across solidarity and collaboration. Mousavi the globe now number at 1,347,803, and made the comments on World Health Day. a total of 74,807 people have lost their “#WorldHealthDay is a timely day lives as a result of complications caused for rethinking abt post-corona world. by the virus, according to data collected #CoronaCrisis is an opportunity, if the by Johns Hopkins University. More than global fighting on #COVID19 will lead to 277,400 people have recovered, Press TV global solidarity & collaboration. @WHO reported on Tuesday. Ancient bas-relief discovered in western Iran TEHRAN — An ancient bas-relief found during the survey which took 45 carving, which depicts human being days to complete, said senior archaeolo- figures, has recently been discovered gist Hamzeh Qobadi, who led the survey, in western Iran. CHTN reported on Monday. Estimated to date from the Parthian Traces of Paleolithic era (Old Stone era (247 BC – 224 CE), the relief was Age) were also found during the survey, found during an archaeological survey which is first in its kind in Kuhdasht, in Kuhdasht county, Lorestan province. provincial tourism chief Seyyed Amin A cartoon exclusively designed by Brazilian artist Cival Einstein for the Tehran Times. A total of 112 historical relics were Qasemi said. 8 PERSPECTIVE Loading, unloading of goods at ports continue observing healthcare protocols PERSPECTIVE Faranak Bakhtiari TEHRAN — Loading and unloading of com- and inaugurated in this year. Bimalendu B. Nath Tehran Times journalist modities are being conducted continuously By completing phase three, the capacity of Environmentalist at the ports of Iran while the health require- this port will increase significantly, Rastad un- ments are completely met, the head of Ports derscored. and Maritime Organization (PMO) announced According to the official, PMO will pay 36 World Health Day: on Tuesday. trillion rials (about $857 million) for supplying COVID-19 and Mohammad Rastad reiterated that all port marine fleet during the current Iranian calendar dedicated medics on operations are done observing healthcare protocols year. evolutionary and the principles set by the Coronavirus Con- He said this fund will be paid to the marine frontline fighting tainment Headquarters, PMO portal published. industries of the country for supplying the re- selection pressure The official further elaborated on the organi- quired fleet in this year, which is named the year the invisible enemy zation’s programs for developing Shahid Rajaee of “Surge in Production”. ccording to the World Health Organ- Port (Iran’s major container port located at the The official further underscored that all parts ization, a novel coronavirus (SARS- his time, medical professionals have southern province of Hormozgan) during the 20) and said about 900 meters of docks at the required in the maritime and port projects will ACoV-2) has emerged from China and gone far to help patients afflicted by current Iranian calendar year (began on March phase three of container part will be completed be supplied by domestic producers. rapidly spread across the world, now with Tthe coronavirus, so the least we can 1,362,850 confirmed cases and 76,367 deaths do is supporting them and paying tribute (as of 7 April 2020). to those putting themselves at risk battling Movement of human population, in terms of against a dangerous enemy which is not Amnesty, HRW urge Bahrain to release political inmates amid COVID-19 pandemic exploration, pilgrimage, politics, business and even visible. pleasure impacted global dispersal of microbes. Observed on April 7, World Health Twenty international rights groups, including in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, but the political dissidents currently being held in the During the entire span of 200,000 years Day is the day to celebrate the work of the Amnesty International and the Human releases excluded opposition leaders, activists, Manama regime’s prisons in the wake of the novel of human history, movement of hominins nurses and midwives and remind world Rights Watch, have called on the Bahraini journalists and human rights defenders. coronavirus pandemic, stressing that failure to across the continents finds antecedents in leaders of the critical role they play in regime to release opposition leaders, political Opposition leaders imprisoned for their roles take the measure will have dire consequences. modern international tourism. keeping the world healthy. Nurses and activists and journalists amid the coronavi- in the 2011 protest movement remain behind “Even if the release of political prisoners and Recent headlines such as, Ebola, Zika, other health workers are at the forefront rus outbreak. bars. These include Hassan Mushaima, the head prisoners of conscience in Bahrain, whose number SARS and the last but not the least the COV- of COVID-19 response - providing high In a joint statement on Monday, the rights of the opposition group Al-Haq; Abdulwahab stands in thousands, might not be recognized ID-19 repeat the human history buried in the quality, respectful treatment, and care, groups said all prisoners of conscience remain Hussain, an opposition leader; Abdulhadi Al as a religious, constitutional, national and hu- classical antiquity when human ancestors leading community dialogue to address detained in Bahrain solely for peacefully exercising Khawaja, a prominent human rights defender; man right and would have no priority among the began acquisition of microbial pathogens fears and questions and, in some instances, their right to freedom of expression, assembly, and Dr Abdel-Jalil al-Singace, the spokesman policies of ruling authorities, there is inevitable from the animals as hunters-gatherers. collecting data for clinical studies. Quite and association, Press TV reported. for Al-Haq. truth that COVID-19 virus could hit prisons and Globalization has rewarded us to travel simply, without nurses, there would be The statement said many of the prisoners of Other prominent opposition figures, including lead to consequences much more catastrophic geographic distances far greater than what no response. conscience currently jailed in Bahrain are old and/ Sheikh Ali Salman, the secretary general of the that what the world has been witnessing,” he we could do in the past. Incidentally, the The COVID-19, an infectious disease or suffer from underlying medical conditions. Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society (Al-Wefaq), said in a statement. emergence of at least 40 new infectious dis- first identified in Wuhan, China, has “Such prisoners are at high risk of serious also remain imprisoned. Manama has been engaged in a heavy-handed eases in the last 50 years has interplayed started spreading quickly and globally; illness if they contract COVID-19, and thus ought A few days ago, Bahrain’s most prominent crackdown since a popular uprising began in the with the ever-increasing density of touring since Tuesday, Iran reported more than to be prioritized for release,” it added. Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim demand- Kingdom back in 2011. It has detained thousands human population. 62,589 coronavirus cases and some 3,872 Last month, Manama released 1,486 prisoners ed the immediate and unconditional release of of activists since then. 10 So far, the COVID-19 transmission tends deaths from the disease, while affecting to be horizontal and the viral fitness is trad- 1,356,369 people in 209 countries. ing off with the host fitness as a function of However, novel coronavirus has shown mobility and population density. that human is still vulnerable to major Here comes the persistence of COVID-19 disease outbreaks. life strategy which is critically dependent on Here, health workers are those who temporal and spatial nature of the infected make the most efforts but get the least cluster of human population. On the other attention among the nervous people and hand, the preventive measures through social, officials who are expected to make rea- cultural, political and clinical management sonable responses to the crisis. Charities have been impacting a negative selection The Iranian medical community has pressure on COVID-19. repeatedly succeeded in surviving the provide basic Moreover, persistence or decline of widely people in the floods and earthquakes, dispersed viral population might exhibit ‘Allee and so on, but this time the test is bigger goods for the effect’.