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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 12 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13735 Thursday AUGUST 13, 2020 Mordad 23, 1399 Dhul Hijjah 23, 1441 Ravanchi confident UN Tire output Asian World Cup Online version of will reject new U.S. draft up 23% in 4 months qualifiers Dehkhoda Lexicon on arms embargo 2 on year 4 postponed 11 launched 12 Qatar: PGCC not reflecting See page 2 members’ position on Iran TEHRAN — Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani, “We in Qatar do not think that current a senior Qatari Foreign Ministry official, sanctions on Iran would lead to positive U.S. not in has said that the latest anti-Iran stance of results and contribute to the resolution of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council does crises. Crises must be overcome through not reflect the position of member states. dialogue and negotiations,” Press TV quot- In an interview with al-Jazeera on ed him as saying in the interview. Wednesday, he said that the council’s po- “Iran is a neighboring country with sitions are usually taken and announced at which we have good neighborly relations, foreign ministerial meetings, and that the and it enjoys a position that the State of position to trigger latest stance of its General Secretariat on Qatar, the government and the people extension of arms embargo on Iran does value, especially during the unjust blockade not reflect the position of member states. on Qatar,” Qahtani noted. 2 Iran, Russia to launch cargo shipping UN sanctions line in September TEHRAN — Iran and Russia are going to Transport Ministry quoted Seyed Jalil launch a permanent container shipping line Jalalifar as saying. in the Caspian Sea by September to expand Iran has been unable to raise the mutual trade, a member of Iran-Russia level of exports of agricultural prod- Joint Chamber of Commerce said. ucts and foodstuff to Russia via the snapback This shipping route is going to be Caspian Sea for years due to the lack launched in line with the two coun- of container ships, Jalalifar noted, tries’ cooperation for the activation of adding that the new shipping route the International North-South Trans- will include cargo ships equipped with port Corridor, the portal of the Iranian refrigerated containers. 4 Designs from Iranian architects competing for Dezeen Awards 2020 By Manijeh Rezapoor Michael Anastassiades and Paola Antonelli TEHRAN — Three projects by Iranian will be judging the designs. architects have been selected by the Dezeen Pardis Khaneh in Tehran by Keivani Awards 2020 as the world’s most popular Architects is a nearly complete example and influential architecture and design of house architecture considering a resi- competition has announced its longlist. dential atmosphere with regard to space Shima Masjedi The projects are Pardis Khaneh, the psychology. Kohan Ceram Central Office, and the Nur-e In this project, the designers have tried to revive the missing architecture of hanging ISNA/ Mobin Primary School, and a jury com- posed of Norman Foster, Joyce Wang, gardens in a modern style. 12 By Faranak Bakhtiari Iraq slams Turkish drone strike, cancels U.S. protests: Family of Elijah McClain sues Tehran Times journalist defense minister’s visit, summons envoy city, police World Youth Day: By staff & agencies Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group over the The family of a 23-year-old Black man who died soul, and to ensure that Elijah did not die in vain can Iran meet Iraq has vehemently denounced Turkey’s recent past weeks. after a violent encounter with Aurora, Colorado, by sending a resounding message that racism and drone strike that killed two Iraqi border guards Meanwhile, Iraq has canceled an official police officers filed a civil rights lawsuit against brutality have no place in American law enforce- growing youth and a companion in the country’s semi-auton- visit by Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi the city and its police on Tuesday, alleging mur- ment,” McClain’s family wrote in the complaint. omous Kurdistan region. Akar and summoned Ankara’s ambassador to der and routine use of excessive force against A spokeswoman for Aurora said the city population’s needs? The office of Iraqi President Barham Saleh Baghdad following a drone strike that killed Black people. attorney’s office was reviewing the complaint issued a statement on Tuesday and condemned two high-ranking Iraqi commanders in the The man, Elijah McClain, was walking on but had no immediate comment. hile Iran faced a population the assault as “a dangerous violation of Iraqi semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. the street alone in August 2019 when he was McClain’s family maintains that he had growth rate of less than one sovereignty” and international rules. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Iraqi stopped by three officers based on a report that committed no crime and was stopped unlaw- percent for the first time, The statement also called on Ankara to “stop Foreign Ministry said Baghdad “categorically he was “being suspicious.” fully. Citing previous instances of Aurora police W all its military operations” in the region and rejects and strongly condemns the blatant Turkish According to the complaint, the officers held forcefully detaining Black people, they alleged raising concerns of losing the demo- graphic window of opportunity and asked for negotiations with the aim of solving drone attack in the Sidakan area of Erbil province him in two carotid holds around his neck, tackled that McClain’s case was part of a pattern of insisting on implementation of pop- border problems between the two countries in in the Iraqi Kurdish region, which resulted in him although he presented no physical threat, racist policing. ulation growth policies, the question a peaceful way. the deaths of two officers and a soldier from the and medics attending to him administered an The Colorado Attorney General’s Office is- raises that whether the country is ca- Earlier in the day, two high-ranking Iraqi heroic Iraqi armed forces.” overdose of the sedative ketamine which left sued a statement on Tuesday confirming that pable to meet the needs of its young officers and the driver of their vehicle were killed It added, “Iraq considers this act a violation him unconscious. it had launched a broad investigation of Aurora population growth? in the Sidakan district of Kurdish, in what the of the sovereignty and dignity of the country, and According to Reuters, McClain died days police department patterns and practices that Being a middle-income country, Iran is army said was a “blatant Turkish drone attack” a hostile act that violates international charters later in the hospital. might pose civil rights violations. The office is experiencing an increasingly large young in the semi-autonomous region, where Ankara and laws that regulate relations between world “Plaintiffs bring this action seeking both ac- conducting a separate inquiry into McClain’s population, as over 60 percent of the whole has been targeting the hideouts of the Kurdistan countries. 10 countability for the profound loss of a beautiful death, it said. 10 country’s 80 million population is under 30 years old. To maximize the potential for seizing the opportunity of demographic dividend, factors such as investment in Key Western states turn blind eye to rights violations by friends: ex-British MP Beat the summer heat in education, health, and job generation for By Mohammad Mazhari world’s poorest Arab country, for more than However, Gordon-Banks says, Western these cool destinations youth are recommended. TEHRAN – Matthew Gordon-Banks, a former five years. powers “hypocritically” criticize and even However, increasing the population British Conservative MP and senior research As civilian casualties increase in Yemen, impose sanctions on countries who “are not near Tehran pressure is mounting on some Western coun- close friends”. requires a capability to address the needs fellow at the UK Defense Academy, says certain By Afshin Majlesi of a young nation which can be fulfilled western countries try to “turn a blind eye” to tries like Britain and Canada, to stop arms “Key Western countries are willing to turn with various indicators, such as social and gross human rights violations by their friends sales to Saudi Arabia. a blind eye to the human rights failures of TEHRAN — For many people in Tehran, summer economic development, development of in the Persian Gulf region. Canada sold a record amount of military their allies but hypocritically criticize, even vacation may mean to beat the heat at the beach recreational and educational facilities, Over the past few years, as an oil-rich king- hardware to Saudi Arabia in 2019. Britain raise sanctions against others who are not particularly along the Caspian Sea, inside an air-con- increasing the share of young people in dom and world’s largest arms buyer, Saudi has also resumed arms sales to the kingdom close friends,” Gordon-Banks, who now runs ditioned museum or at a water park, or taking refuge managerial positions and among deci- Arabia has been pounding relentlessly the despite concerns about flagrant human rights International Institute for Strategic Affairs to a cool nearby countryside. For the latter, here are sion-makers, providing the conditions for Houthi Ansarullah movement in Yemen, the violations by Saudi Arabia in Yemen. IISA, tells the Tehran Times. 7 places around the Iranian capital where scorching the growth and prosperity of the youth. heat will be nothing more than an afterthought! Here, the question comes up that is the On the northeast side of the metropolis, you country able to develop the mentioned can find plenty of cool townships and villages such factors for the next 3 decades to experience as Oushan, Damavand, Fasham, Ahar, Meygoun, a young population growth? Mobile medical, Cheshmeh A’la, and Garmabdareh to name a few.