Iran Puts a 21% Rise in Annual Foreign Trade on Agenda Loss of Gen. Hejazi Is Really a Sorrowful Tragedy, Says Leader

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.13923 Tuesday APRIL 20, 2021 Farvardin 31, 1400 Ramadan 7, 1442 Iran says it always Hassan Yazdani just Pakistan: TLP protesters Seven metropolises welcomes dialogue with wants gold at Tokyo free abducted policemen to become Saudi Arabia Page 3 Olympics Page 3 after violence Page 5 age-friendly Page 7 Loss of Gen. Hejazi is really a sorrowful tragedy, says Leader TEHRAN— In a message on Monday Aya- and full of motivation and determination.” tollah Ali Khamenei offered his condolences Other senior Iranian officials including on the death of Brigadier General Seyyed President Hassan Rouhani; Parliament Netanyahu is in Mohammad Hejazi, Deputy Commander Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf; of the IRGC Quds Force. Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General “With great regret, I received the news Mohammad Bagheri: IRGC Commander of the passing of the honorable Gener- Major General Hossein Salami; Vice-Pres- al Seyed Mohammad Hejazi. May God ident Es’hagh Jahangiri: Judiciary Chief bless him and grant him peace,” Ayatollah Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi: and De- Khamenei remarked. fense Minister Brigadier General Amir See page 3 The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Hatami sent messages of condolences described General Hejazi as a person with over the death of the general. sheer despair “dynamic thought, a heart full of true faith Continued on page 2 Iran puts a 21% rise in annual foreign trade on agenda TEHRAN – Head of Iran’s Trade Promotion country’s foreign trade, one is the case in Organization (TPO) said the country has which Iran will reach an agreement with put a 21-percent rise in foreign trade on the the world powers on the nuclear deal and agenda for the current Iranian calendar year the U.S. sanctions are lifted and the other 1400 (started on March 21), IRNA reported. one is the remaining of the U.S. sanctions. Speaking in a press conference on “In the worst-case scenario we will Monday, Hamid Zadboum said two continue the plans implemented in the scenarios have been considered for the previous year,” Zadboum said, adding: current calendar year with regard to the Continued on page 4 Iran jointly producing COVID-19 vaccines with three countries TEHRAN – Iran is currently producing sian-Iranian Gamaleya vaccine, he explained. COVID-19 vaccines jointly with three The third joint vaccine will be produced in countries of Cuba, Russia, and Austral- Iran in cooperation with Australia, Qanei added, ia, Mostafa Qanei, secretary of the bio- ISNA reported. The COVIRAN BAREKAT technology development office of the Vice vaccine will be available sooner than other Presidency for Science and Technology, domestic vaccines, and the Soberana-02 will said on Monday. also be mass-produced sooner than other AP One of the vaccines is the Cuban-Iranian jointly-developed vaccines, he noted. Soberana-02 vaccine, and the other is the Rus- Continued on page 7 U.S. and UK are Iran tourism minister hopes for a ‘sincere 4 officers injured as protesters in Sacramento accomplices in the return’ to cherish global heritage speak out against police brutality attack on Natanz TEHRAN – Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and lands in the world. Cultural heritage is one of Four officers were injured as protesters again police spokesman told reporters. “We responded Handicrafts Minister Ali-Asghar Mounesan is- the assets. Its importance in recent years has gathered in downtown Sacramento speaking this evening to a traffic congestion and during nuclear facility: sued a message on the occasion of International received more public attention, experts and of- out against the killing of Daunte Wright and that congestion, numerous shots were fired,” Day for Monuments and Sites, hoping for an ficials on local, national and global scales and others by police. the spokesman said. senior MP “imminent end to the coronavirus [crisis] and is a treasure trove of experiences, techniques, The officers were reportedly hospitalized after One victim was shot in the head, while another a sincere return of human to cherish the global knowledge, and art of the past for the use of being sprayed with an unknown liquid irritant, suffered multiple gunshot wounds, according BY SAEID MAWADDAT heritage”. present and future generations.” police said. No arrests were made. to local news outlet Love Shreveport-Bossier. he head of the Parliament The message highlights cultural assets of Mounesan, also referred to a significant Five people shot in Louisiana incident; Sunday’s incidents came with the United States Energy Committee believes the country and its importance for the world, responsibility for all human beings regarding 3rd U.S. multiple shooting in one day already on edge over a surge in shootings in recent Tthat the U.S. and UK are ac- saying: “April 18, which is known as the In- the preservation of cultural heritage for next Meanwhile, five people were hospitalized after weeks. A gunman killed eight workers and himself complices in the nuclear sabotage ternational Day for Monuments and Sites, is generations: “Today, cultural heritage is also being shot and injured in Shreveport, Louisiana, at an Indianapolis FedEx center on Thursday night, at the Natanz site because their a great opportunity to pay more attention to important from the perspective that we, as cur- CBS-affiliated television station KSLA report- with at least seven deadly mass shootings reported intelligence services helped the Is- the issue of cultural heritage in general and the rent protectors, have a responsibility to pass it ed late on Sunday, the third multiple shooting in the United States over the past month. raeli regime to conduct such act. programs and policies related to this occasion on to future generations, so we must strive to reported in the United States with 24 hours. 7-Year-Old Girl Shot and Killed “I blame the United States and the United in particular. preserve world history for future generations so In a briefing to local news outlets, police In another event, a 7-year-old girl was fatally Kingdom because most of the intelligence Fortunately, we live in a land that is one that everyone can know about their background said they were in the first stages of investigating shot Sunday afternoon and a second person gathering is done by the American and British of the richest countries in the world in terms and values. Undoubtedly, in this context, what the incident, without confirming the number of sustained gunshot injuries while sitting inside intelligence services, despite the fact that the of manifestations of culture and civilization, is known as historical monuments need to be people admitted to hospital nor their condition. a vehicle at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Chica- operation was done by the Zionist regime,” including arts, traditions, and rituals, and in preserved in the first place.” Police officers were responding to traffic go’s Homan Square neighborhood, police said. Fereydoun Abbasi Davani, a professor of this respect, Iran is one of the most exceptional Continued on page 6 congestion reports when shots were heard, a Continued on page 5 nuclear physics at Shahid Beheshti Univer- sity, tells the Tehran Times. Abbasi who survived an assassination attempt by Mossad agents in northern Rocket attack targets Iraqi air base housing occupying U.S. forces Iran and Turkey Tehran in November 29, 2010, says, “The At least five rockets have targeted an Iraqi air were wounded, an unnamed source told AFP. out after U.S. President Joe Biden, in February, reject band-wagoning data at our disposal and the actions of these base hosting the occupying U.S. soldiers and Another report by Reuters quoted officials ordered airstrikes on positions of anti-terror countries, including the assassinations they warplanes following a string of similar attacks as saying that Katyusha rockets were used in Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) along the strategies: researcher have carried out against Iranian scientific on the base during past months. the attack. Iraqi-Syrian border, where they were fighting figures and their past industrial sabotage, According to the latest reports, during the No group has immediately claimed respon- remnants of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group. BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI confirm that they are behind the sabotage Sunday attack, at least two projectiles hit the sibility for the latest attack on the base, which is The Iraqi counter-terrorism forces pledged TEHRAN – A Turkish academic says that Western operation in Natanz.” facilities of an American firm inside al-Balad air located 85 kilometers north of the capital Baghdad, retaliation, prompting the U.S. military forces powers consider Iran and Turkey as problematic Sabotage in the Natanz nuclear site occurred base, which provides maintenance to planes, a and houses, among other things, F-16 fighter jets to go on high alert and adopt maximum security because of “their avoidance in band-wagoning on April 11 at night time. Israeli media claimed security source was quoted by AFP as saying. in addition to several maintenance companies measures in anticipation of a response. strategies.” that Mossad has conducted the attack. Three more rockets fell outside the premises employing Iraqi and foreign staff. According to Press TV, the last attack on Balad “Turkish procurement of S-400 tactical missile An official at the Iranian Intelligence of the base. The Sunday’s assault was the latest in a string air base was on April 4 when at least two rockets defense system and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear power Ministry has said the saboteur has been Two foreign contractors and three Iraqi soldiers of attacks against U.S.

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