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.13746 Wednesday AUGUST 26, 2020 Shahrivar 6, 1399 Muharram 5, 1442 Iran interested in new Rouhani inaugurates 3 Reyhaneh Mobini Iranian photographers military co-op agreements major industrial, mining breaks Iran’s long jump win top prizes at Somoni with Russia 2 projects worth $641.6m 4 record after 45 years 11 exhibit in Tajikistan 12 Tehran says won’t succumb to illegal Medical centers opened in requests over its nuclear program TEHRAN – Iran’s nuclear chief Ali will never do so,” Salehi told a joint press Akbar Salehi, who held talks on Tues- conference with Grossi on Tuesday. day with IAEA Director General Rafael He said the Islamic Republic acts in Grossi, said Iran has not succumbed to accordance with its national sovereignty illegal requests and will never succumb and interests and meets its obligations to such requests. within the legal framework. memory of health martyrs “Iran, in the past few years that a made- Salehi said it was agreed during the up case was brought up against it in the meeting that the UN nuclear watchdog Agency, has not succumbed to requests do its duties professionally and inde- See page 9 outside of the legal frameworks, and it pendently. 3 Energy Ministry inaugurates 2,230 electricity supply projects in Government Week TEHRAN — In a virtual ceremony on and West Azarbaijan and Sistan- Bal- Tuesday, Iranian Energy Minister Reza uchestan provinces on the occasion of Ardakanian inaugurated 2,230 electricity the Government Week (August 23-29). supply projects with a total investment Speaking in the inauguration ceremo- of 31.6 trillion rials (over $752 million) ny which was held in Alborz Province, in various provinces across the country. Deputy Energy Minister Gholam-Ali Ra- As reported by IRNA, the mentioned khshani said with the implementation projects were inaugurated in Isfahan, of these projects, more than 350,000 Alborz, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Qom, new subscribers joined the country’s Qazvin, Tehran, Ilam, Kordestan, East national grid. 4 Ali Radmand tops at Iran’s We Defeat Coronavirus Intl. Cartoon Contest TEHRAN – Iran’s We Defeat Coronavirus worth €500 was given to Stefaan Provijn International Cartoon Contest honored from Belgium. Iranian artists Ali Radmand with its The winners were selected out of 47 first prize worth €1500, the organizers finalists, 15 of whom were Iranians. announced on Tuesday. In addition, seven more participants The contest, which was organized by were awarded with honorable mentions. Iran’s Art Bureau in collaboration with the Taravat Niki, Soheil Mohammadi, Health Ministry, announced the winners Mahmud Azadnia, Sajjad Rafei, Mans- on Tuesday with a message released by ureh Dehqani, Alireza Pakdel and Mahnaz the Health Minister Saeid Namaki. Yazdani were the seven honorees. File photo Second prize worth €1000 went to The people’s choice award was given Cau Gomez from Brazil, and third prize to Majid Amini. 12 By Mahnaz Abdi Ashura is integral part of U.S. protests: Wisconsin deploys National Tehran Times journalist Iranian identity Guard amid protests Factors contributing TEHRAN — Muharram’s mourning ceremo- companions in the plain of Karbala. The Shah Police fired tear gas at protesters in Kenosha, protesters, who gave her name only as Awal, to recent falling nies highlight the deep relationship between the was widely seen as ‘Yazid of the time’ afterward, Wisconsin who defied a curfew on Monday to said with tears in her eyes. Iranian identity and the martyrdom of Imam which severely undermined the legitimacy of his protest the police shooting of an African-Amer- Unidentified officers dressed in all-black trend in stock Hussein (AS). government and ultimately led to its overthrow. ican man. were also present at the scene. “The situation Imam Hussein (AS) was martyred in the Imam Hussein’s slogan “never to humiliation” The demonstrators shouted at the police is not very peaceful,” said DW correspondent market Battle of Karbala on October 10, 680 (Muharram became the motto of the revolution. with some of the participants throwing bot- Stefan Simons. “It is fair to assume that these 10, 61 AH), nearly 14 centuries ago. However, Imam Khomeini said in the speech, “Today tles and other objects at the security forces. were federal law enforcement officers.” ranian capital market, which his martyrdom has never been forgotten or is the evening of Ashura… sometimes when I A woman walked by blowing smoke in the “The situation here looks and feels like a low- had been unprecedentedly ex- marginalized in Iranians’ daily life, rather it ponder on the Ashura day’s events, I wonder officers’ faces. scale Minneapolis from three months ago,” he Iperiencing growth over the re- lived on through centuries and played a ma- why the Umayyads and the government of During the rally, which marked the second added. “They set numerous fires … everything cent months, has been witnessing jor role in mobilizing the oppressed people Yazid ibn Mu’awiya brutally and inhumanely night of marchers facing off against security was in flames. It’s expected to be a long night a falling trend over the past two against corrupt rulers who trampled on the treated the defenseless women and innocent forces, the protesters chanted “No justice, no here for Kenosha.” weeks. people’s rights. children on the day of Ashura if they were at peace,” and “Say his name – Jacob Blake” — Seven gunshots The market, which had managed to This was on full display in the Islamic revo- war with Hussein alone? In my opinion, they echoing past demonstrations ignited by similar In a video circulating on social media, absorb some high amount of liquidity in lution of Iran, which led to the downfall of Mo- were opposed to them totally. The Umayyads incidents. 29-year-old Jacob Blake is seen walking to- the current Iranian calendar year (began hammad Reza shah in 1979. In a speech delivered and the government of Yazid were opposed to Protesters also marched in New York City ward the driver’s side of a gray SUV followed on March 20), has passed several consec- in June 1963, Imam Khomeini, the then-leader the household of the Prophet. They did not like against Blake’s shooting on Monday. by two officers with their guns drawn. As he utive days of losses recently. of the revolution, compared the Shah to Yazid, Bani Hashim, and their goal was to destroy this “I’m angry and I’m upset and I’m tired. I’m enters the vehicle, one officer pulls Blake’s TEDPIX, the main index of Tehran the Umayyad caliph who was responsible for blessed tree. This question also applies to the really tired. I’m tired of marching 27 miles up shirt and appears to shoot. Seven gunshot Stock Exchange (TSE), which is Iran’s the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS) and his current situation. 3 and down the city for this,” one of the New York sounds can be heard. 10 major stock exchange, fell 89,693 points to 1.813 million on August 16, which was a record of daily drop for the index in the history of the country’s stock UAE snubs three-way meeting with U.S., Israel over F-35 spat Skocic’s future market. By staff & agencies said Hanegbi, head of the newly created Set- Nusseibeh, Gilad Ardan, and Kelly Kraft as a means remains unclear in It should be mentioned that gaining Likud Minister Tzachi Hanegbi on Tuesday said Is- tlement Affairs Ministry and a longtime ally of of celebrating the August 13 deal that enabled “full 45,672 points on August 2, the index had rael opposed the sale of “even one screw” of the F-35 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. normalization” of relations between the United Iran football stood at 2.007 million, notching up another fighter jet to any country in the West Asia, including Meanwhile, the Emirati envoy to the UN has Arab Emirates (UAE) and the occupying regime. By Masoud Hossein outstanding record in the current year. the United Arab Emirates, amid apparent plans by the reportedly snubbed a meeting with his Israeli Israel’s Walla news site, however, reported on It had hit the record high of 1.5 million United States to sell the plane to Abu Dhabi. and American counterparts after Tel Aviv spoke Monday that the Emirati official had opted out of the TEHRAN – Iran football faces multiple problems points on June 30, and then it climbed “We oppose the sale of even one screw of one out against Abu Dhabi’s potential acquisition of meeting a week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin because of mismanagement over the past years. half a million points in just one month to plane of the stealth fighters to any country in the American F-35 warplanes despite a normalization Netanyahu’s office said he had opposed the sale of The football federation is headed by acting pres- hit the record high of two million. West Asia, if we have peace with them or not. deal between the two sides. F-35s and other advanced weapons to any country in ident Heydar Baharvand since the draft statutes While this market has not received any That’s our position, and it has been presented in The meeting had been scheduled for Friday at the Middle East, including Arab countries that have of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic external shocks such as those form the the past and has been clarified in recent weeks,” the UN headquarters in New York among Lana peace agreements with Israel.