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Iranian, Syrian FMs discuss Tehran strongly protests Belgian court presidential election in Syria POLITICAL TEHRAN— In a telephone conversation on verdict against Iranian diplomat deskWednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mo- hammad Javad Zarif and his Syrian counterpart Faisal Miqdad discussed issues of mutual interest as well as regional and in- POLITICAL TEHRAN — After the Belgian Court of of the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran (a desk ternational issues. Antwerp sentenced Asadollah Asadi, an Mojahedin-e-Khalgh organization branch) in Villepinte, Iranian diplomat to 20 years of jail, the Iranian Embassy north of Paris. in Belgium released a statement condemning the sentence On February 4, 2021, Asadi was sentenced to 20 years in and questioned the authority of the Belgian court. prison for “attempted murder and involvement in terrorism.” The statement released by the Iranian Embassy reads Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign as follows: Ministry, had condemned the verdict, stating that “the Islam- “In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Most Merciful ic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the announcement The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Brussels of the Belgian Court of Antwerp to issue a 20-year prison refers to its previous Press Release dated 4 February 2021 sentence for Asadi” on the verdict of the Court of Antwerp in the case of the Ira- He had said that Belgium and some European countries nian diplomat, and seizes the occasion to state the following are heavily influenced by the MEK. regarding the current developments: He had noted that as Iran has stated several times, all As stated in the previous Press Release, the Islamic Republic stages of Asadi’s detention, the judicial process, the issuance of Iran has strongly protested the violation of the Vienna of the recent sentence are illegal and in flagrant violation In the telephone conversation, Zarif, while announcing Iran’s Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) by Germany of international law, particularly the provisions of the 1961 support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Syrian and Belgium, and deems the actions on the part of the said Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. government, stressed the need to respect the country’s consti- governments to be a stark contravention of customary in- 1961 Convention. The international community considers the MEK a ter- tution and the legitimacy of the Syrian presidential election. ternational law and established diplomatic practices. In line with the above notes, the Islamic Republic of Iran rorist group. Its members jointed Iraq’s Saddam Hussein Syria will hold a presidential election on May 26. The verdict of the Court of Antwerp of 4 February 2021 reserves the right to resort to all legal mechanisms, including in the war against Iran in the 1980. Miqdad presented a report on the internal situation in Syria, indicated that the Belgian judicial system does not heed the the Vienna Convention’s optional protocol concerning the For decades, the infamous group has carried out various preparations for the presidential elections and the country’s re- binding nature of commitments under the Vienna Conven- compulsory settlement of disputes.” attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials. lations with its neighbors, and invited Zarif to visit Syria. tion. The Islamic Republic of Iran has officially rejected the Asadollah Asadi is an Iranian diplomat, who was arrested Following concerted lobbying by groups affiliated with Regional issues, including the developments in Iraq and Belgian court’s competence in two Note Verbales to Belgium while returning to his residence in Austria on a highway in the Saudi Arabia and other regimes hostile to Iran, the U.S. State Palestine, as well as the comprehensive fight against terrorism and Germany on the grounds of the court’s violation of the German state of Bavaria on June 10, 2018. He was accused Department removed the MEK from its list of designated and the condemnation of the Zionist regime’s attacks on Syria, immunity of Mr. Asadi’s person as a diplomat under the of being involved in an attempted bombing at a gathering terrorist organizations in 2012 Palestine and Lebanon, were among the other topics of dialogue between the two chief diplomat. Referring to the International Day of Al-Quds, the two sides also reaffirmed their full support for the Palestinian people. Sanctions are broken, says president International Quds Day falls on May 7, the last Friday of the POLITICAL TEHRAN— Speaking Security Council] Resolution 2231, I believe Trump ascended to the presidency. holy month of Ramadan. deskto his cabinet on things will be resolved soon.” Rouhani was referring to President Wednesday, Iranian president Hassan The president affirmed that the talks Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA in Guardian Council mulling Rouhani said that the sanctions are broken are proceeding in the right framework and May 2018, when, under heavy lobbying and soon to be lifted. direction. from Israel and Saudi Arabia, he pursued new criteria for presidential He also stated that the people are He clarified that nearly a year before an aggressive policy of sanctions and threats witnessing the result of their resistance the historic Joint Comprehensive Plan of against the Islamic Republic. candidates in Vienna. Action (JCPOA) was signed in 2015, Iran “The Zionists worked hard to get Trump “As the head of the executive branch, and six world powers were on the verge of elected, and they knew [Trump] was an POLITICAL TEHRAN — In an attempt to separate out large desk I declare in front of the people that the reaching a nuclear deal, but Israel and some incompetent person who could be easily numbers of people who nominate with very sanctions have been broken, and if we stand reactionary countries in the region advised duped,” he said. “They turned him into “The Zionists are the enemies of the basic or no credentials, Iran’s Guardian Council has revised the together, the sanctions will be lifted soon,” the U.S. to hold off for a few months. a mercenary and abandoned the JCPOA, country, stability, the Palestinian people criteria for individuals intending to run as presidential candidates. Rouhani said, stressing that the other side According to Rouhani, they told the U.S. assuming the deal was done for good.” and of their neighbors, and they are the Hadi Tahan Nazif, a legal jurist on the Guardian Council, said has no choice but to return to all of its JCPOA that “we would reduce oil prices so that Iran ‘Quds Day will be Zionists’ mourning executioners and tyrants of [modern] history, that during a Wednesday meeting, all members of the vetting body commitments. is forced to agree to whatever you say.” day’ who have displaced millions of people,” reached a consensus on addressing the disorder that emerges in He also praised Seyed Abbas Araghchi And that is how they were able to delay Elsewhere in his remarks, President President Rouhani said. the registration of presidential candidates each four years and and his negotiating team, saying, “What our the signing of a deal, he remembered. Rouhani called this year’s International He said Quds Day, named by the late defining relevant criteria. negotiators accomplished in Vienna in terms He said that they continued to plot against Quds Day, which falls on May 7, will be a founder of the Islamic Republic’s founder, He cited the fact that every of sanctions was a major accomplishment, Iran even after the JCPOA was signed, and “mourning day for the Zionists.” Imam Khomeini, to champion the Palestinian four years, a significant number and if the other side completely returns to that one of their plots was successful during Quds Day falls on the last Friday of the cause, is a source of pride for the Islamic of individuals show up at elec- the rule of law, its obligations, and [UN the 2016 U.S. election, which saw Donald holy month of Ramadam. Republic of Iran and a legacy of the late Imam. tion headquarters, declare their candidacy, and simply register by holding photographs and a copy of their identification cards. Vienna arena for U.S. to change behavior, says Iranian diplomat Tahan Nazif stated that POLITICAL TEHRAN — The Former Iranian Foreign years, one of which is politics in Yemen. the Council agreed to amend deskMinistry spokesman and a presidential ‘Iran needs to strengthen itself internally’ an earlier interpretation of candidate, Ramin Mehmanparast, spoke with the Lebanese Responding to a question about the effect of sanctions the Constitution to clearly Al Mayadeen News Network on Tuesday stating that the on Iran’s economy, Mehmanparast said that sanctions are identify and announce the United States administration must change its behavior if ultimately putting pressure on the Iranian economy, but requirements used to assess they want to reduce animosity with Iran. perhaps 20 to 30 percent of failures at home is due to sanc- a political and “religious ra- Mehmanparast said that the U.S. policies are aimed at tions pressure. jol” who is resourceful and has putting pressure on Iran, and perhaps the main desire of the “I believe that along with the ways we are pursuing to managerial skills. United States is that there should never be a powerful country lift the sanctions, including the JCPOA negotiations, which The Iranian Constitution states that the country’s president like Iran in the region and in the international arena, and must be followed in the same framework in which we believe, must be a political and religious rajol, a term borrowed from it is the Americans who never provided any circumstances the JCPOA must bring us to the point where our economic Arabic that literally translates as “man.” Some constitutional to make good relations with Iran. situation becomes normal,” the former spokesman said. scholars argue that the term should not be interpreted literally, Pointing to the Vienna talks, he said that these negotia- diplomacy with neighbors, saying that there is a market of He urged called on the United States to lift sanctions on and that a woman of high political standing and/or history tions are a test for the United States. five hundred million people around Iran and the Islamic Iran and let everyone see in practice that Iran has no prob- should not be considered a “political rajol” and therefore be “The Vienna talks are a test to see if the U.S. wants to Republic must pay attention to these markets and meet lems in economic relations, selling oil as well as financial entitled to run for president if she meets the other criteria as well. change. If Biden and his government really want to go back their needs to help domestic production. and banking transactions. Other precise information, according to Tahan Nazif, were to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), if they ‘Iran seeks best relations with neighbors, par- Noting the importance of strengthening the country also decided upon. really want to lift the sanctions, if they want to show that ticularly Saudi Arabia’ internally, the diplomat stated, “But if we do not reform “After much deliberation,” he said, “it was determined that they are taking steps to reduce the enmity with the Iranian Regarding relations with Saudi Arabia, Mehmanparast these internal structures, it means that even if the JCPOA is presidential candidates be expected to have minimum quali- people, the JCPOA is an arena for us to see and test them told Al Mayadeen that Iran has always sought the best re- implemented well and sanctions are not in place, the econ- fications in terms of educational degree, job and managerial and check whether they are as they claim to be or not,” the lations with its neighbors and that “we give a particular omy will still be in trouble and will reach a dead end. That experience, and minimum and maximum ages.” former Iranian ambassador to Poland said. importance to Saudi Arabia.” means we have to do two things together.” ‘Top military brass can field candidacy’ He noted that Iran does not look pessimistically nor op- He noted that Iran believes that the powerful countries He said Iran needs an important economic surgery, and The qualifications were announced as follows: all candidates timistically toward the nuclear deal talks, but Iran merely of the region should stand together and work together to management must play a professional role in structural must be between the ages of 40 and 70, hold a master’s degree analyzes the United States’ behavior. ensure the stability, security and development of the region. changes, adding the private sector must be actively involved or its equivalent, have at least four years of work experience He elaborated by saying, “Now they claim that they want “We consider the security of our neighbors as our own in economy, and the government must support production in management positions (with relevant criteria), and have to lift the sanctions, and we are looking to see if they actu- security, because if there is insecurity, this insecurity will and help facilitate exports. no criminal record. ally lift the sanctions in practice, and we see that they do return to our country. Unfortunately, over the years, there For the second part, he said that the Islamic Republic Notably, top military officers with the rank of general or higher not create obstacles on the way. But if they act badly and have been issues where we feel that the policy of the Saudi must reduce external pressures and try to lift sanctions as are permitted to run as well. create obstacles in the nuclear deal, surely the judgment of government is not in the direction of pursuing a good and soon as possible. The combination of these two can give Iran The Iranian presidential elections will be held on June 18. our people is that it is not possible to cooperate with this ideal relationship with Iran,” the former diplomat remarked. a speedy progress and bring the country to the desired point. United States who seeks to create obstacles and puts more He said that Iran welcomes Saudi Arabia’s cooperation, ‘The Islamic Republic should strengthen bilat- pressure on our people.” if they want to cooperate. eral ties’ IAEA inspectors to travel to ‘Iran needs to make relations with Eastern coun- “Even now, if the circumstances have been created in As a former ambassador, Mehmanparast said that he tries’ Saudi Arabia and they really want to cooperate well, we will believes that Iran should try to have relations with countries Iran: WSJ Responding to a question about the Islamic Republic’s definitely welcome it.” in the world. relations with Eastern countries, Mehmanparast said there The diplomat stated that the reason for the Saudi’s change “One of the issues in foreign policy is the issue of the POLITICAL TEHRAN — In a tweet on Wednesday, Lau- desk is a wrong ideology among some political pundits that if of policy can consist of various factors, one of which could JCPOA, the issue of resolving our problems with Western rence Norman, the Wall Street Journal’s reporter Iran reaches an agreement with Western countries, it will be a change of government in the United States. countries, and the issue of lifting sanctions. But at the in Brussels, claimed that a team of the International Atomic no longer need Eastern countries like China, Russia, India, Elaborating on that, he pointed to the behavioral differ- same time, we should develop bilateral relations in a much Energy Agency will visit Iran in the coming days. Korea, or Japan. ences between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, saying, “The stronger way, we should have the best relations with our “In foreign policy, we seek to maximize national interests fact that they feel that someone like Trump, who was an neighbors and other different countries of the world based by having the best relations with countries, one part will be extremist and sought “maximum pressure” on Iran and the on national interests. We must play a serious role in mul- the lifting of sanctions and the other part will be extensive countries of the region as sources of income is gone. Biden tilateral cooperation; we must try to create conditions for relations with neighbors, which will certainly have its own has come and wants to change the politics of his region.” the benefit of the country in multilateral treaties. A major priority. We are neighbors with 15 countries through land The former ambassador noted that another reason for weakness of the foreign policy apparatus in the current and water borders,” former spokesman said. this change of tone could be the result of the behaviors and era is the weakness of economic diplomacy,” the former He highlighted the importance of establishing economic policies that Saudi Arabia has pursued over the past few diplomat remarked.

Report: Zarif to travel to UAE POLITICAL TEHRAN — The Do- between the two countries to resume and time when there are signs of efforts by Iran and deskha-based Al-Arabi Al- strengthen relations and reduce tensions in Saudi Arabia to reduce tensions in the region. “I understand a senior team from @iaeaorg will be back in Jadeed news website quoted Iranian sources the region have begun long ago and the UAE Some countries, such as Saudi Arabia and the Tehran in next few days to follow up on safeguards probe of as saying that Iranian Foreign Minister Mo- is set to send its ambassador to Tehran in the United Arab Emirates, have repeatedly stressed nuclear material. Lots of questions given to Iran about material, hammad Javad Zarif will soon travel to the next step. the need to participate in negotiations to return where it came from, where it is now etc. Low expectations of clear United Arab Emirates. The UAE cut ties with Iran five years ago, to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, but now, de- #Iran answers,” Norman tweeted. The sources stressed that the trip is almost when the Iran-Saudi dispute nosedived as pro- spite progress in the nuclear talks in Vienna, This would be the first public visit by the IAEA since Iran certain and is on the agenda of the Iranian testers stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran such an issue is not raised by these countries. announced plan to enrich uranium to 60%. foreign minister and will most likely take place over the execution of Shia cleric. The storming Last week, the Iranian foreign minister The visit comes amid negotiations in Vienna to revive the late next week. drew strong response from officials in Tehran. visited four countries in the region including Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA). According to these sources, negotiations These developments are taking place at a Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y MAY 6, 2021 IRAN IN FOCUS 3 SPORTS Saudi Arabia sets the stage Football federation headquarters handed over to an Iranian company for tactical outreach to Iran 1 The FFIRI initially denied the sequestration of its main estate in the northern region of Tehran at that time. POLITICAL TEHRAN – In a dramatic presented a list of offers and temptations, However, on Tuesday, Iranian media reported that the owner- deskturnabout, Saudi Arabia’s according to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar. ship documents of the FFIR’s building and half of the Persepolis de facto ruler has called for better ties with Citing sources familiar with the matter, club’s building have legally been transferred to the name of the Iran but is this renewed interest in mending the newspaper said that at the talks the SSIC company. ties between Tehran and Riyadh genuine or Saudis basically demanded an end to the The federation’s newly-elected directors have confirmed the a tactical shift necessitated by developments missiles and drones launched by Ansarallah issue on Wednesday. They criticized SSIC officials for seizing the in the international arena? against Saudi targets, further reinforcing FFIR’s assets for a debt that the former officials of the federation Iranian analysts and news media outlets the belief that the talks were a necessity originally arouse. have attempted to provide answers to this for bin Salman. Ebrahim Shakouri, executive director of Persepolis, also ob- question over the past few weeks after a The Saudis also voiced readiness to ac- jected to the issue in a press conference. wave of speculations began in the wake of cept a larger role by Ansarallah in Yemen. “We have serious questions to ask from the FFIRI and Shasta the emergence of several press reports in Furthermore, the Saudi delegation assured in this regard. But what is certain is that we defend the rights Western media suggesting that officials from the Iranians that Riyadh does not want to of the Persepolis club and their millions of fans. The building Iran and Saudi Arabia held a direct meeting normalize its relations with Israel, and is legally belongs to Persepolis club, and we have not yet received in Baghdad for the first time in years. willing to open a new chapter in relations any letter or order regarding the change of ownership of the At the official level, the Baghdad talks with Tehran, according to Al-Akhbar. club’s building,” Shakouri said. were neither repudiated nor confirmed by The Lebanese newspaper also said that “The debt of the football federation to Shasta Company has Iran and Saudi Arabia, though some Irani- the Saudi delegation let its Iranian team nothing to do with Persepolis club, and we should not suffer any an officials hinted that the reports of talks know that the Americans seek to reign in loss in this matter,” he added. were true. MBS even as they believe that he will rule While the controversy over the Baghdad Saudi Arabia for a long time. talks was still going on, Saudi Crown Prince of Iran has been a pioneer in the path of amity In addition, the Biden administration’s Therefore, bin Salman seems to have Mohammad bin Salman further inflamed and regional cooperation, and welcomes stated policy of returning to the 2015 Iran found out that he has no other option but Hadadi likely to miss the debate by offering an olive branch to Iran the change in Saudi Arabia’s tone,” Saeed nuclear deal has put Riyadh in a bind as to reach an understanding with Tehran in after more than five years of tough rhetoric Khatibzadeh, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign the Saudis had thrown their weight behind light of his conviction that Tehran alone Olympics due to back injury against the country. Ministry, said in a statement. Trump’s campaign to kill the nuclear deal. has the keys to get him out of his problems. SPORTSTEHRAN – Iranian discus thrower Ehsan “At the end of the day, Iran is a neighbor- In order to cope with these challenges, bin Bin Salman is busy setting the stage for However, there are some concerns in Iran deskhadada will likely miss the 2020 Olympic ing country. All we ask for is to have a good Salman embarked on a new policy of toning this tactical shift. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign that this change is only another effort by bin Games due to the spinal injury. and distinguished relationship with Iran. down tough rhetoric against a number of Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan has paid Salman to use tactical de-escalation with The athlete currently hold camp in the U.S. to prepare for the We do not want the situation with Iran to neighbors; he started off with Qatar and then a visit to Qatar and Oman shortly after his Iran to weather the storm at least for now. prestigious event but has suffered a spinal injury and will likely be difficult. On the contrary, we want it to Iran and ultimately his new approach even Iranian counterpart visited the two Arab Saudi Arabia is increasingly coming under not be ready for the Games. prosper and grow as we have Saudi interests included a scarcely veiled rapprochement states. Moreover, Saudi King Salman bin pressure from political circles in Washington Iran Athletic Federation doctor Ashkan Ordibehesht has in Iran, and they have Iranian interests in with Yemen’s Ansarallah, the very same Abdulaziz Al Saud invited Oman’s Sultan since Joe Biden took office this past January. confirmed the news. Saudi Arabia, which is to drive prosperity group he has been fighting since 2015. Haitham bin Tariq to visit Saudi Arabia. The pressure was particularly tangible in According to him, MRI has shown Hadadi’s disc degeneration. and growth in the region and the entire The new Saudi openness to dialogue with The Saudis seek to create a unified front Yemen where the Saudi crown prince, also Hadadi, a six-times Asian Championship winner and Asian world,” the Saudi crown prince said in a Iran is in part grounded in the belief that among Arab states on dialogue with Iran, known as MBS, has been entangled in an discus record holder, is among the favorites to win gold at this recent televised interview. resolving some of Saudi Arabia’s problems according to The Arab Weekly. endless war to eradicate what he calls Iran’s year’s Tokyo Games. He also hoped that his country would be is contingent on better ties with Iran, not a Citing observers, the publication said influence there. The Biden administration When Hadadi won his Olympic silver medal, it was the first able to overcome some challenges affecting genuine reconsideration that co-existence formulating a unified Persian Gulf position has ended offensive military support for time an Iranian had stood on the podium at the Games in any Iranian-Saudi relations and “build a good between Iran and Saudi Arabia is the only on the dialogue with Iran may be the imme- Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war, although sport other than wrestling, weightlifting or taekwondo. and positive relationship” with Iran. the White House at the same time sought viable solution serving the interests of both diate and pressing objective of Saudi Arabia, Iran welcomed the Saudi change of tone to help the Saudis to find a face-saving exit countries. with the aim of creating a momentum for the without any hesitation. “The Islamic Republic from the Yemen quagmire. During the Baghdad talks, the Saudi side improvement of the dialogue’s conditions. Azmoun, Taremi shortlisted for AFC International Player U.S. refusing to lift all sanctions on Iran: report of the Week

POLITICAL TEHRAN – The United States still Obama — should be removed and all the JCPOA articles the latest developments related to the discussions of the SPORTSTEHRAN – Iranian forwards SardarAzmoun deskrefusing to lift all the sanctions it has should be precisely implemented. three expert groups. deskand Mehdi Taremi have stolen the show for imposed on Iran and this refusal may bring Vienna’s The so-called Countering America’s Adversaries Through “It was decided that after this meeting, the delegations their clubs in the current week. nuclear talks to a halt, according to Iran’s state TV. Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) would return to the capitals and that the talks would The Asia’s superstars showed the rest of the world precisely The news came amid ongoing nuclear talks between as well as visa and U-turn regulations are all in violation resume next Friday,” the statement continued. “The par- what they are capable of. Iran and the P4+1 group of countries in the Austrian of Article 29 of the deal, the source said. ties agree that in the next round of talks, work should The-afc.com has introduced the nominees based on their capital of Vienna over how to revive the 2015 Iran nu- The source said the U.S. must lift all the obstacles continue more quickly and seriously.” performances from April 29 to May 4. clear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive in the way of normalizing Iran’s trade ties with world Last week, negotiators at Vienna talks announced the Sardar Azmoun (Zenit, Iran) Plan of Action (JCPOA). During the Vienna talks, Iran countries in accordance with Article 29 of the JCPOA. establishment of another expert group in addition to the 73 minutes, 3 goals, 10 duels won (6-1 v Lokomotiv Moscow) has called on the U.S. to lift all the sanctions it has According to Press TV, the United States has not so far existing ones. So far, the Vienna talks have resulted in How to win a league title in style. A hat-trick and Player of imposed on Iran after signing the JCPOA. However, accepted to make the reforms needed to reduce the risks the establishment of three expert-level working groups, the Match honors against the second-best team in the league left Press TV said that the U.S. is not considering removing posed to economic and banking cooperation with Iran. one to identify the sanctions that the U.S. should remove Russian football fans in no doubt as to who the star man at Zenit is. all the sanctions. Iran believes that the U.S. refusal to remove the sanc- in order to return to the JCPOA, and another to specify The Iranian striker is now a three-time Russian Premier League Citing an informed source on Tuesday, Press TV even tions re-imposed under new labels on Iranian individuals the nuclear activities that Iran should reverse. The third winner and, with 19 goals in 23 matches this campaign, looks said that the United States’ continued refusal to terminate and institutions on the U.S. Specially Designated Na- group was set up recently and is called “Expert Group on set to retain the golden boot title he shared with Artem Dzyuba all the sanctions it has imposed on Iran will definitely tionals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List is tantamount Practical Arrangements,” which is formed with the aim last season. bring the Vienna negotiations on the revival of the 2015 to circumventing the removal of the sanctions by the of holding talks on the practical arrangements required Mehdi Taremi (FC Porto, Iran) nuclear deal to a halt. U.S., which will be rejected by Tehran, the source said. for the removal of sanctions and then the U.S. return to 84 minutes, 1 goal, 1 assist, 3 shot assists (3-2 v Famalicão) The source said Iran is still emphasizing the full im- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh the JCPOA. Last week’s AFC International Player of the Week winner plementation of the deal’s Article 29 and the termination has responded to the Press TV report, saying the Vienna Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, with 47.6 percent of the votes, Taremi continued his remarkable of all the sanctions related to the nuclear deal and those talks would have been stopped had the U.S. insisted on Iran’s chief negotiator for the nuclear deal talks, had said purple patch, brilliantly setting up an early goal for Toni Martinez re-imposed or relabeled during the term of ex-U.S. Pres- keeping all the sanctions on Iran in place. that these groups held bilateral and multilateral meetings before rifling home a penalty kick at the hour mark. ident Donald Trump. “If the United States had insisted on maintaining crip- to announce positions and study draft texts. The goal was Taremi’s fifth in 20 days, taking his tally to 20 “America’s insistence on not terminating these sanc- pling sanctions against Iran, the talks would certainly On Monday, Khatibzadeh said the two sides have drafted in all competitions this season. tions will lead to a definitive halt in the negotiations” have stalled by now,” the spokesman said. two texts about sanctions removal and the nuclear issue The Iranian due will compete with Son Heung-min (Tot- underway in Vienna, Austria, on revitalizing the nuclear Nuclear negotiators from Iran and the remaining and they are ironing out the disputes. He also underlined tenham Hotspur, Korea Republic), Ji So-yun (Chelsea, Korea deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan parties to the 2015 nuclear deal held another meeting again that all the U.S. sanctions on Iran should be lifted. Republic), Eldor Shomurodov (Genoa CFC, Uzbekistan), Saki of Action (JCPOA), the source said. earlier this week and even made progress. Speaking at a weekly press conference on Monday, Kumagai (Olympique Lyonnais, Japan), Keisuke Honda (Neftçi According to the source, as the Iranian negotiating team Following the Saturday meeting of the JCPOA Joint the spokesman said, “We believe that all the sanctions PFK, Japan), Brad Smith (Seattle Sounders, Australia), Junya has repeatedly announced during the Vienna talks, all Commission, it was agreed that the talks will be resumed that Trump has imposed on Iran are related to the Joint Ito (KRC Genk, Japan) and Koji Miyoshi (Royal Antwerp, Japan) the sanctions that were imposed on the Islamic Republic on Friday, according to a statement issued by the Iranian Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and all of them to win the accolade. under any title after the JCPOA took effect — whether Foreign Ministry on Saturday. aimed at destroying the JCPOA and preventing Iran from during the term of Trump or that of his predecessor Barack According to the statement, participants discussed benefiting from the deal.” Iran football team to travel to Prisoner swap not part of Vienna talks, Russia says Bahrain on May 31 SPORTSTEHRAN – Iran national football team will POLITICAL TEHRAN – Exchanging a part of the Vienna talks,” Ulyanov said Plan of Action (JCPOA). desktravel to Manama, Bahrain on May 31 to play deskprisoners between Iran on Twitter. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, their four matches at Group C of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. and the United States is not on the agenda He was commenting on a commentary by Khatibzadeh said, “The issue of prisoners has The ‘Persian Leopards’ will hold a four-day training camp in of the Vienna nuclear deal talks between a former American official who anticipated been a humanitarian issue which has always Kish Island from May 27 to 30 and travel to Manama a day later. Tehran and the P4+1 group of countries, a “some kind of unacknowledged deal” to pay been on the agenda of the Islamic Republic The competition will be held in centralized venue in Bahrain. senior Russian diplomat has said. Iran for the release of American prisoners of Iran and has been pursued through oth- Iran are third in their group of five, but have a game in hand The comments came against the backdrop alongside the return to the 2015 Iran nuclear er conversations and [diplomatic] channels over their opponents. of speculations over a potential exchange of deal, officially known as the Joint Compre- separately from the JCPOA or related issues.” They sit on six points from four matches, having won 14-0 at prisoners between Iran and the United States hensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Khatibzadeh also denied reports that Teh- home to Cambodia and 2-0 away to Hong Kong. amid nuclear deal talks in Vienna. Iranian and American officials both de- ran and London had been in talks over the Iraq are top on 11 points, with Bahrain second on nine after Earlier on Sunday, the Beirut-based Al- nied the reports of a prisoner swap. Iran’s release of Nazanin Zaghari, an Iranian-British five matches. released,” Klain told CBS’s Face the Na- Mayadeen news television reported that the Ambassador and Permanent Representative national who was found guilty of propaganda Fixtures: tion. “We raise this with Iran and our in- U.S. agreed to release four Iranian nationals to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi activities against the Iranian government last June 3: Iran v Hong Kong terlocutors all the time, but so far there’s accused of bypassing sanctions and unblock said the news of the swap is not confirmed month and sentenced to one year in prison, June 7: Iran v Bahrain no agreement.” $7 billion of Iranian assets in the U.S in ex- by Iran. But at the same time he underlined according to Press TV. June 11: Iran v Cambodia Diplomats from Iran and the P4+1 group change for Iran releasing four American a comprehensive exchange of prisoners be- “There are no legal talks between us and June 15: Iran v Iraq citizens detained in Iran on charges of con- tween the two countries. Britain on this. The Judiciary must comment of countries have been in Vienna since April ducting espionage for the U.S. The Islamic Republic of Iran has repeat- on the case,” the spokesman said, adding, to negotiate possible U.S. return to the JCPOA The Biden administration wanted to avoid edly presented the issue of the exchange “What is being discussed is about issues related as well as the lifting of the U.S. sanctions Takhti Cup relocates from paying any sums of frozen Iranian money of prisoners, but the American side has to relations between the two countries. Of on Tehran. So far, at least three rounds of during the negotiations but the Iranian side rejected it under baseless excuses, according course, the British government has presented talks have been held between the two sides, Chabahar to Tehran insisted on the necessity of releasing part of to Takht Ravanchi. its views to us on various issues, and we have with the European signatories to the JCPOA the Iranian funds, according to Al Mayadeen. Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for Iran’s given back very clear answers.” shuttling between Iranian and American ne- SPORTSTEHRAN – The 41st edition of Takhti Cup desk Al Mayadeen also reported that similar Foreign Ministry, also repudiated the Al In Washington, U.S. State Department gotiating teams, who are conducting talks has been moved from Chabahar, located in security negotiations between the Iranian Mayadeen report, saying while the issue of spokesman Ned Price also denied the report from separate hotels. Sistan-Baluchestan Province, to Iran capital Tehran. and British sides were underway with the prisoners has always been on Iran’s agenda, on Sunday. “As we have said, we always raise Meanwhile, three expert working groups The prestigious wrestling tournament was originally British side discussing with Iran the release the Sunday evening report by Lebanon’s the cases of Americans detained or missing have been established to study a range of scheduled to be held in the southeastern Iranian port of 400 million pounds of frozen Iranian funds Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news net- in Iran. We will not stop until we are able to issues such as sanctions lifting, reversal from May 17 to 21. in the UK. work is untrue. reunite them with their families,” he said. of Iran’s nuclear measures, and practical The international event has brought the top wrestlers around But Mikhail Ulyanov, who serves as the Khatibzadeh said the issue of prisoners White House chief of staff Ron Klain arrangements needed by the U.S. to lift the the world to Iran over the past years. Russian envoy to the nuclear deal talks, said is a humanitarian one and has not been similarly said the report was untrue, add- sanctions. Almost all sides have said the Takhti, who was found dead in a hotel room in January 1968 the issue of detainees was not on the table pursued through nuclear talks aimed at ing there was no agreement to release the talks are making progress, though so far at the age of just 37, claimed the gold medal in Melbourne 1956 in the Vienna talks. reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, offi- four Americans. there has been no immediate diplomatic Olympic Games and won two silver medals in Helsinki 1952 and “American or Iranian detainees are not cially known as the Joint Comprehensive “We’re working very hard to get them breakthrough. Rome 1960 Olympic Games. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY MAY 6, 2021

Urban Development Ministry Over 140m Kwh of electricity generated provides land for 81,000 national housing units from renewable sources in a month ECONOMY TEHRAN – Iranian Transport and Urban deskDevelopment Ministry has provided Housing 1 The capacity of Iran’s renewable technology with open arms and investors Foundation of the Islamic Revolution with land for the construc- power plants currently exceeds 920 meg- also seem eager for more contribution tion of 81,000 housing units under the framework of the National awatts (MW) of which solar power plants in this area. Housing Action Plan. with 452.75 MW have the biggest share. Iran is also planning on expanding According to Transport and Urban Development Minister Wind power plants with 317 MW of its presence in the region’s renewable Mohammad Eslami, the Housing Foundation of the Islamic energy production stand in second place, energy market. Revolution is going to construct 100,000 housing unit under followed by small hydropower plants According to the Energy Minister Reza the mentioned plan of which so far, the land for 81,000 units with a generation of 105.65 MW. Ardakanian, the country has great poten- has been provided. Renewables, including hydropower, tials in the field of renewable energies and The official noted that so far 56,000 applicants have registered account for about seven percent of the can have a significant role in developing with the foundation to receive the mentioned housing units. country’s total energy generation, versus the region’s market for such energies. The National Housing Action Plan aims to construct 400,000 natural gas’ 90 percent share. “Relying on the high potential of small and medium-size apartments (70-100 square meters in size) Overall, in the next four years, Iran renewable energy sources, including across the country and particularly in Tehran, where housing is aiming for a 5,000 MW increase in solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, etc., prices have risen most sharply. renewable capacity to meet growing do- the Energy Ministry has planned good Nearly half of the total number of the said houses will be mestic demand and expand its presence measures in order to implement new constructed in Tehran’s suburban “new towns” such as Parand in the regional electricity market. policies for creating positive changes in and Pardis, respectively located in the west and east of the city. According to Iran’s Renewable En- the development of the country’s renew- ergy and Energy Efficiency Organiza- able energy sector,” Ardakanian has said. tion (known as SATBA), the number of Back in December 2020, SATBA Head small-scale solar power plants across Mohammad Satakin said the capacity of the country which are used by house- the country’s renewable power plants was holds or small industries is increasing going to reach 1,000 MW (one gigawatt) noticeably as Iranian households and by the end of the current government’s small industries are embracing the new incumbency (August 2021).

Monthly transit of goods via Shahid Rajaee port up 160% yr/yr ECONOMY TEHRAN — Transit of goods through standing (MOU) with domestic companies for investing deskShahid Rajaee port, Iran’s largest and 100 trillion rials (about $2.38 billion) plus €800 million in best-equipped container port, increased 160 percent in the development projects of Shahid Rajaee port’s hinterland. first month of the current Iranian calendar year (March The signing ceremony was attended by the Iranian Trans- Back in March Eslami had announced that 510,000 residential 21-April 20), as compared to the same period of time in the port and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Eslami, units will be provided for the applicants under the framework of past year, according to a provincial official. and the PMO Head Mohammad Rastad. the National Housing Action Plan during the coming months. Alireza Mohammadi Karajiran, the director-general of The mentioned investments will be made in a variety Earlier that month, Deputy Transport and Urban Develop- Ports and Maritime Department of Iran’s southern Hormozgan of projects including zinc, lead, manganese, and copper ment Minister for Housing and Construction Affairs Mahmoud province, where the port lies, said that 20,231 twenty-foot factories, the construction, and development of industrial Mahmoudzadeh had said that the construction costs for the Na- equivalent units (TEUs) of commodities were transited via components and parts production units, development and tional Housing Action Plan are set based on the current year’s Shahid Rajaee port in the said month. integration of the existing industrial units in the area, con- construction material price list and haven’t changed. Enjoying the most modern container terminals and port struction of an alumina refinery, as well as the construction Mahmoudzadeh made the remarks in response to some rumors equipment, Shahid Rajaee accounts for 85 percent of the of container manufacturing units. about the rise in the prices of such housing units as a result of total loading and unloading at the Iranian ports. Implementation and construction of production units in the increase in construction costs. Given its significant role in the country’s import and Shahid Rajaee Port will make this port a center for value-added The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnaser export of products as well as transit and transshipment via production and a logistics center, which will upgrade the year (March 20, 2021), according to PMO, Hemmati and the transport minister held a meeting in early-March Iran, the development of Shahid Rajaee Port has been among port’s level to the third generation and significantly reduce Back in August 2019, PMO’s Director of Engineering and to discuss ways of financing the mentioned plan in the current the most important development projects in the country. transportation and storage costs. Infrastructure Development Mohammadreza Allahyar had Iranian calendar year (started on March 21). In late December last year, Iranian Ports and Maritime The third phase of the port’s development plan is going said that the port’s capacity is planned to rise 2.1 million In the meeting, which was also attended by the managing Organization (PMO) signed six memorandums of under- to go operational by the end of the current Iranian calendar TEUs to reach 8 million TEUs. directors of some of the country’s banks as well as the repre- sentatives of the Transport Ministry, Hemmati called on banks to participate in this plan and to provide housing facilities for improving the housing market. ‘Production support, elimination of obstacles seriously pursued in South Pars’ The CBI governor emphasized his bank’s strong support for the implementation of the government’s housing-related plans ECONOMY TEHRAN — The man- announced to the Oil Ministry, and these colleagues in the operations and support and asked the bank directors to participate in such programs. deskaging director of Pars cases are being considered.” department, about 15 million cubic meters “It is essential that banks participate in housing-related pro- Oil and Gas Company (POGC), which is He referred to the continuous meetings per day of gas was produced in excess of the grams as much as they can,” he stressed. in charge of developing Iran’s giant South with the production and operation directors target output approved by the Oil Ministry Pars gas field (in the Persian Gulf), said of the company and said in the weekly meet- during the last winter,” the official said on that realization of the motto of the current ings, the bottlenecks and problems facing the sidelines of a meeting with the man- ‘Directives by Govt. Iranian calendar year (began on March 20), the production operations are announced agers of POGC’s operations and support which is “Production: Support and Elimi- and in accordance with these problems, department. Economic Coordination nation of Obstacles”, is seriously followed planning and action are taken to solve them. The huge South Pars field, which Iran Headquarters could balance up in South Pars for the stable supply of The POGC managing director has recently shares with Qatar in the Persian Gulf, covers gas from the field. said that the production goals set by the an area of 9,700 square kilometers, 3,700 stock market’ Emphasizing the slogan of this year, and sustainable production, the production Oil Ministry for the giant gas field in the square kilometers of which are in Iran’s Mohammad Meshkinfam said, “Like the sector must be seriously supported and the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on territorial waters. The remaining 6,000 ECONOMY TEHRAN — The vice-chairman of the previous years, we will try to produce the obstacles to production must be removed. March 20) have been completely realized. square kilometers, called North Dome, deskmonetary and capital committee of Tehran most possible gas from South Pars and Meshkinfam stated that important He said that the South Pars gas field’s are situated in Qatar’s territorial waters. Chamber of Commerce has said that the directives issued by the materialize stable gas supply this year”. measures have been taken to remove ob- output even exceeded the ministry’s pro- The field is estimated to contain a sig- Government Economic Coordination Headquarters can bring He said that the production support stacles and support safe and maximum gas duction targets by 15 million cubic meters nificant amount of natural gas, accounting calmness and balance to the country’s stock market. and removal of obstacles is a requirement production in South Pars, adding, “Since per day during the previous year’s winter for about eight percent of the world’s re- Back in early April, the Government Economic Coordination for safe and sustainable gas production in the beginning of this year, the necessary period. serves, and approximately 18 billion barrels Headquarters, in its 216th meeting, approved some new direc- South Pars, adding that to continue safe plans and proposals in this regard have been “Fortunately, with the efforts of our of condensate. tives for regulating the stock market which has been witnessing unprecedented fluctuations over the past few months. Underlining the significance of the mentioned directives, Mohammad-Ali Dehqan Dehnavi, the head of Iran’s Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO), said: “This [approving the 27,000 tractors handed over to farmers in a year new regulations] shows the support of the government’s three ECONOMY TEHRAN — The head of Iran’s Agri- into the sector to improve the status and degree of branches for the stock market and can calm the market and the deskcultural Mechanization Development mechanization in the process of agricultural produc- shareholders and help restore its balance.” Center said 27,000 tractors were handed over to the tion,” Abbasi said. Following the meeting of the Government Economic Coor- country’s farmers in the previous Iranian calendar year According to the official, the Agriculture Ministry dination Headquarters, last week Dehqan Dehnavi unveiled 1399 (ended on March 20), IRNA reported. has been allocating a separate credit line for the mech- the government’s new directive package dubbed “7+3”. This According to Kambiz Abbasi, the number of new anization of the agriculture sector every year, so that package includes 10 new directives of which, according to the tractors added to the country’s agricultural sector last since the Iranian calendar year of 1392 so far, nine official, three are already being implemented and the rest will year increased by 50 percent compared to the preced- credit lines have been opened for this sector. be implemented soon. ing year. Statistics show that there is an annual demand for The new directives include allocation of one percent of the Based on the country’s Sixth Five-Year National De- 25 trillion rials (about $595 million) of facilities for National Development Fund (NDF) resources to the stock velopment Plan (2016-2021), every year 22,000-24,000 the development and modernization of agricultural market stabilization fund, lifting the ban on capital market tractors are planned to be handed over to farmers all machinery. financial institutions to use banking facilities, and granting over the country, the official said. Since over 95 percent of the technology and knowl- five-year residency to foreign investors who buy shares in the “However, the demand for such machinery has in- edge in this area is domestic, despite the U.S. sanctions Iranian capital market. creased due to the shift in the farmer’s approach and most of the goals in the mechanization of various agri- The above-mentioned directives have been implemented the Agriculture Ministry policies,” Abbasi explained. culture sectors will be achieved without any problems, in the capital market as of April 27th, according to Dehqan Back in April, Abbasi said that some 30 trillion rials The mentioned funds will be injected into the ninth according to Abbasi. Dehnavi. (over $714.2 million) has been allocated for mecha- credit line that has been opened so far for the devel- In the past forty years, since the Islamic Revolu- In the 216th meeting of the Government Economic Coor- nization of the country’s agricultural sectors in the opment of the country’s agricultural mechanization. tion, Iran has witnessed a remarkable improvement in dination Headquarters, President Hassan Rouhani presented current Iranian calendar year. The official further noted that the Agricultural Mech- various sectors and the agriculture industry has been a report on the government’s supportive measures for the Abbasi noted that the mentioned funding will be anization Development Center plans to increase the one of the areas in which the country has undergone stock market, saying: “This year, which has been named the used to supply about 30,000 tractors, 800 combine country’s agricultural mechanization coefficient to 2.3 huge development. year of supporting production and eliminating obstacles, the harvesters, and about 50,000 different agricultural horsepower per hectare in the current year. Implementing billions of dollars worth of develop- government is trying to remove obstacles to the growth of machines and equipment used in various sectors like Iran’s agricultural mechanization coefficient has ment, research, and educational projects across the the capital market and will try to encourage people to enter horticulture, livestock, poultry, and aquaculture to currently reached 1.65 horsepower per hectare. country is an indication of the significant improve- this market with the necessary training and arrangements.” the country’s farmers. “Our ultimate goal is to inject enough machines ments in this sector. The government supports the capital market to direct li- quidity into productive sectors and, in general, to de-centralize the economy and to help economic transparency, he said, adding that the government will continue to offer shares in state-owned enterprises and institutions in the capital market. TEDPIX gains 5,200 points on Wednesday In its latest supportive decision, the government has approved ECONOMY TEHRAN — TEDPIX, and the second market’s index climbed 2,302 to become clear, and investors will invest in to inject 240 trillion rials (about $5.7 billion) of resources into deskthe main index of Tehran points. the stock market again as soon as the hori- the market in the form of bonds which most experts evaluate Stock Exchange (TSE), rose 5,203 points to The current trend of stock exchange trad- zons are clear,” Amir-Aqaei has told IRNA. as a positive measure. It is said that these funds are gradually 1.172 million on Wednesday. ing will continue until relative stability is According to Amir-Baqeri, traders came injected into the market and help increase the liquidity until Over 4.262 billion securities worth 31.327 established in the market and the investors are to the conclusion that it is likely that a stag- new resources enter the market. trillion rials (about $745.8 million) were expected to return to the market, the capital nant atmosphere will prevail in the coun- It has been said that these resources that enter the market traded at the TSE (Iran’s major stock ex- market expert Amirali Amir-Aqaei stated. try’s physical markets in the short run, and will also motivate shareholders, and therefore real investors change) on Wednesday. “The demand side is now waiting for the consequently the capital market has been will be encouraged to invest in the market. The first market’s index rose 6,193 points, internal and international political condition affected by this issue. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y MAY 6, 2021 ANALYSIS/INTERVIEW 5

Al-Quds sparks the flames of Syria’s air defense units repel Israeli aggression, shoot down missiles near Latakia resistance again The Syrian army’s air defense units have intercepted and shot down a number of Israeli missiles near the country’s western 1 Apart from their deep belief in the unity; otherwise, our destiny and future coastal city of Latakia, amid an upsurge in the Tel Aviv regime’s justice of their cause and divine help, an- will be doomed to failure. acts of aggression against the Arab country. other reason for the success of the brave 5) The final point is that the waves of this “At around 2:18 a.m. (2318 GMT Tuesday), the Israeli en- Palestinian youth was the help of their uprising are spreading to the West Bank, emy perpetrated an air aggression and hit several areas along brothers in the occupied territories, who Gaza, and northern Palestine, especially the southwest coast of Latakia. Our aerial defenses intercepted are called the 1948 Palestinians. (Seventy the 28th of the holy Ramadan, the day after the aggressor’s missiles and downed some of them,” the official years ago, during the 1948 war, the Zionists the Laylat al-Qadr (nights of destiny), will Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted an unnamed military occupied 77 percent of Palestine, destroyed be a challenging day. source as saying on Wednesday morning. at least 413 Palestinian villages and towns In the Hebrew calendar, this night The source added that one civilian was killed in the strike while displaced around 800,000 Palestinians coincides with the day of the gathering six others, including a child and his mother, sustained injuries. such that only 156,000 remained in the of Jewish extremists to enter Al-Aqsa Footage from the attack showed a large fire and several loud 1948 occupied territories.) Mosque by force. explosions at the scene. Meanwhile, the resistance forces in As for the elections, I have to say that SANA said the Israeli airstrike hit a civilian plastics factory Gaza also fired rockets at the criminal this is a Palestinian issue and must be in Latakia. Zionists, forcing them to run down into managed collectively, and it should not The Israeli air assault was the first on Syria since Tel Aviv shelters. be determined by one party or one person. claimed last month that a “Syrian missile” had landed near the Al-Quds has always been an inspiring Hence, what the people of Jerusalem top-secret Dimona nuclear site in the southern part of the Is- source for the resistance and inspiration did was a direct referendum and a strong raeli-occupied territories. to the revolutionaries and fighters in the emphasis on the inalienable right to ex- The regime admitted that its so-called Iron Dome missile historic land of Palestine. press their Palestinian identity, and no system had failed to intercept the missile. Imam Khomeini realized the impor- one can deprive them of this right. At the The Israeli military said back then that in response to the tance of Quds even before the victory of same time, there is no reason to postpone alleged launch, it attacked several missile batteries in neighboring the Islamic Revolution in 1979. On this this election. Syria, most of which were intercepted and downed by the air basis, this cause became the compass for In this regard, we have informed the defenses of the Arab country. the resistance movement and those of his terror acts and violence in Palestine and I do not know what kind of coexistence Arab-regional players and international Israel frequently targets military positions inside Syria, es- later followers. even in the region. they are talking about; what kind of peaceful parties about the way of voting in Jerusa- pecially those of the resistance movement Hezbollah, which has Realizing the importance of Holy Quds, The new U.S. administration did not coexistence can be had with these instinctive lem and updated them on the experienced played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against Imam Khomeini declared the last Friday reverse any of the Trump administration’s criminals. They want to kill and burn the proposals. foreign-backed terrorists since 2011. of the holy month of Ramadan each year measures in West Asia; neither renounced Palestinians so that they can settle down We must not allow the Zionist regime The Tel Aviv regime mostly keeps quiet about the attacks as Quds Day, in which Muslims worldwide the recognition of Jerusalem as the unified in the occupied territories. to interfere in our affairs, and it is the Pal- on Syrian territories, which many view as knee-jerk reaction would unite in solidarity against Israel capital of the Zionist regime nor returned In short, today, we are facing a very estinians who choose their own destiny. to the Syrian government’s increasing success in confronting and support of the Palestinians. its embassy to Tel Aviv. violent and wild Zionist society whose There is no room to decide unilaterally. terrorism in its territories. We have always emphasized and reiter- The new administration in the U.S. leaders are provoking extremist emotions. We should not pave the way for a power ated that the cause of Quds is honorable and did not correct any of the wrongdoings Perhaps this is the best sign and a direct vacuum with these delays, especially if humiliating at the same time. This means of the previous administration and called and practical referendum on the type of we agree that the source of legitimacy of that whoever accompanies and supports the brave Palestinian youth in Jerusalem solution because, according to the Zionists, each party, organization or leader, is peo- Erdogan and Saudi King al-Quds will be honored and exalted, and extremists. This is the real face of America this conflict cannot be resolved except on ple. Therefore, we do not need to create a Salman discuss ties over phone whoever is in the line of al-Quds enemies with a constant bias towards the Zionist the lifeless body of the other side. power vacuum, which will disrupt national will face embarrassment. regime neglecting Palestinians demands 3) Based on what has been said, it is development and, consequently, prolong Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi Arabia’s In a report published A few days ago, and rights. evident that we are facing the continua- the crisis at the national level. King Salman bin Abdulaziz have discussed bilateral ties in a Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Is- 2) The current political crisis of the tion of the Zionist-American aggression Given what has been said, the inter- call, the second conversation between the two leaders in less rael of pursuing policies of apartheid and Zionist regime has been reflected in the on the Palestinians, and the appropriate national community today has a respon- than a month. persecution against Palestinians. behavior of the leaders of this regime. response is that we stick more and more to sibility to help the Palestinian people In a brief statement late on Tuesday, Turkey’s communica- The report drew on years of human To escape their domestic crisis, the the rights of the heroic nation of Palestine. continue the experience of democracy. tions directorate said the two leaders “evaluated” matters on rights documentation, analysis of Israeli Zionist authorities stir up the feelings of That is why the brave people of Jerusa- It should also end the expansionist Zi- issues affecting both countries “and steps to be taken to further laws, a review of government planning the extremists, and we saw that the ex- lem rose to show their commitment and onist occupation and crimes against the the cooperation”. documents and statements by officials. tremist Jews living in the ancient city of courage. Palestinian people and its sanctuaries According to al Jazeera, Turkey is seeking to improve ties Although the Zionist regime is described Jerusalem were rudely expressing their Now, given that we are preparing for because Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to the with Saudi Arabia after they were thrown into crisis by the 2018 as racist, a White House spokesman dis- views about the Palestinians in the media, the Palestinian elections, the brave Pales- Muslim world, and even UNESCO itself killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi hit squad inside missed the report, which is further evidence saying, “Their villages must be set on fire.” tinian youth of Jerusalem insist on their has approved that this Mosque has no the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. of the continuation of the U.S. policy in “And death to the Arabs.” inalienable right and declared that, like connection with the Jews. Last year, Saudi businessmen endorsed an unofficial boycott favor of the Zionist regime. But moderate Jews have also comment- all Palestinians, they are no exception to In our view, Jerusalem means Nablus, of Turkish goods in response to what they called hostility from To summarize the implications and ed, saying, “You Palestinians should leave these elections and will not allow the Zionist Gaza, and Nazareth, and in other words, Ankara, slashing the value of trade by 98 percent. direct messages of the recent develop- here, and we should settle down.” enemy to meddle in this regard. the whole of Palestine is a single and in- ments in Jerusalem, we must mention These cases clearly show the way of 4) History and our experience have divisible body. It is the inalienable right the followings: thinking and the aggressive nature of the shown that our unity as Palestinians was of all Palestinian citizens to decide their 1) The Zionist enemy continues its Zionists, the only way to thwart all Zionist-American destiny, and no one else has the right to U.S.-run Ain al-Assad racist and terrorist policies and meth- That is contrary to the opinion of the conspiracies against Palestine, as we saw determine this destiny. ods. Despite the power shift in the Unit- Arab states that have normalized their how our unity frustrates Trump’s plan for (Khaled al-Qaddoumi is the Hamas Airbase in Iraq comes under ed States, the occupier regime has not relations with this regime, believing in a the so-called Deal of the Century. representative in Tehran. He wrote this rocket attack changed its behavior and has intensified two-state solution and peaceful coexistence. So we have no choice but to stick to this article for the Tehran Times.) A rocket attack has hit the Ain al-Assad Airbase hosting U.S. troops in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar, the third such incident to target the American interests in the Arab country in as many days. Afghanistan a failure of goals to the U.S.: ex-White House adviser The Iraqi army said in a statement on Tuesday that two rock- ets had landed at the base, but the attack caused no casualties, By Mohammad Mazhari destabilized a crucial trade route that it needs for its econ- without giving more details. omy. Creating railways and roads will hardly compensate The Iraqi TV al-Ahd television channel said rocket sirens TEHRAN — An American academic and former advisor to for this blunder. Have China’s actions been politicized? had gone off at the sprawling installation. the White House on Russian affairs says that Afghanistan Yes, to some extent, but the recent meeting in Anchorage No earlier than on Monday, at least six rockets hit the al-Balad has been a failure case to the U.S. policies. suggests that China bears a great deal of responsibility for Airbase that houses U.S. forces and warplanes north of the Iraqi “I see Afghanistan as a failure of goals. It was unrealistic her image in the world’s press. capital Baghdad. to seek to build a stable democratic Afghanistan,” John Do you think Biden can end the endless wars? According to Press TV, a day earlier, an airbase similarly Colarusso tells the Tehran Times. Is Afghanistan the first step? housing a United States-led coalition’s forces at Baghdad In- “This is a society in which tribal councils and elders have No, I do not think that American military action in various ternational Airport came under rocket fire. long asserted significant control.” areas will cease. It might be diminished, but it will likely The triple back-to-back incidents have not been claimed by After nearly 20 years, more than 2,300 U.S. troops dead, be re-applied in existing or new areas where American in- any party or individual yet, but the U.S. usually blames such more than 20,000 wounded, hundreds of thousands of Af- terests are threatened. attacks on Iraqi resistance groups. ghans maimed or killed and $2 trillion spent, U.S. President Withdrawal from Afghanistan must be seen as an ex- Joe Biden has decided the United States has seen enough periment. If the Taliban or al-Qaeda renew their actions of the war in Afghanistan. in Afghanistan or elsewhere, the U.S. is likely to respond Resistance News U.S. officials say that all American and allied forces plan edged and ultimately addressed, but they are ancillary to militarily once more. to withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, the fateful the central concerns of these negotiations. I see Afghanistan as a failure of goals. It was unrealistic Hamas military wing gives date which led to the American invasion almost two dec- Leaking of tapes, attacks on Natanz - all of these are to seek to build a stable democratic Afghanistan. This is a ades ago. Biden’s decision came as a result of nearly three efforts to sabotage the talks. society in which tribal councils and elders have long asserted Israel ‘final’ warning on months of White House analysis. But the talks have the crucial goal of limiting Iran’s devel- significant control. Any effort to stabilize Afghanistan had However, many political pundits rule out U.S. withdrawal opment of fissile uranium. Nuclear weapons are politically to employ this base of social control and stability, for which Sheikh Jarrah evictions from Afghanistan put an end to America’s endless wars. ambiguous: they may give a semblance of invincibility to conventional elections seem ill-suited. INTERNATIONAL TEHRAN— The military wing of the Gaza- “I do not think that American military action in various Don’t you think that the U.S. needs close collab- the government possessing them, but they also make that deskbased Hamas resistance movement has warned areas will cease. It might be diminished, but it will likely be oration with its rivals (China, Russia, and Iran) to same government into a target. that the Israeli regime will “pay a heavy price” if it keeps up its re-applied in existing or new areas where American interests fight against terror instead of fruitless confrontation? This is a dark fact that aspiring nuclear powers seem acts of aggression against fellow Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah are threatened,” Colarusso notes. Ideally, collaboration among the U.S., Russia, and China not to grasp. neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds. Following is the text of the interview: over terrorism would be in the interest of these nations. How do you see Biden’s first 100-day? Is there According to the Palestinian Information Center, Mohammed How do you assess Vienna talks? Such efforts should be conducted even against the back- any significant change? Deif, chief of staff and supreme commander of the Izz ad-Din That these talks are happening is itself important, whether drop of hostile exchanges on other matters. But, in so far President Biden has brought competence and functionality al-Qassam Brigades, issued a rare and strongly-worded state- one is optimistic or pessimistic about them. as terrorist attacks are also destabilizing, there might be back to Washington. The pandemic is being curtailed, and ment to deliver a “final” warning to the Israeli regime against Clearly, initial positions are hardline. But, there must a temptation on the part of two of these nations to see an its economic effects have been blunted. There is guarded the planned eviction of a number of Palestinian families from be giving away from such initial posturing on both sides attack on a third as to their advantage. optimism in the air of Washington. It is a good time for their homes in the neighborhood. for the talks to proceed. So, any accord to track and fight terrorism must be done Iran to seek contact with the U.S. “This is our final warning; If the aggression against our people From the mixed reactions to the recently leaked tape of with a moral commitment that removes this possible flaw. Do you think that China will be the greatest in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood does not stop immediately, Foreign Minister Zarif, it is clear that factions within Iran I am optimistic about the links between the U.S. and challenge to U.S. security, or the issue has been we will not stand idly by and the occupation will pay a heavy do not want the talks to bear fruit. Similar factions exist Russia on this. It may be why President Biden wants a politicized? price,” he said. outside Iran, both in the original five signatory nations as summit with President Putin. I am not qualified to ex- Both. China clearly seeks to convert its wealth into “I salute our steadfast Palestinians at Sheikh Jarrah in occu- well as in Israel and Saudi Arabia. press any particular opinion on the position of China with political dominance in Asia. I see one serious problem: pied Jerusalem. The resistance leadership and al-Qassam are Such outside parties have concerns that must be acknowl- regard to this issue. by establishing bases in the South China Sea, Beijing has watching closely what is happening in the neighborhood,” added the resistance commander. Israeli forces have been demolishing Palestinian homes and structures in the neighborhood for the construction of a new Lavrov, al-Maliki discuss cooperation prospects between EAEU and Palestine settlement outpost in the area under an Israeli court ruling. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Palestine and the EAEU”, Lavrov said. on the universally accepted basis of the to act as a mediator in direct talks and According to Press TV, the warning came a day after Israeli and his Palestinian counterpart Riyad “Our Palestinian friends are interested international law. Among other things, suggested Moscow as a possible venue. forces and settlers tried to force the Palestinians to abandon al-Maliki discussed the settlement with it, we will support them on that issue”, during the January 26 UN Security Council Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, their residences in that area. They attacked Palestinian homes prospects of the cooperation between Lavrov stated, RIA Novosti reported. open debates the Russian top diplomat who arrived to the Russian capital for talks there, with 20 people sustaining injuries as a result and at least Palestine and the Eurasian Economic Moscow has repeatedly stressed its suggested holding a ministerial meeting with Lavrov in mid-March, told TASS in an four men and one girl arrested by Israeli forces. Union on June 8, in Moscow, reports readiness to assist the Israeli-Palestinian involving Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Jor- interview that his country would definitely Hamas had already warned Israel against harming the in- “Armenpress”. settlement along with other members of dan, UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia this consider the possibility, but it depends on habitants of Sheikh Jarrah, and urged Palestinians to intensify “We have discussed the possibility of the Quartet, through a direct dialogue spring or summer. the parliamentary election set to be held their presence in the streets of the neighborhood to prevent the establishing cooperation relations between between Israelis and Palestinians and In March, Russia confirmed its readiness in Palestine in May. implementation of “Zionist schemes.” I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 6 HERITAGE & TOURISM MAY 6, 2021

Why Oshnavieh is heaven Karaj seeks to become for archaeologists?

1 According to Encyclopedia Iranica, the territory of the ancient kingdom of Urartu extended over the modern frontiers of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and the Republic of Armenia. Its center national city of handicrafts was the Armenian highland between Lake Van, Lake Urmia, and Lake Sevan. HERITAGE TEHRAN – Karaj, the Shiraz was named a “world city of [diverse] deskcapital of the northcen- handicrafts”. Malayer was made a global hub tral province of Alborz, eyes to be named a for woodcarving and carved-wood furniture. national city of handicrafts, the provincial Zanjan gained the title of a “world city of tourism official has said. filigree”. And Qassemabad village, which is Due to Alborz’s status as the capital of nationally known for its traditional costumes, tribes and the presence of various ethnic was also promoted to a world hub of hand- groups living in this region, the handicrafts icrafts. Chador Shab, a kind of homemade in this region are of great variety, Fereydoun outer-garment for women, was, however, Mohammadi added on Tuesday. the main subject for the WCC assessment Being recognized as a hub for handi- for the village. crafts gives several craftspeople, who are Iran exported $523 million worth of practicing different fields of handicrafts in handicrafts during the calendar year 1398 workshops scattered across the province, (ended March 19, 2020). Of the figure, some the opportunity of promoting their works $273 million worth of handicrafts were ex- as well as help tourism development in the ported officially through customs, and about region, the official added. $250 million was earned via suitcase trade Urartian archeological finds in modern Iran include castles, Various forgotten and neglected hand- (allowed for customs-free and tax-free trans- settlements, water channels, and other water constructions, rock icrafts fields are also planned to be revived fer) through various provinces, according chambers, rock graves, stelae, rock inscriptions, and building in the province, he explained. to data provided by the Ministry of Cultural inscriptions. Alborz province is surrounded by Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts. Most impressive are the Urartian architectural remains with Mazandaran, Tehran, Markazi, and Qazvin has a rich culture dating back to prehistoric three ones come next. Ceramics, pottery vessels, handwoven their different building forms and ground plans, mainly as cas- provinces. Its name is driven by the Alborz times. In January 2020, the cities of Shiraz, cloths as well as personal ornamentations tles and larger fortresses. They range in size from small, mostly Mountains. A significant part of the mountains With 14 entries, Iran ranks first globally for Malayer, and Zanjan and the village of Qa- with precious and semi-precious gemstones rectangular castles or road stations to the extended fortification is located in the north part of the province. the number of cities and villages registered ssemabad were designated by the WCC- Asia are traditionally exported to Iraq, Afghani- systems of large settlements. Historical resources and documents as well by the World Crafts Council, as China with Pacific Region, putting Iran’s number of world stan, Germany, the U.S., the UK, and other Urartian pottery is mainly earthenware and, to a lesser extent, as archeological studies indicate that Alborz seven entries, Chile with four, and India with crafts cities and villages from ten to 14. countries. red polished ceramic, so-called palace-ware, since it is found only in the larger, central Urartian sites. Urartian pottery is mostly monochrome ware made by the potter’s wheel. Cuneiform inscriptions have been found on clay tablets, cylinder seals, and bullae; there are inscriptions on building stones, as at Persepolis restorers start work on Seljuk-era inscription Bastam and rock inscriptions, others on stelae and clay vessels. The Urartian rock chambers influenced the Achaemenid rock HERITAGE TEHRAN – A team of cultural heritage was the association of government with the people about desk graves in layout and stonecutter techniques. The monumental restorers from the UNESCO-registered informing the new rules. The place of this inscription has scale of the Urartian rock cuttings and surface preparation for Persepolis has commenced work on a Seljuk-era (1037–1194) selected so that each caravan that was coming from the cuneiform inscriptions prepared the way for the Achaemenid inscription, which is located in Khorramabad, the capital Iranian plateau could perceive the inscription. monumental inscriptions, in particular, that of Darius at Bisotun. of western Lorestan province. Seljuk, also spelled, Seljuq, was a ruling military family of Archaeological excavations suggest that agriculture entered “The lack of adequate restoration and protection caused the Oguz (Ghuzz) Turkic tribes that invaded southwestern into a new stage owing to the practice of irrigation by Urartus further erosion and destruction of this historical monument,” Asia in the 11th century and eventually founded an empire in northwest Iran. Thanks to the water management exercised, Mehr quoted Seyyed Amin Qasemi, the provincial tourism that included Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and most of the Oshnavieh plain was so productive for a long time. The water chief, as saying on Monday. Iran. Their advance marked the beginning of Turkish power supply system realized by the Urartu in the first half of the first “Considering the sensitivity of the restoration of stone in the Middle East. millennium BC has been so remarkable that the contemporaneous monuments, a specialized team of Persepolis restorers was Soaked in history and culture, Lorestan is one of the people imitated them. invited to inspect the inscription and develop their proposal.” lesser-known travel destinations in Iran, which mainly acts The inscription has written on a large stone with a height as a gateway to the sweltering plains below in adjoining of 3.5 meters in Kufic, which is a type of Arabic script. Khuzestan province. Most travelers just pass through on New properties in Mazandaran The Seljuk engraving is the symbol of the rich culture their way to the UNESCO sites of Susa, Tchogha Zanbil, and including the Medes, c. 1000 BC. Cimmerians and Scythians of people in this region. The main topic of the inscription Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System. Lorestan is also a intermittently ruled the region from about 700 to 625 BC. made national heritage is about cutting taxes, feeding livestock on the Shapur I region of raw beauty that an avid nature lover could spend Lorestan was incorporated into the growing Achaemenid pastures, and forbid some unpleasant customs. weeks exploring. Empire in about 540 BC and successively was part of the HERITAGE TEHRAN – A total of six aging structures and The principal purpose of carving the Seljuk inscription Lorestan was inhabited by Iranian Indo-European peoples, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanid dynasties. deskhistorical buildings in Mazandaran province have recently been inscribed on the national heritage list, CHTN reported. Iranian handicrafts:

Darayi-Bafi of IN THE NAME OF GOD Second Announcement Yazd ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BROADCASTING 1 In the past, natural pigments were used INTERNATIONAL TENDER No:1400/108-18/01 to dye the yarns, for example, Woad produced The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts blue, Rubia and Cochineal produced red, tree Tender Holder: announced the inscriptions on Wednesday in a letter to the gov- barks and flowers produced yellow and minerals, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BROADCASTING (IRIB) ernor-general of the northern province. and soil was used to produce black pigments. Two banks and a high school across the province are among Today these sources are rarely used and have Subject 0f Tender: the properties added to the prestigious list. Miankat Gate, Kafer been replaced by chemical colors. Purchasing Radio Transmitter Spare Parts with the technical specification and other terms and conditions Keli caves, and a beekeeping area have also gained the status. Some consider the Darayi to have originated mentioned in the tender documents. Stretched along the Caspian Sea and Alborz mountain range, from Indonesia. The oldest remaining piece of Mazandaran is a popular destination for domestic holidaymak- Darayi belongs to Egypt and goes back to the Deadline and how to receive the tender documents : ers, while it is home to more than 3500 villages and rural areas. 11th century. There are paintings on the walls in the northwest of India that show women wearing From Saturday 08 May 2021 (1400/02/18) until Tuesday 11 May 2021 (1400/02/21) by 02:00 P.m. with Presentation of Historical monuments in Icut fabrics. introductory letter by company or its representative and the receipt of paying the documents fee. Kohgiluyeh and Boyer- Place of receiving the tender document : Interested participants may refer to purchasing (KALA) Dept., 4th Floor of IRIB Administation Cpmplex , Hotel Esteghlal Ahmad gain former glory St. Vali-Assr Ave, Tehran, Iran.

TOURISM TEHRAN – A total of ten historical buildings The fee of the tender documents and how to deposit it : deskand aging structures across the southwestern Submission of payment receipt for the amount of 1,000,000 Rials to account 4101029171204273 with BIC No. IR Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province have undergone some rehabilitation works, the deputy provincial tourism chief has 310100004101029171204273 IRAN Central Bank in the name of IRIB . announced. A budget of 13 billion rials (about $310,000 at the official Type and amount of guarantee for participation to tender : exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) has been allocated to The amount of deposit for participant in tender is USD 8.800 fixed or its equivalent in Rials 2.200.000.000 which should the restoration projects, ILNA quoted Rahim Dadinejad as saying be in the form of Bank Guarantee. on Wednesday. Choram Fort, Azizi Castle, Pataveh Bridge, and the ancient Time and place of delivering Bidding Envelopes: city of Belad Shapur were among the restored structures, the But in Iran, these fabrics were woven from a The sealed (A,B&C) packages/envelopes and the qualification evaluation packages/envelopes separately packed , should be long time ago and their history in Yazd is known official added. submitted no later than 09:00 a.m. on Saturday 12 of June 2021 (1400/03/22)and at the address mentioned in 4th clause. to be eight hundred years. There are two kinds of Icut: “Tar” or warp Icut, and “Pud” or weft Icut. In the case of wrap Icut, then wrap yarns Time and place of opening Qualification Evaluation envelopes: are colored before the weaving process and then The date of opening the Qualification Evaluation envelopes onSaturday 12 of June 2021 (1400/03/22) at 10:00 a.m in HERITAGE desk are trenched over the loom. The patterns are then the office of International Purchasing Dept. created during the weaving process. In the second technique, both warp and weft yarns are colored Time and place of opening Envelopes : before the weaving. Naturally, the weft Icut is The envelopes A of those eligible participants who meet the qualification criterion and approval of Technical and Commercial more elaborate and valuable. committee will be opened on Sunday 13 June 2021 at 03:00 p.m. (1400/02/23) in the office of Financial Vice President. In The Darayi fabrics are usually made with a case of complete content in the evelopes A the participant must be qualified by the competent authorities. width of ninety centimeters and a height of about thirty centimeters and are finally cut depending For more information, please see: on their usage. Until recent years silk yarns were He also noted that In addition, the cultural heritage department used as both wraps and wefts of these fabrics, but www.iriboffice.ir and http://iets.mporg.ir Tel: 00982122167463 of the province strives to add more valuable historical structures today yarns such as viscose are used as the wraps, to the national heritage list. and synthetic silk or viscose rayon filaments are Purchasing (Kala) Dept.,IRIB Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province is known for its no- used as wefts. Scarves, beddings, tablecloths, and mads and nomadic life. Sightseers may live with a nomadic or bundles are some of the usages of Darayi. rural family for a while or enjoy an independent stay and assist Yazd is a delightful place to stay, referring to them with day-to-day life. It also opens up an opportunity to feel as a ‘don’t miss’ destination by almost all native rustic routines, their agriculture, traditions, arts, and culture. travel insiders. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y MAY 6, 2021 SOCIETY 7

Fakhra vaccine completes Inspiring midwives on COVID-19 frontline

1 A global survey of 194 countries found that severe first phase of human trial shortages of midwives resulted in horrific global casualties SOCIETY TEHRAN – The first quarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, in the form of preventable deaths. The analysis in this report deskphase of the Fakhra the vaccine was unveiled on December 29, showed that the full provision of care services provided by vaccine’s human trial has been completed 2020, and started to be mass-produced on midwives by 2035 can reduce 67 percent of maternal mortality, successfully and the second phase will start March 29. 64 percent of infant mortality, and 65 percent of stillbirths, after the final analysis. Meanwhile, a vaccine developed by saving 4.3 million people a year. Fakhra vaccine, the third domestical- the Razi Vaccine and Serum Research ly-developed COVID-19 vaccine, named after Institute (Razi Cov Pars) is expected to nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who become the second Iranian-made vaccine was assassinated in November last year near to be administered among the population Tehran, was unveiled and started the clinical in early August; which started the clinical trial on March 16. trial on February 27. After obtaining the necessary permits “Osvid-19”, the fourth domestic vac- from the Ministry of Health, we will start cine produced by Osvah Pharmaceutical injecting the vaccine through the sec- Company is also undergoing human tri- ond phase of human trial after the holy als, which will also be available in early month of Ramadan (Began on April 13), September. project manager Ahmad Karimi said on New cases and mortalities Wednesday. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Health He went on to note that some 135 peo- Ministry’s spokesperson, Sima-Sadat Lari, ple have received the first dose today, IRNA confirmed 15,872 new cases of COVID-19 reported. infection, raising the total number of infec- In the first phase, 17,000 people from all tions to 2,591,609. She added that 2,039,427 over the country registered to receive the patients have so far recovered, but 5,499 According to a recent study by UNFPA, WHO, and ICM, investing in midwives is a cost-effective way of improving vaccine, 3,500 of whom were selected and favorable, he stated, adding, among those, Domestic vaccines remain in critical conditions of the disease. health outcomes. 495 entered the screening phase, Karimi 41 were women and the rest were men with COVIRAN BAREKAT, the first coronavirus During the past 24 hours, 349 patients Medical staff efforts in light of pandemic explained. an average age of 18 to 55 years. vaccine made by Iranian researchers, started have lost their lives, bringing the total Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Iranian nurses have been Finally, the clinical team selected 135 Through the second phase, 500 people the third phase of the human trial last week number of deaths to 73,568, she added. at the forefront of the fight against the disease. people for the injection, and fortunately, the will be selected to perform the human trial, by being administrated to 20,000 people. So far, 16,511,987 COVID-19 diagnostic Many healthcare workers lost their lives or mourned their health condition of each after vaccination is he concluded. Developed by researchers at the Head- tests have been performed in the country. colleagues in the fight against COVID-19 disease and in the path toward saving the lives of people and patients. They worked around the clock to significantly control the epidemic and minimize the number of deaths. 188 higher education projects to be inaugurated In this difficult struggle, the increase in the disease caused a large number of doctors and nurses to fall ill and leave the service SOCIETY TEHRAN – Today, President Has- the rise over the last eight years, from 24 in 2012 to 16 in 2019. cycle, and their colleagues had to work three shifts so that no to desksan Rouhani will officially inaugurate Iran ranks first in terms of the number of universities leave any patients untreated. some 188 educational, research, and welfare projects in in the region and among Islamic countries, according to According to the statistics of the Nursing Organization, about universities across the country via video conferencing, Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Univer- 140,000 nurses are employed in the country’s hospitals. Some IRNA reported. sities (ARWU) 2020. 80,000 nurses have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and 110 The projects include 34 educational places, 23 re- Two Iranian universities have been ranked among the top nurses have died from the disease so far. search centers, 19 training centers, and 14 technical and 100 universities in Asia, according to Webometrics Ranking Maryam Hazrati, the deputy health minister for nursing, said vocational universities, 24 green management plans, 9 of World Universities for July 2020. in May 2020 that some 65 percent of 200,000 nurses in the welfare centers and etc., costing a total of 1,264 billion Moreover, 7 Iranian universities have been listed among country were at the forefront of the coronavirus fight. rials (about $300 million) plus $2.5 million. the best 1000 worldwide; including, Tehran University of The World Health Organization (WHO) has praised the With the opening of these projects, job opportunities Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Iranian nurses for playing an effective role in the fight against will be opened up for about 1,000 people. Sciences, Sharif University of Technology, Tarbiat Modares the COVID-19 pandemic during the 8th “Triad Meeting” of the In November 2020, Rouhani inaugurated some 1,550 University, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Isfahan University International Council of Nurses (ICN), the International Con- educational, training, and welfare projects throughout of Technology, Iran University of Science and Technology. federation of Midwives (ICM), and the WHO which was held the country. universities of 93 countries in the world in 2021 rankings, In June 2020, THE Asia University Rankings 2020 online on June 16-18. The projects included 1,422 educational places with 8,051 Iran achieved a great improvement in the academic field. ranked five Iranian universities among the top 100 uni- classrooms, 124 training centers, and 4 welfare centers, Some 21 Islamic countries were also listed in the ranking, versities worldwide. measuring a total of 1.1 million square meters. however, Iran holds the highest share with 47 universities. The Center for Science and Technology Studies Leiden Amazon has ‘flipped’ and Iranian universities performance With a scientific growth rate of 10.4 percent in 2019, Iran Ranking has placed 36 Iranian universities in the list of over Times Higher Education has published its annual ranking ranked second among the top 25 countries in the world, 1,000 major universities worldwide in 2020 compared with now emits more carbon of the world’s top universities for 2021, listing 47 Iranian next to China with a growth rate of 12.9 percent, according 26 universities in 2019. universities, which shows an increase of 7 universities com- to the Web of Science website. Also, five Iranian universities have been placed among the pollution than it sinks pared to the last year. According to statistics released by the International Web world’s top 1,000 universities announced by the prestigious With 47 Iranian universities ranked among 1,527 top of Science Database, Iran’s citation rank has always been on Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2021. The Brazilian Amazon, where dense rainforest was long believed to be absorbing human-caused pollution, has emitted close to one-fifth more carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere than it has stored. An alarming new study found that between 2010 and 2019, Tehrani benefactors release 51% more prisoners the Amazon released 16.6billion tonnes of CO2, while sucking up 13.9bn tonnes. TEHRAN – The Freeing prisoners of involuntary crime doers, while Sistan-Baluchestan SOCIETY “We half-expected it, but it is the first time that we have figures desknumber of prisoners crimes is done in three ways; the first at the bottom of the list. showing that the Brazilian Amazon has flipped, and is now a net of involuntary crimes released with the way is granting prisoners leave and the As an annual tradition, benefactors emitter,” the study’s co-author Jean-Pierre Wigneron, a scientist help of Tehrani philanthropists last year second way is providing a number of them come together in a ceremony to raise at France’s National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA), (March 2020-March 2021) has increased with loans to be paid inside the prison. funds for releasing prisoners of unin- told AFP. “We don’t know at what point the changeover could by more than 51 percent compared to The third way of assistance is the re- tentional crimes during the holy month become irreversible.” a year before. lease of unintentional convicts by paying of Ramadan (which started on April 13 The research was published on Thursday in the journal Nature Last year, 634 indebted prisoners were their debt; last year, a total of 35 trillion this year), through which, Leader of Climate Change. released with the help of benefactors in rials (nearly $833 million at the official the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Researchers compared the volume of CO2 sunk into the forest Tehran province, which is 51 percent rate of 42,000 rials) has been donated to Khamenei has donated 5 billion rials to the volumes released by fires or cutting down trees. higher than that of a year before, Seyed pay the debt of the released prisoners. (about $120,000 at the official rate of Trees, especially the old growth forests which have been standing Heshmatollah Hayat Al-Gheyb, the di- Last year, Isfahan province topped the 42,000 rials). ernment and the private sector donat- for millennia, store carbon and have had an impact on slowing rector general of Tehran prisons, said. list for releasing the highest number of Last year (March 2020-March 2021), ed 6.5 billion rials (nearly $150,000) to the climate crisis being driven by man-made pollutants like the A total of 149 billion rials (nearly $3.5 prisoners amounting to 677 involuntary heads of the three branches of the gov- release prisoners who had committed burning of fossil fuels. million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) involuntary crimes. However the reverse is also true: when forests burn, tree carbon has been donated to pay the debt of the President Hassan Rouhani, former matter is pumped into the air as CO2, adding to emissions levels. released prisoners, he stated. Freeing prisoners of involuntary crimes is Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, and Ju- The Amazon, one of the planet’s richest regions of biodiversity 9,398 inmates of unintentional done in three ways; the first way is granting diciary Chief Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim and home to thousands of indigenous peoples, suffered the worst crimes freed nationwide Raeisi made a total of 3.9 billion rials prisoners leave and the second way is blazes in a decade last year. Iranian benefactors helped release (around $92,000) in contributions to The destruction of the rainforest has proliferated under right- a total of 9,398 inmates of uninten- providing a number of them with loans to free prisoners of unintentional crimes. wing President Jair Bolsonaro, whose government has weakened tional crimes across the country over According to Asadollah Joolaei, head be paid inside the prison, and the third way environmental protections and pushed development of mining, the past Iranian calendar year (March of Blood Money Organization, there are of assistance is the release of unintentional cattle-ranching and logging. 2020-March 2021), according to the currently 12,874 inmates of unintentional Mr Bolsonaro has frequently played down the Amazon fires, Blood Money Organization. convicts by paying their debt. crimes in the country’s prisons. calling evidence produced by his own government showing thou- sands of blazes a “lie”. The study also found that deforestation increased by four times in 2019 compared with 2017 and 2018, leaping from around ENGLISH IN USE 2.5million acres to 9.6million acres - an area more than twice LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION the size of Connecticut. LET’S LEARN PERSIAN (Part 176) (Source: saadifoundation.ir) آغــاز اجــرای آزمایشــی طــرح »بــازی و یادگیــری« Playing to learn’ scheme piloted in‘ در مــدارس ابتدایــی تهــران elementary schools A plan dubbed “playing to learn” aiming at using educational games بــه گــزارش روز شــنبه خبرگــزاری فــارس اجــرای آزمایشــی طــرح »بــازی و یادگیــری« بــه toward deeper learning was implemented for first time in elementary منظــور آمــوزش عمیــق مفاهیــم کتــب درســی توســط بــازی بــا حضــور وزیــر آمــوزش و ,schools across the capital, with the Education Minister in attendance پــرورش در تعــدادی از مــدارس ابتدایــی شــهر تهــران آغــاز شــد. .Fars reported on Saturday قــرار اســت ایــن طــرح در ۱۰۰۰ مدرســه ۱۰ اســتان کشــور اجــرا شــود در فــاز اول اجــرای Through the first phase of the scheme, 1,000 schools from 10 provinces طــرح، اســتانهای خراســان رضــوی، شــهر تهــران، فــارس، همــدان، مازنــدران، کردســتان، ,nationwide will implement the playing to learn scheme, including Tehran کرمــان، آذربایجــان غربــی، قزویــن و سیســتان و بلوچســتان قــرار دارنــد. ,Khorasan Razavi, Fars, Hamedan, Mazandaran, Kordestan, Kerman ملکهــای انتخــاب مــدارس اجــرای پــروژه بــازی و یادگیــری شــامل اعــام آمادگــی .West Azarbaijan, Qazvin, and Sistan-Baluchestan According to the report, schools regarding their proper environment داوطلبانــه مــدارس بــا توجــه بــه امــکان ســنجی محیــط و شــرایط مدرســه اســت کــه and conditions volunteered and chose to hold game-based classes and تعــداد 50 مدرســه دخترانــه و50 مدرســه پســرانه انتخــاب شــدند و ایــن مــدارس از بیــن ’assess the results, currently in each province 50 girls’ schools and 50 boys مــدارس دولتــی و مــدارس غیردولتــی انتخــاب شــدهاند؛ همچنیــن در ایــن فــاز اجــرا، ;schools among state-run and private schools have piloted the scheme حداکثــر 20 درصــد مــدارس غیردولتــی شــامل اجــرای پــروژه می شــوند. .percent of which are private schools 20 Prayer Times Noon:13:01 Evening: 20:14 Dawn: 4:32 (tomorrow) Sunrise: 6:07 (tomorrow) MAY 6, 2021 ART&CULTURE I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y www.tehrantimes.com Managing Director: Mohammad Shojaeian Editor-in-Chief: Ali A.Jenabzadeh Iran’s Kabootar Khaneh, Pardis Kahneh Editorial Dept.: Fax: (+98 21) 88808214 — 88808895 [email protected] Switchboard Operator: Tel: (+98 21) 43051000 honored at A’ Design Award and Competition Advertisements Dept.: Telefax: (+98 21) 43051430 Public Relations Office: Tel: (+98 21) 88805807 ARTTEHRAN – Iranian growth of leaf plants, metaphorically the cedar. desk Subscription & Distribution Dept.: Tel: (+98 21) 43051603 architectural projects This project was nominated for the Printed at: Jame Jam Bartar Borna - 44197737 Pardis Khaneh and Kabootar Khaneh have Dezeen Awards 2020, Organized by Dezeen, been honored with bronze A’ Design Awards at the world’s most popular and influential the A’ Design Award and Competition in Italy. architecture and design website. Tehrantimes79 Tehrantimes79 Tehrantimes79 The structures have been designed and As the project name, Kabootar Khaneh set up by Nima Keivani at Keivani Architects. (Pigeon House), suggests, the basic concept No. 18, Bimeh Alley, Nejatollahi St., Tehran, Iran Pardis Khaneh and Kabootar Khaneh behind the design was to create a space for P.o. Box: 14155-4843 received the awards in the Architecture, co-existence between humans and birds. Zip Code: 1599814713 Building and Structure Design Category of After visiting the project site in the the competition. northern Iranian town of Babolsar before The A’ Design Award and Competition the design, the architecture team noticed the is the world’s largest, most prestigious and widespread presence of birds there. Thus, to influential design accolade, representing the respect their rights, they decided to design a highest achievement in design. house where people could live next to them Pardis Khaneh located in Tehran is a nearly to create an interaction between them that complete example of house architecture causes a different sense of space to improve considering a residential atmosphere with its quality. regard to space psychology. This project has also been inspired by GUIDE TO The design of the Pardis home has been Iranian historical dovecotes. Therefore, a SPIRITUAL AWAKENING inspired by the architecture of Iranian gardens, portion of the interior space was dedicated in particular the Takht Garden, a historical for the purpose of acting as a patio by the edifice in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz. This combination photo shows views of the projects Pardis Khaneh and Kabootar Khaneh. use of glass material and the resulting One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the The architectural pattern of the Takht transparency around it. risk of encountering destruction and death. Garden is in a vertical form and also tried to revive the missing architecture of The facade can be reshaped continuously, Both projects have also received Imam Ali (AS) originated from the architecture of the hanging gardens in a modern style. This and therefore, the visitor will perpetually face a nominations at the Award for Design Hanging Gardens of Babylon. way, a different dynamism of the building new shape of the building. The wooden surface Excellence – ADEX Awards in the United In this project, the designers have is seen all over the construction. has a special design pattern inspired by the States. Docudrama “Qassem” on General Soleimani’s life Iran’s national library preserves rare translations of Holy Quran story produced CULTURE TEHRAN – Rare copies of the translations scholars have used it as a source to do translations in other deskof the Holy Quran in seven languages, European languages. 1 The film also features a number of rarely-seen pictures some dating back hundreds of years, are preserved at the The library also has another copy of a French translation from his significant presence on the Iranian frontlines during National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI), the library by Albert Kazimirski, which dates back to 1859. the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. announced on Tuesday. It also holds a translation by French orientalist Claude- After the broadcast of the docudrama, Ebrahim Mottaqi Several of the translations have been done in the Western Étienne Savary, which was published in 1883. from the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University world, and some have been produced in Iran by cultural A translation by George Sale, which was published in 1734, of Tehran and Mehdi Zakerian, an expert on international centers such as Al-Mustafa International University in Qom. is one of the oldest English copies of the Quran available relations, attended a The collection includes a copy of the oldest known in the library. It is known to be one of the earliest direct Mostanad Channel live French translation of the Holy Quran dating back to 1647. translations of the Quran from Arabic to English. broadcast to discuss General It was translated by André Du Ryer, and is reported to The library also possesses a German translation of the Soleimani’s influence on have been the first-ever direct Quranic translation from holy book by Theodor Nöldeke, which was published in 1860. Iran’s diplomacy. Arabic to French. The library has also accumulated a collection of Quranic Several documentary films According to the director of NLAI Department of Iranian dictionaries and encyclopedias and new translations of the have been made about various and Islamic Studies, the copy of the French translation of Quran in numerous languages over the past few years. aspects of General Soleimani’s the Holy Quran was first published in Paris in 1647 and was One of them was produced by Finnish Islamic scholar life and career following his This combination of photos shows copies of various reprinted several times until 1775. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila. His translations of the Quran and martyrdom. translations of the Holy Quran. (file photo) Due to its accurate translation of Quranic concepts, other Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh came out in 1995. “Liberation of Amerli” directed by Hamed Hadian is one of them, which premiered at the Cinéma Vérité festival Former chief of Iran’s Quds Force, Iranian movies competing in Grand River in Tehran last December. Lieutenant-General Qassem The documentary Soleimani. underlines the key role Iran’s Film Festival Quds Force played in breaking the 89-day siege of the northern ARTTEHRAN – Seven his friends sees his popularity grow, so struggling to make sense of his day-to-day Iraqi town of Amerli by the ISIS terrorists. desk Amerli, an Iraqi town of Shia Turkmen located in the shorts by Iranian long as the promise is kept. life. The man, who is also plagued by ghosts, Tooz District of Saladin Governorate, was besieged by the filmmakers are competing in the 13th “Borderless” is about a teenage girl has his isolation interrupted by a lost hiker. ISIS terrorists from June 2014, cutting off access to food, Grand River Film Festival, which is named Delaram who has Down’s syndrome, “Rahmat Creel” is about Rahmat Baqeri, electricity and water. underway virtually in the Canadian Region a genetic disorder that has caused her to a retired man that other people call Rahmat On August 31, the Quds Force, the overseas arm of the of Waterloo. have a particular appearance and limited Creel. Every week, he goes to a lake near IRGC under the commandership of Qassem Soleimani, The films include “Atari” by Farhad verbal expression. As a consequence, the city of Zanjan to fish. But his catch is Fadakar, “Borderless” by Behrad normal children and society think less of different from the others. joined the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and the Popular “Hermit” by Iranian director Omid Mirzai. Mobilization Units – Hashd al-Shaabi, breaking the siege, Sahebqarani, “The Heavy Shadow of the her. Delaram wants their judgments which, “The Recess” revolves around Sahar, a which was described by some top analysts as Iraq’s biggest Crow” by Behnam Asadollahi, “Hermit” by in her view, have created a border between 17-year-old student who is determined to who meet each other in a green space, and victory against ISIS. Omid Mirzai, “Rahmat Creel” by Behzad them, to be removed. skip high school during recess and go to make friends. This is while their fathers Another major documentary about General Soleimani Alavi, “The Recess” by Navid Nikkhah-Azad In “The Heavy Shadow of the Crow”, the football stadium to watch the football have a big problem. is “Green Zone”, which studies the good conduct of the and “Wooden Sword” by Susan Salamat five new humans grow in a dry, flat desert match between Esteghlal F.C. vs. Al-Ain as The Grand River Film Festival, a not-for- commander toward children. and Behzad Alavi. from under the soil around a crow and a part of the AFC Champions League, which is profit, volunteer-run arts and culture group Before his martyrdom, Soleimani had a regular program The story of “Atari” is set in the 1980s chair, which calls to them. against the national ban prohibiting women dedicated to bringing the best independent to visit the children of his soldiers. In addition, he frequently when a teenage boy is promised an Atari “Hermit” tells the story of a man who from entering football stadiums in Iran. cinema to the Region of Waterloo, will run paid visits to the children of his comrades martyred during by his father. Using this promise to entice lives on his own in an old bus in the desert, “Wooden Sword” is about two little boys until May 8. the Iran-Iraq war. The short documentary directed by Behnam Bahadori was produced at the Children’s Department of the Art Bureau of the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization. Queens World Film Festival picks movies from Iran ARTTEHRAN – Six movies from Iranian next day, Matiar gets kidnapped after school, and the deskfilmmakers will be screened in various kidnapper asks Sudeh to pay 10 Bitcoins for her son. Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” comes categories of the Queens World Film Festival, which will Tremendous pressure is put on Sudeh, but the truth take place from June 23 to July 3 across the Borough of hidden beneath will surprise everyone. to Persian bookstores Queens in the U.S. city of New York. “War and Peace” by Nima Hassanbeigi has been selected The 11th edition of the festival is a hybrid event with to compete in the documentary short section. It is an TEHRAN — British writer Roald Dahl’s CULTURE virtual and live screenings, the organizers have announced. experimental and formalist movie in condemnation of deskbestselling novel “Matilda” has been “The Forbidden Strings” by Hassan Nuri will be war and in praise of peace. translated into Persian by Mahbubeh Najafkhani. screened in the documentary feature competition, while “Cocoon” by Yavar Darehzami, “Wooden Sword” by Behzad The book has recently been published by Cheshmeh “The Badger” by Kazem Mollai will be competing in the Alavi and Susan Salamat and “Radde” by Ali Lavarimonfared Publications in Tehran. narrative feature section. will be screened in the narrative short competition. “Matilda” was originally published in 1988 with illustrations “The Forbidden Strings” is about Suri, Hakim, Akbar “Cocoon” is about a short man who makes artificial limbs by Quentin Blake. It was later adapted for a film of the same and Mohammed who have a collective dream to travel from for himself, becomes tall and comes out of his house. We title directed by Danny DeVito in 1996. Iran to their parents’ homeland of Afghanistan and perform see that everyone is short. The Persian translation “The Forbidden Strings” by Hassan Nuri. at their first rock concert. Working as migrant laborers “Wooden Sword” tells the story of two young boys who also carries the book’s original during the day, the group practices in a studio away from old woman who faces a strange incident right before meet on a park bench while waiting for their fathers to return. illustrations. their families at night. Throughout their journey, the four her second marriage. Sudeh and her son Matiar live Little do they know that their fathers have not formed a The novel tells the story of young band members face the complicated nature of making in an old apartment. One day, she hires a pest control friendship like they just have. Is what they see next something Matilda, an extraordinary girl politically-minded music that reflects their lived reality as company to solve the termite problems in the apartment. that might stay with them forever? who has supernatural abilities migrants from Afghanistan. While the pest control company is working, Matiar is In “Radde”, the sea is dying and a lone fisherman tries to move objects at a distance “The Badger” tells the story of Sudeh, a 40-year- recording the procedures, as this is his hobby. The to save it. using her mental power. The story unveils when she attends school and meets the evil principal who is a “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet” published in Persian terrifying bully, and later gets to know her teacher who ARTTEHRAN – “It How on earth did James Herriot come Field wrote. becomes her kind companion deskShouldn’t Happen to a to be sitting on a high Yorkshire moor, “It is a pleasure to be in James Herriot’s and supports her through her Vet” by British veterinary surgeon and smelling vaguely of cows? James isn’t sure, company,” Observer commented. difficulties with her family. author James Herriot has recently been but he knows that he loves it. The franchise based on Herriot’s Several screen adaptations published in Persian. This second hilarious volume of writings was very successful. In addition Front cover of the Persian of the story have so far been Sirus Qahramani is the translator of the memoirs contains more tales of James’ to the books, there have been several version of British writer made. Dennis Kelly and Tim book published by Morvarid in Tehran. unpredictable boss Siegfried Farnon, his television and film adaptations of his books, Roald Dahl’s children’s novel Minchin made the musical Herriot is best known for writing a charming student brother Tristan, animal including the 1975 film “All Creatures Great .”“Matilda “Matilda the Musical” in 2010 series of eight books set in the 1930s–1950s mayhem galore and his first encounters and Small” and the BBC television series based on the novel. Yorkshire Dales about veterinary practice, with a beautiful girl called Helen. of the same name, which ran 90 episodes, Dahl is best known for his children’s books, including animals and their owners, which began “He can tell a good story against and the 2020 series of the same name. “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate with “If Only They Could Talk” that was himself, and his pleasure in the beauty “Let Sleeping Vets Lie”, “Vet in Factory”, both of which have been turned into films. also translated into Persian by Qahramani of the countryside in which he works is Harness”, “Vets Might Fly”, “Vet in a The writer’s stories often feature evil adult enemies in and released by the publisher in 2019. Front cover of the Persian translation of infectious,” Daily Telegraph wrote about Spin”, “The Lord God Made Them All” conflict with the child characters, with unexpected endings Over the decades, the series of books James Herriot’s book “It Shouldn’t Hap- the book. and “Every Living Thing” are other books and comical narratives. sold some 60 million copies. pen to a Vet”. “Full of warmth, wisdom and wit,” The in Herriot’s series.