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Military Must Promote Readiness Nonstop WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13697 Monday JUNE 29, 2020 Tir 9, 1399 Dhi Al Qada 7, 1441 Sanctions, Gen. Soleimani Exports from Iran the best Asian Tajik writer Satim Ulugzada’s assassination won’t PSEEZ surpass $1b team in FIVB World novel on Persian poet Ferdowsi demoralize nation 3 in 3 months 5 Ranking 11 published in Tehran 12 Support package for non-oil exports ready for implementation Military must promote TEHRAN — Iranian First Vice President year’s support package includes resourc- Eshaq Jahangiri has instructed relative es from the National Development Fund organizations and executive bodies to (NDF) amounting at 20 trillion rials (about implement the government’s support $476 million), as well as resources provided package for promoting non-oil exports in the year’s budget bill amounting at 6 in the current Iranian calendar year (began trillion rials (about $143 million) plus on March 20), IRNA reported on Sunday, part of the revenues from export duties readiness nonstop quoting head of the country’s Trade Pro- and the increase in the Export Guarantee motion Organization (TPO). Fund (EGF)’s capital that was up to 100 According to Hamid Zadboum, this million Euros. 4 See page 2 Technology comes to help Asiatic cheetah protection in Iran TEHRAN — Asiatic cheetahs’ habitats in of the Department of Environment said. the country will be equipped with satel- The world’s fastest mammal, capa- lite surveillance cameras to be constantly ble of reaching speeds of 120 kilometers monitored online so that protection will per hour, once stalked habitats from the increase, IRNA reported. eastern reaches of India to the Atlantic In order to protect the Asiatic chee- coast of Senegal, once their numbers have tahs, the habitat of these valuable species stabilized in parts of southern Africa, but will be monitored by satellite cameras, they have practically disappeared from Shahaboddin Montazemi, deputy head northern Africa and Asia. 9 Kashmir Muslims fear demographic shift as thousands get residency Up to 25,000 people have been granted special citizenship law, guaranteed under domicile certificates in Indian-adminis- Article 35 (A) of the Indian constitution. tered Kashmir since May 18, raising fears of The move has drawn parallel with the the beginning of demographic changes in occupied West Bank. the Muslim-majority Himalayan region. On Friday, Democratic presidential Shahab Ghayoumi The certificate, a sort of citizenship right, hopeful Joe Biden said, “India should take entitles a person to residency and govern- all necessary steps to restore the rights ment jobs in the region, which till last year of all the people of Kashmir.” was reserved only for the local population. “Restrictions on dissent, such as peace- Last year on August 5, when India ful protests or shutting or slowing down revoked the semi-autonomous status the internet weakens democracy,” says a Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ of the region, it also scrapped the local policy paper posted on his website. 10 Lebanon’s FM Houses of 200 luminaries added to National Black Lives Matter protest turns deadly in summons U.S. envoy Heritage list U.S. state of Kentucky over comments on TEHRAN — House of some 200 Iranian Iranian calendar year 1398 (ended March Authorities were investigating a fatal shooting Officers cleared the park and police “are trying Hezbollah luminaries, who are famous for their works 20), he concluded. on Saturday night at a park in the U.S. state of to gather as much information as possible in in different areas, have been inscribed on the The National Heritage list includes signif- Kentucky, where anti-racism demonstrators order to identify all who were involved in the by staff & agencies National Heritage list. icant monuments, places, buildings, events, had gathered to protest against the death of a incident,” the statement said. Lebanon’s state-run National News Although some of these houses are in etc., officially registered under the National Black woman, Breonna Taylor. According to al Jazeera, no information Agency is reporting that the country’s the hands of the heirs, about 200 of them Heritage Preservation Act of 1930. Reports that shots were fired at Jefferson about arrests, possible suspects and the victims’ foreign minister has summoned the U.S. across the country have been added to After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Square Park came in around 9pm, Louisville identities and ages was immediately released. ambassador to Beirut over comments she the National Heritage list and are being Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Metro police said in a statement, followed by Officials did not immediately release additional made recently in which she criticized the preserved, Mehr quoted deputy tourism Organization, which last year transformed calls that the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Depart- information. Hezbollah resistance group. minister Mohammad-Hassan Talebian as into a ministry, has been tasked to maintain ment was performing life-saving measures on “I am deeply saddened by the violence that The agency gave no further details other saying on Sunday. and renovate the national heritage. a male who died at the scene. erupted in Jefferson Square Park tonight, where than saying that the meeting is scheduled However being on the National Heritage The county expects to reap a bonanza from Shortly after, police were told of a shooting those who have been voicing their concerns for Monday afternoon. Sunday’s announce- list can be an opportunity for the private- its numerous tourist spots such as bazaars, victim across the street at the Hall of Justice. That have been gathered,” Louisville Mayor Greg ment came a day after a Lebanese judge ly-owned houses and mansions to become a museums, mosques, bridges, bathhouses, person was hospitalized with non-life-threat- Fischer said in a statement. banned local and foreign media outlets tourist destination, therefor their owners as madrasas, mausoleums, churches, towers, ening injuries. “It is a tragedy that this area of peaceful in the country from interviewing the U.S. well as people need to preserve them properly, and mansions, of which 24 being inscribed Video posted on social media appeared protest is now a crime scene.” ambassador for a year, saying that her the official added. on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Under to show a man opening fire into the park as The park has for weeks been the epicenter criticism of Hezbollah was seditious and Despite the limited budget of the ministry, the 2025 Tourism Vision Plan, it aims to in- people scrambled for cover. The footage later for anti-racism Black Lives Matter protests in a threat to social peace. over 2500 national heritage properties were crease the number of tourist arrivals from showed at least one person bleeding profusely the city after the police killings of Taylor and Judge Mohamad Mazeh in the southern restored and preserved during the previous 4.8 million in 2014 to 20 million in 2025. on the ground. George Floyd. 10 city of Tyre issued the ruling on Saturday a day after U.S. envoy Dorothy Shea told Saudi-owned TV station Al-Hadath that UK Labor calls to ban Washington has “great concerns” over New director of Art Hezbollah’s role in the government. settlement imports in Mazeh said he acted after receiving a Bureau inaugurated complaint from a citizen who considered response to annexation Shea’s comments to a Saudi-owned sta- TEHRAN — Mohammad-Mehdi Dadman was tion “insulting to the Lebanese people”, inaugurated as the new director of the Art Bureau UK Labor’s leadership called for a ban on imported adding the matter was urgent. during a ceremony on Sunday. goods from settlements if Israel applies its sover- The media outlets which interview The Art Bureau is affiliated with the Islamic eignty to parts of the West Bank. Shea “would be contributing intention- Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO), Labor’s shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy ally or unintentionally to the blatant a major organization that promotes Islamic called for “concrete action” in response to sover- aggression on the rights of those who culture and art under the auspices of Leader eignty moves in an interview with The Observer feel insulted from the interview,” Mezeh of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali published Saturday, with the reported support of wrote in a decision. Khamenei. Labor leader Keir Starmer. The judge said violators would be Dadman was the former deputy director of Nandy, a former head of Labor Friends of Pales- penalized with a one-year suspension the IIDO. tine, called Israel’s plans “a shameful proposition to and asked the Information Ministry to A number of art and cultural officials, includ- which the UK cannot be a silent witness.” She accused disseminate the order. ing Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance the UK government of being “conspicuously absent Mezeh said Shea’s comments incited Seyyed Abbas Salehi and Academy of Persian from [the] global response,” though its Ambassador sectarian strife and threatened social peace. Language and Literature director Gholam-Ali to the UN has spoken out repeatedly and the took Several Lebanese officials hailed the ban Haddad-Adel, attended the ceremony. part in a demarche by 11 countries against the plan. as “brave”, saying Shea had crossed a line Speaking at the ceremony, the minister “This is now urgent,” she said. “The government by interfering in Lebanon’s internal affairs. must be clear with the Israeli coalition govern- Hamid Vakili talked about the role of the bureau in pre- Taking to Twitter, Information Minister serving the achievements of the Iran-Iraq ment that concrete action will follow, including Manal Abdel-Samad wrote that the judi- 1980-1988 war, which is called the Sacred a ban on goods entering Britain from the illegal ciary may be reacting to the interference Mehr/ Defense in Iran.
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