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The head of Iran’s petroleum contracts U.S. is the first country to has been in the frontline of counterterrorism Saturday in Tehran. Rouhani added if ISIL’s dreams had come committee said on Thursday that bid- both ideologically and pragmatically, saying if “Without Iran… now we have faced the true, the whole world would have been in ding and negotiations for Iran’s oil- purchase 32-ton heavy it had not been for Iran’s supports, Damascus terrorist government of Daesh,” Rouhani jeopardy and the world had no idea of what fields will start in June or July. water from Iran and Bagdad would have fallen into the hands noted. would have happened to Paris, Brussels, and The fields that will come for bidding of Daesh, the Arabic acronym for ISIL. Syrian and Iraqi officials have already New York. are mostly big fields, Seyed Mehdi Hos- POLITICAL TEHRAN — Beh- seini told reporters after an oil summit in deskrooz Kamalvandi, See page 2 Paris, adding that some common fields spokesman for the Atomic Energy Iran shares with other countries would Organization of Iran (AEOI), said on also be open to bidding. Saturday that Tehran is in talks with a “Bidding will begin in late June or number of countries to sell its heavy early July,” the official said. water. He added that the National Iranian However, final decision will be sub- Oil Company may also carry out ne- ject to strategic and commercial con- gotiations for some individual projects. siderations, Kamalvandi stated. He invited international oil compa- The IAEO spokesman did not go nies to “start sending their interests” on into details as to which countries the potential projects. Iran hopes to attract country is to sell the material. international oil companies to invest in According to the JCPOA, formal- its oil sector and boost production with ly known as the Joint Comprehensive the new contracts. Plan of Action, Iran is disallowed ac- The official said the government cumulation of heavy water for a time had approved a model for new con- expansion of 15 years. tracts but it was still being processed Also, under the deal, Iran has to by a commission. make available for export to the in- Asked when the final draft of the ternational market any excess heavy contract will be ready and presented, water. Iran’s annual heavy water pro- Hosseini said the committee he chairs duction stands at almost 20 tons. was hoping for June or July. On Iran selling 32 tons of heavy wa- “We are doing our best to do ter to the U.S., Kamalvandi remarked something in June or July,” he said, annual excess heavy water will be adding that the Iranian government shipped out to what he called “trust- had approved the model for the new able markets.” contract. President.ir (Source: Reuters) 2 PERSPECTIVE Big construction deals on horizon during Park’s Iran visit ARTICLE By Harun Yahya By Omid Sohrabi-Nik political expert South Korean construction companies are set business ties between the nations, leading billion deal on railway projects and a prelimi- Political analyst to sign a series of big development projects a delegation of some 200 businesspeople nary agreement on a dam and water plant deal in Iran when a business delegation visits the from such areas as construction, energy and estimated at $2 billion next month. It has also Middle Eastern nation next month to promote finance. been pushing for participating in a petrochem- All for one, bilateral economic ties, industry officials said Her visit, the first of its kind by a South Ko- ical project, hoping to sign a memorandum of Supreme Leader’s Saturday. rean president since the two sides established understanding with the Tehran government one for all President Park Geun-hye is to visit Iran diplomatic relations in 1962, comes as Iran has during the delegation visit. messages highlight from May 1-3 to discuss ways to promote been emerging as a high-potential market af- 9 he 13th Organization of Islamic ter years of international sanctions were lifted importance of economy TCooperation Summit which was Hyundai is set to invest in January. Daelim plans to ink held recently in Istanbul is still $3.6 billion to build a gas Leading Korean builders plan to set mem- a $4.9 billion deal on he fact that Iran’s highest au- hitting the headlines. This meeting was orandums of understanding and preliminary Tthority, Supreme Leader of the special in many ways such as the signif- refining facility. The firm agreements on building railway, dam, petro- railway projects and a Islamic Revolution Ayatollah icance of the host city, Istanbul, which also plans to participate chemical plant and hospitals, with the value preliminary agreement Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has named the has been the house of the caliphate for in a private power plant of contracts estimated around 15-20 trillion on a dam and water plant Persian New Year “Resistance Econo- more than five centuries. For the first construction project won ($13-17 billion), according to industry deal estimated at $2 my” shows that he has admitted that time since its foundation was estab- officials. the country’s economy is in dire need lished in 1969, this was marked as the estimated at $500 million. Daelim Industrial said it plans to ink a $4.9 billion next month. of attention. highest attendance at the level of presi- Ayatollah Khamenei has been dents. Even though the organization has naming Iranian years after religious not brought any significant solutions to Finnish selection of Shahnameh unveiled in Tehran figures and concepts since 1999. the issues faced by Muslims, this was at But he has focused on economy least a promising union in the midst of By Manijeh Rezapoor ume to the first to cover the entire ple of Finland will learn to know over the past seven years, using the blazing conflicts in the Islamic world. book,” he told the participants. about the history and culture of the word “economy” in the titles of It gives a hope that this time this assem- TEHRAN – A Finnish translation “I chose the version of Iran. Iran has given so much to the four years. bly will make a necessary change to pre- of a selection from Ferdowsi’s epic Shahnameh by distinguished (Ira- world’s civilizations. Iranian poets Every year, the Supreme Lead- vent the loss of even one innocent life. masterpiece Shahnameh by Jaakko nian) Shahnameh researcher Jalal have been the source of inspira- er names the Iranian years that start No doubt, among the participants, Hameen-Anttila, a professor at the Khaleqi-Motlaq as my original tion for Europeans, and my Finnish from March 20 or March 21 in order President Rouhani and King Salman University of Helsinki, was unveiled source. However, I chose to render countrymen will be able to read to draw the attention of the officials attracted a great deal of attention by during a ceremony in Tehran on the selection into prose since I felt Shahnameh in their own language,” and the people to a “value as well as the media due to recent disagree- Saturday. that translation into verse would be the ambassador added. a problem”. ments between the two powerful Is- Anttila, Finnish Ambassador above my abilities,” he explained. Shahnameh, which is known Before 2009, titles of the years in- lamic countries. 9 Harri Kamarainen and some Iranian However, he said that he is plan- as the “Book of Kings” in English, cluded the names of figures like Imam cultural officials attended the cere- ning to choose some short stories is the celebrated work of the epic Khomeini (the founder of the Islamic mony held in the Majlis Library, Mu- from Shahanmeh to translate into poet Ferdowsi in which the Persian Republic of Iran), Imam Ali (the first Pretoria and seum and Documentation Center. Finnish in verse at some other time. national epic found its final and en- Shia Imam) and The Prophet (Muham- The professor said that he takes The professor also noted that during form. It was completed in mad). Tehran to pen 3 great pride in having translated the the book came out last week and 1010. The Shahnameh millennium Values and concepts like the Honor Book of Kings (Shahnameh) into he is not sure if the books have was accepted on UNESCO’s 2010 and Dignity of Hossein (the third Shia agreements the Finnish language, and having been distributed in bookshops calendar of events. Imam), Service, Responsibility, Nation- made it available for the people of across Helsinki yet. The ambassador for his part The Majlis Library director Mo- al Unity and Islamic Solidarity, and In- POLITICAL TEHRAN – Iranian called April 23rd a day of joy and desk his country.