Why Is Informal Meeting So Important for the West?
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 8 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13898 Saturday MARCH 6, 2021 Esfand 16, 1399 Rajab 22, 1442 Zarif utterly Alamian’s brothers Oil market is Yemeni drones rejects JCPOA win bronze at WTT currently stable, attack Saudi air base, renegotiation Page 2 Contender Series Page 3 Zanganeh says Page 4 airport Page 5 Urban management projects worth Why is informal meeting so over $2.38b inaugurated across Iran TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani Some subway stations in Tehran, a inaugurated 1004 development and urban terminal and underground parking in management projects worth 100 trillion Khorasan Razavi province, a cultural important for the West? rials (about $2.38 billion) across Iran in complex in Golestan province, a tourism an online ceremony held on Thursday. complex in Alborz province, and a fruit The West withdrew anti-Iran resolution in exchange for an informal meeting See page 3 The said projects were put into opera- and vegetable market in Bushehr province tion following a series of inaugurations in were some of the projects inaugurated in the current Iranian calendar year (started the mentioned ceremony. on March 20, 2020), IRNA reported. Continued on page 4 Half a million Hyrcanian saplings being planted in Mazandaran TEHRAN – On the occasion of National Resources Week, which is celebrated Tree Planting Day, some half a million March 5 to 12. saplings endemic to Hyrcanian forests Hyrcanian or Caspian ecological zone are being planted across the northern The Hyrcanian ecological zone covers province of Mazandaran, IRNA reported the green belt, the southern margin of on Friday. the Caspian Sea, and the northern pro- The National Tree Planting Day is an- file of the Alborz mountain range. The nually celebrated on the fifteenth day of forested areas of the region stretch to the last month on the Iranian calendar 2.4 million hectares covering Astara in month of Esfand, which usually corre- Gilan province to Glidaghi in Golestan sponds with March 5. province. This day is the first day of Natural Continued on page 7 BY M.A. SAKI of successive punitive sanctions against TEHRAN – A political science professor at Tehran, and a keen advocate for their the Open University in Britain believes it is usage, it sends a worrying signal,” notes a “worrying signal” that Richard Nephew, Wastnidge, the lecturer in politics and the architect of sanctions on Iran during international studies. Richard Nephew a worrying signal the Obama administration, has taken a Richard Nephew, a scholar and au- new role in regard to Iran in the Biden thority on sanctions, joined the Biden administration. administration on Monday as deputy to Tehran: British professor “Based on his previous experience, to Robert Malley, the special U.S. en- Richard Nephew is a more concerning voy for Iran. choice,” Edward Wastnidge tells the The appointment of Nephew has met Tehran Times. with derision and criticism from Tehran. vcdnp.org “As someone who was the architect Continued on page 5 Extremists exploit IRGC Muhammad Rasulullah Division releases Qais al-Khazali: Israel directing attacks on U.S. religious tensions documents on Iran-Iraq war operations headquarters in Iraq to achieve TEHRAN – The 27th Mohammad Rasulull- during 1983 to gather information for carrying Qais al-Khazali, the secretary-general of Asaeb tation with occupiers until the liberation of parochial goals: ah Division of the Islamic Revolutionary out operations Valfajr 5 and 3 in the Mehran Ahl al-Haq, has said Israel is behind attacks on Iraq.” Guard Corps (IRGC) has declassified a and Diali regions, and Operations Valfajr 4 in the U.S. embassy and military bases in Iraq. “The resistance sees confrontation as the South African large number of documents on the oper- the Shiler, Marivan and Panjvein regions. In an interview with Iraq’s Aletejah TV, only option that guarantees the freedom, ations carried out during the 1980-1988 In an introduction to the book, Babai wrote Khazali stressed that Israel is directing the dignity of this country after exhausting all scholar Iran-Iraq war in a book. that the book line by line has been authored based attacks on U.S. headquarters and embassies the means that others have bet on with the Besat 27 is the publisher of “Mountain of on the written and verbal documents prepared in Iraq and that the perpetrators are Iraqi occupation,” the coordinating body for the BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI Fire” compiled by Golali Babai. by research centers for the war. mercenaries. Iraqi resistance factions said in a statement South African scholar be- The book also gives extensive reports on 27th Muhammad Rasulullah Division was He said a number of Iraqi security figures on Thursday, according to the Iraqi media. lieves that inter and in- the reconnaissance made by the division in the established as the 27th Muhammad Rasulullah also play a mediating role in managing op- “We are facing a new page from the pages tra-religious tensions help A Bamu-Darbandikhan axis, and the operations Brigade by Ahmad Motevasselian and Moham- erations against U.S. bases in the country. of the resistance, in which the weapons of the extremist groups to exploit the sit- Valfajr (Dawn) 3 and 4 from April to December mad-Ebrahim Hemmat during the war, and Al- Khazali added that the Zionist regime resistance will reach all the occupation forces uation and attract the youth to ad- 1983. was expanded into a division just before the is taking advantage of the situation in Iraq. and its bases in any part of the homeland,” vance their narrow-minded goals. The reports have been produced based on a Jerusalem Operation. While Israel is behind such attacks it is they said. “Violent extremist groups tend to ex- number of first-hand documents that have been A biography of Abbas Varamini, a commander accusing the resistance groups in order to Hailing the recent attacks against the “oc- ploit inter and intra-religious tensions preserved at some reliable archives, most of of the 27th Muhammad Rasulullah Division bring the Biden government and the resis- cupation forces”, the statement added that to achieve parochial objectives,” Akinola which have not been published before. was published earlier in 2018. tance groups into a conflict. “the resistance has the legal and national right Olojo tells the Tehran Times. The major report of the book focuses on the Javad Kalateh-Arabi is the writer of the book Meanwhile, Iraqi resistance groups have and popular support for all of that, but will “It is absolutely essential that cooper- long and difficult reconnaissance mission made entitled “In the Tumult of Silence”. announced a new phase of resistance against not target diplomatic missions.” ation across the religious spectrum is a by the division in the Bamu-Darbandikhan axis Continued on page 8 U.S. forces in the country, vowing “confron- Continued on page 5 component of preventing and countering violent extremism in African countries and indeed globally,” says Olojo, a senior researcher in transnational threats and IRGC foils hijack attempt on Ahvaz-Mashhad flight Affordable prices international crime at the Institute for TEHRAN - The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps … which had taken off from Ahvaz airport perpetrator of this conspiracy intended expected to bring Security Studies in Pretoria. (IRGC) has declared it has thwarted a plot to to the holy city of Mashhad at 22:10 hours to land the plane at the airport of one of Following is the text of the interview: hijack a plane en route from the southwestern Thursday night was neutralized with the the southern littoral states of the Persian back boom into Iran What are the main reasons for the city of Ahvaz to Mashhad in northeast Iran, ac- vigilance of the Guard’s flight security Gulf after the hijack.” rise of violent extremism in Africa? cording to Press TV. team.” The statement said all passengers were tourism Is Africa a safe haven for terrorists In a statement on Friday, the IRGC an- The flight made an emergency landing safe and traveled to their destination on an TEHRAN – The reasonable prices of Iran tours are affiliated with ISIS? nounced, “The noble and heroic nation of in the central city of Isfahan and the alternative flight. expected to bring back the boom into the tourism A combination of reasons helps us to the Islamic Iran is informed that with the hijacker was arrested, according to the The IRGC said the “dimensions and sector of the country in post coronavirus era, the head make sense of the spread of violent ex- grace of God, the conspiracy to hijack a statement. angles of the conspiracy” are still under of the Iranian Tour Operators Association has said. tremism on the continent. These reasons Fokker 100 aircraft belonging to Iran Air “According to initial assessments, the investigation. can also be understood as risk factors that “Attractive tour plans are also being prepared for have existed for a long time in a number those who are eager to explore the historical attrac- of African countries. These risk factors tions and natural wonders of the ancient country create conditions that violent extremist and want to experience a vacation here,” Ebrahim groups such as the so-called Islamic State Ayatollah Pourfaraj said on Thursday. (ISIS) and their affiliates are able to exploit. He also expressed hope that international tour op- Apart from ISIS, there are also groups Khamenei erators and companies who have worked with their such as Boko Haram and al-Shabaab. Iranian counterparts for years, would put Iran back on Decades of ineffective state institutions, the world’s travel route again, considering the facilities longstanding neglect of communities living urges all to they can get at cheaper prices than in other countries.