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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.13875 Wednesday FEBRUARY 3, 2021 Bahman 15, 1399 Jumada Al thani 20, 1442 Iraqi FM to arrive Iran basketball 75 idle mines in Tehran on paired with the U.S. revived in Markazi Congratulations on birthday of Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra (SA) Wednesday Page 2 in Olympics Page 3 Province Page 4 and Mother’s Day Iran successfully launches new domestically-built satellite carrier American bottleneck TEHRAN - The Iranian Defense Ministry most powerful engine consuming solid fuel. See page 3 has launched a new satellite carrier with a Zoljenah can carry a satellite weighing powerful engine running on solid fuel, the 220 kg into an orbit 500 kilometers above national TV announced late on Monday the Earth. by showing films of the launch. According to Hosseini, Iran has now In a televised interview on Monday, Ah- three operational satellite carriers, name- mad Hosseini, spokesman for the Ministry ly Zoljenah, Sarir, and Soroush. Sarir is of Defense Aerospace Organization, said capable of carrying a payload of one ton Helmand water right to be the new domestically-designed satellite into a height of 1,000 km and is going to carrier, named Zoljenah, has been launched replace Simorgh. provided after 48-year pursuit in a research program that employs Iran’s Continued on page 2 Capital market realizes over $119b of financing in 10 months TEHRAN - Iranian Minister of Finance and 21),” Dejpasand said in the 102nd dialogue Economic Affairs Farhad Dejpasand has council of the government and the private said that the capital market has realized sector on Monday. five quadrillion rials (over $119 billion) According to the official, in order to of financing in the first 10 months of the realize the government programs for the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, capital market, it is necessary to plan in 2020-January 19, 2021). such a way that the currency market and “The figure can reach 14 quadrillion the capital market go forward side by side rials (about $333.3 billion) in the next and act in harmony. [Iranian calendar] year (begins on March Continued on page 4 TEHRAN – Iran and Afghanistan have Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan. finally signed an agreement on water According to the Atlantic Council right of Helmand River after forty-eight (an American think tank in the field years of pursuit and dispute, IRNA news of international affairs) disputes over agency reported on Tuesday. transboundary water between Iran and The Hamouns are transboundary wet- Afghanistan date back to the 1870s when lands on the Iran-Afghan border made up Afghanistan was under British control. of three lakes: Hamoun-e Helmand, which In 1973, an agreement was signed is entirely in Iran, Hamoun-e Sabari on between Amir Abbas Hoveida, the then the border, and Hamoun-e Puzak, almost Prime Minister of Iran, and Musa Shafiq, entirely inside Afghanistan. The three the then Prime Minister of Afghanistan, lakes are linked and fed by water from in Kabul, File photo the Helmand River which starts in the Continued on page 7 Iran’s achievements Iranian Artists Forum to host Intl. Art Festival HRW urges Biden to renounce Trump’s in fight against of Resistance slurs against critics of Israel cancer TEHRAN – The sixth International Art Fes- other festivals celebrate the anniversary of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on movement, in ways that threaten free speech. tival of Resistance will open at the Iranian the Islamic Revolution,” he noted. new U.S. President Joe Biden to defend free The BDS movement was initiated in 2005 BY FARANAK BAKHTIARI Artists Forum on February 8 with a top se- A selection of paintings submitted to the speech, including peaceful calls for a boycott of by over 170 Palestinian organizations that he development of cancer lection of artworks in the forms of poster, festival will be showcased at the Palestine Israel, and publicly renounce his predecessor were pushing for “various forms of boycott caregivers and specialists, sculpture, typography, illustration, cartoon Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran. Donald Trump’s legacy of branding human against Israel until it meets its obligations increasing the number of ser- and caricature. The director of the cartoon section of the rights groups and activists critical of Israel under international law.” T Works by artists from over 50 countries festival, Masud Shojaei-Tabatabai, earlier said and its settlement expansion in the occupied Thousands of volunteers worldwide have vice providers, and implementation of early diagnosis programs, along will go on view at the forum observing health that the cartoon section of the festival focuses Palestinian lands as “anti-Semitic.” since then joined the campaign, which calls with support by NGOs and charities protocols and social distancing, the organiz- on themes of “We Defeat Coronavirus” and Eric Goldstein, acting Middle East and for people and groups across the world to are the major steps Iran has taken in ers announced in a press release published “The U.S. Decline”. North Africa executive director at the HRW, cut economic, cultural and academic ties the fight against cancer. on Tuesday. Alireza Zakeri, Majid Khosro-Anjam and stated on Monday that the Democratic leader to Tel Aviv, to help promote the Palestin- Although the country is far from the Plans were for the festival to be held Mohammad-Ali Rajabi are the jury members should oppose laws that penalize companies ian cause. ideal situation, the development trend has during November 2020, the director of the of the cartoon section. seeking to cut ties with West Bank settlements Goldstein went on to say that former hawk- been appropriate, Ali Ghanbari-Motlagh, Public Relations Office of the festival, Mehdi The cartoons on the theme of “The U.S. — which are illegal under the Fourth Geneva ish U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo did head of the cancer prevention department Bakhshi, said. Decline” are quite interesting, and the coro- Convention — in order to avoid complicity not stop at accusing the pro-Palestinian BDS of the Ministry of Health said. “However, many people asked the organizer navirus, and the health workers have also in inevitable human rights violations of the movement of being “anti-Semitic,” but also Referring to the annual identification to postpone the festival due to the pandemic,” been warmly welcomed by the cartoonists. structures. lumped in groups that use international law of 135,000 new cases of cancer in Iran, he added. The Revayat Cultural Foundation is the Goldstein then expressed doubts that Biden as a basis to urge businesses to shun Israeli he said that the National Cancer Regis- “Finally, the organizers decided to post- organizer of the event that will be running would end Washington’s attempts to tar the settlements. tration Program, implemented in 2017, pone the festival to February 2021 when some until February 19. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Continued on page 5 reported that among the 135,000 annual cancer cases registered in the country, 52 percent are men and 48 percent women. Pointing to breast and prostate cancer Glimpses of bread making in Iran U.S. has long been as the most common cancers in women BY AFSHIN MAJLESI Among the Iranian nation, “nan” is recognized The traditional Persian cuisine is interwoven divided: American and men, respectively, he said that cancers Since the olden days, bread has been the staple diet as “barakat” meaning God’s blessing. Iranians with a wide variety of breads due to two main of the breast, prostate, colon, skin, and of the folks living in the semi-arid Iranian plateau. treat bread with respect due to its holy place in reasons. Firstly, bread is considered as the main writer gastric are the five common in the country. Traditional and ethnic Persian breads are famed their ancient culture. food of the Iranian people and its consumption in Lifestyle changes in recent years have for their strong flavor, quality, and diversity. “Nan” can also be traced in the Sasanian in- the daily diet is very common. Secondly, Iran is an BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI led to prostate cancer replacing gastric The Persian word for bread is “nan” which scriptions of the third century CE. Also, analyzing integrated country that accommodates various TEHRAN - An American writer says that the United cancer in men since the Iranian calendar you can find in great works by nearly all top historical documents show that the word “nan” is ethnic communities. States is divided into camps over supporting unreg- year 1390 (March 2011-March 2012), he Iranian poets and literary men, both modern mentioned in the Pahlavi texts of the 9th century. Iranian flatbread is produced by cooking ulated globalism. added. and classics such as Ferdowsi, Khwaja Abdullah A definition of sangak—one of the most popular fermented dough, basically made from wheat “One camp, favor unregulated globalism, want Ghanbari-Motlagh went on to note that Ansari, Rumi, Saadi, Ebne Yamin, Saib Tabrizi, Iranian breads—was found in the comprehensive flour, yeast, and water. to transition to a world led by China and perhaps 16 percent of annual deaths, amounting to and Sohrab Sepehri. Persian encyclopedia “Borhan-e-Ghate” in 1651. Continued on page 6 India,” Charles Ortel tells the Tehran Times. 51,000, are related to cancer, which makes “The other camp looks at globalist organi- it the second leading cause of death in zations and sees claims of success that are not the country after cardiovascular diseases. supported by convincing evidence, and clear Some 14 percent of Iranians develop Judicial officials suggestions of influence peddling, corruption, cancer during their lifetime, which is lower fraud, waste and other abuses,” the pro-Trump than in the world average of 20 percent.