Straight Truth WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM From Inside • Borrell congratulates Amir-Abdollahian, asks Iran to set date for Vienna talks P2 • Iranian fuel to reach Beirut soon P2 • Kam Air planes permitted to land in 8 Pages | Price 50,000 Rials | 1.00 EURO | 4.00 AED | 43rd year | No. 14020 | Saturday | AUGUST 28, 2021 | Shahrivar 6, 1400 | Muharram 19, 1443 Iranian airports due to security threats P2 • Iran strongly condemns deadly terrorist attacks at Kabul airport P2 • Powerlifter Jafari wins Iran’s first medal Another Atomic Bomb Hits Japan, at Tokyo 2020 P3 • Tokyo 2020: Iran wheelchair basketball lose to the U.S. P3 • Iran FM to attend Baghdad Summit P3 • Pakistani FM holds Afghanistan talks in Page 3 This Time with a Different Atom Tehran P3 STAY UPDATED #ModernaAtomicBomb • Oji outlines plans for Oil Ministry P4 • Fatemi Amin sets short term priorities for Iran’s foreign minister: Industry, Mining and Trade Ministry P4 Special headquarters • Transport Ministry to pursue National to be set up to expedite 20 years of looting Housing Action Plan P4 • Donation of daffodils to Imam Reza (AS) coronavirus vaccine shrine made national heritage P6 ends in fiasco • Prehistorical artworks repatriated from imports Switzerland to go on show in Tehran P6 Iran’s foreign minister says his ministry is planning • More 2.2m doses of COVID-19 vaccine to set up a special headquarters in order to speed up imported P7 the provision of coronavirus vaccines from any country whose standards are approved by Iran’s Health • Film from Iran line up for Nevada City Ministry. festival P8 Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on • Anna Seghers novel “Transit” comes to Thursday on the sidelines of a cabinet session in Tehran, saying that he will put the issue of coronavirus Iranian bookstores P8 pandemic on top of his agenda at the ministry. Noting that a special headquarters will be set up at the Foreign Ministry to facilitate vaccine imports, Amir-Abdollahian said, “We will do our best to import COVID-19 vaccine vaccines without any limitation from any country whose vaccines can be transferred into the country Razi Cov Pars starts and whose scientific standards are confirmed by [Iran’s] Health Ministry.” third clinical trial He explained that the headquarters’ goal is to activate the potential of all Iranian embassies and phase the country’s capacities abroad, both in the public and private sectors, to expedite the imports. TEHRAN - The second Iranian-made coronavirus Reuters Amir-Abdollahian also pointed to the Pakistani vaccine, named Razi Cov Pars, started the third phase of foreign minister’s trip to Tehran, saying that one of the the human trial on August 24. TEHRAN — 170 people were killed in four massive members were injured, the Pentagon said on Thursday. instructed his national security advisers to develop issues that would be discussed during his meeting with Developed by the Razi Vaccine and Serum explosions in Kabul on Thursday. By who? ISIS! response plans to the attack. Shah Mahmood Qureshi is the latest developments in The attack marked the deadliest day for the U.S. Research Institute, the vaccine is protein-based, neighboring Afghanistan and the region. 170 people were killed, including at least 13 U.S. military in Afghanistan since 2011, and came just five Biden said that the frantic evacuation of U.S. citizens which employs recombinant versions of the spike “Plans have been made in line with [our] neighbor- service members, at the Kabul airport on Thursday days before the Biden administration’s deadline for the and allies from Afghanistan will continue even as he protein and tutors the immune system against and Asia-oriented policy, which will be announced afternoon when two blasts ripped through masses complete military withdrawal from the country. The pledged to hunt down those responsible for the attacks. the virus by producing antibodies, started the first gradually in the coming days,” the Iranian foreign trying to enter a facility controlled by the Americans, military expects more attacks, Marine Corps Gen. Frank He spoke after the U.S. military sustained one of its clinical trial on February 27. disturbing the final push of the U.S.-led evacuation McKenzie told reporters. minister added. highest single-day American tolls during its 20-year The vaccine is developed in 3 doses, the first two effort. Amir-Abdollahian received the approval of Biden on Thursday evening said he was heartbroken Afghanistan campaign. doses are injectable and the third dose is intranasal. the Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday to replace A suicide bomb attack at the airport’s Abbey Gate by the violence and vowed to retaliate for the attacks, “To those who carried out this attack, as well as The second dose of the vaccine will be injected into Mohammad Javad Zarif as Iran’s chief diplomat. was followed by an assault by gunmen, officials said. while promising to continue evacuation efforts. anyone who wishes America harm, know this: We will the volunteers 21 days later and the third dose will be He received 270 votes in favor, 10 against and 6 Another bomb attack took place nearby, at a hotel “We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Biden not forgive,” the American president said. Page 2 inhaled 51 days later. outside the airport, officials said. Eighteen U.S. service abstentions. Page 2 said in remarks at the White House. He said he had STAY UPDATED #KabulAirport One million doses of “Razi Cov Pars” vaccine will be produced each month as of September. Iran has also successfully completed the first phase of Interview Fatemi Amin sets short term priorities for Industry, Mining and Trade Ministry the human trial for Fakhra vaccine, the third domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, named after nuclear TEHRAN - The newly approved Industry, Mining and to domestic production were among the short-term mentioned priorities. scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (he was assassinated in Geography and Trade Minister Seyyed Reza Fatemi Amin has set his plans and the main priorities of the minister, ISNA He pointed to achieving an effective structure and November 2020 near Tehran), that was unveiled and short-term priorities for the ministry on the first day of reported. mechanism for the management of industry and mining started the clinical trial on March 16. his office on Thursday. history defeated Talking to the press on the sidelines of a meeting sectors as one of the goals of this ministry and underlined “Osvid-19”, the fourth domestic vaccine produced Emphasizing the role of the private sector in with the former Minister Alireza Razm Hosseini, Fatemi the completion of the country’s comprehensive trade by Osvah Pharmaceutical Company is also undergoing America in production, employment and investment, attention to Amin noted that 36 new improvement programs have system as one of the important programs that the human trials, which will also be available in early market regulation, exports and the removal of barriers also been defined to be implemented along with the ministry would pursue. Page 4 September. Afghanistan: On May 24, the first coronavirus vaccine made by the private sector in Iran succeeded in receiving the code of Egyptian professor Baku blocks ethics and entered the phase of clinical studies. An Iranian knowledge-based company is developing land route to an oral vaccine against COVID-19, which will be produced by the next [Iranian calendar] year (starting March 2022), By Mohammad Mazhari IRIB reported on Wednesday. Page 7 TEHRAN – A professor of political science at Armenia Beni Suef University says the Taliban succeeded to TEHRAN— Iran’s Customs spokesman said on force the U.S. to pull out of Afghanistan because of Friday that a part of the land route from Iran to the strategic location of the country and the tribal Dealing with effects Armenia was blocked by the forces of the Republic nature of the society. of Azerbaijan. of pandemic on “The strategic location and the mountainous and Seyed Ruhollah Latifi, spokesman for the tribal nature had a significant impact on the survival Customs, said, “According to the news received from artists’ lives top of the Taliban and their recent victory after nearly some drivers, the entrance of the Goris-Kapan road twenty years of war with Western powers,” Nadia to Armenia was blocked by the Azerbaijani forces.” Helmy tells the Tehran Times. priority for new He added that it is said that the negotiations Helmy describes composition of the Afghanistan Fatemeh Hashemi between Yerevan officials and Baku in this regard culture minster society as “highly private,” but the U.S. has will take place on Friday morning. completely ignored this reality. TEHRAN – Iran’s new culture minister has said that Mehr/ Latifi emphasized, “Passengers and trucks Following is the text of the interview: carrying goods should make sure that the route is dealing with the repercussion of the pandemic on the What can the world learn from the U.S. exit open in Armenia before leaving for the border of lives of artists is a top priority for his organization. from Afghanistan? Archer Rahimi breaks Paralympic record “Norduz” in East Azerbaijan province.” Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaeili made the remarks in The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan will Azerbaijani Defense Ministry claimed that two a meeting with former culture minister Seyyed Abbas TOKYO – Iranian archer Gholamreza Rahimi broke the Paralympic record in the men’s transform the conflict from an international to a Armenian soldiers attempted to stab an Azerbaijani Salehi on Thursday just one day after winning a vote of individual recurve on Friday in Tokyo 2020. regional one. After reading the current scenes in border guard in the area. confidence from the Iranian Parliament, the Ministry Rahimi bettered the previous record with 644 points set by his countryman Ebrahim Ranjbar of Culture and Islamic Guidance announced in a press Afghanistan, I believe that the complete withdrawal Armenia’s Defense Ministry denied there was (637) at Rio 2016.