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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.13917 Tuesday APRIL 13, 2021 Farvardin 24, 1400 Sha’aban 30, 1442 Iranian people have lost Sepahan held by Naft IOIV inks four deals “The Wasteland” trust in South Korea, Masjed Soleyman to to support domestic crowned best at Hong Ghalibaf tells PM Chung Page 2 remain second: IPL Page 3 companies Page 4 Kong film festival Page 8 Natanz nuclear site saboteur identified: Intelligence Ministry official TEHRAN— An informed official at the the power system of the Natanz complex,” Ministry of Intelligence said on Monday the ministry official added. The usual culprits that the saboteur of the Natanz nuclear Referring to a report by a technical site has been identified. group investigating the accident, the in- On Sunday morning the electrical system formed official clarified, “How to disrupt in the Natanz nuclear site was disrupted. the power supply system has also been Immediately after the incident, the Atomic determined by the technical group, and Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said since yesterday, necessary measures have the incident is under investigation. been taken to return the damaged hall to “Necessary measures are being taken to reactivation circuit.” arrest the main agent of the disruption in Continued on page 2 Domestic production of industrial equipment saves Iran over $3.5b in a year TEHRAN - Relying on domestic produc- billion, IRIB quoted Niaraki as saying tion has saved Iran $3.5 billion during the on Monday. previous Iranian calendar year (ended He mentioned investment in industrial on March 20), Iran’s Deputy Industry, sectors and the increasing trend of pro- Mining, and Trade Minister Mehdi Sadeqi duction of important industrial products Niaraki announced. as measures taken by the Industry, Mining akhshour V Last year the indigenization of the and Trade Ministry in the previous year knowledge for the production of $3.2 which was named the year of “Surge in billion worth of such equipment in Production” by the Leader of the Islamic Bahman various provinces was on the agenda, Revolution Seyed Ali Khamenei. by which increased to more than $3.5 Continued on page 4 Illustration Mohsen Rezaei explains Will Iran suspend nuclear Iran, Iraq to enhance labor, social Photo to the Tehran Times the talks or change their welfare co-op TEHRAN – Iranian Minister of Co- change information on entrepreneurship possibility of American operatives, Labor, and Social Wel- promotion, as well as the development of agenda in response to fare, Mohammad Shariatmadari, and cooperation in vocational training between involvement in sabotage See page 3 his Iraqi counterpart Adel al-Rik- the two countries. Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ Israeli sabotage? abi have signed a memorandum of Shariatmadari said that the program understanding (MOU) to exchange is beneficial to both nations, hoping that experiences on vocational training the implementation of the program will and social welfare. open up new job opportunities for the Signed in Baghdad on Sunday, the youth, IRNA reported. MOU is a 5-year program aiming to ex- Continued on page 7 Iran has secured More advanced centrifuges to be installed at U.S. police fatally shoot Black man in 58 spots for Tokyo Natanz, senior MP says Minneapolis, protests erupt 2020 so far TEHRAN-- The head of the National Security must be fully operational and in orbit, stopping Protests erupted against police when an officer police headquarters and threw projectiles, includ- and Foreign Policy Committee of the parliament them has caused this damage.” fatally shot a young Black man after stopping his ing rocks, at the police department, Commissioner BY FARROKH HESABI spoke about Sunday’s sabotage act in Natanz, He then moved to discuss what he believed was vehicle for a traffic violation on Sunday about John Harrington of the Minnesota Department total of 58 Olympic berths saying Iran will install more advanced centri- the second aspect of sabotage act at the facility. 10 miles (16 km) from where George Floyd was of Public Safety said in a live-streamed news haven bee secured by Irani- fuges at the nuclear facility. “The second point is that the enemy is trying killed during an arrest in Minneapolis last May. briefing. The group was later dispersed. an athletes in 12 sports so Mojtaba Zolnour said, “This incident, which to focus on the strategy of emptying our hands in As angry crowds swelled into the hundreds Another pocket of protesters broke into about A occurred through a cyber-disruption in the elec- the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department twenty businesses at a regional shopping center, far, and there are still more spots to grab for the country at Tokyo 2020 trical facilities of the Shahid Ahmadi Roshan P4 + 1 (in Vienna) and, in its own imaginations, building on Sunday night, officers in riot gear with some businesses looted, according to the Olympic Games. Enrichment Complex, can be examined from undermining our bargaining power by damaging fired rubber bullets and lobbed flash bangs at police and local media reports. Iranian wrestling freestylers booked several perspectives. First, the accident caused the nuclear infrastructure.” protesters and let off clouds of chemical irritants, Anti-police protesters have already spent three more Olympic berths as Amirmo- damage to some of the first-generation IR1 cen- Then, he proceeded to discuss the third aspect Reuters reported. recent days rallying in Minneapolis as the trial of hammad Babak Yazdani Charati, Younes trifuges. The capacity of these centrifuges are of the cyber-attack on Natanz. The man killed by police was identified by Derek Chauvin, a white former city policeman, Emami, and Mohammad Hossein Moham- at their lowest, enriching 800gs to a maximum “The third point about this incident is the relatives and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz enters the third week in a courthouse ringed with madian stormed into the final of Asian of 1.2kgs of uranium per year. We can produce height of hostility and the mendacity of the as Daunte Wright, 20. Walz said in a statement barriers and soldiers from the National Guard. Olympic qualifiers in Almaty, Kazakhstan a maximum of one ton of enriched uranium in other side, because we know that the Zionist that he was monitoring the unrest in Brooklyn Chauvin is charged with murder and man- on Sunday. one year if we have a thousand IR1 centrifuges.” regime, as the chained dog of the imperialism Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, as “our state slaughter for kneeling on the neck of Floyd, a Iran plans to send a larger delegation He added, “This disruption in the electrical and international Zionism, is involved in this mourns another life of a Black man taken by 46-year-old Black man, who was handcuffed to the Tokyo 2020 than Rio 2016 and 58 facilities of the Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan Complex incident and we do not think that the United law enforcement.” during the deadly arrest last May, video of which athletes have so far secured their places has caused a number of these centrifuges to de- States’ hands are clean as well.” Late Sunday, a group of about 100 to 200 sparked global protests against police brutality. in the Games. commission, and since the enrichment machines Continued on page 2 protesters gathered around the Brooklyn Center Continued on page 5 Amidst the country’s lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic, the athletes who are vying for spots in Tokyo 2020 are allowed to continue their training. Iranian Tour Operators Association pursues tourist visas resumption Iran embarrasses the Before the outbreak of the Covid-19 TEHRAN – Iranian Tour Operators Association “In a meeting with Seyyed Kazem Sajjadi, the tourists who have received the [second dose American arrogance: pandemic, Iran had secured 52 Olympic is formulating a proposal for the resumption of deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamen- of] coronavirus vaccine would be allowed to spots. After the restart of the qualification tourist visas after months of suspension amid tary, and Expatriates Affairs, I was supposed to enter Iran.” Lebanese academic games, the number of athletes who have strict government measures to prevent the spread provide some information and a plan for re-issuing Last month, he lamented that the continuation joined the Iranian delegation in Tokyo of coronavirus. [tourist] visas,” he explained. of such a trend would result in losing international BY REZA MOSHFEGH has reached 58. “Iranian visas are being granted to medical The veteran expert has asked the government tourist markets more than before. “Or at least TEHRAN - A Lebanese political researcher be- The list of Iranian athletes who have tourists… and we have requested the Foreign to issue tourist visas for the international ap- they should make it clear so that we can respond lieves that Iran embarrassed the U.S. through booked Tokyo Olympics quota places is Ministry to issue the same permits for the ap- plicants who have been fully vaccinated against appropriately to foreign companies and tourists avoiding direct talk with American represent- as follows: plicants of other tourism arenas,” ISNA quoted COVID-19. “The Ministry of Health and the to not to miss the international tourist markets atives in Vienna. Archery: One spot for the country Ebrahim Pourfaraj who presides the association, National Headquarters for Coronavirus Con- more than before.” Pointing to the nuclear deal talk as a process that Athletics: Two spots
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