WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Along with special issue on UN 12 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13696 Sunday JUNE 28, 2020 Tir 8, 1399 Dhi Al Qada 6, 1441 Ayatollah Khamenei ‘Holding specialized FFIRI’s Statutes in Director Jalal Fatemi to make urges relentless fight exhibitions reinvigorates accordance with FIFA “Bird” about poet Sohrab on corruption 2 businesses’ 4 regulations: official 11 Sepehri’s childhood 12 Do not assume U.S. still aspires to be a world leader, Merkel says The rest of the world can no longer take from that role of its own free will, we would it for granted that the US still aspires to have to reflect on that very deeply.” be a global leader and needs to readjust Merkel, the first German leader to have its priorities accordingly, Angela Merkel grown up on the eastern side of the iron has warned. curtain, has in the past frequently spoken “We grew up in the certain knowledge of her admiration for the U.S.’s global in- that the United States wanted to be a world fluence. When she spoke in front of Con- power,” the German chancellor said in an gress in 2009, Merkel rhapsodized about interview with a group of six European the “incredible gift of freedom” bestowed on newspapers, including the Guardian. eastern Germans with the U.S.-supported “Should the U.S. now wish to withdraw toppling of the Berlin Wall. 10 Iran’s annual agricultural output expected to hit 128m tons by Mar. 2021 TEHRAN – Iran’s agricultural production the country’s agriculture production in The end is expected to reach 128 million tons in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended the current Iranian calendar year (March on March 19) at 123 million tons, ILNA 2020-March 2021), according to the Acting reported. Head of Agriculture Ministry’s Economic He pointed to improving the trade Affairs Department Shahrokh Shajari. balance of agriculture and food sectors, Speaking in a meeting of Agriculture preserving the country’s basic resourc- Ministry’s senior officials with First Vice es, improving food security by relying on of United President Es’haq Jahangiri, Shajari put domestic production, 4 Arms embargo not to affect Iran’s defense power: IRGC chief TEHRAN — Chief of the Islamic Revolu- are on agenda when the country is under tion Guards Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami sanctions, the top military official remarked. Nations? said on Saturday that arms embargo will Gordon Duff, an American veteran jour- See the special issue not affect Iran’s defense power. nalist and security and military analyst, has Miremad Hassani “Today, we are not dependent on for- said that Iran’s military power is a “night- eigners in weaponry systems and we have mare” for hardliners in the United States. reached self-sufficiency,” Salami said on “The reasons why the United States the sidelines of a visit to an exhibition on is concerned about Iran’s ability to buy the Agricultural Research Education and conventional arms is that the United Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ Extension Organization. States fears Iran from rebuilding its air Using domestic capacities and capabilities force. 2 ASEAN Summit: UNESCO-registered Yazd to develop In historic first, the House of Malaysia calls children’s tourism Representatives passes D.C. statehood bill on international TEHRAN – The historical oasis city of Yazd, along with their issues in various fields including The U.S. House of Representatives voted to however, is not expected to take up the measure, as community to which is a UNESCO World Heritage in central everyday life, education, and health, should be pass a bill approving D.C. statehood on Friday, it faces tough opposition from Republicans. Iran, is aimed to develop needed infrastructure taken into account more diligently and carefully.” the first time a chamber of Congress has ever Earlier in the day, as lawmakers debated the condemn and and prerequisites for becoming a top destination “Yazd can be considered as the capital of passed such legislation. bill, House Democrats, many of whom were for children’s tourism as well. children’s tourism in the country and this type of Members voted almost entirely along party wearing matching 51st state face masks, said reject Israeli The head of the Children’s Tourism Com- tourism can be economically exploited in favor lines, an outcome that had long been expected the legislation was long overdue. annexation plan mittee of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and of the [Yazd] province and by bonding children in the Democrat-led House, where the bill had “By admitting Washington, D.C. as a state, Handicrafts Department of Yazd province (which to the field of tourism, it can flourish many -in majority support. we will admit what we already know to be true,” Malaysia called upon the international is named after its ancient capital) announced frastructures and attractions,” she explained. 232 members voted in favor of the bill, while said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. “That community – in particular, the United the beginning of “serious activities for children’s Elsewhere in her remarks, the official under- 180 voted against it. Only one Democrat, Min- its people are our fellow Americans, equal in Nations (UN) Security Council – to con- tourism” in Yazd and the strengthening of this lined the need for the participation or increas- nesota Representative Collin Peterson, voted their pursuit of happiness and their enjoyment demn and reject the Israeli annexation field with close cooperation and participation of ing cooperation of all travel agencies across the against the measure, while no Republicans of the full rights and privileges of American plan of parts of the Occupied Palestinian the provincial executives and private investors, province in strengthening this field of tourism voted to support it. citizenship, including representation in the Territory in the West Bank. ISNA reported on Saturday. necessary, she also publicized that various pro- Outside the U.S. Capitol just before the vote Congress of the United States.” In making the call during the 36th ASE- Maryam Nabizadeh made the remarks in a grams and projects have been commenced in (and after a two-hour debate on the bill), D.C. Del. Maryland Representative John Sarbanes AN Summit, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhy- meeting with representatives of several NGOs line with children’s tourism. Eleanor Holmes Norton told DCist, “We knew echoed that sentiment. “For two centuries, the iddin Yassin said that the international active in the arena of the children and youth Some experts say that nomadic tourism, chil- exactly what was going to happen: that the Demo- people of the District of Columbia have been community must also ensure that the plan tourism, which was held at the Yazd Munici- dren’s tourism, virtual museums, and training crats would vote for freedom and equality and my disenfranchised, denied fair representation, ex- will never be implemented. pality on Thursday. guides for cultural heritage sites are among the good Republican friends would vote against it.” cluded from our great democratic experiment,” He said Malaysia is deeply concerned “Children as future makers of our society, untapped potentials of the travel sector. 8 The bill passed with 227 co-sponsors. The Senate, he said. 10 over the fate of the Palestinians amid the continued volatility in the West Asia. “Malaysia strongly condemns and rejects Israel’s recent announcement to Life story of martyr Beheshti under spotlight in Qaderi’s new play 2,350 Iranians implement its plan to annex parts of the TEHRAN – Dramatist Nasrollah Qaderi plans madreza Kolahi Samadi, an Iranian dissident accused Ayatollah Beheshti. recovered from Occupied Palestinian Territory in the West to write a play about the life story of Ayatollah of planting a bomb at the Islamic Republic party’s “All the events are selected from the documents Bank,” he said at the Summit, held virtu- Seyyed Hossein Beheshti, Iran’s Judicial Council headquarters and killing Ayatollah Beheshti and and books about Ayatollah Beheshti as well as the COVID-19 donate ally and hosted by ASEAN 2020 Chair, chief who was assassinated in a terrorist operation over 70 other people,” Qaderi said. documents about his assassination,” he added. Vietnam. Muhyiddin joined the Summit on June 28, 1981. Kolahi was a member of the Mojahedin-e Ayatollah Beheshti played a key role in es- plasma from Putrajaya. Entitled “Another Ashura”, the play has been Khalq Organization (MKO) and was suspected tablishing Iran as an Islamic republic in 1979. The Prime Minister said Kuala Lum- commissioned by the Art Bureau, an affiliate of planting a bomb at the headquarters of the On February 3, 1979, the founder of the TEHRAN – So far, 2,350 patients who have re- pur will continue to stand in strong soli- with the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organ- Islamic Republican Party (IRP) that killed more Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, appointed covered from coronavirus have referred to blood darity with the people of Palestine. ization (IIDO). than 70 officials in 1981. Beheshti a member of Iran’s Islamic Revo- transfusion centers for plasma donation, Bashir Muhyiddin said the planned annex- “In this play, the story goes along with the event He added that the story is narrated by the lutionary Council, and he soon became the Haji Beigi, spokesman for the Blood Transfusion Organization, has stated. ation further diminishes the prospect of of Ashura and it begins with the death of Moham- wife of Kolahi, and the mother and wife of council’s first secretary. 12 a two-state solution, which is supported Currently, in 22 out of 31 provinces of the country, by the international community.