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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.13882 Sunday FEBRUARY 14, 2021 Bahman 26, 1399 Rajab 2, 1442 FM Zarif urges Sepahan beat IMIDRO to inaugurate Relief foundation plans E3 to read JCPOA Esteghlal to move mining development projects to create 300,000 jobs Page 3 IPL top Page 3 worth over $355m soon Page 4 next year Page 7 Araqchi: Lifting sanctions only See page 3 path for U.S. to rejoin JCPOA TEHRAN - Abbas Araqchi, the Iranian the administration of former presi- deputy foreign minister for political af- dent Donald Trump placed on Iran, fairs, says the new U.S. administration including those stipulated in the deal must lift the sanctions on Tehran in a and the bans imposed on the country verifiable manner in order to rejoin the under new pretexts.” 2015 nuclear deal. “The U.S. must remove the sanctions Post- According to the Tasnim news in full, not in words or on paper, but in agency, Araqchi emphasized if the practice,” Araqchi told the official website U.S. wants “Iran to resume its com- of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in mitments under the JCPOA, the White an interview published on Friday. American House must lift the sanctions that Continued on page 2 Steel ingot output by major producers rises 7% TEHRAN — Production of steel ingot by the As reported, the mentioned pro- subsidiaries of Iranian Mines and Mining ducers have produced 18.75 million Industries Development and Renovation tons of steel ingots during the ten- era Organization (IMIDRO) and the other ma- month period. jor companies active in the mining sector Although, the production of steel in- has increased seven percent during the got during the tenth month of this year first ten months of the current Iranian (December 21, 2020 – January 19, 2021) calendar year (March 20, 2020 – January has fallen four percent from that of the 19, 2021), compared to the same period same month in the past year. of time in the past year. Continued on page 4 Prints by Iranian, international artists on view at Fajr Festival of Visual Arts TEHRAN – The 13th Fajr Festival of Visual Stef Bossuyt, Arielle Amir, Bernadette Arts, underway in the Saba Art and Cultural Colburn, Rebecca Giles, Lisa Hamilton, Institute, is hanging a collection of prints Rachel Hoffman, Emma Kellerdori Mill- by a number of Iranian and international er, Hayley Murphy, Christine Petty and artists in a special section. Katrina Simonsen are among the inter- Lieve Cosyns, Alwin Viaene, Barba- national artists whose artworks are on ra Lambert, Jan Vermandere, Kara Van view at the exhibit. File photo Reusel, Mieke De Maeyer, Evan Rosato, Continued on page 8 Israel continues to Iran may face new wave of COVID-19, Bahraini protesters stage rallies nationwide obstruct attempts to create Rouhani warns on eve of uprising anniversary NWFZ: Russian academic TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani the disease, although historical experience has Bahrainis have staged demonstrations across ular uprising and detained anti-regime activists emphasized the necessity for people to follow shown that mankind will be victorious in the the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on the eve of through writing graffiti on walls. BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI health protocols, as a new wave of coronavirus fight against the pandemics.” the tenth anniversary of the popular upris- They also wrote the name of Bahrain’s mon- TEHRAN - An associate professor in the may hit the country within the next two months. However, there is still no better way than ing against the Al Khalifah regime, and its arch King Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifah Department of Comparative Politics at Rouhani made the remarks during a meeting avoiding gatherings, washing hands, and observ- heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy on the streets to be trampled under the feet of Russia’s RUDN University says Israel of the national headquarters for coronavirus ing social distancing to break the transmission campaigners. protesters and wheels of passing cars. is one of the main obstacles to a “nucle- control on Saturday. chain, he highlighted. On Friday night, demonstrators took to the Youths set tires on fire in the village of Eker, ar-weapon-free zone” in the region. Emphasizing that facing such a great calamity Rouhani further called on the people to streets west of the capital Manama, carrying pic- situated about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south “Israel boycotted the conferences for was unprecedented during the century, he said observe the hygiene principles, insisting that tures of Bahrain’s most prominent cleric Sheikh of the capital, in protest as well. NWFZ in the Middle East (West Asia) that despite all the advances in medical knowl- anyone who enters the country should undergo Isa Qassim, imprisoned political dissidents as Bahraini regime forces have been and continues to obstruct all attempts edge, the outbreak of such a global pandemic the COVID-19 test. “We should all join hands well as those killed at the hands of regime forces. heavily deployed across the country, in- to create a nuclear free zone,” Vladimir was unpredictable to anyone. to prevent the fourth wave of the outbreak,” They called for an end to human rights vi- cluding Juffair district of Manama plus Ivanov tells the Tehran Times. But the world is still suffering from the dis- he asserted. olations and the release of political detainees. Ma’ameer and Sanabis villages, on the eve One of the main obstacles to the NWFZ ease, as tens of millions of people have been Iran has taken the primary steps to devel- The pro-democracy protesters urged the Al of the anniversary. is the Israeli arsenal of WMDs and its refus- infected, and hundreds of thousands have died, op and produce the COVID-19 vaccine and the Khalifah regime to relinquish power and allow Demonstrations in Bahrain have been held al to join the CWC and BWC, Ivanov says. he lamented. country’s experts are confident that the project the establishment of a just system representing on a regular basis ever since a popular uprising NWFZ stands for a nuclear-weapon-free He went on to note that the world could not will be finalized in March so that Iran will begin all strata of the society. began in mid-February 2011. zone; CWC for the Chemical Weapons even find a medicine to treat the disease, “so we mass vaccination with the domestically-produced Elsewhere in the northern villages of Abu Manama, however, has gone to great lengths Convention; and BWC for Biological moved toward vaccine production, adding, it is vaccine, he stated. Saiba and Shakhura, groups of young demon- to clamp down on any sign of dissent. Weapons Convention. not clear when science will succeed in eradicating Continued on page 7 strators expressed their solidarity with the pop- Continued on page 5 A nuclear-weapon-free zone in West Asia was first proposed by Iran in 1974. The idea of such a zone was suggested as a way to curb Israel’s nuclear ambitions. Iran may be more “democratic” than the U.S. nowadays… Iranian sweets, crafts The Islamic Republic of Iran, which re- BY MARTIN LOVE it a full-blown Apartheid state from the He is not at all, as Trump often seemed, an win national heritage placed the Shah regime in 1979, is insisting Can it be more evident than it now is: that Jordan River to the Mediterranean, and “anti-Semite” as witnessed through some on a nuclear weapons-free zone in West Asia. U.S. foreign policy is not “for” the U.S. or “Israel” is reviled more than ever world- of Trump’s crude statements. Biden clearly status Despite Iran’s adherence to the 2015 its citizens but for the Zionists. wide. In some ways Biden’s Zionist focus has a vision of two huge military powers, the nuclear deal – JCPOA- the U.S. withdrew The Biden Administration is jam packed is worse even than under Trump, who was U.S. and Israel, lording it over West Asia and TEHRAN-A total of 18 cultural elements, which are from the pact in May 2018 and introduced with Zionists, more so than when Biden just primarily seeking supporters to salve “securing” mutual “interests”, the latter of practiced in the central Iranian province of Yazd, the harshest sanctions on Tehran under its served under Obama as vice president. his insecurities and boost ego and justify which boils down to one thing: neither the have been inscribed on the National Intangible “maximum pressure” policy. Now the Biden There is apparently nothing these peo- his narcissism. U.S. nor Israel can be attacked in the region Cultural Heritage list. administration seems to be temporizing to ple won’t do for the Zionist entity despite Biden is a relatively cunning shill for the without reactive devastation, and both can The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and rejoin the pact, urging Iran to take the first step. the fact that even Israel’s leading human Zionists. He knows how Washington has continue to do as they please. Handicrafts on Saturday announced the inscrip- But the Russian academic emphasizes rights organization, B’tselem, has declared worked traditionally (Trump had little clue). Continued on page 2 tions in an official document it submitted to the that “the first step to rejuvenate the JCPOA governor-general of the province, CHTN reported. is the lifting of unilateral U.S. sanctions The skill of making Kashki earrings, the skill of imposed after May 8, 2018.” cooking traditional food of Shirshu, and the talent The following is the text of the interview: of making Haji Badum sweets were amongst entrees How do you assess the new Amer- to the prestigious list.