WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Days to election 8 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 43rd year No.13967 Tuesday JUNE 15, 2021 Khordad 25, 1400 Dhi Al Qada 4, 1442 3 Foreign Ministry: Our job is not yet Barham Salih: Iraq Book on Iranian volunteer Iran will finished: defeated Daesh thanks to in Afghan war against stand tall Page 2 Dragan Skocic Page 3 army, Hashd al-Sha’abiPage 5 Soviets published Page 8 See page 3 Iran enriching uranium to 63%, says Rouhani TEHRAN — President Hassan Rou- program is purely for civilian purposes, hani said on Monday that Iran has saying production of nuclear weapons is To the high seas mastered a level of knowledge that unacceptable. it is enriching uranium up to 63%, “In the issue of defense in our country, and that it can enrich uranium at any we neither need weapons of mass destruc- percentage it desires. tion, nor we seek to acquire this weapon, Rouhani made the remarks while nor do we consider it permissible; this is speaking at an inauguration ceremony an explicit fatwa of the Supreme Leader.” unveiling the Defense Ministry plans. Rouhani said Iran is developing new and beyond The president reiterated Tehran’s technologies for domestic use. long held position that Iran’s nuclear Continued on page 3 Iranian “steel mountain” Iran implements project for injecting and the multilayered gas condensate into oilfield for 1st time TEHRAN - Iranian Offshore Oil Com- field in the region, has been loaded into strategy of maintaining pany (IOOC), in collaboration with the a vessel called “Forest” and shipped to- National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), ward Soroush field near Kharg Island to peace in the region has started implementing a project for be injected into the field’s wells. injecting gas condensate into Soroush oil The projects kicked off on Thursday field in the Persian Gulf to maintain its and the process of loading the condensate, production level. shipping it and injecting the gas into the In this project, which is being imple- field all went smoothly and all the safety mented for the first time in the history measures were taken in carrying out the of Iran’s oil industry, gas condensate operation. produced from the giant South Pars gas Continued on page 4 COVIRAN vaccine receives public use license TEHRAN – Homegrown COVIRAN BAREKAT coronavirus vaccine will start BAREKAT vaccine has received the li- operation on June 22, manufacturing cense for public use, Health Minister some 11 million doses of the vaccine Saeed Namaki announced on Monday. per month. COVIRAN, the first coronavirus vaccine With the start of production on May made by researchers at the Headquarters 22, about three million doses of vaccine for Executing the Order of the Imam, was have been produced, Seyed Reza Mazhari, unveiled on December 29, 2020, and start- executive director of the vaccine clinical ed to be mass-produced on March 29. studies, said. Ministry of Defence A new production line for COVIRAN Continued on page 7 Sirik power plant Let’s keep the world beating by Paper details U.S., Israel, Saudi role in coup plot highlighting donating blood against Jordan king Iran-Russia energy BY FARANAK BAKHTIARI will be “Give blood and keep the world beating”. Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States joined Saudi Arabia’s de-facto ruler. TEHRAN – As developing countries expand The message highlights the essential contribution forces to pressure Jordan’s King Abdullah II to Abdullah was said to be concerned that those cooperation treatment facilities and developed ones blood donors make to keeping the world pulsating partake in the U.S.-sponsored “normalization expanded ties came at Jordan’s expense, because invent new medical measures, the need by saving lives and improving others’ health. deals” with Tel Aviv, according to the Wash- of his reservations over the U.S. proposal for BY MAHNAZ ABDI for blood and blood products increases It reinforces the global call for more people all ington Post. the Middle East. n August 2016, Iran had signed daily, so that, with blood donation, we can over the world to donate blood regularly and The Jordanian monarch resisted the attempts, Abdullah is recognized as the custodian of a memorandum of understand- save millions of lives and keep the hearts contribute to better health. leading to a plot to “destabilize” the country, that the Haram esh-Sharif and the al-Aqsa Com- ing (MOU) with Russia for of many beatings. Over 2.1m Iranians donate blood per ensnared the king’s half-brother Prince Hamza pound, and other Muslim sites in the Old City, I June 14 was chosen as World Blood Donor year and former senior officials Bassem Awadallah which Israel occupied in the 1967 Six Day War. implementing a 1,400-megawatt power plant project in Iran’s south- Day because it is the birthday of the Austrian Blood donation in Iran has long been done and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid. Citing an American who knows the king, the ern Hormozgan Province. immunologist and pathologist Karl Landstein- voluntarily; over 2.1 million Iranians donate According to the report, Saudi crown prince Mo- newspaper wrote that Abdullah felt the U.S., Based on the signed agreement, the er. His discovery of blood types and how safe blood annually, Bashir Haji-Beigi, the Blood hammad bin Salman, former Israeli regime premier Israel and Saudi Arabia were trying to push Russian Company Technopromexport blood transfusions are, brought great advances Transfusion Organization spokesman said on Benjamin Netanyahu and former US president Donald him out as the custodian. pledged to invest up to €1.2 billion in in science. Monday. Trump were at the center of the intrigue. As Kushner’s campaign to advance Trump’s the project of Sirik power plant. The aim is to raise global awareness of the There are currently 178 blood donation “It became a belief of Trump that the king plan picked up last year, he also hoped to help The construction of the mentioned need for safe blood and blood products for centers in the country, with Fars, Khorasan was a hindrance” to his plan, a former senior facilitate a normalization pact between Isra- thermal power plant started in February transfusion and of the critical contribution Razavi, Khuzestan, Tehran, and Mazandaran CIA official was quoted as saying. el and Saudi Arabia, according to the report. 2017; however, it came to a halt due to voluntary, unpaid blood donors make to na- provinces having the largest number of blood The report pointed to the close relations However, Abdullah was seen as an obstacle to some administrative and funding problems tional health systems. donation centers, he stated. that Trump and his son-in-law and senior ad- such a rapprochement. from the Russian side. For 2021, the World Blood Donor Day slogan Continued on page 7 viser Jared Kushner had forged with bin Salman, Continued on page 5 After years of postponing, eventual- ly, the Russian side came to the conclu- sion that the contractor [for the project] Centuries-old mosque in southwestern Iran restored to former glory Vienna talks: A multi- should be replaced. On this basis, a new TEHRAN – A team of cultural heritage experts official exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) the province. contractor was selected, which was also and restorers has given new life to a ruined was allocated to the restoration project of Abuzar The city was built at the time of Shapur part American series approved by Iran. mosque, which is located in the ancient city of Ghafari Mosque, the official added. I, also known as Shapur the Great, (reigned Once fully operational, the Sirik pro- Belad Shapur in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Despite all the destruction that took place in 241 CE–272), the second king of the Sassa- BY ABIR BASSAM ject would add some 12 terawatt-hours province, southwestern Iran. this historical city in different eras, with an area nid Dynasty. Under his leadership, the empire Every time the Iranian government takes the decision (TWh) of power to Iran’s current gener- “The Safavid-era (1501-1736) mosque, which of more than 45 hectares, it is currently consid- stretched from Sogdiana and Iberia (Georgia) to raise the enrichment level in its nuclear reactors, ation capacity. was abandoned, was restored to its former glory ered as one of the largest historical structures in the north to the Mazun region of Arabia in the Americans and the Europeans raise their voices. In last September, Iranian Energy Min- after years of neglect and poor maintenance and in the country in terms of size and number of the south; in the east, it extended to the Indus Their objections are repeated like a cracked disc. ister Reza Ardakanian had announced is now in use,” the provincial tourism chief said historical buildings. River and in the west to the upper Tigris and They are worried about whether Iran is close to that Russia has changed the contractor on Monday. Inscribed on the National Heritage list in 1985, Euphrates river valleys. building a nuclear bomb or not, although Iran has that was supposed to work on the Sirik A budget of five billion rials ($119,000 at the Belad Shapur is one of the top tourist sites in Continued on page 6 declared several times that it has no intentions of power plant and the new contractor was doing so, and its nuclear program is only for peaceful going to start working on the project in purposes.