Velayati: For Iran there’s Ease of banking relations 8 Iranian universities Mozart’s Requiem highlights 21012no difference between 4 would speed up Iran- among top 200 Asian funeral of maestro Mostafa- NATION Syria and Iraq ECONOMY Netherlands ties: Zarif SOCIETY universities ART& CULTURE Kamal Purtorab WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y No obstacles for admitting Iran to SCO: Putin 2 12 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.12584 Saturday JUNE 25, 2016 Tir 5, 1395 Ramadan 19, 1437 Boeing offers Zarif seeks Iran’s SCO details on Iran deal, saying all was done accession in Tashkent legally POLITICAL TEHRAN — While the Euro including Tehran in its observer capacity, have represented Iran in the event, seeking a ten- While Iran submitted an accession ap- The Boeing Company on Thursday desk zone is losing one of its stars convened in Tashkent to consolidate bonds. tative, initial okay on Tehran’s membership in plication to the SCO back in April 2008, its offered new details on its proposed in the wake of a Brexit leave vote, the Shang- Having wrapped up his third round of the growingly influential body, among other membership was hindered by its nuclear row passenger aircraft deal with Iran and hai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members, European visit, the Iranian foreign minister things. with the West. 2 rejected suggestions that it had not done sufficient homework in identify- ing end users of the planes. In a letter to congressional critics of the politically delicate deal, Boeing said Iran Air, the national airline, in- tended to buy 80 passenger planes in ‘Explosive shock’ as a variety of models worth $17.6 billion and lease 29 of the company’s 737s, with deliveries projected to begin as Britain votes to leave EU, early as next year. The letter, by Tim Keating, vice pres- ident of government operations, also Cameron quits said “we have a vigorous compliance mechanism at Boeing with regard to World stocks in freefall as Britan votes for EU exit the screening of all parties with which we do business.” Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU), forcing the resignation of Keating wrote that Boeing had Prime Minister David Cameron and dealing the biggest blow to the European strictly adhered to dealings with Irani- project of greater unity since World War Two. an entities approved by United States Global financial markets plunged on Friday as results from a referendum sanctions monitors. showed a 52-48 percent victory for the campaign to leave a bloc that Britain Boeing’s proposed deal with Iran joined more than 40 years ago, Reuters reported. Air, disclosed this month, is potentially Sterling plunged to its lowest in three decades and the value of London’s one of the most significant economic big banks sank by the most since the 2008 financial crisis on Friday as Brit- outcomes of the international nuclear ain’s shock vote to leave the European Union sparked turmoil on global agreement with Iran that took effect financial markets. in January, which rescinded or eased See page 9 many sanctions in exchange for Iran’s verifiable commitments to peaceful nuclear activities. 4 New Russian Tourism to create 140,000 jobs in Iran by March 2018: CHTHO chief PERSPECTIVE version of Holy By Serge R. Nakouzi TOURISM TEHRAN — Iran will create plained. Turkish investors will build ten hotels in Teh- desk The FAO Representative Quran unveiled in some 140,000 job opportu- CHTHO is already developing 1,752 pro- ran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz and Mashhad, un- to Iran and to ECO nities in the field of tourism by the end of the jects in tourism sector in different parts of der the terms of an agreement with Iran signed Tehran next Iranian calendar year (March 2018), the Iran, including building hotels and residenc- during a Turkish delegation’s visit to Tehran in head of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Hand- es, he said. mid May. CULTURE TEHRAN — A new icraft Organization (CHTHO), Masoud Soltani- “We have already held some negotiations According to an agreement signed between Conserving deskRussian version of far, announced. with Turkish and German investors for building CHTHO and German hospitality company, Stei- the Holy Quran was unveiled during biological diversity We have already submitted some plans to about 20 five-star hotels in coming years. This genberger Hotel Group in late May, the com- a ceremony at the 24th International create jobs in these fields to the Ministry of will have a great impact on tourism industry in pany is set to build 10 hotels in different parts Holy Quran Exhibition in Tehran on to save our Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare, he ex- the country,” he concluded. of Iran over the next ten years. Thursday. environment Countries’ silence has emboldened Saudi Arabia: Shireen Hunter uring the month of June, we Dmarked the National Environ- INTERVIEW published — due to a financial According to the Intercept, the was based on the work of UN re- ment Week here in Iran. The By Javad Heirannia threat to defund United Nations UN’s 2015 “Children and Armed searchers in Yemen, attributed 60 commemoration of this week provid- programs. Conflict” report originally listed percent of the 785 children killed ed an opportunity for reflection on the TEHRAN — Shireen Tahmaasb The secretary-general didn’t the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen and 1,168 injured to the bomb- importance of natural resources to all Hunter, a professor of political name the source of the threat, under “parties that kill or maim ing coalition. of us both individually and collectively. Russian translator Nazim Zeynalov science at Georgetown Universi- but news reports have indicated it children” and “parties that en- Hunter tells the Tehran Times Over the coming days I would like holds a copy of a Russian version of the ty, believes that other countries’ came directly from the Saudi gov- gage in attacks on schools and/ that “the blame should be ad- to share some of my own reflections Holy Quran after being unveiled after silence toward Saudi Arabia’s ernment. or hospitals.” The report, which dressed to those countries which on the various aspects as to why the at Russia’s stand during the 29th Tehran “transgressions” has made Riyadh in the past have overlooked preservation of the environments is International Book Fair on May 8, 2016. emboldened. Saudi transgressions and thus critical to the safeguarding of humani- (IQNA/Mohammad Namazi) “When Saudi Arabia threatened to cut its UN Secretary General Ban Ki- contribution, other members should have emboldened it to behave in dis- ty’s fate on earth. moon publicly acknowledged on regard of international norms of I wish to begin with the subject of Russian Shia scholar Nazim Zey- June 9 that he removed the Sau- come forward and declared that they will conduct.” biodiversity and its role in preserving nalov is the translator of the edition, di-led coalition currently bombing Following is the text the inter- life on our planet. which was published by the Center for cover the financial shortfall resulting from Yemen from a blacklist of child view: More than 70 percent of the world’s Translation of the Holy Quran in Qom. Saudi action,” Hunter suggested. killers — 72 hours after it was 9 poor live in rural areas and depend Fifteen Russion translations of the directly on biodiversity and ecosystem Holy Quran by Christian and Sunni services for their subsistence. scholars have previously been published, Poachers kill two rangers in Iran Biodiversity plays a determinant the center announced at the ceremony. role in reinforcing food security, sus- Zeynalov won an Iran’s Book of the SOCIETY TEHRAN — Two rangers got their belts, Vafadar said. tainable livelihoods and ecosystem Year Award for work last year. deskkilled while chasing poach- As the area is almost impassable the two resilience, as well as ushering appro- The 24th International Holy Quran ers in Geno biosphere reserve in the southern rangers’ bodies must have been brought back priate strategies for climate change Exhibition is running at Imam Khomeini province of Hormozgan on Thursday, the De- by helicopter but due to the darkness it was not mitigation and adaptation, adequate Mosalla until June 28. partment of Environment website reported. possible either, Vafadar noted. nutritional requirements, insurance for While patrolling the area, the two rangers, “So the rangers’ co-workers climbed up the the future and the management of bi- Iran suffers defeat Mohammad Dehqani and Parviz Hormozi, got mountain to bring back their dead bodies,” he ological processes needed for sustain- shot in the head and the heart and passed added. able agricultural production. against Brazil in away, Hormozgan province department of en- Masoumeh Ebtekar, chief of the Department When addressing the issue of food vironment director general said. find the murderers are still ongoing. of Environment, has also extended her condo- security, however, the principal focus FIVB Volleyball Majid Vafadar explained that the poachers Dehqani, 35, and Hormozi, 54, each have lences and urged the police to catch the crim- tends to be cast normally on the chal- World League ran away from the scene and the searches to got the experience of 12 and 23 years under inals in no time. lenges of increasing food production to meet rising demands. Every so of- SPORTS Iran lost to Brazil in ten, a fundamental consideration that deskthe second match Russia’s Lukoil plans to resume Iranian oil refining at Sicily plant tends to be disregarded is that of safe- of the FIVB Volleyball World League guarding the nation’s biodiversity so second week on Friday.