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 43rd year No.13963 Thursday JUNE 10, 2021 Khordad 20, 1400 Shawwal 29, 1442 Everyone who cares Iran’s Mohammadiam Iranian Iran, China sign about Iran will attend beats Shabani to claim universities advance MOU on cinema presidential polls Page 2 gold in Poland Open Page 3 in QS 2022 Page 7 Page 8 Zarif defends Iran’s voting Postponement of talks looms large as U.S. insists privileges at UNGA TEHRAN – After the UN Secretary-Gen- “I am writing to convey our strong eral’s threat that Iran will lose its dismay over the announcement that the on destroying Iranian nuclear ‘knowledge’ voting rights at the United Nations Islamic Republic of Iran will lose its voting See page 3 General Assembly due to the arrears privileges in the United Nations General in the payment of its membership fees, Assembly due to the arrears in the pay- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad ment of its financial contribution to the Javad Zarif wrote a letter to the UN United Nations,” Zarif said in the letter. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “This decision is fundamentally flawed, informing him that the U.S. sanctions entirely unacceptable, and completely have blocked the payment of Iran’s unjustified, membership fees. Continued on page 3 Iran, Nakhchivan confer on expanding transport, trade co-op TEHRAN - Iranian Transport and Urban officials from both sides, the attendees Development Minister Mohammad Es- expressed satisfaction with the upward lami held talks with the Chairman of the trend of cooperation between the two Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan neighboring countries. Autonomous Republic Vasif Talibov on Addressing the event, Talibov said Tuesday to explore avenues for expansion the Islamic Republic of Iran and Azer- of economic and transport ties. baijan have always had close friendship As reported by the Transport Ministry’s and cooperation, and now conditions news portal, in this meeting, which was are ripe for further expansion of this attended by Azerbaijan’s Deputy Prime cooperation. Minister Shahin Mustafayev and transport Continued on page 4 TEHRAN – The second phase of the on Wednesday. Fakhra vaccine’s human trial started on Through the second phase, 500 people Wednesday by being administrated to will be selected to perform the human 500 volunteers. trial, he added. Fakhra vaccine, the third domestical- After obtaining the necessary permits ly-developed COVID-19 vaccine, named from the Ministry of Health, we will inject Fakhra vaccine begins after nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 30,000 doses of the vaccine through the who was assassinated in November last third phase of the human trial, he said. year near Tehran, was unveiled and started Vaccination to end by late November the clinical trial on March 16. President Hassan Rouhani said in May second human trial Through the first phase, some 135 that If the volume of COVID-19 vaccine people have received the vaccine, required by the country is provided, project manager Ahmad Karimi said Continued on page 7 Production will Zionists are a one trick pony called Nasrallah: We will eventually hold prayers fail to keep pace VIOLENCE… at al-Aqsa Mosque without tapping BY MARTIN LOVE and non-Zionists amidst land grabs and ethnic Hezbollah’s secretary-general says Mus- serve the status quo in al-Quds and the al-Aqsa One must slide reluctantly into masochism to cleansing. lims will eventually prevail over the Israeli Mosque’s compound throughout decades that new technologies stay informed. Cruelty, chaos, criminality and That possible war may be just the thing that regime and its allies’ efforts to interfere have passed since the war. insanity reign. And smack in the center of it scuttles a new coalition government in Israel with their observing their religious rituals Now, the international Muslim Ummah BY M.A. SAKI all is America and its sidekick or dominatrix, and allows Netanyahu to remain as PM for a few at al-Aqsa Mosque in the holy occupied (Nation) has to pursue this matter shoulder he seven presidential contenders in Apartheid Israel. days longer, and avoid prosecution and jail on city of al-Quds. to shoulder with them, Nasrallah said. Iran have been insisting on produc- It seems clear Netanyahu and other Zionist corruption charges. Yes, Hamas launched the “I am still hopeful that we will [eventually] Gratitude towards Ansarullah tion since the campaigns began on “leaders” in Likud and in smaller parties farther tiny rockets in May in response to invasions pray together at the sacred al-Aqsa Mosque,” The Hezbollah leader, meanwhile, voiced T to the right are ramping up the ethnic cleansing of al-Aqsa and the ethnic cleansing in East Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised gratitude towards Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, May 25. However, production in indus- trial fields without using new technolo- and mass arrests of Palestinians like rarely before Jerusalem, but Hamas is likely spent for now address on Tuesday. leader of Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarul- gies will end in failure. in what may be an and just trying to clean up the mess the Israelis He pointed to the anniversary of Naksa lah movement, for the latter’s expression Generally speaking, producers are ob- effort to spark a regional war. Netanyahu made on Gaza and bury the dead. This must be (Setback), which marks the Israeli regime’s of support for resistance efforts aimed at sessed with instant profit and a great effort does not care whom he hurts or kills: he just a calculation by the Zionists who are occupation of a whole host of regional territo- preserving al-Quds and the Islamic sanc- is needed to change this mindset. wants to stay in the political miasma that is proceeding with the same moves that caused ries -- including the Palestinian territory of the tities there. Many citizens, based on their incomes, Israel now with all its abusive criminality and Hamas to respond to the Israeli violence at al-Aqsa West Bank, where al-Quds is located, Lebanon’s Nasrallah also congratulated the Yeme- are willing to pay more money to buy high arrogant assaults on international law and hu- and in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. Shebaa Farms, and Syria’s Golan Heights -- in ni people for their successful resistance and quality goods. Once sanctions against Iran are man rights. This can only get worse since the Hapless and foolish Joe Biden anyway has prom- a Western-backed war in 1967. struggle against a United States-backed Saudi lifted, tendency toward buying foreign-pro- Zionists know nothing and aim for nothing but ised the Zionists a complete restocking of the “Iron The Hezbollah chief noted how the Pales- Arabia-led coalition that has been attacking the duced goods, such as home appliances which what they have always been about for Dome” defense array which proved to be like tinians across the occupied territories had been impoverished country since 2015. have higher qualities, will increase. In that over 70 years: violence against Palestinians Continued on page 2 struggling “with patience and sacrifice” to pre- Continued on page 5 situation local producers will lose the race to the benefit foreign manufacturers. It is heartening that the candidates say Iran may open borders to travelers in July Reviving JCPOA can producers should be supported to lower their TEHRAN – The Islamic Republic of Iran is “An initial agreement has been reached with for the reopening of borders to vaccinated cost and be granted tax relaxation. However, weighing plans to open its borders to certain the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of travelers. “One of the issues that we are pur- cool tensions in West producers will surely lose the battle if they don’t international travelers by issuing tourist visas Health, and the Interior Ministry, to reopen suing strongly through various committees update their technology. Producing low quality as of mid-July. borders of the country to foreign tourists.” is the arrival of international citizens who Asia, says American goods will lead to the waste of raw materials as “The issuance of tourist visas will resume “The issuance of tourist visas will resume have been vaccinated so that won’t pose a foreign policy expert they get out of service sooner than it is expected. in the second half of [the month of] Tir (June after the final preparation and approval of travel threat or concern to the Iranian society,” the Research and development (R&D) must 22- July 22) based on initial agreements with regulations and protocols,” the official added. official said. BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI find its place among producers in Iran. If local the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Teymouri said earlier this month that the “We have put forward the proposal to the Min- TEHRAN - Barbara Slavin, an American foreign producers have lost the market to the bene- Health, and the Interior Ministry,” Vali Tery- Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and istry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, policy expert, is of the opinion that a revival of the fit of foreigners, it is mostly because goods mouri, the deputy tourism minister, announced Handicrafts have already had started extensive and to the President (Hassan Rouhani) as well.” Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) can manufactured by certain foreign companies on Wednesday. consultations with other government ministries Continued on page 6 ease tensions in West Asia. are of higher quality and sometime cheaper. “A resumption of the deal should encourage Saudi Local producers should allocate a con- Arabia and other Arab states to cool tensions with siderable portion of their income to R&D.