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.13958 Wednesday JUNE 2, 2021 Khordad 12, 1400 Shawwal 21, 1442 Iran, Tajikistan firm to Iran midfielder Annual exports of Artists remembering develop ties: interior Vahid Amiri wary of polymer products Imam Khomeini in minister Page 2 Hong Kong threat Page 3 exceed $1.3b Page 4 “Mourning for the Sun”Page 8 Iran nuclear chief sends letter to IAEA See page 3 TEHRAN - Ali Akbar Salehi, head of allegedly undeclared sites. The letter also the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran came after IAEA Director-General Rafael (AEOI), has sent a letter to the chief Grossi announced on May 24 that he had of the UN nuclear watchdog informing agreed with Iran to extend by one month a him that a February deal between Iran February deal between Iran and the IAEA and the International Atomic Energy allowing the UN nuclear watchdog to con- Agency has expired but Iran decided to tinue necessary monitoring activities. continue to store data related to moni- However, Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s toring activities. permanent representative to the UN offices The letter was announced after the in Vienna, said that Salehi, in his letter, Agency released a quarterly report on Iran told Grossi that the monitoring deal has in which it accused Iran of failing to ex- expired. plain traces of uranium found at several Continued on page 3 Iran’s biggest cement production line inaugurated TEHRAN – Iran’s biggest cement produc- “The country that once imported cement tion line was put into operation in northern has today become one of the countries Alborz Province’s Abyek Cement Complex exporting this product,” he stated. on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by The official also mentioned the 13-per- the Industry, Mining, and Trade Minister cent growth of cement production in the Alireza Razm Hosseini, Shata reported. country and added: «Apart from the pro- Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, duction growth, indigenizing the knowl- Razm Hosseini put the country’s annual edge for the production of equipment and cement production capacity at 80 million machinery in this sector is also of significant tons saying that the domestic demand for importance.» the product is 70 million tons per year. Continued on page 4 National libraries of Iran, Indonesia Big brother is sign MOU TEHRAN – The National Library and Ar- about the MOU that will help improve chives of Iran (NLAI) and the National cultural relations between Iran and In- Library of Indonesia (Perpusnas) signed donesia,” Borujerdi said in the meeting. a memorandum of understanding (MOU) “As the largest Islamic country of the Illustration by Bahman Vakhshour watching you on Monday to expand their cooperation world with a culturally diverse population, on librarianship and information science. Indonesia has always had close, friendly The MOU was inked in a virtual meeting relations with Iran, and due to the broad between NLAI director Ashraf Borujerdi and scope of cultural exchange, conditions are This terrible, horrible, no good very bad alliance National Library of Indonesia director Mu- excellent for the expansion of relations Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ hammad Syarif Bando, the NLAI announced. between the countries,” she added. “We feel really happy and honored Continued on page 8 Israeli onslaught on Spicogen vaccine to begin human Israeli siege about to be Gaza qualifies for testing in Iran broken: Hamas war crimes TEHRAN – The second and third phases of clin- company in Iran, he concluded. Hamas says the Gaza Strip is about to break the under a 12-day-long Israeli war. ical studies of the Iranian-Australian Spicogen Other joint vaccines Israeli regime’s 2007-present siege on the Pal- The aggression saw the Israeli war machine BY YASIR ALI MIRZA vaccine for coronavirus will be performed in Iran is also producing vaccines jointly with estinian enclave. laying indiscriminately into civilian buildings, in- s the guns fell silent in the Iran, Iranian Food and Drug Administration Cuba, and Russia, which may also be released “Gaza’s siege will be broken soon” and the Pal- cluding a famous tower that housed international besieged Gaza Strip after 11 spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said. by September. estinian people there would be accommodated with journalists. At least 253 Palestinians, including days of Israeli aggression, The first phase of the clinical trial was per- Soberana-02 COVID-19 vaccine jointly de- proper living conditions, the Palestinian resistance 66 children, 39 women, and 17 elderly people, A formed on volunteer Australians and the two veloped by Iran and Cuba will complete clin- movement’s leader Yahya Sinwar told a visiting were martyred, and some 1948 others wounded people scrambled to extract injured people and collect remains of their next phases will be administrated to 400 Ira- ical trials by mid-June being administered to Egyptian delegation on Monday, the Palestinian during the Israeli assaults. belongings amid rubbles of the nians, he stated. 24,000 Iranians. Ma’an news agency reported. According to Press TV, the far-and-wide con- flattened buildings. The recent Is- He went on to note that Spicogen is a recom- Mass vaccination against COVID-19 start- Tel Aviv imposed the all-out land, aerial, and demnation of Tel Aviv’s offensive helped raise an raeli attack codenamed ‘Operation binant protein subunit vaccine. ed on Iranian citizens with the Russian-made ground siege after Hamas rose to power in the unprecedented level of awareness throughout the Guardians of the Wall’ on the Pal- Vaccines against viruses can be divided into Sputnik V vaccine on February 9. enclave. Through the blockade, it has been con- world concerning the regime’s ferocious nature. An estinian people is another instance three main categories: live attenuated, inactivat- While Iran continues efforts to mass-produce trolling the Gazans’ access to the entire range of incessant rocket-powered retaliation on the part of of sheer violation of international ed/killed, and subunit vaccines. Recombinant local candidates, several foreign vaccines have their requirements, including their bare necessities. the coastal sliver’s resistance groups, meanwhile, law that qualifies to war crimes. As protein subunit vaccines are composed of at already been imported and others are expected soon. The international atmosphere is currently in forced it to accept a ceasefire last Friday. an occupying force, Israel has been least 1 type of viral antigen. These vaccines are Vaccination to end by late November favor of the Palestinian nation, he said, adding “We impose ourselves and our cause [of flouting the international regula- significantly more secure than live attenuated President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that the provided opportunity had to be seized liberation from Israeli aggression] upon the tions by forcefully evacuating the and inactivated vaccines. that If the volume of COVID-19 vaccine required upon in the best way. world. We are a people, which deserves to legitimate Arab owners from their An Iranian pharmaceutical company will by the country is provided, The official was referring to the groundswell live, and a people that is entitled to its rights,” homes in the Shiekh Jarrah neigh- produce the vaccine jointly with an Australian Continued on page 7 of international support for Gaza after it came Sinwar added. bourhood in East Jerusalem. The eviction triggered the hostilities as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Museum of education, related archives inaugurated in Shiraz Iran’s fertility rate Jihad (PIJ) and again Gaza Strip TEHRAN – On Monday, a museum dedicated realm of cultural heritage, we believe there are 1751 to 1794. became a flashpoint which has to education and its related history and archives no sustainable development or future that has Shiraz is home to some of the country’s alarmingly low been an ‘open air prison’ since the was officially opened its doors to the public in the [strong] links with the path. And, it does not most magnificent buildings and sights. In- imposition of Israeli and Egyptian ancient city of Shiraz, southern Iran. mean getting stuck in the past.” creasingly, it draws more and more foreign BY SADEQ LAVASANI blockade since 2007. Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handi- Celebrated as the heartland of Persian culture and domestic sightseers flocking into this No more than a decade ago, Iran boasted one When people around the world have crafts Deputy Minister Mohammad-Hassan for over 2000 years, Shiraz has become synon- provincial capital. of the world’s youngest populations all thanks been grappling with the biggest public Talebian cut the ribbon on the museum, which ymous with education, nightingales, poetry, Eram Garden, Afif-Abad Garden, Tomb of to a baby boom that began in the mid-sev- health emergency in the form of the Coro- is the first of its kind in Fars Province, IRNA and crafts skills passed down from generation Hafez, Tomb of Sa’di, Jameh Mosque of Atigh, enties and reached its peak soon after the navirus pandemic, the Zionist regime of reported. to generation. It was one of the most important and Persepolis are among the historical, cultural, revolution of 1979. Millions of Iranian baby Israel was busy pounding tons of bombs Talking about the importance of safeguard- cities in the medieval Islamic world and was the and ancient sites of Shiraz that are of interest to boomers are now either reaching middle-age on besieged people of Palestine in Gaza. ing humanity’s heritage, the official said: “In the Iranian capital during the Zand dynasty from domestic and foreign tourists. or are well into it. These attacks were carried out in retaliation The population that, not too long ago, was of rocket fires coming from Palestinian among the world’s youngest is according to some resistance movement Hamas’ and PIJ’s estimates going to be among the eldest in two installations triggered by repression decades if the fertility rate remains low.