WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13720 Sunday JULY 26, 2020 Mordad 5, 1399 Dhul Hijjah 5, 1441 Muharram rituals to U.S. agents occupy Golmohammadi Mahmudi brothers to make be held by observing Chinese consulate dedicates IPL title to series on coronavirus for healthcare protocols 3 in Houston 10 Persepolis fans 11 IRIB release 12 Free hepatitis care on agenda, end of Syria: U.S. move against disease by 2030 By Faranak Bakhtiari Organization,” Rashid Ramezani, head TEHRAN – Iran is planning to provide of the hepatitis of the infectious diseases free diagnosis and treatment services to management department of the Ministry people who are suffering from hepatitis of Health, explained. Iranian plane is a terrorist act and eradicate the disease by 2030. “Some 1.5 million Iranians are di- “By 2030, if we could reduce the in- agnosed with hepatitis B and less than cidence of hepatitis by up to 90 percent 200,000 people with hepatitis C; nearly See page 2 and decrease mortality by 65 percent, we 3,000 people are infected with hepatitis would have implemented the elimination C each year,” he stated, IRNA reported program as planned by the World Health on Saturday. 9 Lebanon to sue U.S. for harassing Iranian plane Iran, Uzbekistan stress expansion of transport ties UN: ‘Safety of civilian TEHRAN — During a meeting of Iran-Uz- as Uzbekistan’s ambassador to Iran, and bekistan Joint Road Transportation the representative of Iran’s Embassy in air travel should be Committee held via video conference, the Uzbekistan. Iranian and Uzbek officials emphasized Addressing the virtual meeting, the respected by all’ the significance of boosting bilateral ties Iranian deputy transport minister said in transportation sector, IRNA reported that expansion of economic relations on Saturday. between Iran and Uzbekistan has been As reported, the meeting was at- always emphasized by the two sides’ se- tended by Iran’s Deputy Transport nior officials, and in this due, boosting Minister Abdolhashem Hassan-Nia transport ties between the two countries is and Uzbekistan’s Deputy Minister of seriously pursued by the Iranian Transport Transport Davron Dekhkanov, as well Ministry. 4 Iran, Tunisia to expand tourism ties TEHRAN – Iran and Tunisia have recently saying on Saturday. signed a memorandum of understating Despite the spread of the corona- (MOU) to expand tourism ties despite virus in the world and restrictions on the coronavirus pandemic. international tourism communications, The MOU was inked by Iran’s ambas- tourism ministry tries to achieve its goals sador to Tunisia Mohammadreza Rauf of foreign tourism development through Sheibani and Tunisian Minister of Tourism the ambassadors and representatives of Mohamed Ali Toumi, ILNA quoted Iran’s Iran in the target countries, the official File photo deputy tourism chief Vali Teymouri as added. 8 ARTICLE COI director calls on Resistance filmfest to Protests hit Portland for 56th day; Trump Yuram Abdullah Weiler promote culture of resistance in region plans ‘surge’ of agents Analyst and journalist TEHRAN – Director of the Cinema Organ- concepts of the Islamic Revolution.” By staff & agencies and other cities not to use disproportionate ization of Iran has called on the organizers The director of the festival, Mehdi Az- The U.S. city of Portland witnessed another force or unlawful detention against protesters. of the Resistance International Film Festival imi Mirabadi, said that the event has been night of anti-racism rallies on Friday, with The deployment of federal troops, ordered by Trump’s troops: to put their focus on plans for promoting welcomed by filmmakers around the world thousands of protesters calling for an end to President Donald Trump, has drawn widespread the culture of resistance in the region. based on the numerous submissions the police brutality and racial injustice. backlash from various popular rights groups and Fast forwarding “Iran is the motherland of resistance and organizers have received. The demonstrators, for the 56th consecutive organizations, pitting state authorities against the Resistance festival can and should be The 16th edition of the Resistance In- day, flocked to the streets in Portland, Oregon, the White House. fascism across the promoter of the culture of resistance ternational Film Festival is scheduled to and peacefully marched to the federal court- Democratic leaders in Oregon say federal in the region,” Hossein Entezami said in take place in Tehran from September 21 house late on Friday. intervention has worsened the two-month America a meeting with the organizers of the 16th to 27. They chanted slogans against federal agents crisis, and the state attorney general sued to n a brash show of force to pro- edition of the Resistance International Film The festival has allocated a special sec- that have been deployed to the city by the US allege some people had been whisked off the mote a “law and order” image, Festival on Saturday. tion to films on health workers this year. administration to quell protests triggered by the streets in unmarked vehicles. rogue U.S. President Donald “This festival should play a key role in The category named “Health Defenders” brutal murder of unarmed African American Trump announced plans on Wednesday to I developing and naturalizing the culture has been established in honor of the medical George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody dispatch a “surge” of federal agents to U.S. cities Trump has dispatched federal troops to Portland, Oregon to quell ongoing of resistance, and also provide patterns workers on the front line of the campaign in May. amid widening crackdown on anti-racism protests. protests against racism and police for producing films in the future,” he against COVID-19. The federal forces once again fired teargas The U.S. president, who is running for re-elec- brutality. The city’s mayor, who had added. It also plans to honor innovative film- canisters and rubber bullets on a number of tion in November on a campaign of law and not requested assistance from the He said, “The Cinema Organization of makers with the Rasul Award named after occasions to break up the rallies. order, has threatened to deploy federal forces federal government, joined with pro- Iran strongly supports the festival, because the Iranian war film director Rasul Mol- The UN human rights office has already called in more “Democrat-run cities” accused of being testors only to become a victim of a it deems resistance as one of the valuable laqolipur. on U.S. police and security forces in Portland soft on crime. 10 tear gas attack himself. Trump has vowed to dispatch troops to Chicago, Albuquerque and other American Euro-Med Monitor calls on ICAO to investigate U.S. harassment of Iranian plane Persian Gulf states cities to suppress protestors, which he characterizes as violent, left-wing TEHRAN — The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights of civilian passengers,” he added, according to put lives of civilians in danger. working hard to cause extremists. Monitor has said the United States’ harassment of Euro-Med Monitor’s website. The Montreal Convention of 1971 and its sup- Since the brutal extrajudicial execution an Iranian passenger plane over Syria on Thursday A number of the Iranian plane’s passengers plementary protocol stipulate that, “unlawful acts clash between Turkey of George Floyd by Minneapolis, Minnesota evening constitutes a serious violation of international were injured, including children, the elderly and against the safety of civil aviation jeopardize the and Egypt over Libya: police on May 25, 2020, protests have erupted agreements relating to the safety of civil aviation. women, as the pilot took the aircraft to a lower safety of persons and property, seriously affect across America demanding an end to vicious Euro-Med Monitor’s legal adviser Tariq Hajjar altitude. The American jet came within 100 meters the operation of air services, and undermine the Turkish analyst has said that “the U.S. military command’s descrip- of the Iranian plane. confidence of the peoples of the world in the and violent law enforcement policies and By Mohammad Mazhari procedures. Unified calls by demonstrators tion of the incident as ‘professional’ is inaccurate.” According to the Convention for the Suppres- safety of civil aviation… Considering that, for to defund police and transfer badly needed “It is not professional for an armed military sion of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil the purpose of deterring such acts, there is an The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi on October funds to programs that meet more press- plane to harass a civilian plane that poses no Aviation of 1971 (referred to as the Montreal urgent need to provide appropriate measures 2, 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul led to ing social needs, such as expanding health danger at all, thus endangering the lives of dozens Convention), the incident is a criminal act as it for punishment of offenders…” 3 political conflict between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. care and educational facilities, have been Ankara blamed Crown Prince Muhammad bin met with a show of force by the radical, fas- Salman over the killing and stagnation in Saudi-Turk- cist-leaning Trump regime. On May 29, ish relations. Trump exposed his sentiments by posting Army general Interestingly, the pro-government Turkish media a slogan borrowed from a racist U.S. police recently shifted their focus from the Saudi crown chief, which read “when the looting starts, visits military prince to Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Mohammed the shooting starts.” bin Zayed, and described him as the actual evil man Having bungled the effort to control the who is stirring up hostility against Turkey.