WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.13059 Tuesday FEBRUARY 27, 2018 Esfand 8, 1396 Jumada Al thani 10, 1439 Zarif meets $446m to be granted FIFA President Infantino New York Anthology Film top Serbian officials for mechanization of to share pitch with Archives holds Mehrdad in Belgrade 2 agriculture 4 ex-Iranian stars 15 Oskui retrospective 16 Labor riots subsided in post- Revolution Iran: Leader POLITICS TEHRAN — The of a conference on labor martyrs which deskLeader has said took place on February 5, but its report that thanks to their insight, will, and surfaced on Monday. religiosity, workers in the Islamic Enemies used to agitate workers to shut Republic have stood up against en- factories down, he said of the pre-Rev- Saudi’s Defeat emies’ attempts to use them against olution days. the country. The Leader also underlined the “Anti-revolutionaries have failed to sacrifices of the workers who rushed agitate workers against the Islamic Re- to the war fronts during the Iraqi war public,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said against Iran in the 1980s to defend during a meeting with executive staff the country. in Yemen See page 7 Serbia named special guest of 2018 Tehran book fair By Manijeh Rezapoor “Culture and Information Minister Vladan TEHRAN – The Serbian ambassador Vukosavljevic will be taking part in the fair to Tehran, Dragan Todorovic, has said at the invitation of his Iranian counterpart,” that his country has been selected as Todorovic told the Tehran Times. the special guest of the 31st Tehran In- A group of Serbian writers are scheduled ternational Book Fair that will be held to attend the book fair and two books from during May. Serbian authors, which are currently being He announced the news on Monday translated into Persian, will be introduced during a visit to the Mehr News Agency. at the event, he added. 16 ‘Iranians always care about what they wear’ LIFETEHRAN — “Iranians can use for our clothing in future. Since deskhave never considered not only in our national history but also Iran slams Britain for clothing as a mere covering. We always in our religion that is important that what 2 care about what we wear,” Deputy Culture we wear,” he explained. ‘dishonest’ behavior at UN Minister for Artistic Affairs Seyyed Mojtaba He called the festival as a great opportu- Hosseini said during the opening ceremo- nity to conduct negotiation and interaction ny of 7th Fajr International Fashion and between designers, producers and people straitstimes.com Clothing Festival in Tehran on Sunday. who use clothing as their ‘visual identity “Our history is a great treasure that we card’. 9 PERSPECTIVE EU countries in tough spot with U.S. demands on JCPOA: professor More than 1,000 By M.A.Saki EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW have stated openly that they support the JCPOA does this mean exactly? Palestinians in Deputy editor-in-chief and have advised the U.S. to do the same. On the A: I believe that one cannot rely too much on By Javad Heirannia other hand, the Trump Administration is very leaked documents, especially as the openly-stat- Gaza died from TEHRAN — Farhang Jahanpour, an adjunct critical of that agreement and has called on its ed stances of most U.S. officials are very hostile Israeli blockade professor in the Department of Continuing Ed- European allies to fix it, so that President Trump towards Iran. What one can say is that there is Water conservation is ucation at the University of Oxford and a Middle can waive the sanctions.” some disagreement among various U.S. officials The Gaza Strip’s collective of charitable East expert, says that all other signatories to the Following is the full text of the interview with about how to deal with the nuclear agreement. organizations said more than 1,000 Pales- a must, not a choice JCPOA, including the European Troika (the UK, Professor Farhang Jahanpour: Many senior U.S. officials believe that as the tinians have died as a result of the ongoing France and Germany) have stated that they are Newly-leaked documents of the U.S. State De- JCPOA is an international agreement that has Israeli blockade on the coastal enclave. he Supreme Council of Water reg- for the nuclear accord, since Iran has remained partment show that the stance of the U.S. govern- also been endorsed by the EU and the Security The coordinator of the organizations, ularly holds sessions. It held its committed to the deal. ment towards the Iran nuclear deal has softened Council, it would be wrong for America to vi- Ahmad al-Kurd, also said on Sunday that latest meeting on Saturday. The “Nevertheless, EU countries are in a difficult po- somewhat. According to these documents, the U.S. olate it, as no country would any longer trust five premature babies born in the past few T sition with the American demands,” Jahanpour has outlined a course of action in which three Eu- any agreement reached with the United States. session, chaired by Vice President Es’haq days died because of a lack of available Jahangiri, was attended by the ministers tells the Tehran Times in an exclusive interview. ropean countries, Britain, France and Germany, In a panel discussion at the recent Munich Security medical treatment. of energy, agriculture, industry, and di- Jahanpour, also a former senior research fellow would be “totally committed to improving” the Joint Conference in Germany, the former Secretary “Out of the 1,000 or so victims of the rector of the Environmental Protection at Harvard University, says that Europe is playing Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In return, of State John Kerry spoke eloquently about the blockade, 450 died as a result of the collapse Organization. a double game with Iran. President Trump would extend Iran sanctions relief, false statements that are made regarding the of the health situation in Gaza, such as the The photos of the Saturday meeting “On the one hand, they [European countries] keeping the Obama-era nuclear deal alive. What nuclear agreement. 7 lack of medical supplies and the crisis of showed that there were some other figures, medical referrals for outside treatment.” probably water experts, in the meeting. Gazans continue to face a desperate Water is becoming the most serious Industrial units establishment permits up 19% in 10 months yr/yr situation because of the blockade with wa- issue in Iran because of climate change-re- ter and electricity shortages, as well as a By Mahnaz Abdi of 362,000 jobs, with 21.5 percent growth from minister highlighted that production of lated droughts, depletion of surface and lack of medicines and doctors unable to 298,000 jobs in the same time of the past year, most industrial products increased or had underground water resources, and the TEHRAN— The number of permits for es- perform surgeries. and also a 16-percent rise in investment making no change from the ten-month time of the increasing use of water in the agricul- tablishing industrial units rose 19 percent in Kurd said the use of alternative elec- year on year, Salehinia added. past year, while there has been very low fall tural sector. the first ten months of the current Iranian tricity by residents of the Gaza Strip since The official also put the number of working in terms of some products. It is true that Iran must recycle water calendar year (March 21, 2017-January 20, 2006 has caused the deaths of 100 people. permits issued for the industrial units at 46,500 and use the experience of other countries 2018) from the same period of time in the past Industrial sector to witness 5.6% “The use of candles, firewood or gen- during the ten-month period of this year, with like Australia which have a similar situ- year, according to Deputy Industry Minister growth in value added erators has resulted in house fires that 5.5-percent increase from 44,000 permits of the ation like Iran, but training people, es- Mohsen Salehinia. Salehinia further said that the industrial claimed the lives of children and adults past year’s same time. pecially farmers, to use water efficiently In a press conference on Monday, the official sector is expected to see a 5.6-percent growth alike,” he said. He announced 17-percent growth in job creation is extremely important. said 16,060 industrial units received establish- in value added by the end of current calendar Furthermore, the number of workers and investment as the result of these permits Isa Kalantari, the new chief of the ment permits during the mentioned time span year (March 20, 2018). who were killed in the fields of agricul- in the first ten months of current calendar year Environmental Protection Organization of this year, while the figure was 13,500 in the The official said the figure was 4.5 percent in ture, fishing and commercial tunnels has compared to that of the preceding year. who was agriculture minister for about ten-month period of the previous year. the first half of the current calendar year (March reached 350. Elsewhere in his remarks, the deputy a decade in the 1990s, is fortunately This number of permits has led to creation 21-Septemebr 22, 2017). 4 Heinous crime frank in sounding the alarm that Iran Elsewhere, one fisherman was killed is facing serious water shortage and on Sunday after the Israeli navy fired that the country should take “bitter at his boat.