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1 S t r a i g h t T r u t h W W W . T E H R A N T I M E S . C O M. From Inside Raisi's trip to Oman marks a turning point' in ties: ambassador P2. Close co-op between Iran and 8 Pages | Price 50,000 Rials | EURO | AED | 44th year | No. 14225 | Wednesday | M AY 25, 2022 | Khordad 4, 1401 | Shawwal 24, 1443. Kazakhstan can help promote security: diplomat P2. Iran Seeks to Fix Dust Report Officials condole martyrdom of IRGC. colonel, vow harsh revenge P3. Action by foe will be Raisi calls Oman a sincere and reliable met with decisive friend P3. Crisis Despite Turkish response Tehran hosting 3 intl. exhibitions P4. TCCIMA hosts Iran-India business forum P4. TEHRAN Assassinating an IRGC colonel in downtown Tehran is not an act that could Resolving transport issues, a prerequisite be neglected; therefore, the Islamic Repub- for expanding Iran-Kazakhstan ties' P4. Negligence lic will remind the perpetrators of this crime Route unveiled to lead sightseers to that hit and run era is over.

2 Yazd's beating heart P6. Around 4 on Sunday, two motorcycle riders shot and martyred Sayad Khodaei, an Old hands at cultural heritage IRGC colonel who fought Daesh in Syria, with Page 3. restoration honored by minister P6. five bullets in one of the alleys of Mojahe- din-e-Islam Street in downtown Tehran. The Iran, Qatar to increase health co-op in assassination occurred near the martyr's World Cup P7. home. Three of the bullets struck his skull, while the other two struck his hand. Iranians help the needy by $15m In a message issued late on Monday, Iran's almsgiving P7. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qal- German artist Karl Schlamminger's work ibaf said, The blind enemies, who have be- donated to Tehran historical complex P8. come incapable of confronting the patience, resistance and self-sacrifice of this nation, Persian readers led to Pan's Labyrinth P8. have resorted to such humiliating actions, which are beyond international and humani- tarian standards. Report He underscored that such actions will un- doubtedly have no effect on the Iranian peo- tobacco threatens ple.

3 Qalibaf continued, Martyr Sayyad Khodaei, our health, after years of struggle for the ideals of the Revolution and Islamic values, achieved mar- environment tyrdom to prove that the proud and brave children of the heroic nation of Iran, as al- By Faranak Bakhtiari ways, are ready to sacrifice their goals and aspirations for the Islamic Revolution. TEHRAN The tobacco , a threat to our ISNA/ Shayan Hajinajaf health and the environment campaign was He stressed that it is necessary for securi- launched by the Ministry of Health to mark ty and intelligence agencies to take the nec- the World No tobacco Day. essary measures to identify and punish the perpetrators of this terrorist act. The tobacco industry produces 84 mega- watts of carbon dioxide-equivalent annual The Khodaei assassination once again greenhouse gas, causing widespread global showed the depth of anger of the enemies climate change and upsetting the planet's of the Iranian nation against the IRGC, climate balance, wasting environmental re- which has sincerely provided security for sources, and damaging ecosystems.

4 West Asia. Page 2. RAI inks co-op MOU with Kazakhstan national railway Annually, million hectares of land are destroyed for tobacco cultivation. Approxi- Report TEHRAN The heads of the railways of Iran Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade ing through the China-Russia-Europe railway mately 600 million trees are chopped down and Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of and Integration Bakhyt Sultanov and the corridor will be transported through Iran via every year by the tobacco industry. On av- global economic understanding (MOU) to increase transpor- tation cooperation and set preferential tar- head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (known as RAI), IRNA reported. the China-Kazakhstan-Iran-Europe railway erage each tree produces enough paper for 15 packs of cigarettes. tobacco farming ac- outlook faces iffs between the two countries in order to in- crease the transit of goods passing through RAI Head Miad Salehi and Nurlan Sauran- corridor. counts for 5 percent of the world's deforest- During the meeting, the two sides ation.

5 Tough year ahead Iran. The MOU was signed on Monday during a bayev, head of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ). which is the country's national railway com- also agreed that the first China-Kazakh- Cigarette butts are the most abundant pany, signed the MOU documents. stan-Iran-Turkey container train would arrive type of plastic waste in the world. This waste The head of the International Monetary meeting between a high-ranking delegation annually produces 767,000 kilograms of Fund (IMF) says the war in Ukraine has wors- from Kazakhstan headed by the country's Based on this MOU, part of the cargo pass- in Iran in less than a month. Page 4. toxic waste, which is equivalent to 28,875. ened the global economic outlook and a re- humpback whales in terms of weight. cession may loom for more vulnerable coun- tries. Report Each year, trillion cigarette filters fill the surface of our cities, parks, beaches, and Kristalina Georgieva predicted that 2022. would be a tough year and refused to rule Canada, Iran friendly rivers, polluting water and soil.

6 Out a global recession if conditions drastical- ly worsened. up in the air The World Health Organization created World No tobacco Day in 1987 to draw glob- Speaking on the sidelines of the annu- al attention to the tobacco epidemic and the al meeting of the World Economic Forum in preventable death and disease it causes. Davos, Switzerland, Georgieva said a global By Masoud Hossein The day is further intended to draw atten- recession was not being forecast by the IMF TEHRAN Iran national football team tion to the widespread prevalence of tobac- at this point, but added, It doesn't mean manager Hamid Estili says that nothing co use and to negative health effects, which one is out of the question. is certain yet . He talks about the friend- currently lead to more than 8 million deaths The IMF managing director says the organ- ly match with Canada in Vancouver and it each year worldwide, including million are ization had recently downgraded the growth the result of non-smokers being exposed to IRNA/ Ahmad Moeinijam seems the World Cup prep is up in the air.

7 Prospects for 143 of its member states, second-hand smoke. Page 7. The Persian Leopards' are supposed to which represent 80 percent of global output. The horizon has darkened, she said, pointing out that the impact of the war in play Canada on June 5 as part of preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Art exhibits celebrate Ukraine was being intensified by a tightening of financial conditions 2022 is going to be a Iran were also supposed to play Ecuador on June 11 in Toronto but the match with Khorramshahr tough year. She said. Along with other attendees at Davos, the Funeral procession held for martyred IRGC colonel South American team has been called off after Ecuador football federation announced liberation anniversary IMF head highlighted the risks of soaring that they will not travel to Canada. TEHRAN Two art exhibitions underway TEHRAN A funeral procession was held in Tehran to pay tribute to a member of food prices. Georgieva said that over the past Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Art Bureau of the Islamic Ideology week there had been a sense that the global the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) assassinated in a terrorist attack in the spoke out against the soccer game, saying Dissemination Organization are celebrating economy was heading into tough times say- Iranian capital.

8 The terrorist attack on Colonel Sayyad Khodaei happened in Tehran at he didn't think it was a very good idea to play the 40th liberation anniversary of ing food prices continue to go up, up, up, up . around 4 local time (1130 GMT) on Sunday when two motorcyclists shot him five Iran in Canada but that it was Canada Soc- Khorramshahr. She said: We can shrink the use of petrol times while he was in his car, and fled the scene. cer's decision to make. Page 3 One of the exhibits entitled Heavenly when growth slows down but we have to eat City showcases a collection of never before every day. The anxiety about access to food at a reasonable price, globally, is hitting the Publicizing Hamedan's glory neglected for years: expert seen paintings on the theme of the 1980- 1988 Iran-Iraq war at Abolfazl Aali Gallery. roof. TEHRAN Efforts to globally introduce the Tourism and Handicrafts. gate and solve potential problems in the path of The IMF is now predicting global growth The paintings have been produced by splendor of Hamedan, which its history of civiliza- All areas of Hamedan are treasured In fact, possible registration of ancient Hegmataneh in of percent this year, and Georgieva says Kazem Chalipa, Morteza Asadi, Gholam-Ali tion dates thousands of years, have largely been in the realm of intangible cultural heritage, all the UNESCO World Heritage list.

9 Taheri, Abdolhamid Qadirian, Kamyar Sadeqi there is a long path for that to change for the neglected for years, a senior cultural heritage ex- events, memories, cultural figures, traditions, and Known in classical times as Ecbatana, Hamedan and Mohammad Asadi Jozani. better. pert said on Monday. rituals must be safeguarded, Talebian explained. was one of the ancient world's greatest cities. Pit- What we may see is recession in some coun- The Iranian Photographers Center Unfortunately, considerable effort has not Hamedan has been important in various histor- ifully little remains from antiquity, but significant (IPC) at the Art Bureau is also hosting tries that are weak, to begin with. They haven't been made in previous years to introduce Hamed- ical eras, however, its historical core, Hegmataneh, parts of the city center are given over to excavations. an exhibition of photographs depicting recovered from the Covid Crisis . They're highly dependent on imports from Russia, of energy an which enjoys a treasured history and ancient is of very high importance, the official said.

10 Ecbatana was the capital of Media and subsequently scenes from Operation Beit-ul-Muqaddas or food, and they have a somewhat weaker en- glory, said Mohammad-Hassan Talebian who is a Earlier this month, Hamedan's tourism directo- a summer residence of the Achaemenid kings who that Iran carried out in 1982 to liberate vironment already. Page 5 senior advisor to the Minister of Cultural Heritage, rate formed a working group to identify, investi- ruled Persia from 553 to 330 BC. Page 6 Khorramshahr. Page 8. Foreign Ministry: We are collaborating with POLITICS Iraq to overcome environmental issues 2. MAY 25, 2022. TEHRAN In a press release national teams of Iran and Canada, S t r a i g h t T r u t h issued on Tuesday, Saeed saying, The match was coordinated TEHRAN TIMES Khatibzadeh, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, answered independently by the football federations of the two countries to a number of questions raised by within the framework of the usual correspondents.