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As reported by the portal of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), the conference is scheduled to be held on Tuesday and a virtual exhibition is also going to be held alongside the conference during February 8-19.

According to Talaei, a trade delegation comprised of 25 Iranian companies will embark on a trip to Dubai on Sunday to first visit Expo Dubai and then participate in the Iran-UAE Business Opportunities Conference on Tuesday.

“We estimate that by Tuesday, over 50 Iranian companies based in the UAE and as many foreign companies will be present at the conference,” Talaei said.

“The event will be attended by Iranian companies residing in the UAE, the Iranian trade delegation, and the representatives of the UAE companies as well as foreign firms based in the UAE,” he added.

The official noted that members of Dubai, Oman, and Qatar chambers of commerce and all Dubai-registered chambers of commerce have been also invited to attend the conference.

The foreign embassies based in Tehran have also been notified about the conference to inform their companies in the UAE to attend the conference.

The purpose of this conference is to develop trade relations between Iran and the UAE and to introduce Iran’s trade and investment opportunities to companies based in the UAE, according to the ICCIMA board member.

“In this conference, we intend to introduce the existing potentials of the country in various sectors of agriculture, industry, mining and trade and also promote the capabilities of our knowledge-based companies,” the official said.

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Speaking during a press conference on Tuesday, Farzanegan, who is also in charge of Expo Committee of Iran Chamber of Commerce, said that despite several problems like the pandemic and the financial problems, the committee began its work officially last December although it had kicked of its work in 2019, adding that despite some pauses, the committee officially began its work last December. He added that the location of Iran’s pavilion in the Expo is exceptional and it can be sign of active economic diplomacy through meetings and B2Bs.

He added that the committee has plans for each week of the six-month expo that one can see them from mid-October.

Farzanegan went on to say that the committee has asked those who have enough preparation to partake in this event. He added that several countries have announced their readiness to participate in some programs organized by the committee. He noted that soon Head of Iran Chamber of Commerce Gholam-Hossein Shafei will have a visit to Dubai soon and the committee invites all fields of the private sector to have active presence in any section of the expo like virtual exhibition, dispatching and trade delegation.

Reacting to some media reports that the organizers of the Expo are to hand over all details and information of the participating companies to Israel, he said after studies and probes by the foreign ministry and Iranian diplomats, it was learned that the reports have been fully baseless.

Farzanegan went on to say that by partaking in the Expo it is expected the trade between Iran and the UAE would increase between 20 to 25 percent by the yearend. He admitted that unfortunately some travel agencies misuse from this Expo event, reiterating that the agencies are not in charge of dispatching the delegations and companies to this event and only certain operators appointed by the committee are in charge of dispatches.

Meanwhile speaking during the press conference, Hassan Zamani underlined the economic, cultural, social and political significance of the Expo, saying that some 198 countries will participate in the event.

Based on the planning, each Iranian province will be granted one week to showcase its capacities at Expo 2020 Dubai, according to the managing director of Iran International Exhibitions Company Mr. Zamani.

Expo 2020 in Dubai runs from October 1, 2021 until March 31, 2022.

Zamani said that Iran’s pavilion at the Expo will open on October 2 with the virtual presence of the Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade.

Referring to Iran’s agenda at the event, he said that Iran is firstly focused on non-oil exports which are predicted to hit $100 billion and then the country will seek to observe investments for different projects.

Iran has spent the least money on designing its pavilion in comparison with other participating countries, he said, however noting that the Iranian pavilion has been selected among the top eight pavilions in the event.

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On Black Sunday (July 3, 1988), the American warship, the USS Vincennes, deployed in the Persian Gulf, fired two missiles at an Iran Airbus passenger plane and martyred 290 innocent passengers on board and the  U.S. President not only refrained from apologizing but also he awarded the commander of the warship with the Legion of Merit decoration.

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On that unforgettable night, Iran Air’s Airbus Flight 655 (IR655) was flying over the Strait of Hormuz from the port city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai which was hit by two standard missiles at an altitude of 12,000 feet over the Persian Gulf and it crashed and all 290 people on board, including 46 foreign passengers and 66 under-13 children, were killed.

The USS Vincennes on May 28, 1988, had sailed to the Persian Gulf from Naval Station San Diego. The U.S., in an obvious process, was doing its best in order not to let Iranians be the winners of the Iraq-Iran war and it used to help Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with militarily aids in any condition. Seemingly, the USS Vincennes was aimed at identifying any flying object either plane or missile, processing the intelligence, following targets simultaneously and controlling fires in favor of Iraq. The warship was also equipped with different kinds of surface to air missiles like radar and laser-controlled ones with the range of over 408 kilometers.

On the other side of this human crime was Captain Mohsen Rezaeian, the Iranian experienced pilot, who was in charge of flying Iran Air Airbus Flight 655 who had over 7,000 hours of sorties of flight in his record. The duration of the flight from Bandar Abbas International Airport to Dubai Airport had been estimated at 28 minutes at an altitude of 14,000 feet. The first minutes of the flight were as the schedule and the plane was reaching the 12,000-feet altitude and Captain Rezaeian was constantly in touch with the control towers of Bandar Abbas and Dubai airports. At the time of the incident, Brigadier General Shahram Rostami was deputy commander of Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. According to martyr Rostami’s official remarks, the U.S. Army had conversation with Captain Rezaeian before firing the missile. The size of Airbus A300B2 is 53m X  5m excluding 45m of the wing, and the size of F-14 Fighter-Jet is 20 X 3.5m excluding 20m of wing. So distinguishing an Airbus passenger plane with a fighter-jet was not difficult although objects on the radar is not seen based on their true sizes, this type of Airbus due to its lower velocity comparing to F-14 Fighter-Jet and its length was distinguishable by the operator of the radar system and even the radar system.

Former Commander of USS Sides warship David Carlson in an interview with Newsweek weekly talked about the incident and said, “Iranian Airbus was sending signals that it was a commercial plane and at the same time it was rising high with the lower speed comparing to F-14 Fighter-Jet plane. Even in such a circumstance, if they had been identified the plane as a fighter-jet, I doubt a fighter-jet like F-14 could be considered a serious threat for the USS Vincennes, or the USS Sides or any other vessel (because Iranian F-14s were not equipped with air to surface weapons and the existing F-14s at sixth and ninth air bases of Bushehr and Bandar Abbas only were being used to fly to protect Iranian oil tankers against the air strikes and they were in charge of protecting the Navy and marine forces). Even operators in charge of radar system of the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier identified the plane as a commercial one. Deployed F-14 Fighter-Jets on the USS Forrestal could have distinguished the identity of the approaching plane to become sure of its being civilian if the USS Vincennes Captain William Rodgers had asked them, but due to some reasons he refrained.”

Pro-West media from BBC to other major media outlets tried to justify this horrible crime as the error of Captain Rodgers, the commander of the USS Vincennes, but according to later remarks and interviews, Captain Rodgers has confessed that he did it to scare Iran and he has committed this crime intentionally. Americans have become falsely and hypocritically famous for opposing terrorism. Their explicit support of terrorist Iranian grouplet Mujahideen Khalq Organization (known as Monafeqeen Khalq) with a bloody record of 17,000 terrors in Iran and President Donald Trump’s official announcement of assassinating Martyr Qasem Soleimani and his Iranian and Iraqi comrades are just two out of thousands of leaves of the U.S. official terrorism record. This terror of 290 innocent people in the sky of the Persian Gulf has been one of these kinds of the U.S. methods for safeguarding the hellish power of the White House.

 By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

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Iran’s pavilion will be held next to French and Mexican pavilions in an area of 2,014 sq.m., he added.

He mentioned that the EXPOs are held by supervision of Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI), adding that Iran should attend this event powerfully to show its achievements, especially in sanction period.

Expo 2020 is a World Expo to be hosted by Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, opening on October 20, 2020. The Bureau International des Expositions general assembly in Paris awarded Dubai as the host on November 27, 2013. The World Expo in Dubai in 2020 will be the first to be held in the MENA & SA (Middle East and North Africa & South Asia) region. UAE selected the theme “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”, sub-themes being Sustainability, Mobility and Opportunity. 113 countries have voiced interest in taking part the event.

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To be implemented by Dubai Water and Electricity Authority (Dewa), the largest single-site project will generate 700 megawatts (MW) of power when completed. Using the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model, it will include the world’s tallest solar tower, standing 260 metres tall, and a Dh100 billion fund to finance the plan.

His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, launched the project on Saturday.

A total of Dh500 million will be allocated, as part of the project, for research and development works in in the field of smart networks and improvement of energy efficiency over the course of the coming period.

The project comes as part of implementing the fourth stage of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park and to support the end goals of Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050.

Commenting on the project, Shaikh Mohammad said: “The UAE has succeeded in building a global green economy model based on the environmental sustainability and clean energy and supported by clear plans. These plans will contribute to strengthening the foundations of such model and developing it according to the world’s finest standards so as to make the most of this field and invest in enhancing infrastructure, building capabilities and training competent national competencies.”

He added: “Implementing the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) project reaffirms the UAE’s leadership in renewable clean energy all over the world and enhances our status at the forefront of the most advanced countries in this field. We are pressing ahead with carrying out projects that support  the UAE’s comprehensive development and our aspirations that we have set for the future and are being implemented today.

“We are steadily moving towards achieving Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 goals, which we have launched to turn Dubai into a global hub for clean energy and green economy and become the lowest carbon footprint in the world by 2050.  We are very proud to see our goals turning into tangible achievements by our national cadres who proved efficient and excellence in various fields.”

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