Rival Political Activists Meet Rouhani
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WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13387 Monday MAY 13, 2019 Ordibehesht 23, 1398 Ramadan 7, 1440 Iran not concerned Iranian firm manufactures Xavi Hernandez to Annecy festival adds about U.S. sanctions Huntington’s disease hang up his boots more movies to its on metals industry 4 detection kit 11 in Tehran 15 Iranian lineup 16 Rival political activists meet Rouhani TEHRAN — Late on Saturday a num- Adel, Mohammad Salamati, Ali Shakouri ber of political activists from reform and Rad, Ahmad Tavakoli, Eliyas Hazrati, U.S. carriers are conservative camps met with President Ghodratollah Ali Khani, Mohammad Hassan Rouhani. Reza Bahonar, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, During the talks, Rouhani said none Assadollah Badamchian, Mohammad of the political factions can be removed Atrianfar, Seyyed Reza Taqavi, Ghola- in the country. mreza Mesbahi Moqhaddam, Hamid Reza Among those present in the meeting Jalaiepour, Mohsen Hashemi, Hossein vulnerable See page 2 were Behzad Nabavi, Ghoam-Ali Haddad Marashi, and Morteza Bank. 2 ECFR: EU needs to set up mechanism for oil trade with Iran TEHRAN — Europe should establish another the Iran Nuclear Deal”: mechanism similar to INSTEX to expand the One year ago, on 8 May 2018, President “scope of trade to include oil imports from Iran,” Donald Trump announced that the Unit- the European Council on Foreign Relations sug- ed States would cease compliance with gested in a commentary on its website, ecfr.eu, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on May 9. The ECFR also said Europe should (JCPOA), the nuclear agreement struck in involve other countries for trade with Iran July 2015 by the United States and Iran, through such a financial mechanism. along with China, France, Germany, Russia, Following is the text of the article the United Kingdom and the European headlined “Open letter: The U.S. and Union. 3 Massive explosions rock Fujairah port Several heavy explosions occurred early said, citing local media that several on Sunday in the port of Fujairah in heavy explosions occurred in the port the United Arab Emirates, a number of of Fujairah. media reports say. The reports, citing The blasts were heard between 4:00 eyewitnesses, further suggested that a.m. and 7:00 a.m. local time (00:00 — American and French warplanes have 03:00 GMT), the broadcaster reported, Mohammad Reza Zarandoosh Reza Mohammad been seen flying over the port at the adding that from seven to 10 oil tankers time of the incident. were in flames. The broadcaster contin- Earlier in the day, the Leba- ued by saying that the real cause of the ICANA/ non-based al-Mayadeen broadcaster incident has still been unknown. 13 EDITORIAL 60 day ultimatum is indication that Tehran’s patience running thin: Kamrava PERSPECTIVE Mohammad Ghaderi has existed on paper, in practice it has actually it has actually become an agreement of only one Hanif Ghaffari Tehran Times editor-in-chief EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Head of the Politics Desk of By Javad Heirannia become an agreement of only one actor, namely actor, namely Iran. The 60 day ultimatum is an @ghaderi62 Iran. The 60 day ultimatum is an indication that indication that Tehran’s patience is running thin. the TehranTimes TEHRAN — Mehran Kamrava, a professor of the Tehran’s patience is running thin.” Although the EU has rejected the ultimatum, Middle East Studies in Georgetown University Following is the text of the interview: this may be a positive move that prompts the Al-Fujairah: The of Doha, tells the Tehran Times that “clearly, the Iran is preparing to halt its implementation Europeans to finally deliver on their end of the Iran’s game just status quo of where JCPOA is today has become of some key parts of the JCPOA for 60 days. What bargain. result of crimes of untenable. Today Iran is the only party that is is your assessment of this? What is the future of JCPOA according to started living up to the terms of the agreement. The U.S. A: The European Union has been trying to new development? Saudi and UAE pulled out a year ago, and the EU has done very have its cake and eat it too. On the one hand A: Clearly, the status quo of where JCPOA y announcing that Iran will be- little of what the agreement obligates it to do.” they have been calling on Iran to abide by the is today has become untenable. Today Iran is gin keeping its excess uranium hough Emirates officials are Director of the Center for International and terms of the JCPOA while on the other hand the only party that is living up to the terms of and heavy water, the Islamic trying to censor news of the B Regional Studies at Georgetown University’s they have neither stood up to the United States the agreement. The U.S. pulled out a year ago, Republic now sends a firm and clear firing of tankers in the port of T School of Foreign Service in Qatar also adds “On nor even fulfilled their own obligations under and the EU has done very little of what the message to the west, exactly one year al- Fujairah, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi the one hand European Union have been calling the agreement. They have been dragging their agreement obligates it to do. So there are two after U.S. president, Donald Trump appear to have faced the consequenc- on Iran to abide by the terms of the JCPOA while feet because of their own Iranophobia and also possible scenarios out of the deadlock: either unilaterally withdrew from its nuclear es of their terrorist acts in the West on the other hand they have neither stood up to because they are unable, or unwilling, to stand the agreement completely collapses, with Iran deal with Iran. Asian region much earlier than they the United States nor even fulfilled their own up to the U.S. Iran, meanwhile, has lived up to formally pulling out; or the EU takes substan- At this point, it seems that Iran thought. Now, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, obligations under the agreement.” all its obligations under the agreement. So while tive and tangible measures to rectify what has has made a wise decision. Over the as two failed actors in Yemen and the Kamrava also adds that “While the agreement the agreement has existed on paper, in practice become a farce. 13 last year, the European troika has Western Asia region, feel the crisis in not only done nothing to revive the a few steps. Undoubtedly, in the near nuclear deal or bring any kind of future, the severity and extent of the benefit to the Iranian nation, but crisis will increase. ‘Counterintelligence failure by CIA and NSA in Venezuela’ they have actually backed up U.S. by The fact that the killing of innocent By Javad Heirannia in Tehran Times and a few of the articles I have English of a French article by Valentin Vasilies- developing new plans to undermine and defenseless Yemenis, including TEHRAN — Robert David Steele, a former published in the American Herald Tribune, cu, “La plus grande défaite de la CIA depuis des Iran’s “missile work”, and diminish thousands of women and children Marine Corps infantry officer and CIA spy as that are CENSORED by GoogleNews. The décennies” (“The greatest defeat of CIA in two its “power in the region” as well as in Yemen by the hated and hated well as an activist for Open Source Everything chart is one I devised after years of service as decades”) with some strong comments. Can you its “nuclear technology”. Saudi regime and the United Arab Engineering (OSEE), regularly answers questions both a spy and as the pioneer for Open Source summarize the article’s core points? As stated in clauses 26 and 36 of Emirates, has led to the anger of the for Tehran Times. Source Intelligence (OSINT), and it is in my A. The author, Valentin Vasiliescu, has ren- Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Yemeni people and other Muslim Q. The above graphic shows your latest publi- view an accurate reflection of just how terrible dered a service in pointing out that CIA fell into (JCPOA), if the other side fails to meet its nations from Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. cation of collected articles and your long-stand- the US is at the art and science of HUMINT. a counterintelligence trap. I quote the author in obligations, Iran is entitled to partially It has been repeatedly emphasized ing chart condemning the Human Intelligence Our President is being lied to every day about English translation: or completely end its commitments as that Saudi Arabia and the United (HUMINT) discipline in the USA. Tell us about our capabilities and to his credit, he may now It is only now that the Americans have learned well. So, Iran’s recent decision could Arab Emirates are considered to these as a preamble to our questions on Venezuela. finally be realizing that he cannot trust the that all the opposition groups of the Caracas re- be analyzed both on legal and strategic be the killers of the Yemeni nation A. The publication, available at Amazon, national security leadership. gime have been infiltrated by agents of the SEIN terms. and the United States, and they are consists of all of the articles I have published On 9 May 2019 you published the full text in counterintelligence. 7 However, it seems that the stra- doomed to failure.