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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 10,000 Rials 39th year No.13189 Tuesday AUGUST 21, 2018 Mordad 30, 1397 Dhul Hijjah 9, 1439 Prepared for worst Nasirzadeh Freestyler Alireza Serbian cinema under case scenario, appointed new Karimi seizes gold for spotlight in Iran FM says 2 Air Force chief 2 Iran at Asiad 15 16 Leader’s message to Hajj pilgrims: Iran says U.S. ‘action group’ is psychological warfare POLITICS TEHRAN — Irani- sentative for Iran in charge of the Iran U.S. aiming to deskan Foreign Ministry Action Group to coordinate President spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Donald Trump’s pressure campaign Monday that a new Iran Action Group against the Islamic Republic following in the U.S. State Department is a “psy- Washington’s withdrawal from 2015 chological warfare” which will yield no nuclear deal. kill Muslims result. Qassemi said that formation of the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pom- Iran Action Group is in line with the peo on Thursday named senior policy U.S. hostile policies and runs contrary by Muslims adviser Brian Hook as special repre- to international law. 2 China shifts to Iranian tankers to keep See page 2 oil flowing amid U.S. sanctions Chinese buyers of Iranian oil are starting United States withdrew in May from a to shift their cargoes to vessels owned by 2015 agreement to halt Iran’s nuclear National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) program. for nearly all of their imports to keep supply The United States is trying to halt flowing amid the re-imposition of economic Iranian oil exports to force the country sanctions by the United States. to negotiate a new nuclear agreement The shift demonstrates that China, and to curb its influence in the Middle Iran’s biggest oil customer, wants to East. China has said it is opposed to any keep buying Iranian crude despite the unilateral sanctions and has defended its sanctions, which were put back after the commercial ties with Iran. 4 Iraqi political parties agree to establish core alliance Iraqi political parties have agreed on es- the National Wisdom Movement (Tayar tablishing a core alliance in an attempt al-Hikmah al-Watani), Ammar Hakim, to form a new government. as well as members of the Iraqi National The deal was reached on Sunday, Movement (INM/al-?araka al-Wa?aniya following a meeting among leader of al-Iraqiyya/al-Iraqiya List/al-Watanyah) the Alliance towards Reforms (Sa’iroun party. Alliance/Marching Towards Reform/ “We agreed today to form a core for an khamenei.ir Saairun/Forward), Muqtada al-Sadr, alliance seeking to form a parliamentary al- Prime Minister Haider Abadi, leader of liance that can form the government. 13 REPORT Republic of Korea continues to support refugees in Iran with multi-year contribution ARTICLE Ramin Hossein Abadian SOCIETY TEHRAN — The United Na- remains one of WFP’s top donors in Iran, having provide humanitarian assistance in the future.” Syed Zafar Mehdi Mehr News Agency desktions World Food Programme contributed US$5.4 million since 2014.” said Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Journalist Journalist (WFP) welcomes a new US$2.2 million mul- Cash assistance introduced this year enables Iran, Ryu Jeong-Hyun. from New Delhi ti-year contribution from the Republic of Korea refugee families to buy the food of their choice Iran hosts the world’s fourth largest refugee to support 30,000 of the most vulnerable Afghan and diversify their dietary intake. It also gives a population, with nearly 980,000 registered Af- Iraq’s Shiite refugees living in settlements in the Islamic Re- boost to the local economy, particularly in markets ghan and Iraqi refugees. Muslim unity key to public of Iran. in and around settlements. WFP has been providing assistance to refugees movements oppose WFP will use the funds to provide both cash “It is my great pleasure to be able to make in Iran since the arrival of the first asylum seekers defeating forces of and food assistance to meet refugee families’ most this contribution to the meaningful project of from Afghanistan and Iraq in the late 1980s. U.S. sanctions on Iran pressing needs, and promote girls’ education improving food security and livelihood of refugees The United Nations World Food Programme Takfirism and women’s livelihoods, in 20 settlements in in the Islamic Republic of Iran through WFP, - saving lives in emergencies and changing lives fter the first package of U.S. economic 13 provinces across the country. continuing our close partnership throughout for millions through sustainable development. or Muslims, the staggering fall from sanctions against Iran began Tuesday “We are grateful to the Korean people for their the last five years. I hope that this project will WFP works in more than 80 countries around grace can largely be attributed to Ato intensify pressure on our country, continued generosity towards refugees in Iran,” facilitate the betterment of living standards of the world, feeding people caught in conflict and Ffragmentation in their ranks, exac- the Baghdad government announced that said WFP Representative and Country Director the large number of Refugees in Iran, reaffirming disasters, and laying the foundations for a better erbated by the scourge of sectarianism it will hold to the sanctions to protect its in Iran, Negar Gerami. “The Republic of Korea the Korean Government’s firm commitment to future. fanned by divisive forces. The condition people. “As a matter of principle we are of Muslims today, in both the realms of against sanctions in the region. Blockade spiritual and temporal, is appallingly poor. and sanctions destroy societies,” Heidar U.S. and NATO neglect Afghan Shia massacres Having ruled the world for eight to nine al-Ebadi said at a news conference. centuries, bringing people out of barbarism By Syed Zafar Mehdi More than 50 young children, mostly girls, – an Afghan journalist, poet, activist and former “We consider them (sanctions on Iran) into civilization, abolishing idolatry and TEHRAN — As the security situation in Afghanistan were killed when a suicide bomber attacked counter-terrorism advisor – speaks about the at- a strategic mistake and incorrect but we advocating monotheism, Muslims have deteriorates, the government in Kabul is finding itself Maw’ood Education Center in Shia-dominated tacks on Hazara Shias of Afghanistan, why life has will abide by them to protect the interests gradually and worryingly slipped into an in troubled waters. According to the UN, civilian neighborhood of western Kabul last week. They become hard for Hazara Shias, why the world does of our people. We will not interact with abyss of despondency and darkness. While deaths recorded a new high in the first half of this were high-school students preparing for their not know their story, and how the Hazara Shias them or support them but we will abide the Holy Quran promises that the “honor, year. Meanwhile, the targeted attacks on Hazara Kankor examination. are being massacred in their own country in the by them,” he added. power and glory belongs to God and to Shias of Afghanistan also continue unabated. In an interview with Tehran Times, Basir Ahang presence of NATO and U.S. forces. 6 This is while after this stance, Baghdad His apostle and to the believers” (Surah announced that it will only refrain from Munafiqun), it also cautions that the “Al- using the dollar in transactions with Iran mighty does not change the condition of without complying with the full scope of a people until they change it themselves” U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Colleagues, (Surah Ar-Ra’ad). “Our commitment in the Iran issue is to How can we possibly leap forward as a not use the dollar currency in transaction, divided unit, with so many warring groups not abiding by the U.S. sanctions,” state fans bid baying for each other’s blood? How can television quoted al-Ebadi as telling a we progress without clutching hands and news conference in Baghdad on Monday. pulling in the same direction as empha- However, what is important here re- farewell to sized in the Holy Quran in unequivocal garding the announcement of the official and unambiguous terms: “And hold firmly statements by the Baghdad government director Dorri to the rope of Allah all together and do on Iran’s sanctions, is the subsequent not become divided” (Surah Aali Imran). positions taken by Shiite parties, groups Colleagues and fans attend funeral prayers Even hardnosed European evangelists and movements against these sanctions. as part of the memorial services for director admit that the modern world was built In some ways, we can say that after the Ziaeddin Dorri in the courtyard of the Ira- on the scientific breakthroughs made by Baghdad government’s announcement, nian House of Cinema in Tehran on August Muslim scholars at a time when the Euro- there was a long line of opposition from 20, 2018. peans were struggling and stumbling. So Shiite currents to U.S. sanctions against The 65-year-old filmmaker who was what led to the decline and degeneration the Islamic Republic of Iran. mostly famous for the TV series “The Eng- of Muslims? Accordingly, chief of National Wisdom Mohsenifar Mohammad lish Briefcase” and “The Pahlavi Hat” died In the words of Scott Gilmore, a social Movement (NWM) Ammar al-Hakim said last Friday due to infectious complications entrepreneur and writer, the easiest re- that the U.S. sanctions is a clear bypass- resulting from a liver transplant. sponse is to say Muslims did this to them- ing of the international will.