WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13431 Tuesday JULY 9, 2019 Tir 18, 1398 Dhi Al Qada 6, 1440 Iran won’t tolerate Britain must pay Iran volleyball team Book on leadership British piracy compensations for oil tanker face huge delays in Iran published 2 seizure: ex-Rouhani aide 3 at Chicago airport 15 16 British envoy at Foreign Ministry for third time over tanker seizure TEHRAN – British Ambassador to Teh- in four days. He was first summoned to ran Robert Macaire was in Iran’s Foreign the ministry on Thursday, the day the Ministry on Monday for the third time tanker was seized. Enrichment since last week over the seizure of an On early Thursday morning, British Iranian oil tanker. Royal Marines in Gibraltar stormed the Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Iran-operated supertanker Grace 1 off the Mousavi said Macaire was not summoned coast of Gibraltar, seizing the 300,000-tonne but he was at the Foreign Ministry for vessel based on the accusation that it was pursing the issue of the oil tanker. carrying oil to Syria in possible violation reaches 4.5 % Ambassador Macaire had already of the European Union’s sanctions on the been summoned to the ministry twice war-torn Arab country. 2 Kamalvandi says next option is 20 percent uranium enrichment Zanganeh to Falih: Iran no threat to See page 3 global energy security TEHRAN — Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Minister Khalid Al-Falih, who claimed Namdar Zanganeh said on Sunday Iran is posing “threats to global energy that Iran is not only no threat to the security.” world’s energy security but also the Speaking in a televised interview, biggest guarantor of stability and Zanganeh said “Falih is a technocrat energy security in the region, Shana and a respectable person and does not reported. often speak politically; he must have The minster made the remarks in probably been asked to make such po- reaction to an earlier claim by Saudi Oil litical remarks.” 5 Raisi demands immediate release of Iranian oil tanker TEHRAN — Iran’s Judiciary Chief should await the ramifications of their Ebrahim Raisi has demanded an im- action,” Raisi said on Monday. mediate release of an Iranian oil tanker He also censured the West for turning a seized by the British government, Fars blind eye to Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group’s reported. capturing and smuggling of the Syrian Heidar Rezaei “It seems that the British and Europeans and Iraqi oil using the same waterways. are well aware of the Islamic Republic’s “But today, Britain seizes the Islamic reach and potential, and accordingly, it is Republic’s oil tanker as it travels in Gi- to their own benefit that they immediate- braltar while adhering to all international Jamejam/ Jamejam/ ly release this oil tanker, otherwise they laws,” he added. 3 PERSPECTIVE Nigerian envoy to Tehran summoned over Sheikh Zakzaky’s conditions ARTICLE Hanif Ghaffari TEHRAN — The Foreign Ministry has sum- Iran has spared no efforts through diplo- tained serious wounds too and more than Mahnaz Abdi Head of the Tehran Times Head of the TehranTimes Politics Desk moned Nigeria’s envoy to Tehran to voice the matic and political ways to resolve the issue, 300 of his followers and three of his sons Islamic Republic’s concerns over the conditions he stressed. were killed. Zakzaky, his wife, and a large Economy Desk of top Shiite cleric and leader of the Islamic According to the Tasnim news agency, number of the cleric’s followers have since Movement in Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Zakzaky has been held in detention been in custody. Unraveling al-Zakzaky. since December 2015 and was charged just in On Friday, the UK-based Islamic Human Sanctions, an “Recently, the Nigerian charge d’affaires was April 2018 with murder, culpable homicide, Rights Commission (IHRC) announced that the secret deal summoned to the Foreign Ministry and was unlawful assembly, disruption of public peace it had received reports about Zakzaky’s health opportunity to between Britain informed about Iran’s concerns over Sheikh and other accusations. He has pleaded not guilty. condition that it had further worsened. benefit from tax Zakzaky’s conditions in the African country,” In 2016, Nigeria’s federal high court ordered The IHRC — which had sent a medical team and Bolton Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi his unconditional release from jail following to Nigeria in April to examine the health con- potential said at his bi-weekly press conference in Tehran a trial, but the government has so far refused dition of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife — has nformed sources have recently on Monday. to set him free. already said the specialist treatment they re- onald Trump withdrew the U.S. announced that John Bolton, “The Nigerian charge d’affaires offered some The top cleric, who is in his mid-sixties, quire can only be fully accessed outside the unilaterally from the 2015 nuclear the American national security explanations and he is supposed to convey our lost his left eyesight in a raid which was African country. deal between Iran and the world’s I concerns to the Nigerian government,” he added. carried out by the Nigerian army on his Separately, members of the IMN had also D advisor has promised the top lead- major powers (known as Joint Compre- ers in London to help them in Brexit The spokesman expressed the hope that the residence in the northern town of Zaria said last week that the cleric had been poi- hensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) in last by putting Brussels under pressure. Foreign Ministry’s efforts would yield results and in December 2015. soned in prison and required urgent medical May and re-imposed sanctions against Apparently, Bolton has made the of- that the prominent cleric would recover soon. During the raid, Zakzaky’s wife sus- care abroad. the Islamic Republic. fer in exchange for London’s recent The first round of sanctions went into activities such as seizing the Iranian force on August 6 and the second round, oil tanker Grace 1. Sister of Saudi crown prince faces Paris trial over attack on workman which targets Iran’s oil exports and banks, Recently, Bolton has taken an were snapped back on November 4. TEHRAN— Princess Hassa bint Salman, 43, the alleged September 2016 incident, insisting “devastated” at being “thrown to the dogs extremely hostile approach toward The U.S. administration has threatened sister of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, he only took pictures to be able to replace objects by the press”. the Islamic Republic of Iran. Bolton to sanction any country that do business is due to stand trial in absentia in the French where he removed them. Police detained the princess after the legal praised Britain’s “illegal” seizure of with Iran and Trump has also vowed to capital on July 9 on charges of theft of a mobile The decorator reportedly said her assistant complaint was filed but she was released the Iranian supertanker in the Strait of drive Iran’s oil exports down to zero. phone and complicity to violence with a weapon then punched him on the side of the head, bound without being questioned two and a half Gibraltar and called for putting more To minimize the effects of sanctions on and complicity to sequestration. his hands together, told him to “kiss the feet” of hours later. pressures on Iran. Furthermore, he the country’s economy, Iran is adopting According to French reports, Ashraf Eid, the princess and place a gun at the back of his She departed France that day and has not openly interfered with the Internation- some new economic approaches and the a French plumber of Egyptian origin, told head when he refused during a four-hour ordeal, left Saudi Arabia since an international warrant al Atomic Energy Agency and said the main important one is to reduce reliance police he was forced to “kiss the princess’ The Telegraph reported. for her arrest was issued against her three years agency should reduce Iran’s nuclear on the oil revenues. feet” after she told her “bodyguard” to “kill” His lawyer has declined to speak to the ago - effectively placing her under “house arrest”, exemptions. To materialize this objective, the him because he had filmed the royal in her press. However, speaking about the case for said her aides. But, what is the secret behind country has put strengthening domes- father’s flat at 80 avenue Foch, one of Paris’ the first time, the princess’s French lawyer, Her entourage depicted her as the victim of the hyperactivity of U.S. National tic production, boosting non-oil exports plushest streets in the 16ème arrondissement. Emmanuel Moyne, said she “vigorously con- a judge and police out to boost their reputation Security Advisor? Obviously, Bolton specially to the neighbor countries, and “You must kill him, this dog. He doesn’t de- tests the accusations against her and nev- by bringing the London-educated royal to court who is tackling internal pressures collecting taxes more systematically on serve to live,” he reportedly told police during er made such comments” and said she was at all costs. that want him to resign from power, top of its economic policies. has decided to have a more active Earlier this month, Iranian Minister presence in U.S. local media so that of Finance and Economic Affairs Far- his possible forced resignation comes had Dejpasand said that reducing the about with a greater cost.