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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 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13322 Monday FEBRUARY 4, 2019 Bahman 15, 1397 Jumada Al Awwal 28, 1440 All should laud U.S. will fail to save Iran captain Masoud “When the Moon Was Full” IRGC efforts Israel if Zionists start Shojaei not ‘thinking depicts how extremism 2 new war 2 of retirement’ 15 frustrates ambitions 16 Thousands of German SMEs eager to See page 10 trade with Iran: German official ECONOMY TEHRAN — Thou- since the U.S. is more focused on big desksands of German com- companies whose transactions with Iran National space panies are eager to trade with Iran, an are conducted through Iranian banks or official with the Iran-Germany Chamber shipping lines.” IRNA quoted Michael of Commerce told WirtschaftsWoche - a Tockuss, the co-chair of Iran-Germany German weekly business news magazine Chamber of Commerce, as saying. – on Saturday. Tockuss noted that the Europe’s pay- “Between 5000 and 7000 small and ment mechanism (known as INSTEX) is medium-sized German enterprises are going to enable the European companies technology day still willing to continue trade with Iran, to continue trade with Iran. 4 Three arrested for disrupting petrochemical market marked POLITICS TEHRAN – The In- the group had bought subsidized raw desktelligence Ministry materials used in the petrochemical in- Sanctions no hinder for Iran’s announced on Sunday that its forces dustry and sold them with higher prices have dismantled a major group of deal- in the market. ers in the central province of Yazd for The proceeds from the group’s space technology progress: disrupting the petrochemical market, financial crimes are estimated to Mehr reported. amount to 3 trillion rials, it said, Three elements of the group have been adding that further investigations ICT minister arrested, the ministry said, adding that are underway. Yemen ceasefire talks start aboard UN ship A United Nations-appointed committee Dutch General Patrick Cammaert, gathers tasked with monitoring a ceasefire in the members of Yemen’s former regime and Yemeni city of Hudaydah has started its the country’s popular Ansarullah (Houthi) new meeting aboard a ship anchored off movement. Mohammad Moheimani the key port city because representatives According to a UN statement, Cammaert of forces running Yemen have refused to boarded the vessel on Saturday and picked enter areas controlled by the House of up representatives of the former regime at a Saud regime-led aggressor forces. rendezvous in the Red Sea before returning The Redeployment Coordination Com- to Hudaydah to await Ansarullah envoys, Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ mittee (RCC), which is chaired by retired who arrived later on Sunday. 13 ARTICLE ARTICLE Martin Love The ambiguous future of European Union Setareh Behroozi Political analyst from By Hanif Ghafari President Emmanuel Macron has withdrawn such as “Brexit” and “European economic cri- Tehran Times journalist North Carolina TEHRAN — Economic, security, social and po- from the fuel tax laws, the “Yellow Vests” sis”. It shouldn’t be forgotten that ten years of litical crises in Europe continue. On the other continue to follow their demands of the Ely- austerity policies and a reduction in the general hand, the next four months will be the European sees Palace, taking out to the streets of Paris budgets of the Eurozone member states had Rarely has the Parliamentary elections: elections that are ex- and other cities. Indeed, what is happening bad results for the European citizens, and the Space technology, pected to be successful in those nationalist and in Europe? Is “the collapse of the United signs of the economic crisis can be still seen world been so extremist groups. Europe” still an “abstract idea”? Or has it throughout Europe. future market Under these circumstances, the “future of become an “objective reality” under the in- 2-Many European leaders feel incapable challenged by U.S. the European Union” has no clear prospect! fluence of past years’ events in Europe? In of solving existing crises. It should be noted for Iranian Many analysts and experts in the field of in- this regard, there are some points that should that EU leaders like Merkel and Macron do hubris ternational relations are cautious about the be taken into consideration: not have a common understanding of what entrepreneurs political existence of the European Union and 1-As emphasized at the beginning of this note, is going on in this series! On the other hand, ho knows, but it may be that the the Eurozone. The European Union is now under a critical if the nationalist and anti-European parties bout half a century ago, human left people of Venezuela, beset with Meanwhile, the political situation of Euro- pressure! The constant political, social and achieve absolute or relative victory in the 2019 footprints on the moon. For years, Wupheaval and possible civil war pean leaders is not clear. What is happening security crises have raised the vulnerability European Parliamentary elections, the situation Aspace technology was associated in if not an invasion by the U.S. or proxies, today in France, Germany and the United of this block. On the other hand, European in the European Union and the eurozone will the mind of public with launching satel- will become the sacrificial lambs who fi- Kingdom reflects this fact. Although French leaders have clearly lost control over issues become harder. 7 lites, astronauts in their weird costume nally sink the U.S. thoroughly in world exploring other planets. Space technol- opinion and the U.S. could get bogged ogy was unreachable and done behind down there to some extent the way they closed doors! did in Vietnam and Iraq, not to mention UN believes MBS prime suspect in Khashoggi murder However today the space is not limit- the real costs in money and lives. An investigative team led by the United Nations She held talks with Turkish foreign and justice to prevent the UN team’s entry into the consulate ed to looking to stars and space centers. Maduro may well fight, it’s just hard (UN) believes the House of Saud regime’s Crown ministers and the prosecutor in the case. as “a scandal.” Nations face private funding, advances to say how MUCH support he has in his Prince Mohammed bin Salman, MBS as he is also “The UN team considers the crown prince Khashoggi — a late but vocal critic of Crown in technology and growing private-sec- country, but a recent poll suggests that known, is the prime suspect in the state-sponsored of Saudi Arabia the main person responsible for the Prince Mohammed — was killed and his body tor interest in space technology, which he has a majority of the country behind assassination of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi killing of Khashoggi. The team held a number was dismembered by a Saudi hit squad after make it different from what we previously him, at least to the extent that Venezuala’s in Turkey, an adviser to Turkish President Recep of meetings in Turkey, including with Khashoggi’s being lured into the consulate in Istanbul on perceived. people despise the U.S coup attempt. And Tayyip Erdogan says. fiancé, and she (Callamard) also intends to listen October 2, 2018. Iran, as a country which has made sev- it does appear that many Americans are Yasin Aktay made the remark on Friday fol- to the audio recordings related to the crime,” Turkey, which said it was in possession of eral achievements in space technology in not, and would not be, keen on seeing lowing a meeting with the UN investigative team Aktay, the Turkish presidential adviser, told the audio evidence of Khashoggi’s murder soon after recent decades, is not an exception. Now, Trump ignite another war. that is probing the brutal murder of Khashoggi Turkish NTV broadcaster. he failed to exit the consulate, has indirectly the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) promotes Trump, under the thumb of the troika inside Saudi regime’s consulate in Istanbul last Callamard has been barred from the Saudi suggested that Mohammed ordered his kill- space-based businesses as one of the main of Pence, Bolton and Pompeo (and oth- October. regime consulate in Istanbul, where she had ing. The Washington Post, for which Khashoggi factors for development of the country. er Neocons like Eliot Abrams, who has The team, led by Agnes Callamard, the UN requested access to as part of the investigation. was a columnist, reported in November last In an interview with YJC, the director of been tasked with directing the coup in special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, Omer Celik, a spokesman for Turkey’s ruling year that the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) ISA space-based businesses development Venezuela), lurches from one dramatic, or arbitrary executions, arrived in Turkey on Justice and Development Party (AKP/Adalet ve had also concluded that Mohammed ordered department Shabnam Yazdani said that hysterical move to the next, including yet Monday to probe Khashoggi’s killing. Kalk?nma Partisi), has denounced the Saudi move his killing. 13 the agency encouraged entrepreneurs to another treaty abrogation, the INF, which provide space-based creative solutions for regulated some missile defense balances challenges and problems Iran deals with. between the U.S. and Russia. She said that ISA provides necessary National security advisor to Trump, data as well as some ideas for entrepre- John Bolton, has proven his complete Royan pioneering neurs to start their business for solving insanity (as if further proof were needed) problems. by threatening to send Nicolas Maduro infertility Smart agriculture and space to the U.S.