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Viewpoint PRAYER TIMINGS Noon (Zohr) 12:11 Evening(Maghreb) 17:27 The Only Solution to the Dawn(Fajr)“ Tomorrow” 05:45 Chronic Question of Palestine Sunrise “Tomorrow” 07:14 Shamkhani also described By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer the Palestinian issue as the top priority of the Muslim world. As Palestine continues to burn and the Palestinian people groan under The official highlighted cultural the jackboots of the Zionist usurpers of their homeland, reactionary Arab regimes, whose foreign ministers met in Amman, the capital of Jordan, on Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (R) meets National Security Adviser and religious commonalities Saturday, remain lackadaisical to the issue of Islam’s first qibla, the al- of Pakistan Lt. Gen. Nasser Khan Janjua in Tehran on January 7, 2018. between Iran and Pakistan and Aqsa Mosque and the occupied Islamic city of Bayt al-Moqaddas, which called for enhanced ties in all the roguish US president, Donald Trump declared as capital of the illegal TEHRAN (Dispatches) – A Iran, has recently come under sending weapons and hiring sectors, especially in countering Zionist entity. senior Iranian official has told unprecedented attacks by U.S. terrorists to create insecurity on their common threats. The Amman meeting failed to provide any hope for the oppressed Pakistan’s national security President Donald Trump. their borders,” he added. The Pakistani official, for his Palestinian people as they struggle single-handedly against heavy odds for adviser that Muslim nations need Shamkhani underlined the The Iranian official further part, highlighted the need for materialization of their birthrights. Muslim countries to exercise Afraid of offending godfather US, the foreign ministers of such major to forge closer cooperation given need to safeguard joint borders touched on the necessity of lifting the U.S. policy to create divisions between Iran and Pakistan and the Saudi blockade on Yemen, vigilance against foreign Arab states as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, refrained from backing the call of conspiracies hatched to increase Palestine Authority Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, for declaring, at least, among them. make joint efforts to fight drugs saying Muslim countries and the rifts among them. the eastern part of Bayt al-Moqaddas as capital of the future Palestinian “The United States’ dishonest, as well as human and weapons international community support state. duplicitous and divisive policy trafficking. political talks among Yemeni He further emphasized that It is obvious that all chief players are busy shadow boxing, including towards Muslim countries, “We will not allow some groups and seek an end to the Islamabad would develop Jordan, which theoretically has jurisdiction over the Islamic holy sites in including Iran and Pakistan, countries to affect relations bombardment and siege of the its security and economic Bayt al-Moqaddas, but so weak is its position that it will never take a step requires that they bolster between the two countries through country. cooperation with Tehran. that might raise eyebrows in Israel. cooperation against America in Similar is the case of Egypt, which used to be the most powerful Arab addition to maintaining vigilance state, before surrendering its dignity to the US and Israel in return for paltry aid from Washington and ill-defined peace with the Zionist entity. and taking preventive measures,” Tehran to Host International As for Saudi Arabia, it has offered only lip service to the cause of al-Aqsa Ali Shamkhani said Sunday. Mosque without taking any practical measures to help the Palestinians. The secretary of Iran’s Supreme It cannot provide even a few cartridges to the outgunned Palestinian National Security Council made Conference on West Asia Security strugglers from the hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons it buys every the remarks during a meeting year from the West. with Lieutenant General Nasser TEHRAN (Press TV) – The host the second international Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Currently, Riyadh has no pretensions whatsoever to the Palestinian Khan Janjua whose country, like Iranian capital, Tehran, will conference on security in West Fazli and Defense Minister cause. Having labelled Hamas and Islamic Jihad as ‘terrorists’ for Asia amid challenges facing the Brigadier General Hatami refusing to endorse the Takfiri cult, it is now openly playing the role of a strategic region. are scheduled to deliver speeches spokesman for both Washington and Tel Aviv. It is trying to pressure and More than 200 political at the inaugural ceremony of the bribe the Palestinian Authority, which has been cut off from American aid for supporting the ongoing Intifadha, to accept the obscure village of Abu Iranian People, Security dignitaries and analysts from 49 conference. Dis as capital for any future Palestinian state – fully convinced that no Asian and European countries The participants will discuss a such state will ever emerge. Forces Lauded for will attend the Tehran Security variety of issues such as the role Mahmoud Abbas, after being unceremoniously dumped by Trump and Conference 2018 with the motto of Iran and regional and extra- losing all hopes in the Arab leaders, is busy appealing to the European of ‘Regional Security in the West regional countries in West Asia’s Union to recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. Foiling Sedition The EU, which has strongly censured the US decision to shift its Asia; Emerging Challenges and security as well as the importance embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (Bayt al-Moqaddas), is content with TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic been trained by the MKO terrorists Trends.’ It will be opened on of economic development and sweet diplomacy vis-à-vis the chronic question of Palestine, with no desire Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) or had links with the terrorist Monday. defense cooperation in regional to grant formal recognition to a Palestinian state – although the UN has expressed gratitude to the Iranian groups. Iranian Foreign Minister security. long advocated the “impractical” two-state solution. people as well as the country’s (Continued on Page 7) , Interior (Continued on Page 7) Turkey, which during the Ottoman era was for four centuries the security forces for foiling the paramount power in Palestine, has taken some commendable steps of late enemies’ attempts to incite sedition in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and the cause of Islam’s in the Islamic Republic. first qibla, but so far it hasn’t expelled the Israeli ambassador from Ankara In a statement released on Sunday, IRGC Accomplishes Mission to or given any commitment to support for armed Palestinian struggle for the the IRGC praised the people, liberation of Bayt al-Moqaddas. the Law Enforcement Force, the Accommodate Quake-Hit Villagers Now it becomes clear why Syria was devastated and destabilized by the Basij (mobilization) Force and the US, the Zionists, and the reactionary Arab states for the past seven years. intelligence forces of the country 2000 villages in the western province Now we understand why the US, the Zionists and Saudi Arabia ganged for preventing a new sedition and of Kermanshah with temporary up together to provide paltry sums for a few thugs, traitors and hypocrites foiling the plots hatched against housing units. in some towns of Iran to indulge in isolated cases of vandalism, coupled The Khatam al-Anbia with the shouting of outlandish slogans dictated to them, so as to present the Islamic Republic by “the U.S., Britain, the Zionist regime (of Construction Base, a conglomerate a picture of unrest in the Islamic Republic and thereby dampen the hopes belonging to the IRGC, had pledged of Palestinians and other oppressed people in the fight against Zionism, Israel), Al Saud, MKO terrorists to construct 8,000 Conex boxes to western imperialism and Takfiri terrorism. and monarchists”. be used as temporary housing units The plot failed, thanks to the vigilance of the Iranian people, who for The IRGC further described recent several days continued to pour into the streets in support of the government demonstrations held to condemn for the quake-stricken villagers. and its policies including the campaign to mobilize worldwide support for riots in the country as “a great epic” The construction base had the cherished goal of the liberation of Bayt al-Moqaddas, for which popular and said it proved that the grandeur pledged to build the Conex boxes mobilization forces in the countries of the region are busy coordinating of the Iranian nation is eternal. within a period of 45 days but it efforts. In late December, peaceful protests completed the mission in 40 days, As the Leader of the Islamic Revolution has said without mincing words, over economic problems broke out providing 8,100 temporary housing the only solution is a referendum involving all people of Palestinians, in a number of Iranian cities, but units in 1982 villages. including Muslims, Christians, and the original Jewish inhabitants (but IRGC Commander Major General the gatherings turned violent when IRGC has completed its mission to provide quake-hit people in nearly not the illegal Zionist migrants from Europe) for a unified system of Mohammad Ali Jafari has visited groups of participants, some of them 2000 villages in the western province of Kermanshah with temporary government for a single state stretching from the borders of Lebanon in the affected areas in Kermanshah armed, vandalized public property housing units. the north to the Sinai in the south and from the River Jordan in the east to and launched attacks on police several times to assess the process the Mediterranean Sea in the west. stations and government buildings. of the IRGC’s relief operations in If not, as the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA) TEHRAN (Dispatches) – The (IRGC) has completed its mission to the province. Security forces say many rioters Islamic Revolution Guards Corps provide quake-hit people in nearly had predicted, the cancerous tumour will be weeded out from the region. arrested in the recent unrest have (Continued on Page 7)