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16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 39th year No.13194 Wednesday AUGUST 29, 2018 Shahrivar 7, 1397 Dhul Hijjah 17, 1439 Europe should resist President Fuad Masum, Russia to host Congratulations U.S. pressure to save Ambassador Masjedi Iranian cultural on Eid al-Ghadir reputation 2 assess Iraq-Iran ties 2 festival next week 16

Iran’s 7-month crude steel output See page 2 up 23.6% yr/yr: WSA ECONOMY TEHRAN— Produc- The WSA also put Iran’s crude steel desktion of crude steel in output at 1.981 million tons in July of this Iran stood at 14.457 million tons during year, with a 13.2-percent rise from 1.75 the first seven months of 2018, indicating million tons in July of 2017. 23.6 percent rise from 11.697 million tons Producing 532.846 million tons of in the same period of time in 2017, accord- crude steel, China stood at the first place ing to World Steel Association (WSA). in the seven-month period of this year, It is while the world’s steel produc- while India and Japan came next through tion during January-July, 2018 rose just producing 61.831 million tons and 61.39 5 percent. million tons of the product, respectively.

Iran exports $400m of knowledge-based products TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — Iran has required to meet special standards, he added. deskexported $400 million Iran has already activated the Tech worth of knowledge-based products during Export Services Corridor (TESC) in 60 the past Iranian calendar year 1396 (March countries, he announced. 2017-March 2018), the vice president for TESC is an export support organization science and technology Sourena Sattari for Iranian high-tech and medium-tech said on Monday, YJC reported. companies. It facilitates the export process Export of knowledge-based products for Iranian manufacturers by providing is very different from export of ordinary services in the areas of marketing, consul- ones since knowledge-based products are tancy, and international alliances. 10

Flights halted at Dubai Intl. Rouhani fails to Airport after Yemeni drone strikes Yemeni forces, backed by allied fighters soldiers and their allies attacked Dubai from Popular Committees, have reportedly International Airport using a domesti-

Mohammadreza Abbasi launched an airstrike against a strategic cally-built long-endurance Sammad-3 economic target in the United Arab Emir- (Invincible-3) unmanned aerial vehicle ates in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s on Monday evening. devastating military aggression against On July 26, Yemeni army forces and their impoverished homeland. Popular Committees fighters targeted Abu

Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ convince MPs A Yemeni military source, speaking Dhabi International Airport in the UAE, us- on condition of anonymity, said Yemeni ing the same type of combat drone. 13 EDITORIAL Ghadir makes politics ethical: Abdulaziz Sachedina ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi Martin Love Tehran Times editor-in-chief EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW as Bi’sat, Ghadir, and Ashura in Islam. Please and wilayat in Islam. Political analyst from North Carolina @ghaderi62 By Javad Qanbari explain about the status of Ghadir? What is significance of Ghadir in the his- A: Ghadir like Bi’sat are critical moments tory of Shiism? TEHRAN — Abdulaziz Sachedina, a professor in the history of Islam. Whereas Bi’sat marks A: It is impossible to imagine Shiism with- Merkel vs. EU’s of Islamic studies at George Mason University in the beginning of the Prophet’s mission, Ghadir out understanding the two important and key Saadi’s words from Virginia, tells the Tehran Times that the event of marks the continuation of that mission. In both events of early Islamic history: Bi’sat and Ghadir. U.S. - independent Ghadir provides “foundation of analytical phi- cases the selection of the leadership involved Shiism was a path that undertook to challenge 13th century are losophy” and makes “politics ethical”. important issues related to the leadership and injustices and the wrongs that were being per- payment system Sachedina also says, “The paradigm provided the future mission of the Muslim Umma. Nubu- petrated by political and tribal forces of the worth remembering by the event of Ghadir is so universal that no wwa and Wilaya are the two essential processes 7th century Arabian culture. Undoubtedly, ecent contradictory statements by one with minimum understanding of the world of implementing the vision of justice and truth Shiism rose as an opposition to the pre-Islamic right now the German Chancellor and Ger- politics today can deny its legitimacy in the de- in Islam. The elements that led to the events of tribal hegemony, and throughout the history man Foreign Minister on the Joint velopment of the international ideal of human Ashura are linked with these two institutions of it stood out as an alternative to the oppression istory is not going to forget the R JCPOA no matter what happens Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) rights or just political order. guidance of humanity to establish the rule of law and suppression practiced by the Umayyads over an independent payment system for Sachedina has been conducting research and and justice in Muslim community. Hence, Ghadir and the Abbasids, and other political dynas- Hto the agreement itself. Ideally, it Iran attracted the attention of many in- writing in the field of Islamic law, ethics, and is both the continuation of the Nub uwwa and ties. Ghadir clearly demonstrated the moral ought to stand with continued backing by ternational experts and analysts. theology for more than two decades. Following the culmination of Shahadat of Imam Husayn in force of a minority that believed in a qualified the other signatories, which means the As reported by Handensblatt, the is the text of the interview with him: Karbala. It is not possible to understand Karbala leadership of the Umma. That was the sole other signatories make it worthwhile for German business newspaper, Foreign There are certain important events such without exploring the meaning of prophethood strength of Shiite teachings. 7 Iran to continue faithfully respecting its Minister Heiko Maas recently mentioned terms. that Europe and the U.S. “have been drift- Whether these other signatories can ing apart for years” and urged Europe to with determination continue upholding “assume our equal share of responsibility” Iran, Latvia to bridge gap on culture: Book City exec the agreement with an effective quid pro in order to “form a counterweight when quo with Iran remains to be seen. The ARTTEHRAN — The deputy Jaunzeme-Grende, who served as the Latvian Mohammadkhani stressed on the need for the U.S. crosses the line,” pull “our weight jury is still out on this, but there are a few deskdirector of Iran’s Book City culture minister from 2011 to 2013. mutual revision on cultural relations among Iran, when America retreats … [and] start a positive signs popping up, particularly Institute, Ali-Asghar Mohammadkhani, has said “Ms. Jaunzeme-Grende is a well-known per- Lavia, Lithuania and Estonia. new conversation.” in Europe. that Iran and Latvia plan to bridge the gap on son in Latvia and the EU and is really eager to Based on an agreement signed between the Among his bolder suggestions on how What is most riveting is that now the culture between the two countries by collabo- expand cultural cooperation between Iran and Imants Ziedonis Foundation and Book City Insti- to do this, he came with the suggestion U.S., and I believe it is a sign of desper- rating on publications and organizing mutual her country,” Mohammadkhani said. tute, several cultural meetings will be organized of an independent system of financial ation and not strength, is waging some cultural meetings. “However, unfortunately, people in both coun- in the coming year. In addition, books from both transactions that would protect European kind of economic warfare of varying kinds In a press release published on Tuesday, Mo- tries know very little about the culture, history Latvian and Iranian writers will be published companies seeking to do business with and degrees with almost 15 percent of the hammadkhani elaborated on his recent visit to and literature of the other country,” he added based on a bilateral agreement. Iran. It’s to be noted that U.S. sanctions world’s countries with a total population of Latvia and several agreements he signed with He said that only the Rubaiyat of Omar The foundation and institute also plans to on our country would target any compa- some 2 billion people, or over 25 percent some Latvian cultural organizations. Khayyam, Sadi’s Gulistan and Sadeq Hedayat’s translate Persian poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Ru- ny that has commercial interests in Iran of all of the world’s citizens. This is, in a He was in the Latvian capital of Riga from “The Blind Owl” from Persian literature have so mi’s Masnavi-ye Manavi into Latvian and also to and that also works with U.S. banks and word, amazing. August 22 to 26 at an invitation from the direc- far been published in Latvian while no books from organize an international conference on Rumi U.S. dollars. That the U.S. government can imagine tor of the Imants Ziedonis Foundation, Žaneta Latvian writers have been translated into Persian. in Riga in January 2019. 16 Maas also defended the attempts to even for a minute that this economic war- circumvent U.S. sanctions through a so- fare constitutes a sound strategy to main- called blocking mechanism that would tain its power for very long is the height penalize European companies that comply of arrogance and delusional thinking. with U.S. sanctions on Iran. Iran seems to be at the epicenter of this “It is therefore essential that we economic warfare. strengthen European autonomy by New IDO Also, thousands of people from establishing payment channels in- scores of nations have been included dependent of the U.S., a European chief in the U.S. Treasury Department list of monetary fund and an independent prominent designated nationals who SWIFT system,” he wrote of the payment have been more or less blocked from system that facilitates international inaugurated the U.S. dominated global financial banking transactions. system, where the U.S. dollar has for POLITICS TEHRAN — Moham- Right after her Foreign Minister state- decades been the reserve currency of deskmad Ghomi (right), the ments, Merkel reacted to his words and the world, particularly since the end newly appointed chief of the Islamic Dis- said that Mass those were his “personal of World War 2. 7 semination Organization, was inaugurated article,” rather than the government’s on Tuesday. position. She also emphasized that se- Also on Tuesday, Leader of the Islamic Condolences curity cooperation with the U.S. was Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appoint- an important element of trans-Atlantic ed the new members of the organization’s Dear Dr. Mehdi Zare, relations. Mohammad Khodabakhsh board of trustees. “On the question of independ- I express condolences over the death Seyed Mehdi Khamoushi (left), the ent payment systems, we have some former head of the organization, is also of your mother. May her soul rest problems in our dealings with Iran, among the members of the new board, no question,” she said. “On the other in peace. along with Ahmad Vaezi, Mohammad hand, we know that on questions of

Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ Hossein Rouhaninejad and Mohammad terrorist financing, for example, SWIFT Mohsen Mohammadi Reza Fallah. Tehran Times public relations officer is very important.” 7 II NN TT EE RR NN AA TT II OO NN AA LL DD AA II LL YY 2 POLITICSADVERTISEMENTS AUGUST 29, 2018 MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS Hatami tours Europe should resist U.S. pressure resistance forces’ military to save reputation: Kharrazi base in Aleppo POLITICS TEHRAN — To guard its work on an independent European or Fran- deskcredibility in respect to the co-German financing tool which would allow POLITICS TEHRAN — Iranian Defense Minister desk 2015 nuclear deal, Europe must resist the us to avoid being the collateral victims of Amir Hatami on Monday made a visit to a Trump administration, chairman of Iran’s U.S. extra-territorial sanctions,” French Fi- military base hosting the Syrian army’s allies and resistance Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Kamal nance Minister Bruno Le Maire said during forces in Aleppo, hailing their efforts in the fight against Kharrazi suggested on Tuesday. a meeting with press association AJEF. “I terrorist groups, Fars reported. Kharrazi made the remarks during a want Europe to be a sovereign continent During the visit, Brigadier General Hatami held talks with meeting with a delegation from Germany’s not a vassal, and that means having totally the commanders of resistance forces and was informed of the Berghof Foundation. independent financing instruments that do latest developments in the process of operations in Aleppo Kharrazi, who was foreign minister from not today exist.” and establishment of peace, security and stability in the city. 1997 to 2005 under the Khatami administra- German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas Addressing the rapid-reaction units of the resistance forces tion, said that Iran has always made efforts also weighed in, saying the EU is working stationed at the base, he praised them for their efforts to to stabilize the Middle East. to protect economic ties with Iran and keep establish peace and security in the region by fighting the The European Union trio – Germany, payment channels open. Maas reiterated a terrorists. France and Britain which are signatory to proposal to make international payments the nuclear deal - are expected to present systems like SWIFT more independent their package of proposals to Iran before of the U.S. MPs take initial the second round of U.S. sanctions, which Le Maire said using the European In- step to impeach target Iran’s central bank and oil exports, vestment Bank, which has exposure to takes effect in early November. the U.S., as a “financial channel” would industry On May 8, Donald Trump withdrew be “very complicated” and that the French Washington from the nuclear agreement and German governments are talking to minister and ordered sanctions against Iran. The first their respective central banks about their POLITICS TEHRAN — Industry and Trade Minister batch of sanctions took effect on August 6. involvement. “If we want to build a truly desk Germany and France said on August 28 to sidestep U.S. sanctions against countries central banks. independent instrument we must open up Mohammad Shariatmadari may have to such as Iran, including a possible role for “With Germany, we are determined to go to the parliament to answer questions by a number of that they’re working on financing solutions all the options,” he said. lawmakers complaining about his poor performance. On Tuesday, 51 lawmakers signed a petition to impeach the minister amid price rises. Iran never opposed talks with S. Arabia President Fuad Masum, Ambassador Under the Constitution, lawmakers can impeach ministers and UAE: Zarif aide Masjedi assess Iraq-Iran ties when they deem it necessary. An impeachment motion can be submitted when it has at least ten signatures. POLITICS TEHRAN — Hossein POLITICS TEHRAN — Iraqi On Sunday, the parliament sacked the minister of eco- deskJaberi Ansari, a top deskPresident Fuad Ma- nomic affairs and finance over price rises and fall of national aide to Foreign Minister Mohammad sum and Iraj Masjedi, the Iranian am- currency. Javad Zarif, says Iran has never op- bassador to Baghdad, held talks on posed the idea of engaging in dialogue ways to discuss ties between the two with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab neighbors, ISNA reported on Tuesday. Iran has promoted Emirates (UAE), urging the two Arab Masum said his country attaches states to follow the path of diplomacy great importance to expansion of ties efficiency of instead of warmongering. with Tehran in various spheres. “We are waiting for a day, which Earlier in August, he said that Iraq Sukhoi Su-22 we think will not be too distant, when will not accompany the U.S. in sanctions fighters the players of the other side realize against Iran. that solutions which are based on war, Situation in Iraq and the nature of its POLITICS TEHRAN — Commander of the Islamic intensifying tensions and lobbying Saudi Arabia completely cut ties ties with Iran make it difficult for Baghdad shrines in Iraq each year. Hundreds of desk Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace with foreign powers will not work,” with Iran after a number of Iranians to follow the U.S. sanctions against Iran, he thousands of Iraqis also visit Iran each year. Force has lauded his forces’ success in boosting the efficiency Jaberi Ansari said in an interview with stormed the Saudi diplomatic missions said in an interview with Alhurra TV channel. Iran was the first country which rushed of Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets. Hamshahri published on Tuesday. in Tehran and Mashhad in protest to U.S. President Donald Trump an- to the help of Iraqis when the terrorist In an interview with Tasnim published on Tuesday, Sham- “Our regional policy is improving the execution of the pro-democracy nounced Washington’s exit from the 2015 Daesh group made rapid advances in soddin Farzadipoor said while Sukhoi Su-22 can carry up relations with the countries of the cleric Nimr al-Nimr in January 2016. nuclear deal on May 8 and ordered resto- northern Iraq in 2014. to four tons of arms, the IRGC’s advances in developing region and expanding cooperation Jaberi Ansari also criticized Ri- ration of sanctions against Iran. In a meeting with a number of newly-elect- smart, pinpoint-hitting weapons have greatly improved the and positive interactions between yadh’s war against Yemen, saying, The relationship between Iran and Iraq ed Iraqi parliamentarians in Tehran on Mon- efficiency of the fighter jet. the sides,” he remarked. “One of the reasons the Yemen war has increased greatly since the downfall day, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who acts Iranian military experts and technicians have in recent Tension between Iran and Saudi has not ended after three and a half of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003. as foreign policy advisor to the parliament years made great headways in manufacturing a broad range Arabia has run high in recent years years is Saudi Arabia’s policy which The volume of trade ties between Iran speaker, praised Iraqis for protecting their of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-suf- and diplomatic contacts between the is based on continuous war as a tool and Iraq stand about 7 billion dollars. sovereignty and territorial integrity in the ficient in the arms sphere. two countries have become very rare. for political purposes.” Also, millions of Iranians visit the holy face of foreign invasion and terrorist groups.

‘U.S., S. Arabia Rouhani fails to convince MPs POLITICS TEHRAN — President Hassan Rouhani is to join hands to tackle people’s problem. People do not We will get through problems well.” should stop deskon Tuesday appeared before the Majlis want you ask me questions and me to deliver digits and First assuming power in 2013, Rouhani’s “Prudence and support for to answer lawmakers’ questions, mostly regarding current numbers; to go on reading these notes. People do not want Hope” government has been credited with clinching a his- economic situation. In four out of five questions, Rouhani this. People know the pain, they do better than you and I torical nuclear accord with world states only two years later. terrorism’ failed to satisfy the MPS, and the case is probably going to do. People understand their economic problems day by day The agreement, officially known as the Joint Compre- be referred to the Judiciary. and second by second.” hensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), relieved the country of POLITICS TEHRAN — Kamal Kharrazi, director of desk Lawmakers posed questions on his administration’s “It is not important whether you or I talk about feeling nuclear-related sanctions – including those imposed by the Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Rela- handling of economic issues, including a high unem- the fact that people’s lives have been laden with problems. U.S., and was subsequently endorsed in the form of a UN tions, said on Tuesday that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia should ployment rate, slow economic growth and a devaluation And if we and you are thinking of transitory remedies, Security Council resolution. end their support for terrorist groups in Syria. of national currency rial as well as smuggling of goods people will not have it.” In May, however, the U.S. left the deal in clear breach of Support by the certain Western and Arab countries for and foreign currency. In another part of his answers, Rouhani referred to Amer- its international obligations, and reinstated sanctions against terrorists in Syria coupled with Europe’s silence toward the The lawmakers were also critical of the continuation of ica’s mounting pressure on Iran, saying, “We will not let Iran as part of its fresh campaign of economic pressure. issue are the main reasons behind the Syrian conflict, the banking sanctions against Tehran despite the 2015 nuclear America’s schemes turn out successful… We will not allow A first round of the bans came in force earlier this month, former foreign minister remarked. deal -- under which those restrictions should no longer exit. a bunch of anti-Iranians who have gathered in the White while the second batch is due to take effect in early November. According to an investigation, a school bus attack in Responding to the lawmakers’ questions, Rouhani de- House today try to conspire against us.” The Majlis has on several occasions called Rouhani’s Yemen, which left 51 students dead, was carried out using fended his administration’s performance in two rounds and He added, “The White House should not think it will be ministers to account. a U.S. manufactured bomb. The attack, which occurred in also called for unity among all forces to tackle the existing happy of the conclusion of today’s session. It should know Already this month, it has removed Labor Minister Ali northwestern province of Sa’ada on August 9, was branded shortcomings. that it will be utterly saddened by the conclusion of today’s Rabi’ei and Economy Minister Masoud Karbasian in back- as a “legitimate military operation” by Saudi Arabia, which is In his remarks, Rouhani said, “What is important for us session…. We have no fear either of America or of problems. to-back impeachments. engaged in the U.S.-backed war on its impoverished neighbor. Second Announcement Official: 555 Iranian, Afghan border provinces sign SINGLE- STAGE INTERNATIONAL TENDER top smugglers cooperation agreement GOVERNMENT TRADING CORPORATION OF IRAN arrested Government Trading Corporation of Iran (hereinafter referred to as GTC), affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad of the Islamic Republic of Iran, intends to POLITICS TEHRAN — Head of the center for com- deskbating smuggling of goods and foreign purchase 120,000 M/Ts 10 pct M/L raw sugar in two lots for shipment of first lot during currency said on Tuesday that 555 top smugglers have been November 2018 and second lot during December 2018 on CFR basis, through single stage arrested and handed over to courts to face trial. international tender. Ali Moayedi said combating smuggling of goods and foreign All qualified companies and suppliers who are interested to bid above tender are invited currency have been ramped up in recent years, adding that 1,124 special courts for dealing with smuggling cases have to receive tender documents from 29/08/2018 till 08/09/2018 from Trades & Tenders POLITICS TEHRAN — Iran’s South th been established in recent years, ISNA reported. deskKhorasan Province and Farah Committee located on the 4 floor of GTC building no 2 , at No 225 Fatemi Avenue Tehran- He also said 222 organized smuggling cases have been Province of Afghanistan signed a memorandum Iran along with an official letter of introduction. handed to the courts and the wrongdoers fined 110 trillion of understanding on joint economic, cultural and rials, out of which 10 trillion rials was paid to the Treasury. The biddersare required to submit stamped and sealed envelopes containing their offers security cooperation. latest by 13:00 on 09/10/2018 to the Tender secretariat located on the 7th floor no.12, South Khorasan Governor Mohammad Mahdi Moravej al-Sharie and Farah Governor Abdul Basir DrFatemi square, Tehran, Iran. Iran, Kyrgyzstan Salangi signed the MOU in the city of Birjand, capital to cooperate of South Khorasan, on Monday. The bid’s envelope will be opened at 15:30 on 09/10/2018 in the presents of the bidder’s The sides agreed to form economic, cultural-social representative in GTC’s meeting’s hall . (2th floor, No 225 Fatemi Avenue Tehran-Iran, in fighting and border security commissions. It was also agreed that Birjand and Farah province Tehran, Iran). terrorism form a joint chamber of commerce. The MOU facilitates expansion of cultural inter- POLITICS TEHRAN — Kyrgyz Deputy Interior Min- Bid bond: bid bond worth EUR 304,468 (IRR 14,591,003,200) . desk action. It also included issues related to exchange ister Kursan Asanov and Iran’s Ambassa- of IT products, increase in the working hours of Bid bonds may be deposited either cash or through an unconditional bank guarantee dor to Kyrgyzstan Ali Mojtaba Rouzbehani have discussed customs offices and transportation. issued in Euros by renowned Iranian bank located in Tehran, with three months validity practical steps for signing a draft agreement on how to work Moravej al-Sharie said South Khorasan is ready and extendible for another three months. together to ensure security and keep law and order, Trend to receive Afghan citizens either as ordinary tourists reported on Tuesday, citing Kabar news agency. or medical tourists. Note: participates who wish to bid for more than one cargo are obliged to deposit the As part of the agreement, practical interaction will be He also noted that expansion of economic rela- above mentioned bid bond for each extra shipment. carried out in the field of countering international terrorism, tions will also be facilitated. illicit arms trafficking, cybercrime, etc. Salangi appreciated hospitality extended by South For more information, you may refer to our website WWW.GTC-PORTAL.COM or contact Kursan Asanov thanked the guests for their cooperation Khorasan, saying the capacities of the Iranian prov- and also expressed confidence for strengthening construc- ince will be effective in developing economic ties us by phone No.00982188957477 (Foreign Trade Department). tive interaction. between Iran and Afghanistan. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y AUGUST 29, 2018 INTERNATIONAL UN accuses Saudi regime-UAE alliance of Russia ‘reinforcing military possible war crimes in Yemen presence off Syria’ Ansarullah: Saudi regime seeks no strong gov’t formed in Yemen

by staff & agencies The United Nations has accused the House of Saud regime-United Arab Emirates (UAE) military alliance of committing possible war crimes in Yemen, adding there was “little evidence of any attempt ... to minimize ci- vilian casualties.” In a damning report on Tuesday, the UN said air attacks had caused the most direct Moscow is reinforcing its military presence in the Mediterranean civilian casualties in the war, and a blockade of near Syria, Russian media reported Tuesday. Yemeni ports and airspace may have violated Moscow has accused rebels of planning to stage a chemical international humanitarian law. attack in the northwestern province that would “provoke” Western The Saudi regime-led alliance, has repeat- strikes on its ally Damascus. edly denied allegations of war crimes, and Quoting anonymous sources, the Kommersant daily reported claims its attacks are not directed at civilians. that Russia sent two warships and an additional anti-aircraft However, data collected by Al Jazeera and missile system to the Mediterranean in August. the Yemen Data Project, has found that almost Pro-Kremlin paper Izvestia said Russia currently has 10 war- one-third of the 16,000 air raids carried out ships and two submarines in Syrian waters, saying this amounted in the country have hit non-military sites. to Moscow’s biggest military presence there since it became The attacks have targeted weddings and involved in the conflict in 2015. hospitals, as well as water and electricity According to Izvestia, Russia plans to send “several more” plants, killing and wounding thousands. warships to Syria. The charity Save the Children has estimated Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov charged that an average of 130 children die every day that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham “is close to committing a very serious from extreme hunger and disease - a crisis provocation in Idlib using chemical weapons.” brought about by the conflict. At the weekend, Russia repeatedly accused Syrian militants U.S. warns Saudi regime over of planning the attack in the rebel-held province. Yemen civilian casualties emphasis on the reduction of civilian casualties military coalition and some Western states. even medical facilities,” the report said. It also accused British secret services of being “actively in- Elsewhere, after selling the House of in the Yemeni campaign,” Rebecca Rebarich, “The Yemeni people also harbor no hope Forces loyal to the former Yemeni pres- volved” in the plot. Saud regime billions of dollars in weapons a Pentagon spokeswoman told CNN. in the United Nations since it cannot be effec- ident, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, and the Moscow’s accusations came after U.S. President Donald and intelligence to attack Yemen, the United It is not yet clear whether Trump, who has tive under the strong influence of the United Saudi-led coalition “may have conducted Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton said Washing- States has reportedly warned Riyadh that it been very supportive of the Saudi regime after States and the UK, and hefty financial assis- attacks in violation of the principles of dis- ton will respond “very strongly” if Syrian regime forces used will reduce intelligence and military support inking a hefty $110-billion arms deal with tance that comes from Saudi Arabia and the tinction, proportionality and precaution that chemical weapons to retake Idlib. for the regime unless necessary action is taken the oil-rich kingdom last year, would allow a United Arab Emirates (UAE),” Abdul-Salam may amount to war crimes,” it added. In April, the U.S., France and Britain launched joint missile to limit civilian casualties. reduction of support for the Riyadh regime. further said. Charles Garraway, a member of the UN strikes on Syrian targets in response to an alleged chemical weap- The U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis Former U.S. President Barack Obama had Responding to the calls of disarmament team said they had “reasonable grounds to ons attack in the town of Douma that left scores of people dead. and General Joseph Votel, who oversees the banned the sale of American precision-guided of the Ansarullah movement, he said that believe that parties to the armed conflict in Russian stuck by its ally Syria and angrily insisted the Douma U.S. military operations in the Middle East, military weapons to the House of Saud regime the crisis in Yemen could not be settled by Yemen have committed a substantial number attack was staged by the White Helmets volunteer rescue service. are concerned that the U.S. is helping the over “human rights concerns” but the ban disarming the movement since huge amounts of violations of international humanitarian Russia, a long-time ally of Syria, launched a military inter- Saudi regime and their allies, including the only lasted until March 2017, when then-Sec- of weaponry and ammunition were being law, subject to determination by an inde- vention in 2015 to support the embattled regime of President UAE, with killing civilians, unnamed officials retary of State Rex Tillerson overturned it. taken into Yemen on a daily basis by the pendent and competent court.” Bashar Assad, a move that changed the course of the war. familiar with the Pentagon’s view told CNN Besides the U.S., Britain and France have invading coalition. “That is, individuals in the government Damascus still holds the southeastern tip of Idlib, a strategically on Monday. also been providing weapons and intelligence “We do not accept that the subject of of Yemen and the coalition including Saudi important province adjacent to Latakia on the Mediterranean “At what point is enough, enough?” one to the Saudi regime and the UAE over the weapons be reduced to us only,” he added, Arabia and the United Arab Emirates may coast that is home to Assad’s clan. official said. course of the unprovoked war, which has pointing out that there are large amounts of have conducted attacks in violation of the More than 350,000 people have been killed and millions The Pentagon and the U.S. State Depart- killed over 14,000 Yemenis, caused a deadly weapons in the hands of the al-Qaeda terrorist principles of distinction, proportionality and/ displaced since Syria’s foreign backed war started in 2011 with ment issued the warning following a Saudi cholera outbreak and put the country on the groups and other terrorist outfits. or precautions which may amount to war the brutal repression of anti-government protests. regime-led airstrike on a school bus earlier verge of famine. He stressed that a political solution for crimes and also acts which may amount to (Source: AFP) this month, which killed 40 children and Saudi regime seeks no strong defusing the current the years-old crisis in war crimes including cruel treatment and prompted widespread condemnations around government formed in Yemen: An- Yemen must be based on humanitarian and torture, outrages upon personal dignity, rape the world. sarullah economic grounds in an attempt to heal to and conscripting or enlisting children under Democratic members of the U.S. Congress Meantime, the spokesman for Yemen’s wounds of the Yemeni nation and to restore the age of 15,” he added. have since written three separate letters to Ansarullah (Houthi) movement says the the country’s battered infrastructure. The team of experts was set up by the UN French environment President Donald Trump, asking him to justify House of regime turned the war-hit country Saudi regime strikes on Yemen Human Rights Council last year to monitor minister quits: World ‘not Washington’s continued support for Riyadh into a client state, as the Saudi regime-led may amount to war crimes: UN experts and report on the situation of human rights in the face of its many atrocities. military coalition continues with its ceaseless United Nations human rights experts in Yemen. doing enough’ It was reported in the days following the airstrikes against the impoverished nation. have also raised the alarm at the high rate Tuesday’s report analyzed Saudi regime-led attack that an American-made 500-pound “The one who has killed the Yemeni people of civilian casualties in aerial assaults by the airstrikes on Yemen between September 2014 France’s high-profile environment minister unexpectedly an- (227 kilogram) laser-guided bomb was used for almost the past four years and allowed Saudi regime and its allies on Yemen, saying and June 2018. nounced his resignation live on national radio Tuesday, lamenting to hit the bus. Saudi-led mercenaries and foreign forces to the strikes “may amount to war crimes.” It confirmed “persistent and pervasive the government’s lack of decisive action on green issues. The The U.S. has refused to publicly condemn enter the country is not representing a true In a 41-page report published on Tues- aggressive behavior, including sexual violence move deals a stinging blow to the environmental credibility of the attack but, according to reports, Mat- government,” said Mohammed Abdul-Salam day, the Group of International and Regional perpetrated” by UAE-backed militants in Yem- President Emmanuel Macron. tis has sent a top U.S. general to talk to the in an interview with the You News outlet Eminent Experts on Yemen raised “serious en as well as relentless smear campaigns by Clearly emotional, Nicolas Hulot said he’d not even told his Saudis about it. on Monday. concerns about the targeting process applied pro-Hadi and coalition forces against rights wife, let alone Macron or his prime minister, of his decision to “Lt. Gen. Garrett delivered a message of He apparently referred to the so-called by the [Saudi-led] coalition.” defenders and journalists. stand down. The long-time environmental advocate lamented concern regarding the recent civilian casualty government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, “Coalition airstrikes have caused most Additionally, the group’s chairman Kamel France’s slow pace of progress on green issues and his own lack incident, and on behalf of the U.S. govern- Yemen’s former fugitive president and a direct civilian casualties. The airstrikes have Jendoubi called for an investigation and the of power to force change. His on-air resignation on France Inter ment continued to urge for a thorough and staunch ally of Riyadh, which is only recog- hit residential areas, markets, funerals, wed- prosecution of violations amounting to crimes radio was so out of the blue that the first reaction from an inter- expedited investigation as well as continued nized by member states of the Saudi regime-led dings, detention facilities, civilian boats and in Yemen. viewer was: “Are you serious?” “I no longer want to lie to myself,” Hulot said. “I don’t want to create the illusion that my presence in government means that we’re up to standard on these issues, and so I am deciding North Korea tells U.S. denuclearization talks may fall apart: CNN to quit the government.” North Korean officials have warned in a letter to the Unit- The trip had been announced the previous day for this week Recruiting Hulot as a minister had been a coup for Macron, ed States that denuclearization talks were “again at stake and Pompeo had intended to introduce a newly named special who has sought to position France as a champion in the fight and may fall apart,” CNN reported Tuesday, citing people envoy, Stephen Biegun, to his North Korean counterparts. against environmental degradation and as a counterweight to familiar with the matter. The White House referred queries on the Washington Post the climate change attitudes of U.S. President Donald Trump. The letter was delivered directly to U.S Secretary of State report to the State Department, which did not immediately Losing Hulot so suddenly will force a ministerial reshuffle and Mike Pompeo, and stated that North Korean leader Kim Jong respond to a request for comment. casts doubt on the strength of Macron’s commitment to “make Un’s government felt that the process could not move forward. In cancelling Pompeo’s trip, Trump publicly acknowl- our planet great again.” Macron’s office confirmed there will be “The U.S. is still not ready to meet [North Korean] ex- edged for the first time that his effort to get North Korea a reshuffle but said it won’t happen while the French leader is pectations in terms of taking a step forward to sign a peace to denuclearize had stalled since his June 12 summit with visiting Denmark and Finland this week. treaty,” CNN reported, citing sources. Kim in Singapore. Hulot expressed hope that his resignation would stir French The 1950-1953 Korean War ended in an armistice rather U.S. intelligence and defense officials have repeatedly politicians and the public into action, calling it “an act of mobili- than a peace treaty, leaving U.S.-led U.N. forces technically expressed doubts about North Korea’s willingness to give zation.” “I no longer believe,” Hulot said. “The planet is becoming still at war with North Korea. up its nuclear weapons and they had not expected Pompeo’s an oven, our natural resources are being exhausted, biodiversity The North has long made clear that it sees an official trip to yield positive results. is melting like snow in the sun and it’s not always dealt with like end to the state of war as crucial to lowering tensions on A South Korea presidential spokesman said he was not a priority issue.” the Korean peninsula. Korea had been increasingly communicating through its in a position to comment on the authenticity of the letter but He damned Macron’s government with faint praise as he The United States has been reluctant to declare an end U.N. mission. acknowledged that talks between Washington and Pyongyang sprang his resignation surprise. “France is doing more than a lot to the Korean War until after North Korea abandons its CNN reported that the letter also mentioned that if a were in a stalemate. of other countries. Do not make me say that it is doing enough. nuclear weapons program. compromise could not be reached and the nascent talks “With North Korea and the U.S. remaining stalemated, It is not doing enough. Europe is not doing enough. The world The Washington Post reported Monday that U.S. Pres- crumbles, North Korea could resume “nuclear and missile there is an even bigger need for an inter-Korea summit,” Kim is not doing enough,” he said. ident Donald Trump called off a visit to North Korea by activities.” Eui-kyeom, a spokesman for the presidential Blue House Never a career politician, Hulot accepted a role in government Pompeo after the latter received a belligerent letter from On Sunday, North Korea’s state media accused the United told a briefing. in the hope that, from an inside position, he could make real pro- a senior North Korean official just hours after the trip was States of “double-dealing” and “hatching a criminal plot” South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said this month his gress on the environmental concerns that he has long sounded the announced last week. but did not mention Pompeo’s canceled visit. planned third summit with North Korea’s Kim next month alarm about. He was one of just two ministers given the special CNN reported that the letter was sent by the former head The Washington Post said the exact contents of the message would be another step towards the denuclearization of the title of “minister of state.” The other is the interior minister, who of North Korea’s spy agency, Kim Yong Chol, but it was not were unclear, but it was sufficiently belligerent that Trump Korean peninsula and an end to the Korean War. leads the police and France’s domestic fight against terrorism. known how it was sent. The Washington Post said North and Pompeo decided to call off the planned trip. (Source: Daily Star) On France Inter, Hulot said short-term pressures were taking priority in the French government over the longer-term need to reverse environmental destruction. He described himself as “all alone” and said: “I have a bit of influence but I have no power South Sudan rebel leader Machar ‘refused’ to sign peace deal and no means.” South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar along draft could be a sign of how difficult it will Kiir has blamed the collapse of previous South Sudan’s civil war erupted in De- “We are my troops? Who do I have behind me?” he asked. with other main opposition groups have re- be to implement a full agreement. peace agreements on foreign influence. cember 2013, less than two years after the Hulot said he’d been mulling his resignation for several months fused to sign the latest draft of a peace deal “The main South Sudanese opposition The warring parties have held weeks of country gained independence from Sudan. but one of the last straws was a meeting Monday with Macron with the government that would end a brutal groups, including the SPLM-IO (Machar talks in Khartoum in search of a compre- The war has uprooted a quarter of South about hunting. Hulot was dismayed to see that a hunting lobbyist civil war. faction), refused to sign the final document hensive peace deal to end the conflict that Sudan’s population of 12 million, ruined the was allowed to take part despite not being invited, seeing this as The opposition leader and South Suda- demanding that their reservations be guar- has killed tens of thousands of people and country’s agriculture sector and battered its a symbol of lobbyists’ influence in French corridors of power. nese President Salva Kiir signed a ceasefire anteed in it,” Sudan’s Foreign Minister Al-Di- displaced millions. economy. Macron’s critics seized on Hulot’s departure to take swipes at and power-sharing agreement last month, erdiry Ahmed told reporters in Khartoum In June, an initial agreement was signed On Saturday, South Sudan resumed drilling the president, whose popularity ratings have slid in recent months. one of a series of apparent breakthroughs on Tuesday. to end the fighting, but Machar rejected some for oil in some abandoned oilfields to boost Leftist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon tweeted that “Macronism in recent months. Previous peace deals have held for only a proposals such as having three different cap- the country’s economy. is starting to decompose.” But Machar’s refusal to sign the latest matter of months before fighting resumed. itals to distribute power. (Source: agencies) (Source: AP) II NN TT EE RR NN AA TT II OO NN AA LL DD AA II LL YY 44 ECONOMYADVERTISEMENTS AUGUSTAUGUST 29,29, 2018

STOCK MARKET Halting Iranian TEDPIX 136765.9 IFX 1550.19 crude shipments Sources: tse.ir, Ifb.ir will hurt Chinese CURRENCIES USD 42,000 rials refiners: Sinopec EUR 48,290 rials ECONOMY TEHRAN – A halt in “If we stop imports, the benefits would GBP 54,700 rials deskIran’s oil shipments to be affected”, the executive at Sinopec said. China will negatively affect some of the As reported, this is the first public comment AED 11,436 rials country’s refiners, Reuters reported quot- by a senior Chinese oil executive about U.S. Source: mehrnews.com ing a senior executive at Sinopec as saying reimposition of sanctions on Iran. on Monday. The comment comes after Reuters reported “Some of our downstream refineries were last week that state oil trader Zhuhai Zhen- sels owned by National Iranian Tanker Co. a limited impact on the company’s profits. designed for refining Iranian oil,” said Huang rong Corp and Sinopec have taken measures Speaking during a news conference the Meantime Sinopec expects its crude oil Wensheng, vice president of the company to safeguard supplies, activating a clause in day after Sinopec reported bumper first- output to remain stable over next three years, COMMODITIES formally known as China Petroleum & Chemi- long-term supply agreements with National half earnings, Huang said that the ongoing after crude oil production declined 1.6 percent WTI $68.99/b cal Corporation. Iranian Oil Corp that allows them to use ves- trade spat between U.S. and China will have in the first half of 2018, Huang said. Brent $77.10/b OPEC Basket $74.02/b Iran, Australia ink MOU on joint Inflation rate at Gold $1,212.10/oz manufacturing of electric cars, motorcycles 11.5%: CBI ECONOMY ECONOMY Silver $14.96/oz TEHRAN — Iran’s duction and exports center in the West Asia, TEHRAN — The Cen- previous month and 24.2% rise compared deskIndustrial Development Central Asia and Russia region, according desktral Bank of Iran (CBI) to the same month of the past year. Platinium $811.90/oz and Renovation Organization (IDRO) and to Seyed Ali Araqchi, IDRO’s director for announced that the inflation rate in the In Iranian calendar year 1395 (ended Australia’s Avass Group signed a memo- international affairs. twelve-month period ended on August on March 20, 2017), Iran could manage Sources: oilprice.com, Moneymetals.com randum of understanding (MOU) for the The Australian group is committed to 22, which marks the end of the Iranian to experience a single-digit inflation rate joint manufacturing of electric cars and establish a research and development (R&D) calendar month of Mordad, stood at 11.5 after 26 years. Iran to conduct drilling, repair motorcycles in Iran, the website of IDRO center in Iran and its cooperation with the percent, Tasnim news agency reported. The inflations rate stood at 9.8 percent reported. other companies in the region will be su- It is while the Statistical Center of Iran in that year according to the Statistical operation in Iraqi oilfields Based on the NOU which was signed in pervised by IDRO, Araqchi said. has put the inflation rate in the mentioned Center of Iran and at nine percent accord- Tehran on Monday the Australian side will Established in Melbourne in 2011, Avass period of time at 9.7 percent. ing to the CBI. ENERGY TEHRAN— National Iranian Drilling Company transfer related technology to Iran and also Group of Companies commenced operations As CBI reported, in the urban areas, But with the 10.2-percent inflation rate desk(NIDC) signed a memorandum of understand- invest €100 million for the joint manufactur- as a consulting engineering body, and then the average goods and services Consumer announced by the CBI for the last month, ing (MOU) with an Iraqi company on conducting drilling and repair ing of the mentioned products. developed and diversified over the years and Price Index (CPI) stood at 133.8 in Mordad, the country’s experiencing a double-digit operations in Iraq’s Basra and Az Zubair oilfields, Shana reported. Avass Group has chosen Iran as its pro- now trades within the electric vehicle industry. indicating 5.5% increase compared to the inflation rate again. Based on the MOU, NIDC will support drilling operations of the Iraqi partner in the fields, according to Karamali Naderi, the head of marketing and international cooperation department of NIDC. EU looking to sidestep U.S. sanctions with payments system plan Germany and France said they’re working on sanctions,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le European Union partners want business with their involvement. “If we want to build a truly financing solutions to sidestep U.S. sanctions Maire said Monday during a meeting with press the Islamic Republic to continue. independent instrument we must open up all Above $114m of VAT paid for against countries such as Iran, including a possible association AJEF. “I want Europe to be a sovereign German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also the options,” he said. development projects role for central banks. continent not a vassal, and that means having weighed in Monday, saying the EU is working to Maas said that as well as the U.S. sanctions The discussions, which also involve the U.K., totally independent financing instruments that protect economic ties with Iran and keep payment against Iran, action taken against China, Russia ECONOMY TEHRAN — Deputy head of Iranian National are a signal that European powers are trying to do not today exist.” channels open. Maas reiterated a proposal to and Turkey will also damage European business. deskTax Administration (INTA) announced that dur- get serious about demonstrating a greater level of Trump reimposed the sanctions after pulling make international payments systems like Swift “We have to react and strengthen Europe’s ing the first five months of the present Iranian calendar year (March independence from the U.S. as President Donald the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear accord in May, more independent of the U.S. autonomy and sovereignty in trade, economic and 21- August 22, 2018) 4.8 trillion rials (about $114.2 million) has been Trump pursues his “America First” agenda. despite opposition from NATO allies and China Le Maire said using the European Investment finance policy,” Maas said in a speech in Berlin. earned as value added tax (VAT) and been paid for implementation “With Germany, we are determined to work and Russia. European companies including Bank, which has exposure to the U.S., as a “financial Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland also of development projects, IRNA reported on Tuesday. on an independent European or Franco-German Daimler AG and Total SA have halted activity channel” would be “very complicated” and spoke at the event and said that her nation shares The paid amount has remarkably increased in comparison with that financing tool which would allow us to avoid being or backtracked on investment plans to avoid U.S. that the French and German governments are the goal of preserving a multilateral world order. of the same period in the preceding year, Mohammad Masihi told IRNA. the collateral victims of U.S. extra-territorial punishment but France and Germany and their talking to their respective central banks about (source: Bloomberg)

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America is committing war Ambitious UAE flexes crimes and doesn’t even know why military muscle By Nael Shama Zayed favored dialogue, quiet diplomacy and non-entanglement in the quarrels of other The foreign policy of the United Arab Emir- states, his successors are more proactive and ates offers a curious case study for scholars of daring. Awash with cash and ambition, they international relations: a small state with a have sought to turn the country into a regional tiny population and historically little presence power with outstanding military might, a on the world stage, but with outsized – and little Sparta on the Persian Gulf. seemingly ever-expanding – ambitions. Over Several regional developments have em- the past decade, while consolidating its status boldened the Emiratis. These include the as a regional financial center and international vacuum created by the debilitation of the business hub, the UAE has quietly become Arab world’s heavyweights; the formation a rising military power in the Middle East. of a crescent of instability in Libya, Sudan, Since the watershed of the Arab Spring, South Sudan, and Yemen; the ossification of the UAE has pursued an increasingly asser- the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council; the shift tive and interventionist foreign policy, the in American geostrategic priorities; the UAE’s BY Micah Zenko effects of which are most evident in the Red entanglement in the Yemeni conflict. Still, Sea basin and Horn of Africa. Here, the UAE in the oil-rich Persian Gulf states, decision- has sought to become a major political actor, making processes are highly personalized, By any reasonable assessment, the U.S. government should have maintaining a formidable military presence, leaders replace institutions, and ego-centered stopped providing direct military support to the Saudi Arabia-led handing out lavish economic aid and taking dynamics shape much of the political output. air campaign in Yemen on the day after it started. Washington’s on the role of kingmaker and peace broker. So without the change at the helm of the participation began on March 26, 2015, when a White House Today, the UAE operates ports in four of UAE, old perceptions and policies would spokesperson announced, “President Obama has authorized the the seven countries bordering the Red Sea have probably remained unchanged. Bent provision of logistical and intelligence support to [Persian Gulf (Egypt, Somalia, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia), on punching above its weight, the UAE has Cooperation Council]-led military operations.” On March 26, and military bases in Yemen, Eritrea and under the new bold leadership become, as Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates toward the end of a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Somaliland. one researcher pointed out, “a small state (UAE) Armed Forces Mohammed bin Zayed (center) attends the Arab Islamic American Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) asked U.S. Central Command The UAE has been ratcheting up its with a big ego.” Its long arms have not only Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 21, 2017. commander Gen. Lloyd Austin what the ultimate goal of the PGCC economic activities in the Red Sea basin as reached into the poorer states of East Africa, air campaign in Yemen was, and for the general to estimate its well. In 2000, Dubai government-owned, but also into Syria, Libya, Egypt and other likelihood of success. Dubai-based port operator DP World won Since the watershed of the Arab Spring, the Middle Eastern states. Gen. Austin answered with refreshing honesty: “I don’t cur- a 20-year concession to operate the Port of UAE has pursued an increasingly assertive Arab politics is undergoing massive rently know the specific goals and objectives of the Saudi cam- Djibouti. Its efforts in Egypt began around a changes. After decades of fixating on big paign, and I would have to know that to be able to assess the decade ago when it took over the operation, and interventionist foreign policy, the states, researchers of the international re- likelihood of success.” Gillibrand replied, “Well, I do hope you get development and management of Ain Sokhna effects of which are most evident in the lations of the Middle East ought to keep a the information sooner than later.” In other words, the military Port, crucial for being the closest port to the Red Sea basin and Horn of Africa. close eye on small states, such as Qatar and commander responsible for overseeing the provision of support Egyptian capital, Cairo. Last year, it signed the UAE, who are no longer young, vulner- for a new air war in the Middle East did not know what the goals an agreement with the Suez Canal Authority in the region. In 2015, UAE-backed forces is due to the importance of the Red Sea as able and inward-looking. While the big Arab of the intervention were, or how he could evaluate whether it was to establish a company that would develop seized the port of Aden – once the British a vital artery for the transportation of the states are becoming slow to think and act, successful. The United States had become a willing co-combatant an area of 95 kilometers in the Ain Sokhna Empire’s busiest port – from the Houthis. country’s hydrocarbon exports. Through its these smaller states are dynamic, agile and in a war without any direction or clear end state. area. In Saudi Arabia, DP World operates In 2016, the UAE captured the ports of Mu- two narrow chokepoints – the Suez Canal highly influential. Two inevitable results have followed. First, there have been the South Container Terminal at the Jeddah kalla and Ash-Shihr, about 300 and 375 in the north and the Bab el-Mandab Strait The UAE’s security policies in particular a litany of war crimes of the sort perpetrated last weekend, in Islamic Port, and in 2017 it won a contract to miles east of Aden, respectively, as well as in the south – around 3.9 and 4.8 million will continue to have a huge impact on de- which Saudi planes, using American munitions, bombed a school develop the entire port, in support of Saudi two strategically-located islands in the Bab oil barrels, respectively, flowed every day in velopments in nearly all of the region’s hot bus killing dozens of Yemeni schoolchildren. Second, the U.S. Vision 2030 and the $500 billion NEOM el-Mandab Strait. Emirati troops secured 2016. Control of seaports, moreover, helps spots, including Yemen, Libya, the Arab-Israeli government has responded to these crimes with silences that mega project. the Red Sea port of Mokha in 2017, and are in opening markets, generating economic conflict and the Saudi-Iranian rivalry. Its suc- might seem chastened, but in truth must be classified as defiant, These port deals were won through nego- now engaged in an amphibious assault on opportunities and, in times of conflict, pro- cess last month in effecting a rapprochement given the bureaucratic maneuvering undertaken to obscure the tiation, but elsewhere the UAE has employed Hudaydah, the only major Yemeni port not jecting military power. between Ethiopia and Eritrea, who had been United States’ unthinking complicity both to outsiders and to yet under Emirati control. The passing on of leadership in 2004 from more forceful measures. The UAE has used engaged in hot and cold war for two decades, itself. (The U.S. military claims not to even track the results of its heavy involvement in the Yemen conflict But why has the UAE shifted from being a Sheikh Zayed, the founder of the state, to his is the latest proof of that influence. A new the Yemeni missions that its forces are involved in.) Neither (as part of the Saudi-led coalition fighting buyer of security to a supplier of it? It could be heirs, Khalifa and Mohammed, seems to be regional order is on the rise.

President Donald Trump, nor Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has Houthis) to expand its geopolitical power argued that the UAE’s foray into East Africa the real dynamic behind policy change. While (Source: Reuters) publicly addressed this latest massacre. A Pentagon spokesperson only requested that Saudi Arabia “expeditiously and thoroughly investigate this tragic incident.” Three years into Yemen’s ever-worsening humanitarian night- ‘The gravest crimes under international law’ mare, Congress and the American people have never received a clear response to Gillibrand’s preliminary and prescient ques- A United Nations panel calls out Myanmar’s The panel said estimates of 10,000 deaths mander in chief of the armed forces and his named. The European Union has scheduled tion about whether the war has ever had a strategy at all. Civil- persecution of its Rohingya minority and in the campaign were conservative and cited deputy, raised accusations that cannot be a meeting with the United Nations team this ian and military officials, says six top military commanders should witness accounts of mass killings, gang rapes neglected by the international community. week; earlier this month the United States im- for their part, have long be held to account. and destruction of villages by the military. Myanmar itself will not act, as the military posed sanctions on several Myanmar security since stopped pretend- The United It has taken a long time — too long — to More than a million Rohingya are believed and civilian authorities have made clear in officers and two military units, and Secretary ing to clarify or defend States has fully acknowledge the terrible suffering of to be living in overcrowded refugee camps their denials and phony internal investiga - of State Mike Pompeo said the United States America’s co-combatant spent far more the Rohingya people at the hands of My- in Bangladesh. tions. The United Nations fact-finding mission would continue to hold accountable those status. Rather, they have anmar’s military rulers, perhaps because of The Rohingya are a Muslim minority that lacks the power to bring charges before the responsible for “abhorrent ethnic cleansing” highlighted their support time obscuring the world’s reluctance to jeopardize their has lived for generations in Myanmar and International Criminal Court or to set up an of Rohingya Muslims. for successive UN special its role in the tentative political opening. A newly released yet has been long treated by the Buddhist international tribunal, and any such action However it is done, the Myanmar generals envoys to broker a diplo- by the Security Council would most likely be and their civilian enablers must be held to matic peace process be- Saudi-led war in blocked by China, Myanmar’s patron. account and the terrible persecution of the tween the warring parties. Yemen than in But there are other remedies: sanctions, Rohingya brought to an end. 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Facebook www.shana.ir since March 25, 2015, and its support has not prevented the kill- day, the three-member United Nations Fact subsequently said it was taking additional ing of innocents. It is time to phase out and terminate America’s Finding Mission on Myanmar declared that steps to block the propaganda. www.nisoc.ir support for the Saudi-led component of this civil war, and, more the atrocities committed by the military in Most of the atrocities detailed by the report http://iets.mporg.ir importantly, never again go to war, or support other’s wars, their campaign to cleanse Myanmar of the have been described before. But the panel’s without purpose or objectives. Rohingya “undoubtedly amount to the charge of genocide, and the naming of six روزنامه : تهران تایمز نوبت اول 7/6/97 نوبت دوم :Source: Foreign Policy) gravest crimes under international law.” senior military figures, including the com- 97/6/10) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y AUGUSTAUGUST 29, 2018 ANALYSIS & INTERVIEW 7

Ghadir makes politics ethical: Saadi’s words from 13th century are worth Abdulaziz Sachedina remembering right now 1 How Ghadir has affected fiqh to the unjust person, even if he happens to in Shiism? be a descendant of the Prophet. Today, the A: The development of fiqh (interpretive contemporary politics evidently show the jurisprudence) was dependent upon admission problem of leadership in world organizations and legitimization of reason as an important like the UN or any other parliamentary or tool to understand and apply the revelation. monarchical systems. Where is this leader? But reason on its own cannot remain clear to Who can promise in truth the establishment its essential goal of discovering the truth by of justice today? studying the revelatory (vahyani) sources of In Your view, can Ghadir become religious law. The wilaya was founded upon universal? Are the people in the world re- the qualification of the leadership. Not every ceptive to it? or any member of Banu Hashim qualified to A: The paradigm provided by the event assume wilayat. of Ghadir is so universal that no one with Imam Ali was not only qualified in terms minimum understanding of the world politics of his religious and moral standing among today can deny its legitimacy in the devel- the early followers of the Prophet; rather, he opment of the international ideal of human was groomed by the Prophet to undertake rights or just political order. Ghadir came to 1 Donald Trump has been called a narcissist, but narcissism elaboration of his teachings for the Umma. show that ultimately, humans need to trust seems evident in spades throughout the U.S. governmental and Hence, from its inception Ghadir provided God for God’s guidance in developing a just the elitist establishment, and this is quite evident in the scope of legitimacy for al-insan al-kamil to become a political order. Look at different ideologies the current economic sanctions against countries and individuals. legal-moral personification of Islam. until the end of contemporary international One could argue that a critical mass may have been achieved, This was the heart of the fiqh that the relations the way these ideologies have created because push back is beginning to blossom. Ahlul-Bayt taught to their close and intel- untold miseries of the world community. The U.S. has always used the “extraordinary privilege” of ligent companions and to the community. Ghadir announced with great clarity that having the preeminent reserve currency as a weapon against Their qualification was their attention to the only God knows who can bear the burden geopolitical rivals, but never before has the dollar been weap- Imam’s teachings and to maintain a good of the divine Trust (amanat) that is wilayat. onized so much against so many. character to produce reliable religious and dynamic features of the way ideas about qual- accepted by the Umma then the issue that The UN has failed to establish peace on earth; According to Mike Krieger, an American blogger and economic ethical guidance for the betterment of the ified leadership reveal to the searcher the would have determined the future movement the great powers have engaged in their own commentator, the apogee of the so-called American empire is community. meaning of what is dynamicity that directs of Islamic civilization would have been the aggrandizement. Who care for the Truth and already toast, aside from the continued role of the dollar in the Ahl al-Sunna wa al-jama’a needed the us to become better than what we are based Ideal of Justice and Equity. At no time did Justice? Who works for that? Every other global financial system. Krieger believes that Trump’s decision ijma’ of the scholars to make fresh discoveries on the way we experience reality of Imam the Umma, until now, has been able to create country in the Muslim world is crying the to scuttle the JCPOA is the primary catalyst that is causing the in fiqh. The problem of ijma’ was that there Ali’s wilayat and the ways we should inter- what the wilayat of Imam Ali promised on slogan about “Islam is the solution.” Where rest of the world to look for alternative methods with which to was no guarantee that the majority would pret this metaphysically. Metaphysically, the day of Ghadir. is the solution coming from if the Qur’an and conduct global business. always support the truth. History shows how wilayat is part of God’s plan for the future of What is the status of Ghadir in the the Sunna can be abused and manipulated Germany’s foreign minister, Heiko Maas, for example, has said the fuqaha’ of the Sunni compromised with humanity and its concrete ideal to establish Shia political thought? by politicians and religious leaders around this August that the EU would be wise to set up its own payment the rulers to make those new decisions, that justice on earth. It is also metaphysically A: The worldview that the Quran project- the world? Can we have the ideal world with- system that would give the EU independence from Washington’s were, sometimes, contrary to the truth of that the wilayat of Ghadir will transform the ed was based on the wilayat of Allah – the out Ghadir’s message being implemented? diktat. French leaders have also subscribed to the same notion of the Qur’an. expectation of the appearance of the Mahdi devotion and acceptance of God’s authority Everybody knows that as long as the politics a Europe shaking off its economic vassalage to the U.S. Is Ghadir a philosophical notion? in future as the one who will assume the in the universe. That wilayat was assumed remain unethical people will suffer around And some Asian leaders are expressing some of the same A: Ghadir provides us with the founda- wilayat of Imam Ali to establish the rule of by the Prophet and then on the Day of Ghad- the world. The invitation of Ghadir is to sentiments of less obeisance to the U.S., including South Koreans tion of analytical philosophy, the process in justice and equity on earth. ir it was given to Imam Ali. This wilaya is make politics ethical and firmly founded and Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan. We know what philosophy that is based on the premise that What has been the purpose behind the foundation of Islamic Political Thought on the commitment to improve the lives of Russia is doing: dedollarizing – selling U.S. securities and buying being (wujud) is dynamic and that the dynamic resistance against Ghadir throughout the – which is actually the cornerstone of the those who suffer and who are ill-treated by tons of gold every month. nature of being should be the primary focus history? Imamiyya Shia political thought. If you re- the unjust systems in the name of racism, I am anyway drawn back to recall some distant Asian and the of any comprehensive philosophical account A: Islamic history has recorded for us the move Ghadir from history, then what is left supremacist ideologies, economic imbalances Middle East history in the 13th century, a horrific period in which of reality (haghighat) and our place within struggle for the establishment of justice and of the Quran? The Quran is the only religious and so on. It is time to re-appropriate the the Mongols swept westwards from the Far East and conquered it. Even though we experience our world equity in the world. There is no need for me document that speaks of the qualified human message of Ghadir: only a qualified individ- widely, destroying many Iranian cities and in particular ending and ourselves as continuously changing, to go into details of the events. Suffice it to leadership. In the story of Abraham, God ual can assume the discretionary authority the Abbasid Caliphate, established in 750 AD, and wrecking its some forms of reality (like Ghadir) provide say that had the conclusion of Ghadir been makes it clear that Imamate will not be given invested by the Divine Wilayat. capital at Baghdad. One anecdote of the fall of Baghdad is that the last Abbasid Caliph, al-Mu’tasim, was rolled up inside a Persian carpet and literally kicked to death by the Mongol invaders under orders Merkel vs. EU’s U.S. - independent payment system from their leader, Hulagu. 1 The disagreement raised between Merkel and the other hand, Angela Merkel seems to be undetermined One cannot help but remark that the U.S. these days is liter- her Foreign Minister is to a great extend resulted from about the JCPOA. ally trying to kick the life out of the sovereignty of other nations, the disagreement existing among Christian Democrats At the very early days of Donald Trump’s withdrawal including Iran’s. But there is another greater personage of the and Social Democrats regarding how to face with the in- from the nuclear deal, Angela Merkel explicitly insisted that 13th century, the Iranian-Persian poet from Shiraz, Saadi. For ternational crises. Now Germany is rulled by a coalition Germany does not intend to confront with the United States one thing, Saadi, widely traveled during his lifetime, allegedly government. (as the Europe’s ally) on the nuclear deal and its fate. In claimed that the prime virtue was simply patience. Angela Merkel is with the center-right Christian Democratic her recent remarks, the Chancellor of Germany once again Of all things now, patience (and courage and perseverance) Union while Mass is with the center-left Social Democratic referred to U.S.-European security cooperation (under the are required, as it was in the 13th century during difficult times Party. The fact is that Angela Merkel and the members of NATO structure). because of the Mongols, and now because of the U.S. Or, as the Christian Democratic Party have been more dependent The fact is that not only Angela Merkel, but also the Winston Churchill remarked: “If you are going through Hell, on the United States and its governments than the Social French President Emmanuel Macron, and the UK Prime keep going….” Democrats. Minister Theresa May, have never regarded the JCPOA as Former Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon Basically, one of the differences between Germany’s two an independent and legal variable! They have analyzed the visited Tehran during his career at the UN and noted that at the traditional parties is the same thing (their affiliation with nuclear deal as a political variable. entrance of the UN in New York hangs a huge Persian carpet, the United States). For example, in the case of U.S.-German Merkel has also indirectly warned her foreign minister a gift from the people of Iran. He also noted that alongside this controversy over NATO’s budget, the Social Democrats are about considering the JCPOA as an independent variable, carpet are some words of the poet Saadi that translate roughly: in favor of resisting Trump, but Christian Democrats are Merkel’s recent position showed that there is still a and insisted that such a viewpoint, and measures including All human being are members of one frame, compromising on reconciliation with the demands of the strong controversy among parties and groups ruling the the creation of a financial structure independent from the Since all, at first, from the same essence came. U.S. President. EU’s member states over the creation of a “pseudo-swift” United States, will be against the interests of U.S.-EU security When time afflicts a limb with pain The immediate reaction of the German Chancellor to structure in the form of a U.S.-independent financial system relations inside the NATO structure. Merkel’s confusion The others limbs at rest cannot remain. the statements made by her foreign minister is also to be (for maintaining the JCPOA). The same issue come forth with suggests that she has not yet made her final decision on the If thou feel not for other’s misery analyzed in the same vein. clear and definite guarantees for saving the nuclear deal. On nuclear deal and how to deal with it. A human being is no name for thee. Saudi must apologize to Yemeni people TEHRAN (FNA) — The Saudis, the Amer- peace and reconciliation, and safeguard- sistance and protection. About 8.4 million Call for public tender (First/Second publish) icans and their allied partners who have ing regional peace and stability, not just in people hang on the brink of starvation and One -Stages tender committed crimes and atrocities against Yemen but in Iraq and Syria as well. They another 7 million lie malnourished. Since N.I.O.C National Iranian Subject of Tender: CAMESA LOGGING CABLE humanity in Yemen are still stubbornly can and they should do in penitence and 2015, more than 28,000 thousand people Second Announcement 1397.2453 Drilling Company Tender descriptions: refusing to admit their wrongs. atonement to wash away memories of the have been killed or injured, and many thou- Tender No. Estimated value Registration No. through national The Tender holder electronic tendering system Not only do the Saudi leaders refuse sins and crimes committed by their forces sands more have died from causes exacer- /Indent No. (Rial)

Tender No.: FP/09- to admit their war crimes and sincerely and allies, and to prevent the spread of hu- bated by war, such as a cholera epidemic that 97/024 National Iranian Drilling Company 9,284,000,000 apologize to Yemeni victims; they have all manitarian suffering and disaster. has afflicted more than a million people. At 3,172,797 Indent No.: 01-23-9646000 made every effort to cover up their atrocities In the aftermath of a horrific bombing least one child dies every 10 minutes from in the poorest country in the Arab world. earlier this month that killed dozens of chil- causes linked to the illegal war, according  Qualitative evaluation of tenderers After three years, the Saudi regime has dren aboard a school bus in Yemen, the to the United Nations.  The evaluation will be made subject to submission of needed certificates in meeting for opening the Method never faced up squarely to its war-waging Saudis should further allow international This is also a story about the responsi-  received tenderer’s proposals. and misery-inflicting policy. It has never investigators to enter the country and exam- bility of the United States. The bomb used conducted conscientious introspection ine and account for the loss of civilian lives. in the school bus airstrike was a 500-pound The distribution of the documents will be started one day after the publishing of second  Purchasing & Submittingadvertisement and ended on the following tenth day thereof. and earnest reflection; nor has it made an The results were horrific. Of the 54 people laser-guided MK 82 bomb, manufactured Tender The distribution of the documents will be started one day after the publishing of second Distribution Place Hall No.:113, 1thfloor, Foreign Procurement Dept., National Iranian official apology. Instead, it has on numerous killed, 44 were children, with most between by Lockheed Martin, one of the largest US Document advertisement and ended on the following tenth day thereof. Distribution Drilling Company, Airport square, Ahwaz, IRAN Tender Submitting one original Bank Fund Receipt in the amount of 510.000 Iranian Rials under  occasions honored its culprits and command- the ages of six and 11. The pictures of the defense contractors. Having facilitated the by Company Distribution Place Hall No.:113, 1thfloor, Foreign Procurement Dept., National Iranian Document account number 4001114004020491(shaba no. IR 520100004001114004020491) in name Drilling Company, Airport square, Ahwaz, IRAN ers of war of aggression, who have caused dead and injured children, some of whom sale to the Saudi-led coalition of the weapon Distribution Submitting Method of “NIDC Incomes Centralized Fund” issued by I.R. of Iran Central Bank. by Company Submitting one Submitting original Bank format Fund Request Receipt for in the the purpose amount ofof receiving510.000 Iranian Tender Rials Documents under  account number 4001114004020491(shaba no. IR 520100004001114004020491) in name terrible suffering to millions of besieged can be seen wearing their blue UNICEF used to kill these children, Washington bears Submitting Method of “NIDC Incomes Centralized Fund” issued by I.R. of Iran Central Bank. Submitting 35formatDays Request after the for last the time purpose of Purchasing of receiving Tender Documents  people in Yemen. backpacks, are beyond heartbreaking. responsibility for their deaths as well. The Closing date 35Days after the last time of Purchasing  Now what they are doing is blatantly alter It doesn’t take a strategic mind to realize US government is complicit in the Saudi Documents Closing date  DocumentsReceiving st history and facts on the ground, seeking that the Saudis are not fit to investigate their war crimes and must be held to account. Receiving Hall No. 107, 1 floor, Tender Committee, Operation building, National Method st Method IranianHall No. Drilling 107, 1 Company,floor, Tender Airport Committee, square, OperationAhwaz, IRAN. building, National Address Iranian Drilling Company, Airport square, Ahwaz, IRAN. to depict the US-backed Saudi-led war of own wars crimes or “look into what hap- The US government is also expected to Address Tel: +98-61-34148580 +98-61-34148569 aggression as the “liberation of Yemen”, and pened here” as Washington, their partner acknowledge the reality without bias or dis- Tel: +98-61-34148580 +98-61-34148569 attempting to reinterpret bloody massacres in crime and arms supplier, would like to tortion, to indulge in profound introspection,  as “a self-defensive holy war”. suggest. Simply put, they will just shield their to make sincere apologies to Yemen, and  Tender Guarantee Value of 465,000,000 Rial/9,728 Euro 465,000,000 Rial/9,728 Euro It is time for the international civil society military personnel and coalition partners to unequivocally and irreversibly renounce guaranteeValue of to call on Saudi Arabia to acknowledge the from criminal liability. war, which up to this day has killed many guarantee  Bank guarantees or guarantees issued by non-bank institutions that obtain activity license from the truth without bias or distortion, to indulge Tragedy in Yemen is unrelenting. Just people. The US government should also central bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Type of in profound introspection, to make sincere this past Thursday, a mere two weeks after take concrete action to show its sincerity guarantee  Submitting one original Bank Fund Receipt under account number 4001114006376636 (shaba no. IR 350100004001114006376636) in name of “NIDC saving account” by the central bank of Islamic Republic apologies to its neighbor in the Arabian the school bus attack, Saudi-led coalition by ending its support for the Saudi-led mil- of Iran. Peninsula region, and to unequivocally and airstrikes killed yet again another 26 children itarism and that means halting its weapons Duration of Tender Guarantee should be valid for 90 days and extendable maximum for one time in initial credit & irreversibly renounce militarism, which up and four women fleeing the fighting in the supplies too. Last but not the least, the US validity duration. to this day has affected millions of people western province of Hodeidah. government and other parties to this dirty quotation across the war-torn nation and beyond. The reality is that the dirty war has created conflict should also apologize to the people ( Foreign Procurement Dept. () Foreign Procurement Dept.) The Saudis should also take concrete the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. of Yemen for not having given them an op- More of this & other tenders are accessible by click on: www.nidc.ir http://sapp.ir/nidc.pr action to show their sincerity by following Three-quarters of the population, some 22 portunity to build a peaceful, prosperous More of this & other tenders are accessible by click on: تهران تایمز نوبت اول 6/06/97نوبت دوم a path of peaceful development, promoting million Yemenis, require humanitarian as- and harmonious post-Hadi Yemen. 97/06/7 www.nidc.ir http://sapp.ir/nidc_pr

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We tested normal mice and those lacking PPARy2 with our In the second part of the study, the team examined the same does not take up the fat. Instead, the fat is directed into People – and mice – are classed as having diabetes if overfeeding challenge. Normal mice increased their insulin associations in a large meta-analysis of prospective studies that other organs, such as the liver and muscle, where it causes they show high blood glucose levels during the test. But we levels twofold and kept blood glucose levels normal. But summed up almost 450,000 participants who were followed for insulin resistance. suspected some obese people would pass the test because mice lacking PPARy2 increased their insulin levels tenfold an average period of 15.6 years. Insulin acts as a signal and attaches to a receiver on their adipose tissue does not release enough fat, and their following the overfeeding challenge, and had increased blood Why ‘low-carb diets should be avoided’ the outside of cells, called the insulin receptor. The insulin body is primed to use glucose in fasted states, such as when glucose levels, indicating they were metabolically impaired. Overall, the analysis using data from the survey found that receptor activates lots of other signals inside the muscles or they are asleep. Importantly, we conducted these tests in young mice, the those who consumed the least amount of carbs were 32 percent liver that tell them what to do, such as: take up glucose. But Conversely, if we gave obese people a large meal, the equivalent of people in their early 20s, and at an age when their more likely to die prematurely from any cause. This was in com- when the cell is full of fat it muffles the signals. The fact cells fat they should store in adipose tissue would go to organs, glucose tolerance tests were normal. Finally we determined parison with participants who ate the most carbs. don’t respond to insulin makes them “insulin resistant”. The such as muscle, and cause insulin resistance, causing them when mice with defective adipose tissue reached middle age, Also, low carb consumers were 51 percent more likely to die body tries to get around this by turning up the amount of to have high blood glucose. they became metabolically ill, even if they ate a healthy diet. from coronary heart disease, 50 percent more likely to die from insulin to make the cells take up the right amount of glucose, Milkshake test Our study suggests it may be possible to detect some people cerebrovascular disease, and 35 percent more likely to die of cancer. overcoming the effects of the fat. To study how fat causes insulin resistance and diabetes, with metabolic disease earlier by replacing the glucose in a The associations were strongest among older, non-obese people. Strong evidence we used mice lacking a gene called PPARy2. Removing the glucose tolerance test with a calorific milkshake, containing These results were replicated in the meta-analysis, which found The concept faulty adipose tissue can cause insulin re- gene prevents adipose tissue from taking up and releasing glucose, fat and protein. The next step will be to compare the that the overall risk of death from any cause was 15 percent higher sistance and diabetes is strongly supported by evidence fat, mimicking what is seen in obese people. ability of the glucose tolerance test and the milkshake test in people who consumed the least amount of carbs, the risk of car- from people with lipodystrophy – a condition where the Despite their fat not working properly, we already know to predict future diabetes development in humans. diovascular death was 13 percent higher, and that of dying of cancer body lacks adipose tissue. People with this condition have mice lacking PPARy2 appear healthy, according to the glu- (Source: The Independent) was 8 percent higher. (Source: Medical News Today)

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A new digital exchange aims to attract listings from sharia compliant financial technology startups, its chief executive said on Monday, part of a growing number of firms looking knowledge-based products to modernize Islamic finance. The exchange, known as Huulk, has applied for a dig- 1 Iran achieves con- ital exchange license in Malta and hopes to partner with siderable growth in knowl- several European exchanges in the coming weeks, Huulk edge-based economy, Sat- chief executive Ibrahim Mohammed said in a telephone tari added. interview from Dubai. Though there is a long way to reach the ideal point in the field of technology in the country, he explained. The knowledge-based companies increase inno- vation and efficiency with low price, he added. During the past Iranian calendar year 1396, Irani- ans conducted 1.3 quadril- lion rials (about 31 billion dollars) internet interac- tions, he announced. The economic growth is not possible through tra- ditional systems, which This would allow the exchange, part of the OneGram have no added value, he Group of companies, to host trades of digital assets as lamented. well as stocks and commodities. Malta’s Bianchi Hold- The educated people ings Limited would be an equity partner in the exchange, create job through es- Mohammed said. tablishment of startups, The vice president for science and technology Sourena Sattari Cryptocurrency firms are increasingly teaming up with he said. traditional exchanges to attract more business, but Huulk is also trying to tap into religiously-sensitive Muslim investors. The exchange is aiming to list around 20 Islamic fintech firms, some of which operate in Muslim-majority countries IAU plans to establish innovation About 4,000 startups are active in like Turkey and Malaysia, Mohammed said. OneGram also plans to list its own sharia-compliant centers nationwide Iran: official cryptocurrency on the exchange by mid-September. One- Gram has sold around $400 million in gold-backed tokens over the past year. Several financial technology firms, or fintechs, have developed sharia-compliant products to help broaden their footprint to include growth markets in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Last year, New York-based Wahed Invest launched a sharia compliant robo-advisor and in July California-based Stellar received certification from Islamic scholars for its blockchain platform and related cryptocurrency. (Source: salaamgateway.com) SOCIALLY SAFE Securing your home network

Most households now run networks of devices linked to the internet, including computers, gaming systems, TVs, IAU caretaker Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi tablets, smartphones and wearable devices that access wireless networks. To protect your home network and TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — The Is- synergy for solving challenges during TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — There are edge-based one by the vice presidency, he your family, you need to have the right tools in place and desklamic Azad University coming school year beginning in Oc- deskabout 4,000 startups explained. confidence that family members can use the internet more (IAU) plans to establish 40 innovation tober, he said. operating in Iran which provide IT-based He said that the knowledge-based safely and securely. centers in different branches across the “For dealing with some national chal- services to the public, the head of innova- company should have technological The first step is to keep a clean machine and make sure country until the end of the current Ira- lenge like water shortage, we need to tion department of science and technology complexity as well. all of your internet-enabled devices have the latest oper- nian calendar year 1397 (March 2019), confront with it from different aspects vice presidency told Mehr news agency Their innovative factors is checked each ating system, web browsers and security software. This IAU caretaker Mohammad Mehdi Teh- of history, human science and sociology on Tuesday. three years by the vice presidency, he said. includes mobile devices that access your wireless network. ranchi said, ISNA reported. as well as engineering,” he explained. Hessam Zand-Hessami said that the Iran has provided 120 trillion rials Secure your wireless router As the major non-governmental The IAU plans to establish a fund to startups continue their activities based (some $2.8 billion) for around 1400 private university system in Iran, IAU support knowledge-based ideas proposed on their innovative ideas in the market. knowledge-based companies during the has 31 provincial university branches by the students. The vice presidency does not assess their past five years, the deputy vice president across Iran. “The fund is established according innovation factors through their activity for science and technology Alireza Daliri The IAU secretariat provides inter- to technology ecosystem to help knowl- but the innovation is the most important said during a press conference in early disciplinary studies in order to create edge-based activities,” he explained. factor to consider a company as a knowl- June.

Days 1-30: The startup checklist First Announcement Permit No. 1397.2530 Wouldn’t it be great if there was a start-up cheat sheet for budding business owners? Well, now there is! As most people aren’t familiar with the

steps to start a business, this checklist covers N.I.S.O.C everything you need to know pre-launch 1397/2530 Invitation For Prequalification Invitation For Prequalification N.I.S.O.C and post-launch; from market research to TENDER NO. : 08-38-9440044 domain names and business banking. If you’ve got a business idea, then this checklist will National IranianTENDER South NO. :Oilfields 08-38-9440044 Company intends to purchase A wireless network means connecting an internet ac- help ensure your start-up hits the ground National Iranian South Oilfields Companythe intendsfollowing to purchase goods the following goods cess point – such as a cable or DSL modem – to a wireless running… Description Qty. router. Going wireless is a convenient way to allow multiple Make something you can show devices to connect to the internet from different areas of PARTS FOR BAKER " PACKER MILLING TOOL, MODEL CJ 5 people – an MVP ready launched too late!” your home. However, unless you secure your router, you’re Such as a service outline or product Find your first customers PRODUCT NO 747-06, REF. BAKER, TOP SUB, P/N: 01-44802-00 vulnerable to people accessing information on your com- prototype. In the words of Powered Now RefME founder Tom Hatton asserts that SPRING, P/N: 01-44242-00 20 puter, using your internet service for free and potentially co-founder Ben Dyer: “You can’t create a you should “choose your early adopters MILLING SHOE 4 1/8 IN OD, P/N: 48395 15 using your network to commit cybercrimes. successful start-up without having a product and focus on them.” Snaptrip’s Thompson Here are ways to secure your wireless router: UPPER BODY, P/N: 01-44804-00 10 that people want.” Laundrapp co-founder agrees: “Let your customers know you’re Change the name of your router: The default ID – LOWER BODY, P/N: 01-44807-00 10 Relf says: “Launching a minimum viable starting out and invite their feedback. called a service set identifier” (SSID) or “extended service BOTTOM SUB, P/N: 01-44811-00 10 product (MVP) as quickly as possible is the Honesty goes a long way.” Thompson set identifier” (ESSID) – is assigned by the manufacturer. only goal of an early stage start-up. You’re also recommends building an email list MANDREL, P/N: 01-89623-00 10 Change your router to a name that is unique to you and in a fight for survival, you’ve jumped off to track your progress. “Make it easy for SAFETY SUB, P/N: 01-44810-00 10 won’t be easily guessed by others. the cliff and you’re scrambling to build a [customers] to sign up and keep commu- CYLINDER, P/N: 01-44803-00 10 Change the preset password on your router: Leaving parachute on the way down, if you’re not nicating with them here.” a default password unchanged makes it much easier for embarrassed by your MVP then you’ve al- (Source: startups.co.uk)Vendors who intendVendors to participate who in intend the A/M to tender participate are requested in tothe send A/M their tender resume & are tendency requested letter hackers to access your network. You should change it as via fax/ mail to the following address not later than 14 days after the second announcement. The applicants soon as possible. A strong password is a sentence that is should have relevantto sendbackground their in resume supplying & the tendency required goods letter and via capability fax/ mail to provide to the a bid following bond of Euro 5,476 / Rls 262address,850,000 notin favor later of NISOC. than Iran14 iandays vendors after shall the submit second their resume announcement. Acc. to forms at least 12 characters long. Focus on positive sentences Nos. 01, 02 and 03 which are available at www.shana.ir and www.nisoc.ir or phrases that you like to think about and are easy to re- What is convertible note? The applicants FOREIGN should PURCHASING have relevant DEPT background in supplying the member (for example, “I love country music.”). On many Kouy-e-Fadaeian Islam (New Site)Bldg NO 104, Ahvaz, Iran A convertible note is a form of short-term required Tel. goodsfax No.: and +98- 61capability -34457437 to +98 provide-61 -32263256 a bid bond of Euro 5,476 sites, you can even use spaces! Convertible note terms debt that converts into equity, typically When evaluating a convertible note, Review security options: When choosing your router’s / Rls 262,850,000 in Public favor Relations of NISOC. Iranian vendors shall submit in conjunction with a future financing level of security, opt for WPA2, if available, or WPA – these there are a few key parameters that must their resume Acc. to forms Nos. 01, 02 and 03 which are available round; in effect, the investor would be levels are more secure than the WEP option. be kept in mind: loaning money to a startup and instead at www.shana.ir and www.nisoc.ir Create a guest password: Some routers allow for guests Discount rate of a return in the form of principal plus to use networks via separate guest passwords. If you have This represents the valuation discount interest, the investor would receive equity FOREIGN PURCHASING DEPT many visitors to your home, it’s a good idea to set up a you receive relative to investors in the sub- in the company. guest network. sequent financing round, which compen- Kouy-e-Fadaeian Islam (New Site)Bldg NO 104, Ahvaz, Iran The primary advantage of issuing Use a firewall: Firewalls help keep hackers from using sates you for the additional risk you bore convertible notes is that it does not force Tel.fax No.: +98-61 -34457437 +98-61 -32263256 your device to send out your personal information without by investing earlier. the issuer and investors to determine your permission. While antivirus software scans incoming Valuation cap Public Relations the value of the company when there email and files, a firewall is like a guard, watching for attempts The valuation cap is an additional reward really might not be much to base a val- www.shana.ir to access your system and blocking communications with for bearing risk earlier on. It effectively caps uation on – in some cases the company sources you don’t permit. Your operating system and/or the price at which your notes will convert into www.nisoc.ir may just be an idea. That valuation will security software likely comes with a pre-installed firewall, equity and – in a way – provides convertible usually be determined during the Series http://iets.mporg.ir but make sure you turn on these features. note holders with equity-like upside if the A financing, when there are more data روزنامه : تهران تایمز نوبت اول 7/6/97 نوبت دوم :Source: staysafeonline.org) company takes off out of the gate. 97/6/10) points off which to base a valuation. (Source: seedinvest.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y AUGUST 29, 2018 SCIENCE 11 As CO2 levels climb, millions at risk of How neutron-star crashes nutritional deficiencies, new study finds could help aliens call us The first-ever observations of merging binary stars stunned the Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) from 550 ppm, 1.9% of the global population -- astronomy community last year, but not quite as much as the first-ev- human activity are making staple crops such or roughly 175 million people, based on er signal from extraterrestrial life might someday stun the world. as rice and wheat less nutritious and could 2050 population estimates -- could become And a new paper argues that the observations of a binary-star result in 175 million people becoming zinc deficient in zinc and that 1.3% of the global merger may actually be the key to making that second detection, deficient and 122 million people becoming population, or 122 million people, could which is the ongoing quest of a scientific effort called the search for protein deficient by 2050, according to new become protein deficient. Additionally, extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School 1.4 billion women of childbearing age and “We were really impressed by the rapid growth of multi-messen- of Public Health. The study also found that children under 5 who are currently at high ger astronomy associated with (the neutron star merger detected more than 1 billion women and children risk of iron deficiency could have their dietary last August), and started thinking about interesting possibilities far could lose a large amount of their dietary iron intakes reduced by 4% or more. beyond traditional astronomical studies,” lead author Yuki Nishino, a iron intake, putting them at increased risk Nutritious crops physicist at Kyoto University in Japan, wrote in an email to space.com. of anemia and other diseases. The researchers also emphasized that So, he and his co-author started considering how a technologically “Our research makes it clear that decisions billions of people currently living with advanced alien civilization beyond our galaxy might piggyback on we are making every day -- how we heat our nutritional deficiencies would likely see the bright signals created by colliding neutron stars to catch our homes, what we eat, how we move around, their conditions worsen as a result of less attention. what we choose to purchase -- are making nutritious crops. Their basic idea is that aliens would have the ability to predict our food less nutritious and imperiling According to the study, India would bear the merger of a binary neutron star elsewhere in their own galaxy the health of other populations and future the greatest burden, with an estimated 50 with plenty of warning. We can sometimes do that now, the pair generations,” said Sam Myers, lead author million people becoming zinc deficient, 38 wrote, because many neutron stars are pulsars, which produce a of the study and principal research scientist million becoming protein deficient, and 502 spinning jet of light. That means we can track where they are and at Harvard Chan School. current atmospheric conditions, in which food supply datasets to improve estimates million women and children becoming how they are interacting in binary systems. Presently, more than 2 billion people CO2 levels are just above 400 ppm. of the impacts across 225 different foods. vulnerable to diseases associated with iron Next, the aliens would need to produce a signal timed around worldwide are estimated to be deficient in For this new study, researchers sought The study built on previous analyses by the deficiency. Other countries in South Asia, that collision. Scientists have already started dreaming up space- one or more nutrients. In general, humans to develop the most robust and accurate researchers on CO2-related nutritional Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East based gravitational-wave detectors they believe could observe a tend to get a majority of key nutrients from analysis of the global health burden of deficiencies, which looked at fewer foods would also be significantly impacted. collision years in advance; they already turn all the telescopes at their plants: 63% of dietary protein comes from CO2-related nutrient shifts in crops in 151 and fewer countries. “One thing this research illustrates is command toward a collision after it’s been registered. That means vegetal sources, as well as 81% of iron and countries. To do so, they created a unified The study showed that by the middle a core principle of the emerging field of aliens may be able to catch our attention with an artificial signature 68% of zinc. set of assumptions across all nutrients and of this century, when atmospheric CO2 planetary health,” said Myers, who directs before, after or both before and after the natural collision signal. Higher atmospheric levels used more detailed age- and sex-specific concentrations are expected to reach around the Planetary Health Alliance, co-housed at It would need to be quite a powerful signal, given that the study It has been shown that higher atmospheric Harvard Chan School and Harvard University is focused on civilizations beyond our own galaxy, requiring long levels of CO2 result in less nutritious crop Researchers seek to develop the most Center for the Environment. “We cannot travel times even at the speed of light. yields, with concentrations of protein, iron, disrupt most of the biophysical conditions (Source: space.com) and zinc being 3%-17% lower when crops robust and accurate analysis of the to which we have adapted over millions of are grown in environments where CO2 global health burden of CO2-related years without unanticipated impacts on our concentrations are 550 parts per million nutrient shifts in crops in 151 countries. own health and wellbeing.” Jupiter had growth disorders, (ppm) compared with crops grown under (Source: eurekalert.org) new research shows

Researchers can now show how Jupiter was formed. Data collected Researchers use crowdsourcing to speed Air pollution leads test scores to drop from meteorites had indicated that the growth of the giant planet had been delayed for two million years. Now the researchers have up data analysis in corn plants over time: researchers say found an explanation: Collisions with kilometer-sized blocks generated high energy, which meant that in this phase hardly Teaching a machine to finish a complex task Air pollution isn’t just bad for health, it any accretion of gas could take place and the planet could only can save humans a lot of time, effort and also harms the brain and is linked to worse grow slowly. money. But first, the machine has to learn math and verbal test scores, according to With an equator diameter of around 143,000 kilometers, how, and that comes with plenty of its own a new study. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System and has 300 challenges. We already knew pollution made kids times the mass of the Earth. An interdisciplinary team of Iowa State score worse on tests, but this new study shows The formation mechanism of giant planets like Jupiter has University scientists turned to crowdsourcing, the effect getting stronger throughout life. been a hotly debated topic for several decades. Now, astrophys- or relying on large groups of minimally trained If cities in China, where the study was icists of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research people, to repeat a task often enough that conducted, met US EPA air quality regu- (NCCR) PlanetS of the Universities of Bern and Zürich and ETH researchers could formulate an algorithm lations, residents would likely score signif- Zürich have joined forces to explain previous puzzles about how that allows a computer to carry out that task icantly higher on math and verbal tests. Jupiter was formed and new measurements. automatically. In this case, the scientists want- By not talking about effects on cognition, “We could show that Jupiter grew in different, distinct phases,” ed to teach a machine to identify the tassels we may be ignoring some of the negative explains Julia Venturini, postdoc at the University of Zürich. be making dealing with end-of-life brain of corn plants when given a vast number of The experiment also included student par- effects of air pollution. “Especially interesting is that it is not the same kind of bodies illnesses even more expensive, and could photographic images to sort through. ticipants who were granted course credit. In polluted cities and towns around the that bring mass and energy,” adds Yann Alibert, Science Officer of ultimately make care for the elderly more The crowdsourcing effort produced results Identifying tassels world, it gets harder and harder to breathe. PlanetS and first author of the paper. First, the planetary embryo complex for society. on par with those of trained plant scientists All the study participants received instruc- Cars fill streets with exhaust and tiny rapidly accreted small, centimeter-sized pebbles and quickly By using multiple years of data, the and resulted in an algorithm that will great- tions to identify tassels in dozens of images particles. Smoke from factories and power built a core during the initial one million years. ly reduce the time it takes to derive useful of corn by drawing a square around them. plants fills the skies. On some days, sun- researchers were able to see how par- metrics from massive datasets. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, professor ny summer days especially, particles get ticularly polluted times affected verbal Yielding similar results of mechanical engineering, then used those converted into dangerous ozone. and math test scores (Hot summer days The researchers said the same approach labeled images to train a computer to identify All this air pollution — smog, soot, and tend to have particularly bad pollution, could yield similar results for other crops. tassels in similar corn images. ozone — does more than choke the lungs for example). They were also able to see The academic journal PLOS Computational “You have to train a computer model of everyone breathing it in. It’s also taxing how living in a polluted area changed Biology recently published the team’s results. to recognize the difference between, say, a and harming their brains. test scores over time. This cumulative “This kind of automation could allow us leaf and a tassel,” Ganapathysubramanian Exposure to air pollution effect was significant. to shave years off the time it would take to said. “One way to accomplish that is through According to a study newly published All in all, the study authors found that do this research otherwise,” said Carolyn machine learning, where you show instances in the journal Proceedings of the National air pollution takes a bigger toll on verbal Lawrence-Dill, an associate professor of ge- of the object with a label over and over and Academy of Sciences, chronic exposure to test scores than on math scores, though netics, development and cell biology. “This the system builds its own rules to recognize air pollution appears to cause detrimental it has an effect on both. There’s also a approach can help us breed more effective that object on its own.” effects on cognition that get worse through- bigger effect on men than on women. The crop varieties faster.” In the past, humans, often graduate stu- out life, potentially increasing risk factors authors attribute this to the fact that air pollution tends to have a stronger effect The research team used the Amazon Me- dents or someone with some expertise in a for degenerative diseases like dementia The following two million years were dominated by slower on areas of brain that are relied on in chanical Turk, or MTurk, to find participants given discipline, would have to sift through the and Alzheimer’s. accretion of larger, kilometer-sized rocks called planetesimals. verbal tests, which the authors wrote to take part in the study. MTurk is an online images one by one, a laborious process that We already knew that being exposed They hit the growing planet with great energy, releasing heat. tend to be better-developed in women marketplace for crowdsourcing, which allows can be sidestepped through machine learn- to bad air cuts lives short and is bad for “During the first stage the pebbles brought the mass,” Yann Alibert in the first place. employers to access a large pool of workers ing, said Iddo Friedberg, associate professor kids, harming their developing bodies and explains: “In the second phase, the planetesimals also added a Overall, if residents of these cities in for simple tasks that nevertheless require of veterinary microbiology and preventive brains, according to the study’s authors. bit of mass, but what is more important, they brought energy.” China lived in places that met U.S. EPA human intelligence and can’t be automated. medicine and research team member. But But the new study shows for the first time After three million years, Jupiter had grown to a body of 50 Earth standards for air pollution, the authors Jonathan Kelly, an associate professor of Friedberg said the results obtained from that the effect doesn’t stop, but instead gets masses. (Source: Science Daily) psychology and research team member, MTurk proved to be as effective as those worse as people age, with an especially estimate that it would significantly im- said MTurk also provides a ready source from trained plant experts. strong effect on less-educated men. prove their test scores. of potential subjects for academic studies. (Source: phys.org) As the study authors note, this could (Source: Business Insider) Mole rat queens turn their BSI Succeeded in Receiving Intl. Energy Management Certificate workers into nannies in a With fulfilling auditing measures and deploying modern- has considered safeguarding and maintaining national of the main energy policy of the bank, based on which, ISO disgusting way day standards, Bank Saderat Iran (BSI) managed to receive resources and assets as its main task.” 50001:2001 standard certificate was put atop agenda of Naked mole rats might not be the prettiest of animals, but what ISO 50001:2001 standard certificate from German TUV Given the above issue, the main task of the bank is to the bank. they lack in aesthetics they earn back in astounding brute resilience. Company, the Public Relations Dept. of the bank reported. safeguard and maintain national resources and assets, he In the end, Jafari pointed to the other objectives They can endure crippling pain, resist cancer like a boss, and Sa’ed Amin Ja’fari Services and Logistics Affairs Manager opined. behind compilation of energy policy of the bank as follows: even though they look like your grandmother’s sagging neck flap, of the bank announced the above statement and said, With updating and promoting relevant equipment, creation of suitable mechanism for ensuring of provision they don’t age. “according to this certificate, management offices of five the bank has emphasized on the optimal use of energy of welfare condition for staff in ordinary and emergency If that’s not hardcore enough, these oddball mammals live in districts in metropolis Tehran and management bureaus carriers, he added. conditions, consecutive improvement of performance of ‘eusocial’ colonies like some kind of giant wrinkled ant, with a in the branches of Alborz and Khuzestan provinces have Elsewhere in his remarks, Amin Jafari emphasized energy consuming systems, investigating and studying single queen popping out the babies and a bunch of female workers been audited and have been identified with the standard that demonstration of commitment for the consecutive with regard to the use of new technologies in energy- raising the newborns in their nursery. requirements of ISO 5001:2001 standard. improvement of efficiency of energy, reduction of energy consuming equipment of the bank, adherence to observe legal Because, really, like a naked mole rat is going to care about He pointed to the compilation of energy policy in the costs, making investment purposeful in repairs and increasing requirements as well as other requirements predetermined what you think. bank and added, “with 66 years of experience, the bank efficient of equipment as well as reducing air pollution are in energy management system. How the queen convinces other female naked mole rats that they should care for her brood when they lack maternal instincts has never been clear, so a team of Japanese scientists set out to find the physiological mechanisms responsible. Post Bank Branches Ready to Offer Currency Depositing Operations It’s already known that concentrations of the female sex hor- All branches of POST Bank Company of Iran entities can deposit currency in the form of and significant’ and added, “it is expected that mone estradiol increase in the queen’s feces after she’s given birth. throughout the country are ready to conduct banknote at banks and benefit from pertinent this plan on the currency will be stabilized Since other females in the colony have undersized ovaries - an currency depositing operations, the Public interest envisioned in this regard, he opined. at FOREX Market, so that foreign exchange organ that produces estradiol - it was hypothesized that somehow Relations Dept. of the company reported. He put the interest rate envisioned in deposits should be manipulated in line with this external shot of estradiol might play a role. The most logical Dr. Farahi Chief Executive of POST BANK the directive for dollar, euro and dirham booming economy in the country.” way (to us at least) would be through scent. Company of Iran made the above remark at 4, 3 and 2 percent respectively. He then expounded on the performance of The only problem is naked mole rats don’t have fantastic vome- and said, “new foreign exchange directive of The depositing duration has been deter- the bank in creating ‘sustainable employment’ ronasal organs, meaning detecting the volatile compound in the the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) is an effective mined for one year, so that depositors can at villages and added, “rials equivalency of air could be ruled out. factor for stabilizing FOREX Market.” receive their deposit in the field of foreign $1.5 billion has been set by the government The most likely way, then, for that hormone to get from A to B All branches of the bank throughout the exchange at any time desired, he added. and equivalency of this amount will be set was for it to be ingested. nation are ready to do FOREX depositing He termed written guarantee based on from the internal resources of three public To be fair, while we all just pulled that face, coprophagia, or operation, he reiterated. payment of original and interest of deposits by banks and OMID Entrepreneurship Institute sustainable employment at village and dis- poop eating, is pretty common throughout the animal kingdom. Under the directive, all real and legal the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) as ‘important has been determined for the generation of advantaged regions of the country.” Even among mammals like naked mole rats. (Source: sciencealert.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 SOCIETYANALYSIS & INTERVIEWAUGUST 29, 2018 12 Fisheries Organization categorically denies 27% rainfall shortage compared to long-term average Chinese ships fishing in Iran’s territorial waters SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — Over the has issued long-term licenses to Chinese TEHRAN — The precipitation rate in Iran desk deskhas dropped by 27 percent over the past eleven past few weeks there has fishermen to work in the Persian Gulf wa- months (September 23, 2017 to August 21, 2018), compared to its been a heated debate over claims that Chi- ters, saying that the vessels are not plying long-term average, head of the national center for drought and nese ships are fishing in Iran’s territorial the Persian Gulf, rather they are across the crisis management, affiliated to the meteorological center, has said. waters. The claims have been categorically Hormuz Strait and are only legally allowed “The country with 158 millimeters of rainfall over the afore- denied by Iran’s Fisheries Organization. to fish in depth of 200 meters. mentioned period, is still 27 percent below the long-term average There are claims about overfishing by Kakoulaki also noted that two vessels level of 228 millimeters,” ISNA quoted Sadeq Ziaeian as saying. Chinese vessels in Iran’s southern waters are sent to the area to assess the condition Referring to the provinces with the highest and lowest rain- which are said to have infuriated local of fish in the area and that hunting lantern fall during the last eleven months, he noted that provinces fishermen whose livelihoods have been fish will be banned from September 11 of West Azarbaijan and East Azarbaijan have received the affected by the practice. for a month. highest precipitation rates by 25 and 21 percent increase in Traditional fishermen have no way While some claim that lantern fish rainfall compared to the long-term mean. to make a living other than fishing, but population is in danger based on surveys “At the same time, Kordestan, Kermanshah, Ardebil, Hamed- industrial ships disrupt local fishermen’s conducted by the Fisheries Organization an, Zanjan, Qazvin, Semnan and Ilam provinces met normal economic status by catching small and there are some 2.5 to 4 million lantern average,” Ziaeian stated. big fish. fish in the area, he added. He regretted that Sistan-Baluchestan province has been Shapour Kakoulaki, deputy director for “Fishermen are authorized to catch suffering serious rainfall shortages with 74 percent drop, add- fishing at the Fisheries Organization, said 300,000 tons of lantern fish. Last year ing, provinces of Hormozgan and Kerman both experiencing on Monday that there are some 91 fishing (March 2017-March 2018) some 17,000 tons 66 percent of below-average rainfall, and Fars province lacking vessels in southern waters of Iran with of lantern fish were caught,” he explained. precipitation by 56 percent, have been listed among the cities 2,000 crews including 300 Chinese who All vessels are being tracked with GPS having the lowest precipitation rates. work for Iranian ships. chased or are rented, Kakoulaki said, add- replace the 300 Chinese crews.” and in case of violations their permits “Over the same period, Tehran averaging just 205 millimeters These fishing vessels are either pur- ing, “We are training Iranian workers to He rejected claims that the organization will be suspended. of precipitation, faced 53 millimeters drop compared to its long- term average of 258 millimeters,” he noted. So, the capital experienced a decrease by 21 percent in compar- Changing the school year schedule: hopes and concerns ison to its long-term mean and this amount reaches to 31 percent ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — For many Iranian stu- and instead starting the school year in early September, region. But, Mahdi Bohlouli, an education expert with Min- when comparing to the same period last year, he also regretted. deskdents the beginning of the school year however Education Minister Mohammad Bat’haei voiced istry of Education, has told IRNA news agency that such 61% drop last month compared to last year also called Aval-e Mehr (literally meaning the first his objection to a one-month break. changes would cause difficulties for the ministry. Ziaeian went on to say that the country contained a day of the seventh Iranian calendar month of Mehr), Bat’haei also explained that this is not a matter for the Some of the final exams and Konkur (a multiple choice monthly average precipitation rate of 1.5 millimeter over which falls on September 23, is a nostalgic memory Education Ministry to decide and is actually a cross-sectoral exam held for gaining admission to universities) are being the second month of summer (July 23-August 22) which, which is about to change. issue and should be thoroughly discussed. held simultaneously nationwide and changing the school compared to the 3.4 millimeter reported last year, has seen The cool breeze of autumn, tree leaves starting to fall, Bat’haei announced on May 16 that the school year will calendar for each region regarding it climatic character- a 61 percent decrease. the smell of freshly printed books and the excitement of begin one week earlier (September 16) and end one week istics would be wrong. Moreover, the provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran precipita- using the new stationery are tied in with Aval-e Mehr both later than normal, so that students will have a two-week Bohlouli highlighted that most schools are not equipped tion has reached average rates of 43.4 and 32.8 mm, respectively, for those who are still going to school and those who have break during autumn or winter. He didn’t reveal any more with appropriate heating and cooling systems. while precipitation in the province of Gilan despite of receiving long been graduated. details on the exact date of the break. Nonetheless, 80 summer holidays are better to be short- normal average rainfalls, faces a lack of 47 mm compared to its And now for some years the persistent air pollution At the same time, tourism chief Ali-Asghar Mounesan, ened and having some holidays in winter and autumn would long-term average, he further explained. in Tehran which force the Education Ministry to close explained that winter break would serve the tourism indus- be beneficial to the education system, but putting in place “Mazandaran province has experienced greater increase in down the schools for several days during cold seasons has try well particularly in southern provinces and islands of necessary infrastructure and weighing up the pros and cons precipitation than others by 26 millimeters,” he added. convinced some policy-makers to change school calendar Iran, situated fairly near equator, which can be best spots is a must, he added. Golestan province got some 4.8 mm of rain, while its long- and think of planning a two-week break during autumn for trips during winter. While the new school year will start in 24 days the issue term average rainfall rate is reported to be 21 mm, so the province or winter to avoid the unplanned and unwanted holidays. Navid Adham, secretary general for education supreme has not even been proposed to the Majlis. with 16 mm short of rainfall hit the record high for the lowest Last year (March 2017-March 2018) some 108 days were council, also explained that a three-month summer holiday Mirhemayat Mirzadeh, a parliament member, also said precipitation rate nationwide, over the month of Mordad (July reportedly polluted in Tehran. for students is not justifiable as it seriously harm the education that the parliament has not discussed the issue and that it 23-August 22), he lamented. In order to compensate for the two-week holidays in the system since student will be away from school for so long. is highly unlikely for the Majlis to approve it. Temperature rises within 11 months middle of school year, it is proposed that the school year However, Majlis [the Iranian parliament], passed a law Altering school calendar year, in order to boost educational “Iran has experienced an average 1.3 degrees on the Celsius begins two weeks earlier or one week earlier and end one in 1997 recognizing the very first day of the autumn as the standards is an issue which needs to be studied in depth. But scale temperature rise during the past 11 months (September week later than it is supposed to. beginning of school year nationwide and for all school grades a winter break to mitigate air pollution during cold seasons 23, 2017 to August 21, 2018) compared to its long-term mean,” In January, chief of the Department of Environment and law hasn’t changed since then, Adham said, satiating or protecting the children from harmful effects of pollutants Ziaeian highlighted. Issa Kalantari, proposed one-month break in late autumn that the law is the first thing that is impeding the process is not a permanent solution to solve the predicament. Over the 11 past months all Iranian provinces have faced an and early winter for Tehran and northern cities to “ward for altering school calendar. Environmental policy-makers should also think of increase in temperature, he lamented. off students from air pollution”. He proposed the imple- Another alternative is to change school calendar year better solution to tackle the long-standing air pollution Provinces of West Azarbaijan, Zanjan, Kordestan, Qazvin mentation of the break from December 6 to January 5 depending on the distinguishing climatic conditions of each in metropolises. and East Azarbaijan experienced the highest temperature rise, he added. He also stated that compared to the long-term mean, Minister of Energy: Tehran also had 1.5°C increase in temperature over the Negotiating aforementioned period. 1.2 °C temperature rise since past month Hamoun water Towhid-Golsar Substation in Rasht The country has faced a temperature rise of 1.2°C since last month, in comparison to the long-term mean of the right, only way for Constructed in Accordance with Urban same month, Ziaeian noted. Gilan Regional Electric He went on to say that last month, Markazi and Zanjan Sistan to survive: Architectural Standards Company (GILREC) provinces with 2.1 °C temperature rise, saw the biggest In his visit to terly in line with necessary rules and regulations observing variations in mean temperatures. report Towhid-Gol- requirements of international standards.” ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — As long as sand sar Substation Moreover, being compatible ith the surrounding environ- LEARN ENGLISH deskand dust storms (SDSs) severely in Rasht, Gilan ment, this substation enjoys high potential and capability threatens the lives of people and affects many sectors Province, Min- as compared with similar substation in terms of sound and Closing The Deal of agriculture, livestock and industry in Sistan region, ister of Energy neighborhood with the residential units, he added. southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, the Reza Ardakanian On the sidelines of inauguration of six projects in Gilan said that this sub- Province, he said, that 6,666 projects will be put into operation Mr. Smith: I’m glad you could find time to meet with me, Mr. only way to halt the impacts is to negotiate with station has been in the current Government Week, he added. Johnson. I can’t think of a nicer environment for our meeting Afghanistan on granting the water right of Hamoun constructed in ac- Speaking on the sidelines of 6 national and infrastructural today, the ambience here is lovely! wetland, IRNA reported on Monday. cordance with the projects of Gilan Regional Power Company, Ardakanian Mr. Johnson: No problem, if possible I always combine The Hamouns are transboundary wetlands on urban furniture said, “three large power plants, with the total capacity of business with pleasure. Now, let’s hear more about these the Iran-Afghan border made up of three lakes: and architecture. 522-megawat, were put into operation, costing 312 mil- chocolates you’re offering. Hamoun-e Helmand, which is entirely in Iran, He pointed to lion euros.” Mr. Smith: Well, as you know, I have recently become the sole Hamoun-e Sabari on the border, and Hamoun-e the performance Also, construction operation of gas division of a com- distributor for Grangers Gourmet Bon-bons here in the Puzak, almost entirely inside Afghanistan. The of water sector in bined cycle power plant with the generation capacity of 160 United States. They’re a new manufacturer and are looking three lakes are linked and fed by water from the the Ministry of megawatts was commissioned in Golestan Province, costing to break into the luxury market. Naturally, your restaurant Helmand River which starts in the Hindu Kush Energy [includ- about 400 million euros, in Golestan Province, the energy sprang into my mind immediately. I think your brand exem- Mountains in Afghanistan. ing supplying minister added. plifies many of the same traits as Grangers and serving these Victims of extreme SDSs water in urban Turning to the distribution and ultra- power distribution chocolates would really add to your reputation for providing People living in Sistan has experienced 45 and rural areas] projects, he said, “in the section of distribution- and ultra- elegant, luxurious, first class dining. days of unhealthy and 22 days of hazardous and said, “on the power distribution networks, a large number of projects have Mr. Johnson: Hmmm, sounds interesting... gourmet chocolates, air quality since the beginning of the current occasion of com- been put into operation in this week.” where are they produced? Belgium? Iranian calendar year (March 21) until the fifth memoration of He reiterated, “in the sector of section of distribution Mr. Smith: Actually, the factory is located in Scotland. [calendar month of] Mordad (ending August the Government and ultra-power distribution networks, a number of 6,666 Mr. Johnson: Really? I didn’t think they were known for their 22), the report added. Week, 6,670 projects, costing 7,200 billion tomans, have projects will be put into operation during the Government luxury chocolate production... Polluted air quality along with permanent been put into operation in the water and power industry of Week in the current year, costing over 4,650 billion tomans.” Mr. Smith: That’s what makes this such a fantastic opportu- SDSs has caused hundreds of residents to refer the country.” In the sector of renewable power plants, a number of nity! The government is one hundred percent supportive of to medical centers due to respiratory problems. Given the unprecedented increase of temperature and 11 projects were put into operation in various provinces of creating new export markets and has guaranteed a low tariff As Abdolrahman Shahnavazi, head of Sistan-Bal- consecutive heat in summer season of the current year (started the country with the total power generation capacity of 155 for all wholesale orders of over one thousand units. They’ve uchestan disaster mitigation and management or- June 21), which has been the most drought year in the last 50 megawatts. also reduced the red tape involved at customs as well. Here, ganization earlier in August said that so far, some years, he said, “at the unsparing cooperation and endeavor Of total 11 power plants, five of solar power plants were I brought these especially for you, try one! 810 people has referred to the hospitals due to of executive functionaries and all public organizations es- put into operation in Fars Province, two solar power plants Mr. Johnson: Oh, thanks. Mmm, hmm, creamy texture, smooth... respiratory, ocular and heart-related problems, pecially governor general, moreover generating more than were commissioned in Tehran Province, he said, adding, “in Mr. Smith: Unique aren’t they? I bet you’ve never tasted anything of which 639 patients have been provided with 50,000 megawatt electricity in power stations, we managed the same direction, one solar power plant was put into oper- like it! Quality is assured as I personally visit the factory to make outpatient care, and the rest have been hospitalized. to commission 2,000-megawatt online power plant.” ation in Qom Province while one solar power plant became sure no one’s cutting corners with the ingredients. Only the 120-day winds increase SDSs Launching 2,000-megawatt online power station is the operation in Yazd Province.” cr `eme de la cr `eme make it through inspection. 120-day winds of Sistan raging from northeast to outcome of observing consumption patterns and unflinching In addition, one solar power plant was put into operation Mr. Johnson: Yes, very interesting flavors... Slightly spicy, very southeast with high speed in summer, affects large cooperation of people in line with implementing accurate in Chabahar Free Zone, he reiterated. unique, that’s for sure. Exactly what ARE the ingredients? areas of Sistan-Baluchestan province, and when consumption patterns and also optimal use of energy, he The country’s largest wind power plant was put into op- Mr. Smith: I have it on highest authority that this traditional the temperature reaches the highest level, it will maintained. eration in Qazvin Province, the energy minister concluded. secret recipe has been handed down in the Granger family for cause storms, soil erosion and vegetation depletion With the coordination made in this regard, the ministry generations. I’m sure you can keep a secret. Buttermilk, cacao as well as carrying abrasive sand and particles. will take giant strides in the coming year (to start March 21, beans, sugar and Haggis. These winds are the sequence of monsoon in 2019) in line with development and promotion of water and Mr. Johnson: Haggis? What’s Haggis? India, which get power in Afghanistan especially power industry in the country, he added. Mr. Smith: It’s a traditional Scottish delicacy; you take sheep’s in the Thar desert and then pass through the Elsewhere in his remarks, Ardakanian pointed to the sig- liver, heart and lung and stuff it inside of the sheep’s stomach. flat areas of Afghanistan to enter Iran. nificance of investment in Gilan Province and said, “programs Mr. Johnson: Ah, get back to you. Particulate matter (PM) concentration and in power sector in Gilan Province requires making more Mr. Smith: Mr. Johnson? Mr. Johnson? SDSs also have been exacerbated by the increase investment.” in 120-day winds, as strong SDSs speeding over 100 Key vocabulary According to the proposal of Gilan Province governor kilometers per hour have stricken the province for ambience: the atmosphere of a place general, a new program will be studied as of the current 19 times since March 21, which is unprecedented distributor: a person or business that sells to retail stores Iranian month of Mehr (Sept. 21) and will last up to the in past 33 years. break into: enter quickly Iranian month of Shahrivar in the next year. According to the long-term data this year exemplify: sets an example, a demonstration Under such circumstances, effective steps will be taken (2018) is the second year the province is be- trait: a characteristic feature or quality in order to implement current projects rapidly, he added. ing hit with storms with wind speeds more red tape: procedures required to gain bureaucratic approval Turning to 20.63 kV Towhid-Golsar Substation, he said, than 100 kilometers per hour compared to cutting corners: to do something in the easiest or most inexpensive “this substation has been constructed and designed mas- hand down: to pass from one family member or generation the past 55 years. 13 ساعت: 19:40 امضاء صفحه آرا: ساعت: امضاء مسئول صفحه: ساعت: امضاء ادیتور: ساعت: امضاء سردبیر:

I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y AUGUST 29, 2018 WORLD IN FOCUS 13 Syrian air defense systems fully prepared Flights halted at Dubai Intl. ahead of possible U.S. attack: official Airport after Yemeni drone strikes A Syrian military official says the country’s airbase in the Persian Gulf tiny state of Qatar air defense forces have been placed on full for this purpose. 1 Abdullah al-Jafri, a spokesman for Yemeni air force alert amid reports that the United States Additionally, guided-missile destroyer and air defense, said at the time that the drone attack had halted may use a fake chemical attack carried out USS Ross armed with 28 Tomahawk cruise flights to and from the airport, adding that this was the first time by foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants in missiles entered the Mediterranean on Au- that Yemeni forces used a drone to attack the airport. Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib as gust 25, and the vessel is capable of hitting He said Yemeni forces will target the infrastructure of coun- a pretext to launch a possible airstrike on any target in Syria. tries that have taken part in the aggression against Yemen in Syrian government forces. The U.S. has warned it would respond future attacks. Syria’s pro-government and Arabic-lan- to a chemical weapons attack by Syrian Emirati aviation authorities later announced that an incident guage al-Masdar news agency, citing an un- government forces with retaliatory strikes, involving a supply vehicle in the Terminal 1 airside area of the named Mezzeh Military Airport, reported stressing that the attacks would be stronger airport had occurred. that troops stationed at the facility, which than those conducted by American, British The officials claimed that the development had not affected lies southwest of the old center of Damascus, and French forces back in April. operations at Abu Dhabi International Airport, and flights con- had been ordered to prepare for a possible Early on April 14, the U.S., Britain and tinued to arrive and depart as scheduled. attack against the capital. France carried out a string of airstrikes The UAE is Saudi Arabia’s key ally in its deadly war against The report added that while the exact against Syria over a suspected chemical Yemen. reason for this move remain unknown, it is weapons attack against the city of Douma, Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a believed to linked to the potential threat of located about 10 kilometers northeast of devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, a U.S. strike on Damascus or its outskirts. the capital Damascus. with the aim of bringing the government of Yemen’s former pres- The Syrian government has not com- Washington and its allies blamed Da- ident, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, back to power and crushing mented on the report yet. mascus for the Douma attack, an allegation the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Meanwhile, Syrian Ambassador to Russia rejected by the Syrian government. The aggression has killed some 15,000 people and injured Riyad Haddad has underlined that govern- countries, advances to liberate our lands, It has also consistently denied using Pentagon said in a statement that at least thousands more. More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, ment forces have never made use of chemical the West and the United States immediately chemical weapons over the course of the 58 missiles had struck Shayrat airbase in the and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described weapons in battles against foreign-backed want to intervene in order to attack Syria foreign-backed militancy, which gripped western Syrian city of Homs. An unnamed as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. terrorist groups. so as to weaken Syria and prolong the war,” the country in 2011. U.S. official said Tomahawk missiles were (Source: agencies) “We have never used and will not use Haddad commented. Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman used in the strikes. chemical weapons,” Haddad said in response Western governments and their allies Major General Igor Konashenkov told report- Britain’s Royal Air Force said four Tornado to claims by anti-Syria opposition groups, have never stopped pointing the finger at ers on Monday that the U.S. is seeking to use GR4s fighter jets joined in the operation, including White Helmets, about chemical Damascus whenever an apparent chemical fake chemical weapons attack to strike Syria. while France said it had deployed Mirage Rohingya demand justice attacks carried out by the Syrian government attack takes place. Konashenkov added that the destroyer and Rafale fighter jets. after UN probe calls for forces against civilians. Syria surrendered its stockpiles of chem- USS The Sullivans armed with 56 cruise Russian General Staff spokesman General “These allegations will get nowhere. They ical weapons in 2014 to a joint mission led missiles had arrived in the Persian Gulf Sergei Rudskoy, however, said Syrian air de- genocide prosecution (opposition) have one pretext for everything by the U.S. and the Prohibition of Chemical several days ago, while a U.S. ?-1? bomber fense systems had intercepted at least 71 cruise — the use of chemical weapons. As soon as Weapons (OPCW), which oversaw the de- carrying 24 air-to-surface AGM-158 JASSM missiles fired during the U.S.-led aggression. Rohingya leaders in Bangladesh Tuesday challenged the United our army, thanks to the support of friendly struction of the weaponry. cruise missiles has been deployed at al-Udeid (Source: Press TV) Nations to ensure Myanmar’s generals stand trial after investi- gators called for top military commanders to be prosecuted for genocide against the minority. A UN fact-finding mission into violations in Myanmar said Report: Saudi regime’s King Salman blocked public listing of Aramco the country’s army chief and five other senior brass should be investigated over a brutal crackdown last year that drove 700,000 For the past two years, the House of Saud regime has is not surprising that the king ultimately decides. But the Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh. prepared to place up to five percent of its national oil shelving of the Aramco IPO is a major blow to the prince’s The report commissioned by the UN Human Rights Coun- company on the stock market. Officials talked up the Vision 2030 reform program, which aims to fundamen- cil detailed a horrifying list of atrocities against the Rohingya, Saudi Aramco initial public offering (IPO) with inter- tally transform Saudi Arabia’s oil-dependent, state-driven including murder, enforced disappearance, torture, and sexual national exchanges, global banks and the United States economy. violence “perpetrated on a massive scale.” President Donald Trump. It suggests the king is keeping the new unilateral power of Estimates that 10,000 were killed in the 2017 crackdown The planned listing was to be the cornerstone of the the young prince - accrued soon after his father’s accession were “conservative,” investigators said. regime’s promised economic overhaul and, at a targeted to the throne in January 2015 - in check. Myanmar has vehemently denied the allegations, insisting it $100bn - the biggest IPO ever. It was the brainchild of It also raises doubts about Riyadh’s management of was responding to attacks by Rohingya rebels. 32-year-old Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman the IPO process and commitment to making the economy Community leaders for the roughly one million displaced (MBS), the heir apparent of the world’s largest oil exporter. more transparent, some investors say. Rohingya in southern Bangladesh welcomed calls for pros- But after months of setbacks, the international and Taking the reins ecution, but said they would judge the UN on its ability to domestic legs of the IPO were pulled. While King Salman has the final say on policy, he has deliver justice. The reason: MBS’s father King Salman stepped in to given great authority to his son. “The UN has to ensure that justice sees the light,” Rohingya shelve it, three sources with ties to government insiders By April, Aramco stopped paying some of the banks After assuming powers as defense minister and chief community leader Abdul Gowffer told AFP by phone. told Reuters news agency. working on the deal their retainer fee, three banking sources of the royal court in January 2015, MBS launched a war in “The commanders must face an ICC trial,” he added, referring The decision came after the king met with family told Reuters. This is usually a fixed fee to ensure advisors Yemen, adopted a more assertive stance towards regional to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. members, bankers, and senior oil executives, including do not lose out completely if the deal falters. An Aramco power house Iran, and implemented a diplomatic and trade The investigators have called on the UN Security Council to a former Aramco CEO (Chief Executive Officer), said official declined to comment. blockade of the tiny Persian Gulf state of Qatar. refer the Myanmar situation to the ICC or for the creation of an one of the sources, who requested anonymity. Those Then, while the king was deliberating, in mid-June, the Taking the reins of a powerful new economic council, he ad hoc international criminal tribunal. consultations took place during Ramadan, which ended banks, including JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, were set out to tighten state spending, grow the private sector, The Security Council has repeatedly urged Myanmar to halt in the middle of June. invited to pitch for something different. and win foreign investment. military operations and to allow the Rohingya to safely return home. The king’s interlocutors told him the IPO, far from help- They were instead asked to present proposals for Ar- The king also allowed him to push through high-profile But its initiatives have been limited by council member and ing the kingdom, would undermine it. Their main concern amco’s acquisition of a stake in petrochemicals giant social reforms including ending a ban on women driving top Myanmar ally China, who could also thwart efforts to refer was an IPO would bring full public disclosure of Aramco’s SABIC from the sovereign wealth fund PIF, a banking and opening cinemas in the deeply conservative Muslim the case to the ICC. financial details, the sources said. source said. country. Dil Mohammad, another Rohingya leader, urged the UN to In late June, the king sent a message to his diwan, or That was an initial sign that plans for the listing were MBS entered the line of succession in April 2015, re- take further steps to ensure their safe return to Rakhine state, a administrative office, demanding the IPO be called off, the stalling and that Riyadh was looking to raise funds else- placing an uncle as deputy crown prince. process that has stalled with Bangladesh and Myanmar blaming three sources said. The king’s decision is final, a second where, the banking sources said. Two years later, he was elevated to crown prince in a each other for the delay. source said. The senior Saudi regime official said Aramco’s interest palace coup that removed his cousin Prince Mohammed (Source: AFP) “Whenever he says ‘no’, there is no budging,” the source bin Nayef, the interior minister. in acquiring a stake in SABIC was in line with its objective said. The king has intervened at times. of being the world’s leading energy and integrated chem- Keeping MBS in check Most notably, when MBS gave the impression last icals business, and did not alter the government’s intent After Reuters reported last week the deal had been shelved, year that Riyadh endorsed the Trump administration’s to list Aramco. Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said the government was still nebulous Middle East peace plan, including the U.S. Spokeswomen for JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley de- Negotiating Hamoun water committed to conducting the IPO at an unspecified date recognition of al-Quds (Jerusalem) as Israel’s capital, the clined to comment on whether their banks have any role right, only way for Sistan to in the future. king made a public correction. in the SABIC deal. A senior Saudi regime official referred Reuters to that At the Arab League summit in April, he reaffirmed Ri------Blow to MBS’s agenda survive: report statement and repeated that the government, Aramco’s yadh’s commitment to the Arab and Muslim identity of al- The House of Saud regime can still generate cash from shareholder, was working towards an IPO when condi- Quds (Jerusalem) following an uproar in the Islamic world. alternative sources and move ahead with other reforms. 12 tions were right. “The king is obsessed with the idea of how history will But MBS had promised the listing would help create a Drought, climate change exacerbate SDSs effects “We are surprised that despite this statement - that the judge him. Will he be the king who sold Aramco, who sold culture of openness in the secretive kingdom. The wind is caused by differences in the atmospheric pressure government continues actively to plan for the IPO - Reuters Palestine?” the second source said. As well as raising concerns about that commitment to between the mountains and plains, which has always existed, persists in asking questions alleging that plans are halted.” Grinding to a halt transparency, the shelved IPO contributes to a sense of but in the past when the plains were covered with vegetation, “Aramco’s shareholder is the government of Saudi Ara- It is not clear exactly which of the IPO arguments prompted unpredictability after scores of top royals, ministers and and Hamoun wetland was filled with water, the intensity of SDSs bia. His Majesty, King Salman, has delegated management King Salman to make the decisive call on Aramco. businessmen were rounded up in an anti-corruption cam- has been much lower. of the IPO to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and But industry experts and sources previously told Reuters paign last November. Already, the water level of the Helmand River in Afghanistan a committee which includes the Ministers for Energy, Fi- that preparations had been slowing for months for at least The sources said even though the king’s decision was a has fallen due to concurrent drought along with climate change nance and Economy.” two reasons: skepticism about MBS’s public declaration blow to the prince’s agenda, he is still the favorite son and and rainfall shortages, which is under control of Afghanistan, “Therefore, decisions around the nature and timing of in 2016 that the sale would give the whole company a val- heir with a major influence on policy. Ali Mohammad Tahmasbi, director for national headquarters the IPO, will be decided by the committee for the govern- ue of $2 trillion valuations, and concern about the legal Rather, they say, it suggests the king wants to show he for combatting sand and dust storms has said. ment’s approval,” the official said. risks and tough disclosure requirements associated with will be the deciding voice for the foreseeable future. So, Iran cannot demand more than 825 million cubic meters In a country ruled for decades by the House of Saud, it a foreign listing. (Source: Reuters) of water which is legally assigned as the water right of Hamoun, while Hamoun capacity is between 10 to 15 billion cubic meters, and Afghanistan will provide the amount as long as the rainfall meet normal levels, Tahmasbi explained. Russia postpones Afghanistan peace conference Tahmasbi went on to explain that both water shortages and Russia has postponed a multilateral Afghan- with the Taliban happen in presence of the Lavrov assured Ghani that the summit sador to Russia, Abdul Qayyum Kochai, said climate change has compounded the effects of local winds, to an istan peace conference that was scheduled Afghan government”, a senior Afghanistan dates “will be changed to ensure Afghanistan’s “Russia wants to use the Taliban against extent that, there is no way to farm in the region due to severe to take place in Moscow next month. president official told Reuters news agency. participation”, the official said. [ISIL]”, according to comments carried by lack of water and soil erosion, so that cultivation has come to a The meeting was scheduled to take place “The president of the IRA [Islamic Repub- In the official statement from Kabul, Pres- the Russia-focused Interfax news agency. halt in over 140,000 hectares of the lands in Sistan. on September 4. Russia invited 12 coun- lic of Afghanistan], supporting in principle ident Ghani was said to have hailed Moscow This year, Moscow rejected an accusation Moreover, wind erosion acts like an avalanche; first, small tries to the conference. While Kabul and the the idea of a Moscow meeting, proposed for its efforts for peace in Afghanistan. by NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan particles of soil and sand are transported by the wind, and as United States turned down the invitation, postponing it due to the need to develop “In the telephonic conversation, it was that it had been supporting and even sup- they get farther away from the starting point, small particles the Taliban terrorist outfit said they were Afghanistan’s consolidated position on decided to postpone the Moscow conference plying weapons to the Taliban. bring larger particles along with themselves. So, wind erosion willing to attend. this issue, taking into account the ongoing so that the two countries can coordinate on The group is fighting to remove U.S. and is a cycle, which affects both countries of Afghanistan and Iran, On Monday, President Ghani spoke with personnel changes in the leadership of the further preparations and effectiveness of the other foreign forces and defeat Afghanistan’s he lamented. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “to Afghan ruling bloc,” Russian Foreign Min- process,” the statement from Kabul added. Western-backed government. Solution to eliminate SDSs hitting Sistan iron out the differences and ensure talks istry said in a statement. Earlier this week, Afghanistan’s ambas- (Source: agencies) Apart from causing respiratory problems and posing serious threats to the life of residents and intensifying PM concentration, SDSs extremely affect agricultural, livestock and industrial sectors. Pakistan condemns blasphemous Dutch cartoon contest Its least obvious effects include damages to infrastructures such as power cuts which disrupt daily activities of citizens, offices Pakistan’s senate has unanimously passed a resolution In his first address to the senate in the capital, Islamabad, there to come up with a collective policy that could then and organizations. condemning an anti-Islam cartoon contest planned by a newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed to take be brought up at international forums. This should have Tahmasbi believes that, in terms of expertise, there would far-right Dutch politician - one of the first actions taken by the issue to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) been done a long time ago. not be an efficient solution except for providing water right of the assembly since last month’s general election. in September, calling it a “collective failure of the Muslim Last week, Pakistan foreign office summoned the Dutch Hamoun and moisturizing its soil. Senators in the upper house of parliament formally protested world”. “Very few in the West understand the pain caused ambassador to lodge a protest against the blasphemous To mitigate the effects of sand and dust storms, the only useful on Monday the announcement by Dutch opposition MP (Member to Muslims by such blasphemous activities,” said Khan. competition, expressing its “deep concern at this deliberate measure is to negotiate on the water right of the wetland and of Parliament) Geert Wilders to hold a Prophet Mohammad “Our government will raise the matter in the Organi- and malicious attempt to defame Islam”. maintain the humidity of the surface soil, so that the wind cannot caricature competition in the Netherlands later this year. zation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and get the countries (Source: agencies) lift the particles, he concluded. ساعت: 19:00 امضاء صفحه آرا: ساعت: امضاء مسئول صفحه: ساعت: امضاء ادیتور: ساعت: امضاء سردبیر:

I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 14 WORLD SPORTS AUGUST 29, 2018

Nadal through to round two Angry Mourinho shows plenty of after Ferrer retires Defending champion Rafa Nadal progressed to the second round defiance but has few answers of the U.S. Open on Monday after fellow Spaniard David Ferrer Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho retired midway through the second set due to a calf injury. stormed out of his news conference following Nadal, the world number one, breezed through the first set Monday’s 3-0 home defeat by Tottenham without facing a break point but the 36-year-old Ferrer fought Hotspur, ranting about the three titles he back in the second, breaking Nadal twice before the injury forced won with Chelsea and demanding “respect” him to stop with the score at 6-3 3-4. from those reporters present. Ferrer, whose decision to retire brings the curtain down on Coming shortly after he had stood at length his final appearance at a Grand Slam, said he had taken an in- in front of a mainly empty Stretford End ap- jection before the match but was in obvious discomfort and need plauding United’s fans, it added to a somewhat treatment courtside before he decided to quit. bizarre epilogue on another miserable night “I feel bad,” he said in a courtside interview. “I had one shot for the 20-times English champions. “We lost in my calf and there was pain. I tried to play. I tried. against Sevilla (last season in the Champions “I’m so sorry because I can’t finish the match, but anyway, League last 16) and we were booed because we thanks a lot.” Nadal, who like his opponent was sweating profusely deserved it. Today the players left the pitch in the oppressively humid conditions, paid tribute to Ferrer, after losing at home and they were applauded whom he beat in the 2013 French Open final. because they deserved it, so we keep trying, “I’m very sorry for him. He’s one of my closest friends on the trying, trying,” Mourinho said. tour and we faced many amazing moments together,” Nadal “What was the score? This (holding three said. “It’s sad for him to finish like this.” fingers up). What is this also? Three Prem- (Source: Reuters) ierships I have won, more Premierships than the other 19 managers put together. Me three, them two,” he said. “Respect, respect, respect.” Perhaps the performance for the media Ronaldo’s son trains at was intended to show his defiance in the face of two defeats from the opening three Juventus Academy games of the season. Maybe he felt that a display of passion would go down well with the supporters at Old Trafford, who, it should be noted, showed no sign of turning against him. Key tackle mains unclear. Mourinho has denied there is a Marcos Rojo comes he will also be an option. Or was Mourinho just deflecting from Eric Bailly was not even on the bench against rift with United chief executive Ed Woodward I don’t know my best back four.” the fact that he lacks any answer to the most Spurs, Victor Lindelof came on for the injured about the lack of transfer activity but there is no There isn’t much time for Mourinho to obvious question facing him — how to sort Phil Jones and made a series of mistakes and straight answer from either party about why the find the right solutions — United are already out a defence that has leaked six goals in Chris Smalling, who had made a key tackle in club failed to bring in a new central defender. six points behind the Premier League’s top two games and was opened up with ease by the first half to deny Dele Alli, was left standing What the former Chelsea manager is clear four — Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea and Watford Spurs after the break? by Lucas Moura for the third goal. about is that he doesn’t have a clue what who all have 100 percent records. Mourinho had made it clear during the Exactly why United did not bring in a combination can sort out the mess. It is hard to see this United team chal- off-season that he wanted to sign at least new player in that department, whether it be “No,” he said. “Because in the first game lenging for the title but there is a real danger Leicester City’s Harry Maguire, Tottenham’s Lindelof and Bailly, now Jones and Smalling that their poor start could turn into a much Juventus newcomer Cristiano Ronaldo’s son began training at one new centre-half and the performances Toby Alderweireld or Bayern Munich’s Jerome but now Jones is injured and in the next match a deeper slump. Juventus academy, ESPN reported. of the five he has employed this season have Boateng who were all linked with the club, re- will be Smalling with another one and when (Source: Mirror) Cristiano Ronaldo’s son has participated in his first training amply demonstrated he was right. session for Juventus’ under-9s. Ronaldo’s girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez was also present. Williams gets warm welcome and win Olympic champ Bolt expects nerves for As reported earlier, Cristiano Ronaldo has four children. In November 2017, Georgina Rodriquez, 22, gave birth to his baby in U.S. Open return Mariners debut daughter, Alana Martina. On June 8, 2017, Cristiano Ronaldo’s newborn baby twins were conceived and welcomed into the world through the help of a surrogate mother. Before the twins, Ronaldo already has a seven-year old son named Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. (Source: Sportnews)

Gundogan: Racism had role in Ozil’s Germany exit

Ilkay Gundogan has broken his silence after Mesut Ozil’s with- drawal from the Germany team, saying he remains proud to represent his country but acknowledging racism was a factor in his former teammate’s exit. Gundogan and Ozil, Germans with Turkish roots, were both photographed with Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during Serena Williams took the first cautious step sisters bridged the afternoon and evening Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt ex- Bolt was measured about his progress and a reception in London in May, sparking backlash in Germany towards a record-equalling 24th Grand sessions on a steamy Arthur Ashe with pects an onset of nerves when he makes his admitted to still struggling with his move- that enveloped the national team and overshadowed its exit from Slam title with a 6-4 6-0 first-round win Venus providing the opening act of the debut for Australia’s Central Coast Mariners ment. “Coming this Friday I get to play a the World Cup in the group stage in June. over Magda Linette on Monday as an excited twin bill, grinding out a 6-3 5-7 6-3 victory against an amateur side on Friday and says little bit so I’ve got to get up to pace,” he said. When asked whether Ozil’s allegations that some criticism of U.S. Open crowd welcomed the new tennis over another former champion, Russian he is still short of fitness and struggling “For me, it’s the stop and go’s. The tick- the two players was racially motivated, Gundogan, the Manchester mother back to the ‘Big Apple’. Svetlana Kuznetsova, before handing the with the speed of the game. tacks. Because I’m not used to picking up City midfielder, responded by mentioning Bernd Holzhauer, a It was not the imposing performance stage over to her younger sibling. Mariners coach Mike Mulvey confirmed speed, going back down, up and down, up former councillor in the town of Bebra who resigned after pub- many have come to expect from Williams as The wins put the sisters on a collision the eight-times Olympic gold medalist would and down, back and forth, that’s the most licly insulting them. the six-time champion continued to scrape course, leaving them just one victory away play in a pre-season match that will be challenging. “Tell me: Is it not racism if a German politician takes to Face- the rust off her game following the birth of from a third-round showdown. televised live by a local broadcaster and “The season doesn’t start until the end book that the Germany team is made out of 25 Germans and two her first child. The manner of the victory, While Venus remains a potential obstacle is tipped to draw a crowd of over 10,000 of October so I have time.” goat f------?” Gundogan said in an interview with Funke Media. however, mattered little to a home crowd standing in the way of a 24th Grand Slam, to Central Coast stadium. Bolt said he had been practicing as a left “Such remarks must be labelled as racism. However, it does not that was just happy to see her back on court Serena’s path to the final was cleared of “There will be nerves, definitely there winger at training and hoped to get on the mean that everyone in Germany is racist. Absolutely not. Almost after sitting out last year. another major hurdle earlier on Monday will be nerves, it’s not like it’s a charity field for the last 15 or 20 minutes against all of my experiences in my life in Germany have been positive. But “It is such a great feeling to be back out when world number one Simona Halep game any more,” Bolt told reporters after the select side of top local amateurs at the there are people who have used the photo for their political agenda. here,” said Williams. “It is one of those was upset by Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi. training on Tuesday. Gosford stadium an hour north of Sydney. And in this context, the racism line was sometimes crossed.” feeling I only get here in New York.” “There’s still several matches to play “This is a career that I’m pursuing so His coach Mulvey was guarded on Ozil, 29, cited racism in Germany, as well as at the top of the Telling the crowd that her spirit was before you’re there,” said Williams about there will be a bit of nerves. where he would play Bolt and suggested German football federation (DFB), as he retired from interna- broken after not saying goodbye to her a possible meeting with her sister. “Right “I expect to make mistakes but I also the sprinter was some way off the level tional football in mid-July in the aftermath of the World Cup. daughter Olympia before leaving for her now I just feel like I’m on the road to getting expect to go in, make myself proud and to required. Both players were selected for the national team, but Ozil, match, Williams displayed little appetite better. It might not have been a stylish push myself. It’s just one of those things, I “Look, he’s doing OK,” he said. “The thing the Arsenal midfielder, was made the scapegoat for the World for a fight during an uneven opening set win over Linette but it was nonetheless a know I’m not going to have a perfect game,” that we’re asking him to do is something that Cup exit by some media as well as parts of the German public. until she finally seized control with a break stylish display by Williams. added the 32-year-old Jamaican. he’s not done for quite a number of years. Asked about Ozil’s withdrawal from the Germany team, Gun- to go up 4-3. As always, the fashion conscious Wil- Bolt’s attempt to transform himself from “He’s got rudimentary skills, there’s no dogan, 27, said it “was a pity from a sporting point of view,” and Williams, the winner of 72 career sin- liams created a buzz as she appeared from global athletics superstar to professional problem about that, it’s about being able said Ozil, like Gundogan born in Gelsenkirchen, was “one of the gles titles, has the ability to sense when the players tunnel under a spotlight wearing football player has generated huge publicity to do it at the speed that we do it.” reasons I wanted to play for Germany.” she has an opponent on the ropes and a leather style jacket over a frilly off the for the struggling Mariners, who finished Mulvey had little problem with Bolt’s “I would have wished for a more deserved farewell,” Gun- moved in quickly to deliver the knockout shoulder tennis dress and fishnet compres- bottom of the 10-team A-league last season. box office appeal, however. dogan said. punch, breaking the 68th ranked Pole to sion tights designed to help circulation and It has also drawn plenty of scepticism, “What the lads in the office are telling (Source: Soccernet) open the second. While her game might avoid blood clots. with Adelaide United coach Marco Kurz me is there could be 10,000, 12,000 people not have been firing on all cylinders her “It’s easy to play in, kind of aerodynamic questioning Bolt’s open-ended trial and here (on Friday) so that’s quite unbelievable ruthlessness remained razor sharp as the with the one arm free,” said Williams. “The saying the A-League should recruit prov- for a pre-season game,” he added. American showed no hesitation storming tutu is easy to play in because I practiced en talents and “improve young Australian “But I welcome it because it puts us through second set finishing off her oppo- in it before. That was fun.” players”. Although repeatedly voicing his under a little bit of a spotlight.” UEFA ‘not convinced’ by VAR nent with a thundering ace. The Williams (Source: Reuters) determination to win a Mariners contract, (Source: Eurosport) UEFA chief Aleksander Ceferin has rejected reports that VAR could be used from the Champions League quarter-finals this Lewis Hamilton: I can’t always create miracles to beat Ferrari season. “I’m still not convinced.” UEFA bosses were said to be ‘impressed’ by how VAR im- Lewis Hamilton has called on his Mercedes team to up its “But there is only a certain amount I can do -- I can’t proved the level of officiating during the World Cup in Russia, game, saying he can’t create miracles every weekend now always create miracles. There are going to be times like today but Ceferin made it clear the technology was not yet ‘ready’ for that Ferrari has the faster car. where it doesn’t work. But there are still eight races to go Europe’s elite club competition. Hamilton still leads the drivers’ championship by 17 points and a lot of positives to take into those races, we have just “I don’t know where it came from, but we haven’t talked about thanks to two wins against the odds before F1’s summer got to keep working on the car and the tyres and optimise it and I’m still not convinced about VAR,” he told Ekipa. break. In Germany he took a remarkable win in the wet that. We can still beat them at races, I just don’t know which “There are still things that need clearing up. Who decides from the back of the grid after Vettel crashed out of the lead ones it is going to be.” whether to see the VAR? The video referee or the main one? in the rain and in Hungary a wet qualifying session saw With the next two races coming at the high-speed Monza “The fans don’t understand it, neither do the journalists. What him take pole position on a track where Ferrari was clearly and Mercedes’ bogey track Singapore, Hamilton said the things do the referees see and what don’t they see? faster in the dry. With very few overtaking opportunities title battle is only going to become more difficult as the “Things are still unclear, but we know that one day it’ll be at the Hungaroring, Hamilton went on to take his second season progresses. necessary to use it. I told Roberto Rosetti: when we’re ready. victory in a row. “If it hadn’t rained in Hockenheim we wouldn’t have won. “We’ll have to adopt it one day because we’re playing all over In Belgium, Hamilton also took pole position in wet con- If it hadn’t rained in Hungary we wouldn’t have won. And Europe and the Champions League isn’t just a tournament. ditions, but was unable to defend against Ferrari’s superior obviously he won today but if it hadn’t rained yesterday we “We also need regulation. Look at the World Cup assistants engine power and lost the lead to Vettel on the opening lap. ally old go-kart and I used to beat people with much better probably wouldn’t have started first and I don’t know if we who did nothing, other than just wait around. Hamilton said he is used to being the underdog and creating equipment,” he said. “My dad used to call it a four-poster would have been able to tow him down that back straight. It “One referee told me: ‘When there was a big incident, I put a chances, but warned he would not be able to hold off the bed, he said I could drive anything. So naturally I feel I can might have been similar to last year but just in reverse. So finger to my ear and everyone left me alone.’ threat from Ferrari if things continue in the same vein. eke a bit more out of it, and I have been in recent races, and the rain creates opportunity, but we can’t just rely on that. (Source: Football Italia) “That’s how my life’s always been -- I started with a re- beat a faster car. (Source: ESPN) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y AUGUST 29, 2018 SPORTS 15

Jafar Pahlevani Ramin Rezaeian terminates contract with KV Oostende

SPORTS TEHRAN — Iranian international wing- claims silver desker Ramin Rezaeian has mutually agreed to terminate his contract with Belgian top-flight football club KV Oostende, the club announced on Monday on Twitter. The 28-year-old player joined Oostende last summer on a two-year contract. Rezaeian played 25 times during his spell at the Oostende at Asiad and scored two goals. He has been reportedly linked with a move to Iranian football club Tractor Sazi. Rezaeian played every single minute of Iran’s 2018 World Cup campaign and has 31 caps in total. SPORTS TEHRAN — Kurash athlete Jafar Pahlevani took a silver deskmedal at the 2018 Asian Games on Tuesday. Pahlevani lost to Uzbekistan’s Mukhsin Khisomiddinov 1-0 in the +90kg final. Bronze medal went to Afghanistan’s Mansour Sarwari and Nurbek Turaev Iranian football player from Uzbekistan. Ghanbarali Ghanbari also won a bronze medal in the -66 kg. Ghorbannejhad dies Iranian athletes had previously won 17 gold medals in the Games. in car crash Freestyle wrestlers Hassan Yazdani (86kg), Alireza Karimi (97kg) and Parviz Hadi (125kg) had also snatched three gold medals. Greco-Roman wrestlers Mohammadali Geraei and Hossein Nouri won SPORTS TEHRAN — Iranian football player Arman two gold medals in the 77kg and 87kg. deskGhorbannejhad passed away following a car Taekwondo practitioner Saeid Rajabi also claimed a gold medal in the 80kg. crash on Monday. Mirhashem Hosseini also won a gold medal in the 63kg. He died 10 days after being involved in a serious car crash in Erfan Ahangarian bagged a gold medal in wushu after defeating Wang Qazvin, north of Iran. Xuetao from China 2-1 in the final match of the Men’s Sanda -60kg. Ghorbannejhad left in a coma following the car crash and Another wushu practitioner Mohsen Mohammadseifi claimed his third died after 10 days in Qazvin’s Rajaei Hospital. successive gold medal in the Asian Games after beating his Chinese rival Shi He was a member of Paykan and Rah Ahan football teams. Zhanwei 2-0. The Tehran Times staff offer heartfelt condolences to his Climber Reza Alipour also gained Iran’s third gold medal on Day 5. bereaved family. Women’s and men’s kabaddi teams won two gold medals in the Games. Weightlifter Sohrab Moradi won gold in the men’s 94kg class. Karate practitioner Sajad Ganjzadeh and Bahman Asgari claimed two gold medals in the men’s +84kg and -75kg respectively. Qatar’s Al Sadd stun Weightlifter Behdad Salimi won the gold medal with a total of 461kg in Esteghlal of Iran: ACL the men’s 105kg. Hossein Keyhani seized a gold in 3000m steeplechase event with a time of 8:22.79. Qatar’s Al Sadd took a big step towards the semi-finals of the The 18th Asian Games stage 465 events out of 40 sports, among which 330 2018 AFC Champions League after Baghdad Bounedjah’s brace events from 32 sports will feature in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. secured them a 3-1 comeback win over Islamic Republic of Iran’s The Games, attracting more than 10,000 athletes, will run through Sept. 2. Esteghlal in the first leg of the quarter-finals on Monday. The 2011 champions began the game brightly but were dealt a blow in the 12th minute, conceding after an unfortunate Korean archer refuses to celebrate after beating compatriot mistake, the-afc.com wrote. JAKARTA (Reuters) — Tottenham Hotspur striker after months of training together,” he was quoted as saying Son Heung-min is not the only South Korean chasing an by Yonhap news agency. Asian Games gold to avoid military service and the issue Lee, who won a team silver on Monday, rued his per- influenced celebration in Tuesday’s archery final in the formance. men’s individual recurve event. “I am disappointed with the result, but I have to accept Kim Woo-jin won the all-Korean contest 6-4 for his these results because they’re all my own doing,” he said. third Asian Games gold but refused to celebrate his victo- “And the military isn’t all that bad. South Korean men ry over compatriot Lee Woo-seok. Korean law states that all have to go, anyway. I’ll go back and serve the country every able-bodied man must report for national service for the best I can.” 21 months before their 28th birthday, while exemption is Korean fencer and former Olympic gold medallist Gu offered to all Olympic medallists or Asian Games champions. Bon-gil did not rejoice after beating Oh Sang-uk in the Kim secured his exemption eight years ago when he men’s individual sabre final last week. won two golds in the 2010 Games in Guangzhou. But Gu said he felt bad for his compatriot but South Korea for Lee, already serving in the armed forces, Tuesday’s subsequently won the team event, Lee’s first Asiad gold. final was the last opportunity to win a gold and obtain The South Korean football team, who meet Vietnam in an early discharge. plications of the outcome. Wednesday’s semi-finals, are two wins away from a suc- A high ball into the Al Sadd box was headed down by Kim said he performed without thinking about the im- “It was just tough to beat someone that I know so well cessful title defence which would bring similar joy to Son. Boualem Khoukhi for his keeper Meshaal Aissa to pick up, but the young custodian inadvertently let it slip past him to gift the hosts an opener. Esteghlal maintained their lead right up to halftime, after Iran to officially protest over Indonesia’s Son and co faced Vietnam and ‘Korean surviving a scare in injury time when Akram Afif’s shot rebounded off the post to be gathered by Esteghlal keeper Mehdi Rahmati. unfair medals in Asian Games Hiddink’ at Asian Games In the second half, Al Sadd came out of the tunnel looking for a way back into the game and were rewarded for their attacking intent with a goal at the hour mark following a well-worked move. After a fine one-two with Bounedjah, Afif beat his marker and finished past Rahmati to level the score. Five minutes later, Bounedjah latched onto Xavi’s flicked through ball, made his way into the box, turned Mohammad Daneshgar inside out before slotting home Al Sadd’s second goal. Bounedjah then made it 3-1 for the Qataris in the 74th minute after winning and then converting the penalty, following a foul on him by Vouria Ghafouri. Al Sadd will now take home a valuable advantage ahead of the return leg in Doha on September 17. (Source: the-afc)

Iran had a great play in Wheelchair Basketball MNA — The head of Iran’s National is not convincing, Salehi highlighted. If South Korea’s national team is to reach team to the final of Asia’s under-23 cham- Olympic Committee (NOC), Reza Salehi These medals led to a significant increase in the final of the Asian Games and win an pionship in January. At the Asian Games World C’ships: coach Amiri said that Indonesia’s medals in the Indonesia’s ranking from 17 in 2014 Incheon to exemption from military service for its play- in Indonesia, another Under-23 tourna- unknown and indigenous sport of pencak 4 in 2018 Jakarta and OCA should be deemed ers, then it will have to get past Vietnam ment, Vietnam’s so-called Golden Stars silat is a gift from Olympics Council of responsible for this, he added. and the “Korean Hiddink.” have reached the last four and once more Iran wheelchair basketball coach Mohammadreza Dastyar is Asia (OCA) and Iran will officially protest For each discipline, hundreds of athletes Korean coach Park Hang-seo, a member fans at home are getting excited. satisfied with his team’s performance in the World Champion- against these medals in OCA. compete to reach Asian Games, and dozens of Guus Hiddink’s coaching staff at the 2002 “Back then (in 2002) I was an assistant ships in Hamburg, Germany. The act of OCA to recognize pencak silat try to win medals during the Asiad, and the World Cup when South Korea reached the coach, but now I’m a head coach,” Park said Iran finished in fourth place after suffering a 68-57 loss to and its medals in the final medal count of fact that the host country can easily win semifinals, is coaching Vietnam. after Vietnam’s quarterfinal win over Syria title-holder Australia in the bronze medal match. Asian Games is unjustifiable, irrational numerous medals is very regrettable, the South Korea’s unlikely run to the semi- set up a semifinal match against the South “Australia played well. It’s a great team that won the previous and totally unfair, he added. Iranian official noted. finals in ’02, in the World Cup it co-hosted Koreans. “We stopped in the semifinals in tournament,” Dastyar said. Iran has already verbally protested to The 18th edition of Asian Games is with Japan, had millions of fans pouring 2002. But now we’ll not stop in the semifinals.” “We had a great play in the games. I think we lost the bronze the OCA President Sheikh Ahmed al-Fahad underway in Indonesian cities of Jakarta onto the streets in cities across the country The Asian Games semifinal gives Park medal by the Australian counterattacks. Unfortunately, we then al-Ahmed al-Sabah, Salehi said, adding that and Palembang. Iran’s 4th place in medals to celebrate victories. a reunion with former K-League coaching lost control of the game and the whole match,” he added. the president answered that ‘this kind of table was taken by Indonesia after winning Park’s success with Vietnam has sparked counterpart Kim Hak-bom, now leading Britain grabbed the gold medal after defeating USA 79-62 privilege would also be granted to Iran if 10 gold medals in the indigenous sport similar scenes in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City South Korea’s under-23s. in the final match games are held in the country’. This answer of penak silat. and elsewhere when he took the national (Source: AP) (Source: Paralympic.org) Malaysian athlete alleges bias after heated martial arts battle Karim Ansarifard linked A Malaysian athlete accused judges of bias and stormed out Komang eventually clinched the match 4-1 and Al-Jufferi’s so no sanctions,” he told AFP. with SC Heerenveen of a tumultuous match of the Indonesian martial art pencak coach was left trying to calm down the Malaysian, who Komang’s medal was one of eight golds for Indonesia silat at the Asian Games in Jakarta on Monday (Aug 27). pulled out two seconds before the finish. in pencak silat at this year’s Asiad. TASNIM — Iran international striker Karim Ansarifard Mohd Al-Jufferi Jamari, the 2016 world champion, Harry Warganegara, of Inasgoc, the Games organizing The term pencak silat describes hundreds of indig- has been linked with a move to SC Heerenveen. The Dutch withdrew in protest seconds before the end of the final committee, told AFP Al-Jufferi was unlikely to be sanctioned. enous combat styles in Southeast Asia, with fighters football team is going to sign the Olympiacos striker as a and punched a hole in the wall of the warm-up area, as “We think it was very unfortunate though we try to un- wielding an array of weapons such as knives, sickles replacement for his countryman Reza Ghoochannejhad who Indonesia’s Komang Harik Adi Putra bagged gold in derstand (what the athlete was going through),” he said. and machetes. joined Apoel in the summer. the heated contest. “But I don’t think there will be any sanctions.” Malaysia’s Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq tweet- Another Dutch football club FC Utrecht has also shown interest “I’m not mad at my opponent nor the supporters, but I’m Nazif Najib, secretary general of Malaysia’s National ed his support for Al-Jufferi, and expressed his solidarity in signing the 28-year-old forward. mad because the jury didn’t give the point fairly,” 26-year- Olympic Committee (NOC), said he was waiting for the for the athlete. Ansarifard represented the Iran national football team in the old Al-Jufferi said, according to the Games’ official website. report from Inasgoc but agreed it was unlikely he would “You will always be a winner in our eyes and hearts ... 2018 World Cup in Russia. Al-Jufferi dominated the early part of the men’s 65-70kg be punished. never apologise. Never. I will not accept it,” said Syed. He scored a goal against Portugal from the penalty spot in final but 23-year-old Komang came back strongly. “We think it was an athlete’s response, he was emotional (Source:Channel News Asia) the last match of Group B. 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1 They will also publish a collection of poems from the Latvian writer Imants Ziedonis in Persian and hold a meeting in Tehran to introduce the poet to Iranian scholars. “Ziedonis was similar in his style to the Persian poet Sohrab Sepehri,” Mohammadkhani said and added that the two institutes will organize a conference on Sepehri Chakad Theater performs ISIS and Ziedonis in Tehran during spring 2019. comedy “Shertel” in Warsaw Mohammadkhani also met Janis Oga, the director of the Mansards publishing house in Riga, and signed a contract, ARTTEHRAN – Chakad, a theater troupe from based on which the Book City will translate and publish deskIran, performed “Shertel”, a comedy play on 12 short stories about Riga by Latvian writers in Persian. This undated photo shows Book City Institute deputy director Ali-Asghar Mohammadkhani (L) and Imants Ziedonis ISIS, in the Polish capital Warsaw last week. The publisher also agreed to render and publish 12 short Foundation director Žaneta Jaunzeme-Grende posing with an Iranian artwork presented to the foundation by the Written and directed by Ali-Asghar Khatibzadeh, the perfor- stories on Tehran by Iranian writers in Latvian. institute. (Book City Institute) mance took place on August 22 at the Teatr 2 Druga Strefa, major private theater in Warsaw, a public relations team announced in a press release on Tuesday. “Appendix” competing in Love Russia to host Iranian cultural is Folly Intl. Film Festival festival next week ARTTEHRAN – Iranian CULTURE TEHRAN – A deskdirector Hossein deskweeklong Iranian Namazi’s drama “Appendix” is cultural festival will open in the Russian competing in the Love is Folly capital of Moscow next Monday to offer International Film Festival underway a variety of programs, Iran’s Islamic in the Bulgarian capital of Varna. Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) The film is about Zari, who goes announced on Tuesday. to the hospital with her husband Over 40 Iranian artists along with an due to severe abdominal pain. Using official delegation, which will be headed by her friend’s health card because ICRO director Abuzar Ebrahimi-Torkaman, hers has expired, Zari undergoes an are scheduled participated in the festival. appendectomy but the staff at the Traditional music performances and art A scene from “Shertel” by Chakad Theater from Iran hospital become suspicious of her exhibitions, as well as film screening ses- The performance tells the story of Shertel, a poor and homeless identity, miring the couple in a struggle sions will be organized during the festival. musician who plays guitar on the streets to make a living. One day, with the health care system. The screening sessions, which are one of his random listeners gives the musician a lot of money. Shertel Starring Anahita Nemati and Amirali scheduled to be attended by a number of quickly befriends the stranger, who then tells him about ISIS, money, Danaei, the movie will be screened at top Iranian and Russian cineastes, will paradise and God. The stranger’s stories make such an impression the festival on Wednesday. A poster for “Appendix” by Hossein Namazi be followed by review sessions. of Bashkortostan. on Shertel that the musician joins the ISIS. “Let the Sun Shine in” by Claire Denis Several Russian Iranologists will be In addition, the Iranian delegation will A cast composed of Hossein Hessamnejad and Mostafa Shahcheragh and “A Woman’s Life” by Stéphane from Turkey are also competing in the honored during the event. also hold meetings with a number of Rus- performed the play in a way that is understandable to every nation. Brizéfrom, both from France, and “The official section of the festival, which The festival will also be held at the same sian cultural officials and figures during Khatibzadeh also displayed a selection of his conceptual masks Smell of Money” by Ahmet Boyacioglu will come to an end on September 2. time in Ufa, the capital city of the Republic their sojourn in Moscow. made for the play during an exhibition organized on the sidelines of the performance. Dumbo flies off for $483,000 in $8.3 Museum a fitting host for Aretha million Disneyland auction Franklin’s public viewings IRIB productions competing LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — An auction DETROIT (AP) — Thousands are expected to for ABU awards 2018 of Disneyland theme park vehicles, props pour into Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum and artifacts that turned into a Los Angeles of African American History today to pay their ARTTEHRAN – Four productions from Islamic desk attraction in its own right raised more than final respects to Aretha Franklin. Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) have been $8.3 million, organizers said on Monday. The setting for the public viewings could nominated for the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) awards. An original Dumbo the Flying Elephant not be more fitting, according to Paula Marie Radio programs “Metamorphosis”, “Plants Suffer from Pain ride car sold for $483,000 - more than four Seniors, an associate professor of Africana Too” and “Turquoise Man” will be competing with finalists from times the pre-sale estimate - while magician studies at Virginia Tech. China, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Indian, Malaysia and David Copperfield nabbed a neon letter D “I think it’s incredibly significant — she several other countries. from the Disneyland hotel for $86,250, is being honored almost like a queen at one auctioneers Van Eaton Galleries said. of the most important black museums in the The 900-item collection was so vast United States,” said Seniors, who visited the that organizers and collector Richard museum several years ago when she was in An original Dumbo the Flying Elephant Kraft staged a “That’s From Disneyland” Detroit doing research. In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, Aretha ride car from an auction of Disneyland public exhibit for the month of August in The Queen of Soul, Seniors said, was “a Franklin sings during the funeral for civil theme park vehicles, props and artifacts a former sporting goods store in suburban singer of the universe.” Yet she added that rights pioneer Rosa Parks at the Greater is shown in this undated image from Van Los Angeles that was visited by tens of Franklin, who died Aug. 16 of pancreatic cancer Grace Temple in Detroit. Franklin died Eaton Galleries in Sherman Oaks, Cal- thousands of people. One couple even got at the age of 76, also was “so unapologetically Aug. 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer at the ifornia, U.S., released August 27, 2018. married there. black — she was so proud of being a black age of 76. (AP/Carlos Osorio) (Courtesy Van Eaton Galleries/Handout Kraft, a Hollywood agent, began woman.” Culture opened in Washington, D.C., in 2016, via Reuters) collecting 25 years ago spurred by nostalgia To be sure, Franklin didn’t consider herself also hosted similar viewings for civil rights icon for his visits with his late brother to Jose, an animatronic bird from the Tiki a catalyst for the women’s movement or on the Rosa Parks after her 2005 death. In further Disneyland in southern California. He Room, sold for $425,000 and the auction front lines of the fight for civil rights. But she symbolic symmetry, Franklin sang at Parks’ kept many of the items, including the shattered several records for Disneyland represented and pushed for both in ways big funeral, which was held at the same Detroit Dumbo car, in his own home. posters and theme park signs. A Skyway and small — none, perhaps, more prominently church as Franklin’s, and the singer will be gondola original vehicle from the 1950s, entombed in the same cemetery as Parks. A poster for the documentary “Alexander” by Ali Shahabi “When I finally decided to let it go it or simultaneously as her mold-breaking take became much more about throwing a grand which sold for $621,000, set a new auction on the Otis Redding song, “Respect.” She later The women came to their activism from The documentary “Alexander” by Ali Shahabi has also nominated Bon Voyage party to those magical artifacts record for a Disneyland ride, Van Eaton said that with her interpretation — which even different places and used different techniques, for the award. than about making projections about their Galleries said. Redding acknowledged became the standard but “in the long run, they were both fighting The ABU Prizes 2018 award ceremony will take place in worth,” Kraft said in a statement after the Kraft said he will donate a portion of the — sought to convey a message about the need for the same cause, which is freedom,” Seniors Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on October 4. two-day sale at the weekend. proceeds to two organizations benefiting to respect women, people of color, children said. “I’m still in a state of shock that Dumbo, children who, like his 4-year-old daughter and all people. Seniors said if she could attend the Jose the talking parrot and trash cans from Daisy, suffer from the rare genetic disorder The museum, which had been the largest viewings, she would bring her 8-year-old Alice Paul Tapper, daughter of Disneyland could make me feel as if I won Coffin-Siris Syndrome, and other special black museum in the U.S. until the National daughter, Shakeila, who has sung along with Jake, has picture book coming the lottery,” he added. needs. Museum of African American History and Franklin’s videos.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jake Tapper isn’t the only author in his family. The CNN anchor’s daughter Tony award-winning U.S. playwright Neil Simon dies at 91 has a picture book coming in NEW YORK (Reuters) — U.S. playwright Coast, Simon’s works played to packed houses “... My idea of the ultimate achievement in March, Penguin Young Readers Neil Simon, who became one of Broadway’s most around the world. a comedy is to make a whole audience fall onto announced. prolific and popular playwrights as he combined He won Tony Awards for “The Odd Couple”, the floor, writhing and laughing so hard that Alice Paul Tapper, who turned humor, drama and introspection in works such “Biloxi Blues” and “Lost in Yonkers” and a fourth some of them pass out.” 11 on Monday, has collaborated as “The Odd Couple”, “The Goodbye Girl” and for his overall contribution to American theater. Simon’s plays made him a wealthy man and with illustrator Marta Kissi on “Lost in Yonkers”, died on Sunday at the age of He was nominated for 13 other Tonys. many were turned into films, which made him “Raise Your Hand.” The book 91, his representatives said. “Lost in Yonkers” (1990), a painfully funny even wealthier and earned him four Academy originates from an idea Alice and Simon died at New York-Presbyterian Hos- story about the relationship between an abusive Award nominations. Among his works appearing fellow Girl Scouts developed af- pital in New York City of complications from mother and her grown children, also won the on movie screens were “Barefoot in the Park”, ter Alice noticed that on a school pneumonia, Broadway theater representatives Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1991. “Plaza Suite”, “Brighton Beach Memoirs”, trip the boys spoke up and girls DKC/O&M said in a statement on Sunday. Si- Simon’s childhood was marred by the breakup “Biloxi Blues” and “Broadway Bound”. “The remained quiet. Girl Scouts can mon was admitted to the hospital a few days ago Playwright Neil Simon arrives for a pro- of his parents. At first he was reluctant to draw Odd Couple” was even made into a successful receive a “Raise Your Hand” patch and the pneumonia was in his lungs, Simon’s gram honoring him as the 2006 Mark Twain on that pain, fearing it would make his plays television sitcom. by promising to raise their hands longtime publicist Bill Evans said in a Sunday Prize recipient at the Kennedy Center in too dark. Early Simon works were sometimes deemed in class and get at least three oth- phone interview. Evans said he gave Simon a Washington October 15, 2006. (Reuters/ Later in his career he would use his own too sentimental or commercial by critics but as ers to do the same. kidney in 2004. Jonathan Ernst) painful experiences, such as in the semi-bio- his career entered its third decade, the plays This combination of photos re- Tapper, whose father contrib- “It was wonderful to be in his life and for plays that were funny, moving and immensely graphical “Brighton Beach Memoirs”, to give grew more serious, more mature. Frank Rich leased by Penguin Young Readers utes “spot illustrations,” said in him to be in my life,” Evans said, calling Simon popular - sometimes shifting from slapstick to his work more depth. of the New York Times wrote of “Biloxi Blues” shows Alice Paul Tapper, who au- a statement that she hoped her a major figure in American culture. “It has been melodrama with the turn of a phrase. But being entertaining was his primary goal. (1985) that Simon “at last begins to examine thored the children’s book, “Raise book would inspire girls “to be so great to be part of all of it.” At one point he had a record four plays run- “When I was a kid, I climbed up on a stone himself honestly, without compromises, and as Your Hand.” The book, illustrated bold and brave.” A new Simon play almost every theatrical ning simultaneously on Broadway. ledge to watch an outdoor movie of Charlie a result is his most persuasively serious effort.” by Marta Kissi, will be released Jake Tapper’s books include season was a Broadway staple from 1960 through Simon was called “not just a show business Chaplin,” Simon once told Life magazine. “I Marvin Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, next March. (Penguin Young the best-selling thriller “The Hell- the mid-1990s, placing him in the ranks of Amer- success but an institution” by one New York critic. laughed so hard I fell off, cut my head open and in the New York City borough of the Bronx, son of Readers via AP) fire Club.” ica’s top playwrights. He wrote more than 40 While his voice and comedy were decidedly East was taken to the doctor, bleeding and laughing. Irving, a garment salesman, and Mamie Simon.