WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13318 Wednesday JANUARY 30, 2019 Bahman 10, 1397 Jumada Al Awwal 23, 1440 Our defense doctrine is Europe has remained Qatar down the UAE Austrian-Iranian Symphonic to keep range of missiles in nuclear deal for its to secure a place in Orchestra to perform to 2000km 2 own benefits 2 Asian Cup final 15 at Fajr music festival 16 Araqchi says if JCPOA falls out of balance grave fallouts will ensue VP: West should thank POLITICS TEHRAN — Iran’s eign Affairs Committee of the National deskDeputy Foreign Min- Council of Austria. ister Abbas Araqchi has said the United Araqchi also thanked Austria for States does not understand the situation its constructive position towards the in the Middle East, warning if the Iran implementation of the Joint Compre- forerunners in terror fight nuclear deal falls flat, it will cause severe hensive Plan of Action (the official consequences. name for the nuclear deal), but rapped 4 He made the remarks on Tuesday the European Union for delaying its Iran, Syria ink 11 long-term strategic co-op agreements in a meeting in Vienna with Andreas actions to save the deal in face of exit Schieder, the chairperson of the For- from the deal. 2 See page 2 Iran jumps to 47th in Bloomberg Innovation Index 2019 TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — Iran has report data for at least six categories were deskmoved up two points eliminated, trimming the total list to 95. to 47th place on Bloomberg Innovation Bloomberg publishes the top 60 economies. Index 2019 report which was published Iran ranks 13 in Patent index. Its on January 22. Tertiary Efficiency is 23 and its rank in With the score of 52.06 out of 100, Iran both Manufacturing Value-Added and claimed 47th place among 60 economies. Productivity indexes is 48. The 2019 ranking process began with For its high-tech density, Iran stood more than 200 economies. Each was scored at 40th place. Iran’s rank for researcher on a 0-100 scale based on seven equally concentration is 53 and for R&D intensity weighted categories. Nations that didn’t is 60. 10 Palestinian prime minister, government step down Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Ham- Wafa reported that 60-year-old Ham- dallah has officially submitted his resig- dallah tendered his resignation on Tues- nation and that of his unity government day, but the government will continue to President Mahmoud Abbas, casting to carry out its duties until a new one doubt on the prospects of reconciliation is formed. efforts with the Islamic resistance move- Hamdallah expressed hope that con- EPA-EFE ment, Hamas. sultations to establish a new government Palestine’s official news agency will bear fruit as soon as possible. Iranian Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri (L) held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Tuesday, 29 January 2019. 13 EDITORIAL Netanyahu’s reaction to Nasrallah’s remarks to serve his election campaign: al-Zahar ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi Maryam Qarehgozlou the message that Netanyahu has to receive is operation has destroyed Hezbollah tunnels in Tehran Times editor-in-chief By Mohammad Fatemizadeh Head of the Tehran Times to consider these variables and not to make a the north. @ghaderi62 TEHRAN (MNA) — A senior Hamas member, Social Desk Mahmoud al-Zahar, told MNA that if all the mistake in its assement, which could lead to To shed further light on this, Mehr News countries and powers occupied by the Israelis war in the region. conducted an interview with Mahmoud al-Za- Paris is completing regime come together, a so-called ‘Last Battle’ On the other hand, Israel’s Prime Minister har, co-founder of Hamas and a member of the The generous sky has will take place, which will put an end to the Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hassan Nasrallah’s Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip, which is the U.S. puzzle regime. remarks, claiming Hezbollah was anxious and as follows: opened; is the dry Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan very confused. In the past few days, Sayyed Hassan Nas- against Iran Nasrallah said in a televised interview with According to Israeli media, Netanyahu said at rallah broke his media silence after two months spell over in Iran? Lebanese Al Mayadeen TV on Saturday that a cabinet meeting that Hezbollah’s leader broke and took positions on the developments in the lthough the French government at any moment a decision could be taken in his silence during a televised speech, because region with special Zionist threats. What impact ince the beginning of autumn Iran has insists on showing itself in this Syria by Syrian leaders and the Resistance axis this ‘militia’ faces financial pressure from U.S. did his recent remarks have on deterrence of the seen a great increase in precipitation Aequation as an independent ac- to confront the Israeli aggressions. In short, sanctions against Iran and that the recent Israeli Israeli regime’s authorities? 7 Samounts but endless speculations tor, the particular insistence of Paris are running rampant as to whether the to oppose Iran’s missile program is in dry spell is over in the country or not. line with the interests of the Trump The data released on Monday by the government. ‘The most influential intolerant governments of the 20th century were atheist’ National Drought Warning and Monitor- In September(2017) and during EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW as proofs which reveal contradictions and infir- general features of the world observable by an- ing Center stated that the whole country the United Nations General Assembly By Mohammad Mazhari mities of “Theism”. yone to the existence of God. I understand by received 120.2 millimeters of rain since in New York, extensive talks were However, some philosophers of religions such God “a person without a body, who is necessarily the beginning of autumn which almost held between U.S., British and French TEHRAN — Over centuries, existence of God as Professor Richard Swinburne, try to provide eternal, perfectly free, omnipotent, omniscient, triples last year’s precipitation and also officials over the Joint Comprehen- has attracted attention of philosophers and has answers to these questions by forming a cumulative perfectly good, and is the creator of all things” I indicate a 17-millimeter increase compared sive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Britain, as well formed a diverse family of arguments argument for the existence of God emphasiz- call this doctrine “theism”; and I regard theism to long-term averages. Except for provinces as the United States traditional ally, extending from some feature of morality or ing that existence of consciousness -regardless as the core belief of the creeds of Christianity, of Fars, Hormozgan, Sistan and Baluch- and France as a permanent member the moral life to the existence of God, usu- of its material or immaterial nature- shows a Judaism, and Islam. Only on three pages of a estan, Kerman, Yazd, South Khorasan and of the UN Security Council, had a ally understood as a morally good creator of Purposeful design. later chapter of this book do I allude to histor- Ardebil all other provinces nationwide perfect deal with Washington in the universe. It has such a key role in human In this regard, Professor Richard Swinburne ical evidence favoring a specifically Christian have experienced a rise in precipitation this regard. thought that opposing debates and arguments says to Tehran Times that scientific and material- doctrine. The two other books of the trilogy of amounts from September 23 to January Although Paris and London have have been continuing until now. istic approaches are not able to discover nature of which The Existence of God is the second vol- 28 compared to long-term precipitation repeatedly voiced their opposition to One famous argument against “Theism” is human consciousness in order to give reasonable ume, are also almost entirely concerned merely mean in the corresponding period. the withdrawal of the United States “problem of evil” which tries to question main and simple explanations. What follows is the full with theism. The first volume, The Coherence The data also shows that provinces of Ilam from the JCPOA and called for respect- monotheistic religions as how God could allow text of the interview with Richard Swinburne: of Theism, spells out in detail the nature of the with 506.9 millimeters of rain, Gilan with 479.4 ing the nuclear deal, in practice, we humans to do evil and to suffer. Which religions have impressed you in divine properties, for example it analyses what millimeters of rain, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer see France and Britain cooperation Critics of “Theism” claim that if God is om- your researches and works particularly “The it is for God to be omnipotent or omniscient; and Ahmad with 456.9 millimeters of rain all set with the U.S. against Iran. nipotent and omniscient, so he must be able to existence of God”? Or are your arguments just the third volume, Faith and Reason, considers records high in the amount of precipitation In this equation, France plays an prevent catastrophes while the world is replete dependent on Christian theology? the relevance of arguments for the existence of they received in the same period. important role. A review over the posi- with recurring evils. They take these examples A: The Existence of God argues from the most God to the practice of religious faith. 7 The numbers appear to be in favor of tions of the French President indicates Iran and it seems that the dry spell is over, the same point.