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16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.12632 Wednesday AUGUST 24, 2016 Shahrivar 3, 1395 Dhi Al Qaeda 21, 1437 Tehran-Moscow Cuba sees Iran ties beyond counterterrorism Govt. renews loyalty to Imam Khomeini, an important campaign: economic Shamkhani insists on resistance economy partner ‘Iran-Russia-Syria triangle has grounded POLITICS TEHRAN — President Has- founder of the Islamic Republic. held for renewing allegiance to Imam Khomeini. ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran desksan Rouhani said on Tuesday “Today, the government seeks to prove that He said that Imam Khomeini showed the deskis a significant eco- the U.S. in Syria’ that his government’s will and determination the path of Imam can help the people achieve path of managing the Islamic government in nomic partner for Cuba and economic is to follow the path of Imam Khomeini, the their goals and victory,” he said at a ceremony the complicated contemporary world. ties should be expanded between the POLITICS TEHRAN — The two countries, said Cuban Minister of desk Supreme National See page 2 Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Security Council (SNSC) Secretary has Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz. characterized relations between Teh- He made the remarks in the in- ran and Moscow as one much beyond augural ceremony of Iran-Cuba Eco- the counterterrorism campaign, wide nomic Forum in Havana on Monday, enough to cover other areas, as well. IRNA reported. “Relations between Iran and Russia “We should also take advantage of which benefit the national interests of Iran’s potentiality for our presence in both and are within a strategic frame- the Asian markets,” the minister further work are not limited to fighting ter- noted. rorism only and include wider dimen- Iranian Foreign Minister Moham- sions,” ISNA quoted Ali Shamkhani as mad Javad Zarif began his first Latin having said on Tuesday. American visit Monday in Havana, Providing crucial military backup to where he met with Foreign Minister President Bashar al-Assad against the Bruno Rodriguez in an effort to im- foreign-backed militancy, Tehran and prove bilateral economic relations, Fox Moscow have solidified their alliance News reported. with Tehran allowing Russian fighters “Your visit expresses the high level and bombers flying from an air base of our bilateral relations,” the Cuban in western Iran to conduct airstrikes in foreign minister said. Syria. Zarif continued his tour with arriv- Last week, long-range Russian Tu- ing in Nicaragua on Tuesday. Ecuador, polev-22M3 bombers and Sukhoi-34 Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela will be his fighter bombers took off from Nojeh next destinations.

air base in Iran to launch air strikes Majid Haghdoust On his Latin American tour, the Ira- against armed groups in Syria, a move nian foreign minister is being accom- Shamkhani described as “strategic,” panied by 120 businessmen seeking under which the two “share their fa- investment and cooperation oppor- cilities and capacities” in their fight on tunities to boost several Iranian indus- terrorism. 2 Times/ Tehran tries, especially the oil industry.

Iranian Artists Six-monthly report on JCPOA drafted: MP Moscow in talks Forum to review with Tehran POLITICS TEHRAN — Hossein Naghavi Hosseini told Mehr news agency. Peter Brook’s films deskNaghavi Hosseini, spokes- The sanctions, fulfillment of the commit- over sale of man for the Iranian Parliament Nation- ments by Iran and the 5+1 group, and viola- light choppers: ARTTEHRAN — Five al Security and Foreign Policy Committee, tions of the JCPOA during the implementation desk movies by the said on Tuesday that the framework for the process are the most important parts of the Russian official prominent English theater and film six-monthly report on the implementation of report, he explained. director Peter Brook will be reviewed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action has Iran and the 5+1 group (the United States, Russia’s Helicopters Company is in at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran been devised. Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany) talks with Iran over sale of its new during a six-day program, which will “The general framework of the report, the - finalized the text of the JCPOA in Vienna on Ansat and Kamov KA-226T ambulance begin this evening. introduction to it, and its topics have been set,” July 2015. The deal took effect in January 2016. helicopters, the company’s deputy CEO said Tuesday. “Russian Helicopters conducts nego- Cesarean delivery down 7% in 2 years: health minister tiations on the supply of the Ansat and Ka-226T light helicopters for the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Edu- SOCIETY TEHRAN — The rate of ce- he explained. desk cation,” Alexander Shcherbinin said as sarean delivery operation has Some 6,000 specialist are now working cited by the Tass news agency. He add- decreased by seven percent in Iran since the in underprivileged areas of the country, ed, “In addition to the delivery of the enactment of the healthcare reform plan on he said, adding, ensuring fairness in giv- helicopters, the issue of organizing their May 4, 2014, Health Minister Hassan Qaziza- ing healthcare services to all the people, assembly in Iran is being considered. deh-Hashemi said on Monday. increasing the quality of the services and According to our estimates, Iran needs Promoting natural birth is one of the ob- supporting the patients financially are of about 60 Russian light helicopters.” “Moderato Cantabile” (1960), jectives of Iran’s healthcare reform plan which the main objectives of Iran’s healthcare re- Ansat is a lightweight twin-engine “Lord of the Flies” (1963), “King proved to be successful, Qazizadeh-Hashemi form plan. multipurpose 7-9 seats helicopter put Lear” (1971), “The Mahabharata” noted, Tasnim reported. The healthcare reform plan aim at decreas- into series production in 2013. Ansat (1989) and “The Tragedy of Ham- Setting up 21 air medical units nation- ing the out-of-pocket expenses for the patients, model with the medical module under- let” (2002) will be screened during wide, producing 70 percent of the drugs medical equipment by 42 percent since the promoting natural birth, and supporting un- went certification in 2015. Equipment the program. domestically, building some 5,000 hospital beginning of the current administration are derprivileged patients suffering from rare or on board of the helicopter makes pos- “King Lear” will be reviewed by beds annually, and decreasing the costs of of the Heath Ministry’s achievement so far, incurable diseases. sible to evacuate one injured person in filmmaker Mohammadreza Aslani and a grave or extremely grave condition translator Sudabeh Fazaeli, who is also and perform intensive care in flight. an expert on English literature, today Iran’s non-oil trade exceeds $35.8b in 5 months The Kamov Ka-226 is also a small, at 5:30 p.m. while “Moderato Cantabi- twin-engine Russian utility helicopter. le” will be discussed by Saeid Nuri on ECONOMY TEHRAN — same period in the previous year. spectively. Iran’s non-oil trade hit $83 bil- The Ka-226 features an interchange- Thursday. deskIran’s non-oil Meanwhile, $16.709 billion of non- China topped the list of Irani- lion in the past Iranian calendar able mission pod, rather than a con- The review session for “The Ma- trade during the first five months oil goods were imported, showing an non-oil goods importers with year, which ended on March 19, ventional cabin, allowing the use of habharata” has been set for Friday. of the current Iranian calendar 2.85 percent decline year on year. $3.405 billion of import. The Unit- 2016. various accommodation or equipment Mohsen Azarm will conduct the year (March 20-August 21, 2016) Main exported items includ- ed Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey and Iran exported $42.415 billion configurations. The Ka-226 entered review session for “Lord of the Flies” amounted to $35.817 billion, ac- ed gas condensate, worth $3.27 South Korea ranked next. of non-oil goods while imported service in 2002. on Saturday and Ramtin Shahbazi will cording to the Iran Customs Ad- billion, and liquefied gas, worth Meanwhile, China was the lead- $41.499 billion of non-oil goods, Tehran and Moscow have sought to assess “The Tragedy of Hamlet” on ministration. $1.94 billion. ing exporter of non-oil goods to showing 16.11 percent decrease in enhance their trade ties in the past few Sunday. The country’s non-oil exports Rice and corn were the two Iran with $3.863 billion of export. exports and 22.53 percent decline years. Back in November 2015, Russia’s In addition, the Iranian Artists Fo- totaled $19.108 billion, a 10.22 main imported items, valued at The United Arab Emirates, South in imports when compared to its Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin rum in collaboration with Tehran’s percent rise compared to the $476 million and $417 million re- Korea, and Turkey ranked next. previous year. said Tehran and Moscow are resolved Book House will organize a review for to increase the volume of their trade to Brook’s writing oeuvre on Monday. $3-4 billion in 3 years. (Source: Tasnim) The Tehran Times new pocket-sized glossary is now available on the market. The Learn English reader-friendly is a rich source of the most common journalistic terminology TEHRAN TIMES collected by the daily’s retired staff. Iran’s Leading International Daily Learn English with us at It can benefit a wide range of tastes from students to professional journalists. 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Mevlut Cavusoglu’s surprise visit to Teh- Lately, Turkey has appeared increasingly POLITICS TEHRAN — “I cried when I ran, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hos- open to a peaceful solution to the Syrian deskheard a report about the cyber- sein Jaberi Ansari sat down with his Turk- crisis, weeks after President Erdogan paid a space and the status of the youth amid the anti-cul- ish counterpart Omid Yalcin in Ankara in formal visit to Russia, ushering in a thaw in tural onslaught,” Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi a bid to forge a closer understanding on turbulent relations between the two coun- told ICT Minister Mahmud Vaezi in a meeting in the future of Syria. tries after a Russian fighter was down by the Qum on Tuesday. Nothing has been revealed on the Turkish air force in November 2015. “It is necessary to create a national informa- content of the meeting. “Turning a new page in Syria without tion network on the cyberspace,” the senior cleric The meeting comes after Iranian For- losing time is vital with a model in which stressed, Mehr reported. eign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Iran, Russia, United States and even some “People nowadays can join Telegram and pro- held key talks with Turkish President Re- Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia vide it with their personal information. Accessing cep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister play role. We have expressed the most the information, Telegram will be able to render Binali Yildirim in Ankara on August 12, current information and works on the is- many events, such as the enemy did in the 2009 pledging to fight terrorism. sue [with the opposition leaders,]” Yildirim sedition by enforcing people with their objections.” Writing on his telegram, Jaberi Ansari told reporters, speaking after the cabinet said negotiations with Yalcin “lasted for four meeting in the capital Ankara on August hours”. 23, according to Hürriyet Daily News. Security forces The meeting also comes one week af- The premier also said the formation ter Jaberi Ansari’s meeting with his Russian of a government that would represent all arrest, summon 450 counterpart Mikhail Bogdanov in Tehran, Syrians as it was before the civil war was social page where they hoped intensive negotiations Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari key to the future of Syria. administrators POLITICS TEHRAN — Iran’s security forc- deskes have arrested or summoned Russian use of air base drives wedge among MPs, Majlis and defense ministry some 450 administrators of social web pages, Ger- dab website reported on Tuesday. POLITICS TEHRAN – Russia’s use of an air base mentary security body, said that the Supreme National The administrators’ activities included ethical deskin Iran to launch airstrikes on terrorist Security Council had approved the Russian use of the issues, illegal modeling, or slandering people’s reli- strongholds in Syria has resulted in what it seems to be base in Hamadan. “It does not contradict the Constitu- gious beliefs, the report said. an ‘authority debate’ among the parliament and defense tion because the Hamadan air base has neither become The people used to work in social media such ministry. Russia’s air base nor have the fighter jets been stationed as Telegram, WhatsApp, or Instagram, the report Last week a squadron of Russian Tupolev-22M3 there,” Boroujerdi remarked. said, adding they had “targeted the foundation of bombers and Sukhoi-34 fighter bombers took off from He also said the Nojeh air base serves only to accom- the family.” the Nojeh air base in Hamadan, western Iran, to conduct modate Russian bombers for refueling. operations in Syria. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani also dismissed the The deployment made Russia the first foreign power criticism, saying, “Under Article 146 of the Constitution, Big deeds find since World War Two using the Iranian soil against ene- the establishment of any foreign military base inside the enemies, Hassan mies in a third country. country is forbidden, and it is worth mentioning that Iran Disagreements surfaced over the issue as the Russian has not given such a base to any country.” Khomeini tells defense ministry formally confirmed the cooperation, Also, Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan rejected the government just to be objected to by some Iranian parliamentarians. debate, considering it out of the parliament’s discretion The most vehement criticism was levelled by parlia- to enter into the debate, to which Larijani responded. Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan TEHRAN — Great achievements POLITICS mentarian Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh who said it had “I should remind the defense minister that he did not Reportedly, the parliament had demanded an ap- deskalways find enemies, Hassan breached Article 146 of the Constitution. talk about the Majlis (parliament) the right way and he’d proval by the body before the decision has been taken. Khomeini told the government cabinet members as “The establishment of any type of [foreign] military better observe the etiquette in such issues.” In reply, Dehqan wrote to Larijani, explaining that he they visited Imam Khomeini’s holy shrine on Tues- base in the country, even for peaceful purposes, is for- had not meant to play down the status of the parliament. day on the first day of the Government Week. bidden,” he said. “I did not mean to play down the prestige and status “Be the man of the battleground and pay for While Article 146 allows no Article 146 of the Constitution forbids “the establish- of either the Majlis or the representatives. I meant taking your deeds,” he told President Hassan Rouhani ment of any kind of foreign military base in Iran, even for permanent or temporary the decision would not need a ratification by the Majlis. and his ministers and deputies, Jamaran website peaceful purposes.” establishment of military bases The disagreements have to do more with dif- reported. The member of the parliamentary National Security in the Iranian territory, it allows ferent possible interpretations of the constitutional and Foreign Policy Committee also appeared tough on for deployment of foreign article, which distinguishes deployment from estab- the collaboration, warning that Moscow has a “turbulent lishment. foreign policy” and its own “strategic and foreign policy forces depending on approval While Article 146 allows no permanent or temporary Yemeni negotiator considerations.” of the SNSC, giving the leeway establishment of military bases in the Iranian territory, it lauds Iran’s backing The remarks drew reactions from top lawmakers and to the body to act differently allows for deployment of foreign forces depending on the defense minister. approval of the SNSC, giving the leeway to the body to for Supreme Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of the parlia- just in case. act differently just in case. Political Council POLITICS TEHRAN — Head of a Yemeni del- deskegation in UN-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait has praised Iran for endorsing the es- Govt. renews loyalty to Imam Khomeini, insists on tablishment of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council. Speaking to Tasnim on Tuesday, Mohammad resistance economy Abdul-Salam, spokesman for the Ansarullah move- ment and head of Yemen’s delegation in the Kuwait 1 He also said all the sanctions have Iran and the 5+1 group - the United Council turned the JCPOA into an inter- negotiations, stressed the need for a political solu- Rouhani also said that the government been annulled and the “walls of sanc- States, Britain, France, China and Rus- national law by endorsing a resolution, tion to the conflicts in Yemen. seeks to implement policies of the resist- tions” against Iran been “demolished”. sia plus Germany - finalized the text of setting the stage for the lifting of the Se- He called for efforts to organize “national insti- ance economy and take actions in line with “Today, the path to do economic ac- the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action curity Council sanctions against Iran. tutions” to address the humanitarian and economic improving economy and solve economic tivities is ready and the government, un- (JCPOA) in Vienna on 14 July 2015. The nuclear agreement went into ef- challenges caused by enemies and their mercenaries. problems such as unemployment. doubtedly, will achieve its goals.” On 20 July 2015, the UN Security fect in January 2016.

Iranian envoy, Tehran-Moscow ties beyond Russia says future use of Iran air base Turkish CHP chief hold talks counterterrorism campaign: Shamkhani depends on Syria circumstances

POLITICS TEHRAN — The Iranian Am- deskbassador to Ankara, Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian, and Turkish Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu held talks on Monday on a range of issues, including ways to boost relations between the two neighboring countries. The Iranian diplomat pointed to a recent failed coup attempt in Turkey and congratulated the Turk- ish people on their victory against the coup plot- ters, Fars reported.Kilicdaroglu said his party is keen to enhance ties between the two sides.

Some MPs to sue government over 1 decisive blows from air and ground on Staff & agencies quoted Konashenkov as saying. new oil contract The former Iranian defense minister takfiri terrorists in Syria,” Shamkhani ex- Major-General Igor Konashenkov, a Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman model saw the alliance as a counterbalance plained. Russian Defence Ministry spokesman, Bahram Qassemi said on Monday that against Washington delaying game in Over the past months, the Syrian said in a statement that Russian aircraft Russia has now stopped using the air base. POLITICS TEHRAN — A number of Ira- Syria to have the final say. army has been gaining ground with operating from an Iranian air base to “Now, the deployment is tempo- desknian MPs have decided to sue “Close coordination among Iran, Aleppo becoming the focus of fighting, conduct strikes in Syria had completed rarily finished and Russia’s use of the the government before the Court of Administra- Syria, and Russia in conducting re- now a battlefield fought by a number their tasks, but left open the possibility base has ended,” Qassemi said, adding, tive Justice for the newly introduced Iran Petroleum cent operations against takfiri ter- of groups. It has left thousands of civil- of using the Hamadan base again if cir- “Russia has no base in Iran.” Contract (IPC) model, SHANA reported on Tuesday. rorists in Syria came as a blow to ians and non-civilians killed and thou- cumstances warranted. Last week long-range Russian Tu- Announcing the news, MP Hosseinali Haji-De- the U.S.’s delaying strategy to im- sands more injured. “Further use of the Hamadan air base polev-22M3 bombers and Sukhoi-34 ligani said the decision was made after the law- pose its will in security equations in Shamkhani expressed hope for in the Islamic Republic of Iran by the fighter bombers used the air base to makers were disappointed with the approval of the Syria,” he said. an end to the atrocities after Tehran Russian Aerospace Forces will be carried launch air strikes against Daesh and IPC model by a parliamentary group in charge of Contrary to what the U.S. and its took the initiative to play a more di- out on the basis of mutual agreements al-Nusra strongholds in Syria. verifying new legislations against the Constitution. allies would expect, the tripartite front rect role by leaving its air base open to fight terrorism and depending on the This was the first time a foreign power has proven very effective by “inflicting to Russia. prevailing circumstances in Syria,” Reuters used an Iranian base since World War II. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

http://www.tehrantimes.com/international AAUGUSTUGUST 24,24, 20162016 INTERNATIONAL 3 Boko Haram: ‘Senior fighters killed’ Syrian government, Kurds in Nigeria raid reach truce in Hassakeh The leader of the Boko Haram group is be- Syrian state media says a cease-fire between government lieved to be fatally wounded in an air strike and Kurdish forces in Hasakeh has gone into effect, six days carried out by the Nigerian military in the after fierce clashes erupted between the two sides over con- country’s northeast, according to a news-me- trol of the northern Syrian city. dia report citing senior official sources. It says the cease-fire went into effect at 2 p.m. (1100 GMT) The report said a number of fighters on Tuesday. were targeted last week in the Sambisa The Kurdish Hawar News Agency says government forc- Forest near Gambaru in Borno state, near es and pro-government militias have agreed to withdraw the border with Cameroon. from Hassakeh and leave it in under the control of the local “Their leader, so-called ‘Abubakar Kurdish police force, the Asayish, as part of the terms of the Shekau’, is believed to be fatally wound- cease-fire. ed on his shoulders,” said the statement The statement from Syrian state media does not mention released on Tuesday by Colonel Sani any withdrawals. It says the two sides had agreed to evacuate Kukasheka Usman, army spokesman. the injured and exchange detainees. Usman also said three Boko Haram Government and Kurdish forces have shared control of commanders - Abubakar Mubi, Malam Hassakeh since the early years of the Syrian war. Nuhu and Malam Hamman - were con- (Source: AP) firmed dead and several others wounded. There was no immediate reaction from Boko Haram to the government’s claims. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris, report- Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar ing from Abuja, said the air strike was launched when fighters had gathered for escalate Syria war by backing “some sort of a ceremony”. militants: Syria UN envoy “The attack happened on Friday on Shekau’s camp. We know that the Chi- to focus on the fight against Boko Haram, Barnawi’s appointment was announced The Nigerian military has reported Syria’s envoy to the United Nations says the House of Saud bok girls are held at the Shekau camp. which launched an uprising in 2009. in a magazine issued by the Islamic State Shekau’s death in the past, only to have regime, Turkey, and Qatar provide financial and military sup- Nigeria’s army says it is doing everything In recent months, Nigerian forces, in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist a man purporting to be him surface later, port for the Takfiri militant groups in his country. possible to rescue them.” with the support of regional troops, have group, to which Boko Haram pledged alle- apparently unharmed, in video statements. Speaking at a press conference in New York on Monday, The group kidnapped 270 schoolgirls in recaptured large expanses of territory giance in March last year. Boko Haram, which seeks to impose a Bashar al-Jaafari said that the governments in Riyadh, Ankara April 2014 and security sources believe it is lost to the fighters. But only a week later, Shekau surfaced strict Islamic law in Nigeria’s mainly Mus- and Doha claim to be supporting the Syrian people even as holding some of them in Sambisa forest. Shekau’s fate has been the subject of in a video posted on social media, ridi- lim north, has killed about 20,000 people they escalate the violent conflict in Syria. The Nigerian claim comes as John speculation recently amid claims he had culing suggestions of his death and look- and forced at least 2.6 million others to The senior Syrian diplomat said the severe financial sanc- Kerry, the United States secretary of been replaced by Sheikh Abu Musab ing more composed and energetic than flee their homes since 2009. tions imposed on Syria have gravely affected all economic state, visits the country for talks expected al-Barnawi, the group’s former spokesman. in previous appearances. (Source: Al Jazeera) sectors and households, and the ongoing airstrikes by the United States-led military coalitions against purported Islam- ic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) positions have France: Nicolas Sarkozy to run for president again incurred more than one billion dollars in damage to civilian infrastructure in the country. Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a bid to win back the ranks. Jaafari said the aircraft belonging to the U.S.-led coalition French presidency, announcing he will seek his party’s His chief rival, Alain Juppe, the former premier and bombed and destroyed the 1,000-megawatt thermal plant in nomination to run in next year’s election. Bordeaux mayor, is seen as a moderate and is the fa- the strategic northwestern city of Aleppo, located 355 kilom- The 61-year-old conservative’s plan became appar- vorite to win the party’s nod. eters (220 miles) north of the capital, Damascus, last October. ent on Monday. But Juppe’s lead in opinion polls has shrunk in recent The Syrian UN ambassador went on to say that for- “I have decided to be a candidate in the 2017 presi- weeks as Sarkozy steps up his rhetoric on conservative eign-sponsored Takfiri terrorist groups started destroying dential election,” Sarkozy wrote in a new book, Tout pour Muslims and immigration following the July 14 lorry at- historical monuments and looting factories and industrial la France (All for France), due out this week. tack in Nice. workshops in Aleppo one and a half years after the outbreak “France demands that you give her your all. I feel I Sarkozy has already won the support of a Republican of the Syrian crisis, and continue to target residential neigh- have the strength to lead the fight at such a turbulent heavyweight, Christian Estrosi, who is president of the borhoods with mortar shells and rockets. moment in our history,” he wrote in an extract seen southern region that includes Marseille. Jaafari further condemned attempts by some internation- by AFP news agency, alluding to the attacks that have “He is the best candidate,” Estrosi told the Journal de al parties to conceal the atrocities being committed by ter- rocked the country since January 2015. Dimanche. rorist outfits in Syria. “The next five years will be filled with danger but also of family members to join a migrating relative in France. If Sarkozy wins, he could face a rematch against Hollande, Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since with hope.” “The big problem with our immigration policy is firstly who has said he too has the “desire” for a second term. March 2011. UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura In 2012, Sarkozy ended a five-year term mired in un- that of numbers,” he said. But opinion polls overwhelmingly show the French estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the popularity, had made no secret of his ambition to recon- Sarkozy’s announcement coincides with a resurgent wanting neither man as their leader. conflict. quer the top office. debate on the place of Islam in French society, encapsu- Hollande has even surpassed Sarkozy to become the Back in 2014, the UN said it would no more update its ------Major challenges lated in the row over the Islamic burkini swimsuit. most unpopular president in post-war France. official death toll for Syria. Sarkozy’s aides told AFP he was expected to step He said France’s “principal battle” was over how “to Sarkozy would also face far-right National Front lead- (Source: Press TV) down as the leader of the center-right Republicans to defend our lifestyle without being tempted to cut our- er Marine Le Pen, who is tipped to make it to a second focus on his bid. selves off from the rest of the world”. round of voting. Party primaries take place on November 20 and 27. The opposition leader, who has repeatedly dismissed His reputation remains tainted by two major inquiries, Sarkozy’s first campaign stop will be on Thursday at Socialist President Francois Hollande as weak, said he into alleged influence-peddling and into suspected ille- U.S. delegation in Turkey to Chateaurenard, near the southern French city of Avignon. would also restore authority in neighborhoods where he gal funding of his 2012 election campaign. Sarkozy itemized major challenges in the years said “minorities are successfully blackmailing the current But true to his famous self-belief, these scandals have discuss evidence on Gulen ahead, including strengthening respect for “French authorities”. failed to dent his ambition of returning to the Elysee Pal- identity”, restoring lost competitiveness and enforcing Sarkozy was defeated in his bid for re-election in ace. A delegation with the United States Department of Justice state authority. 2012 after conducting a campaign seen by many in his Hollande, on a trip to southern Italy for talks with has arrived in Ankara to hold talks over Turkey’s request for On the economic front, he pledged to reduce payroll own camp as too right-wing. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Matteo Ren- extradition of a Muslim leader accused of masterminding a charges, scale back unemployment payments for those Sarkozy becomes the 13th person to put their zi, the Italian prime minister, declined to comment on coup attempt last month, according to two senior Turkish who have been jobless for more than one year and slash name forward for the French presidency, a job that Sarkozy’s bid, or on another challenge for the presiden- officials. income tax by 10 percent. has sweeping powers. cy launched by left-wing Socialist Arnaud Montebourg. The development marks the first concrete and public sign On immigration, he proposed “suspending” the right He faces several challengers within conservative (Source: AFP) of progress in Turkey’s efforts to get self-exiled Fethullah Gu- len, the Pennsylvania-based Turkish-born religious leader and businessman, returned to the country. Turkey says that Gulen’s supporters within the army car- Turkey backtracks on ‘child suicide bomber’ statement ried out the failed coup of July 15, claiming that they have Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim been “perpetrated by Daesh (Islamic “It could be that someone was loaded kind in Turkey, killing more than 100 peo- been running “a parallel state” within the civilian and military says authorities are in no position to ver- State in Iraq and the Levant/ISIL)”. with explosives without even being aware ple. bureaucracy, and following their own agenda. However, Gu- ify whether a child suicide bomber was It was not immediately known what of it and it may have been detonated re- Meanwhile, three more people receiv- len denies the claims. responsible for a blast that killed at least new evidence had prompted Yildrim to motely,” the official said, adding that a ing treatment at hospitals after the attack Both officials told Al Jazeera that the U.S. delegation would 54 people on Saturday, reversing an ear- backtrack so completely on the presi- search was under way for suspects who in Gaziantep died from their wounds in hold technical meetings with their counterparts in the Turkish lier assertion by President Recep Tayyip dent’s earlier assertions. may have played a reconnaissance role. the early hours of Monday. Ministry of Justice and discuss the evidence presented to the Erdogan. Earlier on Monday, the Turkish daily The Hurriyet daily said that DNA tests A total of 66 wounded are still receiv- U.S. on Gulen’s involvement in the attempted coup and other “We are not in a position to verify an- Hurriyet, citing security officials who ex- were under way to ascertain the identity ing treatment at hospitals in the province, illegal activities. ything about who the perpetrator was amined CCTV footage from the area of and nationality of the bomber. with 14 in a critical condition. The delegation arrived in Ankara on August 22 and meet- - if it was a child, an adult, or for which the attack, said the suspected child su- The device used in Saturday’s bombing, “Daesh should be completely cleansed ings are scheduled for August 23 and 24. organization,” Yildrim told reporters in icide bomber was accompanied to the which contained scraps of metal, was the from our borders and we are ready to do Turkey formally asked for the arrest of Gulen in the US Ankara on Monday, referring to the su- scene of the attack by two adults. same type used in 2015 attacks on a peace what it takes for that,” Foreign Minister last week. icide attack at a wedding in the city of The two adults “fled in a vehicle just rally in Ankara and on the border district Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a news confer- Gulen has had court cases pending against him for sever- Gaziantep. before the blast”, Hurriyet reported. of Suruc, Turkish media also reported on ence in Ankara. al years and Turkey has been demanding his extradition well “We do not have a clue about who A Turkish security official told the Reu- Monday, citing security sources. Cavusoglu said Turkey, a member of before the failed coup. the perpetrators behind the attack were,” ters news agency on Monday that they Both the Ankara and Suruc attacks NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- Following the July 15 incident, more court cases have he added. “Early information on who did were investigating the possibility that were blamed on ISIL, reinforcing the sus- tion) and the United States-led coalition been opened targeting him. the attack, in what organization’s name, adult fighters could have placed the ex- picion that the armed group was also be- against ISIL, had become the “No.1 tar- “We would like Gulen to be returned to Turkish justice, con- is unfortunately not right,” he said. plosives on the child without his or her hind the Gaziantep bombing, the official get” for ISIL fighters because of its work sidering all the legal proceedings against him and the extradi- Erdogan had said on Sunday that a knowledge, and detonated the device said. to stop recruits travelling through Turkey tion treaty between Turkey and the US. We see any step towards child suicide bomber aged “between 12 remotely, or that a mentally disabled The group has targeted Kurdish gath- across its over 800km border into Syria to this goal positively,” a senior Turkish official told Al Jazeera. and 14” was responsible for the attack, child was duped into carrying the device, erings in Turkey for more than a year. The join the armed group. Yasin Aktay, the deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and and that the bombing in Gaziantep had a tactic seen elsewhere in the region. Ankara bombing was the deadliest of its (Source: agencies) Development Party (Adalet ve Kalk?nma Partisi/AKP), told Al Jazeera that during the meetings, the U.S. delegation was expected to seek clarifications on the evidence presented by Turkey to the U.S. concerning’s Gulen’s network. Saudi child recruiter for ISIL killed in Iraq: report “It is bizarre for us that they [the U.S.] have not been convinced, A Saudi Arabian operative who recruited children for the Is- Wathbah al-Saudi.” The source said he was killed by un- mounted a large-scale offensive in June 2014. considering the scope of evidence we presented to them. Even this lamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist group known gunmen as he was leaving a shop in the city center. Iraqi army units and volunteer forces known as Pop- meeting should not have been necessary,” Aktay said. in Iraq has reportedly been killed in the northern city of Mosul. The source added that most of the terrorist group’s ular Mobilization Units (al-Hashd al-Sha’abi) have been “The testimony of the suspects who were arrested red-hand- The Almasalah news website reported the develop- commanders are these days being targeted by unidenti- fighting the terrorists. ed and documents we gave them are clear. If you add the state- ment on Monday, citing a local source in Nineveh Prov- fied armed men as the Iraqi army has been entering the The group also has a presence in neighboring Syria, ments of Gulen regarding the goal of his organizational move- ince, where Mosul is the capital. province. He did not elaborate. where Syrian government forces are pushing it out of ment, we believe there is nothing to question. Strong American The source, who was speaking on condition of anonym- The northern and western parts of Iraq have been much of the areas it has overrun. intelligence should be well aware of who he really is. ity, said the Saudi ISIL operative killed was nicknamed “Abu plagued by gruesome violence ever since ISIL terrorists (Source: Press TV) (Source: Al Jazeera) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY AAUGUSTUGUST 224,4, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy

NEWS Iran’s July crude steel output Value added tax, duties bring $39.5b revenue for Iran since March up 6.2% yr/yr: WSA

ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran has earned 1.4 quadrillion ECONOMY desk TEHRAN — Iran produced 1.351 mil- rials (about $39.525 billion) income from col- desklion tons of crude steel in July 2016, lecting value added taxes as well as duties since the beginning of with 6.2 percent rise from 1.273 million tons in the same the current Iranian calendar year (March 20), ISNA quoted Kamel month in the previous year, the World Steel Association Taqavinejad, the head of Iranian National Tax Administration (WSA) reported. (INTA), as saying on Tuesday. According to the WSA’s latest report, the country At the time being, tax in- stood at the 14th place among top world’s steel pro- comes account for seven per- ducers in July, falling from its rank of 13th in the two cent of the country’s gross do- past months. mestic product (GDP) and also With producing 66.807 million tons, 8.886 million pay 50 percent of the govern- tons and 8.082 million tons of steel, China, Japan and ment’s expenses, the official India took the first, second and third places, respec- announced. tively, in the seventh month of 2016. Iran’s direct tax income Iran produced 10.101 million tons of crude steel in the reached 275 trillion rials (about first seven months of 2016, showing 4.7 percent growth $7.77 billion) in the first four from 9.645 million tons in the same period of time in months of the current Iranian the previous year. calendar year (March 21-July The country’s steel production stood at 16.110 million 21), ISNA quoted Taqavinejad tons in 2015, indicating 1.4 percent fall from 2014. as saying on Sunday. As a major steel producer in the region, Iran boost- According to the official, ed its steel mills across the country in recent years, as remain the major steel producers. of crude steel in the Middle East in 2013. The country’s the raised amount registers a 29 percent increase, compared to central Isfahan and southwestern Khuzestan provinces According to WSA, Iran was the biggest producer rank was 14th in the world in 2014. the collected tax income in the same period last year. President Hassan Rouhani’s economic strategy is to signifi- cantly reduce the government’s dependency on oil and instead collect tax more systematically. Japan August manufacturing output rises Gold price rally still to peak, as for first time in six months: flash PMI global economic worries continue Japanese manufacturing activity Fiddes, an economist at IHS Markit said. The current rise in the price of gold Tsui now expects the yellow metal to Asia stocks edge up amid showed signs of steadying in August However, new orders and export or- is yet to peak, according to analysts, reach $1,400 to $1,450 by the end of as output rose for the first time in six ders still declined at a significant rate, after jumping 26 percent in the first this year, as most of the uncertainties Fed lull, oil slips months, in a tentative sign that the forcing Japanese manufacturers to cut half. in the first half, the catalyst for the safe- economy may be recovering from a prices of their goods at the sharpest The spot gold price surged from a haven gold, still remain unresolved. Asia shares inched up on Tuesday while oil fell for a second ses- slump earlier this year, a private survey pace since October 2012 to attract new six-year low of $1,060.2 per ounce at There could be some indication on sion as investors awaited clues on whether the Federal Reserve showed on Tuesday. business. the start of the year to $1,320.6 by June US interest rates at the end of the week will raise U.S. interest rates this year. The IHS Markit/Nikkei Japan Flash Japan's economic growth stalled in 30, amid fears over Brexit, delays in from Fed chairman Janet Yellen. European equities markets also looked set for a modest start, Manufacturing Purchasing Managers the second quarter as consumer spend- interest rate rises in the United States But the current negative-yield en- with Eurostoxx 50 futures STXEc1 ahead by 0.4 percent. EMini fu- Index (PMI) edged up to 49.6 in August ing slowed and exports contracted due and rate cuts by global central banks, vironment lowers the cost of hold- tures for the S&P 500 ESc1 were flat. from a final 49.3 in July on a seasonally to weak external demand and the im- amid the ongoing global economic ing gold and the UK continues to put MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan adjusted basis. pact of a stronger yen. slowdown. pressure on economic growth after added 0.3 percent in slow trade. South Korea Australia and The headline index remained below The cabinet this month announced The price has been swinging be- the Brexit vote, both of which could in- Shanghai all gained. the 50 threshold that separates contrac- an economic package with 13.5 trillion tween $1,320 and $1,360 over the past crease the gold price further. Japan's Nikkei went the other way and eased 0.6 percent as tion from expansion for the sixth month, yen ($133.96 billion) in fiscal measures, couple of months, compared with its “UK interest rates have been cut to the yen ground higher on the dollar. but the rate of decline was slight. hoping it would help the economy de- historic high of $1,900 in August 2011. 0.25 percent, but they could be slashed A survey of Japanese manufacturing activity showed signs of The index for output rose to a pre- flect external headwinds and sustain a “We are quite optimistic on the gold further to zero percent...the gold price steadying in August as output rose for the first time in six months, liminary 50.6 from 49.4 in the previous moderate recovery. price over the next six months and the is really driven by fundamentals,” Tsui but the improvement was marginal and had little impact on month. While marginal, that would indi- The package focuses heavily on coming year. said. stocks. cate the first increase since February if building new infrastructure, which could “[Gold] is just waiting for the next The US presidential election in No- The IHS Markit/Nikkei Japan Flash PMI rose to 49.6 in August confirmed in revised data. support capital expenditure and factory catalyst or piece of bad economic data vember is another unpredictable factor, from a final 49.3 in July. More flash surveys are due from Europe "Encouragingly, output expanded for output next year, once various construc- to come out,” said Robin Tsui, vice pres- and a win by Donald Trump might add and the United States later in the day. the first time in six months, while com- tion projects get under way, some econ- ident and gold exchange traded funds more worries, pushing the price higher, The whole world seems to have hushed ahead of comments panies also saw softer reductions in total omists say. (EFTs) specialist at State Street Global Tsui added. from Fed Chair Janet Yellen at the central bank's annual meeting new work and export sales," Annabel (Source: Reuters) Advisor (SSGA). (Source: South China Morning Post) in Jackson Hole on Friday. Investors still doubt the stars will align for a hike anytime soon, so a hawkish tone from Yellen would challenge that equanimity. "Ever so slowly, the market does seem to be reluctantly ac- China a booster, not a burden, for world economy knowledging the chorus of senior Fed speakers who have sug- gested recently that a 2016 rate hike is still quite probable and China and its role in avoiding the “new mediocre” that threat- beans to Ecuadorian seafood, from Japanese robots to Ameri- September is 'live'," wrote analysts at ANZ in a note. ens the global economy are again in the spotlight as the coun- can movies, more and more countries are discovering the In commodity markets, oil remained under pressure after try prepares to hold the 11th G20 summit in Hangzhou. growing market for their exports as China’s 1.3 billion people shedding 3 percent on Monday. Recent news about China’s economy has not all been become more prosperous and start to consume more. Prices retreated from two-month highs on worries about good. Economic growth has slowed, and expansion in retail As China transitions from being the world’s workshop to an burgeoning Chinese fuel exports, more Iraqi and Nigerian crude sales, industrial output and investment have decelerated. influential global consumer of goods and services, its econo- shipments and a rising U.S. oil rig count. For those who cannot see the forest for the trees, pessi- my will boost developing and developed countries alike. Biotech stocks received a boost from Pfizer's $14 billion ac- mism and worries may persist about the state and future of The transition is already under way, with the service sector quisition of cancer drug maker Medivation, which jumped nearly the Chinese economy. Some have even pointed to China as a expanding 7.5 percent in the first half of 2016, accounting for 20 percent. potential burden on the global economic recovery. 54.1 percent of the overall economy, up 1.8 percentage points Of the 479 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported The anxiety is understandable, given the huge role China from a year earlier. earnings, 71 percent have topped expectations, according to plays in the world economy. The slowing Chinese economy In 2015, consumption accounted for over 66 percent of Thomson Reuters data. Earnings are currently showing a decline contributed over a quarter of global economic growth and trial overcapacity, environmental degradation and sluggish China’s gross domestic product, up 15.4 percentage points of 2.3 percent for the quarter. added an equivalent of the Swedish economy in 2015. Any fal- global demand, mean the economy must be directed along from 2014. In forex markets, the dollar slipped 0.15 percent to 94.381 tering of the second-largest economy would ripple through- a more sustainable path. As heavy industry and traditional manufacturing wrestle against a basket of currencies. The index fell about 1.3 percent out the world. However, global investors are poised to reap gains from a with slowing demand overseas and overcapacity at home, last week on what traders perceived as mixed signals from Fed However, if one looks a bit deeper, it is clear the transform- more robust market. new engines are humming: social media, cinemas, travel and officials. (Source: Reuters) ing Chinese economy will only improve the lackluster global As David Dollar, a senior research fellow at the Brookings R&D are driving consumption, services and the high-tech sec- situation. Institution, put it, China’s continued strong growth in recent tor. Sure, the slowdown may linger, at least for the near future, years, despite slowed investment, was achieved thanks to in- Growing demand from Chinese consumers is set to con- as it will take time to digest the legacy of a long economic creasing consumption. tinue, bringing more services, imports and new investment boom. And China, the largest developing and most populous China’s economic growth is entering a positive cycle, as do- opportunities for the world economy. Euro zone business country, has to strike a balance between remaking the econo- mestic consumption grows due to rising wages, leading to the China’s economic transition will continue and will be posi- growth stable in August; my and securing growth to create jobs. expansion of services, which generate more jobs and higher tive overall for the global economy, the International Monetary From slashing industrial overcapacity to shutting down spending power, said the former official of the World Bank. Fund (IMF) said in a report earlier in August. no Brexit hit yet polluting factories, the short-term effects of China’s efforts to For China’s massive economy, the transition to a service “Many countries could only dream of achieving growth nurture consumer-driven growth and reduce reliance on in- and consumption-driven economy, accompanied by an im- rates that China has and is likely to achieve, which also reflects Euro zone private business activity was stable in August, albeit at vestment, low-end exports and energy consumption will be proved social security system, will unleash huge demand and positively on the reforms that Chinese policymakers have un- a muted level, but factories possibly face a tougher September felt acutely. business opportunities. dertaken,” said James Daniel, the IMF mission chief for China. as new order growth stumbled, a survey showed on Tuesday. In addition, new problems, such as high debt levels, indus- From Uzbek cotton to Chilean wines, from Brazilian soy- (Source: Xinhua) Muddying the outlook for the coming months is the United Kingdom's vote in late June to leave the European Union, al- though so far the economic repercussions seem to have been European Egypt plans to end Russia, Iraq agree on confined to Britain, not its main trading partner. Russian meat, dairy "Policymakers will be quite encouraged that it is moving in a shares gain, UK fuel subsidies within positive direction. It looks cautiously optimistic for the region in homebuilders rally three years exports the face of the Brexit threat," said Chris Williamson, Markit's chief for 2nd day economist. Markit's flash composite Purchasing Managers' Index edged up to a seven-month high of 53.3 from July's 53.2, where any European shares advanced on Tuesday, with Egypt plans to end fuel subsidies within three Russia's agricultural watchdog Rosselk- reading above 50 indicates growth. A Reuters poll of economists builder Persimmon leading the market higher fol- years and is aiming to increase fuel prices to 65 hoznadzor and the Iraqi Agriculture Ministry's had predicted a slight dip to 53.1. lowing a solid update and miners recovering after percent of their actual cost during the 2016/17 fis- animal health department have agreed on Williamson said the PMI pointed to GDP expanding 0.3 per- sharp declines in the previous session. cal year, two government sources told Reuters on certificates for Russian dairy and finished meat cent this quarter, matching a Reuters poll earlier this month that Persimmon rose 4 percent after Britain's second Tu e s d a y. product, beef and poultry exports to Iraq, Ros- showed the euro zone economic outlook stable but lackluster, largest house builder said its reservation rate had Struggling to revive its economy after an upris- selkhoznadzor said Monday. about half the speed at the start of the year. risen an annual 17 percent since the start of July, ing in 2011 shook investor confidence and drove The two sides also agreed to sign a techni- Pressure remains on the European Central Bank to announce shrugging off the impact of the Brexit vote, which tourists and foreign investors away, Egypt has cal protocol governing the delivery of patho- more easing as it has so far been unsuccessful in getting inflation some fellow builders have warned could slow the been trying to cut spending on subsidies because logical material samples gathered from birds anywhere close to its 2 percent target ceiling. property market. they eat into its state budget. and animals in Iraq to ARRIAH facilities, where But there is little confidence amongst economists about just UniCredit also rose nearly 4 percent after sourc- Egypt has reached a staff level agreement with diagnosing work would be carried out. Rosselk- how much firepower the ECB has left. es told Reuters that the chief executive of Poland's the International Monetary Fund for a $12 billion hoznadzor was then invited to attend a seminar Of some concern, having only trimmed their prices in July, biggest insurer PZU was flying to Milan this week three-year loan program which is subject to final on containing bird flu due to be held in Bagh- NEWS IN BRIEF firms returned to deeper discounting this month. The output NEWS IN BRIEF for talks with UniCredit. approval by the IMF executive committee. dad. price index fell to 49.5 from 49.8. (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y http://www.tehrantimes.com AAUGUSTUGUST 24,24, 22016016 TECHNOLOGY 5

Drones: A history of flying robots APPLIED SCIENCE Viewing the Earth from In the 20th Century, military research precipitated many widely used technological innovations. Surveil- space celebrates 70 years lance satellites enabled the GPS-system, and defense researchers developed the information swapping In 1946, the advent of rocket technology from World War protocols that are fundamental to the Internet. UAVs II enabled humanity to surpass balloon-borne heights and (unmanned aerial vehicles) fall into a similar category. cross into space for the first time. Designed initially for reconnaissance purposes, their By the 1960s, Earth-monitoring satellites were placed to para-military and commercial development was often track weather and other transient phenomena. out of sight of the public. By traveling to greater distances, an entire hemisphere of As the technology becomes more advanced and Earth could be photographed at once. costs fall, civilian day-today uses of UAVs are develop- Traveling to the Moon ing rapidly. At the same time, military drone activity has enabled the first color caused public outcry. The potential for photo journalism photo of Earth seen rising from the air rather than a long lens also raises concerns over the limb of our natu- about privacy. ral satellite while departing Military UAVs - from the Civil War to the Mid- under just the right lighting dle East conflicts conditions enabled the first The Oxford English Dictionary describes drones as color photo of the fully illu- ‘a remote-less controlled piloted aircraft or missile’. Un- minated Earth to be taken. derstood in such sense, drones came into first use after Since then, other space- World War II when unmanned jets, such as the Ryan Fire- their enemies from distance, especially when there was a civil vehicles that might one day carry passengers with- craft have imaged the Earth bee (a documentary about the Firebee and the use of real opportunity (e.g. from a drone airport in Wales or a out onboard human supervision, regular UAVs of similar and Moon together, such as early drones in the Vietnam War), started field operation. comfy control centers) of avoiding human casualties. As size as those used in the military and much smaller sys- Voyager 1 in 1977. Since then, the number of drones in military use in- might been expected, the U.S. military sector led in these tems, including increasingly popular quadcopters. Earth and the Moon creased substantially enough that the New York Time types of engagements and was the first to apply the idea Bringing to an end an almost 90-years old tradition have also been seen from decided to refer to it as a new paradigm for warfare. of aerial military surveillance (as far as in during the Civil of planes piloted by humans; or introducing quadcop- Mars, thanks to Mars Global But the story of military drones or unmanned combat War), but other countries are also following. ters patrolling city streets would be a big step forward. Surveyor in 2003. And from The first photograph of the Earth aerial vehicles (UCAV) is probably as long as the history Interestingly, even before the Wright brothers taught Fair to say, this would be a complex and publicly sen- Mercury, thanks to the Mes- from space, taken in 1946 from a of aircrafts. Military leaders always dreamed of reaching the fledgling aviation world the secrets of controlled sitive topic challenging many technological, legislative senger spacecraft in 2010. V2 rocket. Image credit: U.S. Army flight, also other attempts of unmanned combat vehi- and social prejudices. Earth has also been / White Sands Missile Range / Ap- cles existed - an interesting example are balloons, which For regular size UAVs some of the most popular spectacularly viewed from plied Physics Laboratory. were used with various results by the Austrian army in an emerging applications include conservations and wildlife Saturn, thanks to Cassini. attack on Venice in 1849 and the Japanese forces in the measurement or agriculture and aerial photography . Numerous satellites in low-Earth and geosynchronous or- Fu-go bombings in 1945. DIY drones - a toy, a useful support system or bits view Earth continuously today, enabling the creation of Civilian UAVs - a promise for public application a tool for unregulated surveillance? the highest-resolution, full-coverage photos ever. of unmanned aircrafts? On another end of the spectrum of the ‘drone dis- (Source: forbes.com) The public perception of most of the UAV applica- cussion’ are machines which are considered to be man- tions is still mainly associated with military use, but many portable and relatively affordable, e.g. radio-controlled seem to forget that one of the founding fathers of the (RC) planes or simple, small UAVs (sUAV). idea of remotely controlled vehicles was the genial civil Their size and portability becomes an appealing fea- inventor - Nicola Tesla. In fact, Tesla was the first to pat- ture for police forces and fire services to study whether If the age of self-driving ent a remote-control for unmanned vehicles (which he their adoption might be feasible for their own aerial sur- cars is upon us, what’s described as ‘teleautomation’), becoming one of the veillance purposes. The technology itself has proven to foundational principles for today’s UAV’s. be used in diverse capacities, often from an unexpected keeping them off the roads? Winston Churchill watches launch of a De Havilland However, when speaking about UAVs dedicated for angle (as this video shot of Warsaw riots shows). Queen Bee drone 1941. civil use, it is important to distinguish between the large, (Source: nesta.org.uk) Sitting in the passenger seat of Google’s self driving car is a less bi- zarre experience than sitting in the driving seat, but it’s still unsettling. It’s partly unsettling because it’s hard not to feel a flicker of The robots are coming, welcome them anxiety when you look over and notice that the person driving the car hasn’t got their hands on the wheel, even as you head towards Is it time to bow to our robot overlords? Last week ana- Neither, sadly, picked out a white tractor trailer against a a red light on a corner with a huge truck bearing down on you. lysts at Morgan Stanley, using data from an Oxford Uni- bright sky before a May 7 collision that killed a Tesla driv- It’s partly because the software that drives the car isn’t exactly versity study, predicted that nearly half of U.S. jobs will er. LIDAR would. Current LIDAR can cost up to $70,000. ready for production yet, so every now and again something be replaced by robots over the next two decades. Ouch. The new chip? Maybe $10. At that price, they’ll probably weird happens – a jerky Maybe we should build a wall. be standard in every new car, “self-driving” or not. overtake, a slight hesitation Cars that drive themselves? Waiters you don’t need And now we have thinking robots. Editors at the As- to squeeze through into an to pay (or tip)? Self-folding clothes? Are we headed to- sociated Press claim robots write thousands of articles a adjacent lane, or, as hap- ward a post-job future? Signs are certainly there. Abun- year for them. So it’s over? The robots win? This certainly pened once, the car declar- dant Robotics, a company spun from the same Stanford fits a certain world view for a bigger welfare state and uni- ing for no obvious reason Research Institute that brought us the mouse and net- versal basic income and other services to coddle displaced that “a slight hiccup” had worked computing, has begun testing a robot that picks workers. See the May 26 Fortune magazine article “What occurred and that it was apples. Red Delicious, not iPhones. Napa Valley vineyards Governments Can Do When Robots Take Our Jobs.” going to pull over. are using vision systems to sort grapes. Technology always creates more jobs than it destroys. JFK And it’s partly because According to a 2013 Stanford University study, some worried how to “maintain full employment at a time when the future has come a lot manufacturing robots now cost the equivalent of about $4 automation . . . is replacing men.” Employment was 55 mil- sooner than anyone re- an hour—and they keep getting cheaper and better. This lion in 1962. It’s 144 million today. We’ve come a long way. ally thought. Even if Google month scientists at MIT have sampled a silicon chip-based Even Chinese workers shouldn’t fear robots. The Don’t believe the fears that takes far longer to start sell- LIDAR—light detection and ranging—like radar but much coming global demand for manufactured goods will machines will put humans out ing cars than it thinks it will higher resolution, though it covers a shorter distance. swamp a robot-deprived manufacturing economy. Ro- of work. Technology creates (and senior figures in X tell The Tesla Model S currently uses one radar sensor bots will solve China’s looming logistic problems. me that they’re confident A self-driving Ford Fusion hybrid and one front-facing camera as vision for its Autopilot. (Source: The Wall Street Journal) more jobs than it destroys. something will hit the market car is test driven in Pittsburgh. before 2020), this technol- Photograph: Jared Wickerham/AP ogy is going to hit the real U.S. ready to hand over control of Do gadgets embrace best tech for world somewhere soon, and it’s going to change everything. Uber agrees. The taxi company on Thursday announced the Internet naming system travel photography, video? the latest phase of its own self-driving tests, putting its pro- The United States will officially relinquish The U.S. Commerce Department’s It’s terrific that most of us now carry duce, the ability to better control video totype cars on the roads of Pittsburgh for real riders to hail its authority over the internet’s naming National Telecommunications & Informa- a telephone that takes photographs shake, being able to easily mount your them for the first time. They aren’t quite self-driving – they system on October 1 to a California- tion Administration has authority over the sharp enough and large enough to phone on a tripod, and the technology still have a human driver for backup - but they’re the next based non-profit comprised of govern- domain name system but has mostly let appear on billboards. But seriously, to greatly improve the sound in video. step for the company’s drive to replace its “driver-partners” ment and technology stakeholders. ICANN run the show since 1998. how often are you going to do that? While smartphone engineers have (Uber is notoriously reluctant to grant Uber drivers full em- Over 33,000 emails have been ex- The decision to give ICANN the keys The truth is there are still plenty of their own priorities — building the ployment rights) with a fully automated fleet. changed and more than 800 hours to the kingdom has been the plan all things your smartphone camera can- smallest features possible for the larg- (Source: The Guardian) have been spent in meetings discuss- along. In a 1998 policy statement, the not do by itself. Most don’t have the est number of customers — there is ing the transition, according to ICANN, NTIA said it was committed to a tran- depth and flexibility of a wide-angle no shortage of companies making ac- the group that will officially oversee the sition that would let the private sector shot, the convenience of a zoom that cessories to help users who are a little domain name system. take over management of the domain isn’t just digitally resampling the image more serious about photography and IN THE NEWS Why is the government name system. to look bigger, lighting that isn’t the videography on the road. stepping aside? (Source: NBC News) same as what your car headlights pro- (Source: San Francisco Chronicle) Deal puts Microsoft apps on Lenovo smartphones

Facebook launches Lifestage app for school teens Microsoft apps such as Office and Skype will be installed on Lenovo mobile devices powered by Android software under “We can’t confirm that people who claim “Today as Facebook has grown into so By Zoe Kleinman the terms of a collaboration announced late Monday. to go to a certain school actually go to that much more, we see the opportunity to ex- The U.S. technology giant and the Chinese computer titan Facebook has launched a new social media school. All videos you upload to your profile plore that concept of ‘who I am’ once again, said they were “deepening their strategic relationship” with a app aimed at school teenagers. are fully public content,” it says. but for Generation Z in 2016.” Pushing boundaries move that could add to the ranks of people using Microsoft Members of Lifestage, currently only Lifestage has no messaging functional- programs as services hosted in the internet cloud. available on Apple devices in the U.S., ity but users can display contact details from Dr Bernie Hogan from the Oxford Inter- “The marriage of Microsoft’s apps and Lenovo’s Android- upload pictures and videos based around other sites such as Snapchat and Instagram. net Institute told the BBC the app’s lack of pri- based devices will enable customers around the world to be feelings, likes and dislikes. These are then The app currently has a 2.5 star rating on vacy settings could prove unpopular. more productive, more connected and achieve even more,” Mi- turned into video profiles. the iTunes store with comments describing it “The lack of privacy settings on this app in crosoft corporate vice president Nick Parker said in a statement. All posts are public and there are no op- as “kinda sorta creepy” and “confusing”. its current state is indicative of Facebook ide- Lenovo is expected to ship millions of Android-powered tions to restrict viewing. The idea is to connect According to statistics website Statista only ology - which is to stay open and connected devices in the next several years. members of the same school, its creator said. 8% of Facebook’s U.S. users are aged 13-19. as much as possible,” he said. The deal includes cross-licensing that will allow patented One expert told the BBC the lack of pri- It has been designed by Facebook “From their point of view that’s a great Microsoft technology to be used in Lenovo and Motorola de- vacy settings was a concern. product manager Michael Sayman, who idea but sometimes being so open can vices, according to the companies. School members can view each other’s is 19 years old. get in the way of getting connected. They “Our collaboration with Microsoft will create new opportuni- profiles once the individual school has regis- In a Facebook post he wrote that the already know this as people become reluc- ties for our customers to take advantage of some of Microsoft’s tered 20 members or more. app was based around the original social tant to share things online if they have to most popular apps,” said Lenovo leader of corporate alliances Users aged more than 21 are only able network’s early days. share them with everyone. Christian Eigen. Microsoft and leading Android smartphone maker to view their own profiles, reports the Tech “Back in 2004, Facebook was all about “It seems yet again that they are trying Samsung announced a deal last year to bring the U.S. company’s Crunch website. ‘who I am’. I could post my relationship status. I to push the boundaries of what we think is software to smartphone and tablets made by the South Korean firm. However the app warns that it cannot could share what my favorite music was. And it appropriate to share online and then walking (Source: AFP) guarantee whether all its users are genuine. was all about expressing myself,” he said. back when they face public criticism.” I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

6 INTERNATIONAL AUGUST 24, 2016 http://www.tehrantimes.com Theresa May has left Britain’s police demoralized FEATURE What Republican and angry. Now we just don’t trust her turncoats forget By Chris Hobbs By Stephen Moore he legacy left by Theresa May from her years as Home Secretary could asked a successful businessman the other day what he T be summed up by a recent tweet thought about Donald Trump. He turned his thumb I from a despairing sergeant. He was ex- down. Wow. Are you going to vote for Hillary? I asked pected to police 300 square miles of Eng- with trepidation. “Of course not,” he replied almost insulted lish countryside and coastline under his by the question. “I understand the concept of a binary deci- watch, its population temporarily swol- sion.” len by hundreds of thousands of tourists, I got a similar response when I asked oil magnate T. Boone with six constables operating from three Pickens whether he would vote for Mr. Trump. He looked at widely-spaced police stations that had me with a quizzical look on his face and replied: “Well, who escaped closure. else is there to vote for?” Five years ago, twice that number of officers would have been regarded as the bare minimum strength to operate with any degree of safety. Anyone with policing experience reading that tweet would have had the same thoughts going through their heads. What if there were a major public or- der incident such as a large pub fight? What would officers do if there was a Nice-style truck attack, mowing down pedestrians along a resort promenade or a high street? In 2010, officers of all ranks were as a matter of course. November last year did the government How many would die in the 30-45 Right. Who else is there? Yet amazingly a caucus braced for cuts. What they were not pre- The increasing difficulties faced by panic and order the training of more minute interval before the force’s armed of lifelong Republican politicos in Washington are an- pared for was the level of bile directed police can be illustrated by three key armed police. response unit arrived – and what of the nouncing to the world with defiance and self-righteous- against the entire police service from the factors. These however will not be in place ethics of leaving the general public to ness that they will vote for Hillary Clinton. very minister officers looked to for back- First is the increasing incidence of at- until April 2017, with some forces hav- desperately dial 999, little knowing that They are mostly former Romney and Bush operatives. ing and support. tacks on front line officers who are now ing difficulty in finding volunteers due to there was no unit available to come to They lost and now they want people to believe that their Theresa May’s “courageous” annual frequently patrolling alone with back-up fears of the consequences should those their aid? anti-Trumpism is an act of heroism and principle. They in- speech to the Police Federation inevitably further away than in the past. officers have to pull the trigger. Oft-quoted mantra gratiate themselves to The New York Times, The Washington dwelt on police transgressions, some of Second is the rising number of of- Now officers of all ranks are wonder- May’s oft-quoted mantra that crime Post and Team Clinton — the sworn enemies of free markets which had taken place before many serv- ficers reporting sick, which is in turn ing whether, in appointing Amber Rudd is down and police reform is working and conservative values. ing officers had been born. a good indicator of overwork and as the new Home Secretary, Theresa brings at best cynical laughter from hard- Somehow this doesn’t offend their moral compass. High-crime areas stress. May has chosen a successor in her own pressed officers. I certainly don’t mean to disparage conservatives who May’s implication that the police has Linked to this is the staggering statistic image. If the aim of government policy was say they won’t vote for Mr. Trump. One’s vote is a matter a problem with racism, often linked to that as police have to cover more shifts Rudd urgently needs to restore the to divorce the police from the public, of personal conscience. But to actively support Hillary is to stop and search, were particularly galling to make up the shortfall in their numbers, trust of the rank and file officers in then the closure of hundreds of po- put the other team’s jersey on and then run a lap around to officers toiling in high-crime inner city they are owed 407,698 rest days, equiva- herself, the Home Office and govern- lice stations, which ripped police from the stadium. areas. lent to 1,117 years. ment. the heart of their communities, would It’s worth examining the case of the Republicans for Hillary, As the number of stop and searches in A serious worry She needs to avoid focusing solely have been an essential part of the because none of the arguments make much sense. London plummeted, so did the number It’s a serious worry to officers that on police transgressions and concen- blueprint. Political geniuses of arrests resulting from those stop and the tide of criticism of the police by trate on highlighting the hundreds of Figures obtained from all forces un- First, many say that Trump can’t win — it’s hopeless. These searches, by 1,000 a month. leading politicians, sections of the acts of kindness, bravery and compas- der the Freedom of Information Act by are the same political geniuses who a year ago assured us The result, as predicted by front line media and activists such as the Black sion performed by officers on a daily a former officer place the figure at 650 that Mr. Trump could nev- officers, is an increase in the number of Lives Matter movement increases the basis. She also needs to acknowledge stations, custody suites and front coun- er win a primary (he won The “Trump can’t people injured by stabbings and shoot- risk of reprisal against police on the that police reform is not working and ters closed, with another 125 earmarked most of them), then that he ings, which has in turn seen the Met’s streets. crime is not down. win” mantra for closure. couldn’t win 50 percent of Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan- Then, there is the shadow of ter- Numerous surveys show police mo- isn’t just wrong, Of the major forces, West Midlands the vote (he did), then that Howe “flip flop” over stop and search, rorism. Even the number of terrorist rale at an all-time low, with many expe- Police has only 10 front desks remain- he couldn’t win 50 percent it’s subversive. having previously been critical of his incidents has increased across Europe, rienced officers actively looking to leave ing open from the 44 that existed in outside of New York (he did), own officers. the number of police firearms officers the service. Of course, he 2010, while the Met’s closure of 65 then they said he couldn’t The question is whether the genie can fell by almost 1,300 on Theresa May’s On the plus side, however, long suf- can win. He is police stations, almost half the total in win a majority of the del- be put back into the bottle, given the watch. fering front-line officers can point to the London six years ago, included some egates (he did) … on every running against numbers of young men who now “carry” Only with the second Paris attack in fact that despite constant denigration, in the heart of areas troubled by gang occasion the Trump haters Hillary Clinton for they still retain a public trust rating of crime. were wrong. How about a May’s implication that the police has a problem around 66 percent: some three times goodness sakes. So Few members of the public would ac- little humility since they are that of politicians and twice that of jour- cept that police “surgeries” held a couple with racism, often linked to stop and search, batting 0.00. why do they say nalists. of mornings a week in the local Tesco are were particularly galling to officers toiling in The “Trump can’t win” this? Because the (Source: The Telegraph) an adequate replacement. mantra isn’t just wrong, it’s never Trumpers high-crime inner city areas. subversive. Of course, he can want Trump to win. He is running against Hillary Clinton for good- lose because he Why America’s leadership fails ness sakes. So why do they is to the political say this? Because the never class (Republicans By David Brooks in the first place. Trumpers want Trump to lose and Democrats) For example, Hillary Clinton seems to have been because he is to the political e’ve clearly had a failure of leadership in this first inspired by a desire to serve children, but over class (Republicans and Dem- the disruptor that country. The political system is not working the decades walls of hard-shell combativeness ocrats) the disruptor that W Uber is to taxicab as it should. Big problems are not being ad- formed. Uber is to taxicab drivers. drivers. dressed. Mitt Romney seems to be an exceptionally fine Second is the complaint But what’s the nature of that failure? The leading the- person, but when he was campaigning his true na- by some economists that Mr. Trump can’t be supported be- ory is that it’s the corruption: There is so much money ture was often hidden under a film of political for- cause he is not for free trade. Longtime Washington insider flowing through Washington that the special interests mulas. Vin Weber reportedly recently said: “The world economic or- get what they want and everyone else gets the shaft. As the poet David Whyte once put it, “Work, like mar- der and the Republican Party” would be “all in shambles” if Another theory has to do with insularity: The elites spend riage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily per- Mr. Trump wins. “I think markets would collapse.” so much time within the Acela corridor that they don’t haps than finding yourself … losing all sense of our own Really? Hillary Clinton flip flops every day on free trade, so why is have a clue about what is going on beyond it. voice, our own contributions and conversation.” it that only Mr. Trump would cause a recession? He doesn’t get that There’s merit in both theories. But I’d point to some- It plays out differently in different cases. But a career- the Trump movement is a revolt against the world order. thing deeper: Over the past few decades, thousands of ist mentality often replaces the vocation mentality. The Mr. Trump is calling for the biggest tax cut since Ronald good people have gone into public service, but they careerist mentality frequently makes politicians timid, Reagan. He is for regulatory relief and school choice. Mr. have found themselves enmeshed in a system that driven more by fear of failure than by any positive ideal. Trump wants to kill Obamacare. Mr. Trump wants a pro- drains them of their sense of vocation. Short-term calculation America drilling policy on energy. Hillary wants to soak the Let’s start with a refresher on the difference be- Such people are besieged by the short-term calcula- rich, increase the debt, stop energy development, expand tween a vocation and a career. A career is some- tions and often forget about their animating vision and entitlements and double down on Obamacare. How is this a thing you choose; a vocation is something you are long-term ideal. They rationalize that, since the opposi- difficult choice for a free marketeer? called to. tion is so evil, anything that serves their career serves the Third, the Trump haters say we must throw Mr. Trump A person choosing a career asks, How can I get the country. This is not just bad for the people involved but over the bus in order to save the Senate and House best job or win the most elections? A person summoned ous or powerful or fun. for the system itself. majorities. by a vocation asks, How can my existing abilities be put Most politicians wouldn’t put up with all the fund- People with a vocation mind-set have their eyes fixed This is a foolhardy strategy because one can’t win without in service of the greatest common good? raising, the stupid partisan games, unless they were on the long game. They are willing to throw themselves the other. As economist Donald Luskin puts it in his histori- A career is a job you do as long as the benefits driven at some level by the right reasons. toward their goals imaginatively, boldly and remorse- cal analysis of presidential races and Senate gains: “It is clear outweigh the costs; a vocation involves falling in But over the years, many get swallowed by lessly. from history that the House and the Senate always move in love with something, having a conviction about it the system: all the calculating consultants; the I do think there’s often an arc to vocation. People start the same party direction as the White House, and with the and making it part of your personal identity. ephemeral spin of the media cycle; the endless with something outside themselves. Then, in the scram- same magnitude. That means the presidential candidate is Setbacks and humiliations meetings with supplicants; the constant grind of ble to get established, the ambition of self takes over. like a boat that congressional candidates are riding on. It’s A vocation involves promises to some ideal, it reveals public criticism; the way campaigning swallows But then at some point people realize the essential really stupid to torpedo that boat. “ itself in a sense of enjoyment as you undertake its tasks time so they get to spend less time thinking about falseness of all that and they try to reconnect with their Finally, there is the view expressed by Bret Stephens, my and it can’t be easily quit when setbacks and humiliations policy; the way service to a partisan team eclipses original animating ideals. former colleague at The Wall Street Journal, who wants to occur. As others have noted, it involves a double nega- service to the cause that brought them into this And so I think it possible to imagine a revival of voca- “make sure Trump is the biggest loser in presidential his- tive — you can’t not do this thing. tion. tory” so that we can “rebuild the conservative movement.” It’s easy to be cynical, but I really do think most peo- People who operate a If Clinton is elected, maybe even she can remind us Bret, if Obama/Hillary win a third straight presidential ple entered public life with this sense of idealistic calling. career mindset, on the that we’ve all developed these bad habits, that most of race, there won’t be a conservative movement left to rebuild. When you spend time around government officials us secretly detest the game we’re in and the way we are The Republicans will move to the left. Worse, for President you are constantly struck by the fact that they are more other hand, often put self- playing it. Obama to win effectively a third term will be a voter valida- impressive in private than in public. preservation above all. It would be an act of amazing bravery if she tion of all of the destructive policies of the last eight years. Somewhere at the base of their personal story Nothing gets done because could lead people to strip away all the careerist Do the “never Trumpers” want to facilitate that? Do they you usually find an earnest desire to serve some defense mechanisms and remember their original want to hand the left its greatest victory for liberal govern- vulnerable group. everybody’s doing the vows and passions. ance of all time? If they do, they, not Trump, are the unforgiv- The fact is, political lives are simply not that glamor- same old safe rigid thing. (Source: The NYT) able betrayers of conservative principles. (Source: The Washington Times) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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Iran’s power generation capacity NEWS Iran, Pakistan have potential to expand to reach 80,000 MW energy ties: official ECONOMY TEHRAN — With 12 new power desk ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran and Pakistan can expand plant construction projects inau- desk gurated in the Government Week (August 23-29), their bilateral cooperation in the energy Iran’s nominal electricity generation capacity will sector, Mehdi Jahangiri, the vice chairman of Tehran Cham- reach 80,000 megawatts (MW) in near future, Mehr ber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCI- news agency reported on Monday. MA), was quoted by Shana as saying on Tuesday. According to the report, the total generation ca- According to Shana, Jahangiri made the remarks in pacity of the inaugurated projects will be 6,084 MW Iran-Pakistan Economic Forum in Tehran. with a 178.337 trillion rials (about $5 billion) finance. Underscoring the great potentials for economic coop- However, one of the goals of the country’s elec- eration between the two countries, Jahangiri noted that the tricity industry within the framework of the sixth volume of trade between Iran and Pakistan should grow by Five-Year National Development Plan (2016-2021) is 20 percent annually. “One way to boost economic and trade to boost electricity generation to more than 100,000 transactions is through commute of trade delegations,” he said. MW. The vice chairman also pointed to the Iran-Pakistan gas During the current Iranian calendar year of 1395 pipeline and noted that the project has been prolonged since (started on March 20, 2016) with the operation of 2012 and both sides should try to complete the project as 10 new power plants, the country’s electricity pro- soon as possible. duction capacity has reached 74,000 MW, Mehr re- Along with energy, the two countries could also cooperate ported. in the fields of transportation, banking and electricity, and In line with starting the new power plant pro- lowering the tariffs could help enhancing the process to a jects, three new thermal plants with a total capacity great extent, he added. of 3,460 MW will be also inaugurated and start op- Earlier this year, in a meeting with Pakistan’s Prime Minister erating in the Iranian calendar month of Shahrivar Nawaz Sharif, president Rouhani stressed that the value of (August22-September 21). trade between the two countries should reach to $5 billion. During the mentioned period, 22 renewable en- ergy projects (solar and wind power) will also be- managing director of Renewable Energy Organiza- with the total generation capacity of 100 MW by come operational across the country. tion of Iran, Known as SUNA, announced that the the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March Earlier in July, Mohammad Sadeqzadeh, the Islamic Republic will add renewable energy plants 20, 2017). Britain's National Grid to recoup 95 million pounds of Oil prices fall as analysts say market still oversupplied power contract costs Britain's National Grid will be able to recoup 95 million pounds Oil prices fell over one percent on of an overdone price rally this month The bank said a proposal by mem- prices of between $45 and $50 per of the 113 million it has awarded to two companies to provide Tuesday, with Goldman Sachs warn- which lifted crude by over 20 percent bers of the Organization of the Petro- barrel "through next summer", but back-up emergency power for winter 2016/17, regulator Ofgem ing that August's price rally had been between the beginning of the month leum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and warned that "a sustainable pick-up in said on Tuesday. overdone and that a proposed oil pro- and late last week. other producers like Russia to freeze disrupted production would lead us to The so-called "black start" contracts pay power companies to duction freeze at current near-record Since then, prices have fallen back output at current levels "would leave lower our oil price forecast with WTI keep plants ready to come back online without start-up power levels would not help rein in an over- by more than 3.5 percent. production at record highs" and there- prices ... to average $45 per barrel". from the grid if there is a national power outage. supplied market. "While oil prices have rebounded fore do little to bring supply and de- French bank BNP Paribas said that Britain's electricity production fell to its lowest level in more International Brent crude oil futures sharply since August 1, we believe this mand back into balance. "the narrative of a rapid re-balancing than 20 years in 2015, with several loss-making coal plants closing were trading at $48.54 per barrel at move has not been driven by incre- Goldman also said the likelihood of of the oil market has ... met a few stum- in recent years. 0235 GMT (1035 ET), down 62 cents, or mentally better oil fundamentals, but a deal "may not be high" due to dis- bling blocks" as "some of Q2's disrupt- National Grid has a range of measures to incentive plants to 1.26 percent, from their last close. instead by headlines around a poten- putes between OPEC members Saudi ed supply returned, OPEC's collective be available during times of high demand and regulator Ofgem U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) tial output freeze as well as a sharp Arabia and Iran as well as uncertainty output rose, and U.S. shale oil is being sets how much National Grid can spend on these. crude was down 76 cents, or 1.6 per- weakening of the dollar (and exacer- over non-OPEC producing giant Rus- spared the dramatic year-on-year de- On Tuesday Ofgem said the 54 million pound contract award- cent, at $46.65 per barrel. bated by a sharp reversal in net specu- sia's willingness to cooperate. clines forecast earlier in the year". ed to SSE’s Fiddler’s Ferry coal plant this year met its criteria and Analysts said the falls were a result lative positions)," Goldman Sachs said. 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By Niamh ODonoghue Chamomile tea Out of habit the first thing I do in the This is one of my personal favorite al- morning is boil the kettle and make myself ternatives to black tea. Chamomile tea is a cup of gorgeous, milky tea (please don’t a daisy-like herb based tea that’s known pass judgment on my weak tea choice), for its medicinal and natural remedies. and while it’s very comforting and helps If I find that I’m having a stressful week me to wake up, it doesn’t have too many I’ll drink this tea as the aroma is calming, positive benefits for my body (black tea relaxing and it helps to soothe anxiety. contains the highest level of caffeine; from Chamomile is also great if you feel like 40-60 mg per cup). If you’re like me and you’re coming down with a cold or flu. want to try and kick the caffeine, here are Oolong tea five comforting cups of tea to try out this Oolong tea is the most diverse type of week (warning: just don’t dip digestives in tea. Similar to green tea, there are loads of them). Tea is the second largest beverage different varieties with different strengths, consumed in the world, with water being tastes and aromas. With that being said the most consumed beverage. it does contain high levels of caffeine – Native to the Mediterranean region, rosemary is one of the Green tea similar to black tea – so if you’re looking most commonly found herbs in a spice rack, and for good An old classic, green tea is great for for an alternative to black tea I would reason – not only does it has a wonderful taste and aroma, flushing your body of toxins and bacte- avoid drinking oolong tea as a substitute. but also a wealth of beneficial health effects if regularly added ria, it helps to increase your energy lev- contains 20-40mg of caffeine. makers. White tea tends to have a deli- However, this is a good option if you’re to our diet. els, aids fat loss, and even improves brain White tea cate aroma and light, pure taste. White on a budget because the tea’s strength Memory booster function. Green tea can be a bit bland, Unlike green and black tea’s, white tea tea is packed with anti-aging properties means that the leaves can be used again Mood and stress however, but I like to add a squeeze of undergoes the least amount of process- and can help to protect skin and keep it and again before they’re disposed of. Immune system strength honey to kill my sugar craving. Green tea ing and is produced by only skilled tea- looking youthful. (Source: image.ie) Antibacterial potential Stomach soother Breath freshener Sleep Stimulate blood flow Pain relief One in five Americans sleeps less than six hours a Practice good sleep hygiene Exercise stimulates the body and brain, so make sure Anti-inflammatory qualities night—a trend that can have serious personal health Use your bed for sleep and sex only, block as much you finish exercising at least three hours before turning in. Detoxify the body consequences. Sleep deprivation increases the risk for noise and light as possible, go to bed and wake at the Watch your diet Skin health and prevent premature aging a number of chronic health problems, including obe- same times each day, and get out of bed if you haven’t Stay away from foods that cause heartburn. Ban caf- sity, diabetes, and heart disease. If you have trouble fallen asleep within 20 minutes. feine-rich food and drinks (chocolate, tea, coffee, soda) sleeping, the following strategies can help you get Nap if needed at least six hours before bedtime. Don’t drink alcohol for more sleep. If you like to nap, get your daytime shut-eye in mid- at least two hours before bed. Check for underlying causes day. Naps late in the day can interfere with sleep later. If See a sleep specialist Some conditions or medications may be interfer- your problem is difficulty getting to sleep at night, then If your own efforts aren’t working, you’ll want the help AT A GLANCE ing with your sleep patterns. Treating a condition or not napping can make you sleepier at bedtime and of a sleep professional to both diagnose your problem adjusting a medication may be all it takes to restore more likely to stay asleep. and propose behavioral and possibly drug treatments. Dementia better sleep. Exercise earlier, not later (Source: health.harvard.edu) What is dementia? ‘Business diet’ a bad deal for the heart Unhealthy eating on the road linked with early signs of artery clogging, study says By Alan Mozes ommends minimizing intake of red meat The typical “social business diet” -- heavy and sweets and emphasizing consump- on red meats, sweet drinks, processed tion of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, snacks -- takes a toll on the heart, a new low-fat dairy products, skinless chicken study finds. and fish, and nuts. In the go-go world of business meet- For this study, Fuster’s team looked at ings and nonstop travel, healthy home- the heart impact of three eating plans: the cooked meals often give way to un- so-called Mediterranean diet, the con- healthy fare consumed on the road. This temporary Western diet and the social- ups the risk for atherosclerosis, a slow business diet. The Mediterranean style but steady clogging of the arteries, the of eating is rich in fruits and vegetables, researchers say. whole grains, legumes and nuts. West- Dementia is a loose term used to describe different de- “We found that more than other di- ern diets are high in red and processed generative disorders that trigger a gradual loss of brain func- ets, the ‘social business eating pattern’ meats, butter, high-fat dairy products and tion - thinking, remembering and reasoning. specifically raises the risk for developing refined grains. Is it the same as Alzheimer’s? atherosclerosis disease,” said study author To see how each of these diets stacked Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, ac- Dr. Valentin Fuster. He’s a professor of car- up against arterial clogging risk, investi- counting for around 62 per cent of all diagnosed cases. diology at the Icahn School of Medicine gators assessed the nutritional habits of Who gets it? at Mount Sinai in New York City. more than 4,000 Spaniards, aged 40 to In most people, symptoms first appear in their mid-60s. With its emphasis on eating out, and 54. All appeared to be healthy with no other influential factors, the researchers said. habits -- eating, sleep and exercise -- into An estimated 850,000 people in the UK have dementia, with snacking on the run, this style of eating outward signs of heart disease. The finding “underscores the impor- a busy life.” the number set to rise to more than a million by 2025. is even worse than the so-called Western Dietary analyses revealed that roughly tance of developing healthful dietary Nutrition expert Lona Sandon said the Is there a cure? diet, the researchers found. 40 percent followed a Mediterranean habits for people with a busy and fast- findings point to a need for “a cultural The disease is progressive and currently incurable, though “This business diet is really very bad,” diet, while another 40 percent followed paced life,” said Dr. Frank Hu, co-author shift.” there are treatments to reduce the symptoms. In the end it he added. “It hits the arteries hard, and a Western diet. About 20 percent con- of an accompanying journal editorial. Hu “Business does not have to be done robs the sufferer of the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. strongly contributes to cardiovascular dis- sumed the social-business diet. is a professor of nutrition and epidemiol- around a 12 oz. steak and booze,” said What causes it? ease risk, the world’s number one killer.” Imaging and ultra-sound tests were ogy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Sandon, an assistant professor of clinical The causes are still not completely understood. Scien- According to the American Heart As- conducted to look for early signs of ar- Public Health in Boston. nutrition at the University of Texas South- tists believe genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors all sociation, atherosclerosis results from the terial clogging. The tests revealed that His advice? “Pay attention to the qual- western Medical Center at Dallas. play a role. buildup of plaque in the arteries, which those who followed a social-business diet ity of foods when eating out,” he said. “High-powered lunches and dinners (Source: telegraph.co.uk) raises the risk for blood clots, heart dis- had a “significantly worse cardiovascular Avoid fast foods; drink water instead have long been associated with unhealthy ease, heart attack and stroke. Cardiovas- risk profile” and a notably higher risk for of sugary drinks; carry a bag of nuts as eating patterns,” she noted. But “there are cular disease causes more than 17 million atherosclerosis. snacks, he suggested. plenty of healthy options for those on the deaths worldwide each year. This was true even after accounting for “Try to plan healthy meals or foods move these days.” To lower risk, the heart association rec- age, exercise habits, smoking history and ahead of time,” Hu said, “and fit healthy (Source: webmd.com) NEWS Clear the air: learn how often How long will you live? Look to your parents to change furnace filters Lower risk of dying from heart disease if mom and dad lived past 70, study suggests By Dan Chiras A furnace filter removes dust, dander and other large par- By Randy Dotinga tensen, a professor of epidemiology with the University disease in kids of longer-lived parents? Your genetic in- ticulates from the air in our homes when either the furnace Children of long-lived parents are less likely than oth- of Southern Denmark. As a result, he said, “there is a lot heritance from your parents seems to affect blood pres- or central air conditioner is running, as the two systems share ers to die from heart disease in their 70s, new British of room for improvement.” sure, cholesterol levels, tobacco addiction and levels of common ductwork for air distribution. Particulate buildup re- research suggests. It’s known that parents who live a long time are more obesity in the participants, Pilling said. duces a filter’s effectiveness and makes the fan work harder, “We found that for each parent that lived beyond 70 likely to have kids who live a long time, but Pilling and his “These are all factors that affect risk of heart disease,” shortening its life span. Both the furnace and air conditioner years of age, the participants had a 20 percent lower colleagues wanted to learn more about this connection he said. “We did find some clues that there might also will operate less efficiently and may require more frequent chance of dying from heart disease,” said study co-au- -- such as why some people develop heart conditions in be other pathways to longer life, such as through better servicing if the filter is too clogged. thor Luke Pilling, a research fellow in epidemiology and their 60s and others don’t. repair of damage to DNA.” However, more research is The frequency at which you should change your furnace public health at the University of Exeter Medical School. “We aimed to find the factors that influence the health needed to figure that out, he said. filter depends on the number of people who live in the home; Specifically, the children of longer-lived parents had and lifespan of offspring -- the ones that are transferred What should you take away from this study? “If you how many furry pets reside indoors; the presence of smoke lower rates of vascular disease, heart failure, stroke, high from their parents,” Pilling said. have a parent who died young, it is always good if it from tobacco, woodstoves or other sources; how dusty the blood pressure and high cholesterol, the study found. The researchers tracked more than 186,000 British can be determined why he or she died very early and environment is; the type of furnace filter; and the thickness The findings aren’t an excuse to turn into a binge- people, aged 55 to 73. All of their parents were dead. whether there is an inheritable disease for which there of the filter. eating couch potato if your mother and father reached The subjects were recruited between 2006 and 2010, and are treatments,” Christensen said. If you have multiple fur-shedding pets, you live along a their 80s or 90s. Nor are they a sign that those whose about 4,700 died over the course of eight years. But in general, he said, people whose parents died dusty road, or several smokers live in the residence, count on parents died early should just give up. The link between long-lived parents and heart- very early are “not generally doomed.” That’s because changing a 1-inch or 2-inch air filter every month. You’ll likely On the contrary, your decisions about your health healthier offspring held even after the researchers ad- of the “low correlation” between the lifespans of parents need to replace a 4-inch filter every two months and a 5-inch can reverse trends toward the illnesses highlighted in the justed their statistics for factors such as education, age, and their kids. filter every three months. study, Pilling said. weight and physical activity. According to the study, And don’t think you can slough off just because your If you have one pet, your home experiences only moder- “Though people with longer-lived parents are more some researchers have made similar connections in the mother and father lived beyond 70. ate dust accumulation, or no more than one smoker lives in likely to live longer themselves, there are lots of ways for past, but they looked at smaller groups of people. “Living past 70 is what by far the majority of people the residence, filter replacement can shift to two, four and six those with shorter-lived parents to improve their health. The study has some weaknesses. For one, partici- do already, so this is not really impressive in itself,” Chris- months, respectively. People can really take their health into their own hands,” pants weren’t followed beyond age 80. Still, Christensen tensen said. “Secondly, it’s just providing you with slightly If the air in your home is mostly free of dust and com- he noted. praised the research as “an important and well-per- better odds, and this could partly also be due to the fact pletely free of pet dander and smoke, you can replace your Indeed, the correlation between the lifespans of par- formed study.” that healthy life also tends to cluster in families.” filter just once per year. ents and children is actually fairly weak, said Kaare Chris- How might genetics explain the lower risk of heart (Source: WebMD) (Source: motherearthnews.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 10 INTERNATIONAL AAUGUSTUGUST 224,4, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/international Yemen demonstrations: For democracy, against Saudi Arabia policy and has forced US to withdraw from its stance. On By Hamidreza Gholamzadeh Thursday August 18, Yemen announced formation of High n interview of one of Iranian domestic news websites Political Council as the parliament of the country and on the Awith a former IRGC commander who used to be on day after, a senior official described that the political council mission in Syria absorbed the attention of some for- was responsible to form government in order to run political, eign media. Mohammad Ali Falaki had shared with Mashregh military, security, economic, administrative, social and other News his experience in war in Syria and had talked about the affairs of the country. The government comprises 10 mem- strategy of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. One part of bers half of whom are from Houthis and other half are made his comments which has been interesting to foreign media up by forces loyal to ousted president Abdullah Saleh. So far, was where he speaks of a strategy of IRGC in forming a ‘lib- the announcement received mixed reactions as a UN chief eration army’ in the region which according to him is now advisor criticized the move as hindering negotiations, and active in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Al Jazeera, for instance, had some approved of it. considered it an official announcement that Iran is going to Yet, what happened in Sanaa on Saturday seems to be a have its boots on the ground in these three countries and this game-changer as tens of thousands of Yemenis poured to presence would be a military one. the streets to support the Council. The massive rallies wit- What General Falaki has described is the same advisory nessed Saudi jetfighters maneuvering overhead the crowds mission Iran has long been pursuing in Syria and Iraq at the and targeted outskirts of the city to terrify the demonstrators; request of the legitimate governments of those countries. but the population in return condemned Saudi aggression What he has elaborated is that the Revolutionary Guards is and shouted unity with the High Political Council. focusing on mobilization of forces in their own country or As Tehran had repeatedly emphasized that its support for region. The so-called Liberation Army, according to Falaki, Houthis and revolutionary forces was due to their popularity is under command of legendary Major General Qassem among nation and the support in fact goes to the people, Suleimani and is currently present in three fronts of Syria, the huge turnout of people from all walks of life was a proof Iraq and Yemen where the two formers are fighting terrorists that the Council benefits from public support and receives le- and the latter is engaged in a futile aggression launched by gitimacy from nation. On the other hand, while US has been Saudi Arabia. sort of forced into supporting Saudis as its ally in the region What the once IRGC commander has elaborated and the to intervene. Iran has always affirmed that it supports what unfair, brutal attacks on civilians took many casualties and and had done it in the minimum ways including advisories foreign media ignored is that Iran has always asserted that the people of a country really want; the very same solution is world public opinion raised pressure on human catastrophe and refueling assistances, they sharply reduced the number it supports legitimate governments in the volatile region and what Iran has offered and supported for Syria, Iraq, Afghani- in Yemen. The situation in Yemen is terrible enough to force of American forces assigned to ‘Joint Combined Planning supports any true measures taken to maintain stability and stan and even Palestine. the United Nations to report on child killings and put the Cell’ on last weekend from 45 staff to less than five people eradicate terrorism and violence in west of Asia. On the other While on one side of the story Iran has been supporting name of Saudi Arabia among child-killing regimes. The fact, according to US Navy spokesman in Bahrain Lieutenant Ian hand, the presence is advisory and at the request of offi- Houthis – inaccurately considered and depicted as Shia by however, was embarrassingly erased with political and finan- McConnaughey quoted as saying to Reuters. cials democratically elected by the people of those countries. western media – and revolutionary people in Yemen, Saudi cial pressure of Riyadh on the UN and Secretary General Ban Yemen is another sample showing who is truly seeking Moreover, what IRGC and its command over the Liberation Arabia – with the green light of the United States and western Ki-moon officially announced that Saudi Arabia was removed democracy, peace and stability in the region and who is sup- Army is seeking is to help people of those countries stand states – launched a regrettable war on the poor country. Ri- from the report due to the pressures and threats to cut its porting dictators and terrorist groups in the region. As Iran’s on their own in fight against terrorism and foreign interven- yadh claimed that it supports former president of the coun- funding for UN. insistence on remaining of Assad in power in Syria to avoid a tion. It can be compared to US program spending $500 mil- try Mansour Hadi and as one of rare countries in the world An airstrike on a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières, power vacuum and on people’s role in determining their own lion for training so-called moderate fighters in Syria – who which have had no elections in their history and women are or Doctors Without Borders, caused more public anger and destiny proved later to be the right policy to avoid another later turned into terrorists or were immediately defeated by still deprived of basic rights such as driving cars, announced scandal for Saudis. Many western people across the world Libya in region, the emphasis on political solution for Yemen them – with the very significant difference that Iran is doing that its massive bombardment of civilian areas in Yemen is are questioning their governments in the United States, the and people’s role is another right policy in a volatile region it legally in cooperation with the local governments and with for returning democracy to the country by reinstating Man- Britain and France over massive arms sales to Riyadh. Oxfam which desires peace and stability. Yemenis showed that they respect for those nations and the US did it regardless of the sour Hadi. Hadi, fugitive former president of Yemen, came has reported that the UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia were in consider no place for Mansour Hadi in the politics of their people and governments of target countries. to power after revolutions in region arrived in Yemen and violation of Britain’s national, regional and international arms country and rejected Saudi claims for reinstating him. In other words, while the West is abusing instability of the toppled longstanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Mansour transfer obligations under three different regulations includ- The only way to bring the humanitarian crisis in Yemen to region to follow its own interests under the pretext of war on Hadi who had took power within agreement with Houthis ing the Arms Trade Treaty, which the United Kingdom has an end is the United States, western countries and other Arab terrorism, Iran not only is ‘really’ fighting terrorists, but also is and revolutionary forces to form a transitional government, strongly supported. states in the region convince Saudi Arabia to leave Yemen following its principle policy of supporting and contributing refused to leave the position and stirred public anger and These and many other issues such as use of illegal weap- and stop fanning the flames of war and aggression in Yemen to democracy and nation’s will in countries suffering insta- ended up in taking refuge in Saudi Arabia. ons by the Saudis and Riyadh’s incapability to achieve its and elsewhere. Otherwise, Riyadh would either suffer serious bility and insecurity. This difference in discourse and policy Saudi efforts to form an international or a regional al- objectives in Yemen, have turned it into a terrible quagmire internal problems and lose its weight in region or will act ir- of Iran and US is the reason why Tehran could easily play a liance proved futile within last 16 months and many coun- for the Arab country. Latest developments in Yemen are a rationally and get the situation in western Asia even worse role in Yemen and Washington didn’t have enough pretext tries denied being part of the coalition and some left it after turning the situation into a new chapter which proves Iran’s than the current turmoil.

NEWS World seeking power shift towards Iran-Russia alliance respect which gives Iran its security and UK-Saudi Arms Deal By Lachin Rezaian confidence and humility when dealing Fmr. US Army PsyOp officer with immature and childish nations and Violates Britain-Backed agendas that may soon pass into oblivi- Int’l Treaty, Fuels Yemeni TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — A former on by their own hand. US army psychological operation officer What destructive states of the region, Conflict - Oxfam and counter-terrorism analyst calls Iran- including Saudi Arabia and its allies, seek Russia cooperation plan to save Syria the through establishing instability, war and The UK deal with Saudi Arabia on selling weapons to Riyadh greatest thing that has happened to the tensions in the region? violates the international Arms Trade Treaty and fuels the war world in over 25 years. The instability of the region was trig- in Yemen, prominent international organization Oxfam said in Scott Bennett asserted that Iran-Rus- gered by the United States and Israel a statement on Tuesday. sia cooperation to fight terrorist extrem- and Great Britain originally invading Iraq, Oxfam said it had received a legal opinion the UK arms ists would not allow the reckless wars of then creating civil war there, and spread- sales to Saudi Arabia were in violation of Britain’s national, American imperialism to spread any fur- ing the fires of rebellion through the CIA regional and international arms transfer obligations under ther, and gloriously China is also coming operation knowns as “The Arab Spring”. three different regulations including the Arms Trade Treaty, along side Iran and Russia in full agree- The plan was to trigger revolutions, and which the United Kingdom has strongly supported. ment and assistance in this effort. hope that miraculously Democracy and The world is becoming aware of its law and order would spring up and take mistakes towards the Middle East, with over, but instead the opposite occurred. "Turkey’s President Erdogan seems to In the vacuum of authoritarian power have come to understand that the pow- and absolute dictatorship rule, many of er shift away from the US influence and the peoples in the region fell into reli- towards the Russian-Iran-China alliance gious fanaticism and cult like delusion, is something that he must adapt to," new regimes to rule, the American inter- protective barrier for Iran against any at- and sought to use their new freedom Bennett said in an exclusive interview ventions have unleashed savage Takfiri tacks by Israel or the US. to destroy the rest of civilization and re- with Mehr News Agency: Wahhabi monsters that rape, destroy, Interestingly, Turkey’s President Er- place it with Wahhabi Salafi laws, rules, How do you evaluate Iran-Russia co- and ruin everything they touch. Worst dogan seems to have come to under- and culture. Since the rest of the world is operation on regional issues, including of all, the moderate people in the Mid- stand that the power shift away from the not open to this Wahhabi ideology, and Syria and Yemen? dle East have been forced to flee their US influence and towards the Russian- in fact views it as mentally deranged and Without a doubt, the Iran-Russian homelands, and now are being driven Iran-China alliance is something that he politically suicidal, this has created an "UK arms and military support are fuelling a brutal war alliance and cooperation on regional is- into Europe where increased tensions must adapt to. We see Erdogan adapt- endless conflict. in Yemen, harming the very people the Arms Trade Treaty is sues is perhaps the greatest thing that and outrage and cultural conflicts are ing Turkey by divorcing itself slowly from The hope is that with Russian-Iran- designed to protect. Schools, hospitals and homes have been has happened to the world in over 25 causing all kinds of new problems. NATO and the US, and trying to mend its China drawing a line in the sand, the bombed in contravention of the rules of war," Oxfam quoted years.The great powers of Russian and With Russia and Iran coming together relationships with Russia and Iran. Inter- U.S. and NATO will pause and give care- its Deputy Chief Executive Penny Lawrence as saying in the Iran coming together is a true sign of in agreement to fight terrorist extrem- estingly the coup attempt in Turkey may ful consideration to what Vladimir Putin statement. hope for an end to terrorism, an in- ists, they are sending a message to the have been created by Erdogan himself, originally said at the United Nations… According to the statement, the UK government is "in de- crease in regional stability, and a peace- world that they will not allow the reckless and self-inflicted in order to create the .”Do you realize what you have done?” nial and disarray" over selling arms to Riyadh while the Saudi- ful future. wars of American imperialism to spread excuse for Erdogan to separate. It makes Hopefully, they will, and a new agen- led coalition carries out airstrikes in Yemen. It saddens and disgusts me beyond any further, and gloriously China is also perfect sense, and the incompetence da for peace and stability in the world "It has misled its own parliament about its oversight of words when I consider the destruction, coming along side Iran and Russia in full and failure of the coup, and the instant will take precedence over democracy arms sales and its international credibility is in jeopardy as it death, misery and anger which the agreement and assistance in this effort. counter-response and ending of the and capitalism. Time will tell. commits to action on paper but does the opposite in reality. United States arrogantly and foolishly So now the only countries that remain to coup by Erdogan suggests that it was re- Dr. Scott Bennett, formerly of the How can the Government insist that others abide by a treaty unleashed upon humanity in its Middle come along side in agreement are the ally an artificially generated psychologi- US Army 11th Psychological Opera- East wars in Iraq, Libya, and now Syria. it helped set up if it flagrantly ignores it?" the statement reads. countries of Europe. Which I anticipate cal operation, and not a real event. But tions Battalion, attempted to blow the We now know after fifteen years of re- The charity called on the UK government to suspend ex- coming very soon as they begin to see if it was a real event, then Erdogan has whistle by contacting the commercially- search that the attacks of September 11, isting arms export licenses to Riyadh "until it can be certain the damage the US has done to them also blamed the US openly for support- controlled media and writing to US poli- 2001 were NOT the work of Osama Bin there is no risk that any arms will be used by the Saudi mili- through these terrible policies. ing the coup against him, and possibly ticians after being sacked from his job Laden or Saudi Arabian hijackers, but tary to commit breaches of international humanitarian and What do you think about the deploy- financing and planning it with the help of as terrorist finance investigator after he instead was a “false flag attack” that cer- human rights law in Yemen." ment of Russian long-range bombers to NATO and the CIA. Time will tell. proved too zealous at the job. He also tain traitors in the American intelligence The Oxfam statement is set to be presented at the second be taken off from Hamadan air base in How do you think about Iran's role in tried to expose Union Bank of Switzer- agencies, the White House, Israel, and Conference of State Parties to the treaty in Geneva later on Iran and to carry out airstrikes against resolving regional issues? Why Iran is an land for financing terrorism (Al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia conducted. They did this Tuesday. targets belonging to the ISIL and Jabhat integral part of any resolution to the re- Benghazi, ISIL) through the US and Al- using sophisticated technology, holo- Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict between al-Nusra terrorist groups? gional issues? lies, Saudi, Qatar, Turkey, Israel back in gram imagery, missiles, and psychologi- the government headed by Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and The Russian long range bombers and Iran shares a common culture, his- 2012; then thrown in prison for it. Ben- cal warfare techniques. The American the base being set up for them in Iran is tory, language, and identity with the nett had a background in advertising, Houthi rebels, the country’s main opposition force. Since media was also complicit in this false March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out a strategic victory for peace, because it various peoples of the Middle East, and before being fast tracked into the US attack.The reason for doing it of course not only allows the bombing runs against has also been a great nation since bibli- military PSYOPS division, receiving a Di- airstrikes against the Houthis at Hadi's request. was to unleash and American led war According to UN data, the majority of the 3,700 civilian ISIL Takfiri terrorists, but it also shows the cal times. Iran has grown through history rect Commission as an Officer, and held on the Middle East to disintegrate the world that Russia and Iran are in alliance, for thousands of years, and this gives it a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmental- deaths over the course of the conflict have been caused by Muslim regimes and replace them. Sad- the Saudi-led coalition airstrikes. and no nation will attack Iran without at- great respect and identity among other ized Information (TS/SCI) security clear- (Sputnik) ly, instead of moderate and productive tacking Russia. This effectively sets up a nations and cultures. It is this honor and ance. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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Pro-nuclear countries making slower NEWS Jellyfish power new progress on climate targets energy-efficient laser A strong national commitment to nucle- average actually went up (by three A laser that uses glowing green proteins found in jellyfish has ar energy goes hand in hand with weak percent). been unveiled by researchers in the UK and Germany. performance on climate change targets, The UK is a mixed picture. Emissions The new device, which falls into the polariton family of researchers at the University of Sussex have been reduced by 16 percent, buck- lasers, uses less energy than conventional lasers. The work and the Vienna School of International ing the trend of other pro-nuclear coun- was published in Science Advances. Studies have found. tries. However, only five percent of its The word laser was originally an acronym for “light ampli- A new study of European countries, energy comes from renewables, which is fication by stimulated emission of radiation” as the most fa- published in the journal Climate Policy, among the lowest in Europe, pipped only miliar type of lasers, such as shows that the most progress towards re- by Luxembourg, Malta and the Nether- those in DVD players or laser ducing carbon emissions and increasing lands. pointers, generate light us- renewable energy sources -- as set out in Nuclear power plants ing – you guessed it – stim- the EU’s 2020 Strategy -- has been made The team say that the gigantic invest- ulated emission of radiation. by nations without nuclear energy or with ments of time, money and expertise in They do this by “pump- plans to reduce it. nuclear power plants, such as the pro- ing” atoms with energy Conversely, pro-nuclear countries posed Hinckley Point C in the UK, can which propels electrons into have been slower to implement wind, so- create dependency and ‘lock-in’ -- a a higher-energy, excited lar and hydropower technologies and to sense of ‘no turning back’ in the nation’s state. tackle emissions. psyche. When the electrons relax While it’s difficult to show a causal link, Technological innovation then be- into their lower energy or- the researchers say the study casts sig- comes about seeking ‘conservative’ bit, they spit out a photon nificant doubts on nuclear energy as the “By suppressing better ways to meet 26 percent. inventions - that is new technologies – the wavelength of which answer to combating climate change. climate goals, evidence suggests en- Group 2 countries, meanwhile, fared that preserve the existing system. This depends on the state of the Professor Andy Stirling, Professor of trenched commitments to nuclear power even better on emissions reductions, is, inevitably, at the expense of more excited electron’s energy. Science and Technology Policy at the Uni- may actually be counterproductive.” which were down 11 percent. They grew radical technologies, such as wind or A pair of mirrors reflect the photons back and forth versity of Sussex, said: “Looked at on its They found that Group 1 countries renewable energy to 19 percent. solar. through the atoms. That can trigger even more electrons to own, nuclear power is sometimes noisily had reduced their emissions by an av- However, Group 3 countries only Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Profes- excite and relax, releasing more photons of the same wave- propounded as an attractive response to erage of six percent since 2005 and had managed a modest 16 percent re- sor of Energy Policy and Director of the length. climate change. Yet if alternative options increased renewable energy sources to newables share and emissions on Sussex Energy Group at the University But for the past couple of decades researchers have been are rigorously compared, questions are of Sussex, said: The “analysis shows that experimenting with a different type of laser, one that uses raised about cost-effectiveness, timeli- Pro-nuclear countries have been slower to nuclear power is not like other energy quantum phenomena called polaritons. Polaritons are quasiparticles – part matter and part light ness, safety and security. implement wind, solar and hydropower systems. It has a unique set of risks, politi- “Looking in detail at historic trends cal, technical and otherwise, that must be – inside minuscule cavities inside a solid material that can and current patterns in Europe, this paper technologies and to tackle emissions, perpetually managed. conduct electricity under some circumstances (called a sem- substantiates further doubts. researchers say. (Source: EurekAlert) iconductor). As polaritons decay, they emit photons as laser light. These devices use less energy than many conventional la- A widening 80 mile crack is Song found to somehow sers, but there’s a catch – the early ones needed to be very cold to work. We’re talking only 10 °C above absolute zero, threatening one of Antarctica’s protect babies from or around -263 °C. (Source: Cosmos Magazine) biggest ice shelves high temperatures

For some time, scientists who focus Two scientists from Deakin University on Antarctica have been watching the in Australia discovered that Australian There’s an important progression of a large crack in one of zebra finches sing unique calls to their reason why there are tiny the world’s great ice shelves — Larsen eggs when it’s hot out. What’s more, C, the most northern major ice shelf of birds that were incubated and raised holes in airplane windows the Antarctic peninsula and the fourth at high temperatures grew more slowly largest Antarctic ice shelf overall. if they had been exposed to these “in- You don’t have to be an aeronautical engineer to know that Larsen C, according to the British cubation calls,” an adaptation that later an airplane cabin is pressurized to keep us from passing out Antarctic Survey, is “slightly smaller than led to higher reproductive success. The as we soar through the skies, 11,000 meters (36,000 feet) Scotland.” It’s called an ice “shelf” be- researchers believe their study pro- above sea level. cause the entirety of this country-sized vides some insight into how these birds It also stands to reason that – to keep that pressure con- area is covered by 350-meter-thick ice might respond to climate change. tained – the cabin can’t have any holes in it. So why, you that is floating on top of deep ocean happened, the National Snow and Ice These findings show, for the first slowly when raised in hot conditions. might be wondering, is there a scary-looking small hole in waters. Data Center remarked that Earth had time, that parent birds can communi- In adulthood, females that followed every airplane window? Well, in short, despite what it seems, The crack in Larsen C grew around lost a major feature that had “likely cate environmental conditions to their this growth pattern produced more it’s there for your safety. 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) in length be- existed since the end of the last major babies before they hatch, said Joseph babies. Birds that received the incuba- According to Mark Vanhoenacker, a British Airways pilot tween 2011 and 2015. And as it grew, glaciation 12,000 years ago.” Woodgate, a behavioral ecologist at tion call also chose to breed in warmer who reports about aviation for Slate, these tiny window holes also became wider — by 2015, yawning “We previously showed that this will Queen Mary University of London who nests as adults, suggesting a prefer- are actually called ‘bleed holes’, and they’re wedged between some 200 meters in length. Since then, remove between nine and twelve per- has previously worked with both re- ence for higher temperatures. two other panes of acrylic material, meaning that when you growth has only continued — and now, cent of the ice shelf area and leave the searchers. Next, the researchers hope to pin- look through an airplane window, you’re actually peering a team of researchers monitoring Lars- ice front at its most retreated position The scientists behind the study be- point the biological process underlying through three different panes. en C say that with the intense winter ever,” write Adrian Luckman, Daniela gan investigating after they noticed these effects, and to understand why The first of these panes – the one you can touch and dirty polar night over Antarctica coming to Jansen, Martin O’Leary and members Australian zebra finches making an un- staying smaller for longer is an advan- up with fingerprints – is called a scratch pane. The middle an end, they’ve been able to catch of of the Project MIDAS team. The “tra- usual call in the wild. tage in the heat. It could be because pane is the one with the bleed hole, and the whole system is glimpse of what happened to the crack jectory of the rift now implies that the “It sounds really different from other smaller birds can dispel body heat completed by the outer pane - the most important one, since during the time when it could not be higher of these two estimates is more types of calls they do,” said Mylene M. more easily or because growing too it protects you from the pressure difference outside. observed by satellite. likely.” Mariette, who researches the evolution quickly in a stressful, hot environment While both the outer and middle panes have the power The rift had grown another 22 The amount of ice that could be lost of parental care and is an author of the brings too much damage to the body. to resist the pressure from outside the plane, the brunt of the kilometers (13.67 miles) since it was would be around 6,000 square kilom- paper. “It’s quite high-pitched and fast.” Either way, the findings show that work falls on the outer window because it’s the final barrier last observed in March 2016, and has eters, or 2,316 square miles — nearly Dr. Mariette and Katherine Bu- the birds “actually have a mechanism between you and the clouds. widened to about 350 meters, report the size of Delaware, said O’Leary, a chanan, a professor of life scienc- to prepare their offspring for high tem- To make you a happy little traveler, the cabin of an air- researchers from Project MIDAS, a Brit- glaciologist at Swansea University and es, studied more than 120 finches in peratures,” Dr. Mariette said. Still, that plane creates pressure by pumping in conditioned air that ish Antarctic Survey funded collabora- one of the team’s members, by email. aviaries and found that parents only doesn’t mean the finches would be mimics the air pressure you’re used to feeling on the ground. tion of researchers from Swansea and So in sum, we’re talking about a pos- performed incubation calls when their able to cope with rapid and extreme By doing so, you can survive the trip without passing out or Aberystwyth Universities in Wales and sible ice island in the Southern Ocean eggs were within five days of expected changes that could come with climate suffering from hypoxia - a condition with fatal complications other institutions. The full length of the that is as large as one of the small- hatching and the maximum daily tem- change — so far, she and Dr. Buchanan that arises from a lack of oxygen. rift is now 130 km, or over 80 miles. est U.S. states. Moreover, researchers perature exceeded 78 degrees Fahren- have only studied a normal range of But, as you reach higher and higher elevations in your A matter of time studying the widening crack in a 2015 heit. temperatures. comfortably pressurized cabin, the air outside the plane be- What this means is that it may be paper — many of whom overlap with Incubation calls The “question becomes whether comes thinner, containing less oxygen and pressure. only a matter of time before we see the the MIDAS team — predict that after The researchers then incubated or not that environmental change can It’s kind of hard to imagine this shift in pressure (unless loss of an enormous chunk of Larsen C eggs at a high temperature and played outpace their capacity to be flexible, you’re a mountain climber), but using numbers seems to the loss of this ice, the remaining shelf (Source: Business Insider) — a historic event that would bring to could be unstable and continue to lose recordings of either the incubation calls said Sharon Lynn, a biology profes- make it a bit easier. mind the losses of the Larsen A ice shelf more mass. or other nonspecific calls. Among 130 sor at Wooster University who studies in 1995 and the sudden breakup of (Source: The Washington Post) nestlings, they found that the birds that stress and reproduction in birds. Larsen B in 2002. When that last event heard the incubation calls grew more (Source: The NYT) NASA reestablishes contact with long lost spacecraft after two years of silence How scientists measure Louisiana’s flooding from space NASA has reestablished contact with its STEREO-B moved to the far side of the Sun, making communica- spacecraft, nearly two years after losing communica- tion with the vehicles difficult. In order to send signals to Intense rainfall is causing widespread and disastrous flooding tion with the vehicle. The space agency has been trying Earth, the spacecraft had to point their antennas a lot in parts of Louisiana, and new measurements from a NASA to get in contact with the spacecraft since October 1st, closer to the Sun, which increased the risk of the anten- satellite illustrate just how much precipitation has accumulat- 2014, when the last signal from STEREO-B was received nas getting overheated. So NASA had decided to angle ed in this region of the Southern United States. on Earth. Finally on Sunday, NASA was able to pick up a the antennas away from the Sun and put the STEREO The animation depicts rainfall totals every 3 hours over a signal from the vehicle using the Deep Space Network, spacecraft into a year-long safe mode until they could 72-hour span, from August 12 to 14. Some areas received or DSN — an international network of large radio anten- safely communicate with Earth again. To prepare for this, more than 20 inches (50.8 centimeters) of rain over those nas used for communicating with spacecraft. NASA put the two vehicles through a series of tests and three days. STEREO-B is one of two spacecraft that make up NA- resets to see if they would be ready for the reposition- Rain totals in southern Louisiana were at least 600 percent SA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO). ing and hibernation. STEREO-A performed just fine, but over normal levels over a seven-day period, according to the The goal of the program is to study the Sun and better STEREO-B failed to send signals back to Earth after one Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center of the U.S. National understand its behavior. Specifically, STEREO aims to fig- of the planned resets. Weather Service. ure out the origins of coronal mass ejections — massive NASA has tried establishing communication with Data collected from the Integrated Multi-Satellite Retriev- explosions of charged particles that sometimes shoot serted into heliocentric orbits; STEREO-A positioned it- STEREO-B ever since. Recently, the space agency has als for GPM (IMERG), a product of the Global Precipitation out from the Sun. These plasma bursts travel all the way self “ahead” of Earth, while STEREO-B fell “behind” Earth. tried using the DSN every month to pick up signals Measurement (GPM) mission, offers essential rainfall obser- to Earth and collide with our planet’s magnetic field, cre- These positions allowed the spacecraft to get even more from the spacecraft, and the efforts finally proved vations for NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ating powerful geomagnetic storms that can damage views of the Sun that we can’t get from Earth. The two fruitful this past weekend when contact with STEREO-B and five other national and international partners. communications satellites and mess with our planet’s vehicles have since drifted farther apart on their orbits, was established at 06:27 P.M. ET on August 21st. The NASA noted that their observed totals are regional and power grid. though, and will continue to do so while in space. mission team plans to continue communicating with remotely sensed, according to the Earth Observatory. As ------Heliocentric orbits But STEREO-B has been offline for the past two years, the spacecraft to figure out what kind of shape it’s in such, rainfall accumulations could be much higher when To study these solar outbursts, NASA launched STE- and regain attitude control. measured from the ground. after NASA reset the spacecraft on purpose in 2014. (Source: The CSM) REO-A and STEREO-B in 2006. Both spacecraft were in- Prior to the reset, both STEREO-A and STEREO-B had (Source: The Verge) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y SOCIETY 12 AAUGUSTUGUST 224,4, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/society

NEWS IN BRIEF Traffic police to crack down on Iranian drug lord captured with 800 reckless intercity bus drivers tons of narcotics Accidents claimed over 280,000 lives over past decade: Police chief SOCIAL TEHRAN SOCIAL TEHRAN — Iranian drug lord was — Traffic of Shahrivar is the last month of summer and desk deskarrested with 800 tons of narcotics, police is planning to the roads are the busiest over this month the Sistan-Baluchestan province’s police chief Hassan Ra- enforce more stringent rules on careless number of the accidents will increase dras- himi said on Monday. intercity bus drivers as accidents and fa- tically, so the police must be harder on the The drug lord has been committing his criminal ac- talities have reached alarming levels. drivers by imposing stricter rules. tivities since 1992 both in Iran and across the borders, By installing monitoring devices on the Over the past month of Shahrivar (Au- Nasim news agency quoted Rahimi as saying. roads the buses will be controlled online gust 23 to September 22, 2015) more More than 300 other dealers who were following from a one-kilometer distance so that than 1,700 individual died in the accidents his lead are also arrested, he said, adding that the the police can have access to all their in- which is a big number, he regretted. Speeding is leading cause of drug lord was also collaborating with 11 other drug formation via GPS including their speed accidents trafficking organizations in Iran. which help them in better regulating the He was living in Iran and commuted between Ker- bus drivers’ driving behavior, Mehr news Mehri warned that speeding is the man and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces, he added. agency quoted the traffic police chief Taqi main cause of accidents which leads to Not only did he smuggled drug into the country Mehri as saying on Tuesday. death. he was also engaged in drug trafficking across the The scheme, called “Sepah-Tan”, is It is best for the drivers to consider the borders to Afghanistan and Pakistan and using a port implemented on a test trial on the link- time they spend on the road to get to in Pakistan he would smuggled it to other countries, ing roads to Tehran, Mashhad, Qom their final destination as part of their trip Rahimi explained. and Isfahan, Mehri said adding, it will be and try to drive safe, he added. implemented on all buses travelling on Police will definitely respond to those the roads by the end of the current year who violate traffic rules, he pointed, warn- Iran’s health ministry (March 21, 2017) and hopefully result in a ing, “We will impound cars whose drivers decrease in the number of accidents. commit two traffic violations which can in talks to import Currently there are 300 speed control cent decrease in the number of the ac- in motor vehicle accidents; “in other words cause car accidents for 72 hours.” cameras on the roads which will grow to cidents and 22 percent decrease in the some 45 individuals died a day in accidents”. Road fatalities drop by 4.8% Russian helicopters almost double by the end of the summer number of fatalities compared to the By going through the records of the On the bright side road fatalities (September 21), he added. same period last year. past years traffic accidents believed dropped by 4.8 percent over the first MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian holding, Russian Over the past five month falling on 16,500 traffic related death to claim 280,000 lives over the past 10 for month of the current year falling Helicopters, is in talks with Iran on the deliveries of March 20 to August 21, 2016 some 47 reported last year years, so the issue is of national impor- on March 20 to July 21, 2016 com- Ansat and Ka-226T light multirole helicopters for the bus accidents took place, Mehri pointed Mehri lamented that last year (March 21, tance, he highlighted. pared to the same period last year, Islamic republic's health ministry, the company’s press stating, the number suggests a 55 per- 2015 to March 19, 2016) some 16,500 died He went on to say that since the month Mehri said. service said Tuesday. "Russian Helicopters is in talks to supply Ansat and Ka-226T light helicopters in the interest of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran. According to Tokyo Olympic medals to be made from e-waste our estimates, Iran’s need for light Russian helicopters is in the order of 60 vehicles," Deputy CEO Alexander Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are hoping to ics is equivalent to 16% and 22% of the world’s total every year, it is estimated that less than 100,000 tons Shcherbinin said. source the gold, silver and bronze needed to make reserves, respectively -- surpassing the reserves of any is collected under a system based on the small home Shcherbinin, in charge of marketing and business medals for the games by tapping the country’s “urban natural resources-abundant nation. appliance recycling law, which came into force in 2013. development, said the helicopters were designed for air mine” -- made up of millions of discarded smartphones Olympic host cities usually procure metal for medals The Environment Ministry has called on municipalities medical services and added that talks are underway to and other small consumer electronics. largely by asking mining companies to donate them. to target collecting 1kg of small consumer electronics provide assembly services in addition to supplies. Such electronic waste contains enough precious The idea of using recycled electronics was discussed at per person per year, but many municipalities have fallen metals to produce all the medals for the Olympic and a June 10 meeting in Tokyo to consider “cooperation pro- short of collecting even 100 grams per person. Paralympic Games to be held in Japan’s capital four posals for the Tokyo 2020 operation plan” with an eye to- In addition, much of the metal that is recovered is years from now, according to a group of Olympic or- ward a “sustainable future.” Participants included officials of already being reused to make new electronics. Silver, in ganizers, government officials and company executives the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, particular, faces a tight supply-demand balance, making LEARN ENGLISH that discussed the proposal in June. the Ministry of the Environment and the Tokyo Metropoli- it uncertain whether enough can be obtained to pro- For the 2012 London Olympics, 9.6kg of gold, 1,210kg tan Government, as well as executives from mobile phone duce the Olympic medals. Solving a Mystery of silver and 700kg of copper -- the primary component company NTT DoCoMo, precious metals company Tanaka By raising public awareness, the amount of elec- of bronze -- were used to produce medals. In comparison, Kikinzoku Kogyo, and recycling companies. tronic waste that is collected and recycled could be Jane: You have to watch this movie. It’s so good! the amount of precious metals recovered from discard- Collection challenge increased. Recycling is already widespread in Japan for Hercule: I’m not really into mysteries. ed small consumer electronics in Japan in 2014 included One challenge is the fact that Japan has not fully im- many products, including milk cartons and plastic bottle Jane: But this is a really good whodunit. 143kg of gold, 1,566kg of silver and 1,112 tons of copper. plemented a system for collecting discarded consumer caps, thanks to the efforts and cooperation of environ- Hercule: I prefer action movies. While Japan is poor in natural resources, its “mine” of electronics. While about 650,000 tons of small electron- mentally conscious consumers. Jane: Listen, the movie gives you plenty of clues, and the de- gold and silver contained in small consumer electron- ics and electric home appliances are discarded in Japan (Source: asia.nikkei.com) tective follows hunch after hunch, lead after lead, but the movie is full of red herrings. Everybody seems to have IN FOCUS Tehran Times/ Abolfazl Arab-Javadi an alibi and the witnesses aren’t reliable. Hercule: I don’t know. It seems kind of confusing to me. I don’t really want to use my brain when I’m watching a movie. Jane: But that’s the fun part of it. The true identity of the vic- tim is a mystery, the suspects all have skeletons in their closets, and the detective isn’t what he seems. Hercule: Yeah, well... Jane: And just when you think you’re getting to the bottom of it, the rug gets pulled out from under you. It keeps you guessing until the very end. Hey, where are you going? Hercule: I’m going to find an action movie where all my brain has to do is handle the sensory overload! (Source: eslpod.com) Words & phrases mystery: an event, situation etc. that people do not under- stand or cannot explain because they do not know enough about it whodunit: a book, film etc. about a murder case, in which you do not find out who killed the person until the end clue: an object or piece of information that helps someone solve a crime or mystery detective: a police officer whose job is to discover informa- tion about crimes and catch criminals hunch: if you have a hunch that something is true or will Duck and duckling breeding in Varamin, southeast of Tehran, accounts for 70 percent of the country fs total production. happen, you feel that it is true or will happen; guess lead: a piece of information that may help you to solve a crime or mystery; clue red herring: a fact or idea that is not important but is intro- ENGLISH IN USE duced to take your attention away from the points that are LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION important alibi: something that proves that someone was not where a ﻗﺎﭼﺎﻗﭽﻴﺎﻥ ﺑﺎ 284 ﻛﻴﻠﻮ ﻣﻮﺍﺩﻣﺨﺪﺭ ﺩﺳﺘﮕﻴﺮ ﺷﺪﻧﺪ crime happened and therefore could not have done it Smugglers holding 284kg of narcotics arrested witness: someone who sees a crime or an accident and can ﺑــﻪ ﮔــﺰﺍﺭﺵ ﺭﻭﺯ ﭘﻨﺠﺸــﻨﺒﻪ ﻯ ﺧﺒﺮﮔــﺰﺍﺭﻯ ﻣﻬــﺮ ﭼﻬــﺎﺭ ﻧﻔــﺮ ﺍﺯ ﺳــﻮﺩﺍﮔﺮﺍﻥ ﻣــﺮگ ﺣﻴــﻦ ﻣﺒﺎﺩﻟــﻪ describe what happened victim: Four smugglers have got caught while trying to trade some 284 kilograms of 284 ﻛﻴﻠــﻮ ﻣــﻮﺍﺩ ﻣﺨــﺪﺭ ﺩﺭ ﺍﺳــﺘﺎﻥ ﻳــﺰﺩ ﺩﺳــﺘﮕﻴﺮ ﺷــﺪﻧﺪ. -someone who has been attacked, robbed, or mur dered drugs in Yazd province, Mehr reported on Thursday. ﺭﺋﻴــﺲ ﭘﻠﻴــﺲ ﻣﺒــﺎﺭﺯﻩ ﺑــﺎ ﻣــﻮﺍﺩ ﻣﺨــﺪﺭ ﺍﺳــﺘﺎﻥ ﻳــﺰﺩ، ﮔﻔــﺖ: ﻣﺎﻣــﻮﺭﺍﻥ ﭘﻠﻴــﺲ ﺑــﺎ ﺍﻧﺠــﺎﻡ ﻛﺎﺭ -suspect: someone who is thought to be guilty of a crime Police force was informed through its sources that some smugglers are intend ﺍﻃﻼﻋﺎﺗــﻰ ﺍﺯ ﺧﺒــﺮﻯ ﭘﻴﺮﺍﻣــﻮﻥ ﺍﻳﻨﻜــﻪ ﻗﺎﭼﺎﻗﭽﻴــﺎﻥ ﻗﺼــﺪ ﺟﺎﺑﺠﺎﻳــﻰ ﻭ ﻣﺒﺎﺩﻟــﻪ ﻳــﻚ ﻣﺤﻤﻮﻟــﻪ a skeleton in one’s closet: an embarrassing or unpleasant ed to trade a substantial amount of drug, Yazd province anti-narcotics police ﺳــﻨﮕﻴﻦ ﻣﻮﺍﺩﻣﺨــﺪﺭ ﺭﺍ ﺩﺍﺭﻧــﺪ ﻣﻄﻠــﻊ ﺷــﺪﻧﺪ. .secret about something that happened to you in the past chief said get to the bottom of something: to find out the cause of a ﻣﺤﻤﺪﺣﺴــﻴﻦ ﺳــﺘﻮﺩﻩ ﻧﻴــﺎ ﺗﻮﺿﻴــﺢ ﺩﺍﺩ: ﻣﺎﻣــﻮﺭﺍﻥ ﺿﻤــﻦ ﺭﺻــﺪ ﻓﻌﺎﻟﻴــﺖ ﺳــﻮﺩﺍﮔﺮﺍﻥ ﻣــﺮگ Observing the drug dealers, police succeeded in finding their hideout and ﻣﺨﻔﻴــﮕﺎﻩ ﺁﻧﻬــﺎ ﺭﺍ ﺷﻨﺎﺳــﺎﻳﻰ ﻭ ﻫﻨﮕﺎﻣــﻰ ﻛــﻪ ﻗﺎﭼﺎﻗﭽﻴــﺎﻥ ﻗﺼــﺪ ﻣﺒﺎﺩﻟــﻪ ﻣﺤﻤﻮﻟــﻪ ﻣــﻮﺍﺩ ﺭﺍ problem or situation rug gets pulled out from under someone: to suddenly raiding them while trying to trade the cargo, Mohammad-Hossein Sotudehnia ﺩﺍﺷــﺘﻨﺪ ﺁﻧﻬــﺎ ﺭﺍ ﺩﺳــﺘﮕﻴﺮ ﻛﺮﺩﻧــﺪ. .take away something that someone was depending on to explained achieve what they wanted keep someone guessing: make someone continue guess- ing about something sensory overload: a condition of receiving too much infor- ENGLISH PROVERB PHRASAL VERB ENGLISH IDIOM mation or stimulation via visual or audio sources; overstimu- lation of one or more senses Let the chips fall where Back out All brawn and no brain they may Explanation: someone who is physically very Meaning: to fail or to decide not to do something Without Explanation: strong but not very intelligent is said to be all brawn let something happen regardless of that you had promised to do and no brain. the consequences and no matter what happens For example: After you’ve signed the contract, it For example: earth no For example: He’s an impressive player to watch, I’m going to tell Ellen the truth about will be impossible to back out. but he’s all brawn and no brain. birth! her husband, let the chips fall where they may. 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Turkey has launched separate artillery Earlier this month, YPG forces backed strikes on Kurdish and Islamic State in by air raids from a U.S.-led anti-ISIL coa- Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist Turkish military strikes YPG lition, ousted ISIL terrorists from Manbij. group positions in northern Syria. But Turkey views the Kurdish presence NEWS The Turkish army shelled on Monday and ISIL targets in Syria in northern Syria as an unacceptable “red France, Germany press for EU ISIL targets near the border town of Ja- U.S., EU consider YPG as one of their most effective line” and wants the Free Syrian Army rablus, as well as Kurdish People’s Pro- (FSA), another opposition group, to take encryption law after attacks tection Units (YPG/Yekîneyên Parastina allies in ISIL fight over areas once controlled by ISIL in the Gel) positions north of the nearby city of border regions. France and Germany said they want to compel operators Manbij. On Sunday, it was reported that the of mobile messaging services to allow access to encrypted The YPG targets were hit 20 times, FSA was planning to attack the ISIL-con- content to aid terrorism investigations, joining forces after a while the cross-border attack on ISIL was trolled region of Jarablus from inside series of deadly attacks in both countries. still ongoing, a Turkish official told the Turkey to prevent any Kurdish efforts to French intelligence services, on high alert since attackers Reuters news agency. control the area. killed scores of civilians in Paris in November and in Nice in The attacks inside Syria followed An- A rebel official, who declined to be July, are struggling to intercept messages from militants. kara’s vow to push ISIL, from its border identified, told Reuters that hundreds of Many of the groups now favor encrypted messaging ser- with Syria. FSA and opposition fighters were expect- vices over mainstream social media, with the Islamic State in Ankara has also spoken out against ed to launch an assault on Jarablus from Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist group a big user of the advance of the United States-backed inside Turkey in the next few days. such apps, investigators in several countries have said. Syrian-Kurdish YPG fighters, seeing them On Monday, a Turkish official also told French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the Eu- as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Reuters that “the fundamental aim in the ropean Commission should draft a law obliging operators to Party (PKK/Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê), latest operation [of the strikes on Jarab- cooperate in judicial investigations into tracking down ter- which has been fighting for Kurdish au- lus and Manbij] is to open a corridor for rorists. tonomy in southeastern Turkey since the moderate rebels”. Cazeneuve singled out the app operated by Telegram, 1980s. Syria’s complex, multi-sided war has which he said did not cooperate with governments, adding The YPG, or the People’s Protection created a patchwork of areas across the that legislation should target both EU and non-EU compa- Units, currently controls swaths of ter- country controlled by the government, nies. A spokesman for Telegram did not immediately respond ritory along the northeastern border rebels, Kurdish forces or ISIL. to a request for comment. with Turkey - from the towns of Hasa- Turkey also shelled YPG positions in Telegram, founded by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013 and in- ka to Afrin - while its political wing, called Rojava. Arab alliance fighting ISIL in Syria. The northern Syria in February, demanding corporated in several jurisdictions, promotes itself as ultra-se- the Kurdish Democratic Union Par- The Kurdish group makes up a sig- U.S. and European Union consider the that the group withdrew from areas it had cure because it encrypts all data from the start of transmis- ty (PYD/Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat), nificant portion of the U.S.-backed Syria YPG as one of their most effective allies captured. (Source: agencies) sion to the finish. claims an autonomous region now Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish and in the fight against ISIL. A number of other services, including Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) WhatsApp, say they have similar capabilities. Top diplomats from Japan, Bahrain bars rights activist Cazeneuve’s initiative, which he hinted at earlier this month, has come under fire from privacy and digital experts, China, S. Korea start meeting from leaving country who warned against opening “backdoors” that would let governments read content. France and Germany - where nerves are equally raw fol- lowing a wave of attacks on civilians this summer, including two claimed by ISIL - are also seeking closer links between the continent’s databases of personal information. That would cover data on visas, potential militant threats within the border-free Schengen area, refugees and airline pas- sengers, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said. (Source: Reuters) Turkey recalls its ambassador Foreign ministers of Japan, China and “We will deliver Japan’s thinking di- Bahraini authorities have prevented Shia Muslim eulogist Abdullah Sabah on South Korea have kicked off a meeting rectly and clearly ... It is important for a human rights activist from traveling charges of “holding unlawful gatherings” from Vienna after rows in the Japanese capital to discuss their us to send our message firmly,” said the abroad in an attempt to keep the inter- in the northwestern village of Diraz, situat- commonalities and differences amid official. national community in the dark about its ed about 12 kilometers (seven miles) west Ankara has recalled its ambassador to Vienna, Mehmet boiling territorial disputes and problems Tokyo also has periodic tensions with human rights record. of the capital, Manama. Hasan Gogus, “for consultations and to revise relations,” Turk- with North Korea. Seoul over the legacy of Japan’s wartime Enas Oun, who is the head of the Mon- Bahraini authorities have either ar- ish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. The meeting started on Tuesday at a aggression, while China has repeatedly itoring and Documentation Department rested or summoned more than a doz- Cavusoglu said the move came after the Austrian author- Tokyo hotel as Japanese Foreign Minis- criticized a plan by South Korea for the at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights en Shia clerics over the past few weeks. ities did not allow Turkish citizens to hold anti-coup demon- ter Fumio Kishida, China’s Wang Yi and deployment of a United States anti-mis- (BCHR), was stopped at the Bahrain In- The Manama regime has recent- strations in the country but allowed a march in favor of the South Korea’s Yun Byung-se met for sile system. ternational Airport on Monday morning ly banned congregational on Friday outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK/Partiya Karkerên dinner. China is expected to raise the is- as she was on her way to a human rights prayers in the country as well. Kurdistanê) on Aug. 21. The three, who are expected to sue of U.S. Terminal High Altitude workshop in Tunisia, Arabic-language Lu- Bahraini Shia clerics have con- Cavusoglu said Ankara had complained to Austria over start formal talks on Wednesday, shook Area Defense (THAAD) system, alua television network reported. demned the ban as a part of “systematic “trying to give us freedom of assembly lessons, while at the hands and smiled for cameras before which South Korea plans to deploy in Authorities told her that she could suppression of Bahraini Shia Muslims.” same time not allowing even a peaceful march [in support of their meal but did not talk to the media. the face of alleged threat from North not travel abroad based on an order Anti-regime protesters have staged Turkish democracy].” Japanese officials described the Korea. issued by the so-called Criminal Inves- numerous demonstrations in Bahrain on “We saw that they gave permission to demonstrate in Vi- meeting as “extremely important,” with Japan and South Korea will also press tigation Department the previous day. an almost daily basis since February 14, enna to the PKK and its supporters. We cannot remain insen- Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga Beijing on the hot issue of North Korea’s Bahrain has been heavily cracking 2011, calling on the House of Khalifah sitive to this attitude supporting terrorism,” he said. saying the three countries that play ma- missile and nuclear development. The down on political dissent for almost five regime to relinquish power. Tensions between Austria – home to around 300,000 peo- jor roles in the region can use the meet- two believe that China can do more by and a half years. Troops from the House of Saud re- ple of Turkish origin - and Turkey were raised last month when ing to “exchange opinions frankly.” piling up economic pressure on Pyong- On August 18, Bahraini officials hand- gime and the United Arab Emirates — the mayor of Wiener Neustadt, around 50 kilometers south Tensions between Japan and China yang to prevent it from further provo- ed down a three-year prison sentence to themselves repressive Arab regimes — of Vienna, called for the removal of Turkish flags hung by spiked this month over a long-running cations. human rights activist Ghada Jamshir. were deployed to the country in March residents celebrating the defeat of the July 15 coup attempt. dispute on uninhabited islets called the The meeting is the first since March Last month, Bahraini officials pre- that year to assist the Manama govern- Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz had also spoken Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in Chi- last year and the top diplomats are vented more than 16 human rights ac- ment in its crackdown on peaceful and out against “importing political conflict to Austria” following na in the East China Sea. expected to prepare the ground for a tivists from attending the 32nd session pro-democracy rallies. demonstrations in support of Turkish democracy. An unnamed Japanese Foreign Min- summit later this year. Leaders of the of the Human Rights Council, which Scores of people have been killed Cavusoglu accused Austria of being “against some terror istry official said Tokyo will use the meet- three countries met in South Korea in took place in the Swiss city of Geneva and hundreds of others injured or ar- organizations” while “supporting terror organizations attack- ing to clearly convey its message about November last year. from June 13 to July 8. rested in Manama’s crackdown on the ing Turkey.” the disputed islands. (Source: agencies) Separately, a Bahraini court sentenced anti-regime activists. (Source: Press TV) He did not give further details on the steps to be taken, but warned: “We will approach them in the way they ap- proach us.” Trump more psychopathic than Hitler, Oxford study finds Just like Turkey, the European Union and United States also designate the PKK as a terrorist organization. The United States presidential hopeful Donald Trump general population for psychopathic traits, but it is the On Aug. 3, Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern described has more psychopathic traits than Adolf Hitler, a re- mix of those traits that determines success. accession talks with Turkey as a “diplomatic fiction” and said searcher at Oxford University has found. “For example, someone who scores highly for be- he wanted EU leaders to reconsider their approach with re- Psychologist Dr. Kevin Dutton has ranked the psycho- ing influential, fearless and cold hearted could be a gard to Ankara. Later, Kern criticized anti-coup protests by pathic traits of the Republican candidate and various his- decisive leader who can make dispassionate deci- Turks in Austria and called them “radical.” torical figures using a standard psychometric tool – the sions. If those traits are accompanied by a high score Cavusoglu had at the time slammed the Austrian chan- Psychopathic Personality Inventory – Revised (PPI-R). on blaming others, they might be a genocidal dema- cellor’s remarks, describing Austria as the “capital of radical Experts suggested likely scores against a series of gogue,” he said. racism.” (Source: Hurriyet) questions. Trump scored 171, two points more than Hit- Trump outstripped Hitler on factors such as social in- ler. fluence and fearlessness dominance, while the Nazi dic- Kerry says hopes talks Saddam Hussein topped the list, scoring 189, while tator scored higher on the Machiavellian egocentricity Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton received and cold-heartedness. with Russia on Syria a score of 152, putting her in the top 20 percent. While ranking lower than her rival overall, Clin- Margaret Thatcher scored 136 points, and Elizabeth ton far exceeded Roman emperor Nero on traits such ‘nearing the end’ I was put at 130. as “Machiavellian egocentricity.” The United States Secretary of State John Kerry said talks be- Dutton says the test scores people on eight traits that immunity, can be positive. Others, such as blame exter- “It is interesting that these scores reflect both the tween the United States and Russia on military cooperation contribute to a psychopathic character. They are fear- nalization or being unconcerned about the future, are praise and the criticism that Trump and Clinton receive. in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant lessness, cold-heartedness, egocentricity, ruthlessness, more likely to be negative. One, cold-heartedness, can In the end, while both score relatively highly, it will be (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist group in Syria were nearing an end, with self-confidence, charisma, dishonesty and deficits in contribute to good and bad leadership,” Dutton told the up to voters to decide on whether their mix of positive technical teams meeting this week to discuss details. empathy and conscience. Telegraph. and negative traits should send them to the Oval Office.” “We are in indeed engaged currently in ongoing conver- “Some of those traits, such as fearlessness or stress “Both great and terrible leaders score higher than the (Source: RT) sations, and it is my hope that we are reaching the end of those discussions one way or another,” Kerry told a news con- Bangkok blast trial begins with many suspects at large ference during a visit to Kenya. “In the next days our team will meet this week, and de- Two Chinese nationals have gone on ists. laysia, five from China and two from policing successes against human pending on where those discussions go, it is very possible, trial for their alleged roles in a deadly The August 2015 bombing - the worst Hong Kong. trafficking. very likely, that Foreign Minister (Sergei) Lavrov and I would bombing at a Bangkok shrine one year assault of its kind in Thailand’s recent Members of China’s Muslim minority The Uighur minority say they face meet,” he said. ago, but more than a dozen suspects history - killed 20 people and wounded Uighur population, Yusufu Mieraili and cultural and religious repression in their “But that decision has to be made on the basis of where allegedly involved in the incident re- more than 100 others. The motive of the Bilal Mohammed, have been charged homeland of Xinjiang in northwest China, we are in the next couple of days.” main at large. attack remains unclear. with involvement. and many are believed to have fled the Kerry said the “Syrian travesty” had gone on for too long The trial, which started on Tuesday at The attack, which was carried out with Analysts have largely coalesced region in recent years. and it was imperative that powers supporting the Syrian re- a military court in Bangkok, has been ad- a small but powerful bomb packed with around the theory that the shrine bomb- The military government’s deporta- gime, - Russia and Iran - and those backing the opposition journed to September 15 and is expected ball bearings, targeted the Erawan shrine ing was in revenge for the Thai military tions led to international condemnation - the United States and its Middle East partners - came to- to last more than a year. in the heart of Bangkok’s shopping dis- government’s forcible return of 109 Ui- and violent protests outside Thailand’s gether to end the fighting. It is taking place just days after a wave trict. ghurs to China weeks earlier. diplomatic missions in Turkey, which has Kerry’s proposal would have Washington and Moscow of unexplained explosions hit Thailand’s The Hindu shrine is popular among Thai authorities insist the bomb- given refuge to many of the Turkic-speak- share intelligence to coordinate air strikes against the al-Qa- resort areas, killing at least four people ethnic Chinese visitors, who made up a ing was carried out by a peo- ing group. eda-affiliated al-Nusra Front and prohibit the Syrian air force and wounding 35 others, including tour- majority of the dead with five from Ma- ple-smuggling gang angered by (Source: agencies) from attacking moderate rebel groups. (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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PARALYMPICS Rio 2016: The greatest show Russia fail in appeal to overturn ban on athletes at Rio Paralympics on Earth in stats The flame went out on the 2016 Olympics Three nations won their first ever Russia has failed in an appeal against its exclusion from the in Rio on Sunday, bringing to an end 16 re- Olympic medal - Fiji (in the first ever Olym- Rio Paralympic Games. markable days of sporting action. pic men’s rugby sevens), Jordan (Ahmad The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) challenged its sus- More than 10,000 athletes, representing Abughaush in the men’s -68kg taekwondo) pension, which was imposed by the International Paralympic 207 nations, competed in 31 sports in Bra- and debutants Kosovo (Majlinda Kelmendi Committee (IPC) on August 7 in the wake of a damning report zil, with 306 sets of medals awarded over in the women’s -52kg judo). into the country’s state-run the course of the Games. US trio top the medal charts doping programme. Records were broken, history was made, The USA also dominated the podi- However, the Court of Ar- legends confirmed and superstars born. um for multiple-medal winning athletes bitration for Sport (CAS) found BBC Sport looks at the key stats to as Michael Phelps once again shone and that the decision was justified, emerge from the event: fellow swimmer Katie Ledecky and gym- meaning Russia will not be USA retain top spot nast Simone Biles enhanced their global represented in the upcoming For the second successive Games, and reputation. Games at Rio 2016. the 17th time overall, the United States In his fifth Games, Phelps took his per- CAS said in a statement: topped the medal table with 43 golds. sonal medal tally to 28 (23 golds, three sil- ‘The Court of Arbitration The nation’s overall medal total of vers and two bronzes) courtesy of another for Sport has dismissed the 116 is their highest since 1984, when they stunning display in the pool. appeal filed by the Rus- claimed 174 on home turf in Los Angeles. Ledecky, 19, followed up her solitary sian Paralympic Committee The US were dominant in athletics, gold in London in 2012 with four more, against the decision rendered winning 31 medals (13 of which were gold) along with a silver, as she dominated the by governing board of the In- - 20 more than second-placed Jamaica, women’s freestyle events. ternational Paralympic Com- who won six golds. In her Olympic debut, 19-year-old mittee on 7 August 2016. The nation also ruled in the pool, win- Biles added to her remarkable international er Carl Lewis and Finnish long-distance run- double at the Olympic Games for 28 ‘As a consequence, the IPC decision is confirmed.’ ner Paavo Nurmi. years, following Florence Griffith-Joyner ning 33 of the 104 medals awarded, which medal haul with four golds and a bronze. Some notable milestones IPC president Sir Philip Craven had described a ‘medals over is 32%. Of these medals, 16 were gold. Lightning Bolt strikes again in Seoul in 1988. morals mentality that disgusts me’ when he initially announced Their nearest rivals, Australia, won 10 swim- In his final Games, Jamaica’s Usain Bolt Japan’s Kohei Uchimura became the China’s Wu Minxia became the first that the entire Russian team would be banned from the Paralym- ming medals (three gold). confirmed his status as the greatest sprint- first artistic gymnast in 44 years to suc- diver to win five Olympic golds when she pics, which runs from September 7-18. The USA’s Rio tally helped them er of all time, winning three more golds to cessfully win back-to-back Olympic all- sealed victory in the women’s 3m synchro- ‘The complete corruption of the anti-doping system is con- around titles. He also helped Japan take nised springboard event with Shi Tingmao. achieve two notable historical milestones achieve an unprecedented Olympic ‘triple Records fall trary to the rules and strikes at the very heart of the spirit of as they passed 1,000 golds and 2,500 triple’ in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay. team gold for the first time since the Ath- Paralympic sport,’ Craven added at the time. ‘It shows a blatant Olympic medals overall. They have ex- Bolt’s haul of nine golds is the joint ens Games in 2004. 27 new world records were set in Rio disregard for the health and well-being of athletes and, quite tended their sizable lead at the top of the highest among Olympic athletics, putting South Korea completed a clean sweep within the seven Olympic sports that rec- simply, has no place in Paralympic sport. all-time Olympic medal table. him equal with USA sprinter and long jump- of archery’s four gold medals for the first ognise them - archery, athletics, modern ‘Their thirst for glory at all costs has severely damaged the time to continue their dominance in the pentathlon, track cycling, shooting, swim- integrity and image of all sports, and has certainly resulted in sport. Of the last 36 archery golds availa- ming and weightlifting. a devastating outcome for the Russian Paralympic Commit- ble (over nine Olympics), South Korea have American Ledecky claimed two of tee and Para athletes.’ won 23 - that is 76.67%. those, in the women’s 400m and 800m CAS upheld the IPC’s blanket ban, ruling that the RPC had Britain’s Mo Farah became the first freestyle. failed to provide any evidence which challenged the facts of man to complete the 5,000m and 10,000m The women’s team pursuit cycling the initial decision. double at back-to-back Games since Fin- record was broken three times during the The CAS statement continued: ‘Following revelations related land’s Lasse Viren at the Munich 1972 and course of the event in Rio by Great Brit- to the doping system in Russia, the IPC governing board sus- Montreal 1976. ain Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Joanna pended the RPC from IPC membership due to its alleged inabil- Team GB’s Andy Murray became the Rowsell-Shand and Laura Trott. ity to fulfil its responsibilities and obligations to comply with the first ever player to defend an Olympic in- In athletics, Michael Johnson’s IPC anti-doping code and the world anti-doping code. dividual tennis title on the same day that 17-year-old men’s 400m record was broken ‘The CAS panel in charge of this matter found that the IPC Justin Rose won the first Games golf gold by South Africa’s Wayde van Niekirk, while did not violate any procedural rule in dealing with the discipli- in 112 years. Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana smashed the wom- nary process leading to the RPC’s suspension and that the deci- World-record holder Ashton Eaton en’s 10,000m record, clocking 29 minutes, sion to ban the RPC was made in accordance with the IPC rules of the USA became the first man to win 17.45 seconds to take 14 seconds off Wang and was proportionate in the circumstances. back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the Junxia’s 1993 time. ‘The panel also noted that the RPC did not file any evidence decathlon since Britain’s Daley Thompson Gold medallist Anita Wlodarczyk contradicting the facts on which the IPC decision was based.’ at the 1980 and 1984 Games. Eaton took broke her own world record in the wom- Craven’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) coun- the gold by equalling the Olympic record en’s hammer, setting a new distance of terpart Thomas Bach decided against such a tough stance, points tally of 8,893. 82.29m - the sixth time the Pole has set a describing it as ‘the nuclear option’, and Russia were able to Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson became new record in the event. send 278 athletes to Brazil for the Olympics after individual the first woman to complete the sprint (Source: BBC) federations were left to rule on eligibility. The Paralympics’ later start date also gave the IPC more time than the IOC to digest Richard McLaren’s landmark re- City of Los Angeles declares Mourinho reveals he turned down offers port for the World Anti-Doping Agency. McLaren was able to reveal even more cases from Paralympic Aug. 24 as ‘Kobe Bryant Day’ from Italy and Spain before joining United sport than he listed in his preliminary report, and once the IPC Los Angeles city leaders have declared Jose Mourinho has revealed that he re- had examined the Canadian’s evidence, it was able to see that this Wednesday as “Kobe Bryant Day,” jected job opportunities in Spain and Italy positive drug tests by 11 Russian athletes were covered up by honoring the Los Angeles Lakers icon to stay in the Premier League and take the Moscow anti-doping laboratory at the behest of the Russian who played 20 seasons in purple and charge of Manchester United. ministry of sport between 2012-15. gold before retiring in April. The Portuguese believes the compet- A further 18 samples were tampered with at the 2014 The honor, which was announced itive nature of English football is more Winter Paralympics in Sochi, where Russia won almost half of in a statement Monday, falls on a day demanding and exciting than leagues the gold medals on offer. that commemorates the two jersey where a few clubs are dominant. Craven said McLaren had made it clear that more cases are numbers that Bryant wore during his Mourinho told Gazetta Sport ‘I had the likely to be unearthed, prompting the IPC to reanalyse every Lakers career: 8 and 24. opportunity to go to Italy or Spain as I had sample from a Russian athlete at the Sochi Games. Bryant, who won five champion- in the past but the Premier League is special. (Source: DailyMail) ships among numerous other acco- ‘In some countries, the big clubs al- lades, also will be honored for philan- ways want to be the best and leave the thropy work. region of Los Angeles,” L.A. City Coun- others behind, getting smaller.’ alistic expectation. Dortmund know how to “Among his astonishing list of ac- cilman Jos? Huizar said in a statement. ‘In England, the opposite occurs. Here, ‘Sometimes, I’m a little stupid in setting complishments, Kobe Bryant’s 20-year “For 20 years, we were all the ben- they want all of the clubs in the league to goals, the dumbest thing of all is perhaps treat Gotze - Ballack career with the Los Angeles Lakers eficiaries of Kobe’s incredible talent be competitive.’ wanting to win every game and every ranks him No. 1 all-time for NBA play- and legendary work ethic, and on Mourinho has started impressively as competition because it is impossible. Former Germany international Michael Ballack believes Borus- ers who played for a single franchise, 8-24 we’ll gather to say, ‘Thank you, Manchester United boss, securing two ‘What we are going to do is start by sia Dortmund are better placed to handle Mario Gotze than and ‘Kobe Bryant Day’ is the City of Mamba.’” wins in the Premier League in his first two playing to win each time we are on the Bayern Munich. Los Angeles’ way of thanking him for Bryant will be honored at Los Ange- matches. field and in the end, we will see where Gotze won two Bundesliga titles and the DFB-Pokal dur- his single-minded dedication to excel- les City Hall. Although he targets a victory every that takes us.’ ing four years at Dortmund, before departing for fierce rivals lence, the fans and the entire City and (Source: ABC) game, he also recognises that is an unre- (Source: DailyMail) Bayern in 2013. Despite lifting three more league titles and two Pokals dur- ing his stay at Allianz Arena, Gotze struggled for regular play- ing time under Pep Guardiola and his return to Dortmund was Ryan Lochte: Speedo and Ralph Lauren among four to end sponsorship confirmed earlier in the transfer window. And Ballack, who spent four years at Bayern between 2002 Four sponsors have dropped disgraced US Olympic been only for the Rio Olympics and would not be renewed. garage and urinated outside instead. and 2006, winning three successive Bundesligas, feels Dortmund swimmer Ryan Lochte, including swimwear manufacturer Ralph Lauren and Airweave both stressed that they After first claiming that he and his three team-mates are more likely to make the most of Gotze’s considerable talent. Speedo and fashion label Ralph Lauren. would continue their support of the US Olympic and had been robbed by bogus policemen, Lochte back- “I can’t judge that move, just like most of us can’t. He grew They were followed by announcements from skin care firm Paralympic teams. tracked and admitted he had, while still drunk, “left details up in Dortmund and he is for sure one of the most gifted play- Syneron-Candela and Japanese mattress maker Airweave. Syneron-Candela said: “We hold our employees to high out” and “over-exaggerated some parts of the story”. ers we have at the moment,” Ballack told Omnisport. It comes after Lochte lied about being robbed at standards, and we expect the same of our business partners.’’ Despite the evidence against him, including CCTV “There a few players like him who know what to do in every gunpoint by a policeman after a night out during the Speedo said it would donate a $50,000 portion of footage, he has however denied that he actually lied in situation, just like he does. If he is able to perform on his high- Rio Olympics. Lochte’s sponsorship fee to the charity Save The Chil- his initial account to Brazilian police. est level there are few others who are able to always make the Lochte, a 12-time Olympic medalist, has earned mil- dren’s Brazilian operation. Lochte’s behaviour has been met with disdain in the right move like he does. But he has to feel good and he has lions of dollars through endorsements. The value of Lochte’s Speedo sponsorship has not US and he has been widely pilloried in the US media. to bring it. Speedo, the biggest sponsor of the four, said: “We been disclosed. The contract reportedly expires this On 19 August the New York Post carried a front-page “That he was not able to do so in the recent past, neither cannot condone behaviour that is counter to the values year after 10 years. headline describing him as the “Ugly American”, along with at Bayern nor the national team, is probably for many different this brand has long stood for.” The US business magazine Forbes calculated that in the the slogan “Liar, Liar, Speedo on fire”. reasons. Lochte, aged 32, said he respected Speedo’s deci- year of the 2012 London Olympics, Lochte earned about Lochte is one of the most successful swimmers in his- “Maybe it was trust, there were a lot of speculations, but sion, and thanked the company. $2m in sponsorships from companies such as Gillette, Nis- tory, with 12 Olympic medals, and he once had his own I think Dortmund knows best how to treat him. Three years “I am grateful for the opportunities that our partner- san, AT&T and Gatorade. reality television show in the US. have passed, he has developed, his personality changed. ship has afforded me over the years,’’ he said. Lochte’s performance at Rio did not reach the heights In Rio, he swam in two events, winning a gold med- “But I think Dortmund knows how to handle the situation. Speaking on US talk show Today, Lochte said: “I of his London triumph, but Forbes estimated his endorse- al in the 4x200m freestyle relay along with team-mate If it is the best option for him to already return to Dortmund, I made a mistake and I definitely learned from this. They ments would still have been between $1m-$2m. Jack Conger. don’t know. But he made the step and we have to accept that. put on a great Games... and my immature, intoxicated Disdain “We appreciate his many achievements and hope “It is a top club, and he has to give us all the remaining behaviour tarnished that a little.” The saga started when Lochte and three team-mates he moves forward and learns from this experience,” answers on the pitch.” Ralph Lauren, which has removed some of Lochte’s imag- returned to the Olympic village after a late night out in Rio. Speedo said of Lochte. (Source: Goal) es from its website, said its sponsorship of the swimmer had They tried, unsuccessfully, to use the locked toilet at a (Source: BBC) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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Leader thanks Iran’s Olympic squad FOOTBALL Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Celtic fans raise more than Khamenei welcomed Iranian athletes and coaches re- turning home from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, ap- £100,000 for Palestinian preciating their efforts to bring joy to the Iranian nation. charities after flag protest In a message released on Tuesday, the Leader praised all members of the Iranian Olympic delegation, Celtic fans have raised more than £100,000 for Palestinian char- including sportswomen who competed in the games ities in an attempt to match an impending Uefa fine for display- while wearing Hijab. ing Palestinian flags at a match against an Israeli team. Ayatollah Khamenei’s message reads: European football’s governing body began disciplinary pro- In the Name of God ceedings against the Glasgow club last week after a number of To the sports delegation returning from the Olym- fans displayed the flags during their 5-2 home victory against pics: to the champions who brought joy to the nation Hapoel Be’er Sheva in a Champions League qualifier. by winning medals; to the heroes who were deprived The return leg is due to be played in Israel on Tuesday night. of what they deserved due to unfair refereeing; to the The Green Brigade group of supporters set up an appeal athletes whose lack of success makes their efforts and on the gofundme website on endeavors no less valuable; to the sportswomen who Sunday to match the antici- demonstrated to everyone the proud symbol of Irani- pated fine, and donations an women’s attire; to the brave lady who shone at the passed £80,000 on Tuesday forefront of the (Iranian Olympic) squad in full Hijab; and morning. to the coaches and the country’s veteran athletes; wel- The fans are raising mon- come back and I thank you all. We appreciate you. ey for Medical Aid Palestine, Seyed Ali Khamenei which delivers health and Shahrivar 2, 1395 medical care to those “worst (August 23, 2016) affected by conflict, occupa- Iran finished 25th in Rio 2016 Olympics with 8 medals tion and displacement”, and (three gold, one silver and four bronze). the Lajee Centre, a cultural (Source: Tasnim) and sports project for chil- dren in Aida refugee camp, in Bethlehem. Shahram Mahmoudi satisfied with The appeal read: “At the Champions League match with Hapoel Be’er Sheva on 17 Iran volleyball performance at Olympics August 2016, the Green Brigade and fans throughout Celt- ic Park flew the flag for Palestine. This act of solidarity has earned Celtic respect and acclaim throughout the world. It SPORTS Iranian opposite hitter Shahram “We lost to Italy in quarter-final since they are more ex- has also attracted a disciplinary charge from Uefa, which desk Mahmoudi believes that Iran volleyball perienced than we are. We could not defeat them and we deems the Palestinian flag to be an ‘illicit banner’. team has done a good job finishing in fifth place in the should accept reality as it is,” he added. “In response to this petty and politically partisan act by Olympic Games since they experienced the competition Hitting back at critics, Mahmoudi said, “I think Iran European football’s governing body, we are determined to for the first time. national volleyball team did a good job in the Olympics. make a positive contribution to the game and today launch a Iran advanced to the quarters as the fourth team but Many of the current players will likely withdrew from the campaign to #matchthefineforpalestine.” failed to book a place in the semis, suffering a 3-0 defeat national duty and the young players replace them.” The statement said the money raised would help buy against Italy. “We are satisfied with the way we played at Olympics football kit and equipment to enable the refugee camp to “I think we have to be happy because of the results we and did our best to make Iranian people happy,” Mahmou- have a team, which would be called Aida Celtic, in the Beth- earned in the Olympics. A lot of people think maybe I want di concluded. lehem youth league. to make excuse but I have to say Olympics was different The opposite hitter had already said he will retire from Celtic face their ninth Uefa punishment for supporter be- from all previous competitions we took part,” he said. the national duty after the Olympics. haviour in five years when the case is heard on 22 September. Two years ago the club was fined more than £15,000 after a Palestinian flag was displayed at a Champions League quali- AFC President praises Iranian Rio 2016 match officials fier against KR Reykjavik. Uefa rules forbid the use of “gestures, words, objects or any other means to transmit any message that is not fit for Shaikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, the Asian Football Shaikh Salman said: “In the AFC’s Vision and Mission a sports event, particularly messages that are of a political, Confederation (AFC) President, has praised the Asian there was a clear objective for Asia to improve perfor- ideological, religious, offensive or provocative nature”. match officials at the Rio Olympic Games 2016 and, in mances on the world stage. This applied not only to play- (Source:Guardian) particular, referee Alireza Faghani and his assistants Reza ers and teams but also referees and it is a great testimony Sokhandan and Mohammadreza Mansouri - from the Is- to the refereeing standards on the continent that Alireza lamic Republic of Iran. Faghani was appointed to the final. Faghani made history by becoming the first Asian refer- “I am also delighted for Ri Hyang-ok and they have now Rostov v Ajax background ee to be in charge of the men’s Olympic football final - in set the benchmark for all our officials and will be an inspira- which the hosts Brazil beat Germany in a penalty shoot- tion for both men and women match officials in the years out. Faghani was also the referee of last year’s FIFA Club to come. Rostov have an away goal in their favour as they host Ajax World Cup final. “I am sure one day that we will have an Asian referee with the score at 1-1 following the first leg of their UEFA Shaikh Salman has personally written to Faghani and in a FIFA World Cup final and that will be a tribute to the Champions League play-off tie in Amsterdam. his colleagues from the Islamic Republic of Iran to con- legacy of these referees and also to all those working so UEFA Champions League debutants Rostov and four-time gratulate them on their historic achievement at the Rio hard to raise the standards of match officials. European Cup winners Ajax go head-to-head in the return leg Olympics. ‘Your appointment was the culmination of years tournament for Asian match officials in which DPR Korea “On behalf of the AFC, I congratulate all those officials of their play-off with the tie finely poised at 1-1. Previous meetings of hard work and dedication to your career. It was well de- referee Ri Hyang-ok was in control of the women’s semi-fi- who worked so hard to reach the Olympic Games and, served and you represented Asia wonderfully well,’ the AFC nal between Canada and Germany. Ri was joined in the again, I praise them for the way that they have represented • The first leg in the Netherlands was Rostov’s first com- President wrote. semi-final by assistant referees, compatriot Hong Kum-nyo their colleagues in Asia in such an outstanding manner.” petitive encounter with Dutch opponents. Faghani’s appointment to the final capped an excellent and Australian Allyson Flynn. (Source: AFC) • In that game, Davy Klaassen’s 38th-minute penalty cancelled out Christian Noboa’s opener for Rostov as the sides drew 1-1. • Prior to the first leg, Ajax Ajax’s Jasper Cillessen can fight to be United ready to accept £2million transfer had lost all four of their match- Barcelona No. 1 - Ronald de Boer fee for unwanted Schweinsteiger es against Russian teams. They went down 3-1 at home and 1-0 away to Spartak Mosk- va in a 1997/98 UEFA Cup quarter-final and succumbed 1-0 in Amsterdam and 3-0 in Moscow to the same club in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League round of 16 tie. Match background • Ajax eliminated PAOK 3-2 on aggregate to reach the play-offs, Klaassen’s 88th-minute strike in the second leg in Greece proving decisive. • Ajax knocked out Dynamo Kyiv in their only previous UEFA Champions League play-off tie, in 2010/11. • Rostov accounted for seasoned European contenders Ander- lecht in the third qualifying round, triumphing 4-2 on aggregate. • This is Rostov’s first UEFA Champions League campaign; they reached the UEFA Europa League play-offs last season, los- Ronald de Boer says Ajax goalkeeper Jas- generate problems,” De Boer said. “He Manchester United are willing to accept bling block for both European and MLS ing 2-0 on aggregate to Trabzonspor. per Cillessen can compete with Marc-An- thought he was the whole package and just £2million in order to part with Bastian clubs, particularly given his injury problems Team and coach links dre ter Stegen for a starting place at Bar- that he can be a goalkeeper for many years. Schweinsteiger. in recent years and the perception that his • Ajax defender Heiko Westermann played twice for Germa- celona if the Netherlands international “I’m convinced my brother thinks The German midfielder, 32, has no fu- powers have greatly diminished. ny against Russia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying; his team completes a move to the Camp Nou. that Barca are doing the right thing by ture at Old Trafford under Jose Mourinho. However, Italian champions Juventus won 2-1 at home and 1-0 in Moscow. El Mundo Deportivo has reported signing him.” Schweinsteiger has been told he can continue to be mooted as a potential • In February 2012, Ajax’s Lasse Schöne played for Denmark that, with the Catalan giants set to allow Cillessen arrived to the Dutch giants depart just a year after being taken to the destination - if they miss out on chief in a 2-0 friendly loss to Russia. Claudio Bravo to join Manchester City, five years ago and is under contract club by former boss Louis van Gaal in a transfer target Blaise Matuidi. Juve and • Ajax’s Jasper Cillessen and Rostov’s Noboa met in May 2014, 27-year-old Cillessen will arrive in Barce- with Ajax for another two seasons, but £7million deal. United have been in almost constant when the Netherlands drew 1-1 in a friendly against Ecuador. lona by Friday to sign a five-year contract De Boer says Barca’s offer has come at The ex-Bayern Munich star has been contact during the summer, having nego- Coach profiles and provide competition for ter Stegen. the right time. training with the kids at United’s Carring- tiated Paul Pogba’s world record £89mil- • Peter Bosz took charge of Ajax this summer following a Former Ajax and Barcelona midfielder “He will learn a lot at Barcelona and ton training ground, but will not even lion move to Old Trafford. spell in Israel with Maccabi Tel-Aviv. Capped eight times by the De Boer, now working as assistant man- will be able to continue to develop,” he play reserve team football, as Mourinho Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers this week Netherlands, the midfielder spent the best years of his career ager for the Dutch club’s reserve side, said. “At 27, he is at an age where goal- doesn’t want him blocking the develop- played down suggestions that he could with Ajax’s rivals Feyenoord. He coached a number of Dutch told AS: “Cillessen is not a newcomer. He keepers must showcase all that they ment of the club’s Under-23 players. make a move for the World Cup winner. clubs, turning heads with a major overhaul of Vitesse from June has been playing for some time at the top have learned up to now. Now United are ready to cut their loss- After being reminded of a num- 2013 to January 2016. level and I’m certain he will battle hard “I like the way he reacts on the pitch. es on Schweinsteiger. ber of experienced players - including • Dimitri Kirichenko is in caretaker command at Rostov fol- with ter Stegen to play.” He is solid and convincing. He is good with The club are ready to accept a nom- Schweinsteiger - had been linked with lowing the departure of his former coach Kurban Berdyev, who Ronald’s twin brother Frank de Boer, his feet, something which is complicated.” inal fee reports Bild, in a bid to get his a move to Parkhead, Rodgers declared: the 39-year-old served as assistant from 2014 to 2016. Former now at Inter Milan, started Cillessen in 33 Cillessen is expected to start in Ajax’s £190,000-a-week wages off their pay roll “I can get you a marquee signing but Rostov forward Kirichenko – capped on 12 occasions by Rus- Eredivisie games at Ajax last season. Champions League qualifier against FC and would have to pay off the German as they’ve got to be able to press and sia – helped Berdyev lead the southern club to a second-place “My brother would say that he [Cillessen] Rostov on Wednesday. well, given that he hasn’t asked for a transfer. they’ve got to be able to run.” league finish last season. is quiet, very hard working and doesn’t (Source: ESPN) Schweinsteiger’s huge salary is a stum- (Source: Mirror) (Source: UEFA) b

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NEWS Busan festival to hold Abbas “Beetroot in Tehran” to go on screen in Vienna Kiarostami retrospective ARTTEHRAN — “Rote Ruben in Teheran” desk(Beetroot in Tehran), a documentary by the Vienna-based Iranian filmmaker and psychiatrist Houchang ARTTEHRAN — A retrospective of works desk Allahyar, will go on screen at the Studio am Spittelberg in by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami Vienna on September 2. will be held at the forthcoming Busan International Film “Beetroot in Tehran” is Festival (BIFF) running from October 6 to 15. about a father and son who A selection of nine films including “Where Is the go on a journey to Iran. For Friend’s Home?” (1987), “Life Goes On” (1992) and the father it is a return after “Under the Olive Trees” (1994) will be shown during the more than 40 years, for the retrospective. son, who grew up in Austria, The retrospective will be accompanied by a it is a new experience. forum on his life and works in which his son, Ahmad, Father and son react in will participate along with other Iranian filmmakers very different ways to Iranian attending the festival this year. society, traditions and family. The Palme d’Or winning director of “Taste of Cherry”, They speak especially to who passed away on July 4, had a “close relationship” female Iranian actors and with BIFF, executive programmer Kim Ji-seok told Screen filmmakers, and ask about Daily on Monday. their role in Iranian society. “He came to the festival several times, the first While everything is new for being for our second edition in 1997. He was head of the son, the father is confronted with memories of his past the New Currents jury in 2005 and the dean of the in Iran. Asian Film Academy in 2010. After we opened the “Das Persische Krokodil” (The Persian Crocodile) and “Der Busan Cinema Center, he came and held a workshop Letzte Tanz” (The Last Dance) are among Allahyari’s other that was open to the general public, Kiarostami’s Film productions. School,” said Kim. “From the outside, he looked like a solemn philosopher, but actually when you talked with him he was like a warm neighborhood uncle. I remember Vienna, Tehran book fairs to how much he loved the galbi and bulgogi [two kinds photograph collection and, for some reason, a cardigan Filmmaker of the Year at the festival and his son Ahmad of Korean barbecue] here and sent several gifts over to me,” added Kim. will accept the award on his behalf at the BIFF opening exchange stands the years including originals of his photographs, a In addition, Abbas Kiarostami will be named Asian ceremony on October 6.

CULTURE TEHRAN — The Vienna International deskBook Fair -- Buch Wien and the Tehran Iranian stage director Yaser Khaseb “Kiss the Lovely Face of God” International Book Fair will exchange stands. “This is the first time to hold workshop in Turkey appears in Azerbaijani a European country ARTTEHRAN — Ya s e r CULTURE TEHRAN — dedicates a pavilion to deskKhaseb, the director deskRenowned Iranian an Islamic country,” Iran’s of the Iranian theater troupe Crazy author Mostafa Mastur’s novel “Kiss the Cultural Attaché in Vienna Body, is scheduled to hold an eight- Lovely Face of God” has been translated Mohammadreza Vasfi said day workshop in Izmir from September into Azerbaijani. in a press release published 4 to 11. The book has been published as part on Tuesday. The workshop entitled “Body: Mold of “Luminous Signatures”, an ATV Book Buch Wien will take of the Soul” will be organized by Tiyatro series in Azerbaijan. place at Messezentrum Medresesi, an international center for The book series has been initiated by Wien (Vienna Exhibition dramatic arts in the Turkish city. the Independent Television and Radio Center) from November 9 The aim of the workshop is to Company of Azerbaijan to publish works to 13. increase the power, and understanding from contemporary world literature in The Tehran International titled “Mysterious Gift” tonight at “Kiss the Lovely Face of God”, which the activity and capabilities of the Azerbaijani. Book Fair is organized MonoFest’16, a monodrama festival poses a question about man and his faith actor’s body. The book has been translated by Ariz during May every year. organized by Tiyatro Medresesi. in God, has been translated into English, In addition, Khaseb’s troupe “Mysterious Gift” is the story of birth Tarverdiyev, who has previously translated Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Arabic and is scheduled to perform a play to death of a human being. Mastur’s “Bone of a pig, Hands of a Leper”. several other languages. NEWS IN BRIEF PICTURE OF THE DAY Mehr/Hossein Razzaqnejad “Starless Iranian movies to compete in French Dreams” up for festival review at German

CULTURE TEHRAN – Three Iranian movies deskwill be screened in various film week sections of the 15th Silhouette Festival, which will be ARTTEHRAN — Iranian held in Paris from August 26 to September 3. deskdirector Mehrdad “Lay My Bed in the Room” by Amir Tudehrusta Oskui’s “Starless Dreams” is the lone will sompete in the short film section while “The Iranian entry to the Dokfilmwoche, Rock” by Hamid Jafari will be screened in the the Documentary Week in Kreuzberg, documentary section. “Changeover” by Mehdi Germany. Alibeigi will be shown in the animation section. The documentary shows young women in an Iranian juvenile detention center reflecting on the crimes they have committed and the harsh circumstances that have World’s largest indoor theme shaped their lives. park to open in Dubai “No Home Movie” a French- Belgian 2015 documentary film DUBAI (Reuters) — The world’s largest indoor theme park by Chantal Akerman, “Battles” by is set to open in Dubai this month to lure back some of the Isabelle Tollenaere from Belgium, tourists and residents who often flee abroad during the “Eva” by Melanie Jilg from Germany scorching desert summer. and “White Coal” by Georg Tiller from In a sandy suburb beyond Dubai’s concrete jungle and Austria are among other participating pockets of artificially green spaces, IMG Worlds of Adventure’s Virtuoso string instrumentalist Hossein Alizadeh performs during a ceremony at the Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum in Tehran on August 22, 2016 films. boxy exterior belies a 140,000-square meter (1.5 million- to celebrate his 65th birthday. The director of the Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran Municipality, Mahmud Salahi (C), and master calligrapher The festival will be running from square foot) air-conditioned cathedral of entertainment Gholamhossein Amirkhani are also seen in the photo. September 1 to 7. teeming with animatronic dinosaurs, roller coasters, Marvel superheroes and Cartoon Network characters. Zombies pop out from dark corners of a haunted house and the Velociraptor coaster throttles passengers within a Nazi-looted “Adam” and “Eve” paintings to stay in California misty simulated rain forest dubbed the Lost Valley. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has Monday. were appraised at $24 million in 2006. “Obviously, Ms. von Saher is disappointed As it stands now, stir-crazy families in Dubai - a tourism and ruled in favor of a Southern California Marei von Saher alleged that the Depicting mankind in the ominous with the court’s decision,” representatives financial hub which already boasts the world’s tallest building museum in its 10-year legal battle over the paintings were seized from her father- moment before the biblical Fall, the from her legal firm, who plan to appeal the - have few places to stretch their legs beyond expensive malls ownership of two German Renaissance in-law, Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques painting’s ownership battle, too, points decision, said in a statement to the Times. while temperatures outside can approach 50 degrees Celsius masterpieces that were seized by the Goudstikker, after his family fled Holland to a period in human history fraught with They also criticized a legal motion (122 Fahrenheit). Nazis in World War II. during the Holocaust. uncertainty: a 20th-century Europe ravaged exchanged with them by the museum’s Even an indoor ski slope, complete with real-life penguins, U.S. District Court Judge John F. Walter The Norton Simon countered that it by war. legal team, presenting evidence that von has not been enough to stanch the exodus that leaves roads ruled last week that Pasadena’s Norton legally acquired the works in the 1970s The dispute is one of many to emerge Saher’s father was a member of the Nazi and public spaces eerily quiet through the hot months. Simon Museum, where the paintings from the descendant of Russian aristocrats in recent years involving precious art looted Party. “Dubai still suffers from a certain amount of seasonality “Adam” and “Eve” have been for more than who had them wrongly taken by the Soviet by the Nazis. “Using this information in an attempt to during the June, July, August period,” Lennard Otto, CEO of 30 years, is the rightful owner of the two life- Union in the 1920s. The judge said that because discredit Ms. von Saher is nothing more than the new $1 billion attraction, told Reuters. size oil-on-panel paintings. Lucas Cranach the Elder painted the Goudstikker’s art dealership decided not to a distasteful device to evade responsibility “We will hopefully drive tourism in those periods to make The museum called the decision mindful works in around 1530. In 1971, they were seek restitution for the works after the war, for refusing to restitute artworks that were Dubai an all-year-round destination,” he said, ahead of the of “the facts and law at the heart of the acquired by the museum for $800,000, the his family thereby abandoned their claim to indisputably stolen from her husband’s theme park’s Aug. 31 opening. dispute,” the Los Angeles Times reported equivalent of about $4.8 million today. They the art. family,” the attorneys said.