WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13534 Thursday NOVEMBER 21, 2019 Aban 30, 1398 Rabi’ Al awwal 23, 1441 People vigilantly Muslims must Davarzani new European experts to ended enemy-backed be united against president of Iran hold workshops at sporadic chaos 2 enemies’ plots 2 volleyball federation 15 Cinéma Vérité 16 Leader urges domestic producers Widespread rallies to not to wait for sanctions to end TEHRAN — Leader of the Islamic Revo- them not to wait for the removal of the U.S. lution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called sanctions to save the country’s economy, on the country’s producers to solely rely IRNA reported. on their own capabilities to boost the If the Iranian people, economists and country’s economy and not to wait for intellectuals be able to undermine the slam vandalism U.S. sanctions to end. sanctions by relying on domestic power, Addressing over 2,500 of the country’s the sanctioning side will stop its efforts See page 3 producers, entrepreneurs and businessmen because they will be the ones to lose, the on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei urged leader stressed. 4 Iran summons Swiss envoy over U.S. meddlesome statements TEHRAN — The Foreign Ministry on in the internal affairs of Iran. Wednesday summoned Switzerland’s The Swiss diplomat was summoned after Ambassador to Tehran Markus Leitner U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo voiced whose country represents the U.S. inter- support for the rioters who have taken advan- ests in Iran. tage of the protests in a number of Iranian Leitner received Tehran’s official protest cities over a hike in the price of subsidized about the U.S. government’s interference gasoline in recent days. 2 Iraqi parliament scraps financial privileges for state officials The Iraqi parliament approved a bill that dent, prime minister and parliament scrapped financial privileges for senior speaker should not be allocated more state officials, part of the promises made than five cars. by the government to honor demands of The number of cars allocated for senior protesters. officials like ministers, governorates and The law, a copy of which obtained undersecretaries was reduced, while no Mina Noei Mina by KUNA, banned appropriations for car would be allocated for MPs. medical treatment for all officials in the The law restricted lease for private presidency, prime minister’s office and planes with exception of the prime min- parliament speaker’s office, as well as all ister, and reduced per diem for official state institutions. missions abroad. Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ The parliament said each of presi- (Source: KUNA) EDITORIAL Moscow ‘very worried’ over U.S. policy reversal on Israeli settlements: Lavrov ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi Russia is concerned over the United States (U.S.) Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa. under international law and eroded prospects Martin Love Tehran Times editor-in-chief reversal stand policy on Israeli settlements in Moscow believes that the conflict can only be for lasting peace. Political analyst from @ghaderi62 the West Bank, Sputnik news agency reported, resolved through direct negotiations between “The EU calls on Israel to end all settlement North Carolina quoting the country’s Foreign Minister Sergey Israel and Palestine, Lavrov added. activity, in line with its obligations as an occupying Lavrov on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the UN’s human power,” EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogher- Propaganda U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced rights office (OHCHR) said that it “shares the UN ini said in a statement following the U.S. move. U.S. stupidity is on Monday that the U.S. no longer considered long standing position on the issue that Israeli Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human war against Jewish settlements established by Israel in the settlements are in breach of international law.” Rights Watch, tweeted: “Pompeo’s fictional statement usually, as now, West Bank as inconsistent with international law. Rupert Colville also said there are several UN changes nothing. Trump can’t wipe away with this Iran: Objectives, “We have common stands on the situation resolutions as well as decisions by the Interna- announcement decades of established international followed by worse in the Arab-Israeli settlement, including in the tional court of Justice (ICJ) relating to the issue. law that Israel’s settlements are a war crime.” techniques and context of attempts to review the existing inter- “On 9 July 2004, the ICJ stated in its Advisory U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a leading U.S. stupidity national legal base for the settlement. Opinion that Israel’s construction of the separation Democratic presidential hopeful, also weighed tactics “Of course, we are very much concerned over wall and expansion of the settlements are illegally in on Twitter, saying “Israeli settlements in oc- t is enough to make a rational, sentient the recent development of the situation, I mean, altering the demographic composition of the OPT cupied territory are illegal.” person ill to witness Mike Pompeo ancorous satellite networks as well the U.S. position of rejecting all the decisions of and thus severely impede the Palestinians’ ability “This is clear from international law and mul- Itelling Iranians he is “with” them, as he as a number of official and private the global community ... regarding the need to stop to exercise their right to self-determination,” he tiple United Nations resolutions. Once again, did again recently. Excuse me but I hope accounts in social networks, espe- R Israel’s activity on establishing settlements and told reporters on Tuesday. Mr. Trump is isolating the United States and Iranians are not so deluded to imagine cially in Twitter, have embarked on waging finding illegal the Israeli occupation of the lands Meanwhile, the European Union said that it undermining diplomacy by pandering to his for a second that the U.S. government a full-scale war of attrition against the on the West Bank of the Jordan River,” Lavrov continued to believe that Israeli settlement activ- extremist base,” Sanders said. under Trump gives a gnat’s ass about their Islamic Revolution’s media outlets. said at a press conference after talks with Bahrain’s ity in occupied Palestinian territory was illegal (Source: agencies) welfare. And yes, the U.S. is cheerleading These propagandistic moves are be- the apparent outbreak of protests in Iran, ing run by directors of notorious social allegedly over the price hikes in the cost networks against pro-Iran accounts of Iranian gas to consumers. and hashtags over the last couple of Turkey hopes Iran protests will end Come on, Iranians, one must insist days, when protests erupted over a from afar, all must realize that the entire Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Most Iranian cities have been witnessing that are hurting the Iranian people and regional substantial rise in price of subsidized thinking, feeling, free world, the world on Tuesday that his country hoped the ongoing large demonstrations and protests over a gov- trade,” he remarked. gasoline in Iran. that abhors U.S. cruelty and economic popular demonstrations in Iran would end and ernment decision to raise fuel prices, in light of The Turkish minister noted that his country This is being done while Iranian me- sanctions, stands with Iran and yes, that stability would be restored as soon as possible. the continuing economic crisis, which has been was located in a geographic area full of chal- dia outlets are under a series of unfair includes standing with the leaders of the In a speech during the discussion over next year’s exacerbated by U.S. sanctions on Iran over its lenges, pointing out that Ankara must follow restrictions. Islamic Republic provided they maintain Turkish foreign budget in parliament on Monday, nuclear program. a multi-dimensional foreign policy, under the The main war against the Islamic es- their cool as they oppose U.S. and Zionist Cavusoglu said that Turkey maintained the policy Cavusoglu stressed that his country main- regional circumstances. tablishment of Iran is propaganda war. imperialism and sanctions? of “good-neighborliness” with Iran in a way that tained consultations with Iran on regional issues, Iran is Turkey’s main exporter of natural gas. It is an unfair war whose key tool is to Understand that, citing several exam- serves the common interests of the two countries. especially the Syrian crisis, which has been going Turkey also used to import crude oil from Iran, spread lies to the extent possible. They ples among many, the U.S. is not “with” He added that his country has strengthened on since 2011. but stopped imports in May in compliance with intentionally mix true and untrue reports. the people of Bolivia or Venezuela or the existing cooperation with Tehran in many “We have responded in a similar way to Iranian the U.S. sanctions, despite earlier criticism and Objectives Hong Kong or any other country UNLESS areas, most importantly trade, tourism, trans- criticism of our military operations in Syria, and assurances that it would not comply. *To induct hopelessness to the people U.S. government and corporate bidding portation and energy. expressed our opposition to sanctions against Iran (Source: aawsat.com) about their fate and future; is done completely, even if it means the *To induct the Islamic establishment’s cancellation of any real “democracy”. Re- inability in managing the country’s econ- alize that the U.S. was proclaiming after omy and security; the coup d’état in Bolivia that “democ- *To create a gap between people and Civilian, racy” had been restored to that country, the establishment, which is a miserable and sad joke since *To induct the establishment’s oppres- the new self- proclaimed, non-elected sive behavior towards the people; serviceman president is a blonde, non-native floozy.