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WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 8 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13821 Monday NOVEMBER 30, 2020 Azar 10, 1399 Rabi’ Al thani 14, 1442 MPs pass plan to nullify Persepolis coach Nine Iranian places Iran leading the sanctions, boost nuclear Golmohammadi extends where the slopes world in ‘science capabilities Page 2 contract Page 3 are less skied Page 6 diplomacy’ Page 7 ‘Majlis focusing on 20% uranium, expelling IAEA inspectors, leaving JCPOA’ Implementation of Additional TEHRAN – A senior Iranian lawmaker Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). has vowed to significantly raise uranium Fereydoun Abbasidavani, the head of enrichment level and cease Iran’s coop- the Parliament Energy Committee, said in eration with the United Nations’ nuclear a tweet that the martyrdom of Fakhrizadeh See page 3 watchdog in response to the assassination will change the Parliament’s approach of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. toward the nuclear issue. Protocol on the line Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 59, was killed Abbasidavani, who was chief of the on Friday in a terrorist attack involving Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) at least one explosion and small fire by from February 2011 to August 2013, nar- a number of assailants in Absard city of rowly survived an assassination attempt Damavand County, Tehran Province. Sev- in northern Tehran in November 2010. eral Iranian officials called for an end to He holds PhD in nuclear physics. Iran’s cooperation with the International Continued on page 3 Monthly non-oil trade balance of $118m achieved TEHRAN — Iran’s non-oil trade balance He said 10.248 million tons of com- was $118 million during the eighth Iranian modities have been exported from Iran, calendar month of Aban (October 22-No- and 2.549 million tons of goods have been vember 20), the spokesman of the Islamic imported to the country in the mentioned Republic of Iran Customs Administration month. (IRICA) announced. As announced by the IRICA head, the Ruhollah Latifi put the country’s non-oil value of Iran’s non-oil trade during the trade at $6.302 billion during the eighth first eight months of the current Iranian month, of which $3.21 billion was the calendar year (March 20-November 20) share of exports, while imports stood at reached $44.6 billion. $3.092 billion. Continued on page 4 National Commission for UNESCO to organize Afghan art festival in December TEHRAN – The Iranian National Com- the victims of the ISIS terrorist attack mission for UNESCO plans to organize on Kabul University in early November. an Afghan art festival during December. The showcase will put on view paint- The Afghan Art Week will be held on the ings, miniatures, photos, graphic de- Asghar Khamseh theme of “My Beloved, Where Are You?” signs, calligraphy works, traditional The commission will organize the musical instruments and artworks in virtual exhibit, which will open on De- other media. IRNA/ cember 12, to express its sympathy with Continued on page 8 COVID-19 control An assassination has made a dark Mideast Professor Falk: Fakhrizadeh assassination ‘is an in Iran better than darker than ever… outrageous act of state terrorism’ expected BY MARTIN LOVE Mideast (West Asia), and so the aim is to reduce BY M.A. SAKI Bank on November 19 to present himself as Joe Biden’s up and coming “climate” czar John sovereign countries to vassalage and penury. Al- TEHRAN – Richard Anderson Falk, an “the most ardent champion of Israel” as he BY FARANAK BAKHTIARI Kerry has claimed the reason Russia came to ready the world in this century has seen millions American professor of international law at intends to run for president in 2024. TEHRAN – Health Minister Saeed Syria’s aid several years ago was because ISIS of innocents murdered in the region. And the as- Princeton University, says the assassination Following is the text of the interview: Namaki has said that the situation of was threatening Damascus. And he also more sassination on November 27 of one of Iran’s top of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh “is On November 19, Mike Pompeo coronavirus containment in the coun- or less admitted to the U.S. role assisting ISIS nuclear scientists, almost certainly by Mossad or an outrageous act of state terrorism”. toured the West Bank and the Golan try is better than expected contrary to because the U.S. thought Syria might thus be its proxies, really has very little to do with a nuclear Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in a complicat- Heights. How do you analyze the visits forecasts, and fortunately, new cases brought to the negotiating table. But what has weapons program in Iran that in fact does not exist. ed terrorist attack in a small city 40 kilometers to these two occupied lands in terms and deaths are declining. been most elusive in this carnage, a decade long Here’s the problem: expertise with nuclear northeast of Tehran on Friday, Nov. 27. of international law? The coronavirus control in the coun- in Syria that continues with Zionist strikes on science and even its use for energy and medicine, Israel is the prime suspect for the assas- A: Given the timing of Pompeo visit, so try, especially in the cities where re- Syria that have gone unchallenged by the U.S. even when it’s not directed to weapons specifical- sination of the scientist. shortly followed by the shocking assassina- strictions were imposed, is improving, and the EU, is an adequate explanation as to why ly, gives a country like Iran the potential nuclear “This act can be viewed as a provocation of tion of the leading nuclear scientific figure, Namaki noted. Syria under popular Assad ever constituted a real weapons. The JCPOA was and remains, if only it sufficient magnitude, to push tensions toward Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, makes one whether Although it was predicted that this threat to anyone in the Middle East (West Asia). would be resurrected by a U.S. return to the deal a regional war,” Falk tells the Tehran Times the real strategic purpose of the visit was [Iranian calendar] month (November Was it a threat because Syria has long hoped and the elimination of sanctions, an effective bar in an exclusive interview. either to be told about the planned attack or 21-December 20), mortality will reach that the Golan would be returned to Syria? Not to a shift of Iranian nuclear expertise to weapons. Professor Falk, who also served as the to encourage it. We have no way of knowing 800 to 1,000 per day, fortunately, it is likely. Or that Syria has long condemned Israeli The mere fact that the U.S. scuttled the deal bares UN Special Rapporteur on “the situation of beyond the circumstantial evidence suggesting facing a downward trend falling below apartheid and land theft? Not likely. the Trumpist aims: incite Iran to respond as a human rights in the Palestinian territories some level of linkage between the visit and 400, which is a great and honorable The answer actually is quite simple. The U.S. pretext for a U.S./Israel/Saudi/UAE war on Iran. occupied since 1967”, says U.S. Secretary of the assassination. achievement, he emphasized. and the Zionists want to remain dominant in the Continued on page 2 State Mike Pompeo visited the occupied West Continued on page 5 However, for the quarantine of patients who are financially struggling, over 40,000 beds in hotels, and guesthouses are need- ed, he stated. Saudi Arabia’s abominable human rights record Tel Aviv concerned Lockdown moves cities out of BY STEPHEN LENDMAN Its documented high crimes include state-spon- forced jailed women’s rights activists to perform that Yemeni missiles “red” zone Like the U.S., Israel and other rogue states, the Saudis sored murder, torture, arbitrary arrests and sex acts, hung them from ceilings and ‘tortured’ Strict COVID-19 restrictions which operate by their own rules in flagrant violation of detentions, supporting ISIS and other terrorist them with electric shocks,” citing a report, titled: may target Israel: took effect on October 26 have caused international laws, norms and standards. It’s the groups, partnering in U.S. regional wars, banning “A Stain on World Leaders and the G20 Summit 87 out of 89 infected cities to get out of world’s head-chopping/public whippings capital. free elections, denying due process and judicial in Saudi Arabia: The shameful detention and Yemeni analyst the high-risk “red” zone. Anyone can be targeted for exercising free expression, fairness, prohibiting religious freedom, human torture of Saudi women.” BY MOHAMMAD MAZHARI The National Headquarters for Coro- human rights activism, or other forms of dissent trafficking, kidnappings, committing crimes of The report explained that in May 2018, “10 TEHRAN – A Yemeni analyst says that the missile navirus Control started strict restrictions against despotic rule. They’re also vulnerable for war and against humanity, along with virtually human rights defenders who had successfully strike on Aramco by Yemenis is meant to send a in 43 cities that had the highest rate of not praying at designated times, improper dress every other rule of law breach imaginable. campaigned” to end the prohibition against women signal that Ansarullah can hit targets inside Israel. infection in the country. Ten days later, code, non-observance of gender segregation, and In mid-November, the London Daily Mail driving were arrested and detained. Hamid Rizq, a Yemeni journalist and analyst decisions were made to set new limitations other nonconformity with Wahhabi extremism.