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Leader: Expediency Council should act President stresses importance of according to principles of revolution 2 attracting expatriate investment 2 Number 5730 ● Thursday September 14, 2017 ● Shahrivar 23, 1396 ● Zihijjah 23, 1438 ● Price 5,000 Rials ● 12 Pages ● www.irandailyonline.ir Maersk negotiating to develop South Pars Iran, Germany reach 4 ational Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) announced that finance deal in mining negotiations with Denmark’s Maersk Group over the Ndevelopment of South Pars oil production project is underway. Iran sends aid to Rohingya “Parallel talks have started with other multinationals to un- dertake the megaproject,” said Karim Zobeidi, the head of a special department at NIOC that oversees the performance of reservoirs, ISNA reported. Pointing to the $7.45 billion deal between the French en- ergy major Total and the Copenhagen-based giant that was concluded last month, Zobeidi said, “Because Total has pur- chased Maersk’s oil and gas business, we should follow the talks more prudently.” Late drama sends spirited 11 Continued on Page 4 Persepolis to ACL semis UK gov’t wins Parliament vote to ease Brexit agenda UUNN seeksseeks ‘massive’‘massive’ aidaid boostboost After navigating the first hurdle of a key Brexit bill, British 19th Iran Cinema Celebration Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday won another Parlia- 12 mentary vote which will help prevent opposition MPs from names winners blocking future legislation. aamidmid RRohingyaohingya ccrisisrisis MPs in the House of Commons voted by 320 to 301 in sup- port of a government motion to guarantee that it holds the majority of places on public bill committees, AFP reported IRNA on Wednesday. Aid agencies have to step up operations similar security crackdown in western agency access to the north of Rakhine. The move by the ruling Conservative Party was aimed at French PM shrugs off “massively” in response to the arrival Myanmar’s Rakhine state. wresting control of key committees which scrutinize draft in Bangladesh of about 400,000 refu- Many of the new arrivals are hungry Iranian aid laws, which could define how Britain withdraws from the gees fleeing violence in Myanmar, and and sick, without shelter or clean water European Union. labor protests, the amount of money needed to help in the middle of the rainy season. Iran said it will send a diplomatic Membership of the committees normally reflects the com- them has risen sharply, a senior UN of- “We have an emergency within an delegation and humanitarian aid to position of the Commons, meaning that any majority govern- ficial said on Wednesday. emergency with conditions in existing Bangladesh on Thursday to be sent to ment should be guaranteed control, assuming none of their truckers call strike The influx of Muslim Rohingya to camps,” he said, pointing to a mud- the Muslims in Myanmar. own MPs rebel. French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe Bangladesh began on Aug. 25 with a clogged road in the camp. “The delegation, headed by Deputy shrugged off nationwide protests against sweeping military crackdown in Bud- Last week, the United Nations ap- Foreign Minister for Asia and Oceania planned reforms to France’s strict labor regula- dhist-majority Myanmar which the UN pealed for $77 million to cope with the Affairs Ebrahim Rahimpour, along with tions, saying on Wednesday he was “listening” rights agency said was a “textbook ex- crisis but Okoth-Obbo said that would a team of Iran’s Red Crescent Society but would nonetheless press ahead with the bill. ample of ethnic cleansing”, Reuters re- not now be enough. which carries the Islamic Republic of In a sign that popular protest could gain mo- ported. “The appeal that was issued of $77 Iran’s humanitarian aid to the Myanmar mentum, truck drivers belonging to France’s “We will all have to ramp up our re- million on behalf of the aid agencies Muslims is due to travel to Bangladesh second and third largest unions said they would sponse massively, from food to shel- was based on the situation as it was on Thursday and provide the aid to the launch a rolling strike on Sept. 25 to force the ter,” George William Okoth-Obbo, roughly about two weeks ago,” he Myanmar refugees via Bangladesh,” government into a reversal. Trucker strikes pre- assistant high commissioner for op- said. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram viously brought large parts of France to a halt, erations at the UN refugee agency said “There were only 100,000 people Qassemi said on Wednesday. hurting the economy, Reuters wrote. during a visit to the Kutupalong refu- then. We are already four times that fig- He also added that Iran’s envoy to More than 200,000 trade unionists turned out gee camp in Bangladesh. ure now. The funds need clearly is go- Thailand who is the country’s accred- on Tuesday for the first mass protests against The United Nations said Wednesday ing to continue.” ited ambassador to Myanmar will also the labor market reforms on Tuesday, part of some 379,000 Rohingya Muslims have He declined to say if he thought aid meet the Myanmar foreign ministry AFP a series of measures on Macron’s agenda for fled Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state agencies were getting proper access to officials and inform them of Iran’s po- But the Conservatives lost their majority in a June snap change. Others, including reform to the unem- for Bangladesh since new violence the conflict zone in Myanmar, though sitions on the current developments in election, requiring them to reach an informal deal with a ployment benefits and pension systems, are erupted. he said it was important to ensure that the country. smaller party in order to govern, but this does not extend to likely to be even more contested. But Okoth-Obbo estimated the figure people were safe where they were. According to Qassemi, the Iranian committee membership. The government plans to adopt the decrees on was now 400,000. “Of course, also that access is pro- envoy will also inform the Myanmar Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Sept. 22. Bangladesh was already home to vided to all the responders to provide officials of Iran’s concerns about the government’s attempt to change the rules was an “unprec- “I am listening and I am paying attention. But about 400,000 Rohingya, who fled ear- humanitarian assistance,” he added. situation of Rohingya Muslims. edented attempt to rig Parliament”. let me state that the French, when they vote, also lier conflict in Myanmar including a Myanmar has restricted most aid Continued on Page 2 Had the government lost Tuesday’s vote, Labour would have a right to be treated with respect,” Philippe have been able to block future legislation in the committee told France 2 television. “And the reform that stage, regardless of whether it could pass on the floor of the we are putting in place was announced by the Commons. president at the time of his election.” Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom said the change to the Labor unions have thwarted previous at- Resurgent Iran stuns USA membership of committees would enable the government to tempts by governments on the political right push ahead with Brexit. and left to weaken France’s strict labor code. In Milad Ebadipour boosted the confidence of “If the government has a working majority to pass legisla- a change of tack, Macron’s administration spent Iran to record a 3-2 (20-25, 17-25, 27-25, 25- tion on the floor of the House, then the government should weeks negotiating its proposals with union 21, 15-12) win over USA in the FIVB Volley- also be able to make progress with legislation in commit- bosses over the summer. ball Men’s World Grand Champions Cup at tees,” she told Parliament. Last month, the government set out meas- the Nippon Gaishi Hall on Wednesday. “We’re getting on with the task set for us by voters, hon- ures including a cap on payouts for dismissals Having been contained by USA in the first oring the result of both the EU referendum and the general judged unfair and greater freedom for compa- two sets, Ebadipour stepped up on offence election,” Leadsom said. nies to hire and fire. The reform makes no direct and finished with 18 points, fivb.com report- But for the Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael, the reference to the 35-hour week, a totem of the la- ed. vote amounted to the Conservatives “hijacking Parliament”. bor code, though it hands firms more flexibility Amir Ghafour and Mohammad-Javad “It is a bitter irony that Brexiteers who spent their careers to set pay and working conditions. Manavinejad were among the Iranian play- championing parliamentary sovereignty have now chosen to Macron, a 39-year-old former banker, in- ers who played a vital role in the comeback, sell it down the river,” he said. advertently fueled worker anger when he de- scored 15 and 11 points, respectively. Mat- “This willful eroding of Parliament’s ability to scrutinize clared on a trip to Athens that he “would cede no thew Anderson and Taylor Sander made 17 legislation sets a deeply worrying precedent.” ground to slackers, cynics and hardliners.” points apiece on a losing effort. The government has repeatedly been accused of trying to The Elysee Palace said his comments were Iran maintained its clean win-record, while bypass Parliament in implementing Brexit. aimed at political leaders who had shirked am- USA dropped to 1-1 in the 2017 edition of the It failed, for instance, in a court bid to give ministers, rath- bitious reform in the past, but union leaders and World Grand Champions Cup.