WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13474 Saturday AUGUST 31, 2019 Shahrivar 9, 1398 Dhul Hijjah 29, 1440 Talks impossible unless Voice of Arak, Iran basketball capable Screenwriters select U.S. ends economic Hafttapeh workers of beating Puerto Rico, Iran’s top scripts terrorism 3 should be heard 3 coach says 15 of the year 16 Iran, Syria determined to expand trade ties TEHRAN — Iran and Syria’s first joint Eslami, The Chairman of Iran-Syria Joint Dictatorship stick trade committee meeting was held in Da- Economic Committee Keyvan Kashefi, and mascus on Wednesday, during which the Hassan Danaeifar, the advisor to Iran’s two sides stressed their willingness for first vice president and also the chairman further expansion of economic ties. of the Iranian committee on development According to the portal of Iran Chamber of economic relations with Syria and Iraq. of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agri- As reported, Eslami visited Syria on culture (ICCIMA), the event was attended top of a high-ranking delegation to attend on democracy by senior officials from both sides including the event and also to discuss expansion of Iranian Transport Minister Mohammad ties with Syrian officials. 4 See page 13 Iran has full control over its borders: IRGC chief TEHRAN — Chief of the IRGC Major the major missions of the IRGC,” he noted. General Salami said on Friday that Iran Elsewhere, Salami said that the Iranians has full control over its borders. will resist pressure. During a visit to the Northwestern “Economic resistance is possible borders of the country in East Azerbaijan through boosting production. province, he said the IRGC has complete He added, “We have decided to resist, intelligence dominance over border areas and this resistance is possible and simple and will give proper response to any act because the will of the Iranian nation, of aggression against the country. Leader and all sections of the system “Ensuring [border] security is among support it.” Israeli forces getting into Iraq on forged U.S. passports: Akram al-Kaabi TEHRAN — Senior Israeli forces are the Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital, Erbil. getting into Iraq on fake U.S. passports, “We are well aware that Israeli Iraq’s pro-government Harakat al-Nujaba [troops] are also present at the U.S. Secretary-General Akram al-Kaabi says. embassy as well as the Ein al-Assad “Israelis are entering Iraq using fake military base,” the popular resistance American passports,” al-Kaabi told Dejleh force chief said. news network on Thursday night. Certain efforts by a “foreign power” Recently, a female Israeli general en- are underway to revive the Daesh terror- File photo tered Iraq, he said, adding she currently ist group in the Arab country, al-Kaabi runs an Israeli military camp located in said. 13 EDITORIAL Prospect for INSTEX is not good: Paul Pillar ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW action to prevent this? What would be the possible reaction of Hamed Khani Tehran Times editor-in-chief Lawyer and member of the By Javad Heirannia A: The challenge for Europe has not changed Russia and China to reducing Iran’s commit- @ghaderi62 since the Trump administration reneged on U.S. ments under JCPOA? International Bar Association TEHRAN – Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA obligations under the JCPOA and, a year later, A: Russia and China also want to preserve intelligence analyst for 28 years, tells that the Iran began exceeding some of the limits of the the JCPOA. If Iran continues to exceed more The costs of European Europeans still want to save the JCPOA. agreement. The Europeans still want to save the of the nuclear limits, Russia and China will not Rights of migrant Pillar says “Doing so will require the Europe- JCPOA. Doing so will require the Europeans to impose additional sanctions of their own. They integration to the ans to facilitate enough commerce with Iran for facilitate enough commerce with Iran for Iranian regard the Trump administration’s imposition workers from Iranian leaders to conclude that their country leaders to conclude that their country is receiv- of new U.S. sanctions as the obvious cause of the White House is receiving enough economic benefit to make ing enough economic benefit to make continued agreement breaking down. Russia and China will perspective of Intl continued observance of the nuclear limits jus- observance of the nuclear limits justifiable. The seek to exploit the absence of Iranian dealings n one of his most recent statements, tifiable.” prospects for this happening are not good. The with the United States and any new conflict in Orgs French President Emmanuel Macron He also adds that “The prospects for this European governments mostly have the will Iranian-European relations by developing their has announced the end of U.S. and West- n the present age the expansion of in- I happening are not good.” but not the ability to make it happen. The gov- own relations with Iran, which they see in their ern hegemony in the international system. ternational interactions is preventing Following is the text of the interview: ernments do not control the private sector, and own economic interests. Russian President Pu- The remarks come as the EU and Eurozone it to ignore the presence of aliens in Iran has announced that it will implement most European businesses that are big enough tin also has a strategic interest in maintaining I are also facing a severe crisis of leadership. a country. Aliens have rights in every a third step to reduce its obligations under the to matter fear being shut out of the U.S. market reasonably good relations with all countries in Macron has warned Western nations country including the right to employ- JCPOA. Will Europe takes effective and convincing if they do business with Iran. the Middle East, including Iran. against the “strategic mistake” of alienating 13 ment or work. Although this right has Russia – but in doing so, he seeks a bigger been addressed in various transnational role for himself in international politics. documents, nowadays it is of interest to “We are living the end of Western hegem- Bargaining with Iran not like closing real estate deal: Dennis Ross various scientists including lawyers. So, ony,” Macron told diplomats, after hosting the subject that is briefly analyzed below; TEHRAN – Bargaining with Iran is not the cannot by itself compel changes in Iran’s regional comes from collective international pressure, the G7 meeting in the city of Biarritz on the rights of migrant workers from the same as a closing a real estate deal, according behavior,” it added. the prospect that negotiations can offer credible France’s Atlantic coast over the weekend. perspective of international organizations to a Washington Post article. The article also pointed out that Brian Hook, economic gains and the threat of meaningful He named the rise of Beijing and Moscow or in other words from the perspective An article by Dennis Ross and Dana Stroul the U.S. special representative for Iran, testified consequences for malign actions.” as signs of a shift on the world scene. of international documents adopted by published on Thursday argued that the Trump to Congress in June to argue that U.S. sanctions Tensions started to build up between the U.S. The reality is that the European Union international organizations, especially administration’s maximum-pressure campaign have led to cuts in Iran’s military budget in 2018 and Iran after U.S. President Donald Trump with- and the Eurozone, on the one hand, ac- the United Nations and the International on Iran is not working. and again in 2019. drew Washington from the 2015 deal, officially knowledge the end of Western hegemony, Labor Organization. “The administration has consistently made the Such purported budget reductions did not known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and in particular the United States, and on Definition of the migrant worker and argument that economic sanctions would deprive translate into reduced threats in the Strait of (JCPOA), in May 2018, and imposed sanctions the other hand, continue to be dominated its types the Iranian regime of money and that less money Hormuz earlier this year, the article said, point- against Tehran in a bid to put maximum pressure by Washington. The EU’s inactivity towards To analyze the above-mentioned issue; would mean less bad behavior and more concessions ing to Iran’s shooting down of an intruding U.S. on the Islamic Republic. The Trump administration Europe has led to anger and frustration It is necessary to provide a brief defini- at the negotiating table,” the article read. drone and other incidents. has also made empty calls for talks, but the Islamic among citizens. tion of the migrant worker; immigrant “The inescapable conclusion, after survey- In conclusion, the article said, “History tells Republic maintains that as long as the sanctions The EU and the Eurozone have a very worker is a person who immigrated to ing the region’s conflicts, is that a U.S. strategy us that Iran will not be sanctioned into chang- are in place and the U.S. refuses to return to the uncertain future. In other words, Amer- his or her own country or abroad to work based exclusively on starving Tehran of money ing its behavior. A successful policy of leverage JCPOA, negotiations will be meaningless. ica and Europe can no longer speak of in jobs such as seasonal work. What is international domination. certain, Immigrant workers usually do In such a situation, people like the not work permanently in one region or French President and German Chancel- country? Immigrant workers who work lor are worried about the future of the outside their borders, May be employed Eurozone and the European Union.