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Bombardier, Siemens Tehran, willing to boost share Iranian MPs reaffirm Beijing ink of Iran market long-term oil EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW support for Hezbollah co-op MOU By Mahnaz Abdi ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran’s Like many other international companies, Bombardier Inc. POLITICAL TEHRAN — Iranian ing the Islamic Republic’s support for commander Mustafa Badreddine in desk deskOil Ministry and Chi- and Siemens AG are willing to develop their activity in the MPs wrote a letter to the Lebanese resistance group. Syria. na’s National Energy Administration Iranian market in the post-sanction time, although they Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed The letter, signed by 251 legislators, The MPs expressed condolences over signed a five-year memorandum of consider banking barriers, which are still in place, an ob- Hassan Nasrallah on Monday reaffirm- followed the death of top Hezbollah the martyrdom of Badreddine. 2 understanding (MOU) for cooperation stacle getting in the way. in oil industry, Shana news agency re- The following is what some directors of the two inter- ported on Sunday. national giants that are participating in Iran RAILEXPO Amir Hossein Zamaninia, Iran’s 2016 (running from May 15 to 18 in Tehran) told the Teh- deputy oil minister for international ran Times. affairs, and Zhang Yuqing, the deputy ‘Bombardier interested to participate in upcoming head of China’s National Energy Ad- opportunities’ ministration, signed the MOU in Teh- “Now, after having a new situation (lifting of sanctions) ran on Sunday. we as many others have an interest to participate in the “The MOU covers various fields in- upcoming opportunities and when you see the number of cluding crude oil and gas condensate exhibitors and particularly the foreign participants, you see exploration and development, oil and there is an appetite of the outside industry to participate in gas equipment manufacturing and in- the Iranian market opportunities,” said Dieter Brandenburg, vestment in various oil, gas, refining the chief representative of Bombardier in Iran. and petrochemical projects,” Zamanin- Questioned about the changes he observes in Iran af- ia said. ter the sanctions, he said, “The obvious change to me is to Also on Monday, Iran’s Oil Minis- see really more foreigners in Tehran. So many delegations ter Bijan Namdar Zanganeh met with are travelling to Iran to really evaluate the market oppor- Zhang Yuqing in Tehran. tunities,” although he added, “I must underline ‘evaluate’ Addressing the press after the because you have a lot of potential, yes, many times peo- meeting, the Iranian minister ex- ple are saying that you should provide also financing, and pressed satisfaction with the signed financing is still an issue for the present situation for many MOU and said, “Iran and China projects, because there are still some limitations and re- have a very good relationship in strictions in terms of financial transactions.” Amir Hossein Bandi energy sector and we hope for ex- “Apart from the financial issue, I really don’t see a panding the relations in post-sanc-

downside in business in Iran. I really see the potential and I IRNA/ tions setting”. really see the opportunities foreign companies have and I Zanganeh also noted, “In the MOU, see the way Iran is playing its part is right in terms of trying Iran and Italy held an economic committee meeting at Espinas Palace in Tehran on Monday. The meeting was headed by we have emphasized the manufactur- to develop its industry. I really see a positive trend, but Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs Majid Takhtravanchi and Italian Undersecretary of State ing of equipment in Iran and it was again financial part is still an issue,” Brandenburg noted. for Foreign Affairs Vincenzo Amendola. Takhtravanchi told the meeting that the U.S. has not abided by its commitments to the July 2015 decided that the Chinese companies See page 4 nuclear deal to the extent required. invest in the country”. Renovating Abadan Refinery and developing the second phases of North Azadegan and Yadavaran oil fields, all in south- ARTICLE Iranian security originates from inside, Zarif says west of Iran, managing flare gases, petrochemical projects and financial By Bijan Bonakdar and Roozbeh Aliabadi POLITICAL TEHRAN — Foreign The Judiciary establishes security issues were among other important deskMinister Mohammad through countering crimes and creating topics discussed in the meeting, the Iran and the next U.S. president Javad Zarif said on Monday that Iran is a “mental atmosphere” in which the cit- minister added. independent and its security is rooted izens feel secure, he said. he Middle East presents variety of complicated part- inside the country. The chief diplomat also said that Tnerships for the next United States president. In re- During a conference on role of court some of Iran’s neighbors are depend- PERSPECTIVE cent years, the U.S. has been experiencing a strate- in protecting the civil rights, he said that ent on the other countries to establish gic reversal of its position in the Middle East. In the past, a combination of military and economic security, but Iran is independent in this By Mahmood Monshipouri Washington’s posture in the region was more assertive capabilities gives a country power. respect. Professor of San Francisco but more recently it has shifted towards greater restraint, State University and University particularly during Barack Obama’s second term. However, German, Iranian panel discussion on Cold War to launch in Tehran of California, Berkeley it appears that neither postures have particularly worked well for the United States. TEHRAN — Co-hosted by the Ahmadi from the University. The exhibition, developed The ABM system and Today, nationalism, religious fanaticism, and political ex- Faculty of History of the University and Mr. Kaveh Bayat will take a closer by the Berlin Centre for Cold War tremism are on the rise and will complicate the future of sta- of Tehran and the German Embas- look at the economic, social and politi- Studies and the Federal Foundation the reemergence of bility in the Middle East. Furthermore, the traditional allies of sy, a panel discussion on the Cold cal effects of the Cold War on Iran and for the Reappraisal of the SED Dic- the U.S. have difficult relations with Washington. There are War will provide an opportunity to Germany. tatorship, offers an overview of the the U.S.-Russia Cold ongoing civil wars and unrest in at least five countries where learn more about the conflict which The panel discussion of German global causes and consequences of War the U.S. has either directly or indirectly supported regime shaped an important part of the and Iranian historians complements the Cold War. change (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, and Syria). At its 20th century. the exhibition “The Cold War: Caus- The event will take place at the he deployment of the ABM current state, the Syrian civil war in particular risks creating The German historian Dr. Ulrich es–History-Impact” currently on dis- Central Library of Tehran University on system (the so-called “Aegis” even greater regional sectarian conflict. And U.S. tradition- Mahlert and his Iranian colleagues Prof. play at the Central Library of Tehran Wednesday, May 18 at 3 p.m. T ballistic missile system) in Ro- al partners throughout the region are more vulnerable than mania has resurrected fears of the they were just a few years ago. old rivalry between the United States 9 Sanat Naft promoted to Iran Professional League and Russia because these new U.S. SPORTS Sanat Naft Abadan them and move them two points bases are located in formally War- “Muhammad(S)” declared Iran’s deskhas secured promo- clear of Fajr Sepasi in the Azade- saw Pact countries dating back to tion to the Iran Professional League gan league. the Cold War and the former Soviet box office hit of the year with a 2-1 win over Fajr Sepasi Shiraz Paykan and Machine Sazi had al- Union. The United States claims that on Monday. ready secured their promotions to the these anti-ballistic missile systems are aimed at protecting only against ARTTEHRAN — “Muhammad (S), the Messen- Two goals from Mohammad IPL. desk Shadkam and Amin Zaleykani The trio will replace Esteghlal Ahvaz, “rogue” states, and countries like Iran ger of God”, renowned Iranian director Ma- that have developed or could possi- jid Majidi’s latest film about the Prophet of Islam (S), became were enough for Abadan-based Rah Ahan and Malavan in the Iranian team to seal maximum points for Professional League. bly develop new capabilities to de- Iran’s box office hit of the year after grossing over $1.8 million liver long-range delivery vehicles for at Iranian movie theaters, the Farabi Cinema Foundation an- chemical, explosive, or nuclear-based nounced on Sunday. Iran ready to support Algeria’s economy diversification process ordinance. Russian officials, by con- trast, have expressed deep suspicions Iranian officials affirmed Monday in nian Chamber of Commerce Mohsen In this regard, Jalalpour expressed that the ABM system is actually a plan Tehran that their country is ready to Jalalpour underlined the huge poten- his country’s willingness to help Algeria to counter Russian nuclear missile support Algeria in the economy diver- tials possessed by the two countries through visits of experts in order to de- capabilities and gain a pronounced sification process, notably in the sectors to achieve this objective, namely in the fine bilateral projects of partnership. strategic advantage over them—and of industry and mines, agriculture, me- sectors of industry and mines, agricul- He added that Iran has the required not to safeguard Europe and the chanical industry and housing. ture, mechanical industry, housing, en- potentials to achieve this goal, besides it Middle East from Iranian missiles. During the second Algerian-Iranian ergy, steel industry, , pharma- represents a gateway between Central Asia The NATO military and alli- (Source: AllAfrica.com) Business Forum, President of the Ira- ceutical industry and car industry. and MENA region. ance-based expansion to Eastern Eu- rope has rekindled new fears among Tehran can become Russia’s major trade partner in absence of Turkey Russian officials, who have warned against the unintended consequenc- Iran’s minister of Commu- willing to increase ties with foreign rivals and have active comprehensive set of sanc- es. Meanwhile, the United States nications and Information Tehran, said. presence in the domestic and tions against Turkey after the Saman Moqaddam’s comedy drama “Sperm Whale” with has asserted that the establishment Technology said Tehran can The head of Iran-Russia international markets, Vaezi incident. The import of Turk- $1.4 million comes next and Masud Jafari-Jozani’s comedy of an $800 million missile shield in replace Turkey as Russia’s Joint Economic Commission added. Relations between ish foodstuffs and other ag- “Iran Burger” stands third earning about $857,000. Romania is defensive in nature and major trade partner, official also said that Turkey may Russia and Turkey have ricultural products to Russia “In Specified Time” directed by Vahid Amirkhani, “Guin- that the site is operational and ca- IRNA news agency reported lose 4.5 billion US dollars soured after Turkish forces have been curtailed. Charter ness” by Mohsen Tanabandeh and “I’m Not Salvador” by Ma- pable of shooting down rockets from on Sunday. each year due to the Russian shot down a Russian Su-24 flights in both directions have nuchehr Hadi took the fourth to sixth places. countries such as Iran that could po- Russia has downed its sanctions. Following the nu- jet near the Turkish-Syrian been halted, and the visa-free “Crazy Castle” by Abolhassan Davudi, “Time to Love” by tentially reach major European cities economic relations with Tur- clear deal, Iranian business- border on Nov. 24, 2015 for regime between the two Alireza Raisian, “Princess of Rome” by Hadi Mohammadian, in the near future. key due to some political men should seize the oppor- alleged airspace violation. countries has been suspend- “The Ice Age” by Mostafa Kiai and “Absolute Rest” by Abdor- 9 reza Kahani were among the list of Iran’s box office hits. problems and Moscow is tunity to compete with their Russia has imposed a ed. (Source: Xinhua) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y NATION 2 MMAYAY 117,7, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/international

MEDIA MONITOR Iranian special committee releases Makarem Shirazi reprimands Faezeh report on U.S. seizure of Iranian assets Hashemi for meeting Bahaists Committee suggests taking 2$b issue to Supreme National Security Council POLITICAL THERAN — TEHRAN — The spe- Finally, the communique lists a num- Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi on deskcial committee tasked ber of other unfair rulings issued and Monday rebuked Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of Ak- with looking into the U.S. seizure of $2 passed against the Islamic Republic over bar Hashemi Rafsanjani, for meeting Bahai figures. billion of Iranian assets issued its 16-page the past years. The grand ayatollah said the meeting is a crime report on Monday, branding the action In a tour of Kerman province on May ISNA and is religiously indictable, ISNA reported. as “international banditry”. 10 President said the for- Rafsanjani, currently chairman of the Expediency The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on April mer government had about ten-month Council, also criticized Faezeh, saying she “should 20 that almost $2 billion in frozen Irani- time between 2007 to 2008 to withdraw make up” for what she did. an assets must be turned over to Amer- the sum from the “hands of America” but ican families of people killed in the 1983 why it did not happen is a matter of ques- General Soleimani bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks tion. visits Badreddin in Beirut and other attacks allegedly The ruling has come in for strong flak family blamed on Iran. from Iranian officials including Rouhani President Rouhani had tasked the who threatened to take the United States committee with investigating the case in to international arbitration over case, TEHRAN — Quds Force Commander Qassem more details, headed by Economy Minis- vowing Iran will spare no efforts in up- Soleimani met on Monday the family of Hezbollah ter Ali Tayyebnia. holding the people’s rights. commander Mustafa Badreddin who was martyred The money, which belongs to the Cen- Denouncing the seizure of the frozen in a mortar attack in Syria last week. tral Bank of Iran (CBI), had been blocked money back from Washington. gence, questioning it for not acting se- assets as “highway robbery,” Foreign Min- Soleimani met the martyred commander’s fam- under U.S. sanctions before the court rul- “The act shows the U.S. violation of in- riously. ister Zarif has vowed to retrieve the sum ing. anyway.

AKHBAR ily at their home in Beirut, Al-Akhbar reported. Ac- ternational law and its confrontation with The document recommends the gov- cording to the paper, the general said the death Condemning the court’s vote, the re- justice in international arena,” the report ernment to consider the issue in the Su- This is the first serious confrontation of Badreddin is a great loss to the Islamic ummah. port sees it in breach of the Foreign Sov- says. preme National Security Council, which between Tehran and Washington after ereign Immunities Act (FSIA), calling for The report also reprimands the Ah- addresses only subjects with a national the successful signing of the nuclear deal ‘Principlists were taking whatsoever measures to get the madinejad administration for its negli- scope. in July 2105. influential in ratifying vital legislations’ Iran calls on world to end Israeli plots against Palestinians POLITICAL TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Ministry of the world of Islam but some Arab countries in the TEHRAN — The leader of the principlist parlia- deskissued a statement on Monday calling Mideast region are ignoring Israel’s crimes. mentary group has said his group played a decisive for an international campaign against the Zionist regime The issue has caused concerns for the Palestinians role in approving many vital legislations. of Israel’s plots against the Palestinian people. and liberal thinkers in the world, the statement added. Qolam-Ali Haddad Adel made the remarks in a The statement said that Iran supports the Palestini- The statement also said the “strategic objective” of making ISNA goodbye meeting of the group on Monday, as the ans’ “solidarity and national reconciliation” in countering efforts to end the occupation of Palestine and boost the coun- current Majlis term is running out, ISNA reported. the Zionist regime. try’s national unity will lead to defeat of the Zionist regime. Israel’s actions in occupying Palestine, executing the On 15 May, 1948, Israel declared independence, the U.S. conceded defeat innocent Palestinians and expanding settlement are men- date recognized as Nakba Day. by firing Navy officer, tioned in the statement as examples of Israel’s crimes. During the 1948 Palestinian war, an estimated 700,000 The statement said that Israel is making efforts to Palestinians fled or were expelled, and hundreds of Pales- Iranian general says marginalize the Palestine issue which is the first priority tinian towns and villages were depopulated and destroyed.

TEHRAN — The U.S. Navy’s decision to strip the commander of a squadron whose sailors were cap- Iranian MPs reaffirm support for Hezbollah tured by the IRGC after straying into the Iranian terri- 1 sult of artillery bombardment carried out Strategic Center of the General Staff of torial waters in January signifies that Washington has “Fighting the occupying Zionists and by takfiri groups in the area,” Hezbollah the Armed Forces have sent messages of-

TASNIM conceded defeat, a top Iranian general believes. Takfiri groups is the art of the great men said in a statement. fering condolences over the death of the Speaking to Tasnim, Ahmad Vahidi, head of the and today Hezbollah is shining like a sun The statement said the death “will in- commander. Strategic Center of the General Staff of the Armed in the sky of jihad and resistance by lead- crease our determination... to continue According to the Lebanese news- Forces, said Americans sacked the commander to ership of you and the sparkle of its lights the fight against these criminal gangs and paper Al-Akhbar, IRGC Quds Force make up for the disgrace they faced after the IRGC will shine the world,” the letter read out. defeat them”. chief General Qassem Soleimani has captured U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf. Badreddine was martyred in a blast at On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister said the death of Badreddine is a loss The former defense minister went on to say that a base near Damascus airport by artillery also wrote a let- for the Islamic ummah. The general Americans suffered a “psychological defeat” after shells, Hezbollah said on Friday. ter of condolence to Nasrallah, relaying to made remarks after he met with the the IRGC’s great job. “Investigations have showed that the him “that martyrdom of this great com- family of Badreddine in Beirut on Sat- explosion, which targeted one of our bas- mander Mustafa will further strengthen fense Minister Hossein Dehqan, Majlis urday night. “Iran to resume es near Damascus International Airport, resistance forces against the Zionist and Speaker Ali Larijani, senior politician Ali Badreddine was believed to have nuclear work with and which led to the martyrdom of Com- terrorism.” Akbar Velayati, and Ahmad Vahidi former commanded Hezbollah’s military opera- ‘higher speed’ if West mander Mustafa Badreddine, was the re- Other Iranian officials including De- defense minister and current chief of the tions in Syria. violates deal” TEHRAN — A senior Judiciary official called on Aref says employment and livelihood are major challenges Western countries not to violate or undermine a POLITICAL TEHRAN — Mohammad Reza bent Parliament speaker Ali Larijani who won a recent deal between Iran and world powers on deskAref, a senior reformist who se- re-election in the religious city of Qom, had ear- Tehran’s nuclear program. cured the heaviest share of public backing in the lier said he would form a bloc named “Hope” in Speaking in Tehran on Monday, Mohammad Ja- NASIM metropolis of Tehran in the February parliamen- the next parliament which will start its work on vad Larijani, head of the Judiciary department for tary elections, said on Monday that employment May 28. human rights, noted that Iran has made major ac- and livelihood are the major challenges the coun- Aref also said he saw the Hope bloc and moderate complishments in the field of nuclear technology try is grappling with. and independent MPs in the same camp. but put some restrictions on its nuclear program “The most concerned issue of the people and coun- The reformist figure had also vowed to seek change under the deal, Nasim reported. try is employment and livelihood,” the former vice presi- of tack in the upcoming parliament, citing people’s hope He warned Western countries against impairing dent said on Monday, speaking to a gathering attended for a different parliament. the deal otherwise Iran would resume its previous by heads of different political factions and a number of Earlier, Aref had called for more harmony between work “at a much higher speed”. lawmakers-elect. the upcoming parliament and government to address Iran promises more Aref, who is seen to be the main rival to incum- issues such as unemployment, inflation, etc. drills in response to U.S. opposition Zarif to attend Syria meeting in Vienna Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Ja- on January 16. The two sides signed the agreed to use their influence with the Syr- John Kerry and Italian Foreign Minister TEHRAN — vad Zarif is set to attend the meeting of agreement on July 14, 2015 following two ian government and militant groups, re- Paolo Gentiloni co-chaired international Commander of the IRGC Aerospace the International Syria Support Group and a half years of intensive talks. spectively, to reinforce a shaky Syria-wide talks on Libya. Force has blasted the U.S. for expressing opposition (ISSG), which will be convened in the Aus- Under the JCPOA, all nuclear-related cessation of hostilities. Participants included representatives to Iran’s military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf, say- trian capital of Vienna to discuss the latest sanctions imposed on Iran by the Eu- SySyriaria has been ggrippedripped bbyy forfor- from a host of European and Mid- ing the Islamic Republic will stage more war games developments in Syria. ropean Union, the Security Council and eign-backedeign-backed militancmilitancyy since March dledle EasternEastern nations and interna- FARS in response to Washington’s opposition. Heading a political delegation, Zarif the US were lifted. Iran has, in return, 2011. UN Special EnvoyEnvoy for SSyr-yr- tionaltional ororganizationsga including the “We will not cancel any drills and will improve them is scheduled to leave Tehran for Vienna put some limitations on its nuclear ac- ia StaffanStaffan de MMisturaistura eestimatesstimates EU, the UNUN, the Arab League and and make them more frequent,” Amir Ali Hajizadeh later on Monday. tivities. thatthat over 400,000 ppeopleeople have thethe AfriAfricancan Union. told reporters in Tehran on Monday, Fars reported. On the sidelines of the ISSG meeting, Iran, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Ara- been killed in the conflictconflict,, which The statedst objective of the He underlined that facing the U.S. failure in com- the Iranian team might hold talks with bia as well as representatives of the has furthermore displaced ttalksalk is providing support plying with its undertakings under the nuclear deal European and US officials about ways to European Union and the Arab League over half of Syria’sSyria’s pre-warpre-war ffor the government of Iranian officials attach more importance to making remove obstacles in the way of imple- are among countries participating in populationpopulation of about 23 Prime Minister Fayez progress in different fields, including military areas, menting last year’s nuclear agreement the ISSG meeting on Tuesday. The million.million. al Sarraj in its fight to defend the country. reached between Iran and the P5+1 17-nation ISSG aims to discuss the AlAlsoso iinn ViViennaenna against Daesh ter- group of countries, known as the Joint stalled negotiations, challenges in on Monday,Monday, US rorists and advanc- Croatia’s president Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). maintaining the February ceasefire SecretaryS ecretary ing further political due in Iran Iran and the five permanent members of and the UN delivery of humanitar- ofof StateState support to his Gov- the UN Security Council – the United States, ian aid to various areas across the ernment of National France, Britain, China and Russia – plus war-ravaged country. Accord. Germany started implementing the JCPOA Russia and the United States have (Source: Press TV) TEHRAN — The Croatian president is due in Teh- ran on Tuesday upon an official visit by her Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. Official says Western media ignoring realities in Iran Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic is slated to arrive in Iran POLITICAL TEHRAN — in the afternoon and will stay three days, IRNA re- Keyvan Khosravi, spokes- During a meeting with a German media delegation ignored by the Western media outlets, he remarked.

IRNA desk ported. She is leading a politico-economic delega- man of the Supreme National Security in Tehran, he said that the Western media do not cover Pointing to the nuclear agreement between Iran and tion prepared to sign several MOUs with a similar Council, said on Monday that media should win “trust” many realities in Iran. the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN body of Iranian officials. otherwise they will lose their influence in convincing the Democracy in Iran, inefficiency of the sanctions, and de- Security Council plus Germany), he said that the West public opinion. velopments in the country are the realities that have been had no choice but negotiating with Iran. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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Al-Qaeda turns to Syria, with a plan NEWS S. Korea, U.S., Japan plan to challenge ISIL joint drills on N. Korean threat Al-Qaeda’s top leadership in Pakistan, tary among al-Qaeda and al-Nusra Front South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold their first has decided that the terrorist group’s members. joint military training next month focused on cooperating to future lies in Syria and has secretly dis- One of the operatives Western intel- detect signs of missile launches from North Korea and trace patched more than a dozen of its most ligence officials are focused most intent- missile trajectories, a Seoul defense official said on Monday. seasoned veterans there, according to ly on is Saif al-Adl, a senior member of The drills, set for around June 28, will be held on the side- senior American and European intelli- al-Qaeda’s ruling body, known as the lines of biennial multinational naval exercises scheduled for gence and counterterrorism officials. Shura Council, who oversaw the organi- waters off Hawaii from June to August, which the three coun- The movement of the senior al-Qa- zation immediately after Osama bin Lad- tries regularly attend, the official said. The official spoke on eda extremists reflects Syria’s growing en was killed by Navy SEALs in Pakistan in condition of anonymity, citing department rules. importance to the terrorist organization 2011. It is unclear whether Adl is in Syria, The trilateral drills will involve Aegis-equipped ships from and most likely foreshadows an escala- North Africa or somewhere else, Ameri- the three countries, but they will not involve missile-intercep- tion of the group’s bloody rivalry with the can intelligence officials said. tion training, the official said. The three countries have held Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ Adl, a former colonel in the Egyptian joint search-and-rescue drills in the past. Daesh), Western officials say. military who is believed to be in his 50s, is The training follows a 2014 intelligence-gathering pact The operatives have been told to listed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist among the three countries, designed to better cope with start the process of creating an alter- list and was indicted in the 1998 United North Korea’s increasing nuclear and missile threats. nate headquarters in Syria and lay the States Embassy bombings in East Africa. It was the first such agreement among the three coun- groundwork for possibly establishing an He is the subject of a $5 million American tries. An international standoff over North Korea has recently emirate through al-Qaeda’s Syrian affil- bounty. deepened after Pyongyang carried out its fourth nuclear test iate, the al-Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nus- It is unclear how and when al-Qaeda in January and a long-range rocket launch in February. ra), to compete with the ISIL, from which might form an emirate in Syria that would Washington regularly holds military drills with South Korea al-Nusra broke in 2013. This would be a Some al-Nusra leaders, however, oppose Some senior American and European hold territory and most likely harden its and Japan — which together host about 80,000 American significant shift for al-Qaeda and its af- the timing of such a move, so the affiliate intelligence and law enforcement offi- position toward more moderate Syrian troops — and shares intelligence with them on a bilateral filiate, which have resisted creating an has not yet taken that step. cials say the small but steady movement opposition groups. Thela- Nusra Front level. But Seoul and Tokyo don’t, largely a result of linger- emirate, or formal sovereign state, until The Islamic State moved quickly to of important al-Qaeda operatives and was created in 2012 as an offshoot of ing public resentments in South Korea against Japan over its they deem conditions on the ground are impose harsh, unilateral control over planners to Syria is a desperate dash to al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Iraq — which under 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. ready. Such an entity could also pose a territory in Iraq and Syria and declare a haven situated perilously in the middle the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi The Korean Peninsula was divided into a U.S.-backed heightened terrorist threat to the United its independence. The al-Nusra Front of the country’s chaos. These officials say later declared itself the ISIL — to fight South Korea and a Soviet-supported, socialist North Korea at States and Europe. has painstakingly sought to build influ- al-Qaeda operatives in Syria are deter- Syrian government. That same year, the the end of the Japanese occupation. The two Koreas fought a Al-Qaeda operatives have moved in ence over areas it wants to control and mined but largely contained. United States designated the al-Nusra devastating three-year war in the early 1950s that ended with and out of Syria for years. Ayman al- with other Syrian rebel groups opposed “There’s always been a steady trickle, Front as a terrorist organization. an armistice, not a peace treaty. Zawahri, the group’s supreme leader in to the government of President Bashar and it remains,” said Col. Steve Warren, a But in 2013, the al-Nusra Front balked (Source: AP) Pakistan, dispatched senior extremists al-Assad. military spokesman in Baghdad for the at joining Baghdadi when he announced to bolster the al-Nusra Front in 2013. A American officials say the ISIL has American-led campaign in Iraq and Syr- the creation of the ISIL, and instead year later, Zawahri sent to Syria a shad- largely eclipsed al-Qaeda in the glob- ia. pledged allegiance to Zawahri in Paki- owy al-Qaeda cell called Khorasan that al extremist hierarchy, with al-Qaeda Nonetheless, the presence of a senior stan. This ignited an often bloody rivalry American officials say has been plotting hemorrhaging members to its more cadre of experienced al-Qaeda leaders between al-Nusra and ISIL terrorists in Kabul locked down as attacks against the West. brutal and media-savvy rival. Many of in Syria — some with multimillion-dollar Syria. minority Hazaras protest But establishing a more enduring the Khorasan operatives, including their American bounties on their heads — has Now al-Qaeda’s top leadership is presence in Syria would present the leader, Muhsin al-Fadhli, have been killed raised alarms in Washington as well as in looking to stanch its losses in Pakistan over power line group with an invaluable opportunity, in eight American airstrikes in northwest the allied capitals of Europe, the Middle and score a propaganda coup in Syria Western analysts said. A Syria-based Qa- Syria since September 2014. East and North Africa. by establishing a formal emirate. A por- Afghanistan’s capital was under lockdown on Monday as eda state would not only be within closer The ISIL has between 19,000 and The evolving assessment about tion of al-Nusra’s leadership, however, thousands of minority Shia Hazaras launched protests over striking distance of Europe but also ben- 25,000 fighters, roughly divided between al-Qaeda and the al-Nusra Front in Syria supports continuing the group’s more a multi-million-dollar power transmission line, in what could efit from the recruiting and logistical sup- Iraq and Syria, American intelligence an- comes from interviews with nearly a doz- pragmatic strategy of cultivating local snowball into a political crisis for the beleaguered govern- port of fighters from Iraq, Turkey, Jordan alysts estimate. The al-Nusra Front has en American and European intelligence support. ment. and Lebanon. about 5,000 to 10,000 fighters, all in Syria. and counterterrorism officials and inde- Many of the Syrian rebel groups that Security forces blocked key intersections with Zawahri released his first audio state- An emirate would differ from the Islamic pendent analysts, most of whom have are fighting alongside al-Nusra against stacked-up shipping containers in Kabul as the pro- ment in several months in early May, and State caliphate in the scale of its ambi- been briefed on confidential information Assad’s government reject the idea of testers sought to march on the presidential palace, it seemed to clear the way for the al-Qa- tion, in that an al-Nusra emirate would gleaned from spies and electronic eaves- forming an emirate, fearing it would fur- demanding that the electricity line linking energy-rich eda figures to use the al-Nusra Front to not claim to be a government for all the dropping. They also analyzed the public ther splinter the opposition to Assad. central Asia pass through a central Hazara-dominated form an emirate in Syria with his blessing. world’s Muslims. statements and social media commen- (Source: The New York Times) area. The protest spotlights the turbulent politics in the war- torn nation and follows a massive rally last November gal- Senate report on CIA torture, one step closer to disappearing vanized by the beheadings of a group of Hazaras, which symbolized growing public discontent with President Ashraf The United Stets CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in- in tracking the preservation of federal records. “It makes Ghani’s regime. spector general’s office — the spy agency’s internal you wonder what was going on over there?” “Tens of thousands of people are expected to join the watchdog — has acknowledged it “mistakenly” de- The incident was privately disclosed to the Senate In- massive protest and march towards the presidential palace,” stroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture re- telligence Committee and the Justice Department last Hazara lawmaker Arif Rahmani told AFP. port at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department summer, the sources said. But the destruction of a copy “We want the power line to cross through Bamiyan, which were assuring a federal judge that copies of the docu- of the sensitive report has never been made public. Nor has seen no development in 15 years. We are demanding ment were being preserved, Yahoo News has learned. was it reported to the federal judge who, at the time, justice, not charity.” Although other copies of the report exist, the erasure was overseeing a lawsuit seeking access to the still clas- The 500 kilovolt TUTAP power line, which would con- of the controversial document by the CIA office charged sified document under the Freedom of Information Act, nect the Central Asian nations of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan with policing agency conduct has alarmed the U.S. sen- according to a review of court files in the case. and Tajikistan with Afghanistan and Pakistan, is regarded a ator who oversaw the torture investigation and reignited A CIA spokesman, while not publicly commenting on crucial infrastructure project in the electricity-starved re- a behind-the-scenes battle over whether the full una- the circumstances of the erasure, emphasized that an- gion. bridged report should ever be released, according to other unopened computer disk with the full report has But it has been mired in controversy, with leaders from the multiple intelligence community sources familiar with been, and still is, locked in a vault at agency headquar- But the full three-volume report, which formed the minority group demanding that the line be routed through the incident. ters. “I can assure you that the CIA has retained a copy,” basis for the executive summary, has never been re- Bamiyan, which has a large Hazara population. The deletion of the document has been portrayed wrote Dean Boyd, the agency’s chief of public affairs, in leased. In light of a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling last week The line was originally set to pass through the central by agency officials to Senate investigators as an “inad- an email. that the document is not subject to the Freedom of In- province but the government decided to reroute it through vertent” foul-up by the inspector general. In what one The 6,700-page report, the product of years of work formation Act, there are new questions about whether it the mountainous Salang pass north of Kabul, saying the intelligence community source described as a series of by the Senate Intelligence Committee, contains metic- will ever be made public, or even be preserved. shorter route would expedite the project and save millions errors straight “out of the Keystone Cops,” CIA inspector ulous details, including original CIA cables and memos, After receiving inquiries from Yahoo News, Feinstein, of dollars in costs. general officials deleted an uploaded computer file with on the agency’s use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation now the vice chair of the committee, wrote CIA Director Hazara leaders in the ethnically divisive nation lashed out the report and then accidentally destroyed a disk that and other aggressive interrogation methods at “black John Brennan last Friday night asking him to “immedi- at the Pashtun president, saying the decision to reroute the also contained the document, filled with thousands of site” prisons overseas. A 500-page executive summa- ately” provide a new copy of the full report to the in- line was a sign of the government’s discriminatory policies. secret files about the CIA’s use of “enhanced” interroga- ry was released in December 2014 by Democratic Sen. spector general’s office. Potential for violence tion methods. Dianne Feinstein, the committee’s outgoing chair. It con- “Your prompt response will allay my concern that this The rally, so far peaceful, comes in the midst of the Tal- “It’s breathtaking that this could have happened, es- cluded that the CIA’s interrogations were far more brutal was more than an ‘accident,’” Feinstein wrote, adding iban’s annual spring offensive launched last month and au- pecially in the inspector general’s office — they’re the than the agency had publicly acknowledged and pro- that the full report includes “extensive information di- thorities have warned that it could be targeted by insurgents. ones that are supposed to be providing accountability duced often unreliable intelligence. The findings drew rectly related to the IG’s ongoing oversight of the CIA.” “Staging peaceful protests is the civil right of every Afghan within the agency itself,” said Douglas Cox, a City Univer- sharp dissents from Republicans on the panel and from CIA spokesman Boyd declined to comment. citizen,” the interior ministry said in a statement. sity of New York School of Law professor who specializes four former CIA directors. (Source: Yahoo News) “We respectfully request that our countrymen not allow the enemy (to) misuse this opportunity and disrupt public security.” The dispute, which highlights the challenges of modern- Netanyahu summons minister over Nazi analogy izing the war-torn country, threatens to overshadow TUTAP, PM Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned at Netanyahu’s office, the Israeli premier to ensure our soldiers’ safety, we can de- which could help ease nationwide power blackouts. minister of military affairs Moshe Ya’alon was expected to reprimand Ya’alon for his stroy whole apartment buildings.” Hazara protesters repeatedly heckled Ghani during an to an urgent meeting for supporting a remarks, the Jerusalem Post said. “Killing women, children, uninvolved anti-corruption summit in London last week. senior officer who has likened the atmos- Meanwhile, right-wing extremist law- civilians. Unacceptable. The use of force The president faces rising unpopularity amid endemic phere in Israel to that of Nazi Germany. makers denounced Ya’alon for his sup- in civilian areas must always be kept un- corruption, rampant unemployment and growing insecurity The summon late Sunday came after port. der control, and restricted to the mini- in Afghanistan. Ya’alon said Israeli commanders should “The IDF (Israeli military) is not a junta. mum necessary,” he is heard saying. The three million-strong Afghan Hazara community continue to speak their minds in an ap- Its job is to implement the decisions of His remarks echo the arguments has been persecuted for decades, with thousands killed in parent reference to the controversy that the civilian leadership and not to disa- surrounding the case of Israeli sergeant the late 1990s by al-Qaeda and the mainly Pashtun Sunni followed comments by Deputy Chief of gree with it and chart its own policy,” Li- Elor Azaria who has been charged with Taliban. Staff Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan. kud lawmaker Oren Hazan said. manslaughter for killing an immobilized There has been a surge in violence against the com- Golan stirred an uproar earlier this Some on the right believe that this Palestinian in Hebron (al-Khalil) on March munity, with a series of kidnappings and killings in recent month after saying he was concerned by may be the beginning of the end of 24. months that have triggered a wave of fury on social me- some of the extremist voices within Isra- Ya’alon’s tenure as minister of military In the recording, Golan gives an ex- dia. el, likening it to the atmosphere in 1930s affairs, a job that has reportedly been of- ample from his personal experience. In November, thousands of protesters marched coffins Germany before Hitler came to power. fered to former hardline foreign minister come more vocal in offering his opinions “Four soldiers were standing at a containing the decapitated bodies of seven Shia Hazaras Netanyahu’s office issued a statement, Avigdor Liberman. on the current state in Israel. He is once checkpoint in the West Bank. A man through the Afghan capital. saying he “remains firm in his conviction After Ya’alon’s speech, “I would be again in the headlines, with Channel 2 comes to the checkpoint, and he is re- Their bodies were found in southern Zabul province, that the comparison that was made to Nazi very surprised if the prime minister keeps News releasing a recording from a dec- moved from his car by the soldiers. He which is under Taliban control and has been the scene of Germany was inappropriate and damaged Ya’alon in his current position,” Israeli law- ade ago. then sees a soldier checking a woman for clashes between rival militant factions. Israel in the international arena.” maker Bezalel Smotrich commented on Golan, then the commander of the weapons, touching her body, and this of- Ghani called the killings “the shared pain of a nation”, and During a sit-down which was sched- his Twitter feed. West Bank military division, purportedly fends his Islamic traditions.” accused the militants of trying to divide Afghanistan. uled to take place on Monday morning Golan, on the other hand, has be- says, “It is unimaginable that in an effort (Source: Press TV) (Source: AFP) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY MMAYAY 17,17, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy

NEWS Bombardier, Siemens willing to Curbing inflation, preserving economic stability top priorities for boost share of Iran market Iran: IMF deputy “Iranian customers are very open. It ECONOMY 1 TEHRAN— The first deputy managing “We really hope that by progress- is a pleasure to work with them,” said desk director of the International Monetary ing in the negotiations with the local Joerg Scheifler, the senior executive Fund (IMF), David Lipton, in a Tuesday meeting with the partners in parallel the financial side vice president of Siemens LLC Mobility governor of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Valiollah Seif identi- will become more normal,” he stressed. Middle East. fied reining inflation, maintaining economic stability, and Thomas Siegemund, the director “Since we have been here for more managing liquidity as the for Platform Management Mass Transit than one hundred years, including high priorities of the Islamic Global Product & Engineering in Bom- locally manufacturing and other ac- Republic in post-sanction bardier, said, “What we are currently tivities, we are very happy that the era, Merh news agency re- looking for is the opportunities here sanctions are lifted. We see a great po- ported. in the rail sector in Iran, also looking tential to increase our business activi- During his three-day stay for partners to work together. We have ties with Iran. As I’ve been in the Mid- in Tehran, The IMF deputy’ already some business which we have dle East, I have seen many customers s discussions with Iranian done in the past, but now with lifting from different countries and I can tell senior officials mainly focus of the sanctions, of course there are you that Iran’s railway is actually one on the IMF’s continuing dia- much more new opportunities in Iran of our main customers as you have logue with Iran, and Iran’s and we are currently exploring to find more than 10,000 kilometers of rail and economic developments out which of the opportunities could we want to support you to modern- and policy initiatives, fol- turn into business.” ize your railway. We want to help you lowing the recent lifting of Also, Ali Khalatbari, the local rep- bring your technology level to the cur- sanctions. resentative of Bombardier in Iran, re- rent state of the art, because you are Lipton arrived in Tehran ferred to transfer of technology the a little bit behind due to the sanctions,” on Sunday heading a delegation comprised of five senior di- priority of the company for business in he explained. rectors of the IMF. the Iranian market. The Siemens’ manager said he “For Bombardier having gained now sees no downside for business in Iran, over the last year in depth knowledge while there are only upsides to do so. of what the market requires, the most “There are many projects, customers Dieter Brandenburg, the chief representative Joerg Scheifler, the senior executive vice Doha Bank hints at critical point is transfer of technology. love Germany”, he said while adding, entering Iran We are working with Mapna [a group of Bombardier in Iran “I from this industry would prefer that president of Siemens LLC Mobility Middle East of Iranian companies involved in im- to carry out the projects with manufac- the financing facilities develop a little quite active in Iran. We have loco- plementation of power, oil & gas, rail- turing the units here in Iran rather than faster. Financing still is not so easy, but motive factory here with our partner Doha Bank, Qatar’s fourth largest lender by assets, said that while way and other industrial projects] and importing from Europe.” other than that, it’s a very interesting Mapna. So, our relationship with rail it expects to see consolidation in its PGCC operations in 2016, the IRICO [Iranian Rail Industries Develop- ‘Working with Iranian cus- market.” industry in Iran is quite deep and long,” bank is still eyeing expansion into new markets that may poten- ment Company] and other companies tomers a pleasure for Siemens’ “Despite the sanctions, we were Scheifler noted. tially include Iran. “We are looking at options for new markets. It’s an opportu- nity in certain locations now — you have seen sanctions being lifted in certain countries, so if the regulators and shareholders S. Korea's Iran crude imports jump over 67% y/y in April approve, we will look at it. It is still subject to so many ifs and buts,” R. Seetharaman, chief executive officer of Doha Bank, told Gulf South Korea's imports of Iranian crude oil jumped 67 per- crude from the Middle Eastern country, versus 1,918,056 April of 2015, the customs data showed. News. cent in April from the same month a year earlier, soaring tons in the same period in 2015, according to the data. Overall, South Korea shipped in nearly 12 million tons “The bigger picture is to recognize that sanctions are lifted, but after international sanctions were lifted on Iran's disputed Iran has increased production and exports more of crude last month, or 2.93 million bpd. The total was 13 it [the Iranian market] has to be fully operational. It’s still a work in nuclear program. quickly than expected. Output has reached some 3.56 percent higher than the 10.59 million tons imported in progress. There are a lot of regulatory elements required, but as Seoul brought in 863,557 tons of Iranian crude oil last million bpd, up 300,000 bpd and the highest since late April of 2015, the customs data showed. and when that happens, we’ll be ready.” He said. month, or 210,996 barrels per day (bpd), compared with 2011, prior to the introduction of sanctions, the IEA said. Final data for last month's crude oil imports will be His comments come just a day after U.S. Secretary of State, 516,918 tons a year ago, the data showed. In the first Overall, South Korea shipped in nearly 12 million tons of released by state-run Korea National Oil Corp later this John Kerry, spoke in London, telling European banks they have four months of the year, the world's fifth-largest crude crude last month, or 2.93 million bpd. The total was 13 month. nothing to fear in doing business with Iran. (Source: Gulfnews) importer shipped in 3,820,054 tons, or 933,367 bpd, of percent higher than the 10.59 million tons imported in (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y http://www.tehrantimes.com MMAYAY 17,17, 20162016 HISTORY & HERITAGE 5

Some weird types of A CLOSER LOOK While touring new places, we are ex- Tolkien tourism What not to wear in the posed to new sights, new foods, new arts, Despite the astonishing success of “The and new civilizations. The cultural impact Lord of the Rings” books and films, when airport security line of tourism as an event is undeniable, but we first heard about this specific type of let’s not underestimate the significance of tourism, we didn’t know what to think. The best way to ease through airport security is to dress for success. Cer- tourism in economic terms, since it is very Sure, “Lord of the Rings” is a cultural tain garments and accessories could get you flagged for extra screening, important for the economy and a sector and pop phenomenon with millions of slowing down your progression through the airport. Want to roll through that can definitely create growth pros- fans and fanatics all over the world, but the security line like a pro? Avoid wearing the following attire. pects and new positions of work. we could never imagine that it would be- Shoes that is difficult to remove But what happens when tourism rises to come the reason for travelling and tour- We advise travelers to wear slip-on shoes in the airport security another level and seek more than the or- ism. Tolkien tourism is about two things: line. You’ll have to take your shoes off and put them in the screening dinary things the “pop-culture” tourism of on the one hand, dedicated and hardcore bin before walking through the metal detector, and flyers fumbling our times requests? What happens when fan visits to fictional with tangled laces or strappy sandals could hold up the line. Plus, if tourism becomes another field of human “planet” and on the other hand, visits to you’re in a hurry to catch your flight, slip-on shoes will be easy to activity where the alternative view on it every site of importance mentioned in put back on and thus will hasten your transit from the end of security stimulates the human curiosity and interest? the films or books. to the terminal. is the ultimate country Note that children under the age of 12 and adults ages 75 and Without a doubt this is the most ma- of attraction because it was the main lo- older may leave their shoes on during screening. cabre type of tourism we could ever im- Ghetto tourism was used with the spread of hip-hop culture over the past fifteen years. cation of the film series by . Jewelry or piercings … or anything metal, for that matter agine, and unfortunately, in most cases, shots of adrenaline. came curious about the places where this The two British hot spots for hardcore If you set off the metal detector, you’re in for additional screen- for these “holidays,” the airplane ticket is There was a record high number of specific genre of music and lifestyle be- fan tourism are and , ing—or at least a little extra attention while other travelers stream one way with no return. As the title sug- war tourists during the war in Afghani- gan. In the past few years, the American where Tolkien tourists can contact the past you. Everything from metal fasteners on clothes to body pierc- gests, suicide tourism is related to suicide stan – as well as reported cases of visitors ghettos of Detroit, New York, Chicago, Tolkien Society and take in anything from ings to keys in your pocket could cause alarm in the security line. and euthanasia. who lost their lives. For the more peace- and Los Angeles have become tourist artifacts to art and from libraries to pubs Belts Most people who embark on these ful, less danger-seeking war tourists, there spots, mostly because of young people – anything, as long as it’s related to Tolk- If your pants fall down the moment your belt comes off, don’t tours want to bring their lives to an end. are groups that specialize in visiting inac- interested in this specific lifestyle, graffiti, ien in any possible way. wear them to the airport. You can probably imagine why. Flyers Usually they are either people with physi- tive war zones, where things can be a lit- music, and clothing. must remove belts before walking through metal detectors, so cal disabilities or patients suffering from tle more relaxing for everybody involved. At one time, the highlight of this kind This is a type of tourism that sprang choose a belt-free outfit, or at least be prepared to remove your emotional problems such as clinical de- of tourism used to be Real Bronx Tours, up after the dawn of the Atomic Era. Cu- belt if you want to wear one. pression. Well, the name says it all in this case, bus rides conducting tourists through rious tourists fascinated with the Atomic Belts aren’t permitted through airport security because their Suicide tourism is mostly organized and in all honesty you probably can’t get some of the most notorious ghettos of Era can visit places important to the his- metal clasps set off the metal detector. However, even if you are for large groups of people seeking des- a creepier or more dangerous type of tour- New York City. But unfortunately for the tory of the Atomic Age, places where sig- wearing a belt without a metal clasp, an agent might request that tinations where euthanasia is permitted. ism than this. Shark tourism is actually a visitors, Real Bronx Tours ended just this nificant incidents related to atomic power you remove it anyway. It’s standard procedure. The main goal of some people on suicide subgenre of another type of tourism – eco- year after local authorities and neighbor- took place. There are museums that spe- Coats and jackets tours is to achieve the decriminalization tourism. It appeals to all these people who hood residents complained of feeling cialize in atomic weapons, but naturally It’s airport screening 101: Travelers must remove coats and jack- of euthanasia in countries around the love sharks and their bloody jaws; anything insulted by the way their neighborhoods the most visited sites are the actual places ets—this includes outerwear like hooded sweatshirts, vests, and world, but there are also smaller groups related to the Great White shark (and other were portrayed. where atomic bombs were dropped or such—before going through the metal detector. It’s perfectly fine seeking ideal scenic sites as places to end less harmful sharks) is what’s on offer in detonated. to sport a jacket in a chilly airport. Just remember to take your out- their lives. In the US, the Golden Gate these touristic experiences. Dark tourism revolves around anything Needless to say, that means that Hi- erwear off and put it in a screening bin before proceeding through Bridge in San Francisco is one of the most Experienced divers and protective that has to do with death, disaster, trag- roshima and Nagasaki are the two most the checkpoint. popular. cages are must-haves for this adventur- edy, and in a few cases, even the afterlife. visited places when it comes to atomic Anything offensive ous kind of tourism. Despite the high pro- The locations where multiple deaths took tourism, while you can learn every detail Offensive clothing may get you kicked off a plane, but it could Sometimes this is referred to as “sui- fessionalism and excellent organization place are high on the agenda of the tour- about the Chernobyl Nuclear accident also draw extra attention from TSA agents (though it’s more likely cide tourism,” and not unfairly so. The of the professionals who operate shark ists who follow this kind of tourism, and and its effect on those who lived and that airline staff, rather than an airport security agent, will ban you significant difference between this type tours, there have been a few accidents, the historical value of the places where worked around the area of the Cherno- from flying due to inappropriate or offensive clothing). of tourism and Atomic or Dark tourism is and even some fatalities. deaths occurred seems to matter a lot byl Museum in Kiev which is arguably the Loose-fitting clothes that in this case, the tourist visits an active Ghetto tourism as well. Sites where mass suicides took most visited museum of this kind of tour- Loose clothes aren’t prohibited. But travelers sporting baggy ap- war zone to experience what it’s like to Ghetto tourism is probably the newest place – and various castles, for some rea- ism. Before you decide to visit however, it parel, such as droopy pants, flowy skirts, bulky sweatshirts, or even be in the middle of bombs, bullets, and on this list — the term was used for the son — seem to be among the most fa- will be wise to arrange for a translator or loose garments worn for religious purposes, may be subject to extra grenades. War tourists are often extreme first time back in the mid-2000s. With the vored spots. One of the most visited sites a local guide since pretty much all of the screening. According to the TSA, you might be selected for a pat-down sports lovers as well, and generally they spread of hip-hop culture over the past around the world is Romania’s Poenari exhibits are in Russian. inspection if your clothes are “large enough to hide prohibited items.” are after adventures that give them big fifteen years, more and more people be- Castle, where Dracula lived – and killed. (Source: toptenz.net) (Source: Smart Traveler)

Final stage of 33rd Intl. Model of Iranian Muslim woman should be Competitions of Holy Quran holds The final emphasized in Female Quranic Activist Seminar rd stage of 33 A model of Iranian Muslim woman should be highlighted of the Holy Quran is named after “One Book, One Ummah.” International in Female Quranic Activist Seminar. The Leader’s representative in the organization point- Competitions Announcing the above in an interview with our cor- ed to “tyranny” and “oppression” and “infringing on of the Holy respondent, Head of Endowments and Charity Affairs the rights of others” as second factor in degeneration Quran was Organization and Leader’s representative Hojjatoleslam and backwardness in society and said: “In previous dec- held on Mon- Ali Mohammadi said: “Clarification and introduction of a ades, nations stood away from the Holy Quran and were day, May 16 in model of Iranian Muslim woman should be put atop agen- doomed to failure.” Congregational da in upcoming Female Quranic Activist Seminar based on The senior official of the organization referred to the Prayers site sublime advices envisioned in the holy Quran and glorious concept of “prodigality” as the other factor behind de- (Mosalla) of Imam Khomeini (RA) in two divisions of statements of Prophet Muhammad (S).” generation and backwardness of communities and reiter- memorization and recitation of the Holy Quran. Addressing a great number of Quranic enthusiasts, re- ated: “The Almighty God in the verses of the Holy Quran Hereunder are the names of contestants at the citers and memorizers participated in 33rd Intl Competi- people repeatedly to establish very close relationship with reiterated that the extravagant were doomed to failure.” final stage of the competitions: tions of the Holy Quran, he pointed to the Holy Quran two divine blessings i.e. “Holy Quran” and “Ahl al-Bayt He termed “patience” and “perseverance” as the main fac- Memorization of Holy Quran: that heals diseases especially mental, psychic and moral (progenies and descendants of the Holy Prophet).” tor behind success which has been reiterated in the Holy Quran. Mohammad-Ali Abdullah from Australia, abnormalities and advised people to to the Holy Elsewhere in his remarks, he pointed to “disunity”, “dis- In the end, Head of Endowments and Charity Affairs Org. Mojtaba Fardfani from Iran, Book in order to get rid of daily problems.” cord” and “division” as one of factors behind degeneration Hojjatoleslam Ali Mohammadi said: “A model of Iranian Muslim Abdol-Aziz Ahmad from Egypt, He termed the Holy Book as the greatest divine bless- and backwardness in society and said: “For significance of the woman will be showcased in upcoming Female Quranic Activist Mohammad Taher-Hassan from Niger, ing and said: “Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) has advised said issue, the current year’s motto of the 33rd Intl. Competitions Seminar based on recommendations of the Holy Quran.” Mohammad Sharif from Bangladesh, Abdullah Yousef Esmaeil from Kenya, Khaled Sankari from Ivory Coast, Recitation of the Holy Quran: Official: Female Quranic Seminar, a giant step towards Hamed Valizadeh from Iran, realizing guidelines of supreme leader of Islamic Revolution Mohammad Javid Akbari from Afghanistan, Seyyed Abbas Ali from Germany, Organizing Quranic Seminar, special of and Secretary of 7th Intl. Seminar to Hon- identifying, organizing and introducing fe- Bahreddin Saeed from Indonesia, female, is a giant step towards materi- or Female Quranic Activists Ma’soumeh male to Quranic circles, she maintained. Musta fa Ali from the Netherlands alization of sublime recommendations of Farzaneh said: “Female Quranic activists The secretary of 7th Intl. Seminar to supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution. have made an epic for our society and honor Female Quranic Activists said: “A Abdol-Ghafour Joharchi wins Announcing the above in an inter- Islamic Revolution and are considered as number of 600 female Quranic activists view with our correspondent, Advisor to a source of pride for the country.” have been introduced in domestic divi- top rank in Intl. Quranic the Head of Endowments and Charity This prestigious Quranic seminar (special sion, 12 of whom will be honored.” identified in foreign division, nine of whom Competitions in Affairs Organization for Women’s Affairs of female) is held for seven years in line with Of total 150 female Quranic activists will be honored as well, she ended. visually-impaired division 21 female Quranic activists honored A number of twenty one female Quranic activists were Khadijeh Selgi from Gilan Province, appreciated in the presence of Head of Endowments Fatemeh Shirazi from Tehran and Charity Affairs Organization Hojjatoleslam Ali Mo- Sousan Shoja’ei from Ilam, hammadi and Vice President for Women’s Affairs Sha- Fatemeh Alian from Tehran, hindokht Molaverdi. In the same direction, a number of 13 and eight do- Fatemeh Rahmani from Tehran mestic and foreign female Quranic activists were hon- th Abdol-Ghafour Joharchi, representative of the Islamic Re- ored respectively in 7 Intl. Quranic Seminar (special of In Foreign Sector: public of Iran, won the top rank in the 1st Round of Visually- women). Zeytouneh Sobhan from Indonesia, Impaired Intl. Quranic Competition held in Congregational The names of female Quranic activists are as follows: Prayers site (Mosalla) of Imam Khomeini (RA). In Domestic Sector: Samireh Adami Lotoli from Bosnia, Susan Hassan Abdullah from Yemen, The winners of the Quranic competitions (spe- Fariba Alasvand from Qom, Ala Riyaz Mohammad from Norway, cial of visually impaired) are as follows respectively: Zinat al-Sadat Emami from Isfahan, Abdol-Ghafour Joharchi from the Islamic Re- Iman Ali-Haji from Bahrain, Ensieh Khaz’ali from Tehran, public of Iran, Batoul Es’haqian Darcheh from Isfahan, Eslam Baladeh from Guinea, Elaheh Hadian Rasnani from Tehran, Ahmet Sarikaya from Turkey, Iman Sahhaf from Tehran, Diana Tohfeh from Lebanon Saberin Mohammad Zaeibi from Tunisia Fariba Maghsoudi from Tehran, Maryam Khatib from Khorasan Razavi Province, Kowsar Hadi Mohammad from Iraq I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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Top currency traders warn White NEWS IN BRIEF Central bankers’ wisdom faulted as gold holdings House race may echo Brexit chaos surge 25% Traders wanting to know what November eign-exchange research at Deutsche Bank, U.S. presidential election will means for the the world’s second-largest currency trader. The great gold rush of 2016 is gathering pace. Holdings have dollar need look no further than the UK. “Anything that is disruptive to trade or is now surged by a quarter on concern about the impact of The pound plunged to a seven-year perceived as likely to be disruptive to trade negative interest rates in Europe and Japan and the Federal low and volatility soared, exceeding all is a new source of uncertainty.” Reserve’s intentions, with investors taking advantage of lower other Group-of-10 nations, on risks creat- Grand master prices over the past two weeks to enlarge their stakes. ed by a referendum on European Union Trump this month called China the Holdings in exchange traded funds have gained 25 per- membership. Given the tough talk on dol- “grand master” of devaluation, saying the cent since bottoming at a seven-year low on Jan 6. To reach lar strength from candidates vying for the country is killing the U.S. on trade and 1,822.3 metric tons, the most since December 2013, accord- White House, the greenback is just as vul- that dollar strength damages American ing to data compiled by Bloomberg. In the past two weeks nerable to politics, according to Deutsche competitiveness. Clinton plans to “take on as prices lost 1.6 percent, the ETFs swelled 63.2 tons, rising Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and foreign countries that keep their goods ar- every day. Standard Bank Group Ltd. tificially cheap” by appointing a trade pros- Gold is the best-performing major metal this year after Republicans and Democrats have each ecutor and adding penalties, according to silver amid rising concern over the effectiveness of policy accused China of purposely weakening its a campaign website. making by the world’s top central banks, and whether the currency to gain a trade advantage, re- U.S. manufacturing jobs have tumbled Fed will be able to tighten further. Demand jumped to the flecting voter unease linked to a 14 per- to about 12.3 million last month from 14.2 second-highest level ever in the first quarter, according to cent slide in manufacturing jobs during million in April 2006, data from the Bu- the World Gold Council, and billionaire hedge fund manager the past decade. As rhetoric becomes reau of Labor Statistics show, with many of Paul Singer has said gold’s rally may just be beginning. action, countries that have sought more those jobs moving offshore. Automakers (Source: Bloomberg) competitive exchange rates will be in the including General Motors Co. and Ford firing line, spurring foreign-exchange vola- Motor Co. have shifted production abroad, tility, Deutsche Bank’s Alan Ruskin wrote in with GM importing models made in China a May 6 note. China, Japan and Germany and Ford creating 2,800 jobs at a new $1.6 Goldman surprised by were placed on a currency manipulator should favor the euro and yen should any 1998 on March 23, precisely three months billion factory in Mexico. The U.S. trade watch list by the Treasury Department last trade conflicts emerge post-election. Ste- before the vote. deficit has grown to $40 billion, from $7.8 sudden oil-market turn month. ven Barrow at Standard Bank warns of a The dollar’s day of reckoning may billion two decade ago. as glut vanishes “Given that there is an anti-globaliza- “pre-vote wobble” for the dollar -- remi- come as early as July, when the Republican “Most of the outcry is among domes- tion, anti-free trade strain that’s running niscent of the pound’s response to Brexit and Democratic parties hold conventions tic manufacturers who are finding it hard through the American electorate, the -- and a 20 percent slide for the greenback to formally select candidates. Trump is the enough to compete against what they feel The global oil market has flipped to a deficit sooner than strong dollar is going to be a potential within months if Donald Trump were to win presumptive nominee for the Republicans are unfairly priced Chinese products and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. had expected. victim,” said Paresh Upadhyaya, director the White House. while Hillary Clinton leads for the Demo- then, to make matters worse, they don’t A decline in production driven by unexpected supply dis- of currency strategy in Boston at Pioneer Volatility rises crats. Dollar-yen volatility has climbed an see the yuan as free-floating,” said David ruptions as well as sustained demand have led to a “sud- Investments, which oversees about $236 The sudden realization that politics average 1.6 percentage points in the three Schwartz, a partner at Thompson Hine LLP den halt” to the market surplus, Goldman analysts including billion. “The markets will start to price in left the pound exposed came in February months before presidential elections over law firm who specializes in trade disputes. Damien Courvalin and Jeffrey Currie wrote in a report dated a risk premium for the U.S. dollar and for when British politicians settled on June 23 the past two decades, options prices show. “Our major trading partners, if nothing May 15. That’s prompted the bank to raise its U.S. crude price U.S. financial markets.” for a long-discussed referendum on exit- “Too strong a dollar has already come else, have been put on notice.” forecast to $50 a barrel for the second half of 2016 from a $45 Brexit precedent ing the world’s largest single market. Ster- into the frame as an issue,” said Ruskin, the “Currency wars have played out glob- estimate in March. Upadhyaya, who holds a degree in ling volatility jumped by the most since New York-based global co-head of for- ally, but U.S. protectionism hasn’t been an The unexpected outages caused by everything from wild- economics and international relations and issue,” said Turner, who’s been analyzing fires in Canada and pipeline attacks in Nigeria will keep the worked at Putnam Investments LLC in the Steven Barrow at Standard Bank warns markets for 25 years. “You hope you’re market in deficit through the second half of this year, accord- mid-1990s when the U.S. was embroiled of a “pre-vote wobble” for the dollar- not going back to those dark days of the ing to Goldman. Still, the return of some of the output and in a battle with Japan about cheap vehicle early 1990s because protectionism is bad higher-than-expected U.S., North Sea, Iraq and Iran produc- imports, sees the dollar weakening versus reminiscent of the pound’s response to for everyone but, listening to some of the tion means the bank predicts the shortfall will be at 400,000 the euro, yen and sterling. Brexit- and a 20 percent slide for the speeches from the candidates at the mo- barrels a day versus the 900,000 previously expected. A shift JPMorgan’s John Normand, head of greenback within months if Donald Trump ment, you might have a small amount of back to a surplus is seen in early 2017, it said. foreign exchange, commodities and in- concern.” “The physical rebalancing of the oil market has finally ternational rates research, said investors were to win the White House. (Source: Bloomberg) started,” the Goldman analysts wrote. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Volcanic material found in Baffin Island in sively larger bodies over tens of millions Canada, and separately near the Solomon of years in our Solar System’s youth. The Islands, may serve as virtual “birthmarks” most significant of these impacts, not to for our planet, as the debris was spewed mention the last, took place when a very out some 4.5 billion years ago, about 50 young Earth collided with a slightly small- million years removed from the birth of our er planetoid, thus creating what we know solar system. today as our Moon. Researchers believe that the volcanic The material was found in comparative- material could provide some valuable clues ly young flood basalts in both Baffin Island into the earliest days of Earth and how our and from the Ontong-Java Plateau, located planet was born, showing them the nuanc- north of the Solomon Islands. These rocks es of the different processes that took place are estimated to be about 60 and 120 mil- Consumed in both fresh as well as dried form, apricots have when Earth was being formed. lion years old, depending on where they incredible health benefits: “What we’ve found are surviving parts were discovered. Good for your eyes of Earth’s primitive mantle that have been But despite the youth of the flood ba- Rich in antioxidants preserved for four and a half billion years, salts, the chemicals making the molten ma- Protect Against Inflammation and I think that’s kind of exciting!” said terial that had created them had originated Prevent cancer University of Maryland researcher Rich- over 4.5 billion years ago. Skin benefits ard Walker. He notes that this is the first The theories on the volcanic material Help you lose weight definitive sign that parts of Earth’s mantle were gleaned when the researchers meas- Strengthens your bones still exist up to the present, despite the Researchers believe that the volcanic material could ured variations in the basalts and discov- Good for heart health fact that it had formed during its primary ered an isotope of tungsten as one of the accretion period. provide some valuable clues into the earliest days of key features. This isotope, 182-hafnium, Accretion of material Earth and how our planet was born, showing them was present during the formation of our Researchers believe Earth became as the nuances of the different processes that took solar system, but was no longer thought to NEWS IN BRIEF big as it is today, thanks to the accretion exist on Earth. Sleep hormone melatonin of material from collisions with progres- place when Earth was being formed. (Source: Modern Readers) may be responsible for type 2 diabetes Scientists just solved a long-standing mystery about sense of smell

A new experimental and clinical study from Lund University in Humans are capable of sensing a wide variety of smells, nism that makes sure all the smell receptors are evenly Sweden shows that the sleep hormone melatonin impairs insulin from the first flowers that bloom in spring. distributed around your nose. secretion in people with a common gene variant. "This could Scientists still don't understand every aspect about how It's a principle in physics called cooperativity. Coop- explain why the risk of type 2 diabetes is greater among, for our sense of smell works — but now, a team of research- erativity just means that individual pieces in a system act instance, overnight workers or people with sleeping disorders", ers may have solved a long-standing mystery about our collectively instead of independently. We see it in all kinds says Professor Hindrik Mulder who is responsible for the study. noses and brains. of other biological systems, like the way proteins fold and Melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone that helps main- Millions of olfactory receptor neurons sit at the back of the way a school of fish swims. tain our circadian rhythm. The your nose and relay smells to your brain. In this case, the researchers created a model that amount of melatonin varies Each smell we inhale sends tons of odor molecules to shows how olfactory neurons use cooperativity to func- throughout the course of the the backs of our noses, where all those neurons are waiting. tion within a system of three layers. The findings line up day, and is affected by light. Each neuron only has one kind of receptor on it, so it with previous experimental evidence. When it's dark, the level of can only sense certain types of odor molecules. for each neuron, while at the same time ensuring that all "We are amazed that nature has solved the seemingly melatonin increases, peaking Somehow, all those receptors are equally distributed, receptor types are represented in the whole population daunting engineering process of olfactory receptor ex- at night. It is often referred to allowing us to sense a wide range of smells. But why? of neurons," Jianhua Xing, senior investigator on the new pression in such a simple way," Xing said. as the "hormone of darkness", "Over the past decades, neuroscientists have been try- study, said in a statement. The research will help pave the way for new experi- and used as a sleeping drug ing to uncover how nature accomplishes these two goals: Handy mechanism ments to test how olfactory neurons work. or to prevent jet lag, among selecting one, and only one, type of olfactory receptor What they found: It turns out there's a handy mecha- (Source: Business Insider) other things. A "third of all people carry this specific gene Curiosity rover records seasons Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation as variant. Our results show that the effect of melatonin is happening on Mars effective as hospital-based stronger in them. We believe that this explains their increased risk of developing type 2 diabe- Curiosity has now been on Mars for two Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation tes", says Hindrik Mulder. Martian years, allowing the rover to ob- may be equally effective in improving The findings, which are published in the scientific journal Cell serve a pair of seasonal cycles. This has fitness and quality of life as a traditional Metabolism, are the result of many years of work. Already in produced a highly detailed record of center-based program for COPD patients, 2009, the researchers behind this new study were able to pre- these changes on the Red Planet for the according to new research presented at sent an extensive gene mapping study that showed that the first time. the ATS 2016 International Conference. gene variant of the melatonin receptor 1B, which is common in Having a second year of observation al- "We know that pulmonary rehab is a the population, increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. lows astronomers to differentiate between highly effective treatment for COPD be- The gene variant causes the level of the melatonin receptor on the authentic seasonal changes and random cause it improves exercise capacity and insulin cell surface to increase, which makes the cells become more weather conditions. One example was a symptoms and keeps people out of the sensitive to melatonin and impairs their ability to secrete insulin. significant release of methane detected by hospital," said Anne Holland, PhD, profes- (Source: news-medical.net) the spacecraft during its first year exploring sor of physiotherapy at Alfred Health and Gale Crater. This event was not repeated Like the Earth, the rotational axis of La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. patients focus on what improvements the second year, and the cause behind the Mars is tilted, resulting in a yearly cycle "But less than 10 percent of all COPD pa- were important to them. Those in the tra- release remains a mystery. of seasons. However, Mars follows a far tients in developed countries enter a pul- ditional program attended twice weekly Scientists peel back the Nevertheless, astronomers interpret- more elliptical orbit than the Earth, result- monary rehab program." sessions at the hospital. Each session in- ing data from Curiosity have recorded a ing in exaggerated seasons in the south- According to Dr. Holland, a number of cluded group exercise and education. carrot's genetic secrets more subtle cycle of methane levels that ern hemisphere. The thin atmosphere of factors contribute to that fact, including At the end of the pulmonary reha- do appear to be seasonal. that alien world does not hold in heat, lack of programs and inadequate or no bilitation and a year later, blinded assessors Researchers said on Monday they have sequenced the genome Other changes that appear to corre- so temperatures at night plummet, even medical reimbursement. Another factor, measured change in six minute walk distance of the carrot, an increasingly important root crop worldwide, late with changes of the season include during the height of summer. she said, is that for people who are short (6MWD), the primary outcome. Patients identifying genes responsible for traits including the vegetable's concentrations of water vapor, tempera- "Mars is much drier than our planet, of breath, traveling to a hospital or other also completed validated questionnaires to abundance of vitamin A, an important nutrient for vision. ture, air pressure and the amount of ul- and in particular Gale Crater, near the medical facility for rehabilitation on a reg- measure changes in dyspnea-related qual- The genome may point to ways to improve carrots through traviolet light reaching the tawny surface. equator, is a very dry place on Mars. The ular basis "may seem impossible." ity of life (Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire) Repeated patterns breeding, including increasing their nutrients and making them water vapor content is a thousand to 10 At-home program and self-efficacy (Pulmonary Rehabilitation more productive and more resistant to disease, pest and drought, "Curiosity's weather station has made thousand times less than on Earth," said Dr. Holland and her colleagues created Adapted Index of Self-Efficacy, or PRAISE). the researchers said. measurements nearly every hour of every Germán Martínez from the University of a unique 8-week at-home program and Results on all measures were com- The vitamin A in carrots day, more than 34 million so far. The dura- Michigan, Ann Arbor. compared the results with their hospital's parable between participants in the two arises from their orange pig- tion is important, because it's the second The Curiosity rover was launched from traditional outpatient program in a rand- study arms immediately following pro- ments, known as carotenoids. time through the seasons that lets us see Earth in 2011, touching down on the alien omized controlled trial of 166 patients. gram completion. Among home-based The study identified genes repeated patterns," said Ashwin Vasavada surface a year later. Mars takes 687 Earth After an initial visit from a physiother- participants, 6MWD increased by 28 me- responsible for carotenoids as of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. days to orbit once around the sun. apist, those in the home program de- ters, compared to 29 meters for center- well as pest and disease re- Temperatures recorded in Gale Cra- By analyzing seasonal changes on cided on their own exercise program and based participants. Neither group, how- sistance and other character- ter fall as low as 148 degrees below Mars today, researchers hope to better reviewed their fitness goals and progress ever, retained primary or secondary gains istics. In addition to eyesight, zero Fahrenheit, and climb to a comfort- understand what the Red Planet was like on a weekly call with a health care profes- 12 months later -- a finding consistent vitamin A also is important able 60.5 degrees Fahrenheit during the billions of years in the past. sional. The caller was trained to motivate with previous studies. for immune function, cellular height of a balmy summer day. (Source: Tech Times) patients by asking questions that helped (Source: EurekAlert) communication, healthy skin and other purposes. The researchers sequenced the genome of a bright orange New technology detects blood clots with simple in-home test variety of the vegetable called the Nantes carrot, named for the French city. The carrot genome con- For millions of Americans at risk for blood clots, strokes and "We have developed a blood screening device for pa- drop of blood. tained about 32,000 genes, a typical total for plants, which average hypertension, routine lab tests to monitor blood-thinning tients on medications like Coumadin, warfarin or other While slight changes in the level of coagulation proper- around 30,000 genes, which is more than the human genome. medications can be frequent, costly and painful. blood thinners who need to monitor their blood-clotting ties will occur normally depending on certain food intake "Carrots are an interesting crop to work on because of their But researchers at the University of Cincinnati -- sup- levels on a regular basis," says Andrew Steckl, UC professor and overall health conditions, Steckl says a major change in wide range of diversity. They are familiar to everyone, and generally ported by the National Science Foundation -- are develop- of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering and levels immediately shows up on the paper-based test stick well-regarded by consumers, but like most familiar things, people ing materials and technology for a simple in-home screen- Applied Science. resulting in clotting patterns registering on one end of the don't necessarily know the background stories," said University of ing that could be a game changer for patients with several Blood coagulation spectrum or the other and will put up a red flag before any Wisconsin horticulture professor and geneticist Phil Simon, who led life-threatening conditions. "Patients can soon monitor their blood coagulation physiological trouble starts. the study published in the journal Nature Genetics. Patients with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, characteristics from home quickly and painlessly before This interdisciplinary research includes faculty and doc- Worldwide carrot consumption quadrupled between 1976 atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, kidney disease making needless trips to the lab or hospital." toral-student colleagues from the University of Cincinnati's and 2013 and they now rank in the top 10 vegetable crops glob- and others who are at risk for blood clotting are especially Using nanofiber membranes inside paper-based James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, the UC Nanoelec- ally, the researchers said. In the past four decades, carrots have vulnerable when blood-thinning medication levels get too porous materials housed within a plastic cassette, the tronics Laboratory and the UC Department of Electrical been bred to be more orange and more nutritious, with 50 per- weak or too strong. This imbalance can quickly lead to is- researchers can quickly reveal the level of the blood's Engineering & Computing Systems in the UC College of cent more nutrients. chemic (clotting) or hemorrhagic (bleeding) strokes if not ability to clot, and all from the convenience of the pa- Engineering and Applied Science. (Source: Reuters) detected in time. tient's living room with a simple finger stick to draw a (Source: Science Daily) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y http://www.tehrantimes.com/international MAY 17, 2016 WORLD IN FOCUS 9

The death toll from a coordinated assault plant. by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant It was not clear how long it would take (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist group on a natu- Iraq death toll rises after to restore flow to the power stations, ral-gas plant outside Baghdad has risen which provided 153 megawatts to the al- NEWS to 14, Iraqi officials say. coordinated ISIL attacks ready overstretched national grid before The announcement takes the total num- the attack. Iran and the next U.S. ber of fatalities from Sunday’s bomb attacks in In Sunday’s assault, a car bomb tar- or close to the capital to at least 29. geting a shopping area in the town of president The attack on the government-run Latifiyah, about 30km south of Baghdad, plant started at dawn with a suicide car killed seven people, including two sol- 1 The strategic tools used historically by previous bomber hitting the facility’s main gate diers, police and hospital officials said. presidents do not appear to work well in the Middle East. in the town of Taji, about 20km north of They said that 18 people were also However, two recent opportunities created by the Obama Baghdad. wounded in the attack, four of whom Administration should provide a glimpse of hope for the next Then several suicide bombers and were soldiers. president as well as more room for political maneuverability fighters broke into the plant and clashed Elsewhere in Baghdad, three separate that a version of collective engagement might succeed in the with security forces, leaving 27 soldiers bomb attacks targeted commercial areas, region: The ability of the Obama Administration to rally Sun- wounded, an official said. killing at least eight civilians and wound- ni nations to join the coalition against ISIS. But more impor- ISIL, on the other hand, said in an ing 28 others, police added. Medical offi- tantly, the nuclear deal with Iran that offers a truly unique but online statement that four fighters with cials confirmed the casualty figures. limited opportunity to improve overall relations with Tehran. machine guns had killed the guards at The attacks killed a total of 29 people The next U.S. president cannot ignore or undermine the the plant which it said the Iraqi army was across the country. fact that Iran’s role is vital and must be properly addressed using as a headquarters. Since Wednesday, more than 140 and managed, with collaborative approach that could yield a When reinforcements arrived, they set people have been killed in a spate of new trilateralism that might encompass the long-term strate- off a parked car bomb before clashing bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere. gic pivot to Asia easier, reinforce trans-Atlantic ties, and pro- with the security forces and detonating forces were able to bring the situation fire caused by the explosions. Younis said Attacks in its Shia neighborhoods vide greater support to manage instability in the Middle East. their suicide vests. under control. technicians were examining the damage. marked Wednesday as the year’s blood- These complexities require the next Commander in Chief to A spokesman for Baghdad Operations In a statement to the press, Hamid The electricity ministry said two near- iest day for Baghdad, with death toll show more political flexibility and Iran will be a consequential Command said three of the facility’s gas Younis, Deputy oil minister, said firefight- by power stations had halted operations crossing the 90 mark. illustration and ultimately test-case of this intent. (Source: agencies) storages were set alight before security ers managed to control and extinguish a due to a cut in gas supplies from the Taji It should be a constant reminder to the next administra- tion that in addition to China, Iran also presents a distinc- tive opportunity for the United States to capitalize on some David Petraeus: Anti-Muslim bigotry aids terrorists common interests with a long-time adversary and to reduce the potential for conflict and help enhance broader regional basis of their religion. east Asia, it was by working with the government of In- stability. The next U.S. president should consider two im- ARTICLE Some justify these measures as necessary to keep us donesia — the most populous Muslim-majority coun- portant developments when assessing the future relationship By David Petraeus safe — dismissing any criticism as “political correctness.” try in the world — that Jemaah Islamiah, once one of with Iran. The first is the nature of the July 2015 nuclear deal; Others play down such divisive rhetoric as the excess- al-Qaeda’s most capable affiliates, was routed. the second is Iran’s broader role in the Middle East. Iran’s es of political campaigns here and in Europe, which will The good news is that today, hundreds of thousands influence in the region has grown in recent years, in part be- fade away after the elections are over. of Muslims are fighting to defeat the terrorists who wish to cause of the disruption created by the U.S. invasion of Iraq lmost 15 years after the 9/11 attacks, and five I fear that neither is true; in fact, the ramifications of kill us all. This includes brave Afghan soldiers fighting the and Afghanistan, therefore any attempt to limit this role will years since the killing of the chief architect of such rhetoric could be very harmful — and lasting. ISIL and the Taliban, as well as Persian Gulf forces in Yem- be disadvantageous to the United States and the region. A As policy, these concepts are totally counterproductive: en battling both Houthis (Ansarullah) and al-Qaeda in the those attacks, the United States and the world Despite their many differences, the next American presi- face a resurgent threat from terrorism. This stark reali- Rather than making our country safer, they will compound Arabian Peninsula. And it includes Arab and Kurdish forces dent should not disregard the fact that Iran and the United ty should inform the national debate as we prepare to the already grave terrorist danger to our citizens. As ideas, who are battling the ISIL in Iraq and Syria. In fact, we should States share a strategic interest in the free flow of oil through elect our next commander in chief. they are toxic and, indeed, non-biodegradable — a kind do more to support these partners of ours. the Strait of Hormuz. They also share an interest in success- As states across the Middle East have collapsed into of poison that, once released into our body politic, is not Inescapably, clearing territory of entrenched terrorist net- ful implementation of the JCPOA, at least in the short-term. civil war, extremist groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq easily expunged. Setting aside moral considerations, those works and then holding it takes boots on the ground. The Also, with the rise of ISIS, Iran and the United States are reluc- and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) have exploited the upheaval who flirt with hate speech against Muslims should realize question is — whether in Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, tantly cooperating to defeat a common enemy, even though to seize vast swaths of territory, which they have used they are playing directly into the hands of al-Qaeda and Iraq, Syria, Nigeria or Mali — do the bulk of those boots need both nations have been unwilling to formalize these coop- to rally recruits, impose totalitarian rule over the people the ISIL. The terrorists’ explicit hope has been to try to to be our own or those of local Muslim partners? erative arrangements. The next step in defeating ISIS may trapped in these areas and plot attacks against the rest provoke a clash of civilizations — telling Muslims that the I fear that those who demonize and denigrate Is- require U.S.-Iranian cooperation in Syria for a new formula. of the world. Few responsibilities that our next president United States is at war with them and their religion. When lam make it more likely that it will be our own men and There is further room for improving U.S.-Iranian relations, inherits will be more urgent, important or complex than Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against women who ultimately have to shoulder more of this which, if achieved, could affect the future of the Middle East. thwarting these terrorist plans, reversing the conditions Islam, they bolster the terrorists’ propaganda. fight — at greater cost in dollars and lives. The difficult task for the next U.S. president is to rebuild that have enabled their rise and combating the broader At the same time, such statements directly under- We should also acknowledge that patriotic Muslim ties with traditional yet increasingly vulnerable allies as it cre- extremist ideology that animates them. mine our ability to defeat extremists by alienating and Americans in our intelligence agencies and armed forces ates a new relationship with Iran, a new approach should be It would be a mistake to minimize the continuing risk undermining the allies whose help we most need to win — many of them immigrants or children of immigrants — designed for the Middle East despite the constant pressure of posed by these groups. Although al-Qaeda’s senior lead- this fight: namely, Muslims. have been vital assets in this fight with radical Islam. partisan politics in Washington. Therefore, a hybrid approach ership ranks have been dramatically reduced, and while During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back It has also been through building ties of trust and coop- is urgently needed. The daunting task of designing a re- encouraging progress is being made against the ISIL in the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because eration between law enforcement and Muslim communities gional strategy for the Middle East is the least well defined Iraq and, to a lesser degree, Syria, these remain resilient we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis — especially Sunni in the United States that we form our most effective defense compared to the strategy with Europe or Asia. But it is vital and adaptive organizations. While extremist networks do Arabs — to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni against homegrown radicalization and lone-wolf attacks. for the next president to realize that he or she must seek not pose an “existential” threat to the United States in the extremist networks in their midst. Later, we took on the Again, none of this is to deny or diminish the reality to contain the consequences of the violent chaos that cur- way that Soviet nuclear weapons once did, their bloodlust Shia militia, with the important support of the Shia-ma- that we are at war with extremism — a fanatical ide- rently exists in the region without drawing the United States and their ambition to inflict genocidal violence make them jority Iraqi security forces. ology based on a twisted interpretation of Islam. Nor so deeply that it is unable to focus on challenges of greater uniquely malevolent actors on the world stage. Likewise, the rapid ouster of the Taliban regime after is it to minimize the need for smart, intelligence-driv- strategic relevance in Europe but most important Asia. In that Nor can they be “contained.” On the contrary, from 9/11 was made possible by our partnership with Muslim en measures to prevent terrorists from infiltrating our respect U.S. enhancement of partnership with Iran is vitally Afghanistan before 9/11 to Syria and Libya today, history fighters of the Afghan Northern Alliance. And in South- borders and exploiting our immigration policies. But important for that very cause. shows that, once these groups are allowed to establish a it is precisely because the danger of extremism is so In order to achieve a partnership that is more fluid than haven, they will inevitably use it to project instability and The rapid ouster of the great that politicians here and abroad who toy with those in Europe and Asia the next U.S. president must at- violence. Moreover, the fact is that free and open socie- Taliban regime after anti-Muslim bigotry must consider the effects of their tempt to construct a more cooperative relationship with Iran ties such as ours depend on a sense of basic security to rhetoric. Demonizing a religious faith and its adherents despite fundamental differences in the post-JCPOA era. In 9/11 was made possible not only runs contrary to our most cherished and fun- function. If terrorism succeeds in puncturing that, it can by our partnership with the course of successful implementation of JCPOA the next threaten the very fabric of our democracy — which is, damental values as a country; it is also corrosive to our U.S. president should also think about launching new region- indeed, a central element of the terrorist strategy. Muslim fighters of the vital national security interests and, ultimately, to the al initiatives, including a broader regional security summit For that reason, I have grown increasingly concerned Afghan Northern Alliance. United States’ success in this war. that must and should include Iran. This approach will help David Petraeus is a retired U.S. Army general who design a new balance for the Middle East. about inflammatory political discourse that has become And in Southeast Asia, it commanded coalition forces in Iraq from 2007 to 2008 far too common both at home and abroad against Mus- Bijan Bonakdar is director of Strategic Initiatives at the In- was by working with the and Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011 and served as CIA stitute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) of the Irani- lims and Islam, including proposals from various quar- director from 2011 to 2012. (Source: The Washington Post) ters for blanket discrimination against people on the government of Indonesia an Foreign Ministry. Roozbeh Aliabadi is advisor to director of Strategic Initi- atives at the Institute for Political and International Stud- Turkey and U.S. bomb ISIL positions inside Syria ies (IPIS) of the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Turkish and the United States-led coa- gun posts were also destroyed in the at- tinued as government-backed armed ISIL covers fighters’ hefty lition forces have struck Islamic State in tack less than 10km from Turkey’s Syria groups said they took back two villages Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) targets border. north of the battered Syrian city from bills in Turkish hospitals, north of the Syrian city of Aleppo, killing Turkish and coalition forces have car- ISIL. leaked phone taps reveal at least 27 fighters, according to state- ried out a series of such strikes recently Government’s deadly airborne raids run Anadolu Agency and other media to prevent further attacks on the Turkish also destroyed a fifth-century church, the reports. border town of Kilis, which lies just across Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in the vil- The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist Turkish artillery and rocket launch- the frontier from ISIL-controlled territory lage of Daret Azza, according to Syrian groups wounded fighterson the Syrian battlefield regularly ers fired into Syria while warplanes in Syria, and has been regularly struck by activists. travel to Turkey for complex and costly medical treatment, from the U.S.-led coalition carried out rockets in recent weeks. The fighting was focused around according to tapped phone calls apparently ignored by An- three separate air campaigns, Anad- The U.S. and Turkey have for months a strategic area that leads in and kara’s security forces, and handed to the media by opposition olu said on Monday citing military been discussing a military plan to drive out of the rebel-controlled eastern MP Erem Erdem. sources. ISIL from the border. Aleppo. Transcripts of phone recordings that were obtained by Five fortified defense posts and two Elsewhere in Aleppo, fighting con- (Source: Al Jazeera) international media conversations with Ilhami Bali, a ‘promi- nent’ figure within ISIL terrorist group, who has a €1.3 million bounty on his head, shed additional light on the lucrative business of medical treatments apparently offered by Turkish The ABM system and the reemergence of the U.S.-Russia Cold War medical facilities to the terrorists. According to the information previously made public by 1 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, claims come a replacement to the U.S. air base in Germany. matched nuclear forces can be perceived in any Erdem, ISIL terrorists and their families regularly get escorted that the creation of new anti-missile sites in Romania Could this development be part of a broader attempt to neutral sense. Removing the ability of one state back and forth through the Syrian-Turkish border with the violates the 1987 arms reduction treaty that banned move the center of NATO operations from Germany to to effectively respond to a ballistic missile attack help of local middlemen and a lack of counter-measures from land-based cruise and medium-range missiles, and Poland? If the answer is yes, this may explain why such cannot be viewed simply as defensive. Rather, it is authorities. has sought legally binding guarantees that the United a prospect is worrisome when seen from the Russian by its nature an offensive and provocative act that While Ankara staunchly denies offering any safe havens States’ plans to deploy missile defense technologies in standpoint. Andrey Kelin, a senior Russian Foreign Min- could bear unforeseen—if not unthinkable—conse- for wounded ISIL members, or any links with the terrorist Eastern Asia are not directed against Russia. istry official, has noted that this fear results largely from a quences. It appears that Russian officials are trying group whatsoever, several phone taps point to the contrary, How to satisfy Moscow’s demands for legal guar- newly emerging perception of threat among some Rus- to drive home one key point: the U.S.-led alliance is echoing numerous earlier reports of the terrorist group’s cozy antees remains to be seen. The question is: are the sians that all “this is part of the military and political con- likely to encircle Russia and undermine its strategic ties with Turkey. problems technical, military, or political? Perhaps more tainment of Russia.” The revival of the Cold War rivalry assets around the Black Sea and its naval fleet op- Some of those who are returning from Syria are often importantly, China and Russia have expressed similar in the formerly communist-ruled Eastern Europe, Kelin erations there. Whether this site may be upgraded in need of urgent medical assistance, according to inter- concerns over U.S. military cooperation with South Ko- adds, could exacerbate an already tense situation be- in ways that could pose threats to Russian secu- cepted conversations. If everything goes smoothly and rea. They both see the U.S. deployment of the Terminal tween Russia and the West more generally and between rity remains to be seen. If Russia and the United the smugglers are not detained by Turkish authorities, High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system Moscow and Washington more particularly. States fail to bridge their differences over the U.S. the wounded terrorists get expensive, board and under- in South Korea as posing a clear threat to Russia’s and Arguably, Russia is justified in seeing these mis- missile defense system in Europe, the consequenc- go complicated medical procedures which sometimes China’s security. sile defense systems as fundamentally belligerent es are likely to be destabilizing for the region and amount to thousands of dollars, while the bills are then Are Russian fears warranted? The Aegis defensive tools. Just because they pose no clear and pres- beyond. The ineluctable question is: Are we in a taken care of by the ISIL. umbrella is apparently related to preparing the ground ent danger to Russia, it does not follow that re- nuclear arms race again? 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FOOD FOR THOUGHT Iran to recruit women officers for sports events WOMEN TEHRAN —The Irani- stadiums to be guaranteed by female forc- deskan police is to employ es when women’s games are to be held, women officers for different fields such as the police official said. sports events, Hassan Karami, commander Currently, Iran is in a suitable situation of the special units of the Law Enforcement from the security viewpoint and it has Force, said here on Monday. reached an acceptable level of security in “Women have played effective and de- different dimensions, Karami noted. cisive roles in different crises and their pres- Today, the special units of the Law Enforce- ence in police force is a need,” he added. ment Force have both scientific and social at- “A mother loves her children unconditionally. However they wrong It is planned that the security of sports titudes toward the society, said the brigadier. her, she'll carry on loving them.” Alaa Al Aswany Next parliament to change approach toward women: MP NEWS WOMEN TEHRAN — The next parliament will ying different majors in universities by female students, Passenger pleads guilty to deskcreate changes in laws on women-re- adding that gender discrimination should be removed in lated issues, Parvaneh Salahshouri, a newly elected mem- some fields of study. pulling hijab from Muslim ber of the parliament, said here on Monday. Referring to a one-hundred increase in the number of woman’s head Regarding the change in the number and approach of female MPs in the next parliament, Salahshouri noted that female members of the next parliament, it is predicted that people voted to select women candidates to meet their the view of members of the parliament toward women will requests in women-related issues. A man who admitted yanking a Muslim woman’s hijab from face a considerable change, IRNA quoted her as saying. Voting results published on April 30 showed the new her head during an airline flight pleaded guilty Friday to a Women’s role-making and their active presence led to Iranian parliament set a new record in the Islamic Re- charge of obstruction of a person’s free exercise of religious a record of number of women being elected in the parlia- public, with the previous highest number of female MPs rights, according to the plea agreement filed in the U.S. Dis- ment’s history, Salahshouri added. being 14. trict Court in New Mexico. The next parliament is to review the possibility of stud- The next parliament will start its work on May 28. Gill Parker Payne, 37, of Gastonia, North Carolina, will serve two months of home detention under the terms of Meet Gaza’s first and only female competitive runner the plea agreement. A sen- tencing date has not been set. Though circumstances are tough for his young daughter faces any harassment Still, living under Israeli occupation The judge does not have to professional athletes in the military-oc- from authorities or the community. means many challenges for the young accept the agreement. cupied Gaza strip, one young runner “Some people object to girls running runner, where facilities for professional The incident occurred on trains with all her heart. and say bad things. It upsets me, but I try athletes are limited in Gaza. And just last a December 11 Southwest A 15-year old Palestinian from the Gaza to hide it from Inas, because I don’t want month, her and dozens of other runners Airlines flight from Chicago strip, Inas Nofal, is the enclave’s first and it to discourage her from her dream,” from Gaza were denied permits by Israel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, only female competitive runner. Mahmoud said. He is hopeful his daugh- to visit Bethlehem to take part in the Pal- according to a news release “Running is my life,” Nofal told Al Ja- ter will help change how society views estine Marathon. from the Justice Department. zeera. “Before I go to sleep, I think about girls and women. But Nofal remains hopeful. The woman is identified only which routes I’ll run the next day.” Nofal began running last year, with the “I dream of running outside Gaza, as “K.A.” in court documents. Her biggest supporter is her father support of a local coach, Sami Nateel, who where there are open spaces to run,” ‘I grabbed the back of the hijab’ Mahmoud, who often follows Nofal and a runner himself previously, now trains Pal- she said. The “defendant’s admission of facts” in the the plea agree- her coach from his car, ready to jump in if estinian youth. (Source: teleSUR English) ment says: “I stopped next to her seat, looked down at K.A., and told her to take off her hijab, stating something to the effect of, ‘Take it off! This is America!’ I then grabbed the back of the hi- For Muslim women in Canada, a sense of vulnerability jab and pulled it all the off, leaving K.A.’s entire head exposed. As a result, K.A. felt violated and quickly pulled the hijab back The recent Environics Institute survey of Muslims in to play leadership roles in Muslim organizations. This who experienced xenophobia, 60 percent said they are up and covered her head again.” Canada reveals a community that belies facile stereo- could provide the basis for an unmosqued movement, identifiably Muslim. This ratio is reversed among the 25 Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, types – no more so than when you analyze the results or the creation of women’s mosques. percent of Muslim women who experience difficulties head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, issued along gender lines. When it comes to family life, a whopping 90 per- at border crossings. As a result, women worry far more a statement Friday: For example, the survey (for which I served as an cent of Muslim men and women believe the respon- about discrimination, unemployment and Islamopho- “No matter one’s faith, all Americans are entitled to peace- unpaid consultant) found that fewer Muslim women sibility for caring for the home and children should bia than men. fully exercise their religious beliefs free from discrimination and share the optimism about Canada felt by their male be shared equally. However, more men believe that The discrimination concerns are real, as illustrat- violence. Using or threatening force against individuals because counterparts. And while both groups believe that the father must be the master in the home, plac- ed by employment statistics from the 2011 National of their religion is an affront to the fundamental values of this their Muslim and Canadian identities are very impor- ing the Muslim level of support for family patriar- Household Survey, in which the unemployment rate nation, and the Civil Rights Division will continue to be vigilant tant, when asked to choose between the two, women chy roughly equal to that of Canadians in the 1980s. of Muslims was 14 percent, compared with the na- in protecting the religious liberties guaranteed to all Americans.” choose their Muslim identity at a far higher rate. As a However, today’s younger Muslim generation rejects tional average of 7.8 percent, despite Muslims having The incident occurred while the plane was about to land corollary, fewer women than men believe that immi- patriarchy at roughly the same level as that of other high levels of education. The unemployment rate was in Albuquerque. grants should set aside their cultural backgrounds and Canadians. highest in Quebec (17 percent), which was double the When reached for comment, a Southwest spokesman try to blend into Canadian culture. Furthermore, more Muslim women are less optimistic about relations provincial average. In comparison, the national unem- said: “We have procedures in place to report and escalate female immigrants have indicated that their attach- with non-Muslims than men are, the survey found. A ployment rate of visible minorities hovered around 10 situations involving inappropriate behavior by our customers, ment to Islam has increased since moving to Canada. greater number worry about the reaction of Canadians percent. including alerting local law enforcement officials. We do not The survey, based on telephone interviews with 600 toward Muslims, believing that the next generation of Even Canadian-born Muslims, who graduated from tolerate discrimination or inappropriate behavior by any of Muslims across the country, also provides an interest- Muslims will face more discrimination. They are also a Canadian institution, fared worse than the national our customers toward another.” ing snapshot of gender-based attitudes toward com- more concerned about media portrayal of Muslims, average, with an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent. The maximum sentence on the charge is one year in prison, munity institutions. For example, only 33 percent of and stereotyping by colleagues and neighbors. One can only imagine the difficulties in finding em- a fine of $100,000, probation for up to five years and restitution. Muslim women attend a mosque at least once a week It seems the crux of the matter lies in discrimination, ployment for the 60,000 Muslim women who head a (Source: CNN) for prayer, compared with 62 percent of men. The lack as 42 percent of Muslim women (compared with 27 single-parent household. of female attendance is not surprising, given that many percent of men) say they have experienced some form Clearly, Muslim women feel more vulnerable about mosques do little to encourage female participation. of discrimination or ill-treatment during the past five the future, given that they bear a greater brunt of dis- Interestingly, a core of about 20 percent of women years. Such incidents occurred mainly in public places crimination than their male counterparts. RECIPE OF THE WEEK (and men) is unhappy with opportunities for women – stores, , banks, public transit. Of women (Source: The Globe and Mail) Apricot cookies IN FOCUS ISNA/Mohsen Esmailzadeh French ex-ministers "These cookies have a great tart and sweet taste. These are not just a Christmas cookie, but they get asked for every year! You launch campaign can substitute cranberry sauce for apricot preserve, or try doing half apricot and half cranberry, yum!" against harassment Ingredients: 1 cup butter of women 1 cup white sugar A number of French former ministers 3 cups all-purpose flour have launched a campaign to “system- 1 teaspoon baking powder atically denounce” all kinds of sexual 1/2 teaspoon salt abuse against women in France. 1 egg “We will no longer keep quiet,” said 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 17 former ministers, all women, in a 1 cup apricot preserves statement published by the Journal du 1/3 cup confectioners' Dimanche weekly paper on Sunday. sugar for decoration We promise to “systematically denounce Directions: all sexist remarks, inappropriate gestures Preheat oven to 350 de- and inappropriate behavior,” they added. grees F (175 degrees C). The ex-ministers said in their joint state- Cream the butter and sug- ment that when they entered the male-dom- ar in a medium size mixing inated realm of politics, they were forced “to bowl. Mix flour, baking pow- either submit to or fight against sexism.” der, salt, egg and vanilla extract into the butter-sugar mixture. They said it is now time for a change in Cool dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour. that pattern. “It’s not for women to adapt On a lightly floured surface roll dough out to 1/4 inch thick. to these environments. It’s the behavior of Cut the dough into rounds with a round cookie cutter or glass. certain men that needs to change.” Using the tip of a teaspoon place a small drop of apricot pre- The group of former ministers en- serves into the middle of the circle. Brush edges with water and couraged French women to stand up for fold the dough over so that the cookie is in the shape of a half- their rights and make use of the “judicial moon; seal edges Arrange on ungreased cookie sheets. arsenal” provided by the law in their ef- Bake for 8 to 12 minutes, or until golden brown. Dust the Women pick pink roses in Farkhad village in the Tabadkan rural district, Khorasan Razavi. They use pink roses, called Mohammadi forts against male dominance. cookies with powdered sugar while still hot. flowers, to make rosewater. (Source: Press TV) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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II’d’d llikeike toto continuecontinue mmyy ccareerareer iinn FOOTBALL Rashford named in provisional EEurope:urope: MMehdiehdi TTaremiaremi England squad Manchester United’s teenage forward Marcus Rashford was SPORTS Persepolis international striker Mehdi the surprise pick in England manager Roy Hodgson’s pro- deskTaremi stated that he will most likely visional 26-man squad for the Euro Championship named leave the Iranian most popular team in order to continue on Monday. his career in Europe. Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere was also included despite “Every player wants to play in Europe’s top league missing nearly all the season with injury while winger Andros and I’m no exception of that. I’m studying the offers and Townsend, relegated from the Premier League with Newcas- will choose my next team in the coming weeks. I’m now tle United, was recalled. There was no place for Theo Walcott. 24-year-old and it’s getting late to move to Europe be- Rashford, 18, made his United debut in February and has cause I want to improve and become a complete player,” scored seven goals in 16 appearances in all competitions, Taremi said in an interview with his official website. including two on his Premier League debut. “I would like to thank our fans who supported us from Hodgson selected five the first week, when we were at the bottom of the league, strikers in his provisional list until the final week. We could have won the league if we which will be reduced to 23 had scored more goals but this is football and can’t predict before the tournament, with it,” Taremi added. Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy, Persepolis defeated arch-rival Esteghlal 4-2 in Tehran Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry derby on April 15. Taremi netted a brace in the crucial Kane, Manchester United match, set up a goal and missed a penalty. captain Wayne Rooney and “Winning the derby was one of the best moments of Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge the season. With respect to Esteghlal and its fans, it was an the others. easy game which we knew that we would win it before the “Marcus Rashford is one game,” the 24-year-old striker added. of the contenders,” Hodg- Taremi, who has scored 18 goals in 23 appearances for son, whose side are among Persepolis, won the top scorer award of 2015-16 Iran Pro- the favourites for the tour- fessional League season. It is reported that he has received nament in France after qual- offers from Russia, Turkey and Italy. ifying with a 100 percent re- cord, told a news conference. “Competition is strong and he deserves to be selected for the main squad but I am pleased someone who has had an Iran football 5-a-side to participate at Brazil’s tournament outstanding end to the season has a great future. He will have the chance to knock someone off their perch.” SPORTS Iran football 5-a-side will participate The tournament is part of Iran’s preparation for the Walcott was not the only experienced player left out of a deskat an international tournament, which Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. youthful-looking squad. There was no place for Manches- will be held in Brazil. The Olympic Tennis Centre will host the football ter United midfielder Michael Carrick or Everton defenders The blind football competition will take place in Rio 5-a-side matches at Rio 2016. Eight teams, divided into Leighton Baines and Phil Jagielka. de Janeiro from May 30 to June 5. two groups of four, will compete for gold from Septem- “I am of course disappointed not to make the squad, but Hossein Rajabpour, Sadegh Rahimi, Mohammadreza ber 9 to 17. I have spoken with Roy and respect his decision,” Arsenal’s Moheninasab, Kambiz Mohkam, Behzad Zadaliasghar, The top two teams in each group will qualify for the Walcott said on Twitter. Amir Pourrazavi, Ahmadreza Shah-Hosseini, Rasoul semi-finals. Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson, who returned from five Baseri, Meysam Shojaeian and Mehrdad Abbasi have Iran has been pitted against host Brazil, Morocco weeks out with a knee injury on Sunday, is one of 11 mid- been invited to the Iran football 5-a-side. and Turkey in Group A. fielders in the squad, although he must prove his fitness. Javad Felfeli will coach the team in the event, Group B consists of Argentina, China, Mexico and “You always have players who you want to have had a few Paralympic.ir wrote. Russia. more games, but also you want some players to have played less. I was happy to see Jordan back and these three matches can help with fitness,” Hodgson said. Vardy was joined by his fellow title winner Danny Drinkwa- ter while Tottenham Hotspur, who led the pursuit of Leicester AIBA president Ching-Kuo Wu to visit Iran before a late collapse, have five players in the squad includ- ing PFA Young Player of the Year Dele Alli. SPORTS President of the International Boxing As- Mahmoud Goudarzi on Tuesday. desk England have warm-up matches against Turkey, Australia sociation (AIBA) Ching-Kuo Wu landed in Ching-Kuo Wu, who is also Chair of Culture and Olym- and Portugal before they kick off their Euro 2016 campaign Tehran, Iran on Monday to meet with Iranian sports officials. pic Heritage Commission of the International Olympic against Russia in Marseille on June 11. Ching-Kuo Wu, who has been invited by President of Committee, will meet Kioomars Hashemi, President of the (Source: Reuters) Iran Boxing Federation Ahmad Nategh Nouri, is sched- National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the Islamic Repub- uled to meet Iranian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports lic of Iran, on Wednesday. Police Commissioner Coach Dragan Skocic leaves Foolad Iran footvolley team comes 2nd at demands inquiry into Man by mutual consent Asian championship United fake bomb 'fiasco' SPORTS Foolad Khuzestan Iran finished in second place at the 3rd desk head coach Dragan edition of the Asian Footvolley Champi- Manchester's police commissioner demanded an inquiry into Skocic has terminated his contract onship in Thailand on Sunday. the "fiasco" of a fake bomb left behind from a training exer- by mutual consent after surviving the Iran B lost to Thailand A 2-0 in the cise at Old Trafford that forced the abandonment on Sunday team from relegation and finishing in final match, while Thailand B defeated of a Premier League soccer match. 12th place. Australia in the bronze medal match. The device led to the evacuation of Manchester United's In November 2015 after poor re- Thailand has finished first in the two stadium shortly before the scheduled 1400 GMT kickoff of sults with Foolad, Skocic was linked previous edition. their final league game of with the vacant head coach position at Footvolley was created by Octavio the season against Bourne- Sepahan but the job went to his com- de Moraes in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro’s mouth. patriot Igor Stimac. Copacabana Beach. "This fiasco caused mas- “I wish the best for Foolad in the ad who I will defiantly miss them,” Footvolley started in Rio de Janei- to occur outside of Brazil was in 2003 by the sive inconvenience to sup- next season. I worked there for two Skocic said. ro; however cities like Recife, Salvador, United States Footvolley Association on Mi- porters who had come from years and I have a lot of good mem- The Croatian coach is a candidate Brasília, Goiania, Santos and Florianop- ami Beach at the 2003 Fitness Festival. This far and wide to watch the ories with the players and the fans. I for Esteghlal job as the Blues are go- olis have players who have been playing event led to international player and teams match," Police and Crime did my best during the last two years ing to fire Parviz Mazloumi after Hazfi footvolley since the 1970s. in pursuit of federation statuses. Commissioner for Greater with a great group of players at Fool- Cup final. The first International Footvolley event (Source: Tasnim) Manchester Tony Lloyd said. It also "wasted the time of huge numbers of police of- ficers and the army's bomb Mario Gotze meets Carlo Ancelotti to discuss Bayern Munich future squad, and unnecessarily put people in danger," he said in Mario Gotze has confirmed he has held talks on the phone handful of people who know what has been discussed. a statement. with incoming Bayern Munich coach Carlo Ancelotti, but That’s enough, and that’s all I will reveal.” Police said the realistic-looking device, which was de- rejected reports he has been told he should look to find The forward has been linked with a return to Dortmund, stroyed in a controlled explosion, had been accidentally left another club. but also with a switch to Liverpool -- under his former in a toilet by a private firm that was conducting a training Gotze, 23, ended the season on a high on Saturday as Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp -- and Chelsea, and in the exercise. he scored his first competitive goals since October in the past has said that he could delay a decision about his fu- Two of the Old Trafford stands were evacuated about 20 3-1 win against Hannover. ture until after Euro 2016. minutes before kickoff. However, that brace at the Allianz Arena might be his But Gotze refused to go into more details as he told The whole 75,000-seater stadium was cleared and the last goals for the club having endured a difficult time since Bild: “I am under contract until 2017. We have an important match was called off soon afterwards, the first time in 24 joining from Borussia Dortmund three years ago. match next weekend. Those are two facts.” years that a Premier League match had been abandoned on The forward has one year left on his contract and he Next weekend, Bayern play their last match of the sea- security grounds. could move on this summer. son in the DFB Pokal final against Dortmund at the Olym- "Whilst this in no way demeans the professionalism of the “I am fairly relaxed,” Gotze told Bild on Saturday. “We’ve piastadion in Berlin. police and stewards responsible for getting the fans out, or won the German championship. I have won my fifth Ger- “I can promise that I will give it my all next weekend,” the supporters' calmness and cooperation during the evac- man championship. The joy outweighs everything.” change and that a move might be the best solution. Gotze said. “I know that I still have a valid contract. We’ll uation, it is unacceptable that it happened in the first place," Last week, Suddeutsche Zeitung reported that Ancelotti “I don’t know how the editors came up with this,” Gotze see about the rest.” said Lloyd. had told Gotze that his position at the club was unlikely to said. “I wasn’t aware someone listened. There are only a (Source: ESPN) Lloyd, who oversees Manchester police but has no opera- tional role, is also the city's interim mayor. United Executive Vice Chairman Ed Woodward said the club would investigate the incident fully. Italy judge acquits incoming Chelsea boss Antonio Conte in match-fixing case The game has been rearranged for Tuesday. An Italian judge acquitted Antonio Conte, quitted because the accusations of sport- a six-month suspended prison sentence United are almost certain to miss out on qualification for the incoming Chelsea boss, for allegedly ing fraud were baseless. and an 8,000 euros (£6,400) fine for Conte. next season's Champions League after local rivals Manches- doing nothing to halt a 2011 match-fixing Conte, who has already served a four- Leonardo Cammarata, Conte’s lawyer, ter City drew at Swansea City on Sunday, putting City three scandal while in charge of Siena. month touchline ban imposed by the Ital- had responded to that by saying: “It’s no points ahead in fourth place and with a vastly superior goal Judge Pierpaolo Beluzzi said Conte, ian federation (FIGC) in connection with the surprise...We’re prepared to refute this in difference. who will coach Italy’s national squad during case, has always denied any wrongdoing. fact and law. We’re confident of our argu- United are also due to play Crystal Palace in the FA Cup this year’s European Championship before Italian prosecutor Roberto Di Martino ments.” final on Saturday. taking up his new post at Chelsea, was ac- had reportedly stated he would be seeking (Source: Reuters) (Source: Reuters) b

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NEWS IN BRIEF Copies of famous artworks Tehran to host Intl Holy Quran Exhibition to embellish Tehran in June ARTTEHRAN — Copies of famous works deskof art, including many by prominent CULTURE TEHRAN — The 24th Inter- Western and Iranian artists, will appear next week on desknational Holy Quran Exhibition billboards and tableaus across the capital city of Tehran. will be held at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla Over 2000 billboard ads will be replaced with images from June 13 to 28. by Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and Henri Matisse and Several Iranian and international Quranic reproductions of traditional Persian miniatures, carpets, publishers and software companies, and artists calligraphy and many more for ten days, turning the will showcase their works at the exhibit. face of the city into a huge art gallery. The exhibit is held annually during the holy The images selected for the project, “A Gallery as month of Ramadan, which is known as the Large as a City”, are copies of paintings generally kept spring of the Quran in the Islamic countries. in the world museums, director of Tehran Municipality’s A billboard Beautification Organization Issa Alizadeh said in a press displays Vocalist Aminollah release published on Monday. “Garrowby “There has been a slight change in the second edi- Hill” by Rashidi to perform David tion of the project, making the notes on each image Hockney in Tehran easier to read. We have also tried to avoid repetition of during the one work on several billboards in the city,” he explained. project “A On displaying images selected from works by de- Gallery as Large CULTURE TEHRAN — Ninety-one-year ceased artists, project manager Mojtaba Musavi said, desk “There needs to be more efforts to introduce works by as a City” old vocalist Aminollah Rashi- in Tehran di will perform a number of his most memo- deceased artists. Moreover, we have avoided showcas- on May rable hits with the Ramesheh Orchestra at the ing works by living artists, since we need to observe the 7, 2015. Andisheh Hall of the Art Bureau in Tehran on copyright law.” (Mehr/ May 26. Musavi also said that most of Tehran’s billboard spac- Hossein Esmaeili) The orchestra composed of 60 musicians will es are run by private companies; however, they have be conducted by Ali-Mohammad Shahi. agreed to dedicate their billboards for promoting cul- we believe this project will help the citizens raise their “Our people are too busy to go to the museums and ture across the city for a short period of time. knowledge of art and make them more familiar with galleries,” he said, adding, “So we decided to turn the New translation of “Happily, people welcomed the idea last year and artists and their works,” Musavi said. entire city into a huge gallery.” “Duino Elegies” comes to Iranian bookstores “Princess of Rome” producer, director reunite for “The Elephant King” ARTTEHRAN — “Prin- him a son, and everybody expects the zation active in animation production, The animation will probably go on desk ARTTEHRAN — A new Persian cess of Rome” pro- son to replace his father as heir to the told the Persian service of ISNA on screen across the country next year, desktranslation of renowned Bohe- ducer Hamed Jafari and director Hadi throne, but the clumsy baby elephant Monday. he added. mian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Mohammadian are working on a new disappoints them all. “The animation is in the pre-pro- “Princess of Rome”, an animation Rilke’s “Duino Elegies” by Ali Behruzi has re- project entitled “The Elephant King” “Like ‘Princes of Rome’, this ani- duction stage now and we are plan- that chronicles the life of the Roman cently been released in Tehran by Fenjan Pub- about a clumsy baby elephant. mation is also made for children and ning to complete the project by di- emperor’s granddaughter, Malika, lications. The story of the animation is set in young adults with an interesting sto- rector Hadi Mohammadian to have it the mother of the 12th Imam of Shias The poems are composed of ten elegies Africa, where an elephant rules over ry,” Jafari, who is also the director of ready for the Fajr Film Festival in Feb- Imam Mahdi (AS), was a box office hit Rilke started writing in 1912 while a guest of its group like a king. The queen bears Honar Pooya Group, a private organi- ruary,” he added. last year. Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis (1855– Mehr/ 1934) at Duino Castle, near Trieste on the PICTURE OF THE DAY Hossein Esmaeili Adriatic Sea. “Girls Don’t Scream” Rilke (1875–1926) is widely recognized as one director’s new film to of the most lyrically intense German-language poets writing in both verse and highly lyrical focus on emotionally prose. unavailable partners ARTTEHRAN — Puran De- deskrakhshandeh, the di- NEWS rector of the acclaimed drama “Hush! Museum shines rare Girls Don’t Scream”, plans to center her new film “Under a smoky Roof” on spotlight on China’s partners emotionally unavailable. “This film follows my previous mov- Cultural Revolution ies in its subject matter, and will be a social drama about partners who are JIANCHUAN, Sichuan Province (Reuters) — Tucked away emotionally unavailable,” Derakhshan- in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, a private collector deh told the Persian service of ILNA stands virtually alone in exhibiting relics from the 1966-1976 on Sunday. Cultural Revolution. Derakhshandeh has completed the Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the po- screenplay and plans to begin produc- litical movement, with no official commemorations planned. tion after she signs with a producer. Official records whitewash the details of both periods, but Her 2014 drama “Hush! Girls Don’t admit that Mao made major mistakes. Scream” was screened at many in- The 1958-1961 Great Leap Forward, when millions starved ternational events and won several to death in late chairman Mao Zedong’s botched industri- prizes, including the Diamond Award alization campaign, and the Cultural Revolution are two of at the International Independent Film modern China’s most sensitive historical events. Awards in Los Angeles. Fan Jianchuan, who opened his Jianchuan Museum Clus- The film tells the story of a young ter to the public in 2005, said his relics, which refer discreetly girl named Shirin who is supposed to to a “Red era”, were beneficial to the nation. Director Hassan Fat’hi acknowledges fans upon his arrival to a ceremony held at Tehran’s Milad Tower on May 15, 2016 to celebrate the end get married in a couple of hours, but “I have a saying: We don’t speak. Let the cultural relics of the first season of his popular TV series “Shahrzad”. The series centers on a love story set in Tehran during the early years of the 1950s when she unexpectedly murders a man. The talk,” Fan told Reuters TV. Iran encountered one of its darkest historical periods. Members of the cast and crew of the series, which was distributed on Iran’s home video cause of the crime is rooted in her network, were also honored at the ceremony. “Our nation’s cultural treasures need to be inherited… but nightmarish childhood. it is more important to pass on the nation’s experience and some lessons. That’s why I have stayed with this cause for decades.” British director turns attention to Cotillard inspired by director’s During the Cultural Revolution, children turned on par- the U.S. with “American Honey” ‘wildness’ in Mal de Pierres ents and students on teachers after Mao declared class war, convulsing the country in chaos and violence. The upheaval CANNES, FRANCE (Reuters) — The Sunday before the screening of her film in CANNES (Reuters) — Academy Award parents to Spanish farmer Jose, played by affected industry as well, including the critical steel sector. British director of the new film “American Cannes. winning actress Marion Cotillard says the Alex Brendemuehl. From 1967 to the end of 1968, thousands of steel mills Honey” said she had discovered a “differ- “It seemed really different to me than in inspiration for her portrayal of the heroine, She sees her chance to escape the con- were occupied and closed down, slashing steel output. Chi- ent America” in her research for the gritty the U.K. because when people don’t have Gabrielle, in “Mal de Pierres” was the wild- fines of her life with Jose when she meets na’s cabinet, or the State Council, was forced to step in, or- drama, and was shocked by the poverty money they can’t get healthcare and they ness and “fire” of director, Nicole Garcia. Indochinese war veteran, Andre, played by dering steel enterprises to cease the “struggle” and restore she had witnessed. can’t do things like go to the dentist and The film - also billed as “From the Land Louis Garrel. output. Andrea Arnold’s movie, competing for stuff like that and those kind of things real- of the Moon” – premiered at the Cannes Adapted from Milena Agus’s 2006 nov- While recent years have seen increased public discussion the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festi- ly shocked me.” Film Festival on Sunday and is one of 21 el “Mal di Pietre”, Cotillard and Garcia had of both events, certain topics remain almost completely off val, follows a group of teenagers traveling Amongst the mostly unknown cast movies in competition for the Palme d’Or discussed making the book into a film sev- limits, including the death of Lin Biao, once handpicked to across the United States trying to make is American Shia LaBeouf, the “Indiana prize. eral years ago, but had to wait while Cotil- succeed Mao but killed in a mysterious plane crash in 1971 money selling magazine subscriptions. Jones” and “Transformers” star who said Cotillard, who won an Oscar in 2008 for lard fulfilled other work commitments. She while fleeing China having been accused of plotting a coup. As the ‘mag crew’ go door-to-door try- he has first hand experience of growing playing Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose”, says starred in five films last year and will feature Students who toured the museum in a suburb of the pro- ing to convince anyone they come across up in a poor town. of Garcia: “I was very inspired by Nicole, she at least in four in 2016. vincial capital Chengdu, listened carefully as their guide ex- to sign-up and give them money, “Amer- “This is not new information to me, so carries in her this fire, this passion, this wild- “Marion was just the right person for the plained a period in China’s history that is largely missing in ican Honey” shows the contrast between it’s not like I discovered that - in Bakersfield ness that Gabrielle carries. That was my first role,” Garcia told a news conference. their textbooks. the lives of the youngsters and of the often where my father lived for a stint the only source of inspiration”. “I don’t know who else could have por- Luo Qingsong, one of the students from Sichuan Manage- wealthy people they meet on the door- thing there is a prison you know so every- “She manages not to be what people trayed this character, it’s only Marion who ment Professional Institute, said the Cultural Revolution could steps. body works at the prison, yeah that’s not would want her to be,” the 40-year-old told conveys this sensuality, my feeling is that her not happen again in China today. “I got to see an awful lot when as I was new information I am part of that under Reuters in an interview on Sunday. body is so expressive”. “I think modern China is an open country and integrated traveling and I got quite upset about some class,” he said. Cotillard stars as a young woman in Garcia last presented a film - “Charlie into the world. I believe our party, the country and our lead- of the towns I went to, some of the pov- “American Honey” is one of the 21 films post World War Two France, driven by her Says” - at Cannes in 2006 and her only pre- ership would not adopt such policies again,” Luo said. erty I saw,” she told a news conference on in the running for the top prize in Cannes. desire to find love but married off by her vious entry was “The Adversary” in 2002.