WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13251 Sunday NOVEMBER 11, 2018 Aban 20, 1397 Rabi’ Al awwal 3, 1440 Trump seeking to Zarif urges Europe ‘Iran 9th country with Photos of Iranian economically squeeze to intensify efforts to lowest maternity historical sites on view Iranians 2 salvage nuclear deal 2 death worldwide’ 9 at Paris exhibit 16 Hezbollah to retaliate against Israeli aggression on Lebanon: Nasrallah Iran: FIFA should prevent The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hez- Hassan Nasrallah said as he addressed his bollah resistance movement says his fellow supporters via a televised speech broadcast fighters will not hesitate to respond pro- live from the Lebanese capital Beirut on portionately to any Israeli act of aggression Saturday afternoon. against the country. He also praised sacrifices made by “We will retaliate against any attack on resistance fighters, stressing that their politicization of football Lebanon. We will not accept any enemy heroic actions had helped Hezbollah score aggression against our country,” Sayyed glorious victories. 13 See page 2 Amano reconfirms Iran is abiding by the nuclear deal By staff and agency its nuclear-related commitments under Director General of the International the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Atomic Energy Agency Yukio Amano has Iran is implementing its nuclear-related reiterated that Iran is implementing its commitments under the JCPOA. It is nuclear-related commitments under the essential that Iran continues to fully 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint implement those commitments,” he said Comprehensive Plan of Action. in his statement to the 73rd Regular “We have continued to verify and Session of the United Nations General monitor the implementation by Iran of Assembly. 2 CBI drafting new foreign currency directive for exports ECONOMY TEHRAN — Central non-oil exports back into the country’s deskBank of Iran (CBI) economy through the domestic Forex will soon unveil a directive drafted Management Integrated System [locally to help injecting the foreign curren- known as NIMA] will be announced soon. cy earned from non-oil exports into During the first seven months of the the country’s economic cycle, Mehr current Iranian calendar year (March news agency reported quoting CBI’s 21–October 22, 2018), $31 billion was Faraj Samadi governor as saying. allocated for importing goods and ser- According to Abdolnaser Hemmati, vices into the country, of which less than IRNA/ the details regarding the new directive $7 billion was supplied from the non-oil Asian Football Confederation President Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa (L) held talks with Iranian Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri in Tehran on Saturday. which aims to lead the revenues from the export revenues. 4 EDITORIAL Belt and Road Initiative: Contribution by All, Benefits for All ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi By M.A. Saki BRI countries, mainly in infrastructure, Syed Zafar Mehdi Tehran Times editor-in-chief BOAO/BEIJING, China — The Belt and Road transport, and energy. Journalist @ghaderi62 Initiative (BRI), the new Silk Road, is a master plan Win-win game from New Delhi proposed by President Xi Jinping of China in 2013. Chinese officials insist that the BRI is not a Hailed as “the project of the century” by Xi, it zero-sum strategy. They say it is a win-win game. Fukuyama’s is a comprehensive project that seeks to embrace Chinese have selected the slogan of “Contribution Saudi regime’s war on all aspects of development. by All, Benefits for All” for the huge BRI project. warning on future The BRI is a massive trade and infrastructure Actually, while the project is fully realized it free speech, free press project that aims to link China — physically and makes the world more interconnected and creates of democracy financially — to dozens of economies across Asia, more amity between nations. free and independent media is the Europe, Africa, and Oceania. Chinese say, “It reinforces people-to-people watchdog of society, custodian of to escape The primary focuses of the BRI — also known connectivity” along the Belt and Road. public interest and stimulus of po- Ji Bingxuan, vice chairman of the Standing Com- A as One Belt One Road (OBOR) — are infrastruc- BRI is a road to peace litical and social change. For a free and mittee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) accountability ture, transportation, and energy. Quite aware that the United States in op- fearless journalist, truth is sacred, even OBOR consists of two parts: The “Belt,” which the world. Its dimensions are huge. posed to the megaproject and is provoking though it may be unpalatable. In our times, rancis Fukuyama, is the Amer- reinvents the ancient Silk Road land route, and the As Beijing is celebrating the fifth anni- other countries not to join it, Chinese officials to invoke George Orwell, telling a truth ican political scientist, political “Road” which is a route through various oceans. versary of the BRI, China has so far invested say the BRI seeks “peace”, “prosperity” and has become a revolutionary act, and often economist, and author. Fukuyama F It is the greatest ever project introduced to at least $900 billion in projects along the “integrity” for all. 7 it has landed journalists and activists in is known for his book The End of His- troubled waters. tory and the Last Man (1992), which The state of independent press in most argued that the worldwide spread of Haqqanis- Blue-Eyed of U.S. of the Arab states paints a grim picture. liberal democracies and free market By Ishaal Zehra mentioned a possible army coup in Pakistan fol- Haqqani has moved far up the scale from his In Saudi Arabia, for example, there are capitalism of the West and its lifestyle clear-cut ‘do’s and don’ts’ for journalists may signal the end point of humanity’s Daily national herald tribune journalist lowing the U.S. raid in Abbottabad to kill Osama modest beginnings in Malir, Karachi where he ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has been caught in bin Laden. was born in 1956. He is considered as a turn and a red line they must not breach under sociocultural evolution and become any circumstances. The despotic mon- the final form of human government. between the two Haqqanis’ who are somehow It further sought assistance from the U.S. coat. The former Far Eastern Economic Review obsessed with this country. One is the notori- for the then Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) gov- correspondent was the media advisor to Pun- archs in Riyadh are extremely sensitive to During George W. Bush’s presiden- anything critical of them. Hence, there is cy, Samuel Huntington’s and Francis ous Haqqani network and the other is Husain ernment for ‘reigning in the military and in- jab Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif when Benazir Haqqani – Pakistan’s former ambassador to the telligence agencies’. The scandal, taken to the Bhutto was at the center in the year 1988. Ms massive repression of independent voices Fukuyama’s views on the “crash of and surveillance of journalists. civilizations” and the end of history United States. The Haqqani network has been Supreme Court by then opposition leader and Bhutto could not sustain the government and dealt with well, but how to deal with the America’s several others, had led to Haqqani’s resignation was forced to move out of office within 2 years. The cold-blooded murder of Saudi became the intellectual and theoret- journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the ical basis for US foreign policy. These blue-eyed Husain Haqqani who is tarnishing not and subsequent exodus from the country as the Allegedly, Haqqani was instrumental in the peace but the peaceful image of Pakistan. hearing was still under way. bringing down that elected government by turn- Saudi consulate in Istanbul has domi- theories turned into an intellectual nated international headlines in recent basis to justify American interven- Much awaited verdict from the Supreme Court Besides the re-opening of the memogate case, ing the Punjab against the Centre. He was the of Pakistan was finally announced in March 2018 the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) of Paki- architect of that nasty smear campaign against weeks and shaken people around the tion in the international system. The world. Khashoggi was a strong critic of neo-conservative council also strongly when the honorable court issued arrest warrants stan, has also registered a case against Husain Benazir Bhutto which ranged from branding her for the production of former ambassador to the Haqqani in reference to a corruption charge in a security risk to air-dropping leaflets showing the autocratic regime in Riyadh and had welcomed theories of Fukuyama and extensively written about rampant human Huntington. However, after a while, U.S. in relation to the famous Memogate scandal. which he has been accused of illegally using a photographs of her relaxing by the poolside in Sent by Haqqani in 2011 the ‘memo’ allegedly secret fund $7.2 million, while in office. a revealing swimming costume. 13 rights abuses in the kingdom. Fukuyama spelled out his previous Interestingly, Khashoggi’s last column prediction of the future of the world for the Washington Post, which was pub- and the end of history. lished after his death, was a passionate call In an article by Ishan Tharoor for human rights and press freedom in the published in the Washington Post we Persepolis Arab world. But, as a report by Committee read: “Francis Fukuyama, an acclaimed to Protect Journalists (CPJ) noted, Saudi American political philosopher, entered runners up at Arabia has splurged hundreds of millions the global imagination at the end of of dollars in the last three decades to ensure the Cold War when he prophesied the “that never happens”.