Envoy: U.S. Troop Pullout Won’t Be Abrupt U.S. to Build Military Hospital in UAE (Reuters) -- The United States will not make an ABU DHABI (AFP) -- A U.S. military hospital funded by the abrupt and rapid withdrawal of its troops from Syria and United Arab Emirates will be built in Abu Dhabi to treat Emi- rati soldiers and regionally based American troops, a U.S. army will consult closely with its allies on the issue, its special official said Sunday. Lt. Gen. Charles Hooper, director of the envoy on Syria said on Sunday. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, said the U.S. would de- “We’ve been telling them (allies) continuously this is not ploy medical military personnel in support of a facility “very going to be an abrupt, rapid withdrawal but a step-by-step similar” to the one in Landstuhl, Germany – the biggest Ameri- withdrawal,” James Franklin Jeffrey told the Munich Secu- can hospital outside the U.S. The U.S. has a number of military rity Conference, addressing concerns from allies over the bases across the Persian Gulf – the largest in Qatar with about U.S. decision to pullout 2,000 troops. 10,000 troops, while UAE forces have been in Yemen since 2015.

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Viewpoint Jury Prize Goes Win 7 Bronze ‘Terrorism in Impending Doom of the to Iran ‘Forouzan’ Medals at Karate Still 2Treasonous Arab Regimes at India Festival 1-Premier League Not Eradicated’ Large Boxes of Gold Bullions Airlifted3 Rouhani: Sanctions6 Have Instigated Iran’s8 Progress U.S. Uses Helicopters to Steal Syrian Gold Missile-Equipped Fateh Submarine Joins Navy DAMASCUS (Dispatches) “We say to those groups who instigated our progress,” Rouhani – U.S. President are betting on the Americans, said. baffled the whole world last De- the Americans will not protect Last year, Iran’s navy launched cember when he said Daesh had you,” he said without naming a domestically-built destroyer, been defeated in Syria, going them. “The Americans will put equipped with radar-evading on to announce the withdrawal you in their pockets so you can stealth properties. of all American troops from the be tools in the barter, and they Earlier this month, Iran unveiled Arab republic. have started with (it).” a surface-to-surface missile with a Syrian state-run news agency Trump declared in Decem- range of more than 1,350 kilome- SANA has cited local sources ber he would pull troops from ters during celebrations marking as saying that U.S. forces have Syria, raising more questions the 40th anniversary of the 1979 used helicopters to transfer over the fate of Washington’s Islamic revolution. large boxes full of the “spoils” Kurdish allies under the threat General Hatami said the missile, of Daesh terrorists from the Al- of Turkish attacks. named Hoveizeh, needs a very Dashisha area in Hasaka prov- U.S. forces have long supplied short time for its preparedness and ince’s southern countryside. arms and training to the so- can fly at a low altitude. The sources said the boxes called Syrian Democratic Forc- Head of the Islamic Revolution contained huge amounts of es (SDF), led by the Kurdish Guards Corp (IRGC)’s aerospace gold that the terrorist group had YPG militia, the main U.S part- division General Amirali Hajiza- safely stored east of Al-Shadadi ner in Syria. The U.S. presence deh said at the event that Iran could city. helped the SDF seize swathes now manufacture a full range of The account, SANA said, cor- of north and east Syria, and has missiles after overcoming initial responds with other reports that also been widely seen as a deter- problems in producing jet engines Daesh had transported some 40 rent against which has for cruise missiles. tonnes of gold bullions stolen vowed to crush the YPG. President Hassan Rouhani and other officials attend a ceremony marking the induction of Fateh submarine Tehran has reiterated that its mis- from Mosul in Iraq and other sees the YPG as a se- into Iran’s navy in Bandar Lengeh, Feb. 17, 2019. siles are defensive and used for areas in Syria to Al-Dashisha. curity threat and an extension deterrence in the face of repeated According to the sources, of the Kurdish PKK movement TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iranian gion. at surface targets, an electronic foreign threats. U.S. military helicopters ar- that has waged an insurgency President Hassan Rouhani on Sun- It weighs 600 tonnes and en- warfare system as well as a secure Leader of the Islamic Revolution rived in Hajun in Dayr al-Zawr on Turkish soil for decades. day inaugurated a new domestically- joys state-of-the-art weaponry, integrated communications sys- Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and Dashisha in Hasaka, trans- The U.S. move drove Syrian built submarine armed with cruise including torpedoes, naval mines tem, he said. has said a military war against Iran ferring Daesh militants who Kurdish leaders into fresh talks missiles at a ceremony in the south- and cruise missiles that could be Since 1992, Iran has developed a was out of question, but called on had surrendered to American with Damascus and its key ally ern port city of Bandar Lengeh. launched from a submerged posi- homegrown defense industry that the country’s armed forces to boost troops and later directed them Moscow, hoping to agree a deal “From this moment, the Fateh tion. produces light and heavy weapons their capabilities. to the stashes of stolen gold. that could protect the SDF re- Submarine joins Iran’s naval force Defense Minister Brigadier Gen- ranging from mortars and torpe- On Sunday, President Rouhani That came after a deal under gion and safeguard at least with my order,” Rouhani told the eral Amir Hatami said the subma- does to tanks and submarines. said Iran is ready to work with all which Washington “spared some of their gains. ceremony broadcast live on the na- rine is a totally indigenous product Iran has developed a large do- of its neighbors to secure peace in hundreds of the terror organi- “Nobody will protect you tional television. whose entire design process has mestic arms industry in the face of the Middle East in the face of U.S. zation’s field leaders and ex- except your state,” Assad said The Fateh, “Conqueror” in Per- been done by Iranian scientists and Western pressure and embargoes and Israeli aggression. perts,” the report said. in a live televised speech on sian, has subsurface-to-surface experts at the Marine Industries that have barred it from importing “Iran is ready to work with re- The U.S. has previously been Sunday. “If you do not pre- missiles with a range of about Organization of Iran. many weapons. gional states to preserve security accused by multiple countries pare yourselves to defend your 2,000 kilometers, capable of reach- It is equipped with sonar systems, “Our defense power is solely de- in the Middle East,” he said. “We of organizing transportation for country, you will be nothing ing the occupying regime of Israel electric propulsion, a system for fensive...Our enemy’s pressure and want to establish brotherly ties with Daesh terrorists. but slaves to (Turkey).” and U.S. military bases in the re- firing submarine-launched missile sanctions imposed on Iran have (Continued on Page 7) The so-called Syrian Ob- servatory for Human Rights, based in London, has repeated FM Zarif: U.S. After Toppling reported that the U.S. military Yemeni Cities Revolt Against had used helicopters to evacu- Islamic Republic ate Daesh commanders with MUNICH (Dispatches) -- Foreign Min- ed to be prepared to “get wet if it wants to Israeli-Arab Normalization their families or transport the ister Muhammad Javad Zarif on Sunday swim against the dangerous tide of U.S. terrorists to training camps. said the U.S. administration is looking for unilateralism.” SANAA (Dispatches) -- Tens of thousands The protests came after a call by Abdul- Just two months ago, Iranian regime change in Iran and the occupying Zarif said the U.S. had an “unhealthy” of people on Sunday took to the streets across Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s pop- Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani regime of Israel is “looking for war” with and “pathological obsession” with Iran Yemen to condemn attempts by some Arab ular Houthi movement. said the U.S. was transporting “violations of Lebanon’s air space and and was itself the “single biggest source rulers to normalize relations with the occupy- Calling for the rallies, al-Houthi had called Daesh militants to Afghanistan shooting into Syria.” of destabilization in our neighborhood.” ing regime of Israel. the Warsaw conference “just a manifest of from Syria. “The risk (of war) is great, but the risk “All in the name of containing Iran, the The rallies took place in this Yemeni capital many steps taken against our Islamic na- “Over the past year, the U.S. will be even greater if you continue to U.S. claims, and some blindly parrot, that as well as in the western provinces of Saada, tion,” referring to the international Muslim has moved a large number of turn a blind eye to severe violations of it is Iran that is interfering in the region, Hudeydah, Taizz, and Al-Jawf, Yemen’s Al- community. Daesh terrorists to Afghanistan, international law,” he told the Munich but has it been asked whose region?” Masirah television network reported. “The traitors and their masters wanted our which could once again create Security Conference. Zarif said. The demonstrators took aim at a U.S. con- dear people to be puppets for Israel and the the same troubles in some parts Zarif also criticized the U.S. administra- “Look at the map, the U.S. military has ference held in the Polish capital of Warsaw United States,” he said. of Asia that it created in Iraq tion after Vice President Mike Pence this traveled 10,000 kilometers to dot all our last week, during which Arab leaders met Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasral- and Syria,” he said. week called on European powers to pull borders with its bases. There is a joke that with Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu. lah on Saturday dismissed the conference Last September, SANA re- out of the nuclear deal with Iran. Zarif it is Iran that put itself in the middle of Netanyahu’s office leaked a video of a as “weak and stale,” and warned that Arab ported that the U.S. had per- urged France, Germany and Britain to do U.S. bases.” closed-door meeting in which Persian Gulf leaders moving toward normalization with formed “an air landing op- more to save that accord. Zarif told the conference that Pence Arab officials were seen playing down the the occupying regime of Israel were only “a eration” on the outskirts of Touching on the Zionist regime’s viola- had “arrogantly demanded that Europe Israeli-Palestinian conflict, defending Isra- tool” in Israel’s hands. Al-Marashida in order to airlift tions of international law after bombing must join the United States in undermin- el’s “right to defend itself,” and describing Nasrallah said the Warsaw summit brought terrorist leaders to an unknown campaigns in Syria, Zarif criticized Eu- ing its own security and breaking its ob- Iran as a “threat” to regional peace. out into the open Israel’s relations with the destination. ropean powers for not calling out Israel ligations” and urged them to push back The Yemeni demonstrators chanted slo- Persian Gulf states. Syrian President Bashar al- and the United States for their behavior against American pressure. gans against the Zionist regime and slammed “We knew about normalization between Assad warned on Sunday the in the region. “If the United States were to come, in the Arab leaders as “traitors”. Israel and Oman and the United Arab Emir- United States would not protect “Israeli behavior is putting international course of their fight with China, and tell They called the normalization attempt an ates, but at the summit we also clearly saw those depending on it, in refer- law on the shelf, U.S. behavior is putting Europe to stop dealing with China, what act of treason against the Palestinian cause normalization with the Saudis,” he said. ence to Kurdish fighters who international law on the shelf,” he said. would you do?” he asked. “Whatever and vowed to stand by the Palestinian nation The Hezbollah chief attacked Yemen’s control much of the north. The foreign minister said Europe need- (Continued on Page 7) in its fight against the Israeli occupation. (Continued on Page 7)