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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.13350 Tuesday MARCH 12, 2019 Esfand 21, 1397 Rajab 5, 1440 General Soleimani Female professor wins Iran runners-up “A Vital Killing” writer receives highest Medal UK award in science and at Sabre completes new collection of Honor 2 technology 12 World Cup 15 “War Celebration” 16 See page 2 ‘One Belt One Road a proper ground for Iran-China all-out relations’ TEHRAN — Iranian Finance and Eco- bassador to Iran Pang Sen, Shada news nomic Affairs Minister Farhad Dejpasand agency reported. stressed that One Belt One Road Initiative While stressing the strong and strategic lays the ground for the expansion of all- ties between Iran and China, Dejpasand out relations between Iran and China. also put emphasis on the strong will of the The minister made the remarks in a Iranian government for the expansion of conference on One Belt One Road Initia- relations with China. tive, which was held at the place of Iranian The two countries have previous- Finance and Economic Affairs Ministry ly agreed to develop a joint plan to on Monday, attended by a number of work on China’s One Belt One Road Iranian officials and also Chinese Am- Initiative. 4 Raeisi vows no tolerance for breach of law TEHRAN — Hojjatoleslam Ebrahim He attached great importance to ad- Raeisi, Iran’s new judiciary chief, said minister justice at the “second phase of on Monday that no one at any position the revolution”. can violate law. The second phase of the revolution is During a speech at his inauguration a reference to a statement issued by the ceremony, Raeisi said that the issue of Leader of the Islamic Revolution after respecting law should be taken seriously. people massively participated in the rallies Raeisi said that he will make any efforts marking the 40 anniversary of the Islamic to uphold the people’s rights. Revolution on February 11. 2 Fresh U.S.-led air raids kill dozens of civilians in Syria Dozens of civilians, including women agency SANA that 50 people were killed and children, have been killed after the and scores of others injured on Monday U.S.-led coalition purportedly fighting when U.S.-led warplanes targeted fam- the terrorist Takfiri Daesh group car- ilies fleeing the last vestiges of Daesh’s ried out a series of aerial assaults in territorial rule in the besieged village of In bright daylight Syria’s troubled eastern province of Baghouz near the Iraqi border. Dayr al-Zawr. The sources added that the death Local sources, speaking on condition toll was expected to rise as some of the Rouhani makes high-profile official visit to Iraq of anonymity, told Syria’s official news wounded were in critical condition. 13 president.ir PERSPECTIVE What is not said about BREXIT! REPORT Heshmatollah Rahnama Syed Zafar Mehdi By Hanif Ghaffari mitted” to agreeing a deal in time for the UK to her commitment to put her deal to the vote Latin American expert Journalist TEHRAN — The apparent confrontation be- leave this month. again on Tuesday. tween the government and the British Parliament Officials said they had offered fresh Amid speculation the vote could be postponed from New Delhi over how to leave the EU continues. The BBC assurances on the issue of the Irish back- or downgraded, No 10 confirmed it remained has dedicated one of its most recent reports to stop ahead of Tuesday’s second vote by the plan to go ahead with another “meaningful Human rights and the latest developments in the subject. The BBC MPs on Theresa May’s deal.It was “now vote”. Downing Street said the PM’s focus was Iran wants Pakistan writes in this regard: for the Commons to take an important set “getting on with the work required to allow MPs democracy in U.S. is The EU has said it is now up to MPs to decide of decisions”, they said. Labour and Tory to support the deal and to bring this stage of the to walk the talk questionable the next steps for Brexit and it remains “com- MPs have told the PM she must honour process to an end”. 7 on terror ver since the rise of the Islamic Re- mran Khan, the populist premier public four decades ago, Iran has of Pakistan, created flutter when he been under severe United States Battle lines drawn for India elections; Modi and Gandhi main challengers assumed power following his party’s E By Syed Zafar Mehdi 900 million voters exercise their franchise at more 2018, will not have assembly election, but will I media attack, sanctions and threats. landslide victory in general election late Philp Alston, the UN’s special rappor- TEHRAN — Battle lines are drawn and than a million polling booths, which happens to go for parliament poll. last year. teur on extreme poverty and human rights countdown has virtually begun for the big- the world’s largest democratic exercise. The commission has faced heat from opposi- A cricketer-turned-politician, with has concluded that 40 million people in gest electoral showdown on the earth – the The commission announced that the election tion parties for using electronic voting machines massive following among the country’s the U.S. live in poverty in 2018 and over elections for India’s parliament – scheduled will be held in seven phases on April 11, 18, 23, (EVMs), which many believe is prone to poll fraud burgeoning young population, Khan was 5 million lived in “extreme” or “absolute” in April. 29 and May 6, 12 and 19. The counting of votes and irregularities. seen as a perfect candidate to replace the poverty. All major political parties in India have kicked will be held on May 23, followed by announce- Too allay the fears of voters and observers, the corrupt and inefficient old warhorse – Among the Organization for Economic off their campaign trial ahead of elections, with ment of results. commission said the voter-verifiable paper audit Nawaz Sharif. Co-operation and Development (OECD) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seeking to retain Assembly elections will also be held simul- trail (VVPAT) system will be used in all polling Among the biggest and immediate countries, the U.S. has the highest rate power and Congress looking to stage a strong taneously to four states – Andhra Pradesh, Sik- stations. It is a device attached to an EVM and challenges for Khan were to revive the of youth poverty and infant mortality, no comeback. kim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha. Jammu prints a small paper slip carrying the symbol, flailing economy and dismantle the terror wonder, Professor Alston classifies the On Sunday, India’s election commission an- and Kashmir, the restive northern state of India, name and serial number of the candidate the infrastructure. However, he seems to be American society as the most unequal so- nounced dates for the election that will see almost where a coalition government collapsed in June voter votes for. 6 struggling in both the tasks. ciety in the developed states. According The past few weeks have been partic- to the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- ularly testing for the first-time premier, nology (MIT), for the majority of citizens, especially after two back-to-back terror 80 percent, the U.S. is comparable to the After Ethiopia crash horror, some nations ground Boeing 737 MAX 8s attacks in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Bal- Third World countries. China and Indonesia grounded their fleets of The Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 plunged land the plane crashed on, told Reuters. uchistan province and India-controlled To reach this conclusion, economists Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 aircraft on Monday as wit- into a field minutes after take-off from Addis “Cows that were grazing in the fields ran in Kashmir. utilized Arthur Lewis duel-sector model, nesses recalled the terrifying spectacle of smoke Ababa for Nairobi on Sunday. panic ... There was smoke and sparks coming The two attacks last month, choreo- the winner of the1979 the Nobel Memorial and debris trailing from an Ethiopian Airlines The victims came from more than 30 nations from the back of the plane.” graphed in a similar fashion, were carried Prize in Economic Sciences. The model plane before it crashed killing 157 people. and included 22 United Nations’ staff. The plane tried to climb but failed then swerved out by two militant groups with identical describes the U.S. as followings: the mod- The disaster came five months after a jet of the “The plane was very close to the ground and sharply trailing white smoke and objects includ- names, both having sanctuaries in Pakistan. el explains the growth of a developing same model came down in Indonesia, killing 189 it made a turn. We looked and saw papers falling ing clothes before crashing, said farmer Tamirat While India, the arch-rival of Pakistan, economy in terms of a labour transition people, and prompted a global aviation safety scare. off the plane,” Malka Galato, the farmer whose Abera, who was walking nearby. 3 carried out air raids inside Pakistan to between two sectors, the capitalist sec- ‘avenge’ the killing of its 44 paramilitary tor and the subsistence sector so as to police personnel in Kashmir by Jaish e analyze the different economy of each Mohammad (JeM), Iran took the dip- (dual economy) and its interconnections. Tehran lomatic route, urging Islamabad to act The capital sector expands by absorbing tough against Jaish e Adl (JeA) based in unlimited labour supply in the subsist- museum Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan region.