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Iranian diplomat, Hezbollah chief India asked to put Chabahar discuss Mideast developments 2 rail link on fast track 4 Number 5712 ● Wednesday August 23, 2017 ● Shahrivar 1, 1396 ● Zihijjah 1, 1438 ● Price 5,000 Rials ● 12 Pages ● www.irandailyonline.ir Iran: World Bank Salehi: Iran can resume 20% approves €1b to electrify rail network The World Bank has agreed to provide €1 billion ($1.18 enrichment in five days if needed billion) to electrify the rail network in Iran, the head of the Iran’s regional railway authority said on Tuesday. Dozens reported dead in 3 “AEOI’s main priority US-led strikes on Raqqa is to preserve JCPOA, but not at any cost” ran is capable of resuming the en- richment of uranium to the 20-per- Icent level at its Fordow facility within a maximum of five days if need be, the head of the Atomic Energy Or- ganization of Iran (AEOI) said. Iran thrashes Turkey 11 Ali Akbar Salehi made the comments ISNA in an exclusive interview with IRIB “The World Bank has approved to provide one billion in FIVB U23 world meet News Agency on Tuesday, IRNA re- euros as finance for the electrification of the railway ... ported. that starts in Garmsar in Semnan Province and continues Salehi said President Hassan Rou- to the city of Gorgan in Golestan Province,” Yusef Ger- hani’s recent warning that Iran would anpasha was quoted as saying by IRNA. accelerate its nuclear activities to an Russia and Iran signed an agreement worth €1.2 bil- advanced level “within hours” if the US lion in November 2015 to electrify the Garmsar to Inche returned to a policy of sanctions had not Burun route in Iran. been an “empty warning.” Continued on Page 4 Salehi said all highe-ranking Iranian officials, including President Rouhani, had been briefed on the technical capa- bilities of the AEOI to be able to make Spain attack suspects Farhadi begins filming informed decisions, Press TV reported. 12 The warning made by the president, he ‘Everybody Knows’ said, had been based on data provided by in court for questioning with Bardem, Cruz in Spain the AEOI, including about the organiza- tion’s preparedness for contingencies. Continued on Page 2 Barcelona terror suspect shot dead MEHR NEWS AGENCY As the dust settled over five days of angst in Spain after Iraqi forces retake the country, the Interfax News Agency cit- deadly terror attacks, the four remaining alleged mem- Trump vows continued fight ed an unnamed Russian Foreign Ministry bers of a terror cell that carried out the carnage arrived in two districts of source as saying on Tuesday. a Madrid court on Tuesday for questioning. in Afghanistan; reversing stance Spanish police shot dead Barcelona terror suspect Daesh bastion Relations with Pakistan Younes Abouyaaqoub on Monday in a dramatic end to President Donald Trump cleared the way United States and would continue its fight- a massive manhunt for the Moroccan national, AFP re- Iraqi forces on Tuesday recaptured from the for the deployment of thousands more US ing as long as American troops remained in Trump also indicated that single-minded ported. Daesh group the first two districts of terrorist troops to Afghanistan Monday, backtrack- the country. approach would extend to US relations bastion Tal Afar, as the Pentagon chief visited ing from his promise to rapidly end Amer- “If America doesn’t withdraw its troops with troubled ally Pakistan, which consecu- Baghdad in a show of support. ica’s longest war, while pillorying ally Pa- from Afghanistan, soon Afghanistan will tive US administrations have criticized for The United Nations said thousands of civil- kistan for offering safe haven to “agents of become another graveyard for this super- links with the Taliban and for harboring ians have fled Tal Afar in the two days since the chaos.” power in the 21st century,” Zabiullah Mu- leading terrorists – like Osama bin Laden. start of the broad offensive against Daesh, AFP In his first formal address to the nation as jahid, a spokesman for the Taliban in Af- “We have been paying Pakistan billions reported. commander-in-chief, Trump discarded his ghanistan, said in a statement. and billions of dollars at the same time they In remarks before meeting in Baghdad with previous criticism of the 16-year-old war as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani wel- are housing the very terrorists that we are Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, US Defense a waste of time and money, fighting,” he said, warning Secretary James Mattis said he wanted to keep admitting things looked dif- that vital aid could be cut. the spotlight on eradicating the terrorists. ferent from “behind the desk That will have to change “Right now our focus is on defeating ISIS in the Oval Office,” AFP re- and that will change im- (Daesh) inside Iraq, restoring Iraqi sovereignty ported. mediately.” EPA and territorial integrity,” said the Pentagon “My instinct was to pull Ahead of the speech Pa- The Moroccan was the last on-the-run member of a chief. Iraqi troops routed Daesh in Mosul in July out,” Trump said as he spoke kistan’s military brushed 12-man cell suspected of plotting last week’s vehicle after a grueling nine-month fight for Iraq’s sec- of his frustration with a war off speculation that Trump attacks in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils ond city. They launched the offensive on Sun- that has killed thousands of could signal a stronger that left 15 dead and more than 100 injured. day to recapture Tal Afar, once a key Daesh sup- US troops and cost US tax- line against Islamabad, Four men were detained, and the rest were killed, ei- ply hub between Mosul – around 70 kilometers payers trillions of dollars. insisting the country has ther by police or in an explosion believed to have been (45 miles) to the east – and the Syrian border. But following months of done all it can to tackle accidentally detonated by the suspects themselves in The terrorists inside Tal Afar, estimated to deliberation, Trump said he militancy. their bomb factory in the seaside town of Alcanar. number around 1,000, responded with artillery had concluded “the conse- “Let it come,” army On Tuesday under heavy security, police vans carry- fire Tuesday as the Iraqi forces massed outside quences of a rapid exit are spokesman Major General ing the suspects entered the National Court, which deals the city. both predictable and unac- Asif Ghafoor told report- with terrorism cases, where a judge was to decide what – Army, police and units of the Hashed al- ceptable” leaving a “vacu- ers, referring to Trump’s if any – charges to press against the four men who alleg- Shaabi paramilitary coalition later took “full um” that terrorists “would decision. “Even if it edly formed part of the cell. These include Driss Ouka- control” of Al-Kifah and Al-Nur districts in Tal instantly fill.” comes... Pakistan shall do bir, 27, the older brother of Moussa who was killed by Afar, the Hashed said. While Trump refused to whatever is best in the na- police in Cambrils on Friday morning after going on a The Iraqi forces had encircled the city despite offer detailed troop numbers, tional interest.” car rampage with four others. what Hashed spokesman Ahmed al-Assadi de- senior White House officials Mohamed Aallaa, Mohamed Houli Chemlal, who was scribed as “intense” fighting. He said the fight- said he had already author- AP Talks with Taliban injured in the explosion in Alcanar, and Salh El Karib ing for the city would likely last weeks. ized his defense secretary to deploy up to comed the Trump strategy saying it would were also in court. Police gave their ages as 21, 28 and The International Organization for Migration 3,900 more troops to Afghanistan. expand the training mission for Afghan Trump for the first time also left the door 34 but did not say who was what age. said its teams were “responding to thousands of He warned that the approach would now forces, which includes building its fledg- open to an eventual political deal with the Four days after the van rampage on the tourist- civilians fleeing Tal Afar since the launch of the be more pragmatic than idealistic. Security ling air force and doubling the size of the Taliban. packed Las Ramblas Boulevard, police on Monday military campaign”. assistance to Afghanistan was “not a blank Afghan Special Fforces. “Someday, after an effective military gunned down the 22-year-old Abouyaaqoub in the Since Friday, more than 3,000 people had ar- check” he said, warning he would not send “I am grateful to President Trump and effort, perhaps it will be possible to have village about 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Bar- rived at two IOM emergency sites, many with just the military to “construct democracies in the American people for this affirmation of a political settlement that includes ele- celona, after receiving multiple tip-offs. In total, the clothes on their back, said the UN agency. faraway lands or create democracies in our support ... for our joint struggle to rid the ments of the Taliban in Afghanistan,” he 15 people died in the attacks including Pau Perez, a The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said it had own image.” region from the threat of terrorism,” Ghani said. 34-year-old man found stabbed to death outside Bar- received some 9,000 people at the Hamman Al “We are not nation building again. We said in a statement. “But nobody knows if or when that will celona on Friday after Abouyaaqoub hijacked his car Alil transit center in the past week, and it was are killing terrorists.” The United States’ NATO allies also ever happen,” he added, before vowing that to make a getaway.