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Arabaeen March and Rise of New Middle East WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13501 Sunday OCTOBER 6, 2019 Mehr 14, 1398 Safar 7, 1441 Iran has turned from a Senior advisor says Iran blind football Tbilisi museum to deterrent power to foreign evil hands are book place at 2020 showcase photos of a retaliatory one 2 behind Iraq unrest 3 Paralympic 15 Niavaran Palace 16 Iran plans to reduce imports by $10b in 2 years Arabaeen March and TEHRAN — Iran’s Ministry of Industry, million in steel industry, $650 million in Mining and Trade plans to reduce the coun- home appliances, $650 million in ma- try’s imports by $10 billion by the Iranian chinery, $1.4 billion in the automotive calendar year 1400 (March 2021-March industry, and $250 million in electrical 2022), IRNA reported on Saturday, quoting and electronic appliances. the industry minister as saying. Making the remarks in a specialized rise of new Middle East According to the official, of the men- roundtable on promoting domestic tioned total $10 billion reduction in im- production in the country’s auto in- See page 2 ports, $1.2 billion will be in the textile dustry, Reza Rahmani said “Achieving and garment industry, $500 million in this goal requires $2 billion plus 200 cellulose products, $2.7 billion in petro- trillion rials (about $4.7 billion) worth chemicals, $2.4 billion in mining, $600 of investment.” 4 First session of legislation- making provisions held TEHRAN — First meeting of studying attended the session. provisions of legislation-making process Larijani described the meeting as which was declared by Leader of the Is- “constructive”. lamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali The three branches are duty bound Khamenei was held on Saturday. to implement the provisions of legisla- Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, rep- tion-making process based on the consti- resentatives from the Expediency tution, he told reporters after the meeting. Council, Guardian Council, govern- He said that the next session will be ment, Judiciary and also parliament held in next month. 2 Ambassador meets Nechirvan Barzani and other KRG officials TEHRAN — Iranian Ambassador to with Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Baghdad Iraj Masjedi has met with Pres- Government Masrour Barzani during his ident of Kurdistan Regional Government visit to Erbil, which began on Wednesday. (KRG) Nechirvan Barzani in Erbil, Mehr The two sides conferred on Iran-KRG reported on Friday. relations as well as developments in Iraq During the meeting, Masjedi and and the larger region. Barzani discussed Iran-KRG relations Masjedi also met with Secretary of the and ways to expand them, as well as the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Exec- developments in Iraq and the region. utive Committee Fazil Mirani to exchange AFP It came after the Iranian envoy met views on bilateral relations. 3 ARTICLE Foreign embassies “stirring up” situation in Iraq: UK analyst ARTICLE Alireza Hashemi Mahnaz Abdi TEHRAN (Tasnim) — A political analyst from Thursday expressed regret that the ongoing pro- and infrastructure rebuilt, it grows more and Head of the TehranTimes London said the embassies of the US and UK in tests have become violent, saying he is ready to more potentially independent.” Tehran Times journalist Economy Desk Baghdad are taking advantage of Iraq’s poor eco- meet with representatives of the protesters to He added that an “independent Iraq will nomic conditions following the defeat of Daesh by discuss their demands. inevitably lean towards or join the Axis of Re- “deliberately stirring up trouble” in the Arab country. Speaking on Thursday night, the Iraqi prime sistance to imperialism and Zionism, for two Oil offering at “If there are insufficient jobs, there must minister said certain elements have been able reasons: First, the Shiite-majority population Hoist by its own be some form of basic income. Yes, the foreign to derail the protests from their peaceful path. of Iraq has obvious affinities with other mem- IRENEX facing embassies -- US, UK and the Netherlands-- are The unrest comes as millions of pilgrims are bers of the Axis of Resistance; and second and petard: How Saudi challenges, but will deliberately stirring up trouble but that is al- preparing to travel to the Iraqi holy cities of Na- most importantly, if Iraq wants to return to Arabia was pushed ways easy to do when people are economically jaf and Karbala to attend Arbaeen, marking the the path of using its resources to benefit its definitely continue insecure. Also all American, British and Israeli fortieth day after the martyrdom of their third population, it will ultimately need to help eject against the wall in forces should be kicked out,” Rodney Shakespeare Imam, Hussein ibn Ali (AS). parasitical outsiders from the region. And the he national budget law for the current told Tasnim when asked about the reason be- Divide-and-conquer strategy only group of countries that is working toward Yemen Iranian calendar year (started on hind recent sporadic unrest in Iraq that has led Kevin Barret, an author and analyst from that end, rather than cooperating with the in- March 21) obliges the Oil Ministry to several casualties. Madison, also told Tasnim that “as Iraq grows vaders, occupiers, and plunderers, is the Axis spate of fruitful Yemeni opera- T Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi on more stable and confident, and gets its finances of Resistance.” to offer at least two million barrels of light 13 tions against Saudi Arabia has crude oil, two million barrels of heavy A underscored transformation of crude oil and two million barrels of gas anti-Saudi forces into an obstinate condensate at the international ring of actor gaining in military sophistica- Iran Energy Exchange (IRENEX) every Is Pompexit imminent? tion, increasing pressure on Riyadh to month. BY Curt Mills years before the inevitable inception of the nom- Fund in Brussels give a taste of his values. He acknowledge what described as a de- Offering crude oil and gas condensate For months, Foggy Bottom has been embroiled inating contest. clearly does not believe, as other Republicans mocracy-promotion campaign has only at IRENEX is to materialize the objectives in a parlor game of sorts: Will the captain of the But there are other factors at play. Unlike hope, that Trump’s rise was all celebrity flash. diminished its influence in Yemen and of “Resistance Economy” for diversifying foreign policy ship, Secretary of State Mike Pom- his predecessor, Rex W. Tillerson, Pompeo is a The secretary views Trumpism as a more per- sullied its reputation globally. methods of selling these products and peo, jump overboard and run for U.S. Senate in loyal soldier-- as the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser manent political force, whatever becomes of its Eyebrows raised when a swarm of benefitting from the capabilities of private his native Kansas, as establishment Republicans labeled him, “the Secretary of Trump.” But at founder; Pompeo hopes to benefit from political drones struck facilities at the heart sector for exporting them. in the upper chamber have asked him to do? his core, Pompeo is a syncretic figure. Pompeo primogeniture. At Claremont, as highlighted by of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry last National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) The idea seemed farcical, at first. Why would did not endorse Trump during the 2016 prima- estimable administration interlocutor Walter month. offered light crude oil at IRENEX first on the nation’s chief diplomat who has risen in the ry; he favored neocon candidate Marco Rubio. Russel Mead, Pompeo linked “America First” The attack was regarded highly sophisti- October 28, 2018, just few days before Trump era -- from Congressman to CIA chief to But unlike NeverTrump intellectuals horrified to the founding; he is, as Mead astutely noted, cated since it circumvented a patchwork of new U.S. sanctions on Iran’s petroleum quite arguably the most powerful Cabinet offi- by the New York mogul’s neo-Buchananite rise, a “conservative internationalist” who believes air defense systems inside the oil kingdom. sector took effect (November 4). cial -- trade in those gains to become a junior Pompeo stayed in the conservative fold, serving “American engagement should be guided by a The attacks were claimed by a coalition Offering gas condensate at IREN- senator? Pompeo is widely known to covet the as a surrogate for the Donald Trump general narrower focus on specific U.S. interests.” of Yemeni fighters, mainly made up of EX came after the successful offering presidency, perhaps as soon as 2024, the next election campaign, and gleefully interviewing At Brussels, Pompeo took a hatchet to a Trump- Ansarullah and more than a half of the of crude oil at this market. And then open Republican nomination contest. Even if for a senior job after the shock victory of 2016. era bugbear, the “rules-based international order,” former Yemeni Army. the turn came to heavy crude. Offering his boss, President Donald Trump, was to go Pompeo’s address this year to the Claremont saying “multilateralism has too often become Saudi Arabia and its western backers – heavy crude at IRENEX came after NIOC down next fall or before then, the now-pedigreed Institute, the de facto intellectual home of Trump- viewed as an end unto itself,” … The more trea- the US, UK, France and Germany – have offered light crude at this stock market Pompeo could simply raise money for two short ism, and remarks last year to the German Marshall ties we sign, the safer we supposedly are. 13 accused Iran of perpetrating the strike, in eight round. but no compelling evidence proving the Now, after nearly one year, the released claim has yet been publicized.
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