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“Standing Iran’s H1 gas in the Dust” condensate crowned best exports up 25% y/y at Resistance ECONOMY TEHRAN — deskHalf-yearly gas con- film festival densate exports from Iran’s South Pars gas field rose by 25 percent compared to the ARTTEHRAN — same period last year, Shana quoted a gas desk“Standing in the official as saying on Saturday. Dust”, Mohammad-Hossein Mah- According to Masoud Hassani, the davian’s biopic on Iranian war hero managing director of South Pars Gas Ahmad Motevasselian, won the Complex (SPGC), during the first six award for best film at the 14th Inter- months of the current Iranian calendar national Resistance Film Festival in year (March 20-September 21) the com- Tehran on Friday evening. pany has exported 76 million barrels of “The movie was selected as best gas condensate to the world markets. film by a unanimous vote,” jury mem- The official noted that during the ber Ahmadreza Darvish said during mentioned period, SPGC has sent 1.35 the closing ceremony of the festival at million tons of liquefied petroleum gas Milad Tower. (LPG) to other countries as well. The International Resistance Film According to Iran’s custom admin- Festival is organized annually during PPowerower isis ppeaceeace: istration, during the first six months of the Sacred Defense Week to com- the current Iranian calendar year gas memorate the anniversary of the condensate was reported to be the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. main non-oil export product with a to- “I asked cultural officials to tal value of $3.496 billion. support filmmakers in this field,” South Pars field, which Iran shares the secretary of the festival, Mo- Shamkhani with Qatar in the Persian Gulf, is esti- hammad Khazaei, said in a short mated to contain a significant amount speech at the ceremony. POLITICS TEHRAN — The Su- Ali Shamkhani made the remarks while public of Iran’s preemptive power.” of natural gas and condensate, ac- He proposed that the govern- deskpreme National Securi- visiting the production line of drones and an He said that experiences such as Iraq’s counting for about eight percent of ment should establish a fund for ty Council secretary said on Saturday that exhibition featuring capabilities in the field war against Iran in the 1980s and cruel the world’s reserves. the filmmakers. Iran accepts no limitation to increase its of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). sanctions proved that “reliable security” The huge offshore field covers an Austrian filmmaker Marko Naber- defense power, noting that living in peace “Unmanned aerial vehicles are the cannot be achieved without defense power area of 9,700 square kilometers, 3,700 snik won the best director award without military power is just a “dream”. most important part of the Islamic Re- and permanent attempt to develop it. square kilometers of which are in Iran’s for his 1st World War drama “The territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The

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Iran’s first Larijani urges people to trust statistics centre EDITORIAL calligraphy works POLITICS TEHRAN — Parliament The top official referred to housing, health- By Hassan Lasjerdi auction sells over deskSpeaker Ali Larijani has em- care and transportation as areas for which the Tehran Times editor-in-chief phasized that the information Iranian citizens government needs true and accurate informa- $7 million provide to the Statistical Centre of Iran would tion in order to adopt plans and carry out ap- remain confidential, Fars reported. propriate policies. In a meeting with the head of the Statistical A week ago, the first web-based gener- Peres: A war criminal ARTTEHRAN — Iran’s desk Centre of Iran on Saturday, Larijani said the in- al census was launched in Iran. The general or a peace dove first auction for formation would not be used for taxation pur- census will last until mid-October, IRIB re- works in calligraphy and calligraphic poses or anything else. ported. painting has grossed a sum of 26.09 “No organizations would have access to the The director of the Statistical Centre of Iran Shimon Peres has died with a legacy of billion rials (about $7.3 million). data that the center gathers. According to the has said that some 45 percent of the popula- destruction. Palestinians recall him as a law, the center cannot give this information to tion have access to the internet, and the new criminal who has blood on his hands. different sectors,” the parliament speaker point- a comprehensive plan for targeting unemploy- online data gathering system was designed so On one hand he claimed that he is ed out. ment, true and accurate information is needed,” that people can use the internet to fill out a after peace and on the other waged He also said that without credible statistics, plan- he noted. form which includes 29 questions about their two wars on Gaza. ning for the future of the country is not possible. Larijani said if the statistics are accurate, in- personal information, educational status, mari- Some world leaders attended his fu- “People should know that if we want to have vestments will also be made more carefully. tal status, career, etc. neral procession. He is known as the re- gime’s “last remaining founding father”. Some nations condemned their leaders’ participation in the funeral. Iran plans to produce 360 tons of saffron in calendar year Bahrainis slammed the House of Khal- ECONOMY TEHRAN — The official put the country’s (March 20-August 21) rose 5.7 ifah’s homage to Peres, by holding a rally. A calligraphy work by Mir Emad Has- deskThe annual saffron output at 351 tons in the percent compared to the same The demonstrators in the north- sani (1554-1615) at 6 billion rials (about production of saffron in Iran has previous calendar year and said period of time in the previous year, western village of Diraz in Bahrain 170,000) was the highest-priced item planned to reach 360 tons by the that 113.5 tons of the produced Gholamreza Miri, the vice chair- denounced Foreign Minister Sheikh sold during the auction held at Tehran’s end of the current Iranian calendar saffron valued at $165 million was man of National Iranian Saffron Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifah’s mes- Espinas Palace Hotel on Friday. year (March 20, 2017), the coun- exported in the past year. Council, said on September 26. sage of condolences. They also reject- The second most expensive work be- try’s deputy agriculture minister, Iran’s worth of saffron exports The country exported $73 mil- ed any normalization of relations with longing to Mohammad-Hossein Shirazi Mohammad-Ali Tahmasbi, told during the first five months of lion worth of saffron during the the Tel Aviv regime and expressed sol- sold at 4.2 billion rials (over $150,000). IRNA on Saturday. the current Iranian calendar year mentioned time, according to Miri. idarity with Palestinians. Artwork by Reza Rinei came in next Palestinian Authority President at 1.4 billion rials (about $40,000). Mahmoud Abbas participated in the A selection of 66 artworks went under Esteghlal advances to Iran’s Hazfi Cup Round of 32 funeral and offered condolences to the hammer at the auction, which was or- Peres’s family. And to many people’s SPORT TEHRAN — Esteghlal football ed against second-tier Qashqaei in this stage ganized by Taraneh Baran Art Gallery. surprise, he described Peres as a part- deskteam defeated Malavan Novin in on penalties and was knocked out of the com- Photo: Auctioneer Shahram Shaki- ner in peace! To make the scene more the Iran’s Hazfi Cup Round of 64 on Saturday. petition. ba conducts an auction of calligraphy romantic Abbas and Netanyahu shook Ali Ghorbani and Bakhtiar Rahmani scored for The 2016–17 Hazfi Cup is the 30th season of works at Tehran’s Espinas Palace Hotel hands and exchanged brief words Esteghlal in the 7th and 27th minutes respectively. the Iranian football knockout competition. Zob on September 30, 2016 as employ- during the funeral. Esteghlal will play Mes Kerman in Round of 32. Ahan Isfahan is the defending champion. The final ees hold a works by Salar Ahmadian. What peace was Abbas was referring Esteghlal’s arch rival Persepolis was defeat- will be played on 23 May 2017. (Honaronline/Ramona Amirian) to is a big question. Actually there was no peace. Under Peres, nearly 4,000 Palestini- an lives were lost during two wars launched Learn English With civilian drone competition, Iran battles against brain drain by Israel between 2007 and 2014. Some high-profile figures in Ramallah Learn English with us at The 26 drone-building teams de- tomans, or about $14,300. But for The only casualty was a drone marshaling Iran’s brightest young had earlier detested Abbas’ designation of scended on the polished, mani- Iran, the goal was much greater: flown by the Amir Kabir University minds to someday bypass Tehran’s Peres as a “brave” partner for peace, say- cured technology park 15 miles a step toward providing the coun- of Technology robotic center that notorious traffic jams with a fleet ing he was no more than a “war criminal.” east of Tehran with the overflow- try’s whiz-kid youth with the hope struck a balloon and crashed. But of Iran-built commercial drones. Many across the globe remember ing enthusiasm of school kids that they have a future in Iran. it was flying again within an hour, It was also about stemming the Peres as a “war criminal”, especially in preparing for the Science Olym- The teams assembled their fly- and became one of three joint broader problem of a brain drain, light of the 1996 Qana massacre. At piad. ing contraptions with everything winners. even as Iran’s annual legion of uni- least 106 people were killed by Israeli Their challenge, in a competi- from carbon fiber frames and The drone challenge posed by versity graduates struggles to find forces in Qana. At the time Peres was tion sponsored by the fast-growing propellers to homemade radio Digikala, which handles more than jobs. Israel’s prime minister. An Amnesty In- Digikala Company, Iran’s version of controls and imaging units burst- 90 percent of Iran’s online com- The “main reason of the con- ternational report described the attack Amazon, was to create the best ing with wires. The drones had to merce, is similar to the technical test is to recognize the high po- on Qana as deliberate. drone for delivering packages. carry a 2-kg (4.4 lbs) courier pack- problems faced by Amazon, DHL, tential of youth here,” says Babak The Hamas resistance movement For the drone builders, the age for 700 meters (765 yards), and others as they seek innovative Moghaddam, the head of innova- also censured Abbas for joining the prize that day at Pardis Technol- avoiding obstacles and dropping ways to speed deliveries. tion at Digikala, as the teams as- funeral. Hamas called Peres “the last See page 12 ogy Park, Iran’s purpose-built ver- it gently on one of four bar-code But the competition organizers sembled their drones. “Many leave remaining Israeli official who founded sion of Silicon Valley, was 50 million emblazoned targets. say the event was about more than the country.” 11 the occupation.” 13 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y NATION 2 OOCTOBERCTOBER 22,, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/international

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS Does Rouhani still Zarif to appear before Majlis appeal to principlists? over JCPOA POLITICS TEHRAN — As the Between 15 to 20 names, Mohebian desknext year’s presiden- says. “Currently, 15 to 20 names are on POLITICS TEHRAN — Foreign Minister tial election in Iran draws near, parties the table.” deskMohammad Javad Zarif is going and political figures are narrowing down The most famous ones are proba- to appear before the Majlis on Sunday to provide speculation as to who will run and who bly a triangle of Mohammad Qalibaf, explanations in regard to the JCPOA, the official will not. current mayor of Tehran, Saeed Jalili, name for the nuclear deal that Iran signed with the Meanwhile, two scenarios are already and Ahmad Tavakoli, all of whom have 5+1 group (the U.S., UK, France, Russia, China, and certain. failed to win the hearts and minds of Germany) in July 2105. While Ahmadinejad stepped out as the Iranians in previous presidential In the open session of the day, Zarif will be ques- the Supreme Leader did not see the contests. tioned by parliamentarians about the deal, Fars re- prospect of his candidacy as being in the Qalibaf lost to Ahmadinejad and Rou- ported on Saturday. interests of the country, moderate Rou- hani in 2005 and 2013, respectively. Jalili Iran’s diplomacy in the post-JCPOA era will also hani has an anticipative confidence to also came in third in 2013. be subject of discussion. secure a second term with his arguably Tavakoli could not hold a candle to strong foreign policy. Hashemi Rafsanjani and the reformist Rouhani Taking office in August 2013, Rouhani president in 1993 and 2001, respectively. congratulates championed the nuclear deal, reined in Regardless of whom principlists will inflationary strains, which rocketed to come up with at the end of the day, de- China on nearly 45 percent during the Ahmadine- feating Rouhani will be no easy job, to be National Day jad administration, and is seeking re-en- realistic. gagement with the global community. Only in 2013, Qalibaf and Jalili, princi- longer appeals to principlist minds and dependent candidate… as principlism has POLITICS TEHRAN — President Hassan Having said that, there are still many, plists’ aces, proved no challenging rivals an “independent candidate” is gambled to have its own identity.” deskRouhani on Saturday congratu- including principlist circles who are nur- for Rouhani. on. But the principlist’s comments give rise lated his Chinese counterpart on the 67th anniver- turing an early end to the Rouhani ad- Compared to nearly 18.5 million votes “As far as I know, principlists have put to a key question: how many qualified sary of the National Day of the People’s Republic ministration, citing a divergent principlist cast to Rouhani, Qalibaf and Jalili collect- aside Rouhani and are looking for an in- faces has the principlist camp in its bag? of China. campaign in 2013 as a main reason for ed 10 million votes en masse. In his letter to President Xi Jinping, Rouhani Rouhani’s victory. Qalibaf, Jalili, and or any possible can- congratulated Chinese nation and govern- “Rouhani owns his triumph in 2013 to “As far as I know, principlists have put aside didate will not only contest against Rou- ment on the occasion and expressed hope that a divided principlist camp,” ISNA on Sat- Rouhani and are looking for an independent hani, but also against openings in Iran’s Iran-China relations would improve in all spheres, urday quoted Amir Mohebian, a princi- candidate… as principlism has to have its flourishing economy, influential foreign ISNA reported. plist theorizer, as having said. policy, and increasing military clout, to “I hope to experience all-out mutual coopera- According to Mohebian, Rouhani no own identity,” principlist says. name few. tion which will be in the interest of both sides,” Rou- hani wrote in his letter. Power is peace: Shamkhani Bahonar: Iran unveils long-range bomber drone Principlists not seeking to rival 1 “Undoubtedly, our today’s security has result- the production line of a new attack drone, which is ed from lessons our youths learned from the eight years similar to the United States’ RQ-170 Sentinel spy Rouhani of sacred defense and now they have reached great drone that Iran captured five years ago. The drone, POLITICS TEHRAN — Mohammad Reza achievements in defense area,” noted Shamkhani, an called Saegheh (Thunderbolt), could carry four preci- deskBahonar, the secretary general of IRGC commander during Saddam Hussein’s war against sion-guided bombs. the Islamic Society of Engineers, has said principlists Iran. “The power of reverse engineering, updating and are not looking for somebody to stand up against The top security official added, “Our defensive and turning the U.S. captured drones into Iranian products Hassan Rouhani in the next year’s presidential elec- offensive power in complicated, multifaceted and based by the IRGC Aerospace Division indicates the ability to tion. on domestic power and religious teachings.” turn the U.S. illegitimate presence in the region into Speaking to the Arman newspaper in an in- It has also been proven in the course of modern an opportunity to increase the power and capability,” terview published on Saturday, Mohammad Reza history that Iran has not used its power for “ag- explained Shamkhani who was defense minister from Bahonar even said that Rouhani is one of 12 peo- gression and expansionism”, the security official re- 1997 to 2005. ple considered to be endorsed by principlists. marked. Shamkhani also said that Iran’s modern equipment He added, “It’s a treason to wish for problems Elsewhere in his remarks, Shamkhani said that and the new generation of drones have provided the to linger in favor of political rivalry… so I personally the axis of resistance has challenged the most so- Palestinians’ resilience in the face of Israeli repeated country with a power that no “sane enemy” would even hope Mr. Rouhani continues to serve.” phisticated arsenals in the world, a reference to Syr- invasions. think of attacking the country. ia’s resistance against militants who are equipped Turning illegitimate presence into opportunity He said that the only way to protect the Islamic Rev- Iran says to with modern weaponry and also Hezbollah and On Saturday the IRGC Aerospace Division unveiled olution and the country is to strengthen military power. prevent illegal trips to Iraq on EU stance on judicial issues Majlis to publish 6-month Arba’een is ‘unconstructive’: Iran report on JCPOA implementation POLITICS TEHRAN – The deputy foreign deskminister for consular affairs said on Saturday that Iranians are required to obtain visa to partake in the November 20 Arba’een rituals in Karbala, Iraq. Hassan Qashqavi said Iran believed visa was not necessary for the Arba’een rituals but the Iraqi side did not agree, ILNA reported. Arba’een Headquarters Commander Hos- sein Zolfaqari also said on Saturday that Tehran’s attempts to waive visa for Arba’een have failed. Female MPs meet families of Mina victims POLITICS TEHRAN — Iran’s saying that the EU must not use human POLITICS TEHRAN — A law- Foreign Ministry must submit every deskForeign Ministry on rights excuse for interfering in domes- deskmaker said on Satur- three months a report on the imple- POLITICS TEHRAN — The members of the Wednesday denounced EU officials for tic affairs of other countries. day that the Majlis will release its six- mentation of the JCOPA to the Majlis deskwomen’s parliamentary group on interfering in Iran’s domestic affairs and “Such issues fall on domestic laws month report on implementation of National Security and Foreign Policy Friday evening visited the families of the victims of making “unconstructive” statements and judicial systems of countries,” he the JCPOA by the end of the current Committee. The committee, for its part, the 2015 Mina stampede as well as some martyrs about sentences issued by the coun- explained. month, which ends on October 21. must also publish a report on the issue of the Iran-Iraq war. try’s courts. Qassemi noted, “Every effort to Speaking to Mehr news agency, every six months. Fatemeh Zolghadr, a group member, told IRNA “Since the human rights talks be- impose values of certain countries Mojtaba Zonnour, head of the parlia- Iran and the 5+1 group (the United that the visit was “a show of respect for the bloods tween Iran and the European Union are to others, which may have different ment’s Nuclear Committee, said, “In or- States, Britain, France, China and Russia of the martyrs”. to be held in the near future, making cultures and customs, is a return to der to complete the report, members plus Germany) finalized the text of the She underlined that during the visit, the such remarks is considered as uncon- old paradigms in international rela- of National Security and Foreign Policy JCPOA in Vienna in July 2015. education of the younger generation was structive,” Foreign Ministry spokesman tions.” Committee will visit the Isfahan and In July 2015, the UN Security Council stressed as a key role of the next-of-kin of Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday. The official further said that the EU Natanz nuclear facilities.” turned the JCPOA into an international the martyrs. The EU had issued a statement must refrain from making “unconven- He further said that the exact time law by endorsing a resolution, setting against the Iranian judicial system after tional” remarks about the Islamic Re- of the visit will be announced by the the stage for the lifting of the Security UN envoy for Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian citizen, public’s judicial processes. committee in the coming days. Council sanctions against Iran. Lebanon to was sentenced to 16 years in prison by Earlier in August, Judiciary Chief “Since the committee is very busy The nuclear agreement went into the court. Sadeq Amoli Larijani announced Iran’s these days, the preparation of the re- effect in January 2016. The IAEA has visit Tehran Qassemi underlined that such po- preparedness to hold talks with Euro- port has taken more time than expect- issued several statements since Janu- litical statements could never improve pean states, and not the U.S., on hu- ed,” he explained. ary confirming Iran’s is abiding by the human rights situation in any country, man rights issues. Under the Islamic Republic’s law, the obligations under the JCPOA. POLITICS TEHRAN — The United Nation’s deskspecial coordinator for Lebanon is scheduled to travel to Tehran on Monday. Iran says accepts no condition for normal ties with Germany During her two-day visit, Sigrid Kaag will meet a number of officials from the Iranian Foreign Min- POLITICS TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Ministry ceptable and detrimental to bilateral ties,” Qassemi forts in causing harm to bilateral relations. istry, including Deputy Foreign Minister for African deskspokesman Bahram Qassemi said on remarked. Elsewhere, he said that Iran considers defending the and Arab Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari, Mehr re- Friday that Iran-Germany relations are based on mutual His comments came as German Economy Minister Palestinian people’s rights as part of its “unwavering” for- ported on Saturday. respect and Iran will accept no precondition for a friend- Sigmar Gabriel said in an interview published by weekly eign policy and will not abandon supporting the Pales- Kaag has announced that after Iran, she will ly and normal ties with Berlin. news magazine Der Spiegel on Friday that Iran could tinian cause. possibly travel to Saudi Arabia and Russia as “As we have stressed for many times, relations have normal, friendly relations with Germany only when “In a situation that the international terrorism threat- well. between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Germany it accepted Israel’s right to exist. ens all countries’ interests, it is expected that the coun- The reason for the trips is to discuss some nec- are based on mutual interests and respect and no Qassemi said that Iran will let no country interfere in tries, especially the ones which have been victims of ter- essary issues, she has said. precondition is accepted in relations; in addition, its domestic affairs. rorism, seek fighting extremist ideologies seriously,” he we consider mediation of a third side totally unac- He warned Germany of “ill-wishers” who spare no ef- pointed out. 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Germany's economy ministry believes a Donald Trump pres- Lavrov: U.S. sparing terrorists idency would severely damage the U.S. economy, according Russia has warned that any "direct ag- Lavrov said. to an internal memorandum reported by Der Spiegel mag- gression" by the US against the Syri- Moscow has repeatedly accused the azine on Saturday. an government or army would lead to U.S. of failing on its commitment to per- The ministry expects "shrinking gross domestic product, “frightening, tectonic shifts” in the Middle suade rebel forces to distance themselves fewer jobs and higher unemployment," in the United States East. from extremist groups such as Al-Nusra, if the Republican candidate were to implement his campaign The warning by Russian Foreign Min- which changed its name to Fateh al-Sh- pledges, the magazine cited the memo as saying. istry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on am Front in July after renouncing its ties Trump, a billionaire businessman seeking his first public Saturday came after U.S. officials said to Al-Qaeda. office, has proposed tax cuts worth $4.4 trillion and wants to Washington had begun considering A short-lived truce brokered by Mos- curb government regulation and take a tougher stance on tougher responses to an ongoing Syri- cow and Washington earlier this month negotiating trade deals. an assault on Aleppo, including military could have led the two countries to coor- He says his economic plan would produce annual eco- options. dinate strikes against extremists, but the nomic growth of 3.5 percent and create 25 million jobs over Russia has been supporting the Syri- deal fell apart as both sides blamed each a decade. But some economists have questioned the as- an government in its push to take back other for its failure. sumptions underpinning the plan. Aleppo from Takfiri terrorists. Moscow has been accused of indis- Trump's pledges are "not feasible", Spiegel cited the mem- The U.S is backing what it calls "mod- criminately bombing Aleppo's opposi- orandum as saying. Moreover, the plans would violate in- erate" militants fighting to topple Syrian tion-controlled east as it helps an assault ternational or U.S. law and could be "no basis for a realistic President Bashar al-Assad besides carry- currently being conducted by Syrian economic policy." ing out airstrikes against what it calls ISIL government troops to capture all of the A spokeswoman for the German Economy Ministry de- (Daesh) targets. country's second city. clined to comment on the Spiegel report. However, with Syrian advances on The United Nations has warned that Last month, economic research firm Oxford Economics Aleppo gaining momentum, U.S. officials a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding projected the U.S. economy could be $1 trillion smaller than have hinted at direct attacks on Syrian in Aleppo unlike any witnessed so far in otherwise expected in 2021 if Trump becomes president. troops. Syria's five-year war, which has claimed Trump faces Democrat Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 elec- US aircraft recently bombed Syrian more than 300,000 lives. tion. (Source: DPA) army positions in Dayr al-Zawr, killing Russia has said it would continue its 83 soldiers. The airstrike, which helped Syrian bombing campaign in spite of U.S. Daesh briefly overrun government po- warnings that Washington would sus- sitions in the area, was characterized by pend talks unless Moscow stopped its Washington as unintentional but Syria The U.S. State Department has regime of President Bashar al-Assad. assault on Aleppo. India, Pakistan soldiers rejected the allegation. warned it was considering the suspen- In an interview aired on BBC World In a phone call with U.S. Secretary exchange fire across frontier "How could they (Daesh) know that sion of "bilateral engagement" in Syria News, Lavrov said Washington had of State John Kerry on Friday, Lavrov the Americans are going to attack that unless Russia took "immediate steps to vowed to "take as a priority an obliga- stressed Moscow's "readiness to contin- SAARC summit postponed amid position in order to gather their militants end the assault on Aleppo." tion to separate the opposition" from the ue to consider additional possibilities" to rising Pakistani-Indian tensions to attack right away and to capture it A U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire re- former Al-Qaeda affiliate once known as work with the United States on normaliz- one hour after the strike?" Assad asked cently fell apart after the American air- Al-Nusra Front, but that it had not done ing the situation in Aleppo, Russia's for- India and Pakistan exchanged fire across their de facto bor- during an interview with the Associated strike on Syrian troops. so. eign ministry said in a statement. der in the Kashmir region on Saturday, in minor skirmishes Press. U.S. sparing terrorists "We have more and more reasons to Lavrov also stressed Russia "remains that come at a time of heightened tension between the nu- Last week, the Middle East Eye news Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister believe that from the very beginning the open for dialogue with the United States clear-armed neighbors. portal cited a source close to militants as Sergei Lavrov accused the United States plan was to spare Nusra and to keep it on all key issues" regarding Syria, the Army officers from both countries blamed each other for saying that the US was resolved to pre- of protecting a terrorist group in Syria in just in case for Plan B or stage two, when statement said. starting the firing, which took place in the morning along vent the fall of Aleppo. its effort to overthrow the beleaguered it would be time to change the regime," (Source: agencies) the so-called "Line of Control" dividing them in the disputed Himalayan region. No casualties were reported. Jordanians decry deal Yemeni forces destroy The exchange came two days after New Delhi said Indian troops had crossed into Pakistan's side of Kashmir and killed to import Israeli natural gas Emirati military vessel suspected militants in a "surgical strike", an operation Paki- Hundreds of Jordanians have taken A military source said Ansarullah stan says never took place. part in a demonstration in the center of fighters and allied army forces launched That was in response to an attack last month on an army Amman in protest against a deal signed rockets at an HSV-2 Swift hybrid cat- base in India-controlled Kashmir that killed 19 soldiers and this week to import natural gas from amaran operated by the Emirati navy which New Delhi blamed on militants who crossed from Pa- Israel. off the shores of the Red Sea port city kistan. Islamabad denied any involvement. Demonstrators carried banners, of Mokha early on Saturday, al-Masirah "Pakistani troops today violated (the) ceasefire along Pal- reading: "No to financing the Zionist television reported. lanwala sector of Akhnoor area of Jammu," a senior Indian entity from the pockets of Jordanian The catamaran was reportedly a army officer said on Saturday. citizens" and "No to gas imports from high-speed logistical ship capable of "They targeted five of our posts (with) small arms and we the home village of Nahed Hattar to while conducting military operations in also responded and fired back. However, there was no dam- the Zionist enemy". pay condolences to the Christian writ- locating mines, controlling military op- the same Yemeni district. The protest was called by trade erations and transporting troops and age." er's family, following his murder on Sun- A senior Emirati military commander An official from the Pakistani army said its troops had "be- unions and political parties opposed day outside a court. equipment. The vessel formerly be- and three Saudi-backed foreign merce- to the 1994 peace treaty between Is- longed to the US navy, al-Masirah said. fittingly responded to Indian unprovoked firing." Abdullah "strongly condemned this naries had been killed in an attack by The two countries have fought two of their three wars rael and Jordan, half the population of heinous crime" which was "alien to our Ansarullah fighters working in coop- Yemeni forces in the Dhubab district of which is of Palestinian origin. eration with the Yemeni army have so since independence from Britain in 1947 over Kashmir. Both [Jordanian] culture", the royal palace the southwestern province of Ta’izz two claim the former princely state in full. "Gas from the Zionists is a disgrace," said in a statement. far destroyed several hostile warships months earlier. the demonstrators chanted. and boats. Regional summit postponed On the visit to the Christian village of The biggest casualties, however, Meanwhile, a summit of South Asian Association for Re- A U.S.-led consortium leading the Al-Fuhais, 20km northwest of Amman, On October 10, 2015, Yemeni army came last September, when the UAE development of Israel's offshore gas re- forces destroyed a Saudi warship in a gional Cooperation (SAARC) leaders set for Islamabad in No- Abdullah, who was accompanied by confirmed that at least 52 of its soldiers vember has been postponed indefinitely, the Pakistani gov- serves announced the signing on Mon- Hani al-Malki, the prime minister, said missile attack in the Bab-el-Mandeb had been killed in a barrage of missiles day of a deal to sell natural gas from its Strait, which connects the Red Sea to ernment said, amid rising tension between arch-rivals India Jordan's Muslims and minority Chris- fired by Yemeni forces at Saudi-led and Pakistan. Leviathan field to Jordan. tians were united against "extremism, the Gulf of Aden. That development foreign troopers in the central Ma’rib U.S. firm Noble Energy, the lead came only three days after Yemeni forc- India's foreign ministry had announced on Tuesday that it violence and bigotry". Province. At least 70 soldiers were also would skip the meeting, blaming Pakistan for a deadly assault partner, said the contract with the Na- Hattar, 56, was shot dead by a es managed to destroy another Saudi injured in the missile attack. tional Electric Power Company of Jor- vessel in the area. this month on an army base in the disputed Himalayan state bearded assailant on the steps of an The official Saudi Press Agency, of Kashmir. Pakistan denies the accusations. dan (NEPCO) was for 8.5 million cubic Amman court where he was on trial for Emirati casualties meanwhile, reported the death of one metres per day over a 15-year term. The United Arab Emirates has been India's decision was followed by Afghanistan, Bangladesh allegedly insulting Islam with a cartoon of its border guards, who was killed and Bhutan expressing their "inability" to attend. It includes an option to purchase a he shared on social media. suffering heavy casualties in Yemen, after a mortar shell fell on the south- further 50 million cubic feet, up to a to- where Ansarullah fighters and allied "Pakistan deplores India's decision to impede the SAARC Hattar's family accused the authori- western border region of Jizan in Saudi process by not attending the 19th SAARC Summit at Islam- tal of 350 million daily. ties of failing to protect the writer despite military units have been fighting back Arabia from the direction of Yemen on Friday's protests against the gas deal the Saudi-led invaders. abad on 9-10 November 2016," the foreign office said in a warnings that his life had been under Thursday. statement. are likely to put pressure on a govern- threat. The assailant, who surrendered On Jun 13, an Emirati military hel- In a separate development, a mas- ment facing multiple domestic chal- icopter crashed near the al-Buraiqeh "The spirit of the SAARC Charter is violated when a mem- to police at the scene, has been charged sive bombing reportedly targeted the ber state casts the shadow of its bilateral problems on the lenges, notably in security matters. with premeditated murder, terrorism and coast of the southern Yemeni port city Craiter district in the southwestern Writer's killing of Aden, killing its two pilots. multilateral forum for regional cooperation." possession of an illegal firearm. Yemeni province of Aden, killing two A spokesman for India's foreign ministry said on Twitter: The demonstration in Amman came If convicted, the suspect could face On March 14, two Emirati pilots died people and injuring three others. just a day after King Abdullah II visited when their Mirage fighter jet crashed "We note Pakistan's decision to postpone SAARC summit. the death penalty. (Source: Al Jazeera) (Source: al-Masirah) They've been compelled to recognize the regional sentiment against terrorism." India said on Thursday that it had sent troops across its Famine killing tens of thousands in Boko Haram region: UN disputed border in Kashmir to kill men preparing to enter its territory and attack cities. Tens of thousands of people are dying of hunger in the capital) Maiduguri, I had never gone to places that had Pakistan has rejected Indian claims of "surgical strikes" into area of west Africa where Boko Haram militants are ac- adults who were so depleted of energy that they could its territory and maintained that India fired unprovoked from tive, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the region, barely walk." its side of the heavily militarized frontier in Kashmir, killing told a news conference. One aid agency reported back from the Nigerian two soldiers. About 65,000 people are in a "catastrophe" or "phase town of Bama that its staff had counted the graves of This area has been the flashpoint for two of three wars 5" situation, according to a food security assessment by about 430 children who had died of hunger in the past between the nuclear-armed neighbors since 1947. the IPC, the recognized classification system on declar- few weeks, Lanzer said. India's announcement of the raid on Thursday raised ing famines. With millions more short of food in northern Nigeri- the possibility of military escalation that could wreck a 2003 Phase 5 applies when, even with humanitarian assis- an and regions of the adjoining countries, the situation Kashmir ceasefire. tance, "starvation, death and destitution" are evident. could get much worse, and could turn into the "biggest India evacuated more than 10,000 villagers living near the “The tragedy of using the F word is that when you ap- crisis facing any of us anywhere", he said. border, and ordered security forces to upgrade surveillance ply it it’s too late," said Toby Lanzer, who has also worked “We’re now talking about 568,000 across the Lake along the frontier in Jammu and Kashmir state, part of the in South Sudan, Darfur and Chechnya. Chad basin who are severely malnourished, 400,000 of two countries' 3,300-km (2,100 miles) boundary. Boko Haram militants have killed about 15,000 peo- them are in the northeast of Nigeria. We know that over Hundreds of villages were being cleared along a 15 km (9 ple and displaced more than 2 million in a seven-year the next 12 months, 75,000, maybe as many as 80,000, mile) strip in the lowland region of Jammu and further north insurgency and they still launch deadly attacks despite Boko Haram, people have missed three planting sea- children will die in the northeast of Nigeria, unless we on the Line of Control in the Himalayan mountains of Kashmir. having been pushed out of the vast swathes of territory sons." can reach them with specialized therapeutic food,” Lan- Modi's government has been struggling to contain pro- they controlled in 2014. Asked if it was safe to assume that tens of thou- zer said. tests on the streets of Kashmir, where more than 80 civil- "This is the first time I’ve come across people talking sands of people were dying, Lanzer said: "It’s not what Across the Lake Chad region, more than 6 million ians have been killed and thousands wounded in the last 10 about phase 5. The reason for that was simply a lack of we’re assuming, it’s what the IPC states. And I back people are described as "severely food insecure", includ- weeks after a young separatist militant was killed by Indian access. We couldn’t get to places," Lanzer said. that number. ing 4.5 million in Nigeria, he said. security forces. "Because of the insecurity sown almost exclusively by "I can tell you from my first trip outside (the regional (Source: AFP) (Source: agencies) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY OOCTOBERCTOBER 22,, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy

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The Trans Adriatic Pipeline has started building its gas pipeline in Albania. commission to meet on Monday The TAP on Friday started putting the first of its 13,000 pipes along 215 kilometers (133 miles) in Albania. German Economy Minister Sigmar Ga- aging director of IMO GmbH, which The pipeline runs 878 kilometers (545 miles) long from the briel, leading a 100-member delega- exports components for wind energy Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan to Turkey, then Greece, then tion, will attend Iran-Germany busi- facilities in Iran. goes up to 1,800 meters (5,900 feet) high in Albania and 820 ness commission in Tehran on Monday Schroeppel’s firm is now using meters (2,690 feet) deep under the Adriatic Sea to southern and he also plans to take part in some third parties to do business in Iran, Italy. meetings to be held in the building of but hopes the process can be stream- The first gas deliveries to Europe are expected in 2020. Iran Chamber of Commerce, Indus- lined so it can take part in an expected TAP is a joint project by Britain’s BP, Azerbaijan’s SOCAR, tries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), boom in Iran’s wind energy sector. Italy’s Snam, Belgium’s Fluxys, Spain’s Enagas and Switzerland’s Shana reported on Saturday. The Europaeische-Iranische Han- Axpo. The German minister says the com- delsbank AG in Hamburg offers such It’s the most western of three sections of the Southern Gas mission will meet for the first time in 15 instruments already, but Germany’s Corridor — a 3,500-kilometer (2,175-mile) chain of pipelines years, and forecasts concrete business two biggest banks, Commerzbank AG intended to deliver natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe. deals will be announced, Reuters re- and Deutsche Bank AG said they re- (Source: AP) ported on Friday. main cautious. He is making his second visit to Teh- Michael Sabet, an Iranian-German ran since the Islamic Republic reached a business executive whose company deal with world powers in July last year imports tons of saffron from Iran, said Russia’s Lukoil looks to sign to lift economic sanctions imposed on more banks are ready to provide let- Iran over its nuclear program, in return ters of credit which he said could save 2 oilfield agreements with for curbs on its nuclear activities. up to 3 percent of the cost of a deal. Iran in fall 2017 Industrial giant Siemens AG and “The situation is easing,” he said. automaker Daimler will be among the Exports to Iran jumped 15 percent in Iranian Chamber of Commerce. “We used to have to wait three to four Russia’s Lukoil Company plans to sign agreements with Iran first German firms to benefit from op- the first half of the year to 1.13 billion One big issue for small- and me- months to get approval. Nowadays it’s on two oil fields in the fall of 2017, the company’s president portunities in Iran, but they are pro- euros and could reach 4 billion euros dium-sized firms is the inability to se- just a phone call and some documents Vagit Alekperov said Friday. ceeding carefully and only after legal in the full year, said Michael Tockuss, cure letters of credit for shipments of to exchange and that’s it.” Alekperov said earlier reviews. head of the Hamburg-based German- goods, said Werner Schroeppel, man- (Source: agencies) this month that technical studies over the Ab Tey- mour and Mansouri fields in IRAN SEA FEX operational India Essar’s August oil imports southwestern Iran would be presented to the National in Tehran from Iran rise 33.6% Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran’s Essar Oil, the top Indian buyer of Irani- in the near future. deskFisheries, Aquacul- an crude, imported about 33.6 percent “We hope that legislation ture and Fishery Industry Exhibi- more oil from Iran in August compared will be approved before the tion (IRAN SEA FEX 2016) became to July, according to tanker arrival data end of the year, somewhere operational in Tehran’s Milad Tower obtained from trade sources and ship- in October. We will present on Saturday, IRIB news reported. tracking services on the Thomson Reu- basic principles in October- Some 80 domestic companies ters terminal. November and will be ready as well as 15 foreign ones from Essar shipped in about 248,300 bar- to discuss a specific contract Norway, France, China, South ence of Iranian Agriculture Min- rels per day (bpd) of oil from Iran last vate refiner had to cut imports under by May. The expected con- Korea, the Netherlands, Italy, the ister Mahmoud Hojjati, the head month compared to 109,300 bpd a year pressure from western sanctions against tract signing is October-November of next year,” Alekperov United States, Denmark, and Tur- of Iran’s Fisheries Organization, ago, the data showed. Iran’s nuclear program, the data showed. said at the Sochi-2016 forum. key are participating in the three- Norwegian Minister of Fisher- Essar’s oil imports from Iran aver- Iran’s share in overall imports by Essar He estimated that each of the fields contained more than day exhibition. ies Per Sandberg, and a group of aged about 170,200 bpd in the first eight Oil in the January-August period rose to one billion metric tons of recoverable oil reserves. As reported, the exposition commercial attachés and ambas- months of 2016 compared with 104,400 about 48 percent from about 30 percent (Source: Sputnik) was inaugurated in the pres- sadors. bpd in the previous year, when the pri- in the year-ago period. (Source: Reuters)

Stock-market ‘weather Tehran, Oslo ink 13 co-op Iran, Hungary finalize 1mb report’ has something for deals on fishery oil deal: official bulls and bears ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran ing infrastructures for the farming of ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran According to Qamsari, talks to deskand Norway on 20,000 tons of fishes. deskhas finalized the sell oil to Hungary began in the fi- By ROB ISBITTS Saturday signed 13 deals on fishery Signing of the mentioned deals deal to sell one million barrels of nal months of the last Iranian calen- cooperation, Tasnim news agency re- came on the sidelines of Iran’s Fisher- crude oil to Hungary, Shana quoted dar year (which ended on March 19, here are endless analogies between the stock market ported. ies, Aquaculture and Fishery Industry Mohsen Qamsari, the director for in- 2016). and the weather. Both are difficult to predict, go through The deals inked by Iranian Agricul- Exhibition (IRAN SEA FEX 2016) which ternational affairs of National Iranian The official earlier said that Iran T ture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati and was inaugurated in Tehran on Saturday Oil Company (NIOC), as saying on has signed agreements to sell crude regularly changing conditions, and require different methods of preparation depending on those conditions. A Norwegian Minister of Fisheries Per and will run until Monday. Saturday. to European countries like France, couple of years ago, my firm created the “Investment Climate Sandberg include cooperation be- Hojjati mentioned holding this exhi- “The shipment has been sched- Spain, Italy, Poland and Greece and, Indicator” (ICI), a collection of what we consider to be the most tween the two countries companies bition and signing these deals a turning uled for the upcoming month” he “negotiations with other European important gauges of the market’s health. We rolled them up on the supply of equipment and build- point in the Iran’s fishery sector. said. countries are underway”. into a single indicator, and track that indicator monthly. The goal is to size up where the stock market is currently positioned within the longer-term cycle. Each month we publish the In- vestment Climate Report which features the ICI and our cor- Indonesia, Iran considering cooperation in development of aircraft industry responding thoughts about the market environment. JAKARTA (ANTARA News) — Indonesia and the Islamic an opportunity for Indonesia to develop closer cooperation We wanted to put some historical perspective around it, Republic of Iran are studying possibility of cooperation in with Iran, an oil rich country with a population of 80 million. so this past summer we decided to back-test the ICI back to the development of civil aircraft industry as currently Iran Large purchase of aircraft by Iran has been widely re- 1994. That is around the time at which I think the modern needs to renew a large number of its aircraft for civil avia- ported by international mass media. Iran was reported investment era started, thanks to financial television, the in- tion service. signing a contract for the purchase of 100 units of Boeing ternet, and the increasing presence of high-frequency traders The Policy Study and Development Body (BPPK) of the air craft at a price of $17 billion in September 2016, and 118 and hedge funds on market movements. We did this research Foreign Ministry said here on Friday, PT Dirgantara Indo- units of Airbus aircraft valued at $25 billion in January, 2016. to see if it could truly help us determine whether our portfo- nesia (PTDI) could study cooperation with the Iran Aircraft The U.S. finance ministry allowed the purchases by lios should be wearing sunglasses, a windbreaker, galoshes or Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA). phases. snow boots. The cooperation possibility was an important point Iran also is studying purchase of aircraft from the Brazil- We distinguished between four distinct types of market in the economic discussion during the visit of an Iranian ian aircraft maker Embraer. conditions: Sunny, Partly Sunny, Overcast, and Stormy. Each government delegation to the state-owned aircraft factory Technology and Development Director of PTDI, Andi one has its own personality, and goes well beyond the basic PTDI in Bandung on Thursday. PRC is an annual activity of BPPK and IPIS to exchange Alisjahbana, said PTDI, which already has international rep- “bull market/bear market” characterizations we have all heard The visit by the Iranian delegation is part of the activities views and information about position and foreign policy of utation as an aircraft maker has a big opportunity to sell and spoken about. of 5th “Policy Research Consultation” (PRC) of Indonesia- the two countries - bilaterally, regionally and internationally. aircraft to Iran. We liked what we learned from the study so much that we Iran, between BPPK and the Institute for Political and Inter- BPPK said after the implementation of “Joint Compre- Propeller aircraft products of PTDI are suitable for do- decided to produce a short whitepaper on it. Here is one of national Studies (IPIS), a think tank of the Iranian Foreign hensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA) on 16 January 2016, fol- mestic flights, Andi said. the key pictures from the study, showing how ICI conditions Ministry held by Asia Africa Museum in Bandung. lowed with the lifting of international economic sanction So far, PTDI has exported aircraft to various countries have changed since 1994 to the present time. The Iranian delegates included Iranian Ambassador to on Iran, that country needs many units of aircraft for civil including Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philip- Here is a summary of what we concluded: Indonesia Valiollah Mohammadi and Vice President of IPIS aviation. pines, South Korea, Pakistan, Turkey, the United Arab Emir- 1. The market spends the vast majority of its time in the Rasoul Mousavi. The lifting of the economic sanctions on Iran opened ates, Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Venezuela. Sunny zone. 2. As with the weather, Sunny periods eventually weaken into Partly Sunny conditions, then Overcast, and finally be- Petronas weighs sale Ireland at risk of Volkswagen will pay come Stormy. Along the way, some investors become arro- gant and complacent, and leave themselves open to getting to exit $27b Canada another banking $1.21b to settle U.S. caught in the market “storm.” LNG project disaster dealer claims 3. The ICI’s current message is that the worst of this mar- ket cycle is likely not imminent. We are currently in the Partly Sunny stage, after the ICI pulled itself back from the brink of Malaysian state oil firm Petroliam Nasional One of the Central Bank’s most senior officials has Volkswagen AG confirmed late Friday it will the Overcast range at the start of this year. Bhd is considering selling its majority stake in warned that Ireland is at risk of repeating the cata- make $1.21 billion in payments to 652 U.S. 4. Partly Sunny conditions mean two things: a $27 billion Canadian liquefied natural gas strophic economic mistakes of the past less than a brand dealers as part of its $16.5 billion diesel • The market’s condition is gradually getting worse. (LNG) plant, three people familiar with the decade after the country was cast into financial ruin emissions settlement to date. Markets don’t go back to Sunny from Partly Sunny until they matter said this week. writes Peter O’Dwyer. VW’s dealers will receive an average of $1.85 have completed the bad part of the cycle. Petronas, as the company is known, said in In a series of pointed remarks, Central Bank direc- million each on average over 18 months under • We can still have a correction of 10 percent or a statement on Saturday that it “categorically tor of credit institutions supervision Ed Sibley warned the settlement that was first announced in prin- so, or a fast “crash” that lasts days, weeks or even a few denied” the Reuters report on Friday that the that Ireland must, at all costs, remember the lessons ciple in August. months, even before the ICI shifts toward Overcast and then company is considering the stake sale. learned since 2008 but added that he feared they Separately, the U.S. Justice Department, Fed- to Stormy. Petronas is weighing options for the pro- are already being forgotten. eral Trade Commission and lawyers for owners 5. This indicator, as any other, is not foolproof. It is just one ject as a more than 50 percent slide in crude He further admonished Irish banks for failing to of 475,000 polluting diesel cars filed legal pa- more piece of evidence we are mindful of when setting in- oil prices since the middle of 2014 has hit the meet targets set by the Central Bank, as well as for pers late Friday asking a federal judge to grant vestment strategy. However, it strengthens my already strong group’s profits and prompted cuts to capital showing signs of returning to a toxic culture of bad final approval to buy-back offers and diesel re- belief that long-short investing can be a very helpful strategy expenditure and jobs. lending and dragging their feet in finding solutions mediation efforts at an Oct. 18 court hearing.

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By Wesley Pruden hrowing a stone at Saudi Arabia, Plans to repatriate 3 Twhere stoning women is the national RRoughough justicejustice forfor sport, is great fun, and nobody de- million Afghan refugees are serves an occasional stoning like the Saudis, dangerous and misguided just to let the king and his legion of princes know how it feels. By Jamil Danish They’re feeling the pain inflicted by Congress with the passage of legislation OObamabama aandnd thethe SaudisSaudis urope and Pakistan’s proposals to send millions of enabling the families of 9/11 to sue the people back to Afghanistan will cause mayhem in an Saudi government in American courts E for damages, and they’ll soon be at the already fragile country. For Afghan refugees such as me, we are now entering mercy of American trial lawyers. They can a perfect storm. Europe wants to make aid to our country expect more pain. contingent on its acceptance of at least 80,000 deported asy- Barack Obama can feel the pain, too. Feel- lum seekers who arrived on the continent last year. Simulta- ing the pain of others is something of a presi- neously, Pakistan – the country that houses more expatriate dential ritual now, since Bill Clinton first popu- Afghans than any other – plans to repatriate the 3 million larized the idea. Only four months before the Afghans who have sought refuge there since 1978. The for- happy day that President Obama is “out of mer face reprisals from the extremists from whom they fled. here,” he felt the sting of the first override of a The latter must head for a country where most of them have veto, and the vote was neither close nor even never even set foot. respectable — 97 to 1 in the Senate and 348 Three separate crises to 77 in the House of Representatives. All this will create or worsen three separate crises. The The president first sent his press agent European asylum system might have to bend its own rules out to express his disappointment. “I would to send people back to a war zone, which would set a bad venture to say that this is the single most example to other countries – not least Pakistan. It will also embarrassing thing that the United States greatly affect refugees already in Europe – people in similar has done, possibly, since 1983,” said Josh situations to me. Earnest, who has apparently been holding I am an Afghan refugee living in the UK. Thankfully I am something embarrassing for 33 years. now a legal resident here – but if I were sent back to Af- Later in the day, the president, perhaps ghanistan, I would risk being killed by the militias that forced realizing that his anger over the veto could me to flee in the first place. And then there are the Afghans be seen as just more of his pandering to the currently in Pakistan. Tens of thousands of these people are Islamic world, stepped up the firepower of second- or third-generation immigrants who were born and his disappointment. “The concern that I’ve “I would venture to say that this is the single most raised in Pakistan. These refugees made Pakistan their home, had has nothing to do with Saudi Arabia embarrassing thing that the United States has done, possibly, started businesses, went to college. For most of them, Af- per se or my sympathy for 9/11 families,” since 1983,” said Josh Earnest. ghanistan is a foreign country. he told CNN News, “it has to do with me It could also spark crisis in Afghanistan itself. The return not wanting a situation in which we’re sud- the end of an unpopular presidency he President Obama’s most persuasive even collect something, too, though trial of more than 3 million people would cause mayhem in an denly exposed to liabilities for all the work can’t expect Republican senators, whom point is that the legislation enabling lawyers learn early how to limit what they already fragile country. It would stretch limited resources, in- that we’re doing all around the world, and he has treated as if they were something Americans to sue Saudi Arabia breaks must share with clients. crease ethnic and religious tensions and exacerbate the vio- suddenly finding ourselves subject to the on the bottom of his shoe, to fall in line long-held tradition and takes the right The Saudis, who have the best lawyers lence that is already forcing many people from their homes. private lawsuits in courts where we don’t now to do “the right thing” to help him. and responsibility for “consequential deci- money can buy, are expected to liqui- According to a recent report by the Afghan government’s even know, exactly, whether they’re on the He’ll twist slowly, slowly in the wind for a sions” away from presidents and conveys date some of their holdings in the United Independent Directorate of Local Governance, over 50% of up and up, in some cases. little while. That’s always a delicious sight them to the courts and private litigants States to prevent their becoming hostage the country’s 384 districts face some threat of violence. “So this is a dangerous precedent and for an angry senator. — in effect, to trial lawyers. to friendly courts and juries out to punish The return of millions more people can only make this it’s an example of why sometimes you The argument that there’s no hard Indeed, observes The Wall Street Jour- the Saudis. situation worse – and cause yet another wave of refugees have to do what’s hard. And frankly, I wish proof that the Saudi government was nal, “Democrats want another income All but one of the men who flew Ameri- to flee their homes. In trying to contain one refugee crisis, Congress had done what’s hard. I didn’t complicit in the attacks on the World stream for their trial-lawyer campaign can airliners into the World Trade Center, Europe and Pakistan are about to create another. There are expect it, because if you’re perceived as Trade Center and the Pentagon, is irrele- funders, while Republicans stampeded be- the Pentagon and a bean field in Pennsyl- no quick fixes, and it is foolish to think otherwise. voting against 9/11 families before an vant. The line between mosque and state cause no one wants to be seen as defend- vania on Sept. 11, 2001, were Saudi-born A bit of context: in historic terms, Afghanistan is the world’s election, not surprisingly, that’s a hard in the Islamic world, particularly in Saudi ing Saudi Arabia in an election year.” Muslims. Making the Saudi government top exporter of refugees. Together, the communist revolution vote for people to take. But it would have Arabia, is so thin and dim as to be invis- The legislation sets no limits on the op- pay up is a rough justice, but rough justice in 1978 and the Soviet invasion in 1979 sent 5 million refu- been the right thing to do.” ible. One author likens examining the al- erating room for the lawyers and the 9/11 is something the king and his many princes Unpopular presidency gees to Pakistan and 3 million to Iran. Saud dynasty at work to watching a black families, and some of the lawyers will no can readily understand. 13 The president even has a point, but at widow spider snare its prey. doubt get rich. Some of the families might (Source: The Washington Times)

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http://www.tehrantimes.com OOCTOBERCTOBER 22,, 22016016 ANALYSIS 7 The devil’s advocates in region By Lachin Rezaian killed in one month, raising the death toll less conduct of Saudi officials regarding the to nearly 4,000 since the conflict began in 2015 Hajj tragedy. ince March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia has March 2015, and the rise in the number of Saudi regime has decided not to accept S led a Western-backed coalition that attacks against civilian facilities including responsibility and not to pay damages and has rained bombs down on Yemen, hospitals, markets, and places of worship, compensation to countries including Iran claiming the lives of thousands of civilians has raised concerns among human rights whose citizens were killed or were injured including defenseless and innocent women activists across the world and among re- during the Mina incident. and children. gional countries, including the Islamic Re- It also adopted an offensive approach to- Saudi Arabia invaded Bahrain amid Is- public of Iran which has played a key role in wards those calling on it to account. lamic Awakening or Arab Spring protests in resolution of regional issues. The regime is not alone; so-called human 2010 and 2011 to suppress peaceful and le- Meanwhile, the Organization of Islamic rights advocate, the UK, supports crimes of gal protests that were going on there. It has Cooperation led by Saudi regime has re- Saudi Arabia in Yemen. British support for attacked Yemen who has been seeking to peatedly condemned Iran for what it called Saudi Arabia’s warmongering policies in have self-determination in terms of who is supporting terrorism and meddling in the Yemen is not a random issue; behind the governing them, rather than a puppet who affairs of other countries, the message which support, definitely lies economic and power is appointed by Riyadh. fuels division in the Islamic community. interests. The blistering assaults against Yemen has The history proves that Iran has played a Saudi money is a key incentive for the UK Needless to say, it has been revealed to the been repeatedly condemned in the strong- constructive role for good of the region. It and other allies to back Saudi friends. When world public opinion that the Saudi regime is est possible terms by regional and West- the axis of support for the terrorist streams in ern countries, top United Nations officials, U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC), Human the region and beyond. Rights Watch and other international NGOs funny excuse for providing support for the in the region or Western countries. across the world, however, their opposition regimes that are repressing and slaughter- Saudi Arabia is currently the UK’s largest and condemnations were only on paper and ing the people of Yemen and Bahrain. arms export market. The British addiction have never been a strategy to prevent the Recently, Britain, accused of blocking EU to money is encouraging it to give billions country from raising atrocities in impover- efforts to set up an inquiry into Saudi Ara- pounds worth of weaponry to Saudi Arabia. ished Yemen, putting the credibility of the bia’s actions in the country, dismissed facts Actually, arms sales to the country breach U.N. Human Rights Council at stake. that the reported bombing of international British and European weapons export laws. Saudi Arabia has even blocked attempts hospitals, schools and wedding parties by Britain’s Committee on Arms Exports to create an international inquiry which is a the autocracy amount to war crimes. Control, comprising 16 MPs from four par- betrayal of the people of Yemen who have They have repeatedly claimed that Saudi ties, urged British government to avoid its suffered so much during this conflict. A ful- Arabia is best placed to investigate its own sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia since they ly independent international enquiry is the crimes; Saudi Arabian investigations into its had been used to violate international law, least the people of Yemen deserve. own actions have thus far absolved itself of which is suppressed by the government say- Instead, Saudi Arabia and its allies, cre- any wrongdoings. ing it has not seen evidence of Saudi war ated a national commission of inquiry in UK government is trying to cover up the crimes. Yemen, which is being carried out by the Saudi Arabian military’s flagrant violations Anger over the Saudi-led campaign and Saudi-backed government of former Yeme- of international humanitarian law. the United States role in the war is also ni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who It even continued military support for growing in U.S. Congress. In April, a bipar- fled to Saudi Arabia when the war began. the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen af- tisan group of American lawmakers, repre- The commission was deemed toothless, ter human rights groups, including Human sentatives Ted Lieu of California, Ted Yoho due to its failure after nine months to credi- Rights Watch and Campaign Against the of Florida, John Conyers of Michigan and bly investigate allegations of war crimes and Arms Trade (CAAT), wrote a letter to the Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, wrote a other serious violations. British support for Saudi Arabia’s U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC), saying letter asking President Obama to withdraw U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon blacklisted Sau- warmongering policies in Yemen is not a British-made munitions were responsible for his request for Congressional approval for a di-led coalition for killing children in Yem- the rising civilian death toll in Yemen’s brutal $1.15 billion sale of weapons to Saudi Ara- en in May. After the report was released, random issue; behind the support, definitely war. They also called on UK Prime Minister bia amid the Riyadh regime’s crimes against Ban’s office was bombarded with calls from lies economic and power interests. Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris civilians in Yemen. the Persian Gulf Arab foreign ministers, as Johnson to end the arms sales and put a They raised concerns that the actions of well as ministers from the Organization of has military advisory presence in Syria and it comes to politics, making money is what stop to the uncritical support that the UK the Saudi-led Coalition in Yemen are as rep- Islamic Cooperation (OIC), to remove the Iraq at the request of the Damascus and comes at the top of the agenda, it doesn’t provides for the Saudi regime. rehensible as they are illegal. The multiple, regime’s name from the list of states and Baghdad government fighting terrorism. matter whether civilians are being killed with Saudi regime has repeatedly bribed repeated airstrikes on civilians look like war armed groups that have violated the human When ISIL emerged many countries were the weapons the West or the U.S. helped Western countries, including the UK, claim- crimes, they warned. rights of children. slow to offer any assistance, however, Iran provide to another country. ing that their support was in their own inter- The $1.15 billion deal for weaponry to In June, Amnesty International and Hu- made a number of requests to countries Britain’s foreign policy is devoted towards est to prevent Yemen falling into the hands Saudi Arabia, including over 150 Abrams man Rights Watch condemned the U.S.- asking for assistance and was the first which suppressing any form of democracy in the of terrorists. tanks, reveals more than ever, the blood of backed Saudi regime’s breaching of rights, sent military advisers to train the depleted Middle East. And now, in the case of Yem- In early September, Adel al-Jubeir, the thousands of innocent Yemenis dripping calling on the United Nations General Iraqi army and the Kurdish forces. en and despite all the evidence for crimes Saudi Foreign Minister, speaking to the Tel- from American hands. Assembly to immediately suspend Sau- While Iran is portrayed in Western and and suppression that has been gathered in egraph, warned if the UK suspends arms The Obama administration has already terms of what has been going on, the UK sales, there might be even higher risks of approved more than $100 billion in arms government continues its policies towards terrorism spreading. A statement which sales to the kingdom; however after a year Saudi regime. seems more to be a threat from a country and a half, the new sale will definitely prove Historically, the UK government pry into who has a dark history of nurturing terror- Washington’s involvement in a deadly war other countries affairs like Iraq, Yemen and ism and extremist ideology. Al-Jubeir on one that the White House has kept largely quiet Libya under the guise of “humanitarian cri- hand threatens the United Kingdom that if about. sis”, overthrow their governments, killing London retreats from supporting Riyadh’s Obama’s pretended distaste for region- their rulers, leaving a power vacuum, ena- invasion of Yemen, it would see Wahhabi al proxy wars is not working now. The U.S. bling Al Qaeda and ISIL to take a strong- affiliate terrorists committing terrorist acts gives with one hand and takes back with hold. in the European country. And, meanwhile, the other. With words, it touts opposition Does the UK Government really care? on the other hand, tries to bribe London by to terrorism and war crimes, but in practice, Only when it suits them or there’s econom- promising billions of dollars of investments sends weapons to the terrorists like Al Saud to kill women and children in Yemen. The desperate Saudi regime facing backlash Saudi allies, including the U.S. and the for its crimes in the region tries to shift blame UK, are panting for Saudi oil and money. to Iran in an attempt to redeem its battered The incentive is enough for them to das- tardly and in the name of human rights and image globally. suppression of terrorism make turmoil in the region. ic interests involved. They are notorious for after Brexit. Saudi regime well knows its money-ad- hypocrisy! In fact, the West is willing to be bribed dicted allies. It throws prey in battle ground di Arabia from the Human Rights Council Israeli circles as a supporter of terrorism It is clear that Saudi war in Yemen has and fooled by a rich country. They pretend and directs dogs looking for the prey. membership over its “gross and systematic worldwide, there is a less politically conven- helped British economy through privileged to be helping fight against terrorism, howev- Under the pressure of Saudi regime, U.S. violations of human rights abroad and at ient reality: that of Iran as a victim of terror. access to cheap oil, sale of weapons in bil- er, they promote the ever-growing terrorist government even obstructed the release of home. HRW has documented Saudi Arabia Thousands of innocent people in Iran lions of dollars and other economic and groups like ISIL, Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front remaining 28 pages of the factual informa- of repeatedly using internationally banned have been killed as a result of terrorist op- trade agreements. and reversing advances other peace-making tion of the 9/11 report to the public in 2015. cluster munitions in civilian areas; in 19 dif- erations led by the West and Saudi agents The UK government’s claims over sup- countries, including Iran, make to suppress The report pointed a very strong finger at ferent attacks, they have used at least six in the country since the Islamic Revolution port for human rights and democracy is a the terrorists and extremists doing atrocities Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier different types of cluster bombs, which were of 1979. of the attack to the North and South tow- made in the U.S., UK and Brazil. Many countries have acknowledged Is- Riyadh threatened in early June to cut lamic Republic is trying to help restore ers, and the World Trade Center complex Palestinian aid and funds to other U.N. peace, stability and security to the region to in New York City. programs if the agency keeps the coun- the best of its ability. Under public pressure, U.S. government try’s name as children right abuser, a threat The Islamic Republic of Iran has always published a censored version of the report which made Ban to drop Saudi Arabia from reiterated that there could be no military with many redactions; however, even after its annual blacklist, only one week after it solution to the war in the region and has more than fifteen years, a cloud of secre- announced the blacklisting of the regime. urged an end to hostilities and a peaceful cy hangs over the events of September 11, Ban calls his decision the most painful and resolution of this conflict through negotia- 2001 which proves the footprints of Saudi difficult due to the fact that millions of oth- tions and the utilization of peaceful mech- regime in the terrorist attacks. er children likely would suffer if funding for anisms. Needless to say, it has been revealed to U.N. programs was cut off. Iran’s key role in the region and resolu- the world public opinion that the Saudi re- Accusing Ban of giving in to political tion of regional issues is not a pleasant fact gime is the axis of support for the terrorist manipulation by the kingdom, dozens of for Saudi Arabian regime. Truth hurts. They streams in the region and beyond. prominent human rights groups, including say when someone goes down the well he Today, all the world has figured out that, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International tries to take with him another person: mis- MKO, the ISIL, Taliban, al-Qaeda and tens of and Oxfam, wrote a letter and urged Unit- ery loves company. other terrorist grouplets spread in the ge- ed Nations chief Ban Ki-moon to put Saudi The saying best suits to the situation of ography of Islam and humanity commit the Arabia back on a blacklist for overwhelm- Saudi allegations against the Islamic Repub- biggest crimes against humanity under the ingly violating children’s rights in Yemen. lic. leadership and strategies of the U.S., the “The evidence of grave violations against The desperate Saudi regime facing back- Zionist regime and the regional reactionary children in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition lash for its crimes in the region tries to shift Saudi FM Al-Jubeir’s early September warning regimes with the extensive financial sup- is overwhelming,” reads the letter. blame to Iran in an attempt to redeem its ports of the al-Saud. They said the U.N. chief’s decision under- battered image globally. of ‘high risks of spread of terrorism’ if UK The world has learned that Saudi Arabia mined an invaluable tool in efforts to curb Saudi hostile actions against Iran pursues suspends arms sales to Saudis is in fact a threat and Wahhabism, the radical ideology freely violations against children in armed conflict. one important objective: preventing Iran’s to London that Wahhabi-affiliated terrorist preached in the Arab country, are to blame Increasing attacks against civilians in positive role in the region and hitting back for the violent acts of extremism in the Mid- Yemen after a total of 180 civilians were to Iran which has been protesting the reck- might be directed toward the UK. dle East region and elsewhere. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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Other corporations and holding com- panies are coming from the Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Spain, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri, Transport and Urban Develop- A view of the 190-room, five-star Dariush Grand Hotel on Kish Island Detail showing some intricate tilework embellishing the interior of ment Minister Abbas Akhoundi, Labor the Blue Mosque in Tabriz. and Social Welfare Minister Ali Rabiei, and companies, and investors; capacity of of top international hotel chains have ei- icrafts Organization, Morteza Rahma- Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Hand- leading brands in global tourism; and ther started making moves or have ex- ni-Movahhed, announces last week. Completed in c. 1465 it is remarkable for its sim- icrafts Organization Director Masoud investment opportunities in the tour- pressed an interest in entering the Iranian In 2014, the country hosted over five plicity, brickwork, and great size as well. The mosque Soltanifar are on the panel of high-rank- ism sector will be discussed during the market. million tourists, bringing in some $7.5 bil- survived a devastating earthquake in 1727. However, ing Iranian officials who will join the con- event. Some $24 billion came into Iran over lion in revenue. Moreover, last year, offi- many parts of it caved in due to a quake struck later ference. Since the signing of the landmark nu- the past three and a half years because cial figures put the number of incoming in the same century. Many parts of the structure was Subjects involving connections be- clear deal between Tehran and the six of foreign tourists, the deputy director of tourists at more than 5.2 million, generat- rebuilt in 1973. tween domestic companies, foreign major world powers last year, a number the Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Hand- ing over $8 billion. In the southern part of the mosque lies a time-honored mausoleum, itself a source of splendor. It is entirely covered Isfahan museum’s homage to Iran’s rich musical traditions with massive marble slabs on which verses from the holy Quran have been engraved with a background of fine ar- A beguiling new museum in Iran’s most popular tourist nets on crisp white walls, with descriptions in English and abesques. city showcases instruments that were the precursors of Farsi. (Visitors are welcome to pick up and try the less Mahmud Ghazan, who was the seventh ruler of the Mon- today’s guitar and violin. precious pieces.) gol Empire’s Ilkhanate, made Tabriz his capital in the late 13th In a leafy street in Isfahan’s laid-back but ancient Jol- After a guided tour – whether for one person or a century. fa quarter, away from Imam Square and the bazaar for group of 20 – the visit culminates in a small, intimate In 1392, the city was taken by a Turkic conqueror named which the city is renowned, the Isfahan Music Museum performance, where traditional love songs and Persian Timur (Tamerlane) and some decades later the Kara Koyunlu provides welcome refuge. A love letter to Iran’s rich mu- poetry are played by modern masters. Turkmen choses it as their capital. The Blue Mosque was built sical heritage, the small museum is much more than a In the short time it has been open, the museum has under their rule. series of instruments hanging on a wall. Founded and received two awards, the latest from the International Tabriz retained its administrative status under the Safavid funded by local musicians Mehrdad Jeihooni and Shahri- Council of Museums (Icom) for the best private museum dynasty until 1548, when Shah Tahmasb I who enjoyed the ar Shokrani in December 2015, it showcases more than in Iran. Even those who are not music fans will be en- longest reign of any member of the dynasty, moved his cap- 300 instruments from around Iran, many unchanged A number of time-honored traditional musical instruments tranced by the energy, warmth and sheer joy Mehrdad ital westward to Qazvin. from their depictions in centuries-old paintings or minia- native to Iran being on display at the Isfahan Music Museum and Shahriar exude at the sight of visitors. During the next two centuries Tabriz changed hands sev- tures on display around the city’s historic sites. posedly the precursor of the guitar. There is also a variety “We are mad! Totally mad for music,” acknowledges eral times between Iran and the Ottoman Empire. These instruments include the kamancheh, thought of animal-skin drums, reed flutes (ney), nomadic camel Mehrdad, a broad smile appearing beneath his impres- Here is a select of comments that visitors to the mosque to be the ancestor of the modern violin and the tar, sup- bells and a majestic harp, all in beautifully lit glass cabi- sive moustache. (Source: The Guardian) have posted to TripAdvisor, one of the most popular travel websites in the world: “Masterpiece of Iranian decorative tilework” THAI launches The blue mosque has been restored with great craftsman- ship. Only small parts of the original decoration remain, but Bangkok-Tehran Khaghan Restaurant the quality of the work, the finesse of the designs and the range of colors used is exceptional. (Wim Antwerp from Bel- www.khaghan.com gium, visited September 2016) Thai Airways International (THAI)’s inauguration of “Beautiful with nice nearby park” its Bangkok-Tehran service on Saturday is expect- From the outside it looked first a bit disappointing but the ed to help ramp up passenger traffic between the Suitable for Embassies interior is beautiful and worth the entrance price. The park two countries. next to the mosque is also a nice place. (Ellisveen from the The flag carrier’s launch of four flights per week & Foreign Companies Netherlands, visited April 2016) is projected to double the number of Iranian ar- “Very nice and old mosque” rivals to Thailand this year to nearly 200,000 and Outdoor Space, Intl. Cuisine, Oldest mosque in Tabriz, very nice architecture and court- multiply Thai visitors to the Islamic Republic, cur- yard. Price for foreigners: 6x locals. (Ana L. from Sweden, vis- rently numbering in the thousands. Located in a Calm ited March 2016) “Impressive reconstruction” and Cozy Environment, Enough This mosque was all but destroyed in an earthquake in Parking Lot 1779, but has been well reconstructed (and work contin- ues). The original tile work is very impressive, in particular the shine of the glaze which the reproductions struggle to replicate. (PeterC489 from London, visited September 2015) “Colorful Mosque” Very nice building, with a very nice front facade, although not very well conserved! When I visited it we were the only persons there! (Rui Cardoso from Portugal, visited May 2015) Iranian visitors to Thailand grew by 20% to 88,000 last year, a figure that was set to grow to 120,000 this year prior to THAI’s decision to launch its Tehran service. IN THE NEWS “We should see a surge in traffic volume this year as Bangkok and Tehran are better connected,’’ said Sunanta Wuthisakul, chief executive of Thai Spain marks monthly record Orchid Tour and Holiday Co, a Bangkok-based for tourist arrivals in August travel agent that has long specialized in arranging tours to Iran. Spain hosted 10.1 million foreign tourists in August, the Na- The presence of THAI, a well-established airline tional Statistics Institute (INE) said on Friday, 5.8 percent more with a good international image and safety track than a year earlier and marking a monthly record for arrivals record, is set to encourage greater travel on both as the influx of visitors bolsters the economy. ends, she told the Bangkok Post. Spain’s thriving tourism industry has fueled a jobs surge THAI is providing a third option for non-stop Add.: Dooma Crossroad, over the summer months, extending an economic recovery flights between the Thai and Iranian capital, throughout a period of political uncertainty triggered by two joining long-haul low-cost carrier Thai AirAsia X Golestan Blvd., Africa Ave. inconclusive national elections. (TAAX) and Tehran-based Mahan Airlines, whose In the first eight months of 2016, the number of tour- safety and service images are perceived as falling ists rose more than 10 percent from the same period in below international standards. Reservation 2015 to 52.5 million, INE said, putting Spain on track to THAI is operating a Boeing 777-200 jet config- surpass last year’s record 68.1 million arrivals for the full ured with 309 seats on the route, adding a sizea- Tel: 26215990 & 22050119 12 months. ble increase in capacity. Security fears in competing destinations across the Med- TAAX, which started offering non-stop Tehran iterranean and in the Middle East have helped lure more service on June 22 with three flights a week, op- tourists than ever to Spain’s shores. Northeastern Catalonia, erates an Airbus 330-300 with 370 seats on the home to vast stretches of beaches, was the most visited re- route. gion in Spain, followed by the Balearic Islands. Mahan Air alternates between a single-aisle Britons remained the most numerous visitors to Spain and Airbus 310-300 (202 seats) and a wide-body arrivals from the United Kingdom were up 3.9 percent year- Airbus 340-300 (215 seats), with four flights per on-year in August. But this marked a slowdown compared to week. previous months and follows the UK’s vote to leave the Euro- The lifting of sanctions against Iran in January pean Union, after which the British pound weakened against has turned Tehran into a new economic frontier the euro. and an emerging tourism market, thus catching Tourism provides some 11 percent of Spain’s gross do- the attention of international airlines like THAI. mestic product. (Source: Reuters) (Source: Bangkok Post) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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With civilian drone competition, Iran Europe’s food safety watchdog says to release studies on weed-killer battles against brain drain glyphosate 1 quired extensive meetings with officials, That’s one reason the three winning both civilian and from Iran’s security forc- Europe’s food safety watchdog will release data from some of teams – two university groups and one es, anxious about having drones in the air the scientific studies it reviewed in its assessment of glyphosate, drone-making start-up from Tehran – are that they don’t control. an ingredient in Monsanto’s widely used herbicide Roundup and to join forces into a single “golden team” “This is only the first step; we have subject of a fierce row over possible cancer risk. for Digikala that starts laboratory work a long way to go,” says Digikala’s Mr. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said on Thurs- next December. Moghaddam. “We need to convince day it had decided to release the raw data as part of its “com- Losing ‘educated brains’ the government and police it is not mitment to open risk assessment”. While Amazon and DHL focus on in- a threat but a tool for customer sat- EFSA had received several requests for data in relation to house drone creation, Digikala has cho- isfaction.” its glyphosate assessment, including from members of the sen a different model based on what it ’Ready for the future’ European parliament. calls “open innovation and crowd sourc- Iran’s drone exploits are best known “Transparency and openness are essential values for EFSA ing” to pool creative talent. for the intact capture of an American because they strengthen confidence in science,” EFSA said in “It helps, seriously. But we need a lot of RQ-170 Stealth drone on a CIA spying a statement. The “information will be shared with a group of these competitions and more investment mission over Iran in December 2011. MEPs following a public access to document request”. to help people think of living in Iran,” says Unveiling new military drone capabili- It was not immediately clear when the information will be Reza Kalantarinejad, a competition jury ties in mid-September, Iran’s Army chief released. member and founder of Shezan, a bio- said drones were the “sharp eyes and Glyphosate, which is used in Roundup as well as other com- tech and nanotechnology company. far-reaching arms” of his forces. In Au- panies’ weed-killers, is at the heart of a dispute in Europe and “It’s a chance, it helps people have a gust, Iran presented a new drone it said United States about whether its wide-spread use as a weed-kill- belief in the future of Iran and high-tech,” was designed for “jamming and decep- er on crops could heighten cancer risks.Monsanto has long de- says Mr. Kalantarinejad. “Such tech devel- tion operations.” fended the safety of its herbicide, saying the renewal of glypho- opment helps keep people here.” The “problem will lead Iran toward which made space for some 200 sci- Such experience by Iran’s military – as sate’s license in Europe was vital to European farmers. Anything that eases Iran’s chronic becoming a nation void of intelligent ence-based companies, an expansion is well as fielding reconnaissance drones in The European Union in July granted a temporary exten- brain drain is welcomed by officials, who genes,” lamented Hamid Mirzadeh, the under way that officials hope will eventu- Syria, Iraq, and other battlefields – has sion of its approval for the weed-killer, pending further sci- have struggled to find solutions. The for- head of Islamic Azad University in 2014. ally create 5,000 jobs. made launching commercial drone use a entific study after a proposal for full license renewal met with mer minister of Science, Research, and The Digikala success story one way Among the success stories they would particular challenge. opposition from member states and campaign groups. Technology, Reza Farajidana, has estimat- the government is trying to check the like to recreate is Digikala, which has ex- The “government has two faces,” says The issue blew up in March 2015 after the International ed that 150,000 “educated brains” leave flow is supporting projects like the Pardis perienced exponential growth, jumping Moghaddam. “It wants to follow these Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), based in Lyon and the country each year, calculating the Technology Park, which aims to nurture from 250 to more than 1,900 employees trends and show that Iran is modern, but part of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that cost to Iran to be tens of billions annually. high-tech and start-ups. The compound, in the past two years alone. Digikala sells it also wants to be careful for security and glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic”.This finding was at Official statistics in 2012 indicated that carved out of desert along the highway, more than 100,000 items online, to be- safety reasons. In the end we should not odds with previous risk assessment in Germany and the Unit- 64 percent of Iran’s International Science has streets with names like “Innovation.” tween 1.4 million and 1.7 million unique fight the technology, we should use it … ed States, and was followed seven months later by EFSA’s Olympiad winners in the previous 14 The board of trustees is headed by an visitors each day, but the challenges of we should be ready for the future.” own assessment of glyphosate as “unlikely to pose a carcino- years had left the country. Another of- Iranian vice president and includes the getting purchases to customers in real And that is exactly what the drone genic hazard to humans”. (Source: Reuters) ficial source that year stated that 90 of president’s deputy for science and re- time are technical – and fraught with se- competition teams aimed to achieve, as Iran’s 125 medal winners from 2008 to search. curity restrictions. they prepared their creation for flight. 2011 had immigrated to the U.S. After an initial private investment, Even getting the contest approved re- (Source: CSM) ‘World’s deepest flooded Reservoirs play substantial role in global warming cave’ discovered in Czech Washington State University researchers say the world’s the total global warming impact of all those gases from Republic reservoirs are an underappreciated source of green- reservoirs. It’s a pretty important piece of the budget.” house gases, producing the equivalent of roughly 1 Comprehensive look A Czech-Polish team said Friday it had discovered the world’s gigaton of carbon dioxide a year, or 1.3 percent of all The BioScience analysis, which drew on scores of oth- deepest underwater cave in the eastern Czech Republic. greenhouse gases produced by humans. er studies, is the largest and most comprehensive look At 404 meters (1,325 feet) deep, the Hranicka Propast, a That’s more greenhouse gas production than all of to date at the link between reservoirs and greenhouse limestone abyss near the city of Hranice, beats out Italy’s Poz- Canada. gases, Harrison said. zo del Merro cave that is 392 meters deep for the world re- Writing in the journal BioScience, the WSU research- “Not only does it incorporate the largest number of cord, Miroslav Lukas of the Czech Speleological Society told ers say reservoirs are a particularly important source of studies,” he said. “It also looks at more types of green- AFP.“We wanted to beat the Italian record. We succeeded and methane, a greenhouse gas that is 34 times more potent house gases than past studies.” now we have the magic number of 404 meters,” said Lukas, than carbon dioxide over the course of a century. Acre per acre, reservoirs emit 25 percent more meth- insisting the cave was “definitely” deeper than that. Reservoir methane production is comparable to rice ane than previously thought, he said. “I don’t know if it’s by five meters or a hundred, but the paddies or biomass burning, both of which are included The researchers acknowledge that reservoirs provide depth is set to change,” he said. in emission estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on important services like electrical power, flood control, and “nutrients” like nitrogen and phosphorous from up- Lukas said the figure was confirmed by a depth gauge Climate Change, the leading international authority on navigation and water. But reservoirs have also altered stream rivers, which can further stimulate greenhouse carried by a robot and by the length of a data cable connect- the subject. the dynamics of river ecosystems, impacting fish and gas production. ed to the robot. John Harrison, co-author and associate professor other life forms. Only lately have researchers started to In 2000, BioScience published one of the first pa- On September 27, Polish diver Krzysztof Starnawski first in the WSU Vancouver School of the Environment, last look at reservoirs’ impact on greenhouse gases. pers to assert that reservoir greenhouse gases con- descended to 200 meters to install a signal line for the robot, month attended a meeting in Minsk, Belarus, to discuss “While reservoirs are often thought of as ‘green’ or tribute substantially to global warming. Since then, then navigated the device down to the record depth.The “ro- including reservoir emissions in a planned 2019 IPCC carbon neutral sources of energy, a growing body of there has been a nine-fold increase in studies of res- bot broadcast information about its depth and course into update of how countries report their greenhouse gas work has documented their role as greenhouse gas ervoirs and greenhouse gases. Where earlier studies a monitoring device on the surface,” Lukas explained to AFP. inventories. sources,” Deemer, Harrison and their colleagues write. tended to be confined to reservoirs behind power “It fell deeper and deeper, heading into places where we “We had a sense that methane might be pretty im- Unlike natural water bodies, reservoirs tend to have stations, the newer studies also looked at reservoirs could see no bottom, until it reached 404 meters,” he added. portant but we were surprised that it was as important as flooded large amounts of organic matter that produce used for flood control, water storage, navigation and Lukas said the project was co-financed by the National Geo- it was,” said Bridget Deemer, WSU research associate and carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide as they de- irrigation. graphic society, which broke the story online late Thursday. lead author. “It’s contributing right around 80 percent of compose. Reservoirs also receive a lot of organic matter (Source: phys.org) Research at Hranicka Propast started in 1963, said Lukas, who first dived there in 1974. (Source: AFP) The mystery of a newly discovered ‘dark galaxy’ Among the thousand-plus galaxies in the Testing theories between the cluster’s galaxies. Coma cluster, a massive clump of matter The discovery came almost by ac- Instead, they found 47 faint smudges some 300 million light-years away, is at cident. The astronomers Pieter van that wouldn’t go away. These smudges Researchers studied 1,000 least one — and maybe a few hundred Dokkum of Yale University and Rober- seemed to have diameters roughly the animal species and found — that shouldn’t exist. to Abraham of the University of Toron- same size as the Milky Way. Yet accord- Dragonfly 44 is a dim galaxy, with one to were interested in testing theories of ing to the commonly accepted models the one most likely to star for every hundred in our Milky Way. how galaxies form by searching for ob- of galaxy formation, anything that big But it spans roughly as much space as the jects that have been invisible to even the shouldn’t be so dim. murder one of its own Milky Way. In addition, it’s heavy enough most advanced telescopes: faint, wispy In these theories, clumps of dark mat- If you think humans are a violent species, spare a thought for to rival our own galaxy in mass, according and extended objects in the sky. So their ter seed the universe with light. First, es of nearby galaxies. But the famous meerkats. A study on violence in more than 1,000 mammals to results published in the Astrophysical team built the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, clouds of dark matter coalesce into rela- Coma cluster—the collection of galaxies has revealed that pretty much all of them are murderous, Journal Letters at the end of August. a collection of modified Canon lenses tively dense dark-matter haloes. Then gas that long ago inspired astronomer Fritz but meerkats are the most Dragonfly 44 is so dark, so fluffy, and that focus light onto commercial camera and fragments of other galaxies, drawn Zwicky’s conjecture that such a thing bloodthirsty of all. so heavy that some astronomers believe sensors. This setup cut down on any scat- by the halo’s gravity, collect at the center. as dark matter might exist—beckoned. Evolutionary biologists, it will either force a revision of our the- tered light inside the system that might They spin out into a disk and collapse into “Partway through, we just could not re- led by José María Gómez ories of galaxy formation or help us un- hide a dim object. luminous stars to form something we can sist looking at Coma,” Abraham said. “You from the University of Grana- derstand the properties of dark matter, “You’ve been on the ship for months, see through telescopes. The whole pro- could argue that this discovery emerged da in Spain, conducted the the mysterious stuff that interacts with and suddenly somebody said, ‘Land ho!’ cess seems to be reasonably predictable from a lack of discipline.” They planned to study in order to understand normal matter via gravity and not much And it’s not on the map.” for big galaxies such as our Milky Way. study the Coma cluster’s intracluster light human violence in an evolu- else. Or both. The plan was to study the faint fring- (Source: The Atlantic) — the faint glow of loose stars floating tionary context. They found that when Homo sapiens first came into existence, roughly DIY ‘garage’ scientists could unleash genetically-edited organisms into wild, warn experts one in 50 of us were killed by Garage scientists’ could unleash dangerous genetical- dure could unleash dangerous strains of bacteria or other ethical implications of genome editing both for human members of our own spe- ly-modified organisms into the environment using un- organisms. Others worry it may usher in a future of eugen- health and animals. cies. This made us typically regulated technology which is already available online, a ics, with wealthy parents selecting for beneficial traits. Transferring a genetically-edited embryo to a woman violent for a primate, though new report has warned. The “comparatively low cost and ease of use of the is currently banned, but the first tests to allow the genet- around six times more mur- The Nuffield Council on Bioethics said that chemistry CRISPR system has made it feasible for a greater range ic modification of an embryo were given the go-ahead derous than an average mammal. kits which allow genetic editing can already be bought of users, beyond those who would ordinarily make use earlier this year. Our murderous tendencies have shifted over time though. online for under £100. of the techniques of molecular biology. The report warned that widespread use of genome Gómez’s research found that we became considerably more vi- Scientists are concerned that a new technique, called Biological products editing could allow the spread of ‘consumer’ eugenics olent during the Iron Age and Medieval period of Africa, Europe clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats “DIY or garage biologists, biohackers and enthusiastic and ‘engineering humans with desirable genetic traits’ to and Asia, but over the past few centuries, have become signifi- (CRISPR), is now so cheap and widely available that amateurs amateurs carrying out informal research or making bi- suit environmental conditions or enhance athletic ability. cantly less violent than when humans first existed. This suggests will start experimenting at home, or in school labs. ological products. It is possible for individuals to pursue Karen Yeung, Professor of Law at Kings College Lon- that as we formed large, organized states, complicated social The technique works like genetic scissors to cut this interest in private homes using kits that are available don said: “Many people have concerns about the pos- structures have kept our violent urges in check. away DNA code and replace it with new genes. It has to order online. sible use of genome editing in human reproduction, for But where do meerkats fit in? The researchers weren’t fo- been hailed as one the most significant scientific break- “Genetically altered organisms present a theoretical example concerns about making genetic changes that cused on these unexpectedly lethal creatures, but Ed Young throughs in recent years, with enthusiasts claiming that it risk of harm to those handling them, and if they escape would be passed on to future generations and the pos- at The Atlantic organized the research to rank the top 30 could wipe out inherited diseases like cystic fibrosis and or are released from laboratories or controlled environ- sibility of the techniques being used to confer other de- most murderous mammals. Meerkats come well ahead of li- produce crops which are resistant to drought or pests. ments, to other people and natural ecosystems.” sirable characteristics. ons, wolves, and leopards. Roughly one in five meerkats die Yet there are fears that, in the wrong hands, the proce- The panel is launching two reviews looking into the (Source: The Telegraph) at the hands of their own species. (Source: Quartz) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y SOCIETY 12 OOCTOBERCTOBER 22,, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/society World Food Program commemorates Isfahan on track to become a city of bicycles

SOCIETY TEHRAN — Isfahan Municipality is arrang- 29 years of presence in Iran desking for the city to become a city of bicycles, an official with the Department of Environment has said. SOCIETY TEHRAN — In a cer- “As hard as fighting hunger could be we “Isfahan Municipality has initiated talks with the Dutch to deskemony held on Thurs- believe it is attainable.” develop the necessary technical infrastructure to turn the city day, World Food Program (WFP) com- “We would keep on fighting until hun- into a city of bicycles,” Mohammad Darvish said, ISNA report- memorated 29 years of presence in Iran, ger fades into history,” he added. ed on Saturday. Khabaronline reported. Iran is the 4th largest refugee host- Isfahan and Neishabur municipalities did best in creating With the sole purpose of fighting hunger ing country, with just under one million bike lanes and cycling infrastructure, Darvish noted. worldwide WFP relies entirely on voluntary refugees, according to WFP website. As In Neishabur buses are equipped with bicycle racks and contributions to finance its humanitarian a result of the refugee flow, a significant cyclists can put their bikes and development projects, Negar Gerami, number of poor and food-insecure refu- onto them and travel with WFP representative in Iran said. gee households continue to require hu- the bus, he said, adding, “In today’s world where we are facing manitarian support, including WFP food additionally in Isfahan, Cha- successive crises, raising fund is one of assistance. More than 951,000 Afghan har-bagh street is close to the biggest challenges,” Gerami noted. refugees and 28,260 refugees from Iraq the cars on car-free Tues- Gerami also extended the Islamic Re- were registered in Iran as of early 2016. days (a public-led campaign public of Iran’s gratitude for South Korea’s Basic services and housing are provided encouraging the citizens to generous $4 million contribution donat- in the settlements by the Government, use bicycle instead of car ed to fight hunger in Iran. WFP, and United Nations High Commit- on Tuesdays) and create a “The $4 million contribution fits the tee on Refugees (UNHCR). 100-kilometers road for the budget expenditure for providing food WFP assistance to refugees in Iran, cyclists to ride safely. for the refugees for a year,” she added. which started in 1987, has been a ma- “I hope we could soon celebrate end jor factor in the prevention of hunger “Isfahan Municipality has (Korean ambassador to Iran Kim Seung-Ho (L) and Negar Gerami, Photo by Sarah of hunger in the world,” she suggested and malnutrition. WFP aims to ensure pledged to double the path Abdollahi/ Borna news agency) in the near future,” he added. Korean ambassador to Iran Kim Se- basic food security for vulnerable Af- In cities of Yazd, Mashhad, ung-Ho, for his part, noted that the fight hunger. of hunger and know how important it is ghan and Iraqi households in refugee Tabriz and Sirjan have also taken some measures to encour- money is a small contribution made to Korea is very well aware of the pangs to fight it, the ambassador said, stating, settlements in Iran. age using bicycles as well, he said. He went on to say that unfortunately Tehran Municipality has not taken the issue seriously yet and despite the fact that 1.4b older persons by 2030: Ban there are some bike lanes in some of the districts they are not practical. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his being appreciated for the many positive contributions However, Darvish said, the municipality have recently an- message on International Day of Older Persons, 1 Octo- they make to our human family. nounced that they would finish contracting some bike lanes ber 2016, said the global population of older persons is I also call for greater legal guarantees of equality in district 12 and would close the path to the motorcycles by expected to rise from just over 900 million in 2015 to 1.4 for older persons to prevent ageism from resulting in October 21. billion by 2030 and 2.1 billion by 2050, when there will discriminatory policies, laws and treatment. I urge poli- Bike lanes must be practical is a way that they enable the be roughly the same the number of older persons and cy makers to compile better data and statistics on older users to take them for long distances and ride safely along children under 15. persons’ health, economic status and general wellbeing them, he suggested. The full text of his message reads: in order to better address their concerns. And I hope we The International Day of Older Persons is our chance will all reflect on our prejudicial attitudes and consider to take a stand against the destructive problem of ageism. how, as individuals, we can counter ageism. While older persons are often said to enjoy particular We have a clear roadmap to transformation: the respect, the reality is that too many societies limit them, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This vi- LEARN ENGLISH denying access to jobs, loans and basic services. The sionary plan and its Sustainable Development Goals marginalization and devaluing of older persons takes a (SDGs) emphasize inclusion and equality, promising to Running a Family-Owned heavy toll. It undermines their productivity and experi- leave no one behind. Older persons are both agents ence in the workforce, in volunteerism and through civil and beneficiaries of change. By advancing progress on Business engagement while constraining their capacity for car- older persons is expected to rise from just over 900 mil- the SDGs, we can mobilize the considerable talents, egiving as well as financial and other support to fami- lion in 2015 to 1.4 billion by 2030 and 2.1 billion by 2050, energy and experience of all older persons in carrying When I took over the family business three years ago, I lies and communities. Ageism frequently intersects with when there will be roughly the same the number of older out this Agenda. didn’t know what I was letting myself in for. My uncle, other forms of discrimination based on gender, race, persons and children under 15. Let us mark the International Day of Older Persons who ran the business before me, established a clear chain disability and other grounds, compounding and inten- I condemn ageism in all its forms and call for meas- by forcefully rejecting all forms of ageism and working of command, which I thought would eliminate infight- sifying its effects. ures to address this violation of human rights as we to enable older persons to realize their potential as we ing and bickering. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Ending ageism and securing the human rights of strive to improve societies for people of all ages. This honor our pledge to build a life of dignity and human Despite clear lines of authority, family members tend to older persons is an ethical and practical imperative. The demands changing the way older persons are por- rights for all. take sides and play the blame game whenever anything stakes are high and growing. The global population of trayed and perceived, from being seen as a burden to (Source: UNIC) goes wrong. In the end, they always look to me to resolve conflict enter the fray , and I have no choice but to . IN FOCUS Tehran Times/ Masoud Saki Another big problem is the hangers-on. Those are the family members who aren’t suited for this line of work, but who need jobs. What do I do with them? What do you do when everything falls on your shoul- ders? Well, I’ve developed a thick skin, and when some- one inevitably reminds me that blood is thicker than water, I remind them that business is business. (Source: eslpod.com) Words & phrases take over: to take control of something let yourself in for: to do something that will cause you a lot of trouble clear: impossible to doubt, question, or make a mistake about chain of command: a system in an organization by which decisions are made and passed from people at the top of the organization to people lower down eliminate: to completely get rid of something that is un- necessary or unwanted infighting: when members of the same group or organiza- tion argue, or compete with each other in an unfriendly way bicker: to argue, especially about something very unim- On the occasion of the International Children’s Day Tehrani children gathered in Maryam Park on Friday and draw paintings with the central theme of peace. portant line of authority: the line of authority within a business establishes who is in charge of giving who orders, and it contributes to the efficient attainment of the company›s ENGLISH IN USE objectives when property is used take sides: to choose to support one person or group in LLEARNEARN NEWSNEWS TRANSLATIONTRANSLATION an argument, and oppose the other one ﺗﺸﻜﻴﻞ ﻳﮕﺎﻥ ﻫﻮﺍﻳﻰ ﺁﺗﺶﻧﺸﺎﻧﻰ ﺩﺭ ﺗﻬﺮﺍﻥ play the blame game: a situation in which people try to Air units to support firefighters in Tehran blame each other for something bad that has happened ﻣﺪﻳﺮﻋﺎﻣــﻞ ﺳــﺎﺯﻣﺎﻥ ﺁﺗﺶﻧﺸــﺎﻧﻰ ﺷــﻬﺮ ﺗﻬــﺮﺍﻥ ﺍﺯ ﺍﻳﺠــﺎﺩ ﻳــﮕﺎﻥ ﻫﻮﺍﻳــﻰ ﺑــﺮﺍﻯ ﻛﻤــﻚ ﺑــﻪ ﺁﺗــﺶ resolve conflict: to find a satisfactory way of dealing with Air units will be launched in Tehran to support firefighters at operational ﻧﺸــﺎﻧﺎﻥ ﺩﺭ ﻋﻤﻠﻴــﺎﺕ ﻫــﺎ ﺧﺒــﺮ ﺩﺍﺩ. .a problem or difficulty incidents, Tehran’s Fire Department director general has said enter the fray: ﺳــﻌﻴﺪ ﺷــﺮﻳﻒﺯﺍﺩﻩ ﺩﺭ ﮔﻔﺖﻭﮔــﻮ ﺑــﺎ ﺧﺒﺮﮔــﺰﺍﺭﻯ ﻓــﺎﺭﺱ ﮔﻔــﺖ: ﺍﻳــﺪﻩ ﻯ ﺍﻳــﻦ ﻃــﺮﺡ ﻣﻬــﺮ ﻣــﺎﻩ to take part or join an argument or fight The idea of the air unit was proposed last September by Tehran’s Mayor hangers-on: someone who spends a lot of time with a ﺳــﺎﻝ ﮔﺬﺷــﺘﻪ ﺗﻮﺳــﻂ ﻣﺤﻤــﺪ ﺑﺎﻗــﺮ ﻗﺎﻟﻴﺒــﺎﻑ ﺷــﻬﺮﺩﺍﺭ ﺗﻬــﺮﺍﻥ ﻣﻄــﺮﺡ ﺷــﺪ. .Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Sa’eed Sharifzadeh told Fars news agency rich or important person, because they hope to get some “We have discussed different aspects of this scheme and we are now ﺷـ ـﺮﻳﻒﺯﺍﺩﻩ ﺍﺩﺍﻣــﻪ ﺩﺍﺩ: ﺩﺭ ﻃــﻰ ﻳــﻚ ﺳــﺎﻝ ﺟﻨﺒــﻪ ﻫــﺎﻯ ﻣﺨﺘﻠــﻒ ﺍﻳﺠــﺎﺩ ﺍﻳــﻦ ﻳــﮕﺎﻥ ﻫﻮﺍﻳــﻰ ﻣــﻮﺭﺩ advantage for themselves attempting to finance this project,” Sharifzadeh said, adding “We need ﺑﺮﺭﺳــﻰ ﻗــﺮﺍﺭ ﮔﺮﻓــﺖ ﻭ ﺩﺭ ﺣــﺎﻝ ﺣﺎﺿــﺮ ﻣﻨﺘﻈــﺮ ﺗﺎﻣﻴــﻦ ﺍﻋﺘﺒــﺎﺭ ﻻﺯﻡ ﺑــﺮﺍﻯ ﺧﺮﻳــﺪ 4 ﻓﺮﻭﻧــﺪ ﺑﺎﻟﮕــﺮﺩ suit: to have the right qualities to do something fall on your shoulder: some 2 trillion rials (nearly $57m) to buy four helicopters with equipment ﻫﺴــﺘﻴﻢ ﻛــﻪ ﺣــﺪﻭﺩ 200 ﻣﻴﻠﻴــﺎﺭﺩ ﺗﻮﻣــﺎﻥ ﺑــﺎ ﺗﺠﻬﻴــﺰﺍﺕ ﻭ ﻧﮕﻬــﺪﺍﺭﻯ ﺍﻋﺘﺒــﺎﺭ ﻧﻴــﺎﺯ ﺩﺍﺭﺩ. -to become as a personal respon sibility for someone and maintenance expenses as well.” ﻭﻯ ﺧﺎﻃــﺮ ﻧﺸــﺎﻥ ﻛــﺮﺩ: 2 ﻓــﺮﻭﺩﮔﺎﻩ ﺩﺭ ﺑﻮﺳــﺘﺎﻥ ﻭﻻﻳــﺖ ﻭ ﺑــﺮﺝ ﻣﻴــﻼﺩ ﺑــﺮﺍﻯ ﻳــﮕﺎﻥ ﻫﻮﺍﻳــﻰ thick skin: not easily offended by other people›s criticism The Velayat Park, southern Tehran, and the Milad Tower, northern Tehran, are ﺳــﺎﺯﻣﺎﻥ ﺁﺗﺶﻧﺸــﺎﻧﻰ ﺷــﻬﺮ ﺗﻬــﺮﺍﻥ ﺩﺭ ﻧﻈــﺮ ﮔﺮﻓﺘــﻪ ﺷــﺪﻩ ﺍﺳــﺖ. .or insults considered as the airports for the helicopters to land and takeoff, he noted inevitably: used for saying that something is certain to happen and cannot be avoided blood is thicker than water: used to say that family rela- tionships are more important than any other kind ENGLISH PROVERB PHRASAL VERB ENGLISH IDIOM business is business: used to say that profit is the most important thing to consider No man can serve two masters Beat yourself up Be up in arms

Explanation: you cannot work for two different Meaning: to blame yourself too much for Explanation: if you are up in arms, you are very Without people, organizations, or purposes in good faith, be- something angry about something and protest very strongly cause you will end up favoring one over the other For example: If you do your best and you lose, For example: The population was up in arms over earth no For example: Al tried going to school and work- you can’t beat yourself up about it. the demolition of the old theatre. ing, both full-time, but soon discovered that he could birth! not serve two masters. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y http://www.tehrantimes.com/international OCTOBER 2, 2016 WORLD IN FOCUS 13 Iraqi forces seize ISIL central telecom Peres: A war criminal network in Sharqat or a peace dove Iraqi pro-government Hashd al-Shaabi, on September 22, and raised the nation- 1 Hundreds of Palestinians in the impoverished and Israe- also known as the Popular Mobilization al Iraqi flag over government buildings li-blockaded Gaza Strip also staged a demonstration against Units, has managed to discover and there, after the city fell to Daesh in 2014. the Israeli regime to protest the participation of Abbas in the neutralize the central telecommunica- Iraqi forces are preparing for a major funeral procession. tion network of the ISIL (Daesh) terrorist offensive to liberate Mosul, Daesh’s last Palestinians say Peres has their blood on his hands. Peres group in the central-northern province of major bastion on Iraqi soil. Prime Minis- allowed Israeli construction settlements to take place in the Salahuddin. ter Haider al-Abadi has, time and again, Palestinian lands during his long years of leadership. According to a report published on pledged that the country’s forces will win Iraq’s al-Masalah news website, the in- back the city by the end of the year. telligence unit of the forces found the Gruesome violence has plagued the network, including a collection of devices northern and western parts of Iraq ever designed for long-distance communica- since Daesh terrorists mounted an offen- tion, huge wireless sets and their batter- sive there more than two years ago, and ies, in the recently-liberated city of Shar- took control of portions of Iraqi territory. qat, some 80 kilometers south of the city The militants have been committing of Mosul. heinous crimes against all ethnic and reli- The report added that the heavily gious communities in Iraq, including Shi- camouflaged systems were used by ter- as, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians. rorists to make contact with other mem- Iraqi army soldiers and fighters from bers of the terror group in Mosul, Daesh’s allied Popular Mobilization Units are de facto capital in Iraq, and Hawijah in seeking to win back militant-held regions Kirkuk province, among other places. in joint operations. Iraqi forces took full control of Sharqat (Source: Press TV) Born in Poland in 1923, Peres emigrated to what was then British-mandated Palestine when he was 11. Peres never lost his Polish accent when speaking in Hebrew. 100-day countdown ticks in Venezuela political crisis He joined the Zionist movement and met David Ben-Gu- The next 100 days in Venezuela could mark a turning percent national level, MUD has called a mass street rion, the so-called “primary founder of Israel” and first Israeli point in the South American country’s seething political throughout the country for October 12. premier who became his mentor. crisis, deciding whether the socialist president and his “The pressure of the street could yield some changes He was chosen as a protégé by Ben Gurion. Israel party stay in power. in the CNE,” said Jacome. claimed existence in 1948 after carrying out a wholesale On January 10, 2017, President Nicolas Maduro will “What is certain is that they will make the required war against Arab states and capturing massive swathes of have completed four years of his six-year term at the numbers -- the problem is that in this method the sig- the Arab lands. helm of the major oil exporter, whose economy is reel- natures easily can be invalidated,” Alarcon said. A year earlier, Peres had joined the Haganah, the pre- ing from sharply lower global crude prices. “And the opposition would be left with no other op- decessor of the Israeli military. He had been tasked by Saturday begins the 100-day countdown for Madu- tion than to escalate the conflict.” Ben-Gurion, with recruitment of personnel and arms pur- ro’s opposition to mount a recall referendum. Signatures miss? - chases. If the recall vote occurs before January 10 and Ma- If there is no referendum, the opposition would have He began his political career in the late 1940s, holding duro is ousted, early elections will be held. to wait for elections in late 2018 and Maduro would several diplomatic and military positions during and directly But the National Electoral Council (CNE) has an- finish his term in January 2019. after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. nounced that, according to the rules, the referendum Analysts warn that the CNE’s conditions could make He was also seen as a driving force in the development of could only be held in the middle of the first quarter percent disapprove of the job Maduro is doing. a recall difficult: 20 percent threshold in each state; only the Israeli regime’s undeclared nuclear program with assis- of 2017. If voters overwhelmingly want a recall vote, “it will 5,392 of the machines used in the process -- less than tance from France. If Maduro loses the recall vote post-January 10, he be difficult if the authorities don’t hold a referendum,” one-third the number MUD was asking for; and time, Israel keeps an estimated stockpile of some 200-400 nu- would be replaced by his hand-picked vice president, economist Luis Vicente Leon, head of the research firm restricted to seven hours a day. clear warheads. defeating the opposition’s hope to change government. Datanalisis, told AFP. Eugenio Martinez, an elections expert, pointed out Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with The center-right opposition coalition Democratic “But they will do it in 2017 and it remains to be seen that the referendum’s postponement to 2017 could dis- Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that he Unity Roundtable (MUD) has set a petition drive on Oc- what the opposition response will be. It would raise ten- courage some voters from signing because they “know participated in as Israeli foreign minister, producing the Oslo tober 26-28 aimed at collecting four million signatures, sions,” he added. they would be left with the same government” even if Accords. or 20 percent of voters, supporting a recall vote. The authorities for now have supported Maduro, Maduro is recalled. He is sometimes referred to a peacemaker. However to The coalition insists that the referendum should be because he is at risk of losing “Chavismo,” the move- But all will depend on how the economic crisis many others he is branded a full version criminal. One should held in 2016. ment named for Maduro’s late predecessor and mentor, evolves. A significant deterioration in the economy, think how is it that a peace process have taken so long, al- Nevertheless the CNE, which the opposition says is the socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez. already beset with inflation and food shortages, could most a quarter of a century. beholden to Maduro’s government, says there is not “The demons will be let loose beginning January 11 stoke further fury among the public and raise the pres- The outcome of the so-called peace process is very enough time left to review the petition signatures and when the fighting over the presidential succession be- sure for Maduro to be pushed out, according to Mar- obvious. Blood of innocent Palestinian women, and chil- organize the vote this year. gins,” said Benigno Alarcon, a political science professor tinez and Jacome. dren and men is shed in cold blood, the occupation has With the prospect of holding a referendum in 2016 at Andres Bello Catholic University. There is also the possibility that a failure in the peti- grown, the siege on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza still dim, analysts have projected at least three scenarios in - Victory in doubt - tion drive “deflates pressure” and generates “frustration holds, and the illegal settlements are mushrooming day the unfolding crisis. The opposition is hoping to collect signatures on a and divisiveness in the opposition,” warned Leon. by day. Well that is not peace, not at all. Gaze Strip is Recall in 2017 - national basis, in case it fails to meet the 20 percent Alarcon pointed out the “lack of a single leader” in an open prison. The MUD wants the petition drive’s required 20 per- minimum in at least one of Venezuela’s 24 states. the MUD coalition. cent minimum of support for success to be calculated “We are going to see national and international Although the government is counting on raising its on a nationwide basis. But the CNE has said the 20 per- pressure,” Jacome said, adding that “the voter partic- popularity by reducing the severe level of food short- Plans to repatriate 3 cent threshold will be determined state-by-state. ipation could be so massive that it forces the CNE to ages by 2019, analysts see more conflict if there is no The opposition is “very likely” to muster the required acknowledge the national basis.” recall vote. million Afghan refugees are signatures because of the “vision of change” in the Leon agreed that tension will rise, because the op- Jacome warned that in all these scenarios the na- dangerous and misguided country, said Francine Jacome, head of the Venezuelan position is trying to force the CNE to accept the ref- tion’s Supreme Court -- which the opposition calls Institute for Social and Political Studies. erendum and “there will be people there trying to de- the government’s “law firm” -- could simply annul the According to pollster Venebarometro, seven in 10 fend their turf.” process. 6 More followed during the civil wars between the extrem- Venezuelans want a change in government and 76.4 To pressure the electoral body to recognize a 20 (Source: AFP) ist factions who defeated the Soviets. Then more fled the Talib- an. And while the western invasion in 2001 may have ousted the Taliban from power, the conflict – and the migration – continues to this day. The U.S. and UK armies gave Afghans little reason to Bulgaria’s Georgieva unsettles race to be UN chief stay, and neither has the new Kabul government. The newest candidate to be UN secre- “What I bring to the position is a over Ukraine, could disqualify her in tary-general, Kristalina Georgieva, says breadth of experience in internation- Moscow’s eyes. she may be a “latecomer” to the race, al development, humanitarian aid and A fluent Russian speaker, Georgieva but still has strong credentials to be- dealing with fragility,” she said. has however developed good relations come the first woman to lead the Unit- Representing half of the world - during her time as country director in ed Nations. Georgieva is considered a strong con- Moscow for the World Bank, from 2004 The 63-year-old Bulgarian economist tender because she would satisfy calls for to 2007. who served as European budget com- a woman to lead the United Nations and Syria, UN reforms - missioner has shaken up the contest to for a candidate from eastern Europe to With the United Nations facing crit- succeed Ban Ki-moon, who steps down be chosen, the only region that has yet to icism of being ineffective and overly at the end of the year after serving two be represented in the top post. bureaucratic, Georgieva spoke of her five-year terms. “It is important for the world that there “unwavering, roll-my-sleeves and get- On Monday, she goes before the be a woman secretary-general,” she said, it-done attitude” and of holding a “long General Assembly for a two-hour ques- adding that in the UN’s 71-year history track record on reforms.” Many Afghans living in major cities would rather take a tion-and-answer session, hoping to “only half of the world” has been repre- On Syria, now in its sixth year of a risky route to reach Europe than live with the economic un- persuade world diplomats that she is as sented in the eight men that have held worsening war, Georgieva pointed to certainty and the security threats. And if you live in a rural ready as some of the other candidates the top job. a lack of “determined political will” to area – like nearly 70% of the Afghan population – you might who have been in the race for months. After five straw polls by the Security achieve a settlement to a very complex prefer to leave than be recruited into the ranks of the Taliban, “I hope to be judged on merits, not Council to pick the new UN chief, Portu- conflict, with multiple actors. al-Qaida, or Islamic State. on the duration on the campaign trail,” gal’s former prime minister Antonio Gu- “We have to recognize that even with Meanwhile, many believe the 2014 presidential election Georgieva told AFP in an interview on terres has emerged as the frontrunner. the best of wills, peace requires more was rigged and that the government is incapable of respond- Friday. On Wednesday, the contest will head than agreements in New York,” she said. ing to their basic needs. The rivalry between the president, “I’m a latecomer not by choice, but into new territory when the five perma- “It requires locally an ability to over- Ashraf Ghani, and his chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah, has by necessity. The Bulgarian government nent Security Council members - Britain, come deep ethnic divisions, to overcome made things harder – the two have been squabbling since has invited me to join the race now,” said France, China, Russia and the United a myriad of conflicting interests within beginning a power-sharing exercise in November 2014. All Georgieva, who had been tipped to be a States - will use colored ballots in the Syria and in the countries that surround the while, political polarization is on the rise due to ethnocen- candidate for months. straw poll. it.” tric agendas within the Afghan government. The Bulgarian government this week That will indicate to the 10 candidates Born in Sofia, Georgieva began her The west’s response has been to throw aid money at the withdrew its support for UNESCO chief in the race whether they face a veto if career as a university professor before bilize Europeans to respond to world hu- government. The UK remains one of the largest aid donors, Irina Bokova after she failed to make a the council moves to a formal vote, which joining the World Bank where she worked manitarian crises, traveling to flood-hit giving £178m per year. But this is wasted money. .It so far has strong showing during informal vot- could happen in the coming weeks. for 17 years, climbing the ranks to be- Pakistan, the Sahel and raising her voice no proper strategy for re-assimilating such a large number of ing for the new UN chief at the Security While Georgieva has the backing of come vice president and corporate sec- for aid in Syria and Yemen. refugees, nor the funding to make it possible. This makes it Council. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and retary in 2008. A self-described workaholic, she very hard for any repatriation plan to be successful. Despite the late entry, the former other European governments, the ques- It was as European Commissioner for moved on in 2014 to the post of Euro- There is little hope that the government in Kabul can care World Bank vice-president said she was tion is whether Russia will support her. humanitarian aid -- a position she held pean budget commissioner, overseeing for the existing residents of Afghanistan – let alone another not “an unknown quantity” in interna- Russia has said it would prefer a from 2010 to 2014 -- that Georgieva’s the European Union’s annual budget of 3 million with no shelter and food. The plan to return 80,000 tional circles and at the United Nations, candidate from eastern Europe, but star rose in European circles. $155 billion and also serves as the com- Afghans from Europe – as well as millions from Pakistan – is where last year she led a high-profile Georgieva’s ties to the European Union, Described as media-savvy and mission’s vice-president. dangerous and misguided. panel on humanitarian financing. which has slapped sanctions on Russia well-spoken, Georgieva was able to mo- (Source: AFP) (Source: The Guardian) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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The Week in Quotes Harry Redknapp filmed saying his

“I think he’ll go down as one of the all-time great managers of the club, possibly the greatest. I know Herbert Chapman and the history of Arsenal, is an iconic figure but Wenger, in his 20 players once bet on their own game years, particularly in his first ten, was magnificent. We were the only team to challenge Manchester United, who were re- Harry Redknapp has told undercover re- ally on top of their game and had probably the finances to porters of a game during his career as a outstrip any of the competition. So when Wenger came in, manager when players gambled on the his buys in the transfer market, the like of [Marc] Overmars, result, according to the Daily Telegraph. [Emmanuel] Petit, [Robert] Pires, [Patrick] Vieira in particular, Redknapp is the latest manager to be made sure we competed with them.” filmed in the newspaper’s series of inves- tigative reports on corruption in football, the first of which led to the sacking of England manager Sam Allardyce earlier this week. Football Association rules prohib- it players from gambling on games in which they play, while managers must report any knowledge of betting to the governing body. Redknapp said he only learned of his players’ gambling after the game, which his side won. The Telegraph reported that he did not report any misconduct to the FA, while the FA has now said it will investigate all the allegations made once it has received the newspaper’s full Ahead of Arsene Wenger’s landmark of 20 years with Arsenal evidence file. this weekend, former Arsenal and Republic of Ireland midfielder Redknapp is shown saying in a video Liam Brady tells Omnisport that Wenger will go down as one of that the opposition “murdered us early the club’s greatest ever managers on,” and adding: “At half-time I took [a “I think he has been fantastic, we owe him so much gratitude. player] off and put, erm, [another player I think he introduced better play which we all took inspiration on] and they’re all looking at me, all the off. The competition he had with Sir Alex Ferguson made Man- lads, ‘cause I didn’t know they’d had a bet, chester United much better, that’s for sure. I think all in all he ‘cause they was [sic] all choked, they’d all has made the Premier League so much better and I am not one had a spread bet and everything.’’ of those guys who want him gone. I want to see him carry on Football agent Dax Price, who was because he has so much to offer English football.” also present in the Telegraph’s film, said Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel speaks players from both teams were betting against the rules, Redknapp reportedly ... I’m not in control of whether they go and 1980s before moving to West Ham for with Omnisport about Arsene Wenger’s qualities as the Arsenal on the result, with one player having as replied: “Oh would it? Oh, okay. But not at have a bet or not.” much of the ‘90s. He then had two stints manager celebrates 20 years with the club this weekend much as “20 grand” on the line. that time I don’t think it was, was it? They Price is quoted during the filmed con- at Portsmouth, one season at Southamp- “‘What’s this rubbish about you playing football? You can’t.’ It Redknapp said the gambling was par- weren’t betting on the other team, they versation as saying a player, who is not ton, four at Tottenham and three at QPR, was partly down to stubbornness, to wanting to show him that ticularly high on this game because his club, were having a bet on their own team.” identified, had been in touch about the before stepping down in 2015. I could play. At the beginning, I didn’t like football.” with nothing to play for, had been expected Asked about his remarks about the match in question and urged him to bet Allardyce’s sacking came after he was Mexico winger Jacqueline Ovalle on how a rivalry with her to field a weakened squad, but the players players gambling on the game, the Tele- on a victory for Redknapp’s side. filmed telling reporters how to get around brother got her involved in football, in an interview with FIFA. knew he planned to play a strong team. graph claims he told the newspaper: “Un- Price reportedly said the player from FA and FIFA rules on third-party ownership com ahead of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Jordan 2016 The Telegraph, citing legal reasons, did beknownst to me. No, not a spread bet. It Redknapp’s club “phoned me and said of players, and Allaryce said he couldn’t “I grew up as a kid coming to this stadium, all my memories not reveal which game, teams, or players wasn’t a spread bet. I think they had a bet remortgage your house ‘cause the odds understand any objection to the practice, are around here. It’s a special year for us and all the fans, a mag- were involved in the gambling. on the game, but it wasn’t, that was nothing were mental, they were 5/2 at the time.’’ which has been forbidden in England since ical one. It would be a great year to do something special, to When contacted later by the newspa- to do with me ... after the game I’d heard Redknapp, 69, had a long manageri- 2008 and worldwide since 2015. remember this as one of the best seasons in our history.” per, and told that betting by players was the rumour the lads had had a bet that day al career, starting at Bournemouth in the (Source: ESPN) Atletico Madrid forward Fernando Torres hopes the club can have a successful final season at the Vicente Calderon, in an in- terview with Fox Sports Andy Murray to play in China Open Djokovic reflects on career “There are new anecdotes, almost every day — lots of sto- ries I did not know. People always say how sorry they are, what after overcoming thigh strain pressure he meant to them. I have been to various countries these last few months, and you see men who are 65, 70, and they are emotional. They had moments when my father touched them, in whatever way, and they want to talk about it.” Jordi Cruyff speaks with The New York Times about his father, the late Johan Cruyff “My answer to the England job would be a big fat no. I think the next England manager should be an Englishman. It shouldn’t be anyone from overseas; I don’t care what his record is. Un- less you’re from that country you can never ever know what it means to represent that country. You’d never see Germany, Italy or Spain looking outside. Why should England look further afield? Gareth [Southgate], Brucey [Steve Bruce], that’s where they should be looking. Certainly not a Welshman. Certainly not this Welshman.” Speaking at a news conference, Wales manager Chris Coleman rules himself out of the England manager’s job “I’ve been playing FIFA a good ten years easily. I get it every year. I won’t queue for it at midnight, but I definitely get it every Andy Murray will continue his bid to Djokovic came into the US Open with Novak Djokovic says Grand Slam tro- early at Wimbledon and the Olympics, year. I play online against my friends. The lads here play online overtake Novak Djokovic at the top of lingering fitness concerns, but made it to phies and the No. 1 ranking are no and was undone in the U.S. Open fi- too. There hasn’t been much competition before at the club, but the world rankings after deciding to take the final where he lost to Stan Wawrinka. longer his priorities. nal. He has reportedly had physical there will be this year with the new game coming out. It’s cool. I part in the China Open. The 29-year-old’s withdrawal has allowed The top-ranked Serb, who has won and personal issues which reflected was coaching summer camps here, and the kids were asking me Murray has targeted Djokovic’s No 1 Murray the opportunity to take top spot and 12 major titles, said after a light train- on his recent results. if I was going to be in FIFA and things like that. It’s pretty cool to spot following a superb summer, but after with plenty of points to play for before the ing session in Belgrade on Friday that Djokovic said he will “sit and talk” say ‹yeah, I’m in FIFA’. It’s cool that people can go and check you suffering a thigh strain in Great Britain’s end of the season - all of which Djokovic is he felt emotionally drained after win- with his coach Boris Becker about out in FIFA and play as you.” Davis Cup defeat to Argentina a fortnight defending owing to his superb 2015 form ning the French Open in June for his their future cooperation. The Ger- Wexford Youths midfielder Shane Dunne talks with Goal ago, he said he was in need of a rest and - an ascent to the summit is not out of the first Grand Slam on clay. man has helped Djokovic win seven about the club’s first appearance in FIFA 17 would take a look at his schedule. question before the end of 2016. The 29-year-old Djokovic became Grand Slam titles. “It was like something fell from the sky. It’s a moment that I The Scotsman has decided to play in Murray will be the top seed in Beijing only the third man to win all four ma- “I’m happy with the cooperation . can’t really describe. In that instance, I was a little bit anxious, Beijing, however, and can close the gap and will face Italian Andreas Seppi, ranked jor tournaments in a row, something . . he helped me a lot,” Djokovic said. worried I might not take the opportunity, but all I was thinking on Djokovic by 1,000 points if he wins 94 in the world, in the first round, with Mur- last done almost 50 years ago. He withdrew from the China Open about was connecting with the shot. I knew it could change the the tournament. Djokovic pulled out ray having won their last seven meetings. “I psychologically felt huge pres- next week because of an elbow inju- destiny of our team.” earlier in the week, continuing a frustrat- Meanwhile, Kyle Edmund is through sure, and now I’m no longer think- ry. He said he expects to play at the Iran’s Ahmad Esmaeilpour recalls his dramatic strike against Par- ing few months for the Serbian. to the second round of qualifying after ing about the number of titles. If they Shanghai Masters from Oct. 10. aguay with FIFA.com at the FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016 He suffered a surprise early exit at he beat Spaniard Pablo Andujar Alba come, super, I will accept them,” Djok- Djokovic said the “micro injury” “He reminds me of his uncle, Jay-Jay Okocha. He was a player Wimbledon, later attributed to personal 6-3 6-2 and will make the main draw if ovic said. hampered his serve during the U.S. I loved watching. Alex reminds me of a mixture of him and Edgar issues, while also suffering a first round he can see off the challenge of Evgeny “After all, tennis is not the only thing Open, where he was stopped in the Davids. He’s really strong on the ball, also defensively, but he’s exit at the Olympics before withdrawing Donskoy on Sunday. in the world.” final by Stan Wawrinka. good in front of goal too. He’s developing really well and if he from the Cincinnati Open in August. (Source: SkySports) He had a poor midseason, losing (Source: AP) continues the way he’s been playing for the whole season, he will enhance his game. The manager knows exactly how good he is and I wish him all the best.” Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil says team-mate Alex Iwobi Ivan Gazidis targets trophies after Arsenal post £191m in cash reserves plays like a mixture of Jay-Jay Okocha and Edgar Davids in the Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis be- As a result, though, wage costs contin- operations to ensure we have the right as- club’s matchday programme lieves the club’s latest set of robust finan- ue to rise, at £195.4m, while income from sets and skills to progress. “Football isn’t only for men. Women have shown that they cial results, which include cash reserves player sales is down as the club remain de- “I am confident this progress, coupled can play it. No woman should hesitate to play this game – it of some £191 million, show they are on termine to keep key men on board. with strong underlying values, will bring the won’t detract from them in any way. Families should support course to deliver more major trophies to With the only debt related to long-term success we all seek. their daughters who watch this World Cup and become inspired the Emirates Stadium. fix-rate payments against the financing of “Our ultimate ambition is clear: to win to follow this path and play.” Although the Premier League club’s lat- the move to the new 60,000 stadium from major trophies and make Arsenal fans at Lebanese singer Carole Samaha talks with FIFA.com about est figures from Arsenal Holdings plc show Highbury in 2006, Arsenal’s “cash balances” home and around the world proud of this the significance the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup can have in a drop in overall group profit before tax show at £191.1m, which is slightly down great club. Proud of our values, proud of empowering women to play football in Jordan from £18.2m to £2.9m, there has been a from £193.1m in 2015. the way we act and proud of our team.” “This is tiring. I will be talking with my family and with the significant increase in turnover from foot- Gazidis said in his chief executive re- Arsenal head into the next round of people I need to talk to. Yes, I would consider retirement, but I ball, up to £350.6m from £329.3m over the port accompanying the results: “We are in Premier League fixtures away at Burnley would like to play for the rest of my life with this club. Coming same period in 2015. a strong position to continue moving for- on Sunday in third place, five points behind into the Bombonera on Sundays is what makes me happy.” Significant additional broadcasting rev- ward at every level of the club. leaders Manchester City, and on the back Boca Juniors forward Carlos Tevez admits he is considering enues have been supported by improve- Wenger to again further strengthen a “On the pitch we have an outstanding of an eight-match unbeaten run, which in- retirement, in an interview with Ole ments in the Gunners’ commercial activity, squad which finished runners-up to Leices- squad. Off the pitch we have developed cludes four straight wins. (Source: FIFA) all of which has allowed manager Arsene ter in the last Premier League campaign. our infrastructure across all aspects of our (Source: Soccernet) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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Top official: Women chess players AFC U-16 Championship Final: IR Iran preview made up story about Iran Coach Abbas Chamanian has urged Islamic Republic of Iran to achieve what they set out to do and win the AFC U-16 Champi- onship India 2016 title ahead of Sunday’s final with Iraq at Pandit SPORTS World’s top chess official Susan Pol- Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. desk gar says that the women players need Iran sealed their place in a first final since winning the to respect ‘cultural differences’ after many of the high- competition in 2008 after a 6-5 penalty shootout victory over est-ranking female players have called for a boycott of the defending champions DPR Korea in Thursday’s semi-final fol- next year’s world championships in Iran. lowed a 1-1 draw. They are going to boycott the competition after being Chamanian’s side must now overcome neighbours Iraq, who told that they’d need to compete wearing hijabs. ran out impressive 4-2 victors over Japan in Thursday’s other Grandmasters have accused FIDE of disregarding last-four fixture, if they are to claim a second continental crown. sexual discrimination by selecting a place that would “Iraq are a very strong team that attacks very well. They have require the competitors to wear hijabs. Meanwhile, quality and dangerous players who are physical with good tech- FIDE’s Commission for Women’s Chess has urged par- nique,” said Chamanian, whose side also secured their place in ticipants to accept the hijab regulations in respect of the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup by seeing off Vietnam 5-0 in the “cultural differences.” quarter-finals. “We have analysed Iraq and we know it will be a American Grandmaster Susan Polgar, chairman of very difficult match. If we want to achieve success the players will Fide’s Commission for Women’s Chess, has said the play- need to be at their best. ers need to respect ‘cultural differences’. “But from the start of the tournament our top priority was “If any player has a problem with it, she can and to get to the final and win the competition. We’ve prepared the should voice her opinion to the Commission for Wom- players only to think about winning the trophy.” en’s Chess or FIDE and we can address it in our next Mohammad Sharifi’s first-half goal saw Iran go into the inter- meeting,” she added. val a goal to the good against DPR Korea only for Kim Pom-hyok “I kept hearing in recent years about media bias and to equalise late on and take the semi-final to penalties. dishonesty. I never really paid attention to it until today. With the shootout at 5-5 goalkeeper Ali Gholam Zadeh All these articles from major media sources either got the stepped up to score before returning to his line to save from facts wrong or simply completely made up,” Polgar said. Kim Kyong-sok as the Iranians progressed to their third final Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh president of Iranian chess at the AFC youth event. federation says that the female players are going to “From the start of the competition we have been very suc- create negative atmosphere since the 2016 Women’s cessful,” added Chamanian. “Every game has been a new expe- Grand Prix took place in Tehran. rience and every game has been successful. “I think there is no problem and a total of the 12 “Against DPR Korea we controlled their players and that players took part at the Chess Grand Prix held in Teh- is what we must do against Iraq in order to win. We have a ran. It will be the biggest sporting event women in game plan to control the match.” Iran have ever seen. It’s not right to call for a boycott,” But unable to call on injured captain Aref Alipour since Pahlevanzadeh said. Matchday Two, Chamanian now has fresh concerns over influ- ential midfielder Mohammad Ghaderi and defender Saeid Ahani Iran futsal captain Keshavarz Iran’s Sarkhosh wins gold at Asian ahead of a first meeting with Iraq at the competition since a scoreless draw in the 2006 group stage. hangs up boots Billiards Sports C’ship “It was a very hard game against DPR Korea,” said Chamanian. “We have had a good recovery but tomorrow there is a chance Alipour, Ghaderi and Ahani will miss the game through injury.” (Source: AFC)

Celina: I want to captain Kosovo at a World Cup

Friday 13 May 2016 is a date Bersant Celina will never forget. Not long after the exciting midfield prospect penned a contract extension until 2020 at English Premier League giants Manches- ter City, Celina’s native Kosovo were admitted as a FIFA member association, enabling the country to compete for a place at ma- jor tournaments for the first time. “It was an incredibly proud time for me,” Celina told FIFA.com, reflecting on that day. “Being able to play in FIFA competitions Iranian futsal captain Mohammad He will be out for four weeks after Amir Sarkhosh from Iran claimed a gold ter suffering defeat against Pakistan at was a massive thing for both me and the country and I was very Keshavarz announced his retire- suffering a knee injury against Russia medal at the Snooker Single 15-Red event of the 1st Asian Confederation for Billiards happy that we are now able to take part in major tournaments. ment from the national duty aiming in the competition’s semis. ACBS 1st Asian Billiards Sports Championship. Sports Championship team event. Signing a contract is reward for performing well and I think my to give more chances to younger Keshavarz said he has made the Sarkhosh defeated Omar Alajlani of The Iranian team consists of Amir Sark- family are really proud of me. I am proud as well.” players. decision before the competition. Saudi Arabia 5-3 in the final match and hosh, Soheil Vahedi and Arman Dinarvand International dreams Keshavarz has already missed The 34-year-old defender cur- won the gold medal. was defeated against the Pakistani team — Currently on loan at Dutch side FC Twente, Prizren-born Futsal World Cup third-place play- rently is a member of Giti Pasand He had already defeated Pakistan’s Muhammad Bilal, Babar Masih and former Celina moved to Norway with his family as an infant in 1998, off against Portugal scheduled for futsal club. Muhammad Asif 5-0 in the semi-final. IBSF World Champion Muhammad Asif — escaping looming war in his homeland. After settling in Dram- Saturday. (Source: Tasnim) Iran also finished in second place af- in the event. (Source: Tasnim) men, a city with a large Kosovan immigrant community, Celina developed his love of the beautiful game, signing for local heav- yweights Stromsgodset IF as a schoolboy before representing Iranian wushu practitioners finish runner-up in world championships Norway at a number of youth levels, including U-21. When the decision came to choose between Norway and Iranian wushu practitioners have won five medals, includ- Hamid Reza Sahandi, though, conceded defeat against Kosovo, the 20-year-old opted for the latter, and has since fea- ing two gold ones, at the sixth edition of World Junior his Chinese opponent and received the silver medal of tured in Kosovo’s first official match, as well as the nation’s first Wushu Championships in Bulgaria. men’s 60-kilogram weight category. FIFA World Cup™ qualifier against Finland just last month. The The Iranian team finished runner-up in the prestigious Earlier, Iran’s female wushu artist Fatemeh Vaisi managed starlet now harbours big international goals: to captain his coun- tournament. to win a bronze medal in women’s 52-kilogram category. try on the greatest stage of them all. On Friday, Iranian sportsman Yousef Sabri demonstrat- Ramin Afraz participated in men’s 65-kilogram catego- “To captain Kosovo at a World Cup is an ambition that I still ed a remarkable performance in the last contest of men’s ry of the Sanda, and won a bronze medal for Iran. hold. That is the ultimate aim,” said Celina. “I am happy for all the 70-kilogram weight category of the Sanda (sparring) dis- Sanda, sometimes called Sanshou or Lei tai, has all the players who will be able to take part and hopefully we will all be cipline at Mladost Sports Hall in the southeastern coastal combat aspects of wushu, but includes many more grap- able to play in the World Cup one day. It means a lot to us after city of Burgas, and overcame Turkish representative Yunus pling techniques. what the country has been through that we now may be able to Emre Osmanoglu to clinch the gold medal. The sixth edition of World Junior Wushu Championships compete in a major tournament. I think everyone is very happy Mohammad Mehdi Garshasbi prevailed over his Turkish started in Burgas on September 25 and will finish on Oc- about this and our supporters just want us to do well.” rival Enes Gezer in men’s 75-kilogram class of the Sanda, tober 3. The full extent of Kosovo’s FIFA admission was arguably felt and collected another gold medal for Iran. (Source: PressTV) most by players, staff and supporters on 3 June 2016 when they took on Faroe Islands in their first recognised international ahead of the country’s maiden World Cup qualifying voyage. It was the Luis Enrique praises Iniesta before 600th game first time the country’s flag was displayed and anthem played before an international, an extremely proud sight for Kosovo be- Barcelona coach Luis Enrique paid tribute to as fortunate and the fact he has played 599 League, winning both games without in- play in Germany. fore they ran out 2-0 winners in their first official game. midfield magician Andres Iniesta as the Spain games, possibly 600 tomorrow, can only jured talisman Lionel Messi. “He’s doing marvellously, he’s been al- “There was an incredible amount of excitement around that international prepares to make his 600th ap- fill us with pride,” Luis Enrique told a news “I didn’t expect anything else. To win most perfect and is performing exactly how first friendly against the Faroe Islands,” recalls Celina. “It was a good pearance for the La Liga champions. conference on Saturday ahead of the visit trophies you need a big squad and that’s I want,” the coach said. game that we won – although not the best game for me as I got Iniesta is Barca’s second highest all-time to former club Celta. what we have,” said Luis Enrique, adding “He arrived at the end of the pre-sea- sent off! We showed then that we can win games and we played appearance maker behind former midfield “He has played all those games for a that the Argentinian maestro was recover- son, which makes things more difficult for well. We all know what the country has been through, what our partner Xavi Hernandez and has been the reason, he would never have reached that ing well from his groin problem. him, but I’m delighted with him. I’m de- families have been through. We want to do well for them. It comes club captain since Xavi left in 2015. number if he had played badly. All we can The coach also backed his new striker lighted with the displays of all my players from the heart. The passion not just for football but for everyone in The 32-year-old made his Barca debut do is enjoy watching him, because of what Paco Alcacer, who he took off early in the and especially with Paco Alcacer.” our country. I’m very proud to represent Kosovo.” in 2002 when Luis Enrique was still playing he has done, what he has won and the val- second half against Moenchengladbach Luis Enrique coached Celta in the 2013- World Cup ambitions for the club. The Spain international recent- ues he has shown while winning.” when Barca were losing 1-0. 14 season and has endured difficult games Kosovo face a baptism of fire on the road to Russia 2018, ly marked 20 years since joining Barcelona’s Barca head to Celta on the back of an The Spain international is yet to score in his two visits to Balaidos stadium with having been paired with no less than four teams in their maid- youth academy and will rack up 600 games if emphatic 5-0 win at Sporting Gijon and a since signing from Valencia late in the Barca, scraping a 1-0 win in his first season en World Cup qualifying group who were at UEFA EURO 2016: selected against Celta Vigo on Sunday. second-half turnaround to beat Borussia transfer window shut and was heavily and losing 4-1 last term. Croatia, Iceland, Ukraine and Turkey. After an opening 1-1 draw “As a former team mate of his I am twice Moenchengladbach 2-1 in the Champions criticised in the Spanish press for his dis- (Source: Reuters) at Finland, they face Croatia on 6 October 2016, before a trip to Ukraine three days later. Under the guidance of manager Albert Bunjaki – “a good friend, easy to work with and tactically Naderi wins Iran’s sixth gold medal at Asian Beach Games excellent” – according to Celina, confidence remains high in the Kosovo camp despite the tough task that lies ahead. Wrestler Mohammad Naderi claimed Iran’s sixth gold med- in Vietnam. Ali Samari in shot put, Elyas Ali Akbari and Mo- the Vietnamese city of Danang and will finish on October 3. “It’s a very tough group. My aim is to qualify – it shouldn’t be an- al in the 5th Asian Beach Games on Saturday. hammadhossein Sheikholeslami in Kurash, Masoud Minaei The event has brought around 3,000 Asian beach ything else,” asserted Celina. “We should go into every single game The Iranian athlete defeated Nazir from Pakistan in the and Kaveh Soleymani in Muay Thai have already won five sports athletes competing in 14 sports, 22 disciplines and and give everything. You never know what is going to happen. In Men’s under 70kg final and claimed the gold medal. gold medals in the competition. 172 events together. football anything can happen and I believe we can do it.” It’s Iran’s sixth gold medal in the competition underway The 5th Asian Beach Games started on September 24 in (Source: Tasnim) (Source: FIFA) b

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NEWS IN BRIEF “Standing in the Dust” crowned best “Immortality” to compete in at Resistance film festival Rome film festival 1 Lebanese director/writer Mai Masri received ARTTEHRAN — Iranian director the award for best screenwriter for “3000 Nights”, deskMehdi Fard-Qaderi’s about a young Palestinian woman who fights to “Immortality” will go on screen at the 11th protect her newborn son, survive and keep hope Rome Film Fest, which will be held in the alive in an Israeli prison. Italian capital from October 13 to 23. In the international competition two filmmakers “Immortality”, which is a one-shot feature were honored with special jury prizes. Syrian film, tells the story of some strangers who director Basil Al-Khatib received that award for have to spend a rainy night together in a “Syrians” and Iranian director Hassan Barzideh train. won the prize for “Mazar-i-Sharif”. The best actress award was presented to Merila Zarei, the star of Majid Esmaeili’s directorial debut Iran’s Cinema Verite “The Little Black Fish”. She received the award for to screen docs from her portrayal of Shahrzad, the wife of a member CPH: DOX of an Iranian leftist group who is killed in a guerilla war in northern Iran during the 1980s. Parviz Parastui won the award for best actor for his role in Ebrahim Hatamikia’s political drama ARTTEHRAN — A selection of “Bodyguard”. deskdocumentaries screened at the The leader of Yemen’s Houthi faction, Abdel- Copenhagen International Documentary Festival Malek al-Houthi, was also selected as the – CPH: DOX is scheduled to be screened in the Resistance Person of the Year at the festival. Mirror of a Festival section at Cinema Verite, the He received his award from IRGC chief Iranian international festival for documentary Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari and Basij Abdel-Malek al-Houthi (L), the leader of Yemen’s Houthi faction, receives the award for the Resistance Person of the Year from IRGC chief films. Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari during the closing ceremony of the 14th International Resistance Film Festival at Tehran’s Milad CPH: DOX is the third largest documentary Naqdi. Tower. Basij Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi is also seen in the photo. (Mehr/Asghar Khamseh) film festival in the world, which is held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The 10th edition of Iran’s Cinema Verite will be held in Tehran from December 4 to 11. Portraits of world famous figures embellished with Persian calligraphy ARTTEHRAN — An “Calligraphy has been accompanied by “Moreover, I don’t think any Iranian AnimArt festival deskexhibition of other components in my works leading to individual has forgotten the image of honors Iranian calligraphy works by Ahmad Tak bearing new productions.” martyr (Mostafa) Chamran and his portraits of world famous figures such as About his calligraphy on the image bravery and the bravery of other martyrs,” director Zohreh singer Mohammadreza Shajarian, martyr of the animals he said, “I have found the he added. Behruzinia Mostafa Chamran and actress Marilyn lines on the skin of the animals. A zebra Tak said that he has created his Monroe opened in Tehran’s Vaali Gallery. beautifully bears positive and negative collection on a new style of canvas that ARTTEHRAN — Iranian director The portraits bearing nastaliq-style spaces for inscriptions. And the form and he made specifically for this combination. deskZohreh Behruzinia received calligraphy in an immense type size shape of the skin of a giraffe is also good “The usual forms of canvas do not allow a the best director award for the puppet theater highlight a new relation between classic for calligraphy.” calligrapher to inscribe the words easily so “And He Said: You Will See Today, Tomorrow and calligraphy and graffiti art, Tak said in a “I do not remember a single day that I spent several years developing this form Works by calligrapher Ahmad Tak feature Iranian the Day After Tomorrow” at the AniAmrt World press release published on Saturday. I have worked without listening to the of canvas,” he concluded. war hero Mostafa Chamran and U.S. actress Puppet Carnival, the international festival of He noted that his exhibit named “Third heavenly voice of Shajarain; his voice The exhibit will be running until October Marilyn Monroe in an exhibition at Tehran’s Line” covers portraits, as well as abstract gives credit to the music of this land,” he 7 at the gallery which can be found at 71 Vaali Gallery on September 30, 2016. animation art, which was held in Lodz, Poland (Honaronline/Marzieh Musavi) from September 24 to 30. human and animal figures, adding, remarked. Khoddami St. off Vanak Square. Written by Nima Dehqan, the play tells the Ehsan Neqabat life story of Iranian mystic Mansur Hallaj. PICTURE OF THE DAY Honaronline/ Turaj Aslani

Tehran photo exhibit selected for explores latest achievements of Slemani government festival jury ARTTEHRAN — An exhibition of photos, desk ARTTEHRAN — Iranian films and infographics highlighting desk the latest achievements of the government opened in cinematographer Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Saturday. Turaj Aslani has been selected for the Entitled “The Art of Prudence”, the exhibit features the jury of the first edition of the Slemani achievements of the government in different areas such International Film Festival, which as culture, agriculture, politics and several more, Persian opened in the Iraqi city of Slemani media reported. (Sulaymaniyah) yesterday. The jury also includes Iraqi director Sarbast Rasul and Iraqi screenwriter Shokat Amin Korki. Aslani, who has been awarded in several Iranian and international festivals, is mostly known for his collaboration on “Rhino Season” by Bahman Ghobadi, “A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral” by Saman Salur and “Whisper with the Wind” by Shahram Alidi. Shahrdad Rohani conducts the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in performing pieces by South Korean composers at Vahdat Hall on September 30, 2016. A number of Iranian films will also go The performance was organized as part of a South Korean cultural festival, which will run through autumn in Tehran. on screen during the festival, which will run until October 4. Boston Marathon bombing makes way Daniel Craig still first choice A number of officials and artists including Minister of to TV and movie screens for Bond, says producer Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati, stage director Qotbeddin Sadeqi, and actors Iraj Raad and Akbar NEW YORK (Reuters) — More penalty sentencing of bomber NEW YORK (Reuters) — The team slash my wrists.” Zanjanpur attended the event. than three years after the Boston Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. behind the James Bond films wants His words triggered a flurry of Speaking at the ceremony, Jannati said that the exhibit Marathon bombing, the story of the Tsarnaev’s older brother, Tamerlan, Daniel Craig to return as 007, the speculation over who might appear has been arranged in collaboration with the Presidential 2013 deadly attack on the race and died following a shootout with spy series’ executive producer said next, with Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston Office to put the spotlight on the government’s activities its aftermath is making its way to police in the suburb of Watertown, on Friday, even after the British actor and Aidan Turner among the top over the past three years. both the big and small screens. Massachusetts, after Dzhokhar said he would rather slash his wrists contenders. In his brief remarks, First Vice President Es’haq Cable channel HBO on Friday Tsarnaev ran him over in a hijacked than appear again. Craig was widely praised for Jahangiri, who was also attending the opening ceremony, released the first trailer for its sport utility vehicle. The brothers, The 48-year-old star was bringing a fresh grittiness to the role called art an expressive language reflecting different documentary “Marathon: The Patriots ethnic Chechens, had immigrated “absolutely the first choice ... We of the suave secret agent over four topics. “The issues that cannot be expressed in words Day Bombing” which will be screened to the United States from Russia a would love Daniel to return as Bond,” films, starting with Casino Royale in can be institutionalized in the minds of people with the on Nov. 21. decade before the attack. Callum McDougall told BBC radio. 2006. language of art. The documentary uses surveillance The attack is also the subject of a Craig said last year he was “over” A report by RadarOnline earlier “This is the first time that the achievements of the footage, news clips and home movies Hollywood feature film called “Patriots the role after filming wrapped up this month said Craig had already government have been put on display by means of the to examine the bombing that killed Day”, starring Mark Wahlberg and on the last installment “Spectre”, been offered $150 million by studio language of art,” he added. three people and wounded more Kevin Bacon, that will be released which went on to gross $880 million Sony to return for two more films. He hoped that positive reviews would help remove than 260 near the marathon route’s in late December and is seen as a worldwide. McDougall told the BBC that Bond any weak points or obstacles. finish line in central Boston in April possible awards contender. When asked if he could imagine producers Barbara Broccoli and The Institute for Promotion of Contemporary Visual 2013. It will also feature interviews A third film, “Stronger”, starring doing another Bond movie, Craig Michael Wilson both shared his views. Art is the facilitator of the project designed by stage and with first responders and survivors, Jake Gyllenhaal, is expected to be told London’s Time Out magazine: “I know they are hoping for him to costume designer Siamak Ehsai. and the trial, conviction and death- released in 2017. “Now? I’d rather break this glass and come back,” he said.