‘Iranian refugees in Total inks major gas Infantino offers German experts restore 21516Australia not in 5 deal in Iran condolences after artworks at Tehran suitable condition’ Pourheydari passing museum WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y VelayatiVe ururgesg EuEurope to wowork for pepeace in MMideasti 2 16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.12693 Wednesday NOVEMBER 9, 2016 Aban 19, 1395 Safar 9, 1438 Citizenship Rights Charter awaiting thumbs-up: ZZarifarif holdsholds ttalksalks wwithith AAounoun presidential advisor EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW POLITICS TEHRAN — Iranian The visit came days after Aoun desk By Maryam Qarehgozlou&Ali Kushki Foreign Minister was elected president. The post had Mohammad Javad Zarif who made a remained vacant for 29 months due Iran says it has finished a draft of the long-waited-for high-profile visit to Beirut starting on to rivalry between powerbrokers in Citizenship Rights Charter after it underwent a thorough Monday held talks with the newly-elected Lebanon. revision, now awaiting for an approval by the Majlis (Iran’s Lebanese President Michel Aoun as well Immediately after his arrival in Beirut, parliament), government, or cabinet. as the prime minister, parliament Speaker, Foreign Minister Zarif held talks with “An initial draft of the Citizenship Rights Charter was and Hezbollah chief. President Aoun. 2 drawn up just months after President Rouhani took office and made available to the public in November 2013,” Elham Aminzadeh, the presidential advisor on citizenship rights, told the Tehran Times on Monday. Aminzadeh said it took until now to come up with the first and second versions of the charter after having listened to public and expert opinions of a pool of resources. “We drew upon the experience and knowledge of universities, seminaries, NGOs, minority groups, and other executive bodies in drafting the text,” she stated. The protracted delay was also owing to the administration’s focus on the nuclear deal, Aminzadeh added. The initial draft caught the attention of hundreds of thousands of Iranians who Assam Obeisi See page 2 ccommentedommente on the document, accordinaccordingg to the presidential IRNA\ aadvisor.dvisor. “94 percentp of the people found it vvery positive toward the By staff & agencies Donald J. Trump. manumanuscripts with more than U.S. presidential election: ???? lection Day is here at last. Polling stations have But the long, unusual and often ugly 2016 20,020,0000 comments dropped presidential campaign has been about the country’s oonn it once available on Eopened as the first ballots were cast in one of the Voters decide between most divisive United States presidential elections. changing demographics and the shifting coalitions of ttheh government’s official the two major parties as much as about the two main wwebsite.” America is set to decide between the U.S. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival candidates. 3 2 Trump and Clinton It is a World Cup, Hostile remarks against Iran part of Trump’s demagogic style: Maxwell McCombs Iran says not a World War By Jalal Heirannia tells the Tehran Times in an exclu- had a small lead nationally and in working to TEHRAN – Professor Maxwell sive interview. key states according to the best silence guns EDITORIAL McCombs says Donald Trump’s McCombs, one of the two polls, those that are based on hostile statements against Iran are founding fathers of empirical individual interviews rather than in Syria The 1960’s heralded a new part his ‘demagogic style” research on the agenda-setting online or robocall polls.” wave of movement across the The comments by the Texas function of the press, also says, Trump accused the media of By M.A. Saki developing world. Inspired by Indian University professor came as “The core of Trump’s support are launching a coordinated action Independence movement, led by Americans voted on Tuesday white males with less than a college against him during the presidential TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Mahatma Gandhi, Asian and African to elect the United States’ 45th education, a group that feels it is campaigns. Ministry spokesman Bahram nations freed themselves of their president. The results were due on losing status as the demographies “Trump has defined his Qassemi said on Tuesday that Iran European colonisers. Wednesday. of the U.S. change.” personality in the news by a notes. “As a consequence of this is making efforts to help find a Gandhi’s civil disobedience and “It is clear to me that Trump On his prediction of the continuing stream of outlandish continuing barrage of statements political solution to the Syrian war peaceful movement led to the has made more critical and hostile presidential election, the professor and brutish statements, the kinds of by Trump, the media coverage and also establishing a long lasting end of the British rule of Indian statements about Iran. It is part of says, “In the final weekend before extreme statements that catch the of the campaign has been more ceasefire in the country. subcontinent in August, 1947. his demagogic style,” McCombs the presidential election, Clinton attention of journalists,” McCombs spectacle than substantive.” “There will be no military solution India’s independence soon spread to the Syrian crisis and we believe across the whole of African and Asian continents. With the British taking a Photo exhibit explores Muharram mourning rituals that military solution will lead to back seat to the Americans following nowhere,” Qassemi told the Tehran ARTTEHRAN — group of students at Tehran’s 10th of Muharram in 680, and Times in a short interview as he the Second World War and their desk economy not recovering fast enough Tehran’s Pales- Azad University, including Rana Arbaeen is the end of the 40-day visited the Tehran press exhibition. at home, fifteen of the twenty British tine Museum of Contemporary Mansurvar, Kimia Abbasi, Mah- mourning period following this Qassemi added, “Political colonies on the African continent Art is playing host to an exhibi- shad Nasuti, Majid Madandar event. solution will be the final strategy.” declared their independence by the tion of photos on Ashura and Ar- and Yalda Ajami. The exhibit will run until The Foreign Ministry official mid-1960’s. baeen rituals. Ashura marks the day when November 22 at the museum rejected speculation that the Often times the new era for these The exhibit entitled “Tenth” Imam Hussein (AS) and his com- located at 74 Mozaffar St., Taleqani Syrian government could have newly independent states would is showcasing 48 photos by a panions were martyred on the Ave., Felestin Sq. resolved the crisis by negotiating start with civil unrest and internal with the opponents when the conflicts, a legacy of the long divide Germany to host 3rd Iran-Europe Banking and Business Forum uprising started in 2001, saying and rule policy of their European undermining stability in the Middle masters. ECONOMY TEHRAN — The third edition investment opportunities are among the topics attending these workshops. East and “toppling governments”, The British, in particular, had deskof Iran-Europe Banking to be discussed in the conference. Euro Finance Week is one of Europe’s biggest including the Syrian government, another tool to punish their former and Business Forum is due to be held on the Specialized workshops on Iran banking banking and finance events and is held annually have been a plot orchestrated by colonies; a place amongst the elite sidelines of Euro Finance Week in Frankfort on system’s current status will be held on the sidelines in November.The first edition of Iran-Europe foreign countries. of world football as they were November 14-18, IRNA reported on Tuesday. of the event and representatives from Germany’s Banking and Business Forum was held last “It had been decided to spread hosting the eighth FIFA World Cup Iran’s reconnecting with the international Federal Banking Supervision Directory, Deutsche year shortly after the implementation of Joint instability in the region and change in 1966. banking system and the country’s business and Bank AG as well as officials from Iran will be Comprehensive Plan of Actions (JCPOA). governments … and Syria was a Stanley Rous, a former amateur target,” the spokesman explained. footballer and referee had become Syria has been in a war since the sixth FIFA President and third Tapping export markets can balance 2011. UN special envoy for Syria, Englishman assuming the highest Staffan de Mistura, estimates that seat of world football in 1961. Iran’s pharmaceutical industry: health official over 400,000 people have been 15 By Maryam Qarehgozlou istration takes office [in August market overseas so as to create a killed in the conflict. TEHRAN — Finding new 2013] the pharmaceutical and reasonable balance between the overseas markets can create a medical equipment] imports were level of export and import in the balance between exports and valued at some $1.3 billion, while country.” imports of pharmaceuticals and the exports merely totaled some It is clear that no country can medical equipment, the deputy $50 to $70 million, he regretted, reduce import to zero but it is health minister, Iraj Harirchi, said adding, “We’ve been able to make possible to find an appropriate on Monday. some corrections [in past years] balance between import and He made the remarks while and managed to restrict the im- export, he stated. visiting the Tehran Times pavilion port value to some $1 billion and at the 22nd Press Exhibition which increase the level of export but we In Current Situation, Economic is being held in Tehran. still fall short of the ideal.” Harirchi highlighted that the He went on to say that “some Dear readers, only way to save the pharma- of the trips Health Minister Threat Is the Most Important Pocket-sized glossary of We are looking forward to seeing ceutical and medical equipment [Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi] has Tehran Times “at special you at the Tehran Times pavilion industry in Iran is to expand the taken so far to countries such as Threat Facing Country in the 22nd Press Exhibition, which discount price” during target markets.