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XXV, No. 6764 TEHRAN Price 20,000 Rials www.irannewsdaily.com THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, - SHAHRIVAR 14, 1398 2 4 8 DOMESTIC 3 DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL SPORTS Resistance Sapping Yazd Ready to Host U.S., France, Britain Dimitrov Stuns Federer U.S., Israeli ECO Traders at May Be Complicit in Power in Region ECOFAR Exhibition Yemen War Crimes To Reach U.S. Open Semis > SEE PAGE 2 > SEE PAGE 3 > SEE PAGE 4 > SEE PAGE 8 Zarif Dismisses U.S. Space-Agency President Gives Europe Two Iran Rejects European Sanctions as “Totally Ineffective” Union’s $15b Offer as Loan TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Iran’s foreign minister has More Months to Save JCPOA TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Iran has rejected the European accused the United States of an overreliance on Union’s offer to provide it a $15 billion loan and will sanctions and said the latest punitive measures out of only stop scrapping its obligations under the nuclear Washington targeting his country’s space and research deal if it sells as much oil as it used to before sectors are “totally ineffective.” Washington’s sanctions, Press TV reported on “Americans are addicted to sanctions. These sanctions Wednesday, as Iran is expected to announce its third are totally ineffective,” Foreign Minister Mohammad retaliatory step on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Javad Zarif was quoted by the semiofficial Tasnim news Action (JCPOA) agency as saying on September 4 in the first public Meanwhile, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas reaction to the U.S. move. Araghchi said earlier in the day that the country would The day before, the U.S. Treasury announced resume compliance with the JCPOA if it received the sanctions against the Iran Space Agency, the Iran $15 billion tranche before the end of the year. Space Research Center, and the Astronautics Research He said that the country’s implementation of its Institute, citing their alleged contributions to secretly commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal is possible developing ballistic missiles rather than an effort to put only if Iran’s oil sales and its access to the revenues are civilian satellites into orbit. guaranteed by the European parties. He referred to his Tehran denies the accusations. recent negotiations in Paris, saying the talks focused on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed that how to secure revenues from Iran’s oil sales. Washington “will not allow Iran to use its space launch He said as Iran has announced time and again, it will program as cover to advance its ballistic missile programs.” snap back to full implementation of its obligations under He said a failed Iranian test of a space-launch the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) only if vehicle last week underscored “the urgency of the country is able to sell its petroleum and use its income the threat.” See Page 7 completely and without any limitations. “France’s initiative is exactly in line with this,” IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK said Araqchi. See Page 7 China Updates Deal to TEHRAN - President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that a deal with the European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal is not in sight by Thursday (today), and thus the country will soon announce the third phase of reducing its commitments. Tehran Reaffirms Support Invest $400b in Iran “It is unlikely that we reach a conclusion with Europe by tomorrow,” Rouhani told a cabinet session on Wednesday, referring to the Thursday deadline set by Iran for Europe to implement its commitments under the JCPOA. BEIJING (Dispatches) - Iran and China have updated a “We will declare the country’s third step [to cut commitments under the JCPOA, which has an extremely important For Kashmir Cause 25-year deal signed first in 2016 that foresees $400 nature and will give a special boost to the activities of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran,” he noted. ISLAMABAD (Dispatches) - Iranian Foreign Minister billion of Chinese investment in the resource-rich The president further noted that a major part of differences with Europe have been resolved, but a final Middle Eastern nation, well-regarded energy industry Javad Zarif on Tuesday reiterated Tehran’s concern agreement has yet to be reached. over the deteriorating human rights situation in publication the Petroleum Economist reports. “For example, if we had differences over 20 issues, they are now only on 3 issues, and a major part of them The update came during a visit at the end of August by occupied Kashmir and reaffirmed support for the have been resolved,” Rouhani said. Kashmiri people in a telephonic conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to “Therefore, Iran will start the third phase of reducing its JCPOA commitments, and the details will be Beijing where his Chinese counterpart State Councilor Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. announced today or tomorrow,” he added. Rouhani said Europe will be given another two-month deadline to According to a statement issued by the Foreign Office, Wang Yi called the two countries as “comprehensive return to commitments, negotiate, and reach an agreement. strategic partners”. FM Qureshi expressed his gratitude to the Iranian people Referring to his telephone conversations with French President Macron, Rouhani said “In our earlier conversations, for extending support to the Kashmir cause. According to the Petroleum Economist, the deal represents there was a huge gap in our communications, but now we understand each other very well. They know what we want “a potentially material shift to the global balance of the oil “He briefed Zarif on the illegal and unilateral actions and we know what they want, and everything’s clear. In many instances, we have closed the gap between our views, of India to alter the disputed status of Jammu and and gas sector” and could mark a “seismic shift in the global but in some other cases, we still have our differences and we have not reached the final conclusion.” hydrocarbons sector” where no US dollars will be involved Kashmir,” said the statement. Rouhani said Iran has set up a five-month framework for its talks with the French side that would last until the Qureshi also underscored that regional security had in commodity transaction payments. year end, adding “France says they will talk to other European countries, as well as China, and the U.S., and they “The central pillar of the new deal is that China will invest been undermined by India’s unilateral move to strip the will make the necessary coordination. Our talks with France is in this regard, as the country represents the EU occupied state of its autonomous status. $280 billion, developing Iran’s oil, gas and petrochemicals and the three signatories to the nuclear deal.” sectors,” said the monthly magazine which spoke to “a “The gravity of the situation in IOK demands a Elsewhere, the president described U.S. hawks, the racist regime of Israel, and some reactionary states in the Middle complete lifting of the curfew, removal of restrictions senior source closely connected to Iran’s Petroleum East region as three groups which do not want the relations between Iran and the US to be “fair” and “right”. Ministry” during Zarif’s visit. on movement, peaceful assembly, provision of food See Page 7 He said the day when relations between Iran and the U.S. became fair and just, it would mean a “permanent and medical supplies and release of political prisoners,” death” for the Israeli regime, “Because they are like foams on water and will fade away.” the communique read. “Every time we wanted to do something, these three groups, which have unfortunately taken over the White See Page 7 House, would not allow it,” Rouhani said, noting that the reason the US pulled out of the JCPOA was because of the influence of these three groups over the White House. Sokhan Gostar Institute Iran Currency Plan Unaffected by Russia Favored For Half-Trillion Dollar Iranian Oil Project Europe’s Proposed Credit Line LONDON (Oil Price) - Last week’s announcement from the director of integrated planning at the National TEHRAN (PressTV) - Iran’s chief banker says the Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Karim Zobeidi that the South Pars Oil Layer (SPOL) project will be assigned to country would stick to its current plans for currency PRIVATE ENGLISH Iranian companies is just part of a holding position allowing for some development of the field whilst Iran can regulation regardless of a European proposal for setting negotiate a deal with an international oil company (IOC) partner. “Right now we have reached a point where NEWSPAPER IN IRAN up a credit facility that could help revive a nuclear deal either the U.S. will be persuaded to come back to the negotiating table to discuss re-engaging with the JCPOA between Tehran and world powers. [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] or it will be sidelined in this and Russia and China, and to a lesser extent The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Europe, will just go about their business with Iran regardless,” a senior oil and gas industry source who works Abdolnasser Hemmati said on Wednesday that the closely with Iran’s Petroleum Ministry told OilPrice.com last week. government would continue to regulate the currency Up until the moment the U.S. decided to withdraw from the JCPOA last year and then to re-impose sanctions, market through what it has within its own resources Iran had a number of potential IOCs vying to sign the Integrated Petroleum Contract (IPC) for the SPOL and regardless of the credit line that has been development. This was unsurprising for three reasons. The first is that the SPOL is conservatively estimated to proposed by France and other European powers to hold around seven billion barrels of oil, albeit located around 100 kilometres from the Iranian coast, in the north persuade Iran to stay in the 2015 nuclear deal, eastern extension of Qatar’s Al-Shaheen field in the Persian Gulf. Given that the site is located at around 67 known as the JCPOA. Advertisement Department metres water depth, the lifting costs (excluding capital expenditure) will be higher than the usual US$2-3 per “The central bank has devised its currency supply barrel range in Iran – the lowest in the world, along with Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. program without taking into consideration Europe’s 021-44253335-39 The second reason is that some work has already been done on the site by Iranian companies, including the proposals,” said Hemmati, according to remarks Petroiran Development Company (PEDCO), including drilling a number of oil producing wells, completing topside covered by the official IRNA agency. www.irannewsdaily.com operations, and the development of the reservoir’s static and dynamic models. As of now, the SPOL is already He also said that the CBI would go ahead [email protected] producing an average of 25,000 bpd, up from the initial 5,000 bpd begun in March 2017, but the plan by the end of with its existing plans for supply of foreign Phase 3 is for it to produce at least 150,000 bpd. Phase 2 production will be around 55,000-60,000 bpd and will currencies to imports of basic goods and other @irannewsdaily @irannewsdaily involve the deployment of another 47 or so further rigs and some work over wells. See Page 7 urgent needs of the country. See Page 7 2 IRAN NEWS DOMESTIC THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

MOSCOW - Russian Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based international organizations said that Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency is to discuss important issues including Iran next week. “A session of #IAEA Board of Governors will take place in Vienna next week,” The Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna and the International Atomic Energy Agency Mikhail Ulyanov wrote IAEA BoG to discuss Iran next week on his Twitter account. He added: “We can expect active debates on regional topics- Syria, North Korea and #Iran. The main question is if Iran will decide to undertake further reduction of implementation of its commitments under #JCPOA.” Resistance Sapping U.S., Israeli Power in Region Websites Review IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK Trump Compared With evil TEHRAN - The axis of resistance is steadily weakening the US Thanos in The Avengers and Israeli power across the region, Chief of Staff of the Iranian IRNA* - Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) called on the US President Donald Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said. Trump to stop copying from the detested character of In a visit to a military training camp of the IRGC Ground Force on Wednesday, Major Thanos The Avengers. General Baqeri said regional conditions have become such that the front of pro- Mohammad-Javad Azari-Jahromi made the remarks resistance nations is constantly sapping the power of the Zionist regime and the US. through twitter in reaction to the US move to sanction Concerted attempts by the world to support terrorists in Syria with money and plots for Iranian Space Agency. the purpose of defeating the front of resistance ended in failure, the top commander said. Trump is not imagined is picture, let alone in space, the He added that Iraq was also once swallowed by the US, but the resistance front minister said, stressing that the US president is not in a managed to retrieve the Arab country. position to sanction the space. Baqeri also highlighted Yemen’s advances in self-defense, saying the Yemenis have Bright future belongs to all, not to the limited numbers, Baqeri said Donald Trump was the on the verge of implementing his decision reached a level of power that they have managed to shoot down all models of Azari-Jahromi added. following Iran’s downing of a U.S. spy drone in the Iranian airspace last month. advanced intruding fighter jets. In The Avengers, Thanos wants to kill world people just “The day the drone was shot down, the U.S. president just stopped short of Highlighting the Islamic Republic’s “spiritual support” for the Yemeni people, the to save lives of the limited numbers. implementing the decision, and this decision was the result of the U.S. military’s general refuted the claim of Iranian arms supplies for Yemen, adding, “How could intelligence and the briefing given to the U.S. president,” said General Baqeri. one send a 9-meter-long missile to a country that is under blockade and is unable to However, said the top commander, Trump told a lie when he said the U.S. had decided not receive medicine? These are illusions held by some.” to attack in order to save the lives of people. “Rather, [the U.S. sopped short of attacking Iran Not to The commander described Iran as one the world’s safest countries in an unsafe Iran because] Trump was briefed on what would happen in Iran’s missile sector, in the region, saying such a level of security has been obtained with deterrent power that Re-Negotiate JCPOA Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, and in regional countries where Iran has arms,” he said. has prevented an act of aggression against the Islamic Republic. “In two sessions, each 2-3 hours long, Trump was briefed and told that he He also went on to say that the U.S. stopped short of implementing its decision to attack IRNA* - Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said would not be able to attack Iran,” said the top commander. Iran as the U.S. president was briefed on what consequences such a raid would have. that Iran will not re-negotiate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, but good implementation of the deal can be the issue of negotiations. Araqchi told reporters in Slovenia that Iran has declared Ahmadinejad Raps Iran, Bangladesh Confer on Enhanced Business Ties over and over that it will come back to its previous commitments only when it could sell its oil and have IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK JCPOA, Dismisses Plan TEHRAN - Foreign Minister Sheikh Hasina access to oil income without any limitations. Minister Mohammad Javad Wazed in Dhaka. On the first anniversary of U.S. withdrawal from the Zarif has held talks with In the Wednesday meeting, deal on May 8, 2019, Tehran decided to reduce its For Presidential Race Bangladesh Foreign Minister the two sides conferred on the commitments to the JCPOA, based on Article 26 and 36, Abul Kasim Mohammed issues of the Muslim Rohingya and set a deadline for Europeans to remedy breaches. Abdul Momen in Dhaka. refugees. More than 730,000 Araqchi visited Paris to work out a practical plan with In the Wednesday meeting, the Rohingya Muslims have fled the French officials on the Iranian demands from the two sides welcomed the Rakhine province in Myanmar JCPOA partners -- restoration of banking ties and free enhancement and development to neighbouring Bangladesh export of Iranian oil. Officials from Central Bank of Iran of economic and trade following a military-led and the Oil Ministry have accompanied Araqchi to Paris. cooperation between the two crackdown in 2016 that the He said the talks with French officials focused on the Muslim countries and expressed UN has said was perpetrated issue of how to sell Iran’s oil and receive its income. satisfaction with the level of with “genocidal intent.” mutual political relations. Thousands of Rohingya Zarif and Abdul Momen also stressed the need for an Muslims were killed, injured, arbitrarily arrested, or 7 Fishing Trawlers Busted increase in trade ties and support for private sector raped by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist mobs mainly cooperation. Regional issues, cooperation at between November 2016 and August 2017. In Persian Gulf TEHRAN (IFP) - Former president of Iran international and Islamic organisations, unity between Zarif and Sheikh Hasina also discussed mutual Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has slammed the 2015 Muslim countries, as well as the problems of Muslim relations, ways of boosting reciprocal ties in various FARS* - Iran busted seven fishing trawlers in the nuclear deal as a one-way accord that has ignored Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were among other economic, cultural and research areas as well as the Persian Gulf waters over their failure to observe fishing the principles of justice and is doomed to collapse topics discussed by the two top diplomats. latest regional developments. standards and marine regulations. in the long term, noting that he would not run for The Iranian top diplomat is in Dhaka to attend the Also on the agenda was Iran’s efforts to ease “Seven trawlers were detained by the Islamic Revolution president in the next election. third IORA Blue Economy Ministerial Conference, tensions as well as Tehran-Dhaka cooperation at the Guards Corps (IRGC) because of fishing violations,” said In an interview with Anadolu Agency, which will be held on September 4-5. Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Colonel Teimur Paidare, Commander of IRGC naval Ahmadinejad criticized the administration of his Earlier Zarif held talks with Bangladesh Prime other international organizations. force base in Jask, southern Hormozgan Province. successor Hassan Rouhani for signing the Joint He said the violations consisted of observing the proper Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with the distance from the shore and catching the fish, adding that they world powers, saying he would have never agreed Dutch Diplomat in Tehran After Report of AIVD Role in Stuxnet Attack had caught 222 tons of all kinds of fish in the Persian Gulf. to sign such a deal if he had been in the office. 24 of the trawlers’ crew are foreign nationals, Asked whether he has plans to run for TEHRAN (IFP) - Foreign Ministry spokesman says Tehran has voiced concern about reports of the Dutch who have been detained. president, Ahmadinejad said, “No; we respect intelligence agency’s possible role in a cyber-attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear site at a meeting with a senior Dutch IRGC has launched maritime patrol to keep a tab on people’s views.” diplomat in Tehran. fishing trawlers in the Persian Gulf in a bid to prevent The former president said the JCPOA has only Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said on Tuesday made the remarks in reaction to a report by Yahoo News that the Dutch such bulk fishing which damages the local people’s had one-way commitments for Iran, noting that its intelligence agency AIVD may have been involved in an act of sabotage against Iran’s Natanz nuclear site with the source of income, according to the force. collapse would not mark any considerable Stuxnet virus a couple of years ago. “This report is being carefully examined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs achievement for either side. and by our country’s Embassy in the Netherlands.” “I believe that the base and foundation of the “In this regard, Director General for Western Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a meeting this negotiations that led to the JCPOA were wrong,” morning (September 3, 2019) with Deputy Directorate General for Political Affairs of the Dutch Ministry of Plot to Defeat Iran’s Resistance Foreign Affairs, who is Tehran in a pre-planned trip, and expressed the Islamic Republic’s concern and sensitivity he noted. MEHR* - An Iranian lawmaker criticized those inside in the meeting with the Dutch delegation and that country’s ambassador to Tehran,” he said. A contract not based upon justice, respect or the country who voice support for negotiations with the “The Dutch delegation, in response, has declared that it would convey the issue to the government of the recognition of mutual rights will be doomed to United States, saying that such talks are a plot to defeat Netherlands,” he added. failure in the long term, he stated. the resistance approach that Iran has adopted in face of On Monday, Yahoo News quoted unnamed sources as saying that the Dutch intelligence agents had recruited an Ahmadinejad then emphasized the necessity U.S. pressures. inside mole at the behest of the CIA and the Mossad to get their Stuxnet virus onto computer systems inside Iran’s for a negotiated settlement of the problems “Today, all acknowledge that the resistance approach led Natanz nuclear site. instead of using arms, noting that Iran and the to Iran’s victory in issues of [US intruding] drone and ship U.S. could be friends provided that the American [oil tanker]. Also the resistance made Trump to adopt policy-makers halt their hostile measures and smoother stances towards Iran,” Hamid Reza Hajibabaei, stop seeking dominance. Tehran, Havana Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Diplomatic Ties head of Velaie Fraction of the Parliament. Asked about France’s freeze-for-freeze proposal The Iranian people have paid the cost of resistance and MADRID (Dispatches) - Iran and Cuba held a formal as reinforcing relations. to save the JCPOA, Ahmadinejad said nothing has arrived at this conclusion that they have to wait for the ceremony at the Cuban Foreign Ministry to celebrate the 40th Iran and Cuba are symbol resistance to imperialism been left to be frozen. country to pass this stage, he added. anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between two and the modern colonialism, he said. “They [Rouhani administration] have lost “Exactly when the resistance has worked and we have to countries and unveiled a stamp for the occasion. Alluding to ill-wishers’ pressures on Iran over the recent everything and have received nothing in turn. take the third step in reducing our commitments to The event was held in the attendance of Iran Ambassador months, Bayat Mokhtari stressed that enemies’ attempts Such plans (freeze-for-freeze) are like ceasefire JCPOA, which includes increasing uranium enrichment to to Cuba Rashid Bayat Mokhtari, Cuban Deputy Minister of have so far faced defeat and will fail in the future. plans in the war. An aggressor invades a 20%, the strategy of compromise and negotiation has been Foreign Affairs Anayansi Rodriguez and head of Cuba Post Meanwhile, Rodriguez said Cuba was among the first country, and as soon as the country being raised again,” the principalist politician added. Office. Bayat Mokhtari appreciated Cuban government for countries which recognized victory of the Islamic invaded wants to respond, they [invaders] call “Those who talk about negotiations are sure that holding such event and said that Iran and Cuba uphold Revolution of Iran in 1979. for a ceasefire,” he noted. resistance will attain victory in this stage and lead to common goals of fighting cruelty and tyranny. The diplomat also described unveiling stamp as sign “This is the Westerners’ usual method. They U.S. withdrawal but they are trying to pull the rug from He also emphasized significant achievements made of high-level relations between Iran and Cuba. impose sanctions, and then obtain concessions under resistance’s feet.” by both countries in the field of biotechnology and Pointing to common stances taken by two countries in for lifting the sanctions,” Ahmadinejad “We are not against negotiations,” he highlighted, nanotechnology such as making vaccines. international arena like respecting the sovereignty of concluded, stressing that the West must adding, “We talked with America in a period and they Elsewhere in his remarks, Iranian diplomat pointed to other countries, supporting multilateralism and the recognize the rights of all nations if it really retreated. Even today, if U.S. returns to its commitments holding 17 rounds of joint economic commissions rights of the Palestinians, Rodriguez underlined advocates world peace. [under JCPOA], the Islamic Republic may come to this between Iran and Cuba and also senior officials’ visits convergence and cooperation in these fields. conclusion continue negotiations.” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 DOMESTIC IRAN NEWS 3

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Yazd Ready to Host Tehran, UNIDO Sign MoU ECO Traders at On urban technologies VIENNA (IRNA) - Mayor of Tehran Pirouz Hanachi and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Director General Li Yong met on Tuesday on the ECOFAR Exhibition sidelines of the World Mayors Forum in Vienna and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on expansion of cooperation in new urban technologies. IRAN NEWS ECONOMIC DESK At the signing ceremony, which was attended by Iranian Ambassador to the UN Permanent Mission in Vienna Kazem Gharib Abadi, Mahmoud Mirluohi, a member of TEHRAN – Governor General of Yazd Province the Tehran City Council and a group of city executives, the two sides expressed their willingness to facilitate close Mr. Mohammad Ali Talebi yesterday hosted commercial cooperation between the city of Tehran and UNIDO with attaches of ECO member states and exchanged views on the the aim of achieving goals of the fourth wave of industrial development. Sustainable development of Tehran’s urban upcoming ECOFAR Exhibition which will be held in Yazd. industries within the framework of broader cooperation He expressed hope that ambassadors of the ECO member states would between the Islamic Republic of Iran and UNIDO is During the meeting, Mr. Talebi announced the readiness of Yazd to host ECOFAR attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition, adding that it could be among issues mentioned in this MoU. Exhibition on November 1-4. Commercial attaches of Pakistan, Afghanistan, a ground for expanding and strengthening ties between Iran and Yazd The Municipality of Tehran and the Director-General of the Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan were present in the meeting. with ECO members. United Nations Industrial Development Organization agreed The exhibition will be held in five categories of construction materials, Meanwhile head of Industry, Mine and Trade office in Yazd Mr. Mohammad Reza to evaluate the progress of this MoU after three years and then petrochemical products, food stuff, textile and agro products and 120 pavilions at Alamdari Yazdi, for his part, highlighted potentials and capabilities of Yazd Province, decided on new approaches to develop this cooperation. At the Yazd Fairground will host the participants. adding that Yazd is the fourth industrial province of Iran and it ranks eighth in terms head of a delegation of Tehran Municipality, Pirouz Hanachi Addressing the meeting, Mr. Talebi said that he believes ECO member states could of non-oil exports. arrived in Vienna last night at the invitation of UNIDO have better trade relations and meet their demands by using their huge potentials. He added that diversity in production in Yazd is significant and over 800 goods are General Manager and his Austrian counterpart Michael He also called for identifying and presenting the capacities of other countries without produced in the province. Ludwig to attend the fourth meeting on “Bridge for Cities, using the ECO member states in order to provide raw materials from those states and to Yazdi noted that over 12b tomans are invested in the province daily. Connecting Cities through New Industrial Revolution”. export products to the ECO member states. Talebi went on to say that Yazd has always been He reiterated that Yazd ranks first in the country in terms of minerals and second in Tehran’s mayor Pirouz Hanachi, who has traveled to a trade hub in the region and it has had many offices which organized business in Iran. terms of mineral capacity. Vienna to attend World Conference of Mayors, met on He also pointed to the air and rail capacities of Yazd for transporting the goods, Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) has ten members. Iran, Pakistan, Tuesday with the Secretary General of the European freight and passengers and the province currently has rail link with Tehran, Isfahan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan Cities Forum Anna Lisa Boney and underlined the need Mashhad, Bandar Abbas and Zahedan and it will be soon connected to Fars Province. and Uzbekistan form the regional organization. to further expand cooperation in various urban areas between the two sides. Eurasian Summit, Muscat Ready for More Interaction A Great Opportunity With Iranian Businessmen Mashhad Hosting Int’l For Iran Economy IRAN NEWS ECONOMIC DESK Auto Parts Exhibition TEHRAN - Oman’s ambassador to Tehran Saud bin MASHHAD (IRNA) - The 19th International Auto Ahmed bin Khalid Al-Birwani said that Oman is ready to Parts Exhibition opened in Mashhad late on Tuesday. interact and to cooperate with Iranian businessmen and Managing Director of Mashhad International practical planning should be prepared in this regard. Exhibition Company Saeed Seifi said that the He made the remarks at the meeting with the event aims to introduce the capacities of domestic businessmen and members of the Urmia Chamber of and foreign producers, create competition and Commerce on Wednesday. suitable ties among the researchers, producers and Referring to Iranian province West Azarbaijan’s great consumers and contribute to employment and potentials and capacities in different fields, Al-Birwani said prosperity of production. that the province and Oman can cooperate in commercial, Some 100 Iranian and 30 foreign companies from Japan, economic and tourism fields. South Korea, Germany, Italy, China and Turkey are During the past six years of his tenure in Iran, economic presenting their products in the ongoing event, he said. and political ties between the two countries have been Participating companies are engaged in producing IRAN NEWS ECONOMIC DESK expanded but there is still a long way to reach the ideal auto parts, tire, lubricants, technical and point, he mentioned. engineering services and other equipment, Seifi TEHRAN - Iran’s Energy Minister described Omani ambassador said that the economic potential of said. The 19th International Auto Parts Exhibition President Rouhani’s participation in the Eurasian West Azarbaijan Province is unique, adding that he hope will end on September 6. leaders’ summit in October, as a good starting point his visit will result in good achievements for two sides. for the full-size involvement of the country’s Referring to the joint meetings between the Chamber of Commerce of Iran and Oman in November, he noted that economy in Eurasian agreement. West Azerbaijan can introduce these capabilities at the upcoming meeting due to its unique capabilities. On the sidelines of the government cabinet West Azarbaijan enjoys great potentials and capacities in the field of tourism, the envoy said, adding that Iranian meeting , Energy Minister, Reza Ardakanian tourism minister will soon visit Oman and hopes that the visit would pave the way for more cooperation with the Exports Hit Fourfold Higher referred to the Eurasian leaders’ summit which Iranian province. Omani ambassador is making a two-day trip to West Azarbaijan to get acquainted with potentials will be held in early October, saying, “The of the region and also discuss ways to enhance bilateral relations. Than Imports in Five Months summit of the head of the states of Eurasian Head of Urmia Chamber of Commerce Hassan Entezar, for his part, said that the province shares 967 kilometers TEHRAN (MNA) – President of the Islamic Republic agreement will be held in Yerevan, Armenia and of common border with three countries, has 5 border terminals and 33 industrial towns, as well as unique of Iran customs Administration (IRICA) Mehdi Mir- our President Hassan Rouhani has been invited agricultural capacities which create great advantages and capacities for the province. Ashrafi said Mon. that exports surpassed imports by to participate in this meeting and it’s a good Oman can provide cooperation fields between West Azerbaijan province and African countries regarding to its high fourfold in the first five months of the current year starting point for the full-size involvement of the trade potential with these countries, as well as its bilateral economic relation with the province, Entezar mentioned. (March 21 – August 21) as compared to the last country’s different sectors, especially private year’s corresponding period. sectors in Eurasian agreement.” He went on to say that IRICA exported 60 million The Eurasian agreement with Iran is a forum Iran Moves Up 17 Steps in Producing Science of Stem Cells tons of products in the same period, adding, “in which aims to lessen the impact of sanctions and addition, 14 million tons of products were imported develop the Iranian economy, above all, industrial, TEHRAN (MNA) – Secretary of Stem Cells transplant centers to 18 centers in various parts of the into the country.” agricultural, and other producers will have access Development Headquarters of Vice Presidency for country, setting up student’s research centers in the Turning to the goods discharged in IRICA, to this market which creates job opportunities for Science and Technology Amir Ali Hamidieh said that field of stem cells and regenerative medicine in Mir-Ashrafi added, “IRICA managed to discharge many people. Islamic Republic of Iran climbed 17 steps in the Karaj, Shiraz and Kerman, organizing four editions of about two million tons of more products in the The energy minister Reza Ardakanian earlier said science production of stem cells. Student Olympiad are of the other salient measures first five months of current year, showing a that the prime minister of Armenia has invited the He made the remarks in the closing ceremony of 3rd taken by the Headquarters. considerable hike as compared to the same Iranian president to join Eurasian Countries’ International Conference and 11th National The 3rd International Conference and 11th period of last year.” leaders, which includes Russia, Armenia, Biotechnology Conference, held at the Amphitheater of National Biotechnology Conference was held in He put the volume of basic goods imported into the Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Belarus, and Vietnam. Razi International Conferences Hall on Wednesday, and Razi Intl Conferences Hall on Sept. 1-3 in the country in the same period at 7.9 million tons, the The Energy Minister went on to say that the added, “Iranian researchers overtook regional rivals presence of thinkers, researchers and functionaries volume of which hit 9.6 million tons in last year’s Eurasian economic agreement is practically the such as Turkey and stood at the first rank in terms of in the field of biotechnology. corresponding period. very first one in its kind which is a multilateral producing science of stem cells.” economic agreement, in which Iran is trying to Methods of gene therapy, cell therapy, tissue engineering be involved in. and regenerative medicine are carried out in more than “I think if we look at the current situation in 1,060 clinical trial (clinical study) in the world, 93 of Iran Exports $85b Gas Condensate, Non-Oil Goods terms of economic sanctions, and the market which will be commercialized in very near future. which is a good market for Iranians, which is He also put the number of clinical trials in the country TEHRAN (ISNA) – Iran’s natural gas condensate and non-oil exports has been $85 billion in a 22-month period worth 200 million dollars, as well as potentials in at about 86. Elsewhere in his remarks, Hamidieh began on August 23, 2017. Iran in different sectors, including, agriculture, pointed to the establishment of 917 companies in the During the period, Iran’s foreign trade volume of natural gas condensate and non-oil goods has been industries, and etc, which has a direct relation field of gene therapy, cell therapy and regenerative 302 million tons ($168.4 billion). with the rate of employment, this is an opportunity medicine in the world and stated, “if products of 10 Iran has imported 59.2 million tons of non-oil goods and natural gas condensate ($82.7 billion) in the which we will use and in 60 days, starting from a percent of these companies are hit the market, giant same period. week ago, we have been trying to be prepared steps will be taken in this field.” According to statistics released by Iran’s government, the weight and value of natural gas condensate and non-oil for it,” he continued. Increasing the number of hematopoietic stem cell exports was 242.8 million tons and $85.7 billion, respectively. 4 IRAN NEWS INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Bahamas Toll 5 Killed in Violence Rises to Seven In South Africa NEW YORK (Dispatches) - Weakening slightly but still packing a JOHANNESBURG (Dispatches) - At least five people have died in the powerful punch, Hurricane Dorian churned along the southeastern ongoing anti-immigrant violence in Johannesburg and the capital of coast of the United States on Tuesday as the storm’s death toll in the Pretoria, authorities said Tuesday. Bahamas rose to seven. Police Minister Bheki Cele confirmed the fatalities saying four were killed in different parts of Johannesburg and Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis termed Dorian “one of the greatest national crises in our country’s history,” announcing the updated toll and saying that it would likely rise further. another in Pretoria since the violence started Sunday. “We can expect more deaths to be recorded -- this is just preliminary information,” Minnis told journalists. ‘’I would like to condemn the violence that has been spreading around a number of provinces in our country in As the storm moved away from the Bahamas, more accounts of the suffering it inflicted began to emerge. the strongest terms,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a televised speech. Erdogan Says U.S., France, Britain May Be Syria’s Idlib Complicit in Yemen War Crimes Slowly Disappearing ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that a so-called de-escalation zone in Syria’s Idlib region is slowly disappearing because of military attacks by government forces. Erdogan also said he would make all necessary contacts with parties in the region to find a solution to the Idlib situation, adding that a Syria safe zone which he has proposed to host Syrians fleeing the war is now nothing more than a name. “Idlib is slowly disappearing. Idlib is in a situation that it started to disappear and become torn down in a way Aleppo is. It is not possible to stay silent against this,” Erdogan told a news conference in Ankara. Idlib, in Syria’s northwest corner, is the only big chunk of the country still in rebel hands after over eight years of war. A truce in early August collapsed three days in, after which the Russian-backed Syrian army pressed an offensive and gained ground against rebel forces, some Pakistan Allows Trade of of whom are backed by Turkey. Turkey, Russia and Iran Life Saving Drugs With India agreed in 2017 to the Idlib zone to reduce fighting, ISLAMABAD (Dispatches) - Pakistan has allowed import and export of life although the terms were never saving medicines from and to India despite the suspension of bilateral trade made public and the deal did and diplomatic ties with New Delhi in retaliation for revocation of special not include jihadist groups. status of Jammu and Kasmir in early August, local media reported on Tuesday. On Saturday, the U.S. Central The Commerce Ministry granted the permission on Monday to import and export Command, part of the medicine to and from India, according to Geo News, a local broadcaster. Department of Defense, said A notification by the ministry amended the country’s import policy order 2016 U.S. forces struck an al-Qaeda and added that ban shall not apply to therapeutic products regulated by the Drug facility in Idlib in an attack Regulatory Authority of Pakistan, it said. On Aug. 7, Pakistan announced to aimed at the organisation’s downgrade diplomatic relations and suspend bilateral trade with India after New leadership. Delhi’s move to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on Aug. 5. Erdogan said that Idlib would Islamabad also asked India to withdraw its high commissioner and announced be the most important issue that Pakistan would not be sending its high commissioner-designate to India. during his meeting with U.S. On Aug. 10, Pakistan formally suspended all kinds of imports and exports President Donald Trump as part GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming with India. Earlier, this ban was only limited to Israel with which Pakistan has of the United Nations General and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, the no diplomatic relations and trade ties. Assembly later in September. United Nations said on Tuesday. India, in August, removed all special provisions granted to Jammu and A proposed safe area in U.N. investigators recommended that all states impose a ban on arms transfers to the warring parties to prevent Kashmir under Article 370 of Indian Constitution. northern Syria to host Syrians them from being used to commit serious violations. It also divided the erstwhile province into two centrally administered “union fleeing the war and also “It is clear that the continued supply of weapons to parties to the conflict is perpetuating the conflict and territories” and took away powers from the assembly. Jammu and Kashmir has refugees living in Turkey is prolonging the suffering of the Yememi people,” Melissa Parke, an expert on the independent U.N. panel, been facing a communication blackout since Aug. 5 when New Delhi stripped nothing more than a name told a news conference. “That is why we are urging member states to no longer supply weapons to parties to the the disputed region of special provisions guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. right now, Erdogan said. The conflict,” she said. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the main parties in the coalition fighting against India has blocked communication and imposed strict restrictions to thwart idea was not supported by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement that controls Yemen’s capital, are two of the biggest buyers of U.S., British and any rebellion while political leaders in the region have been detained as the some allies, he said. French weapons. right groups repeatedly called on New Delhi to lift the restrictions and “Safe zone is nothing more The experts compiled a secret list release political detainees. than a name right now. Some of suspected war criminals. However, Indian authorities on assaults, threats are made in Investigators found potential British MPs Defeat Monday claimed 90% of the disputed the southern part but we are crimes on both sides, while region of Jammu and Kashmir was taking all the necessary steps,” highlighting the role Western free of daytime restriction. Erdogan said. countries play as backers of the Boris Johnson on Brexit Arab states and Iran plays in support of the Houthis. LONDON (AFP) - A cross-party alliance defeated Boris Churchill, and two former finance ministers - Philip Panel chair Kamel Jendoubi Johnson in parliament on Tuesday in a bid to prevent him Hammond and Kenneth Clarke. declined to reveal details of the list of taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement “I don’t want an election, but if MPs vote tomorrow Maduro Warns of suspects, adding: “What is sure is that - prompting the prime minister to announce that he would to stop negotiations and compel another pointless we have gathered sufficient facts and immediately push for a snap election. delay to Brexit, potentially for years, then that would sufficient testimonies that would Lawmakers voted by 328 to 301 for a motion put forward be the only way to resolve this,” Johnson told Colombia Attack, allow to bring those individuals to by opposition parties and rebel lawmakers in Johnson’s parliament after the vote. justice at a later stage.” party - who had been warned they would be kicked out of “I can confirm that we are tonight tabling a motion “There are no clean hands in this the Conservative Party if they defied the government. under the Fixed Term Parliament Act.” Orders Military Exercises combat, in this contest,” panelist More than three years after the United Kingdom In an historic showdown between prime minister Charles Garraway said. The report voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, and parliament, Johnson’s opponents said they CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President accused the anti-Houthi coalition led by the defeat leaves the course of Brexit unresolved, with wanted to prevent him playing Russian roulette with Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday ordered the Saudi Arabia and the UAE of killing possible outcomes still ranging from a turbulent a country once touted as a confident pillar of Western armed forces to be on alert for a potential civilians in air strikes and deliberately ‘no-deal’ exit to abandoning the whole endeavour. economic and political stability. attack by Colombia’s government and denying them food in a country facing Tuesday’s victory is the first hurdle for lawmakers They argue that nothing can justify the risk of a announced military exercises on the border amid the rearmament of a group famine. The Houthis, for their part, have who, having succeeded in taking control of ‘no-deal’ Brexit that would cut economic ties of former guerrilla commanders. shelled cities, deployed child soldiers parliamentary business, will on Wednesday seek to overnight with Britain’s biggest export market and Former FARC guerillas on Thursday announced a rearmament in a video and used “siege-like warfare”, it said. pass a law forcing Johnson to ask the EU to delay inevitably bring huge economic disruption. that Colombian authorities believe was filmed in Venezuela, spurring Neither the Saudi government Brexit until Jan. 31 unless he has a deal approved Johnson cast the challenge as an attempt to force concern of a worsening of the Colombian armed conflict and expansion of communications office nor UAE by parliament beforehand on the terms and manner Britain to surrender to the EU just as he hopes to armed groups in Venezuela. officials responded immediately to of the exit. secure concessions on the terms of the divorce, helped “I’ve ordered the strategic operations commander of the Bolivarian Reuters requests for comment. The Conservative rebels who now face expulsion by the threat to walk out without one. Ahead of the Armed Forces and all the military units on the border to declare an alert ... The Houthis drove Yemen’s from the party included Nicholas Soames, the vote, he said would never accept another delay to in the face of the threatened aggression by Colombia towards Venezuela,” government out of the capital Sanaa grandson of Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Brexit beyond Oct. 31. Maduro said in a televised broadcast. A set of military exercises that are in 2014. The Saudi-led coalition of carried out each year will be held between Sept. 10 and Sept. 29 in the Sunni Muslim states intervened the states of Zulia, Tachira, Apure and Amazonas, which border Colombia, following year to restore the ousted Maduro said. They are the third such exercises this year. government, a conflict that has since Despite the dramatic rhetoric, the statements are consistent with frequent killed tens of thousands of people. disputes between the two nations for over a decade that at times included troop The prospect of famine has movements for political effect. Previous spats have ended in grudging created what the United Nations reconciliation. Colombia’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment. Colombian describes as the world’s biggest authorities have repeatedly denied planning to attack Venezuela. humanitarian crisis, where 24 The United States, which has launched a broad set of sanctions against million people rely on aid. The Maduro’s government in efforts to hasten his departure, says Venezuela’s U.N. report said its independent government provides a safe haven to Colombian armed groups. Earlier, panel had sent a secret list to U.N. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido backed the use of satellites to help human rights chief Michelle locate guerrilla groups that have crossed into Venezuela. “We are going to Bachelet, identifying “individuals authorise the use of satellite technology to facilitate the location of these who may be responsible for irregular groups, of camps within the country’s borders,” Guaido said in a international crimes”. televised presentation. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 PROMOTIONAL ITEM IRAN NEWS 5 6 IRAN NEWS INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

ANKARA (Dispatches) - Consumer prices in by Anadolu Agency last week, Turkey’s Turkey’s Annual Turkey went up by 15.01% in August compared to annual inflation rate had been projected to hit the same month last year, the Turkish Statistical 15.60% in August. Institute (TurkStat) announced on Tuesday. “The highest annual increase was 41.42% in Inflation Slips to August’s figure was down from 16.65% in July, alcoholic beverages and tobacco,” TurkStat said. beating expectations. Last month, change in consumer price index saw 15.01% in August According to a group of economists polled a rise of 0.86% on a monthly basis, data showed. China Seen Heading For Sub-6% Economic Growth as Tariffs Soar BEIJING (Dispatches) - Economists are downgrading their forecasts for economic growth in China again, to below a level seen as necessary for the Communist Party to meet its own goals in time for its centenary in 2021. Lebanon Declares Oxford Economics, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Bloomberg Economics on Tuesday all cut their forecasts for gross domestic product growth in 2020 to below 6% as a result of increasing risks from the tariff war with the U.S. In addition, Bank of America’s Helen State of Economic Qiao and others are warning that the government’s current approach to stimulus is proving insufficient. China is refraining from cutting benchmark policy rates or pumping large volumes of cash into the economy even as growth slows to the weakest in Emergency almost three decades and the tariff escalation in August adds further headwinds. That’s endangering President Xi Jinping’s ability to claim China has reached a “moderately prosperous society” that has doubled 2010 GDP by next year, as a rate above 6% in 2019 and 2020 would be needed. BEIRUT (Dispatches) - Lebanese officials declared a state of economic Demand for credit has been weak, and while the policy easing since late last year has helped moderate the slowdown, the impact has been small, emergency on Monday, vowing to speed up public finance reforms in an according to a report by Louis Kuijs, chief Asia economist at Oxford Economics in Hong Kong. With all the issues facing China, “more policy easing is acknowledgement of the financial situation afflicting the country. needed to convincingly stabilize economic growth,” Kuijs said. China’s economic growth will likely slow to 5.7% in the last quarter of 2019 and remain “This difficult economic situation requires us taking speedy broadly at that pace in 2020, Kuijs said. Output growth softened to 6.2% in the second quarter from a year earlier, close to the lower bound of the measures such as finishing the budget on time and reducing the government’s full-year target of between 6% and 6.5%. Earliest indicators compiled by Bloomberg showed the economy slowed further in August. deficit,” Prime Minister Saad Hariri told reporters after a four-hour “We now expect China’s growth to slow to 6% this year and 5.6% next year. Our lower forecasts are subject to downside risks, given further threatened tariffs, meeting called by Michel Aoun, Lebanon’s president, to discuss the and uncertainty over how the blow to business confidence from the trade war will play out.” Bank of America’s chief Greater China economist Helen Qiao said country’s economic crisis. The meeting, attended by parliament their 2020 forecast has been cut to 5.7% from 6.0%, and warned of the risk that policy makers are falling behind the curve on support to the economy. speaker Nabih Berri, cabinet ministers, lawmakers and “The key reason for delayed policy response is policy agencies leaders of political parties, ended with an agreement on the are waiting for the instruction from top decision makers to shift outline of a plan to steer Lebanon in a more sustainable policy stance towards easing,” Qiao wrote in a note. UBS Group direction. Leaders of the Mediterranean nation agreed not to India May Have Entered “Quasi-Recession” AG sees stimulus coming in the form of more monetary easing, remove the Lebanese pound’s U.S. dollar peg, which stands but expects policy makers to refrain from boosting the property at LL1,507 to the dollar. NEW DELHI (Dispatches) - Economists at Nirmal Bang expect GDP growth to bottom out in the quarter market unless there’s a significant downturn. Wang Tao, chief Government finances, plagued by corruption and waste, ending September but believe that “a counter-cyclical government spending boost is required.” China economist, now sees growth of 5.5% in 2020, after cutting are strained by a bloated public sector, debt-servicing India’s longest growth slump since 2012 is heightening concern that it may be tough for policy makers to the growth forecast on Tuesday for the second time in less than costs and subsidizing the state power producer. reverse the slowdown. a month, down from 6.1% in early August. Hariri said the government would hold more meetings to “Growth has now slipped below the long term trend of 6.6% for two consecutive quarters, which implies accelerate the work. that India is effectively in a quasi-recession,” Teresa John, an economist at Nirmal Bang Equities Pvt. in The prime minister added that the suggested course of Mumbai, said in a report published Tuesday. Early indicators suggest “growth remains elusive,” she added. Australia Facing Worst Economic action include committing to this year’s budget, which While the standard macroeconomic definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP, a incorporated a state hiring freeze and put an end to state units significant decline in economic activity spread across months is another often-used description. In India, which offers that weighed heavily on the treasury, along with public only year-on-year calculations of output, automobile sales have plunged the most in two decades and the chairman of Growth in at Least a Decade offerings in state-owned enterprises. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. warned that the consumer goods his company makes are “recession-resistant, but not Standing at 150 percent of GDP, Lebanon labors under one of recession-proof.” Official data on Friday showed that gross domestic product in Asia’s No. 3 economy grew 5% in the heaviest public debts in the world and has been suffering low April-June from a year earlier, below the weakest estimate of 39 economists polled by Bloomberg and the slowest economic growth for years. But Hariri said the implementation pace in six years. The five straight quarters of slowing growth mark the longest slump since 2012. of reforms would avoid a crisis similar to Greece, which adopted A Bloomberg gauge of high-frequency indicators suggests that economic activity continued to weaken in aggressive austerity measures in 2008 with the intention of dealing July, with investment and consumption both falling. with a debt crisis. “We don’t want this to happen to us. So we are taking measures to save the country,” the prime minister said. Hariri added that reforms will unlock about $11bn pledged at a Paris conference last year aimed at garnering international support to finance South Africa’s Q2 Growth Beats investment and boost Lebanon’s economy. Expectations as Mining Recovers The idea of raising taxes is often put forward but would be highly SYDNEY (Dispatches) – Australian government is unpopular with the Lebanese people, many of whom are already struggling. PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African GDP Analysts said while the second-quarter GDP bracing for bad news, with the Australian economy on the When asked whether his government would raise taxes, Hariri answered grew more than expected in the second quarter print could see South Africa avoid recession in cusp of dropping to its lowest rate of growth in decades. only that the cabinet would consider any way to boost revenues, as long as thanks to a recovery in mining and manufacturing, 2019, it was not enough to stop credit rating The Government is bracing for bad news tomorrow, they were not a burden on the country. official data showed on Tuesday, in a reprieve for downgrades linked to debt issues including with the Australian economy on the cusp of slumping The government sought to prevent the budget deficit from exceeding 5 percent President Cyril Ramaphosa as the economy bailouts for state power utility Eskom. to its lowest rate of growth in almost two decades. of GDP by the end of a three-year fiscal plan that would end in 2022, he added. looks set to dodge recession this year. “It’s a great relief. A huge positive, but in The results of the June quarter will be announced The meeting came days after Fitch, the credit rating agency, downgraded After a downturn in the first half of 2018 reality it won’t do much for the credit rating tomorrow. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he Lebanon’s credit rating to CCC from B-, a move it said reflected when farming plunged, the economy has situation. That’s more about debt,” said expects the figures to reflect a “very difficult” “intensifying pressure on Lebanon’s financing model and increasing risks struggled to regain momentum, posting a shock Wayne McCurrie, portfolio manager at FNB quarter, and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg admits he is to the government’s debt servicing capacity.” contraction in the first quarter of this year. Wealth and Investments. The rand extended expecting “soft” economic growth. gains after the data, firming more than 0.5% “I suspect the June quarter results will be soft, but to a session high of 15.1125. what matters is the plan that is already in place to S. Korea August Inflation Hits Record Low GDP growth in the three months to June was address that, both now and into the future,” Mr 3.1%, after a revised contraction of 3.1% in Morrison confirmed yesterday. Economists’ forecasts SEOUL (REUTERS) - South Korea’s year-on-year inflation in August dipped to an all-time low as farm product prices plunged on the first quarter, Statistics South Africa said. are centring on a 0.5 per cent increase in gross improved weather and consumer demand remained weak, strengthening the case for another central bank rate cut as early as next month. Economists polled by Reuters had predicted domestic product (GDP), which would bring the The consumer price index was unchanged in August from a year earlier, Statistics Korea data showed on Tuesday (Sept 3), missing an expansion of 2.4% for the quarter. annual rate through to June 30 down to 1.4 per cent. a 0.2 per cent rise tipped in a Reuters survey and marking the lowest since the country began releasing inflation data in 1965. The second-quarter growth was the highest since That would be lower than the 1.7 per cent growth Separately, the Bank of Korea (BOK) on Tuesday revised down the economic growth for the April-June period to 1.0 per the fourth quarter of 2017. Year-on year GDP recorded during the 2008-09 global financial crisis, and cent on-quarter from a 1.1 per cent gain reported earlier, citing weaker exports than estimated earlier. growth was 0.9% compared with zero previously. the lowest rate since the Dotcom bubble burst in 2000. The weak inflation and economic growth data add to concerns about a deflation risk for Asia’s fourth-largest economy, The data showed mining output grew by 14.4% Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, despite assurances from top policymakers that inflation would soon pick up to 1 per cent. in the second quarter, after declining by 10.8% released yesterday, showed businesses had increased “We are not in a deflation situation yet, but over the medium term, we need to start thinking about deflation as we have previously. Manufacturing output rose 2.1%, spending on wages by 4.7 per cent in the past year more and more data showing weakness,” said Oh Chang Sob, fixed-income strategist at Korea Investment & Securities. rebounding after declining 8.8% in the first quarter. and operating profits had risen sharply for mining The inflation and economic growth data was released before local financial markets opened. “There was a strong rebound in iron prices companies — both positive indicators. Last week, the BOK kept the benchmark interest rate steady at 1.50 per cent but kept the door open for what would be the in the months leading to this quarter ... and But the data also showed a huge 0.9 per cent drop second rate cut this year after a surprise easing in July. The inflation data comes after recent batches of grim data, such as remember with mining in the first quarter in inventories, fuelling fears the economy may have figures that showed the nation’s exports tumbled for a ninth consecutive month in August. there were challenges with electricity supply even contracted during the June quarter. Two and those have eased a bit,” said Mike consecutive quarters of negative growth would Manamela, chief director for national constitute a recession. accounts at the statistics office. The Coalition made economic management the core Growth in Africa’s most industrialised rationale of its election campaign in May. Mr economy hinges heavily on saving power Frydenberg is pre-emptively blaming tomorrow’s weak firm Eskom, which is drowning in debt. figures on the disruption caused by that campaign, as At the start of the year, it implemented well as natural disasters at home and the escalating power outages that triggered a slowdown trade war between China and the United States. across most sectors in the first quarter. “With the election falling in the middle of the June Fixing Eskom, which supplies more quarter and the ongoing impact of trade tensions abroad than 90% of the power in South Africa, and devastating floods and drought at home, we are is one of the biggest challenges expecting soft June quarter results on Wednesday,” Ramaphosa faces. Mr Frydenberg told The Australian Financial Review. It is regularly cited by ratings agencies as “With last year’s June quarter growth of 0.9 per one of the main threats to South Africa’s cent coming out, the market has been clear that the investment-grade credit rating status and GDP-growth-through-the-year number will be economic growth prospects. lower than its current rate of 1.8 per cent.” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 WORLD NEWS IRAN NEWS 7

TEHRAN - An Iranian lawmaker said that President Rouhani’s ambiguous remarks on the prospect of Iran-U.S. talks were not in favor of the Islamic Republic. President Urged Not to Speak “The Islamic Republic should speak clearly with the world in its foreign policy. Making any ambiguous remark is wrong and not in favor of the Islamic Republic. We will certainly never Ambiguously About Iran-U.S. Talks negotiate with America,” Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a member of Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said.

Zarif Dismisses U.S... Venezuelan Oil Exports Fall to Lowest Level in 2019 FROM PAGE 1 The sanctions are part of a U.S. campaign since it abandoned a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and world powers of “maximum pressure” on Tehran to force it to the CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela’s oil exports fell in August to their lowest level in negotiating table over its nuclear and missiles programs. 2019, internal reports and Refinitiv Eikon data showed, hurt by a halt in purchases The accompanying U.S. trade and economic by the nation’s second largest customer, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), sanctions have dealt a heavy blow to Iran’s economy following tougher U.S. sanctions. and its currency. Tehran has faced an uphill battle Overall exports of crude and refined products by state-run oil company Petroleos de trying to get European states to keep trade and other Venezuela (PDVSA) and its joint ventures declined last month to some 770,000 barrels per economic lines open in the face of U.S. moves. day (bpd) from 992,565 bpd in July and 1.13 million bpd in June, according to revised data. The Iran Space Agency develops satellites and launch Last month, China’s state-run CNPC cancelled loadings of Venezuelan crude it had vehicle technology, and works with the Iran Space scheduled for August, after Washington issued an executive order that froze Research Center on day-to-day tasks as well as research Venezuelan government property on U.S. soil and warned foreign companies they and development, according to the State Department. The also could face sanctions for doing business with PDVSA. two have also worked with a sanctioned liquid propellant PDVSA is responsible for delivering oil to Chinese firms to repay billions of dollars ballistic missile organization, Shahid Hemmat Industrial loaned to Venezuela. The United States has been ratcheting up efforts to oust President Group, the State Department said. Nicolas Maduro, whose 2018 re-election is deemed illegitimate by most western nations. The drop comes even as a number of shipments are moving on tankers that are not turning on their signalling transponders while approaching or leaving Venezuelan China Updates... waters, according to Refinitiv Eikon vessel tracking data. This has made it difficult “It was a big satellite data gap, geographically speaking,” said Samir Madani, a to fully measure exports and confirm their delivery destination. cofounder of TankerTrackers.com. International law requires ships at sea to have a FROM PAGE 1 Since the suspension, Russia’s state-run oil company Rosneft (ROSN.MM) has satellite tracking device on board. However, a ships’ master has discretion to turn off This amount may be front-loaded into the first five-year increased its share of Venezuelan oil, with China as primary destination. Rosneft the device on safety grounds with the permission of the vessel’s flag state. period of the deal but the understanding is that further lifted 65% of PDVSA’s total exports in August versus 49% in July, according to From August through early September, two other vessels disappeared from vessel amounts will be available in every subsequent five-year internal PDVSA trade reports. tracking while in Venezuelan waters. Tanker Patmos I stopped signalling its location period, subject to both parties’ agreement, it said. The second-largest destination of Venezuelan oil last month was Europe, where while performing a trans-shipment manoeuvre at Amuay port in Venezuela, and the “There will be another $120 billion investment in Spanish oil firm Repsol has continued swapping refined products for Venezuelan Princess Mary did the same while loading at Jose port, according to vessel tracking upgrading Iran’s transport and manufacturing crude. No. 3 was Cuba, Maduro’s closest political ally. Shipments to India, data. Both have a Liberia flag. infrastructure, which again can be front-loaded into previously a preferred market for Venezuelan crude, fell to a single 1-million-barrel The Marina M and the Princess Mary were chartered by Rosneft. Tipco Asphalt the first five-year period and added to in each cargo, the data showed. Between June and July, very large crude carrier (VLCC) chartered the Patmos I, according to the PDVSA’s documents. subsequent period should both parties agree,” it added. Marina M stopped signalling as it approached to pick up a cargo at Venezuela’s Jose Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Ltd, which manages the Marina M, in an email The Petroleum Economist has been a respected energy terminal, according to independent service TankerTrackers.com and satellite images said it has never entered into any contract with PDVSA or a U.S.-sanctioned firm. It industry publication for decades, better known for its by Planet Labs Inc seen by Reuters. declined to comment on details of the charter contract to load oil in Venezuela, but sophisticated analysis. Its report follows another story last The Malta-flagged tanker loaded Venezuelan crude on July 12. Its transponder last noted that transportation covering Rosneft’s oil trade with the South American nation month that China had “re-engaged” Iran on three key energy week was picked up after completing a trip to Sikka port in India. The vessel is now does not violate U.S. sanctions. Rosneft, Tipco and the operators of the other vessels, projects, namely Phase 11 of the supergiant South Pars gas waiting to discharge, according to Refinitiv Eikon. Navig8 Group and Dynacom Tankers, did not reply to requests for comment. field, West Karoun oil fields and the Jask oil export terminal. State-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), one of the country’s “big three” producers, holds U.N. Sees Locust Trouble Brewing as Tehran Reairms... an 80% stake in Phase 11 after French major Total’s FROM PAGE 1 withdrawal in August 2018 in response to US sanctions. Yemen War Hampers Pest Control CNPC had since made little progress in developing Zarif expressed concerns over the deteriorating situation in Kashmir and appreciated the flagship project, but it has agreed to step up the Pakistan’s efforts in highlighting the issue while also reaffirming Iran’s support for the pace on its development after getting a 30% discount Kashmiri people. to the global market price on potential condensate and Zarif “appreciated the detailed briefing” and both ministers agreed to remain engaged as the LNG exports, the Petroleum Economist said. situation evolves, said the FO statement. The two foreign ministers agreed two remain in touch China has also agreed to increase production from over the issue. Iran’s West Karoun oil fields—including North Meanwhile, Qureshi also telephoned his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday and apprised him Azadegan, operated by CNPC, and Yadavaran, about grave human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir. He thanked Turk President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for operated by fellow “big three” firm Sinopec—by an raising his voice in support of armless and oppressed Kashmiris. additional 500,000 barrels per day by the end of 2020. Both Foreign Ministers agreed to continue bilateral consultations. They agreed to meet on the According to the source cited by the magazine, Iran sidelines of United Nations General Assembly’s and OIC meetings. Separately, Qureshi also hopes to increase projected recovery rates from the GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemen can expect substantial briefed his Bangladeshi counterpart Abdul Momen on the situation in the occupied valley The fields from a current 5% of reserves in place to at swarms of locusts in coming months as its war hinders Bangladeshi foreign minister stressed the importance of resolving issues through dialogue between least 25% by the end of 2021 at the very latest. pest control measures needed to prevent devastating the two nuclear-armed neighbors. “For every percentage point increase, the recoverable plagues, the United Nations said on Tuesday. reserves figure would increase by 670 million barrels, If allowed to breed unchecked in favorable conditions, or around $34 billion in revenues even with oil at locusts can form huge swarms that can strip trees and Iran Currency... $50 per barrel,” it quoted the source as saying. crops over vast areas, posing a particular danger in FROM PAGE 1 Yemen where millions already risk starvation. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) The remarks come amid reports suggesting that Iran would be willing to reverse its decisions to scale back Iran Rejects... said the regional situation was worrying: most serious commitments under the JCPOA if other parties to the deal make tangible moves that could enable the country to FROM PAGE 1 in Yemen, Pakistan and India, and at risk of worsening benefit from economic advantages of the agreement. in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto says Iran would be able to sell up to 700,000 barrels of He said he was told following French President “Yemen is a key frontline country for Desert Locust oil a day. Emmanuel Macron’s phone contacts that Europe because of its winter breeding areas along the Red Sea Faced with American sanctions that have affected its economy, Iran has already taken two steps to should either purchase oil from Iran or offer Iran a and Gulf of Aden coasts, the source of devastating reduce commitments under the JCPOA. Preparing to take a major third step this week, Iran has credit line which is equal in value to the earnings from plagues in the past,” FAO locust expert Keith Cressman declared that all scale-back measures would be reversible once non-US parties to the JCPOA, namely oil sales and which is secured through Iran’s oil sales told Reuters. Vital equipment such as four-wheel drive France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China, do enough to offset the impacts of the sanctions. French and is, in fact, a sort of forward sale of petroleum. vehicles had been looted or lost in Yemen’s four-year President Emmanuel Macron, who has been at the hearts of efforts to prevent a collapse of the JCPOA, “This credit line is worth around $15 billion for the war, making it virtually impossible to monitor or has reportedly committed his country to finance a third of the $15bn credit line. Iran’s central bank next four months, i.e., until the end of 2019,” he added. control the locusts, he said. says foreign debt has decreased by seven percent in two months. “This way, if an agreement is reached, Iran will Swarms were likely to keep breeding in Yemen’s Hemmati said in June that a mechanism meant to settle trade payments between Iran and Europe, known as either sell the entirety of its oil, or receive a credit line interior for one or two months, but winter rains could INSTEX, would only survive if the Europeans accepted to finance it through Iran’s future oil sales. and sell oil under futures contracts,” Araqchi said. foster three generations of breeding until around “After receiving the $15 billion, the Islamic March, each multiplying the population 20-fold. Republic of Iran will be ready to hold talks with the “Given that current locust numbers are already much Russia... P4+1 countries, but the reality is that there are still higher than normal in the region, there is a high FROM PAGE 1 serious disagreements between the two sides on the probability that such outbreaks will develop this year agenda of these talks,” the top official noted. He said and affected countries should prepare themselves and From Iran’s perspective, optimising oil flows through the involvement of a well-equipped and negotiations are underway on determining an agenda, take the necessary action,” Cressman said. well-functioning IOC is a key to optimising the production structure of its oil industry as a whole. but have failed to produce any specific results so far. Adult locust swarms can fly up to 150 km (93 miles) “Onshore, around 6-8% of fields are experiencing loss of output that can only be restored with “It is up to the Europeans and the U.S. to decide whether a day with the wind and adult insects can consume EOR [Enhanced Oil Recovery] techniques, whilst offshore the figure is between 12-15%, we Europe would buy Iran’s oil or purchase its under futures roughly their own weight in fresh food per day. A very think,” Richard Mallinson, senior cross-energy analyst for global energy consultancy, Energy contracts or give Iran a credit line for that,” he said. small swarm eats as much in one day as about 35,000 Aspects, in London, told OilPrice.com. “In our opinion, [Iran’s] returning to full implementation people: a devastating threat to crops. Aside from the prospects based on the flows already established, the third reason why involvement in the SPOL of [its obligations under] the JCPO will be subject to the The last major upsurge was in 2003-2005 when more project was, and remains, an attractive proposition for IOCs is that it puts them on the short list – currently a very receipt of [a credit line worth] $ 15 billion for a period of 4 than 12 million hectares were treated in west and northwest shortlist due to U.S. sanctions – for further development opportunities to monetise Iran’s massive, and still months; otherwise, Iran will continue to scale back its Africa, incurring a cost of about $750 million including relatively under-developed oil and gas sector. “The NIOC has hinted that for IOCs that become involved with the commitments,” the deputy foreign minister said. Araqchi food aid. The current outbreak began last year and some 1.2 [South Pars] Oil Layer, preferential consideration will be given to become involved in the Chesmeh Khosh, said he believes the Europeans are unlikely to be able to take million hectares have been treated, mainly by Iran, Saudi Sohrab, Jofeyr and Darkhovein fields, plus some of the even bugger fields in the West Karoun region,” the Iran effective steps by September 7, 2019, in which case Iran will Arabia, Sudan, and Eritrea over winter and spring, and by source told OilPrice.com. begin the third phase of reducing its obligations under the India and Pakistan this summer, Cressman said. Previously, the principal IOCs with interests in the SPOL was Denmark’s Maersk Group and JCPOA. “This phase will include an important part of Iran’s Those control operations have prevented a spread French oil supermajor Total. Ironically, given the subsequent turn of events regarding Iran’s commitments, and [the measures Iran is going to take in this of locusts on a much larger scale, and the situation supergiant non-associated South Pars gas field, many in the oil industry believed that one of the phase] will be announced in due time,” he said. is not yet a major upsurge, with a warning level of reasons for Total’s US$7.45 billion purchase of Danish A.P. Moller-Maersk’s oil and gas unit was He further referred to rumors suggesting a possible “yellow/threat” rather than “red/danger” on the FAO to boost the French company’s chances of being allowed to run the flagship Phase 11 of the meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani scale, Cressman said. South Pars field via being allowed first to develop the SPOL. According to the Iran source, and his US counterpart Donald Trump on the fringes “Red, the highest warning level, is reserved for the Maersk was just days away from being awarded the SPOL contract – alongside Royal Dutch of the forthcoming meeting of the General Assembly absolutely worse case situation, which we have not Shell - before Iran’s NIOC heard that Total was going to buy the Norwegian firm, so held off of the United Nations, and said, “Such a meeting is reached yet and hope not to.” awarding the contract. not on the agenda at all.” Roglic Makes Vuelta Licence Holder: Sokhan Gostar Institute Gatlin Injured During Switchboard: E-Mail Address: (+98) (21) 44253448 [email protected] 100m in Zagreb Statement With Win ISSN 1024-6053 Public Relations Tel: ERLIN (Dispatches) - Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic 15875-8551 AGREB (Reuters) - World champion Justin Gatlin (+98)(21) 44253450 P.O. 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8 IRAN NEWS SPORTS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 Boateng Under Dimitrov Stuns Federer Investigation For Assault ERLIN (Dispatches) - Bayern BMunich and former German national To Reach U.S. Open Semis team football star Jerome Boateng, 31, has been charged with assault after allegedly attacking his former partner, EW YORK (Dispatches) - Grigor Dimitrov rallied for a shocking upset of 20-time German prosecutors confirmed Tuesday. Grand Slam champion Roger Federer at the U.S. Open on Tuesday, the lowest- N “The Munich prosecutor’s office has had ranked New York semi-finalist in 28 years advancing to face Daniil Medvedev. proceedings open against Jerome Boateng The 78th-ranked Bulgarian, who had dropped all seven prior meetings with Federer, for dangerous assault since autumn 2018. made a dramatic fightback to defeat the Swiss third seed 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 at Arthur Following extensive investigations, Ashe Stadium and will face Russian fifth seed Medvedev in Friday’s semis. charges were brought on February 11, “I’m just happy,” Dimitrov said. “The only thing I was telling myself was to stay in the 2019,” chief prosecutor Anne Leiding told match. Physically I was feeling pretty good. I was hitting some shots against him that AFP-subsidiary SID, confirming reports in were hard to hit.” German media outlets Sueddeutsche Dimitrov reached his first U.S. Open semi-final to match the deepest Slam runs of his Zeitung (SZ) and WDR. career from Wimbledon in 2014 and the 2017 Australian Open. Leiding added that the court was yet to Not since 174th-ranked Jimmy Connors reached the 1991 quarter-finals had New York open the case, but had accepted an seen so lowly a figure on the ATP ratings list reach the last four. accessory prosecution from the alleged Dimitrov is also the lowest-ranked Slam semi-finalist since 94th-rated Rainer Schuettler victim, named only as ‘S.’. According to of Germany at Wimbledon in 2008. down the 16th-seeded Konta, who made 35 unforced errors, 22 more than her opponent, the SZ and WDR reports, ‘S.’ is Boateng’s Federer was denied on five break points in the 10th game of the fourth set and Dimitrov on a sun-soaked day at Arthur Ashe Stadium. former partner of ten years and the mother held to force a fifth set. Serena Williams claimed her 100th win at the U.S. Open in style on Tuesday, dismantling of two of his three children. “I was trying to stay in that game and make him stay on the court as much as possible. her quarter-final opponent Wang Qiang 6-1 6-0 in a blistering 44-minute performance that Prosecutors also confirmed that Boateng was After that he started slowing down a little bit,” Dimitrov said. ended any questions over a twisted ankle from the previous round. “I never thought that the subject of a separate police investigation “It’s a best of five sets. Anything can I would get to 100,” Williams said after the match, reflecting on the two decades she’s into assault. Former Germany central defender happen.” Federer went off the court for a spent playing at Flushing Meadows. “It’s so special. I never want to let it go.” Smith Regains Spot Boateng is one of the country’s most successful private medical timeout to treat his upper The eighth-seeded American joins Chris Evert as the only two players to log at least 100 players, having won the World Cup with As ICC’s Top-Ranked back near his neck. victories at the tournament. Williams is now only one behind Evert’s mark. Germany in 2014 and the Champions League “This is Grigor’s moment, not my body’s The 37-year-old Williams was dominant from the start, firing off 25 winners, compared Test Batsman with Bayern in 2013. moment,” Federer said. to zero from 18th-seed Wang, and winning 90% of her first serve points. ONDON (Dispatches) - Australia’s Steve Dimitrov broke Federer twice on the way LSmith has regained first place in the ICC to a 4-0 lead in the final set and the Test batting rankings after Virat Kohli’s 38-year-old Swiss star had no effective golden duck in the West Indies ended the reply, foiled by 61 unforced errors in Chiellini Out for Six Months India captain’s reign at the top. falling after three hours and 12 minutes. Smith has overtaken Kohli following the Federer, a five-time U.S. Open champion India star’s second innings flop during their who hasn’t lifted the Flushing Meadows After Knee Surgery 257-run win against the West Indies in the title since 2008, would have become the second Test in Jamaica. oldest Slam semi-finalist since Jimmy URIN (Reuters) - Juventus captain Giorgio Chiellini has been ruled out for around six months Having made 76 in the first innings, Kohli Connors at age 39 at the 1991 U.S. Open. Tafter undergoing surgery on a torn knee ligament, the Italian Seria A champions have said. edged his first ball from Kemar Roach in the Meanwhile in women’s event Ukraine’s Centre back Chiellini, 35, sustained the injury during a training session last Friday, with new signing second innings to the wicket-keeper. Elina Svitolina continued her dominant Matthijs de Ligt replacing him in the Juventus lineup in their 4-3 win over Napoli last weekend. That allowed Smith, who missed the third run against Johanna Konta with a 6-4 6-4 “Giorgio Chiellini underwent surgery to reconstruct the anterior cruciate ligament of the right Test defeat against England at Headingley win on Tuesday to reach the U.S. Open knee,” Juventus said in a statement on Tuesday. due to concussion, to open up a one-point semi-finals for the first time. “The intervention, performed at the Hochrum clinic in Innsbruck by professor Christian Fink in lead over Kohli in the rankings. The fifth seed, who has won all of her the presence of the Juventus club doctor, Dr. Tzouroudis, was perfectly successful. Smith has a chance to consolidate his meetings with the Briton, reached her “The expected recovery time is around 6 months.” position when he returns to the Australia line- second straight Grand Slam semi after also Juve have won their opening two league matches of the season as they chase their ninth up for the fourth Ashes Test against England, making the last four at Wimbledon in July. consecutive top-flight title but they must do so now without Chiellini for the majority of the campaign. The Italy international is likely starting at Old Trafford on Wednesday. Svitolina’s sturdy baseline attack wore to return in March, meaning he could be fit for the Champions League quarter-finals, if Juventus make it that far. The 30-year-old has recovered after being hit on the head by England’s Jofra Archer during the second Test at Lord’s. Smith was top of the batting rankings between December 2015 and August 2018, but surrendered pole position during his Qatar U.S. Survive one-year suspension from Test cricket. Hirscher Expected Unveils 2022 Scare and To Announce Retirement World Cup Logo ONDON (Dispatches) - Alpine Edge Turkey Lskiing legend Marcel Hirscher is OHA (Dispatches) - Qatar unveiled NKARA (Dispatches) - Reigning expected to announce his retirement on Dthe logo for the 2022 World Cup Achampions the United States were Wednesday, ending an illustrious career which will be hosted by the Persian Gulf given a huge scare in a nail-biting 93-92 that saw him win a record eighth emirate by displaying it in public spaces in overtime victory over Turkey at the consecutive World Cup this year. Doha and cities around the world Tuesday. Basketball World Cup on Tuesday to labor The 30-year-old Austrian has spoken before The design is a stylized Arabic white into the second round. about calling it quits -- as early as 2014, in fact unisex shawl with maroon patterning Khris Middleton was the overtime hero -- but lately speculation that he would stop has displayed in a figure-of-eight symbolizing for Gregg Popovich’s young team, who are intensified despite his endless winning streak. infinity while creating a heart shape chasing a third straight title, but are missing The multiple world and Olympic champion above the words “FIFA WORLD CUP Qatar 2022”. It was projected onto the vast facade their stellar names and are yet to really gel. has called a press conference for Wednesday, of the country’s National Archives in the capital’s southern Msheireb district to fanfare that Following Sunday’s comfortable but unspectacular 88-67 win over the Czech Republic in titled “Retrospectives, insights and included a procession of soldiers on horseback watched by a crowd of hundreds. their opener, Popovich said the team “got a ways to go”. perspectives” after saying earlier in the year The building was illuminated with the emblem at exactly 20:22 local time (1722 GMT) There was more evidence of that in Shanghai as they made hard work of dismissing he would announce a decision on his future -- the same as the year of the tournament. Turkey, beaten by Team USA in the 2010 final. “I have to give a shout-out to everybody on after the summer. “An era that was It was also due to be displayed at major global attractions including Times Square in New the team, we stuck together and grinded this thing out,” said Myles Turner, of the Indiana phenomenal and unique, as much as York, London’s Leicester Square and recent tournament host cities Moscow, Johannesburg Pacers, calling it one of the best games he had played in. “We know we are going to get captivating and amazing ends,” the and Sao Paulo. Preparations for the global soccer spectacle in Qatar have accelerated in every team’s best shot. We are Team USA, teams are gunning for us and want to beat us.” tabloid newspaper Kronen’s sports editor recent months. In May, the 40,000 seat al-Janoub stadium -- the first to be purpose-built The U.S. led at half-time only for Turkey -- ranked 17th in the world to America’s number wrote in a commentary on Saturday. for the tournament -- was inaugurated with an almost capacity domestic cup final. one -- to tie at 59-59 with less than two minutes left of the third quarter.