WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 39th year No.13173 Thursday AUGUST 2, 2018 Mordad 11, 1397 Dhi Al Qaeda 19, 1439 You will take wish for Average oil export rises Carlos Queiroz close Maestro Vartan talks with Iran to grave: 185,000 bpd in 4 months to joining Algeria: Sahakian honored IRGC chief tells Trump 2 compared to past year 4 report 15 in Tehran 16 Zarif to Trump: Try respect for Iranians and international commitments POLITICS TEHRAN — Iranian pulling out & leaving the table. Threats, deskForeign Minister Mo- sanctions & PR stunts won’t work. Try hammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that respect: for Iranians & for int’l commit- Displaced Syrians U.S. President Donald Trump should try ments,” Zarif tweeted. respect for the Iranians and also for the His comments came as Trump said international commitments. in a joint press conference with Italian “Iran & U.S. had 2 yrs of talks. With EU/ Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Mon- E3+Russia+China, we produced a unique day that he is ready to meet with Iranian multilateral accord—the JCPOA. It’s been President Hassan Rouhani without setting to return home working. U.S. can only blame itself for any pre-condition. 2 See page 2 Parliament votes for tourism ministry TOURISM TEHRAN — Iranian Tourism Organization into a ministry, desklawmakers on Wednes- Mehr reported. day gave final approval to the establish- The bill certifies that the makeover ment of cultural heritage, handicrafts should be carried out without any expan- and tourism ministry in a bid to support sion of the current CHHTO departments tourism industry. or human resources. With 137 votes in favor, 41 against Under provision I of the bill, properties, and 1 abstention, Majlis passed the leg- facilities and human resources already islation that called for transformation of in possession of the organization will be the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and handed over to the new ministry. 10 Tehran denies rumors of Omani FM’s visit POLITICS TEHRAN – Foreign between Iran and the U.S. as Donald Trump deskMinistry spokesman called a day earlier for direct talks with Bahram Qassemi on Tuesday dismissed his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. media reports that Omani Foreign Minister “No contact has been made so far through Yusuf bin Alawi will visit Tehran on Friday. formal and diplomatic channels for making In response to ISNA’s question, Qa- the required arrangements for such a trip,” ssemi said the report is false and does Qassemi added. He said since relations be- not have any real basis, Foreign Ministry tween Iran and Oman are friendly, visits A Syrian woman, displaced from southern Idlib due to the fighting between government forces and opposition fighters, carries humanitarian aid at a makeshift AFP website reported. Reports surfaced on of the officials from the two countries are camp in Batabu, some 40 km west of Aleppo, on Jan. 24, 2018. Tuesday that Oman is ready to mediate carried out periodically at necessary times. ARTICLE PERSPECTIVE Syed Zafar Mehdi No water transfer to Lake Urmia: DOE chief Khawar Qureshi QC, Journalist By Maryam Qarehgozlou volume of water should be at 14.5 billion in agriculture sector as well as stopping dam McNair Chambers from New Delhi TEHRAN — Talking about Lake Urmia, a body of cubic meters. constriction on the rivers that feed the lake are international lawyers water shared between East and West Azarbaijan In order to revive the lake many believe that of the measures taken to help restore the lake, provinces in northwestern Iran, chief of Iran’s the only solution left is water transfer which is Issa Kalantari said over a live radio broadcast Can Pakistan’s new Department of Environment (DOE) put empha- a man-made conveyance schemes which move on Tuesday. Iran versus U.S. at sis on the fact that no water transfer scheme is water from one river basin where it is available, Public must be encouraged to PM resolve the underway for restoration of the lake. to another basin where water is less available or produce less waste the ICJ In 1999 the volume of water was at 30 billion could be utilized better for human development. Kalantari also commented on the idea of set- Kashmir issue? cubic meters, but now the lake is stretching Inter-basin water transfer from the Caspian Sea ting up incinerators in the northern provinces of n 16 July 2018, Iran instituted over some 2,100 square kilometers and the or even from other countries such as Turkey are Iran and burning municipal waste to generate proceedings against the United fter his thumping victory in Paki- volume of water is measured at some 1.640 of the options being considered to help restore electricity saying that it is not within the bounds States of America before the In- the lake. O stan general elections, Pakistan billion cubic meters. In order to maintain of possibility as the Energy Ministry should pay ternational Court of Justice (the “ICJ”) A Tehreek Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran the lake ecological balance the lake surface Improving the efficiency of water use by plant heavier subsidies for the electricity produced in following the decision of the United State Khan, known for his articulateness and area should increase to twice its current size breeding, closing illegal wells around the lake waste-to-energy plants compared to the electricity to withdraw from the Joint Comprehen- razor-sharp political acumen, delivered to almost 4,300 square kilometers and the basin, 24 percent decrease in water consumption produced in power plants in the country. 12 sive Plan of Action and impose sanctions a lengthy speech, outlining his vision and restrictive measures targeting Iran for Pakistan, his foreign policy and and its nationals, and Iranian companies, how he plans to combat the scourge a step criticized by the other parties to of corruption. He also spoke about ‘Imran Khan would stick to status-quo on Pakistan’s relations with neighbors’ INTERNATIONAL the Plan. his desire to improve ties with India TEHRAN — The elections in rigging, challenges before the new government, A: The election results are contested by major desk In its application, Iran alleges vi- and resolve the long-standing dispute Pakistan this year have been the foreign policy issues, the conundrum of gov- political parties. Their claim is that people were olations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, over Kashmir. marred by violence and allegations of large- ernment formation in Punjab province, FATF not provided form 45 which you are given after Economic Relations and Consular Rights Describing Kashmir as the “biggest scale irregularities, allegedly engineered by the grey list, and security challenges in the wake of the counting ends. There was certainly rigging contention” between the two South military establishment. Some major political the emergence of ISIS in Pakistan. and according to European Union (EU) election between Iran and the United States, Asian estranged countries, the cricket- parties have alleged that the powerful Paki- Siddiqa says the military establishment helped observers, the 2018 elections were less fair than and asks the Court to (amongst other er-turned-politician who has massive fol- stani military did not provide level-playing Imran Khan’s PTI in the election and adds that 2013. things) find that the U.S. had breached lowing in Kashmir, said the blame-game field to all the parties and favored Imran Khan’s the economy will be the biggest challenge before Clearly, the military establishment helped PTI. its obligations under the Treaty, order between India and Pakistan must stop and Tehreek Insaaf Party (PTI), which eventually his government. On the issue of foreign policy, Even before the elections, pressure was exerted the U.S. to end the sanctions and its the two sides must make serious efforts emerged as the largest single party with 115 especially relations with India and Afghanistan, on people to vote for PTI or join the party. Even threats to impose further sanctions, and to find a way out of the logjam. seats, followed by Pakistan Muslim League she says Khan would stick to the status-quo which a senior judge of the Islamabad High Court said compensate Iran. “There have been human rights vio- (PML-N) with 64 seats and Pakistan People’s is the policy of the military establishment. that judges were being called by the ISI (Paki- Iran further sought provisional meas- lations for over 30 years, and the people Party with 43 seats. Following are the excerpts: stan’s intelligence agency) to give decisions in ures from the ICJ, on the basis that the of Kashmir have suffered massively. The In this interview with Tehran Times, Ayesha Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf (PTI) emerged a manner to block PML-N’s path. U.S. had already started to enforce the leadership of Pakistan and India now Siddiqa, a Pakistani military scientist, political as the single largest party in Pakistan elections, Now Imran Khan is all set to become the re-imposed sanctions and restrictive need to come to the table to resolve this commentator and an author who serves as but the outcome has been marred by allegations new Prime Minister of Pakistan after a long po- measures. Provisional measures are and end the blame games,” Khan said, a research associate at the SOAS South Asia of irregularities. Did the military establishment litical journey. What are the biggest challenges generally sought where a party alleges choosing his words carefully. “We are Institute, speaks about the allegations of vote favor PTI over other parties? before his government? 6 that there is a real risk of irreparable stuck at square one.