Iran urges Iran oil exports Iran’s Azmoun likes to Emir Kusturica cancels 21112Azerbaijan, Armenia 4 surpass 2 million face Saudi Arabia in World Tehran trip over NATION to silence guns ECONOMY bpd: minister SPORTS Cup qualifier ART& CULTURE professionalp reason WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y I accept responsibility for technical part of JCPOA 2 12 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 37th year No.12519 Monday APRIL 4, 2016 Farvardin 16, 1395 Jumada Al Awwal 25, 1437 Europe’s Azerbaijan banks begin Iran not to negotiate, compromise claims tentative ceasefire in return to Iran on missile program: Araqchi Nagorno- Karabakh European banks are tentatively re-en- Iran not to negotiate, compromise on missile program: Araqchi gaging with Iran as the Middle East’s Azerbaijan has decided to unilater- second-largest economy slowly emerg- ally cease all hostilities in Karabakh, es from a sanctions regime that has kept POLITICAL TEHRAN – between Iran and the U.S. and the country’s Defense Ministry said. It desk it in the financial wilderness for years. Deputy For- the nuclear deal does not mean added it would resume military action Belgium’s KBC, Germany’s DZ Bank eign Minister for Legal and an end to the enmities. if attacked. and Austria’s Erste Bank all confirmed International Affairs Abbas The nature of the Islamic “Based on our love of peace and when contacted by the Financial Times Araqchi has said that Iran’s Republic of Iran and its policies the calls of international organizations, that they have started handling trans- missile program is a “national has not changed, he added. Azerbaijan decided to unilaterally actions on behalf of European clients and defense” issue and the Is- Elsewhere, Araqchi said that cease military response action,” min- doing business in Iran. lamic Republic will not negoti- Iran considers the U.S. visa istry spokesman Vagif Dyargahly said. However, bigger European ate or compromise on it. waiver program and restric- The ministry, however, reiterated its banks remain on the sidelines along- In a televised interview late tions in this respect a violation accusations that Armenia is to blame side their U.S. rivals, scarred by a string on Saturday, he said that Iran of the Joint Comprehensive for the continued hostilities. It said that of multibillion-dollar fines for earlier has tested no missile capable of Plan of Action. it would return fire, if their opponents sanctions breaches in Iran. carrying nuclear warhead and On the removal of sanc- try to take back territory captured by In January, Iran and six leading pow- therefore the UN Security Coun- tions, he said that the sanc- the Azeris during the Sunday offensive. ers — U.S., Britain, France, Russia, Chi- cil Resolution 2231 has not tions that are not related to “The Armenian side tried to take na and Germany — implemented an been violated. the nuclear deal will not be back the territories liberated by Azer- agreement reached in July when Tehran Araqchi, who act- removed. baijan’s military yesterday and lost 10 agreed to scale down its nuclear activi- ed as senior negoti- Iran and the 5+1 group - the tanks and soldiers,”ministry spokes- ties in return for lifting of some sanctions. ator in concluding United States, Britain, France, man Vagif Dyargahly said. But the continuation of many U.S. nuclear talks with China and Russia plus Germa- Azerbaijan considers Na- sanctions relating to other issues has the West, also ny - finalized the text of the gorno-Karabakh military as Armeni- made many international banks wary said that there JCPOA in Vienna on July 14, an and refers to them as such. Na- of working with Iranian institutions and have been 2015. The nuclear deal went gorno-Karabakh is self-governed, but individuals. The chairman of one of Eu- hostilities into effect in January, 2016. has strong support from Armenia. rope’s biggest banks said: “All the law- The condition may be something yers’ reports I get continue to say there that Karabakh authorities would not are still many sanctions left on Iran.” agree to observe. On Sunday morn- Banks have paid more than $15bn in ing, their military recaptured one of fines for breaching sanctions in various the hills previously lost to Azerbaijan, countries over the past five years. The according to the Armenian Defense most costly was the $8.9bn penalty for Ministry. 9 France’s BNP Paribas in 2014. 4 Military power is Machiavellianism is dominant in Middle East: analyst ARTICLE for defense not By Hisae Nakanishi INTERVIEW help us better understand the cur- logic of stability. Today’s interna- stable order. Professor of the Graduate aggression: Navy By Javad Heirannia rent conditions in the Middle East. tional system is still searching for French President Hollande School of Global Studies, chief Don’t you consider the col- a workable replacement for the has called for greater role for Doshisha University TEHRAN – South Alabama Uni- lapse of the bipolar system as bipolarity of the Cold War era. To France in Syria. Does this mean Key aspects for POLITICAL TEHRAN — Navy versity Professor Nader Entessar the main reason behind the cri- use a term used by the late Hed- that the EU is seeking a stronger deskCommander Rear believes that Machiavellianism is ses in the Middle East? ley Bull, the Australian theorist voice in international politics? the Iran-Saudi Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on dominant in the Middle East. A: Certainly the bipolar inter- of international relations, today’s A: Obviously the EU prefers Eu- Sunday that as the Supreme Leader “Also, theories of imperialism will national system, notwithstanding international system is indeed an rope to play a strong role in shap- relationship has emphasized, Iran’s defense capa- also help us better understand the all its shortcomings, had its own anarchic system in search of an ing the post-Cold War international current conditions in the Middle system. However, today’s Europe bility is for defensive rather than ag- t has been about three months East,” Entessar tells the Tehran Times. is not as dominating a player in gressive purposes. Certainly the bipolar international since Iran and Saudi Arabia cut “He (the Leader) has rightly said if Following is the full text of the world affairs as it had once been. I their diplomatic relationship after interview: system, notwithstanding all its Europe’s power is being overshad- we lack power, they (Western powers) Saudi execution of Shia religious lead- Has the dominant politics owed by other emerging forces do not negotiate with us,” the rear ad- shortcomings, had its own logic of er Nimu al-Nimr and the subsequent in the Middle East in the recent outside the European continent. miral told reporters. “If we have power, event of an attack on the Saudi em- years been Hobbesian, Kantian stability. Today’s international system Furthermore, in foreign relations, they sit for negotiations.” bassy in Tehran in January. Internation- or Lockean? is still searching for a workable Europe has generally become an He added that Iran is the “greatest al society has grown its concern with A: I think Machiavellianism is a appendage of U.S. foreign policy, power in the region” but has no “in- replacement for the bipolarity of the a possibility of military escalation since more apt term to use in this regard. and thus it cannot be viewed as a tention” to invade any country. Cold War era. then. The further development that Also, theories of imperialism will also truly independent actor. The military capability is for “re- Turkey and Saudi Arabia threatened storing our rights and defending our to launch ground operations in Syria interests, resources and borders,” he Rains kill 36 Pope announces special collection in the middle of February also raised a noted. in NW Pakistan for Ukraine in European churches future possibility of military confronta- The remarks by the navy chief tion between Iran and Saudi Arabia in came as certain Western countries At least 36 people were killed and Pope Francis on Sunday an- Syria. Will Iran and Saudi Arabia have have created commotion over the 27 injured after heavy rain across nounced that a special collection a military confrontation in the near recent missile tests conducted by northwest Pakistan caused the would be taken up in all of Eu- future? Is there any prospect for the Iran. roofs of dozens of homes to col- rope’s Roman Catholic churches restoration of the relationship between The U.S. itself has acknowledged lapse, officials said Sunday. on April 24 to raise funds to help the two states soon? that the missile tests are not a breach The deaths were reported in the people of Ukraine. There are at least two key elements of the nuclear deal officially known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Speaking to tens of thousands that have shaped and will impact the the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Ac- during a downpour that be- of people at the end of a Mass future Iran-Saudi relationship. One tion (JCPOA). gan Saturday night, a provincial in St. Peter’s Square, he said he is Iran’s role in Geneva negotiations. According to the Resolution disaster management agency wanted the collection to be a “ges- After the surprise declaration of Rus- 2231, Iran should not design mis- spokesman said. ture of charity that, apart from al- sia’s withdrawal from Syria, President siles capable of carrying nuclear The number known to have susceptible to collapse during leviating material suffering, shows sanctions on Russia, and a lull in Assad seems to feel much pressure warheads.