WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13233 Wednesday OCTOBER 17, 2018 Mehr 25, 1397 Safar 7, 1440 ‘The look on Trump’s Retirees’ recruitment Queiroz’s double standard Iranian center to face will be priceless after ban applies to policy over Team Melli organize photo contest hopeless Nov. 4 sanctions’ 2 Tehran mayor 12 players’ retirement 15 on Arbaeen pilgrimage 16 IRGC proposes joint operation with Pakistan against Jaish ul-Adl POLITICS TEHRAN — The Jaish informed sources say. Trip to cover up truth desk ul-Adl terrorist group Ebrahim Azizi, spokesman of Jaish kidnapped on Monday night more than 10 al-Adl, a Sunni militant group, said Police find evidence Khashoggi was killed inside Saudi consulate Iranian border guards in the Mirjavaveh the group had seized more than 10 border region with Pakistan. people. Sources put the number of the kid- “This morning Jaish al-Ad forces See page 13 napped border guards at 11. attacked a border post in Mirjaveh, and The border guards were from Basij captured all their weapons,” Azizi said in forces, policemen and IRGC personnel, an audio message sent to Reuters. 2 U.S. bullying won’t resolve supply shortage in oil market: Zanganeh ECONOMY TEHRAN — Irani- said on the sidelines of the 4th Iranian deskan Oil Minister Bijan Petroleum and Energy Club Congress Namdar Zanganeh said U.S. cannot bal- (IPEC 2018) in Tehran on Tuesday. ance a market which is suffering from The minister criticized Trump’s short supply by words and bullying, ILNA recent interferences in the oil market, reported. saying that the rise of oil prices has been “The oil market is suffering from short a “self-inflicted pain” resulted from U.S. supply and this cannot be resolved by sanctions against Iranian oil industry, words. Trump thinks he can bring the and could be easily resolved by lifting oil prices down by bullying,” Zanganeh the sanctions. 4 Iranian firms to launch medicine production lines in Africa TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN – Two Ira- in order to boost the market of Iranian desknian knowledge-based knowledge-based companies in east- companies are to establish medicine pro- ern Africa. duction lines in Uganda and Kenya. “We have already signed a five-bil- In early October, Iran’s vice pres- lion-dollar agreement with Kenya and ident for science and technology, a two-million-dollar agreement with Sourena Sattari, headed a delegation Uganda,” Hojjatollah Zabihi, director of officials and knowledge-based com- of one of the companies told Mehr news spa panies’ directors to Kenya and Uganda agency. 10 EDITORIAL Mohammad bin Salman resembles Trump: Adib-Moghaddam ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Due to the relations between the West and Hanif Ghaffari Tehran Times editor-in-chief By Javad Heirannia the United States in particular with Saudi Arabia, Political analyst @ghaderi62 the subject of Jamal khashoggi has been widely TEHRAN — Professor Arshin Adib-Moghadd- discussed. Usually, in the case of human rights am, Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at violations, Western countries accommodate Wait and the London Middle East Institute believes that I Saudi Arabia because of Saudi arms purchases Merkel’s projection never saw Mohammad bin Salman as a prudent and oil supplies. But in this case it is different. contemplate for leader. His approach to politics is ad hoc, coarse What are the reasons? regarding nationalist and lacks diplomatic skill. A: The reason is, if the evidence by the Turkish a second Professor in Global Thought and Comparative authorities is further confirmed, that this is blatant movements Philosophies and Chair of the Centre for Iranian murder of a man who was simply expressing his ike it or not, the story of liberal de- Studies at the London Middle East Institute, opinion about his country. Unfortunately, the in Europe mocracy in the West has often been also adds that “In this regard, he resembles there is pluralistic oversight of the state by an countries of West Asia and North Africa, Muslim Lunjust and inhumane. You haven’t President Trump, with the major difference active and vocal civil society.” in their orientation and culture, do not shy away n recent years, we have repeatedly made a mistake if you call it “no human that the United States is a democracy where Here is the full text of the interview: from such atrocities. 7 spoken about the blows that hit the rights.” IUnited Europe hard, and resulted However, this time the self-pro- in constant and overwhelming crises in claimed defenders of human rights this block. The European authorities now have created a commotion over the Syria Idlib deal going ahead despite missed deadline: Kremlin refer to “returning to nationalism” as a potential danger (and in some cases, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a loyalist A day after militants missed a deadline under a “We did not monitor on Tuesday any with- al-Islam – was seen as the real test of the accord, actual danger!) In this block, and warn to the West. If Khashoggi was not a demilitarization deal for Syria’s Idlib, key power- drawal or patrols in the buffer area,” head of the which was reached Sept. 17. against it without mentioning the origin devotee to the West, his murder was broker Russia said the deal was still going forward. observatory Rami Abdel Rahman said. The deal provides for a 15-20 kilometer buffer of this danger. put into oblivion like thousands of in- The agreement, reached by rebel backer Turkey The Kremlin, however, said Tuesday that zone semi circling opposition-held areas in Idlib The German Chancellor has once again nocent men, women and children in and Damascus ally Moscow, gave “radical fighters” the deal was being implemented despite some and the neighboring provinces of Latakia, Hama warned about the rise of nationalism in Eu- today’s Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, until Monday to leave a horseshoe-shaped buffer setbacks. and Aleppo. rope. The warning comes at a time when Myanmar, and Kashmir. around the last major opposition stronghold in “The memorandum is being implemented, and It gave until Oct. 10 for the zone to be cleared other European officials, including French Shouldn’t all people be the equally the war-ravaged country. But they have held their the military is satisfied with the way the Turkish of any heavy weapons, a deadline Turkey, the President Emmanuel Macron, have directly protected or perpetrators of carnage held ground, and militant heavyweight Hayat Tahrir side is working in this regard,” spokesman for observatory and rebels said had been met. or indirectly, acknowledged the weakening accountable before the laws of man? What al-Sham (HTS) pledged to continue fighting – the president Dmitry Peskov told journalists at HTS and other hard-liners, which together of Europe’s common values. This indicates is the difference between the killing of despite not having taken an explicit position on a regular briefing. hold over two-thirds of the planned buffer, that the EU authorities don’t see the danger Sheikh Nimr, Saleh Sammad, Ghazanfar the deal. “Of course one cannot expect everything to also appeared to have quietly met the first of extensive nationalism far from reality. Roknabadi, Emad and Jihad Mughniyah, By Tuesday, more than 24 hours after the go smoothly with absolutely no glitches, but the target date and pulled heavy arms out of “Nationalism and a winner-take-all Hassan Shehtah, Mustafa Badr al-Din, deadline, monitor Syrian Observatory for Hu- work is being carried out.” the zone. attitude are undermining the cohesion Samir Qnatar, Fathi Shaghaghi. These man Rights said there were “no signs” of an HTS There was no reaction from Ankara, which But publicly, HTS has stayed vague on the deal. of Europe”, German Chancellor Angela prominent figures died amid deafening evacuation. observers said was a sign of a de facto grace pe- The group, dominated by Al-Qaeda’s former Merkel said. “Perhaps the most threatening silence. Under the deal, the militants’ departure would riod to allow the deal to be fully implemented. Syrian branch, pledged this weekend that it would development for me is that multilateralism One answer lies in the nature and pave the way for patrols of the zone by its Russian Clearing the buffer of HTS and more extreme not stop fighting or give up its weapons, and insisted ideology of liberal democracy that theo- has come under such pressure,” Merkel and Turkish sponsors. militants – including Hurras al-Deen and Ansar that Russia should not be trusted. 13 rizes about individualism and tribalism, said. “Europe is facing attacks from the from Machiavelli to Hobbes to Theodor outside and from the inside.” Herzl, that extols human societies in A simple contemplation on the issue of contradiction to the creator’s command “return of the United Europe to national- for justice and accord. Human rights ism” suggests that the current European assertions are largely in sham in too Tour a fantasy authorities have played an active role in the many places globally. desire of their citizens to return to the time If assassination and slaughter is con- world of Persian before the formation of the European Union. sidered a crime, and if your conscious is In the 2014 general election, we saw more no longer at ease and you feel disgusted tales in than 100 right-wing extremist candidates by, for example, the story of Khashoggi’s finding way to the European Parliament. murder, be aware that this is your own This could be the starting point for doing, too.