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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. You pick puppets to rule over “Tehran Times” making fundamental changes in macroe- your lands, scare people off Islamic virtues By Manijeh Rezapoor conomic policies and creating a different and create Islamophobia and back the relationship between the European leaders terrorist Wahhabis. TEHRAN – “Tehran Times” — no, not the news- and the citizens of this block. But this did Iranian rocketry exists only to try to paper… an art exhibit in Tehran — can tickle the not happen in practice. defend Iran and the oppressed against interest of any art aficionado to find out what it Although the failure of European lead- the brutality of tyrants. Have the fol- has to offer on the walls out of curiosity. ers to manage the immigration crisis and, And there it is. Graphic designer Yazdan Saadi lowers of true Islam led by Prophet Mojtaba Arabzadeh most importantly, the continuation of the Mohammad (pbuh) ever started war has framed editions of the Tehran Times front page economic crisis in some of the Eurozone on each other? as a surface for his miniature paintings hanging countries has contributed to the formation If you want to know the truth about the on the walls of Seyhun Gallery in Tehran. of the current situation, but it should not obscene application of power and militancy The paintings take visitors beyond their imagi- be forgotten that the growth of radical and you can study the honest narratives of Honaronline/ nation into the world of ancient Persian tales. It is nationalist parties in Europe has largely Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Palestine, as if a morshed (mentor) is standing there beside been due to the block’s officials incapability Iran Air Flight 655, the Balkans, and the Artist Yazdan Saadi poses during the opening ceremony of his exhibition “Tehran Times” at the works and is narrating stories driven from the in convincing European citizens about the heart of ancient Iranian history for you. war on Yemen, among other atrocities. Seyhun Gallery in Tehran on October 12, 2018. 16 major policies in Europe. 13 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y POLITICS OCTOBER 17, 2018 MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS Rouhani hosts Seven ambassadors deliver meeting with top economists credentials to Rouhani POLITICS TEHRAN — President Hassan Rouhani deskon Monday hosted a meeting with 26 economic experts and economics professors to discuss the economic problems and ways to resolve them. The meeting lasted 3 hours. Rouhani said practical solutions should be proposed to resolve the problems, the Iran newspaper reported. It was decided that a number of committees consisting of the attendants be established so that they could propose their solutions on unemployment, banking system and other issues through a direct channel to the president. Samir Veladzic Vika Mazwi Khumalo Veronique Petit Iran boosts land-to-sea missile range to 700 km POLITICS TEHRAN — Iran has announced that its desklatest missile technology achievements include a land-to-sea missile with a range of 700 kilometers. “The missiles we produce, [with ranges] from 200 kilom- eters to 2,000, are all precision missiles. Those produced in Mitsugu Saito Mohammed Hamad Saad al-Fahid al-Hajeri Jacques Louis Werner Amadou Sow the past are also being enhanced into precision projectiles.” Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolution POLITICS TEHRAN — He noted that there is no impediment The Senegalese diplomat welcomed Werner, whose country is home to the United Guards Corps Aerospace, said on Tuesday, according to ISNA. deskAmbassadors from to closer ties. expansion of ties. Nations’ top court, Rouhani said, “I hope Over the past years, Iran has made major breakthroughs seven countries separately handed over The Belgian ambassador, for her part, Samir Veladzic, the new ambassador of ruling of the International Court of Justice in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in manufac- their credentials to President Hassan called the 2015 nuclear deal a “great success” Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rouhani also would change the U.S. administration’s illegal turing military equipment and hardware despite sanctions Rouhani and held talks with him. at the international arena. called or closer ties between the two countries. behavior, especially on the issue of inhuman and economic pressures on the country. During his meeting with Japanese The EU has been making any efforts Rouhani calls South Africa a ‘close sanctions.” Tehran asserts that its missile arsenal is strictly in Ambassador Mitsugu Saito, Rouhani to preserve the JCPOA, said Ambassador friend’ The ICJ ordered the U.S. on October 3 to the service of defensive purposes and poses no threat to said that investment by the two countries’ Petit whose country is the capital of the In his meeting with Vika Mazwi Khumalo, lift sanctions on “humanitarian” goods to Iran. other states. private sector is essential to strengthen European Union. the new South African ambassador, Rouhani ICJ unanimously ruled that Washington economic ties. ‘Iran, Qatar are determined to said that Iran considers South Africa a “shall remove by means of its choosing any Rouhani noted that Iran and Japan share expand ties’ “close friend”. impediments arising from the measures ‘The look on Trump’s common views on many issues. During his meeting with new Qatari He noted that the two countries have good announced on May 8 to the free exportation face will be priceless For his part, Saito said that Japan seeks Ambassador Mohammed Hamad Saad al- capacities to expand relations. to Iran of medicines and medical devices, expansion of relations with Iran. Fahid al-Hajeri, Rouhani said that Tehran For his part, the South African diplomat food and agricultural commodities” as well after hopeless Nov. 4 Ambassador Saito said that Japanese and Doha are determined to expand ties. called for expansion of relations, especially as airplane parts, said judge Abdulqawi companies will continue cooperation with He noted that closer ties between the two in economic area. Ahmed Yusuf. sanctions’ Iran in spite of the U.S. sanctions. countries are beneficial to the whole region. The Iranian president also discussed Five new Iranian ambassadors POLITICS TEHRAN — Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a ‘Iran ready to boost cooperation The Qatari diplomat said that Doha seeks expansion of relations with the new Dutch to foreign countries meet Rouhani desksenior foreign policy advisor to the parlia- with European Union’ to expand relations with Iran in line with Ambassador Jacques Louis Werner. Rouhani also held a meeting with new ment speaker, said on Tuesday that the look on U.S. President In his meeting with Veronique Petit, interests of the two countries. Rouhani told the Dutch envoy that the Iranian ambassadors to Spain, Kuwait, Trump’s face will be “priceless” after the new and “hopeless” the new ambassador of Belgium, Rouhani In a separate meetings with Senegalese nuclear deal should be preserved after Romania, Bangladesh and Sierra Leone. U.S. sanctions on Iran go into effect on November 4. said that Iran is ready to expand political Ambassador Amadou Sow, the president said the U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the He called on the ambassadors to make The Islamic Republic of Iran will continue its path of and economic relations with the EU states, that Iranian companies are ready to expand international agreement. any efforts in line with expanding relations progress, improving people’s livelihood, and thriving the especially Belgium. activities in Senegal. In the talks with Ambassador Louis with other countries. national economy, in the same way it boosted its missile, scientific and nuclear capabilities, Amir-Abdollahian tweeted. “The United States will never be able to keep the sanc- tions in place,” he stated. IRGC proposes joint operation with Pakistan ‘EU’s Tehran office launch Army against Jaish ul-Adl depends on JCPOA package’ Over 10 Iranian border guards kidnapped in the border with Pakistan POLITICS TEHRAN — Chairman of the Iranian 1 The group also claimed responsibility on its Twitter for joint (military) operation with the Pakistani army against deskParliament National Security and Foreign account. hooligans to free the hostages,” the commander proposed. Policy Committee has said the opening of a European Union Later on Tuesday, the IRGC Ground Force’s Quds Unit He expressed regret that over the past year bandits and office in Tehran is dependent on the European countries’ confirmed that “a number of local Basij and border forces terrorists attacked Iranian posts several times. economic package and its practical effect on protecting were abducted by terrorists late on Monday night in the Iran’s Sunni Muslim community has condemned the Iran’s benefits from the 2015 nuclear pact, aka JCPOA, Mirjavaveh border region.” terrorist attack, saying such acts of terror are aimed at weak- which the U.S. ditched on May 8. In a statement, the Quds Unit said the kidnapping was ening the “Shia-Sunni unity”. Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh further voiced hopes that conducted by agents of “anti-[Islamic] Revolution terrorist Iran summons Pakistani ambassador the package, which will be proposed in the coming days, groups, with the support of foreign [spy] agencies.” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned would meet Iran’s required standards and lead to facilita- It added that Iranian security and defense forces were the “terrorist act” and urged Pakistan to take immediate tion of the opening of the EU office in Tehran, Euronews in pursuit of the “bandits, terrorists and the enemy’s measures and use all its capabilities to free the kidnapped reported on Monday. agents”, and necessary measures to free the abducted forces and arrest the terrorists. forces were underway. Qassemi said the Pakistani ambassador to Tehran, who The Quds unit also called on the Pakistani government was summoned to the Foreign Ministry, expressed deep ‘Sovereignty over to take immediate measures to free the Iranian forces and regret over the incident and said he will pursue the issue also put up a serious fight against bandits and terrorists who through the Islamabad government and will report on the Persian Gulf have nested along Pakistan’s borders and are supported and Forces, proposed a joint military operation with Pakistan’s actions of the government as soon as possible. nonnegotiable’ used by certain reactionary countries of the region. army against “hooligans” to release the kidnapped forces. He added that Iran’s ambassador to Islamabad is also Mohammad Pakpour, the commander of the IRGC Ground “Terrorists have bases inside Pakistan and we are ready pursuing the issue through the Pakistani government.

POLITICS TEHRAN — A member of parliament says deskIran’s sovereignty over the three islands of Japan says continuing cooperation with Tehran under sanctions Greater, Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf is A senior official of Japan International Co- The official referred to the last month The chief executive officer of JICA in ernment intends to promote the stable unnegotiable, refuting unfounded remarks by an Emirati MP. operation Agency (JICA) announced that meeting between the Japanese prime Iran said in September that general policy development of Iranian economy by shar- Seyyedeh Fatemeh Hosseini, in a message on social media the country will not alter its supportive minister and Iranian president, and of the Japanese government and Japan ing experiences and undertaking joint on Tuesday, said any activity by Tehran regarding the triple policies towards Iran after implementation said, “Despite sanctions, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency is to cooperation programs. islands is the unalienable right of the Islamic Republic. of the US sanctions on November 4. government will not change its supportive strengthen economic relations between Tanaka noted that Qeshm Island has She also stressed that the “Persian Gulf” is the only his- “JICA always supports development of policies towards Iran.” Iran and Japan. a unique ecosystem and rich natural re- torically registered name for the body of water which some mutual cooperation in the private sector The Japanese government started Of- Addressing the fourth Joint Coordi- sources, the preservation and protection Arab countries have been trying to indicate otherwise. and it will use its utmost efforts to return ficial Development Assistance activities nating Committee meeting held at Qeshm of which can attract more tourists to Iran Recently the UAE representative at the Inter-Parlia- the Japanese companies to the Iranian in Iran in 1957 and JICA officially estab- Island, Hiroyuki Tanaka added that JI- and bring about economic prosperity. mentary Union (IPU) conference in Geneva repeated the market,” the head of JICA’s office in Iran lished a Tehran office in 1974. In the almost CA’s comprehensive plan was launched Tanaka said the comprehensive plan is country’s old ownership claims over the islands which were told FNA on Monday. 60 years of Japan’s assistance program, in Qeshm in 2015 to create conditions for approaching its final stages, which does not rejected by the UN Security Council back in 1980 after the He explained that JICA is an organiza- JICA has helped Iran implement many the development of the island based on the mean the end of cooperation, therefore the UAE filed a suit with the international body. tion affiliated to the Japanese government, projects with government agencies and participation of local communities, along Free Zone Organization of Qeshm should adding that the Japanese government local officials, particularly in the field of with ensuring environmental protection. continue to implement pilot projects and 40 forex market supports Iran. environmental conservation. He underlined that the Japanese gov- maintain its regulatory role. disruptors detained Senior Iranian diplomat hold talks with Oman FM on Yemen POLITICS TEHRAN — A senior Iranian diplomat The United Nations warned on Monday that Yemen could deskheld talks on Tuesday with Oman’s Foreign be facing the worst famine in 100 years if airstrikes by the Minister Yusuf bin Alawi on regional developments particu- Saudi-led coalition are not halted. POLITICS TEHRAN — Forty suspects were detained larly the ways to silence the guns in Yemen through dialogue. If war continues, famine could engulf the country in the deskon Monday as part of the Judiciary’s crack- Hossein Jaberi Ansari, the special assistant to the Iranian next three months, with 12 to 13 million civilians at risk of down on disruptors of foreign currency market. foreign minister, who arrived in Muscat late on Monday, starvation, said Lise Grande, the agency’s humanitarian The suspects were handed to judicial authorities and also planned to hold separate talks with representatives coordinator for Yemen. huge sums of money belonging to them were confiscated, from different Yemeni groups about diplomatic efforts to “I think many of us felt as we went into the 21st century IRNA reported on Monday, citing the Judiciary. end the “imposed war” on Yemen, the Foreign Ministry that it was unthinkable that we could see a famine like we On Sunday, Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein media office reported. saw in Ethiopia, that we saw in Bengal, that we saw in parts Mohseni-Eje’i announced that 196 suspects had been A few days ago Jaberi Ansari held negotiations in Tehran of the Soviet Union – that was just unacceptable. detained in Tehran over smuggling and corruption in with the Swedish special envoy for Yemen and Libya in “Many of us had the confidence that would never happen the foreign currency market. line with Tehran’s efforts to end the war on Yemen and again and yet the reality is that in Yemen that is precisely He further said the special court tasked with fighting bring an immediate end to the human catastrophe in the what we are looking at,” Grande told the BBC. corruption in the foreign currency market had handed man for Arab affairs, held a meeting in Tehran with Muham- impoverished state. The Saudi-led coalition has been pounding Yemen since down sentences against 49 people. mad Abdusalam, the spokesman for the Yemeni Ansarullah, Also on October 1, Jaberi Ansari, who acts as Iran’s point discussing ways to settle the Yemen war politically. March 2015 with sophisticated weapons supplied by the West. II NN TT EE RR NN AA TT II OO NN AA LL DD AA II LL YY OCTOBEROCTOBER 17, 2018 ANALYSISINTERNATIONAL & INTERVIEW 3 Leading U.S. senator accuses Saudi Senior Russian officials meet prince of ordering Khashoggi killing bin Salman to discuss Syria U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican close to President A high-level Russian delegation has traveled to Saudi Arabia Donald Trump, on Tuesday accused Saudi Crown Prince and met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss Mohammed bin Salman of ordering the murder of Saudi the crisis in Syria. journalist Jamal Khashoggi and called him a “wrecking ball” The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the dele- who is jeopardizing relations with the United States. gation, including senior foreign and defense ministries officials, Many members of the U.S. Congress, which has long had had been in Saudi Arabia on October 14 and 15. a testy relationship with Saudi Arabia, have issued strong The Russian team also held talks with Saudi Foreign Minister criticism of the kingdom since Khashoggi’s disappearance Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir. at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. “There was a detailed exchange of views on the situation in Graham put the blame directly on the crown prince, who the region of the Middle East and North Africa with an emphasis is known by his initials, MbS. on the development of events in Syria,” the ministry said. “Nothing happens in Saudi Arabia without MbS knowing “A common understanding was expressed of the need to finally it,” he said in an interview with Fox News. eliminate the hotbeds of terrorism in this country, the importance “I’ve been their biggest defender on the floor of the United of speeding up a reliable and long-term political settlement of States Senate,” Graham said. “This guy is a wrecking ball. the Syrian crisis,” it said. He had this guy murdered in a consulate in Turkey and to Russia, along with Iran, has been helping the Syrian expect me to ignore it. I feel used and abused,” Graham said. government its efforts to liberate the country of the terror “The MbS figure is to me toxic. He can never be a world groups. leader on the world stage.” The foreign-backed militancy in Syria seems to be nearing an Saudi Arabia denies that it had any role in Khashoggi’s end as Syria and its allies are preparing to liberate Idlib Province, disappearance. But last week, 22 senators triggered a U.S. the last terrorist bastion in the country. investigation of whether human rights sanctions should be Damascus and its allies are now involved in diplomatic ef- imposed over the disappearance of Khashoggi. forts with Turkey to retake the city from militants without any Graham said he did not know what Trump was going to military operations. do about the incident, which involves the United States’ close Many of the terrorists in Syria are either supported by Riyadh but complicated relationship with Saudi Arabia. or inspired by Wahhabism, a Takfiri ideology dominating Saudi “I know what I’m going to do. I’m going to sanction the Arabia and freely preached by its clerics. hell out of Saudi Arabia,” Graham said. “I feel personally Moscow’s talks in the kingdom come as Riyadh is grappling offended. They have nothing but contempt for us. Why would with a diplomatic crisis surrounding the disappearance of dis- you put a guy like me and the president and in this box after sident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its consulate in Is- all the president has done? This guy’s gotta go.” King Salman that perhaps “rogue killers” were behind the and crown prince on Tuesday to discuss the disappearance tanbul, Turkey. Trump has taken a less aggressive stance toward the disappearance of Khashoggi, a sharp critic of the crown prince. of Khashoggi. However, the Russian Foreign Ministry made no reference Saudis, suggesting on Monday after speaking with Saudi U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met the Saudi king (Source: AP) to talks on the matter. (Source: TASS) NATO cyber command to be fully operational in 2023 A new NATO military command center to be waged on computer networks. deter computer hackers should be fully staffed The center could potentially use cyber DR Congo: Ebola claims 24 in 2023 and able to mount its own cyber weapons that can knock out enemy missiles attacks but the alliance is still grappling with or air defenses, or destroy foes’ computer lives in one week ground rules for doing so, a senior general networks if commanders judge such a cyber said on Tuesday. attack is less harmful to human life than a At least 33 people have been infected with the deadly Ebola virus While NATO does not have its own cyber traditional offensive with live weaponry. in the past week, 24 of which have since passed away, the health weapons, the U.S.-led alliance established an That is now the subject of intense debate ministry of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said. operations center on Aug. 31 at its military at NATO, with alliance commanders saying According to the ministry, the cases were discovered between hub in Belgium. The United States, Britain, publicly that cyber will be an integral part of October 8 and October 14. Estonia and other allies have since offered future warfare but allies unclear what would So far, 211 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola have been their cyber capabilities. trigger NATO’s Article 5 (collective defense) reported since early July, when the latest outbreak of the disease “This is an emerging domain and the threat clause. “Our concept of operations, a toolbox started, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. is growing,” said Major General Wolfgang for short-notice decisions about how to re- Of those, 138 people have died from the highly deadly hem- Renner, a German air force commander who spond, is not in place yet. This is one of the orrhagic fever. oversees the new cyber operations center, challenges we face,” Renner said. All cases have been found in the northeastern region of the or CYOC, in Mons. If NATO can agree cyber warfare princi- central African country, the WHO has stated. “We have to be prepared, to be able to ples, the alliance hopes to integrate individual The latest Ebola outbreak started in July and could go on for execute operations in cyberspace. We have nations’ cyber capabilities into alliance oper- another three or four months, the WHO has said. already gone beyond protection and preven- ations, coordinated through the Mons cyber In recent weeks, the rate of new Ebola cases has more than tion,” he told Reuters during a NATO cyber operations center and under the command doubled after rebel violence in northeastern DRC caused response conference. NATO’s evolving strategy as allied govern- When fully operational, the cyber center of NATO’s top general, the Supreme Allied efforts to be briefly suspended, health officials said earlier this week. NATO communication and computer net- ments look for a response. The European aims to coordinate NATO’s cyber deterrent Commander Europe, or SACEUR. Most of the new cases have been in Beni, a city of several works face hundreds of significant hacking Union on Monday discussed its options, in- through a 70-strong team of experts fed with That could allow the top general to take hundred thousand people,where experts had to suspend Ebola attempts every month, according to the NATO cluding a special economic sanctions regime military intelligence and real-time information quick decisions on whether to use cyber containment efforts for days after a deadly rebelattack killed 21. Communication and Information Agency, to target cyber attackers. about hackers ranging from Islamist mili- weapons, similar to existing agreements for The Congolese army has blamed the Allied Democratic Forces while experts say Russia, North Korea and “Our ultimate aim is to be completely tants to organized crime groups operating NATO’s air defenses and its ballistic missile (ADF), a notorious rebel group, for that attack. China are constantly deploying sophisticated aware of our cyberspace, to understand on behalf of hostile governments. shield, where a commander has only minutes With multiple armed groups active in the region, health of- computer hacking weapons and surveillance minute-by-minute the state of our networks Article 5 debate to decide what action to take. ficials have said they are effectively operating in a warzone. software. Accusations by Western govern- so that commanders can rely on them,” said NATO has formally recognized cyberspace “From my point of view, this is basically In a response to the violence, the government said it would ments this month that Russia waged a global Ian West, chief of cyber security at the NATO as a new frontier in defense, along with land, possible, but it has to be arranged,” Renner said. deploy security forces to protect teams transporting the bodies hacking campaign have raised the profile of communication agency. air and sea, meaning battles could henceforth (Source: Reuters) of Ebola victims for burial Earlier this week, the WHO noted that all of the health workers who have caught Ebola in this epidemic - 19 so far - have been Two Koreas, UN Command wrap up first talks on disarming border infected outside of hospitals or clinics, meaning that the virus is spreading in the community. North and South Korea held their first three-way talks with set out by the two Koreas. Following the rapid increase in cases in northeastern DRC, the United Nations Command (UNC) on Tuesday to discuss “I am encouraged by this productive, trilateral dialogue,” the WHO also warned the disease might spread to neighbour- ways to demilitarize the border as the neighbors push for Brooks said in a statement. Future meetings would move on ing Rwanda and Uganda, adding that those countries are well peace, South Korea’s defense ministry said. to tackle the steps the two sides had set out, he said. prepared but have not yet approved the use of a vaccine. The two Koreas agreed this week to begin reconnecting North Korea and the rich, democratic South are techni- (Source: Al Jazeera) rail and road links, in spite of U.S. concerns that a rapid cally still at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in thaw in relations could undermine efforts to press North a truce, not a peace treaty. Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. As an initial step, the neighbors are looking to pull out 11 Tuesday’s meeting followed a summit between leaders of guard posts within 1 km (0.6-mile) of a Military Demarcation the two countries in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, Line on their border by the end of the year. last month. They began removing land mines in several small areas The two leaders agreed to hold talks with the UNC, which this month and will build roads for a pilot project set for Notice of tender for export sale overlaps with U.S. forces in the South and oversees affairs in April to excavate the remains of soldiers missing from the No.Notice Ei/97/01 of tender for export sale No. Ei/97/01 the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, tion steps to be conducted in the future,” the South Korean Korean War. Golgohar Iron & Steel Development Co. announces to smooth the way to disarming one of the world’s most ministry said in a statement. Both sides will also withdraw all firearms from a Joint Golgohar Iron & Steel Development Co. announces selling and export 30.000 heavily fortified frontiers. The steps they are aiming for range from withdrawing Security Area (JSA) at Panmunjom, cut to 35 each the num- selling and export 30.000 metric ton of DRI based on metric ton of DRI based on EX-WORKS Sirjan, Shiraz road 50 kms, Golgohar The meeting on Tuesday lasted for about two hours at firearms and guard posts to reducing personnel and adjust- bers of personnel stationed there and share information on EX-WORKS Sirjan, Shiraz road 50 kms, Golgohar mine the border village of Panmunjom, and was led by military ing surveillance equipment, the ministry said, adding that surveillance equipment. mine special road 5 kms, with the following specifications. officials of the rank of colonel from the two sides and Burke the three-way channel would be used for more discussions. Tourists will be allowed to go into the JSA. special road 5 kms, with the following specifications. Hamilton, secretary of the UNC Military Armistice Com- General Vincent Brooks, who leads the United Nations The measures would transform the border into a “place Item DRI mission, the ministry said. Command, said the talks were designed to use existing means of peace and reconciliation,” the ministry has said. Typical “They discussed practical issues regarding demilitariza- of managing issues along the DMZ to try to achieve the goals (Source: Reuters) NO. Properties 1 Fe (Total)% 88.1±0.2 2 Fe (Metal)% 81.5±0.5 U.S. sanctions policy against Russia undermines dollar’s reserve currency 3 MD% 92.5±0.5 4 C% 2±0.2 position: Goldman Sachs 5 S% 0.005±0.001 6 P% 0.035±0.002 Washington’s aggressive policy against bonds in the second quarter,” the economist 7 % 3±0.2 Moscow could be a sufficient reason behind said. the recent fall of the dollar’s share of global “This would account for more than half 8 % 0.8±0.2 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆2 central-bank reserves, according to econo- of the decline in the share of dollar reserves 9 Cao%2 3 0.7±0.2 mist at U.S. multinational investment bank during the quarter.” 10 Mgo%𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆 1.85±0.1 Goldman Sachs. According to the recent data revealed 11 Tio2% 0.075±0.005 Russia’s Central Bank has sold some by the International Monetary Fund, share 12 Fine% 3±1 $85 billion of its $150 billion holding of the of the U.S. national currency in the global

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STOCK MARKET Crude oil sales to TEDPIX 182834.3 IFX 2027.54 Sources: tse.ir, Ifb.ir initiate at IRENEX CURRENCIES since Oct. 28 USD 42,000 rials ECONOMY EUR 48,494 rials TEHRAN — Offering he announced addressing the 4th Iranian deskcrude oil at Iran Energy Petroleum and Energy Club Congress & GBP 55,053 rials Exchange (IRENEX) will be commenced on Exhibition in Tehran. October 28 to thwart U.S. sanctions, ISNA Offering oil will be continued till November assessments and the gained experiences in oil at stock market to permit the Iranian AED 11,430 rials quoted Deputy Oil Minister Ali Kardor as 4, the date when the second round of U.S.- this period, Kardor said. private sector export crude oil to foil U.S. Source: iribnews.ir saying on Tuesday. sanctions will be imposed, and the new deci- “Purchasers at IRENEX can pay 80 per- sanctions. Since Washington aims to cut The government is to offer oil in form of sion about continuing selling export-grade cent of the oil prices in foreign currencies Iran’s oil sales, private Iranian companies at least 35,000-barrel-cargos and the total crude oil at stock market and some other and the rest in rial,” deputy minister added. can transparently buy and sell the crude of one million barrels per day at IRENEX, details in this regard would rely on the made Iranian government decided to offer through this market. COMMODITIES WTI $71.30/b China’s Q3 GDP growth seen hitting UK wage pickup takes back seat to Brent $80.29/b Brexit for Bank of England OPEC Basket $79.36/b lowest since 2009: Reuters poll Gold $1,229.60/oz At week’s end, global investors and policy economy is relatively big as consumption The fastest wage growth in almost a decade BOE, which is Brexit negotiations,” said makers will likely be given a stark reminder weakens and infrastructure investment is a sign that inflation pressures are build- George Buckley, chief UK economist at Silver $14.81/oz of the costs of a bitter Sino-U.S. trade war, has yet to stabilize” from a slowdown, said ing, but the Bank of England may not act Nomura in London. “The data supports with a Reuters poll predicting that China’s Tang Jianwei, senior economist at Bank until it gets clarity on Brexit. the call for a rate hike, but I don’t think Platinium $848.80/oz third-quarter growth will slow to its weak- of Communications in Shanghai. Data from the Office for National Sta- they will raise rates before reaching a deal.” Sources: oilprice.com, Moneymetals.com est pace since the global financial crisis. “It’s necessary to make policy adjust- tistics Tuesday showed average earnings The report comes as Brexit talks remained Domestic demand has been faltering in ments as the external pressure increases.” excluding bonuses rose 3.1 percent in the deadlocked over the issue of the Irish bor- recent months as U.S. President Donald Recent economic data have pointed three months through August, the most der. The two sides will hold crunch talks NEWS IN BRIEF Trump’s campaign to force China to make to weakening domestic demand ranging since January 2009. in Brussels this week, with both warning sweeping changes to intellectual property, from infrastructure investment to consumer While that backed up predictions by BOE over the possibility of a no-deal outcome. Iranian oil industrial subsidy and trade policies start spending, as a multi-year crackdown on officials for a long-awaited pickup in pay as While the pound held gains after the minister to depress export earnings. riskier lending and debt has pushed up unemployment remains at a 43-year-low, data, rising 0.4 percent to $1.3199 as of Beijing has been trying to ward off a companies’ borrowing costs. economists say Brexit uncertainty means 11:02 a.m. London time, bets on a BOE meets Russian sharper slowdown in the world’s second- Growth in China’s vast factory sector no further increases are expected before hike in March remained little changed at counterpart largest economy by stepping up policy sup- in September stalled after 15 months of Britain leaves the European Union in March. around 38 percent. The BOE last raised port and softening its stance on a de-risking expansion, with export orders falling the The fastest wage growth in almost a interest rates in August and said a series campaign, as the full impact of higher U.S. most in more than two years, according to decade is a sign that inflation pressures of increases will be needed over the next ENERGY TEHRAN — Iranian Oil Minister Bijan trade tariffs has still to be felt. private survey showed. An official survey are building, but the Bank of England may few years to contain inflation. desk Namdar Zanganeh visited Moscow late on And analysts said more support meas- also confirmed that manufacturers were not act until it gets clarity on Brexit. Tuesday’s data confirmed that wages Monday to hold talks with Russian counterpart, Alexander ures will be needed as risks to China’s coming under stress. Data from the Office for National Sta- are now growing faster than prices, provid- Novak, Sputnik reported. growth outlook have increased since the There are signs that firms have ramped tistics Tuesday showed average earnings ing relief for households squeezed by the As reported, in the meeting the officials discussed issues second half of the year. up shipments before broader and stiffer U.S. excluding bonuses rose 3.1 percent in the inflation surge following the 2016 Brexit regarding the concerns in the global market and bilateral co- A poll of 68 economists showed gross tariffs take effect, which likely explains an three months through August, the most vote. Overall wage growth picked up to 2.7 operation in the field of oil and gas. domestic product likely grew 6.6 percent in unexpected acceleration in China’s exports since January 2009. percent, ahead of the 2.5 percent inflation On the sidelines of the meeting, Zanganeh also noted that July-September from a year earlier, slow- growth in September and a record trade While that backed up predictions by BOE rate in the period, and the BOE sees a pickup the two sides discussed the possibility of regulating oil output ing from the previous quarter’s 6.7 percent surplus with the United States. officials for a long-awaited pickup in pay as toward 3.5 percent next year. based on OPEC’s agreement. and hitting the weakest pace since the first The yuan CNY=CFXS has lost about 6 unemployment remains at a 43-year-low, While wage growth remains below its Novak, for his part, pointed to the constant contact between quarter of 2009. percent against the dollar this year, which economists say Brexit uncertainty means pre-crisis average, muted productivity his country and Iran adding that the two sides are discussing The predicted third-quarter growth may also have taken the sting out of the no further increases are expected before means that even a modest pickup could a variety of bilateral issues. would still be higher than the government’s U.S. tariffs, but could fan risks of capital Britain leaves the European Union in March. fuel inflation as companies raise prices to full-year target of around 6.5 percent. outflows. “The data is obviously encouraging news, protect their margins. Reaching $1b “The downward pressure on the (Source: Reuters) but there are bigger issues than this for the (Source: Bloomberg) trade with Iran a top priority Degree of calm for Uzbekistan: envoy returns to ECONOMY TEHRAN — Increasing the value of trade deskbetween Uzbekistan and Iran to $1 billion is battered stocks; one of the top priorities of the Uzbek government, Uzbekistan Ambassador to Iran Bakhodir Abdullaev said in a meeting with Italy helps out a number of Iranian businessmen in the central city of Arak on Monday evening. World stocks nudged higher on Tuesday, as focus The envoy put the current annual trade between the two turned to earnings season and a rebound in Italian countries at $400 million, IRNA reported. assets helped battered equities find firmer ground IN THE NAME OF GOD Abdullaev further mentioned constructional materials, for now. Second Announcement agriculture, medicine, oil and gas as some of the proper fields European shares rallied 0.8 percent, pulling ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BROADCASTING for increasing bilateral cooperation. away from Monday’s 22-month lows. That followed gains in some Asian markets, led by Japan’s blue- chip Nikkei index, which closed 1.25 percent higher after a decline of nearly 2 percent the previous day. INTERNATIONAL TENDER NO. 97-07/176 U.S. bullying won’t resolve The positive tone looked poised to extend into supply shortage in oil the U.S. session, with stock futures trading higher. Tender Holder: Gains in Italy’s bond and stock markets after ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BROADCASTING (IRIB) market: Zanganeh Italian Economy Minister Giovanni Tria defended the country’s expansionary budget helped lift sentiment. 1 Mentioning Trump’s plans for zero Iranian oil exports, Subject of Two-Stage Tender: the official said “We should see how market is reacting, everyone Calm in Italy — a major source of turbulence in is worried and Trump has failed to reassure them. Big oil produc- world markets in recent weeks — helped explain the Technical Specifications of Rack Project and Inner Cooling System according to the tender documents ing countries are going off the market under U.S. sanctions and recovery in risk appetite on Tuesday, said Marchel Alexandrovich, European financial economist at that has led to turmoil.” Deadline of Receiving Documents: The United States announced new sanctions after withdraw- Jefferies in London. ing from a nuclear deal with Iran in May. The new round of U.S. Stock market sentiment in Europe also got a As of publishing second announcement of advertisement latest by the business hour dated on Monday sanctions against Tehran are set to start in November 4. boost from expectations that earnings season will October 22, 2018. deliver double-digit earnings growth for the third quarter. About 6 percent of companies in the STOXX Place of Receiving Documents: MRPL expects India to get 600 index are due to report results this week, with Secretariat of Tenders’ Commission, Technical Purchasing (KALA) Dept., Media Technology and the earnings season passing its mid-point during waiver from U.S. sanctions the first week of November. Development Deputy Office, Bldg. No. 2, IRIB, Jam-e Jam St., Vali-e Asr Ave., Tehran on Iran this month Overall, third-quarter earnings for the index are expected to have risen 14 percent, according to Type and Amount of Guarantee for Participating in Tender: Refinitiv I/B/E/S data, while euro zone earnings India’s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) The amount of USD 114,909 which should be in the form of extendable bank guarantee expects India to get a waiver from U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil are seen up 12 percent. That compares with the 21.6 exports this month, a company official said on Tuesday. percent growth seen for U.S. companies. The company will also look at buying Iraqi oil to replace Iranian “If you look at what’s happening here and now, Time and Place of Delivering Priced Bid: it is an improvement from what was happening oil, said MRPL Managing Director M. Venkatesh on the sidelines The sealed A, B & C packages/envelopes should be submitted within one main envelope marked with tender of the IHS CERA conference, adding that the company has already a week ago,” Alexandrovich said. “How long the made some payments in rupees to Iran for oil. stability lasts is anyone’s guess.” number no later than 15 p.m. on Wednesday November 21, 2018 and submitted to the Secretariat of (Source: Reuters) Calmer equity markets took the shine off safe- Commission of Tenders. haven assets. Japan’s yen was down a quarter of a percent Japan to promote foreign against the dollar, the Swiss franc edged away from Time and Place of Opening Envelopes almost two-week highs against the greenback and The date of opening envelopes A&B is at 8:30 a.m. on Monday November 26, 2018 in the office of takeovers of heirless companies gold dipped from Monday’s 2 1/2-month high as tension between the West and Saudi Arabia triggered Vice President of IRIB Planning and Financial Resources and opening of envelope C will be after technical The Japanese government is set to launch a service aimed at helping a fresh exit out of risk assets. evaluation. foreign companies take over small businesses in the country that are Signs that Saudi Arabia is preparing to It should be noted that bidders should hold license from the authorized bodies. struggling to find successors to aging leaders. acknowledge the death of Saudi journalist Jamal The service, planned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and In- Khashoggi in a botched interrogation helped smooth dustry and provided through the Japan External Trade Organization, edgy markets. For more information, please contact the following phone numbers: 0098-21-22166313 is designed to save companies with viable products and services from But given a rout in stock markets last week — It is obvious that cost of publishing two advertisements shall be borne by the winner of tender. going out of business by encouraging foreign entities to take over fueled in part by concerns about higher U.S. interest their operation through mergers and acquisitions. rates, rising Treasury yields and world trade tensions Information on such companies will be stored in a database — some caution prevailed. Public Relations Dept. of IRIB maintained by the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises On Wall Street, the Dow has lost 4.5 percent and Regional Innovation, also known as SME Support, through its this month, as long-term Treasury yields soared to offices across Japan. It includes roughly 24,000 records of companies their highest level since 2011. Higher yields make looking to sell their operations due to a lack of successors and details equities less attractive. of potential buyers. (Source: Nikkei Asian Review) (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y OCTOBER 17, 2018 ENERGY 5

Oil falls on U.S. shale What’s behind the drop in Asian LNG prices?

Japan-Korea-Marker (JKM) prices for LNG to be delivered in No- output, expected stocks data vember tanked on Friday by U.S. $1.039 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) year-on-year, settling at $9.925/MMBtu, accord to Oil prices fell on Tuesday on evidence of Iranian exports of crude oil are falling faster commodities data provider S&P Platts Global. higher U.S. oil production and increasing than expected ahead of new U.S. sanctions JKM is often still used as the benchmark price assessment for spot U.S. crude inventories, but reports of a fall on Tehran from Nov. 4. physical cargoes delivered ex-ship into Japan, South Korea, China in Iranian oil exports helped limit losses. In the first two weeks of October, Iran and Taiwan. Japan, China and South Korea, for their part, are the Brent crude was down 50 cents a barrel exported 1.33 million bpd of crude to coun- largest global LNG importers, while the Asia-Pacific region makes up at $80.28 by 0900 GMT. U.S. light crude tries including India, China and Turkey, for 72 percent of all global LNG demand with that amount projected was 50 cents lower at $71.28. according to Refinitiv Eikon data. That was to increase to 75 percent amid increased Chinese procurement of “Shale oil production continues unabated down from 1.6 million bpd during the same the super-cooled fuel. in the United States,” said Carsten Fritsch, period in September. Prices headed south last week amid ample prompt supply against commodities analyst at Commerzbank. “Ris- The October exports are a sharp drop poor user-demand as well as falling global oil prices which have been ing U.S. oil production is one key reason why from the 2.5 million bpd in April before U.S. facing headwinds over worries of faltering demand growth amid on- the global oil market is likely to be amply President Donald Trump withdrew from a going trade disputes and Middle Eastern geopolitical worries. supplied next year.” multilateral nuclear deal with Iran in May On Friday, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), in Oil production from seven major U.S. and ordered the re-imposition of sanctions. its closely watched monthly oil market report, lowered its oil demand shale basins is expected to rise by 98,000 Meanwhile, OPEC Secretary General growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019 by 110,000 barrels a day (b/d), to barrels per day (bpd) in November to a re- Mohammad Barkindo said on Tuesday 1.3 million b/d and 1.4 million b/d. The agency said that despite fresh cord of 7.71 million bpd, the U.S. Energy that global spare oil capacity was shrink- U.S. sanctions set to take effect on Iran’s energy sector on November Information Administration (EIA) said. ing, adding that producers and companies 5, which have led to a faster-than-expected decline in crude exports The largest change is forecast in the Per- should increase their production capacities from the Islamic Republic, global oil supply still remains robust. The mian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, where and invest more to meet current demand. IEA added that other OPEC members have also been ramping up oil output is expected to climb by 53,000 bpd With the world’s only sizable spare oil production to fill the loss of Iranian barrels on global oil markets. to a fresh peak of 3.55 million bpd. output capacity, Saudi Arabia is expected Crude prices ended Friday up slightly but still near two-week lows U.S. oil production has increased steadily to export more to offset the loss of Iranian amid rising crude supply and global stock markets jitters. Though LNG spot prices are not linked to oil prices as are most long-term over the last five years, reaching a record U.S. crude oil exports,” Harry Tchilinguirian, American Petroleum Institute (API) and oil supply from the sanctions. supply contracts they are often still influenced by them. high of 11.2 million bpd in the week to Oct. oil strategist at French bank BNP Paribas the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Tension over the disappearance of a Sau- The Chinese factor 5. But infrastructure has not kept pace with told Reuters Global Oil Forum. Information Administration (EIA). di Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Moreover, the JKM dipped to its lowest point since August 1 and rising output, filling domestic tanks. U.S. crude stockpiles are expected to have API data are due at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 Turkey also remain. the first time it’s hit a single digit level since that date. Platts added “Once pipelines and oil terminals are risen last week for the fourth straight week, GMT) with the EIA at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 Saudi Arabia has denied it was respon- that it sets a bearish tone for early winter trading. built connecting the Permian to the U.S. by about 1.1 million barrels, according to GMT) on Wednesday. sible for the disappearance of Khashoggi. However, as winter approaches prices should find more support Gulf Coast, then there will be a big step up in a Reuters poll ahead of reports from the Balancing the U.S. data were reports that (Source: Reuters) and trend upward again, particularly as China continues to fill storage ahead of winter to avoid a repeat of last year’s fiasco when energy planners rushed to replace dirtier burning coal usage with cleaner Japan’s Inpex to load 1st LNG cargo Scottish Power to use 100% wind burning natural gas ahead of schedule in much of northern China. The result was an embarrassing development for Beijing as critical from Ichthys project this week power after Drax sale gas shortages forced the closure of key industrial users and the re-di- version of gas to residential end-users. Japanese energy explorer Inpex Corp is this Scottish Power will become the first ma- China Gas, one of the country’s main gas distributors, converted week set to load the first liquefied natural gas jor UK energy company to generate all its 1.2 million homes last year from coal to gas for heating, but as demand (LNG) cargo from its long-delayed Ichthys electricity from wind power instead of coal spiked at the onset of colder temperatures, shortages ensued and the project in northwestern Australia, sources and gas, after selling its final gas and hydro utility could only heat around 400,000 homes, according to a South familiar with the matter said. stations to Drax. China Morning Post report. An emergency government order allowed The shipment would be an important Power company Drax has paid £702m owners of those homes to return to burning coal. milestone for Inpex, the operator of Japan’s for the rest of Scottish Power’s conventional However, despite its shortfalls last winter, China Gas says it will be biggest overseas investment and the first generation business. able to supply the 750,000 homes left without gas supply last year. It major project where it is the lead operator. Scottish Power plans to invest £5.2bn also plans to convert an additional 2 million homes this year, stating The $40 billion project has seen multiple over four years to more than double its re- it will be able to supply gas to up to 600,000 of these end users. It has delays and significant cost overruns. the first condensate shipment from Ichthys’ newables capacity. Drax chief executive Will Gardiner said: also converted a number of businesses, including the main plant of An Inpex spokesman in Tokyo said that floating production, storage and offloading Chief executive Keith Anderson said it “We believe there is a compelling logic in Tsingtao Brewery, which is the biggest client of China Gas in Qingdao. production had been going smoothly and (FPSO) facility. was a “pivotal shift” for the firm. our move to add further flexible sources of “The gas shortage will not be as bad as last year, and the reported that shipments of LNG and liquefied petro- Ichthys has seen multiple delays and “We are leaving carbon generation behind power to our offering.” cases of freezing villagers will definitely not happen again this year,” leum gas (LPG) were set to begin, but he cost overruns of billions of dollars due to for a renewable future powered by cheaper Drax runs the UK’s biggest power plant Kevin Zhu Weiwei, executive director and managing vice-president declined to comment on commercial mat- technical difficulties. It was originally slated green energy. We have closed coal, sold gas near Selby in North Yorkshire and is mov- of China Gas, said recently. (Source: oilprice.com) ters including the schedule for shipments. to start in 2016. and built enough wind to power 1.2 million ing away from coal ahead of a government The LNG vessel Pacific Breeze was lo- At full operation, Ichthys is expected homes,” he said. deadline for an emissions limit on coal plants cated close to the Ichthys LNG Terminal to produce 8.9 million tons of LNG a year, Scottish Power has closed all of its coal from 2025. near Darwin with a departure date of Oct. along with about 1.7 million tons of LPG plants in the past decade and has 2,700 It has already converted four of its six Dismal oil prices could help 17, according to Refinitiv data. After the and about 100,000 barrels per day of con- megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity generating units to burn wood pellets. break logjam in Canadian first shipment, three LNG cargoes are densate, an ultra-light form of crude oil. operating or under construction in the UK. The Selby plant is believed to be the first scheduled to load next month, according The company expects to take two to It also has projects planned that can gen- bioenergy carbon capture storage (Beccs) energy deals to one of the sources. three years to reach full production. erate more than 3,000 MW. Its four-year project of its type in Europe. It was not clear where the cargo was Inpex in August said Ichthys would plan aims to make electricity “cleaner and The power station has previously been The recent collapse in Canadian oil prices may have a silver lining. heading, but some sources said in May that help add net profit of 10 billion yen ($89 cheaper for Britain”. criticised for the levels of air pollution it pro- Analysts and investors this year have been pushing smaller Ca- the commissioning LNG cargo from Ichthys million) in the second-half of 2018/19, Ignacio Galan, chairman of Scottish Pow- duces by campaigners, who claim it produces nadian energy companies to combine into larger entities that are would be exported to Inpex’s Naoetsu LNG down from a May outlook of 24 billion er’s Spanish owner, Iberdrola, said energy “dangerous” levels of air pollution. more efficient, can better allocate capital among multiple plays, and receiving terminal in Japan. yen, due to the delays. Inpex holds 62.245 companies needed to be part of the solution Drax said its emissions were “well within are more attractive to long-term investors. Despite those calls, the In a statement last year announcing the percent of Ichthys, France’s Total 30 per- to climate change. statutory limits”. value of Canadian energy deals has declined this year, in contrast ship’s name, Inpex said Pacific Breeze would cent, with the rest spread amongst CPC and “Iberdrola is acting now to cut carbon In May, it announced a £400,000 pi- to a surge south of the border. supply 1.75 million tons of LNG annually Japanese utilities Tokyo Gas, Osaka Gas, emissions 30 percent by 2020 and be carbon lot scheme to capture the carbon dioxide However, the recent plunge in heavy Canadian crude to less than from Ichthys to Taiwan’s CPC Corp. Kansai Electric, JERA Corp and Toho Gas. neutral by 2050. The sale of these generation produced from burning the wood pellets. $20 a barrel may spark a wave of consolidation, bringing buyers off The move comes about two weeks after (Source: Reuters) assets is consistent with our strategy,” he said. (Source: BBC) the sidelines and causing “capitulation” among entrenched manage- ment teams of smaller producers, said Martin Pelletier, a portfolio manager at TriVest Wealth Counsel in Calgary. Saudi Arabia could hike oil prices over the Khashoggi case. Here’s why it would backfire “If I’ve got a good balance sheet, if I’m a well-run company with a process that works, why wouldn’t I look to take advantage of this Fears are spreading that Saudi Arabia, in retaliation against and increased exploration in other markets. environment?” Pelletier said in an interview. “There’s no better time the growing global outcry caused by the disappearance of “In addition,” Capital Economics wrote, “higher oil prices than when management teams have been beaten up, investors have Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, may hit back at potential would simply encourage other producers to raise output completely lost patience in the sector, oil prices are in the toilet and economic sanctions by weaponizing its oil dominance. and grab market share from Saudi Arabia.” you’ve got a very large differential that may not be sustainable.” Saudi Arabia’s not-so-veiled threat issued in a government Oil price ‘could easily hit $200’ Pelletier said his firm has moved 25 percent of its energy invest- statement Sunday emphasized its “vital role in the global With the already massive outages in the oil market ments back into Canada -- after temporarily abandoning the country economy” and that any action taken upon it will be met resulting from Venezuela’s collapsing economy and -- to buy into possible takeout candidates whose shares have been with “greater action”. But as oil ticks upward, a look at impending U.S. sanctions on Iranian exports, any Saudi beaten into “deep value” territory by the widening differentials. history and geopolitics suggests that while a Saudi-driven move to curtail supplies would jolt prices upward. He declined to disclose the size of the positions or any particular oil price spike would bring pain for much of the world, it This would also trigger demand destruction, particularly stocks he’s bought into. would ultimately backfire on itself. in large emerging market importers like India and East Crude slide “If this is something the Saudis were allowed to do, Asia, said Helima Croft, head of global commodity strategy Western Canada Select plunged below $20 a barrel on Thursday, they’d be really shooting themselves in the foot,” Warren at RBC Capital Markets. the lowest price since February 2016. That widened WCS’s discount to Patterson, commodities analyst at ING, told CNBC’s Squawk But the real cost, Croft emphasized, would be the U.S.- West Texas Intermediate to $52.40 a barrel, the biggest discount on Box Europe on Tuesday. “In the short to medium term we’ll Saudi relationship. “[This] would raise the very real prospect record in Bloomberg data back to 2008. WCS rebounded on Friday, definitely see an incremental amount of demand destruction, of a host of U.S. sanctions and you would likely hear members narrowing the discount to $48.50. but the bigger issue is in the longer term.” of Congress questioning why we are spending so much That slide has weighed on Canadian energy shares. The S&P/TSX Any action in withholding oil from the market, he said, money of providing a security guarantee for the country.” Energy Index dropped 7.8 percent this year through Friday, compared “would only quicken the pace of energy transition.” than 10 percent of the world’s crude demand, a Saudi move Still, the threat follows a series of aggressive foreign with a 1.3 percent gain for the comparable U.S. index. The crisis began after Turkish officials alleged that to withhold production would rock markets and send prices policy moves from Riyadh and the country’s young and The value of acquisitions involving Canadian energy companies Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and Washington Post contributor, far above their current four-year highs. Brent crude recently assertive crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. has plunged as well, falling 16 percent to $55.8 billion in the first was murdered on orders of the Saudi government after he broke $86 a barrel and prices initially rose Monday after the In June of 2017, bin Salman led a region-wide blockade nine months of this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Saudi statement, though they backed down on news that of Qatar, and last fall rounded up scores of Saudi royals and Excluding $23.6 billion tied to Enbridge Inc.’s roll up of partnerships October 2. The Saudis have fiercely denied this claim, but U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was being dispatched businessmen for detention in what he called a “corruption and other units, the total falls to $32.2 billion, which would be a 51 have so far provided no evidence to the contrary, sparking to Riyadh for talks. crackdown” but what critics allege may have involved torture. percent drop from the same period last year. By contrast, the value of furor in Congress, where momentum is building to impose A lesson from history The Saudi government was later accused of kidnapping U.S. energy deals has surged 72 percent to $300.2 billion. sanctions on weapons imports to the kingdom. Media But the extraordinary move to place a stranglehold on and detaining Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and ‘Getting killed’ companies and corporate executives are pulling out of oil markets — one not taken since the Arab oil embargo of more recently set off a diplomatic spat with Canada over Cheap Canadian oil and stocks already are luring buyers. The Lundin Saudi Arabia’s annual investment conference, scheduled 1973 — would ultimately backfire on Saudi Arabia, leading a tweet about human rights. So at this point, a combative family, a Swedish commodities dynasty, was explicit about the role for late October, in droves. many analysts to believe it’s not a likely course of action. backlash is not off the table. that weaker Canadian prices played in International Petroleum Corp.’s And Saudi markets are already feeling the impact — its “Riyadh would be hesitant to go down this route. While “If the Saudis were to withhold supply from the market, C$600 million takeover of heavy oil producer BlackPearl Resources benchmark Tadawul index tumbled 7 percent on Sunday, there would probably be a significant near-term boost the price oil could easily hit $200 (per barrel),” warned Inc. announced Wednesday. and fell 4 percent on opening trades Tuesday. to the Kingdom’s oil income, pushing oil prices higher John Kilduff, founding partner at commodities investment “Right now, the Canadian oil patch is getting killed by the differ- An incendiary op-ed published in Saudi news outlet would only serve to rile President Trump,” London-based firm Again Capital. “How high prices go would depend on ential, which is enormous,” Lukas Lundin, IPC’s chairman, said in Al Arabiya on Sunday threatened “economic disaster” if research consultancy Capital Economics wrote in a client the amount withheld. The Saudis have avoided using oil as an interview. “But over time we think that’s going to change because countries came down on Saudi Arabia over the Khashoggi note Monday. “The Saudis are determined to remain close a weapon, but, depending on how cornered Mohammed there’s going to be some pipelines coming up. So if you survive this case. “If the price of oil reaching $80 angered President with Washington to preserve its ‘anti-Iran’ axis.” Bin Salman feels, anything is possible.” short-term pain, the long-term gain is very big.” Trump, no one should rule out the price jumping to $100, What’s more, if history is any guide, oil embargoes are “I sense that this episode will be his Waterloo, which Still, despite the slumping oil prices, many acquisition targets may or $200, or even double that figure,” the outlet’s general self-defeating. The 1973 oil embargo, imposed by Arab will only add to the rising security premium in oil prices.” resist being taken over because they don’t want to sell with their valu- manager Turki Aldakhil wrote. OPEC members on countries supporting Israel during that As the market tightens with the loss of other major ations so depressed, said Rafi Tahmazian, who helps manage about Trump has already chastised the Saudis on Twitter for year’s Yom Kippur war between Israel and several Arab exporters, the stakes are only moving higher, he added. C$1 billion in investments at Canoe Financial in Calgary. Management high oil prices, demanding they up production to bring states, quadrupled oil prices and led to shortages across “A material loss of supply from Saudi Arabia could not teams also may fear for their ability to find work again or start up a prices down ahead of the November midterm elections. the U.S. But it failed to diminish support for Israel and only be replaced.” new company in an inhospitable market, he said. As OPEC’s largest producer and the force behind more spurred the development of alternative energy research (Source: CNBC) (Source: Bloomberg) ساعت: 17:00 امضاء صفحه آرا: ساعت: امضاء مسئول صفحه: ساعت: امضاء ادیتور: ساعت: امضاء سردبیر:

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European parliament: If a prince murders a journalist, Spotlight on the UAE that’s not a hiccup In the end, Saudi Arabia played Kushner, Trump and his other American acolytes for suckers By Nicholas Kristof The reports about Jamal Khashoggi, the missing Saudi jour- By Eldar Mamedov nalist and Washington Post contributor, whom I’ve known for more than 15 years, grow steadily more sickening. On October 4, the European Parliament adopted a resolution Turkey claims to have audiotape of Saudi interrogators condemning the harassment, persecution, and detention of torturing Jamal and killing him in the Saudi Consulate. None prominent human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor, who was of this is confirmed, and we still don’t know exactly what sentenced to 10 years in prison in May 2018 in the United Arab happened; we all pray that Jamal will still reappear. But Emirates (UAE). increasingly it seems that the crown prince, better known as The official statement of the UAE’s Ministry of foreign affairs MBS, orchestrated the torture, assassination and dismem- explained that Mansoor was detained on a charge of “spread- berment of an American-based journalist using diplomatic ing false and misleading information over the Internet, through premises in a NATO country. agendas aimed at disseminating antipathy and sectarianism.” That is monstrous, and it’s compounded by the tepid MEPs concluded that such statements indicated that: response from Washington. President Trump is already re- the sole reason for his detention, trial, and conviction was the jecting the idea of responding to such a murder by cutting content of his expression online, and the charges against him are off weapons sales. Trump sounds as if he believes that the based on alleged violations of the UAE’s repressive 2012 Cyber- consequence of such an assassination should be a hiccup crime Law, which has allowed UAE authorities to silence human and then business as usual. rights defenders and provided for long prison sentences and severe Frankly, it’s a disgrace that Trump administration officials financial penalties for individuals who criticize the country’s rulers. and American business tycoons enabled and applauded MBS Although the resolution focused on the case of Mansoor, it also as he imprisoned business executives, kidnapped Lebanon’s addressed the broader context of the intensifying crackdown on prime minister, rashly created a crisis with Qatar, and went any form of peaceful dissent in the UAE, particularly since 2011, to war in Yemen to create what the United Nations calls the as the UAE has sought to lead, together with its close ally Saudi world’s worst humanitarian crisis there. Some eight million Arabia, the counter-revolutionary reaction to the Arab Spring. Yemenis on the edge of starvation there don’t share this Given the use of technologically highly advanced tools in this bizarre view that MBS is a magnificent reformer. repression, MEPs demanded an “EU-wide ban on the export, sale, Trump has expressed “great confidence” in MBS and said update and maintenance of any form of security equipment to the that he and King Salman “know exactly what they are doing.” America can also make clear to the Saudi royal family that it UAE which can be or is used for internal repression, including inter- Jared Kushner wooed MBS and built a close relationship should find a new crown prince. A mad prince who murders net surveillance technology.” The resolution also called on the high with him — communicating privately without involving State representative for foreign policy and the member states to demand Department experts — in ways that certainly assisted MBS a journalist, kidnaps a prime minister and starves millions publicly Mansoor’s release and to adopt EU-targeted sanctions against in his bid to consolidate power for himself. of children should never be celebrated at state dinners, but individuals related to serious human rights violations in UAE. The bipartisan cheers from Washington, Silicon Valley instead belongs in a prison cell. That same week, MEPs focused not only on the abuses and Wall Street fed his recklessness. If he could be feted perpetrated by the Emi- after kidnapping a Lebanese prime minister and slaugh- the detention abroad of a women’s rights activist, Loujain We need an international investigation, perhaps over- rati authorities inside the Given the use of tering Yemeni children, why expect a fuss for murdering al-Hathloul, and her return in handcuffs. She turned 29 in a seen by the United Nations, of what happened to Jamal. In country but also outside technologically a mere journalist? Saudi jail cell in July, and her marriage has ended. She, and the United States, we also must investigate whether Saudis its borders. In a resolution MBS knows how to push Americans’ buttons, speaking not the prince who imprisons her, is the heroic reformer. bought influence with spending that benefited the Trump on Yemen adopted on the highly advanced about reform and playing us like a fiddle. His willingness Just last month in London, unidentified Saudi men, one family, such as $270,000 spent as of early 2017 by a lobbying same day, they called for tools in this to sound accepting of Israel may also be one reason Trump wearing an earpiece, attacked a Saudi dissident named Gha- firm for Saudi Arabia at the Trump hotel in Washington. The the first time for the in- and so many Americans were willing to embrace MBS even nem al-Dosari, who has mocked MBS as “the tubby teddy Washington Post reported that Saudi bookings at Trump troduction of an EU-wide repression, as he was out of control at home. bear.” As they punched Dosari, they cursed him for criticizing Chicago increased 169 percent from the first half of 2016 arms embargo against the MEPs demanded In the end, MBS played Kushner, Trump and his other the Saudi royal family. to the first half of this year, and that the general manager UAE for the role it plays an “EU-wide ban American acolytes for suckers. The White House boasted “MBS’s message to Saudis is clear: I will shut you up of a Trump hotel in New York told investors that revenues in Yemen. Previously such about $110 billion in arms sales, but nothing close to that no matter where you are and no matter what laws I have rose partly because of “a last-minute visit to New York by calls were issued only with on the export, came through. Saudi Arabia backed away from Trump’s to break to do it,” Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.” respect to Saudi Arabia. sale, update and Middle East peace deal. Financiers salivated over an initial Watch told me. The crown prince showed his sensitivity and If Saudi Arabia cannot show that Jamal is safe and sound, The politics of these maintenance public offering for Aramco, the state-owned oil company, unpredictability in August when Canada’s foreign ministry NATO countries should jointly expel Saudi ambassadors and resolutions reflect the divide but that keeps getting delayed. tweeted concern about the jailing of Saudi women’s rights suspend weapons sales. The United States should start an in the European Parliament of any form The crackdown on corruption is an example of MBS’s activists. Saudi Arabia went nuts, canceling flights, telling investigation under the Magnitsky Act and stand ready to when it comes to dealing of security manipulation and hypocrisy. It sounded great, but MBS 8,300 Saudi students to leave Canada, expelling the Canadian impose sanctions on officials up to MBS. with the authoritarian himself has purchased a $300 million castle in France, and ambassador and withdrawing investments. All for a tweet. America can also make clear to the Saudi royal family Persian Gulf regimes. As equipment to a $500 million yacht — and he didn’t buy them by scrimping Western companies should back out of MBS’s Future that it should find a new crown prince. A mad prince who previously with condem- the UAE which on his government salary. Investment Initiative conference later this month. That in- murders a journalist, kidnaps a prime minister and starves nations of Saudi Arabia can be or is used In fairness, he did allow women to drive. But he also cludes you, Mastercard, McKinsey, Credit Suisse, Siemens, millions of children should never be celebrated at state din- and Bahrain for their hu- imprisoned the women’s rights activists who had been cam- HSBC, BCG, EY, Bain and Deloitte, all listed on the confer- ners, but instead belongs in a prison cell. man rights violations, the for internal paigning for the right to drive. Saudi Arabia even orchestrated ence website as partners of the event. (Source: The NYT) resolution on the UAE is a product of the efforts of repression, the progressive coalition of including social democrats, liberals, internet Greens, and the far left. The president of the United States asks, The European People’s surveillance Party (EPP), the main cent- technology.” er-right group, and, to its right, the British and Polish-led European Conservatives and ‘What’s an ally?’ Reformists (ECR), participated in the cross-party negotiations but refused to endorse the resulting text for being too critical of the UAE. They tabled their own motions instead, with rather In a wide-ranging interview with ‘60 Minutes,’ Donald Trump muted criticisms of the human rights abuses. The EPP, for ex- ample, failed even to condemn the arrest of Mansoor, merely saying it “pays attention” to his case. Instead, it praised the UAE revisited one of his favorite themes as “an important and appreciated partner.” By Uri Friedman pearance and suspected Saudi-government- So, there were three motions tabled for the vote: the joint sponsored murder of the Saudi journalist progressive one, the one authored by the EPP, and one by the Donald Trump’s tangles with America’s tra- Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey. This isn’t about ECR. In the days before the vote, the Emirati lobby intensified ditional friends — on trade, military spend- shielding the kingdom simply because it’s a its efforts to derail the passage of the joint resolution. Once the ing, handshaking — are well known. But on long-standing U.S. ally in the Middle East. As lobby secured support of the right wing, it identified the centrist Sunday, in an interview with 60 Minutes, Trump told Stahl on 60 Minutes, it’s primar- Alliance of Liberals and Democrats of Europe (ALDE) as potentially the American president distilled his revo- ily about not putting at risk the billions of the weak flank of the progressive coalition and sought to chip lutionary view of the country’s alliances in dollars’ worth of weapons that Saudi Arabia away a sufficient number of its members to sink the resolution. Europe, Asia, and North America, which have has pledged to purchase from the United Such efforts, however, produced meager results, with only formed the foundation for U.S. foreign policy States and that the Saudis could buy from one liberal MEP revoking her initial support for the resolution. for decades, to its essence. Asked by Lesley U.S. rivals such as China and Russia if the To counter these efforts, pro-human rights NGOs such as Front Stahl about the tariffs he’s threatened to im- United States imposes sanctions over the Line Defenders intensified their own campaign, targeting the pose on allies such as Canada, Japan, and Khashoggi case. “I don’t wanna hurt jobs. I fence-sitting MEPs. In the end, the resolution was adopted with the European Union, Trump responded, “I don’t wanna lose an order like that,” Trump 322 votes to 220 against and 56 abstentions. mean, what’s an ally?” acknowledged. The results of the roll-call vote showed that the progressive American leaders have long clashed The president has repeatedly expressed bloc voted in a consolidated fashion, with few exceptions. It was with allies. Yet Trump is unique in casting revulsion at the apparent targeting of a helped by some defections from those political groups that voted these allies not as occasionally problematic journalist and vowed punishment if the against the resolution, such as Italians from the populist Five partners, but as direct threats to the United kingdom’s rulers are found to be behind Star Movement, Flemish nationalists, and assorted moderates States — threats that, in many cases, are the alleged hit. But he has also pointed from EPP, notably from Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, and actually more dangerous than America’s out that Khashoggi, who lived in Virginia Portugal. The chamber´s right wing, including the extreme right customary enemies because they drain the American leaders have long clashed with and wrote for The Washington Post, is not of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group, which com- country of its vitality while masquerading a U.S. citizen and did not vanish in “our prises the likes of the French National Front and Italy’s Lega, as a friend. allies. Yet Trump is unique in casting these country.” “We don’t like [what happened overwhelmingly voted to reject the resolution. During his appearance on 60 Minutes, for allies not as occasionally problematic to Khashoggi] even a little bit. But as to That the European Parliament has been able to adopt a criti- example, Trump asserted, “Nobody treats whether or not we should stop $110 billion cal resolution with a clear majority, despite its internal divisions us much worse than the European Union,” partners. from being spent in this country … that and relentless Emirati lobbying, sends an important political which he claimed was created in the post – fact, to be among his core convictions. Perhaps they tell us how great we are and then they would not be acceptable to me,” Trump message both to Abu-Dhabi and to the EU’s member states that World War II period “to take advantage of us the most vivid articulation of his perspective pick our pockets. We’re losing hundreds of recently told reporters in the Oval Office. the human rights situation in the UAE is under close scrutiny. on trade,” and he disputed the conventional came in a 1990 Playboy interview in which he billions of dollars a year while they laugh “What good does that do us?” This is relevant not only with respect to the residents of these wisdom in Washington that America’s system focused his ire on Japan, the rising power of at our stupidity. The Japanese have their The president’s world is one in which countries, but also the EU’s own citizens. The Emirati authori- of defense, diplomatic, and economic alli- that era: “Japan gets almost seventy percent great scientists making cars and VCRs and there are no friends and no enemies, just ties put on trial a British PhD student Matthew Hedges after ances has helped the United States project of its oil from the Persian Gulf, relies on ships we have our great scientists making missiles coldhearted, self-interested nations in the ludicrously accusing him of spying and holding him in degrading power and promote stability in the world. led back home by our destroyers, battleships, so we can defend Japan.” throes of zero-sum competition — either you conditions in solitary confinement for five months. Hugging the “Are you willing to disrupt the Western helicopters, frog men. Then the Japanese sail This worldview helps explain why the have your pockets picked or you do the pick- repressive Persian Gulf regimes too closely, as is the preferred alliance? … It’s kept the peace for 70 years,” home, where they give the oil to fuel their president tends to describe America’s se- ing. And at the moment the United States is policy of both the United States and the EU, does not moderate Stahl noted. “You don’t know that,” Trump factories so that they can knock the hell out of curity commitments to and free-trade deals stuffing its pockets with cash from the House their behavior. To the contrary, lack of accountability encourages shot back. General Motors, Chrysler and Ford,” Trump with allies as graver dangers to the national of Saud, whatever Saudi leaders may have further reckless behavior. It’s time for the EU governments to Trump has been making this argument observed at the time. “Their openly screw- interest. done to forever silence a critic seeking to heed the strong message of the European Parliament. about the fatally overlooked threat from sup- ing us is a disgrace. Why aren’t they paying And it helps explain the president’s rela- speak his mind. (Source: Lobelog.com) posed allies for three decades; it appears, in us? The Japanese cajole us, they bow to us, tively restrained response so far to the disap- (Source: The Atlantic) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y OCTOBEROCTOBER 17,17, 20182018 ANALYSIS & INTERVIEW 7 Israeli occupation epicenter of global Human Rights abuses: UK-based analyst TEHRAN (Tasnim) — A political commentator based in The question is, why support an anti-democratic regime that London slammed Israel’s recent killings of Palestinians during has maintained a blockade of essential goods against civilian weekly protests along the Gaza border, describing the Tel Aviv families in Gaza, and which continues its illegal occupation of regime’s occupation of Palestine as “the epicenter of global the Palestinian Territories in deliberate violation of the Geneva human rights abuses”. Conventions on Human Rights? South Africa, a country that “Let’s get one thing very clear, the Israeli occupation of has experienced apartheid first hand, has described Israel as Palestine is the epicenter of global human rights abuses,” Riaz the only apartheid state in the world, in remarks made at a Karim said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency. session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) “The deeper issue of injustices involved in the colonization in Geneva and they are not wrong in saying so! and occupation of Palestine, and inhumane treatment of Pal- In a recent speech to the UN General Assembly, Israeli estinians in the West Bank and Gaza are the most important Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again accused Iran factors threatening world peace in general and they have been of developing a nuclear weapons program. He claimed he was carefully kept ‘out of sight’ by creating smokescreens or sub- revealing the existence of a “secret atomic warehouse” in Teh- sequent wars as a way of diverting attention from the world’s ran but offered no proof of the claim or details. In response, only surviving apartheid state,” he said. Iranian officials dismissed the claim as a despicable lie and Dr. Riaz Karim holds a PhD from Harvard University. He said such lies are aimed at covering up the Tel Aviv regime’s is also the Director of Veritas Centre for Strategic Studies in heinous crimes against the defenseless people of Palestine. London. He is also an analyst and commentator for a number This is while, Israel is the only possessor of nuclear weapons of media outlets around the world. in the Middle East, but its policy is to neither confirm nor deny Following is the full text of the interview: that it has atomic bombs. The Tel Aviv regime is estimated As you know, seven Palestinians died Friday after being to have 200 to 400 nuclear warheads in its arsenal. What do shot by Israeli soldiers along the security fence between Gaza you think about Netanyahu’s comments? and the occupied territories during weekly protests, according A: Israel wants the United States to fight a war with Iran to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. A total of 252 people on its behalf. That is what it all boils down to Bibi. Netanyahu were injured -- 154 of them by live fire, the ministry said. has been absolutely obsessed with Iran from the get-go and Since March 30, Israeli forces have killed about 200 Pales- his theatrics are getting worse as the days go by. tinians during the demonstrations dubbed the “Great March Netanyahu’s statements clearly undermine the CIA and of Return” along the Gaza border. Most of the dead and the the IAEA, because both of them categorically state that there thousands wounded were unarmed civilians against whom are no nuclear weapons in Iran’s arsenal and the enrichment Israel was using excessive force. What is your opinion about program has been suspended as per the terms of the JCPOA the developments and the Israeli regime’s crimes? agreement. If what Netanyahu is saying was true, the CIA A: According to a report published by the Abdullah Al-Hourani would have been all over it. Centre for Studies, Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinian A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the protesters in Gaza, including seven children. Three were killed United States is aware of the facility Netanyahu announced in the occupied West Bank, including 24-year-old Mohammad and described it as a “warehouse” used to store “records and Al-Rimawi, who was beaten to death. The Israeli occupation archives” from Iran’s nuclear program. forces also wounded 2,300 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, West A second U.S. intelligence official called Netanyahu’s com- Bank, and Jerusalem, including 2,014 in the Gaza Strip alone. Israel knows very well that what it is doing is tantamount ments “somewhat misleading, we have known about this fa- Occupation forces also demolished 16 houses and 18 facilities to more than human rights abuses, it amounts to “Murder” cility for some time, and it’s full of file cabinets and paper, in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem and handed over not aluminum tubes for centrifuges. 27 demolition orders for Palestinian homes and facilities in call it a pariah state or an apartheid state. Fifty years Netanyahu’s false claim that the facility held “massive the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. after Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it amounts of equipment and material” appears to be completely The Israeli Planning and Construction Committee has agreed controls these areas through repression, institutionalized unfounded. The IAEA doesn’t need to inspect this site because to build 4,700 settlement units on 841 dunams (208 acres) of there is no reason to think that there is anything there. land belonging to the Palestinian village of Al-Walaja in the discrimination, and systematic abuses of the Palestinian Netanyahu has made a habit of making preposterous claims occupied northwest of Bethlehem. Meanwhile, the committee population’s rights. about Iran’s nuclear program for decades. He has been consist- approved the construction of 75 new illegal settlement units ently lying about Iran’s nuclear program, it is a real shame that in the occupied Beit Hanina neighborhood of Jerusalem. people? The world needs to wake up to these atrocities that Crimes against humanity, the convention says, are events that his statements continue to be taken seriously in the West. He These numbers reflect the atrocities that took place in are abrogating an entire people of their freedom. constitute part of a government policy (although the perpe- keeps trying to mislead the world into believing his alarm-ism September 2018 alone. It’s not in recent times that Israel Israel has rejected international calls for probes into trators don’t necessarily have to identify with this policy), or about Iran’s nuclear program by prevarication and theatrics, has started using excessive force, they have been doing it recent deaths and insisted that its open-fire rules for Gaza will involve a widespread practice of perpetrating atrocities by but his warnings have been so wrong for so long that the west for the last 50 years. The difference is it has to come to light not change. Some Western states, particularly the U.S. and a government or an authority acting de facto on its behalf. should stop listening to his song and dance about Iran. in recent times due to the explosion of social media and the Britain, who call themselves champions of human rights, have The IDF is committing war crimes and crimes against We live in a world where surveillance has become such a speed at which information is being relayed around the world. supported the Tel Aviv regime’s crimes against Palestinians. humanity, and most of the perpetrators are never called to powerful tool that they are able to count the hair on a grass- Having said that, Israel has been very successful in creating The UN has also failed to restore the rights of the people. account. In the colonialist reality in which the army operates hopper’s legs and yet the surprising part is that Netanyahu sees Hasbara (“explaining” in Hebrew); Israel and its supporters What is your assessment? these are routine practices against a population that is subject what nobody else does whereas the same people had blinders must march forth to the TV studios, the newsrooms, on the A: Israel knows very well that what it is doing is tantamount to dehumanization. The IDF sees its soldiers as belonging to on when it came to the surveillance of Daesh terrorist truck blogosphere and in Twitterverse, spreading the good word, to more than human rights abuses, it amounts to “Murder” a different “level of civilization.” After all, the colonial officer convoys wreaking havoc in the Middle East, yet another proof attacking those who write against Israel, rebutting and rooting call it a pariah state or an apartheid state. Fifty years after cannot share the same universal moral values as the native that wars are being engineered and manufactured for profits. out inaccuracies and calumnies according to Zionist scripts. Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it controls these who attacks him with a knife. Therefore, there is continued Let’s get one thing very clear, the Israeli occupation of Israel has an army of amateurs known as the Hasbara War- areas through repression, institutionalized discrimination, chatter here about “the most moral army in the world” – the Palestine is the epicenter of global human rights abuses. The riors let loose on campuses, call centers, websites and blogs, and systematic abuses of the Palestinian population’s rights. product of a dichotomy that Israel makes between what the deeper issue of injustices involved in the colonization and and all the Israel projects in order to sway opinions towards They have conducted unlawful killings; forced displacements; international community has determined is a war crime and occupation of Palestine, and inhumane treatment of Pales- Zionist ideology, failing which your social media accounts abusive detention; constant closures or movement restric- its struggle against a people that it sees as not subject to the tinians in the West Bank and Gaza are the most important will be hacked, Now the Saudis are following suit and doing tions; and the development of illegal settlements, along with ethical rules shared by civilized nations. The sad part is coun- factors threatening world peace in general and they have the same thing. the accompanying discriminatory policies that disadvantage tries such as the USA and UK side with the Zionist ideology been carefully kept ‘out of sight’ by creating smokescreens The idea of Israel killing and kidnapping children with Palestinians. and at the same time tout themselves as beacons of democracy or subsequent wars as a way of diverting attention from impunity is to get rid of an entire generation which has nev- Many of Israel’s abusive practices were carried out in the and justice! the world’s only surviving apartheid state. So it comes as er seen or tasted freedom from occupation and thus it is a name of security, whether it’s a child imprisoned by a military There are now 4.75 million Palestinians living in the West no surprise that Bibi Netanyahu’s announcement about generation which will not be very forgiving to the atrocities court or shot unjustifiably, or a house demolished for lack of an Bank and the Gaza Strip together with 1.75 in Israel itself the grand discovery of a Secret Atomic Warehouse comes being committed on their people. elusive permit, or checkpoints where only settlers are allowed i.e. a total population of 6.5m indigenous people. However, at a time when Israel’s atrocities have increased ten-fold This is the very reason why people like Ayelet Shaked have to pass, few Palestinians have escaped serious rights abuses there are now also 600,000 Israeli settlers illegally living in towards the people of Palestine. gone on record saying “They are all enemy combatants, and during this 50-year occupation, Israel today maintains an the Occupied Territories in defiance of UN Resolution 2334 There are a lot of mysteries surrounding Israel’s nuclear their blood shall be on all their heads. Now, this also includes entrenched system of institutionalized discrimination against and in clear defiance of international law. arsenal. That is partly due to the Israeli security establishment’s the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flow- Palestinians in the occupied territory this is repression that Astonishingly, both the U.S. Trump administration and the unwritten rule of never speaking about the country’s nuclear ers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would extends far beyond any security rationale. UK Conservative government continue to arm and support weapons program in public in order to preserve the principle be juster. They should go, as should the physical homes in What Israel is committing now are war crimes and crimes the extremist Right-wing, Netanyahu Likud coalition that of deterrence. But there are indeed some basic elements of which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes against humanity. Under the Geneva Convention, the defi- authorizes and subsidizes the illegal settlements in the West Israel’s nuclear program that are acknowledged by defense will be raised there.” Or Naftali Bennet who said “I have killed nition of such crimes includes political, racist or religious Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. This unholy analysts around the world. In a fair world and a level playing lots of Arabs in my life – and there is no problem with that.” persecution and/or other inhuman treatment. Under the Rome alliance between Netanyahu, Donald Trump, and Theresa field the state of Israel would have been forced to declare its Or Michael Ben Ari who went on record saying “There are Statute, the basis for the establishment of the International May flies in the face of international law, justice, human rights nuclear arsenal and face the consequences of its human rights no innocents in Gaza, mow them down and kill the Gazans Criminal Court in The Hague, “war crime” is a generic term and the tenets of democracy, and in violation of the will of the abuses and land grabbing but alas it is neither a fair world without thought or mercy” and the Palestinians are the bad that refers to those sorts of actions during an armed conflict. United Nations General Assembly. nor a level playing field.

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Living in urban areas with heavy air pollution could increase stave off dementia your risk for mouth cancer, a new study says. People with a diagnosis of dementia can also face depression. Middle-aged men living in 64 municipalities throughout For this reason, they may end up taking antidepressant Taiwan were more likely to develop oral cancer if they lived in drugs. Now, a study has found that these drugs may be able places with high levels of air pollutants, the researchers report. to treat not just depression, but dementia itself. Those exposed to the highest levels of fine particulate matter A new study tests out the potential of antidepressants in the air were 43 percent more likely to be diagnosed with mouth to tackle dementia mechanisms in the brain. cancer, the study found. According to data cited by the Alzheimer’s Association, The association held even after researchers controlled for other 1 in 10 people aged 65 and over has Alzheimer’s disease, a habits that could contribute to mouth cancer, such as smoking form of dementia, characterized chiefly by memory loss, tobacco or chewing betel quid, a type of smokeless tobacco pop- disorientation, and having trouble with normal daily activities. ular in Southeast Asia. Moreover, people with Alzheimer’s can often also develop Heavy metals contained in particulate air pollution could be mental health issues, especially depression. responsible for this risk, said senior researcher Yung-Po Liaw, For this reason, healthcare professionals may prescribe a professor of public health at Chung Shan Medical University selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) — a class of in Taichung City, Taiwan. antidepressants — to individuals with dementia. “The mechanism behind the association between air pollu- Recently, researchers from the University of Waterloo tion and oral cancer is not very clear,” Liaw said. “However, in Ontario, Canada, have found a surprising mechanism some metallic components of [fine particulate pollution] like at play, namely that SSRIs appear to inhibit the growth of lead, cadmium, arsenic, chromium and nickel, as well as organic dementia-specific aggregates in the brain. compounds like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons [PAHs], are “These are promising findings for people with Alzheimer’s believed to be carcinogenic.” who are on SSRIs,” notes Prof. Praveen Nekkar Rao, one of The study only found an association and not a cause-and- the current study’s authors. effect link. Up to now, air pollution has been mainly associated “These finding may not only highlight benefits for peo- with health problems related to the lungs and the heart, said ple with depression and Alzheimer’s but can also provide Dr. Jacqueline Moline, of Northwell Health in Manhasset, N.Y. insights to serve as a guide to future drug development to “Given that many of the compounds that comprise overall treat the disease,” he suggests. fine particulate matter are carcinogens, this study raises impor- The research team reports the study’s results in the journal tant questions related to the health effects of pollution, beyond ACS Chemical Neuroscience. cardiac and respiratory effects,” said Moline, vice president of SSRIs vs. beta-amyloid plaques occupational medicine, epidemiology and prevention. A key mechanism of Alzheimer’s in the brain is the build- Nearly 49,750 Americans are diagnosed with mouth cancer up of toxic plaques, made up of sticky beta-amyloid proteins every year, and only about half will still be alive in five years, that over-accumulate. according to the Oral Cancer Foundation. The death rate asso- Beta-amyloid plaques interfere with the signals that According to data cited by the Alzheimer’s ciated with this cancer tends to be high because it is routinely neurons (brain cells) transmit to one another. This blocks Association, 1 in 10 people aged 65 and over diagnosed at a late stage. information from circulating in the brain and contributes has Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia, “This important work could explain why there is an increase to the progression of dementia. in the oral cancers among World Trade Center-exposed workers, Current treatments for Alzheimer’s disease focus on characterized chiefly by memory loss, who had a massive exposure to fine particulate matter,” said managing its symptoms, but none, as yet, act on the un- disorientation, and having trouble with normal Moline, who was not involved with the new study. derlying mechanism. Furthermore, developing new drugs daily activities. Moreover, people with Alzheimer’s “Further research like this is critical to understanding the for Alzheimer’s can be very costly and time-consuming. implications of air pollution, whether from industrial facilities, An existing drug used to treat liver disease may also help can often also develop mental health issues, or the aftermath of a disaster such as the World Trade Center tackle Alzheimer’s, researchers show. especially depression attacks,” she added. That is why the University of Waterloo researchers Fine-particle pollution -- the main cause of haze -- stems from wanted to find out if any existing drugs could be useful Prof. Nekkar Rao and colleagues found that fluoxetine and “Our results can also inform future drug development. The chemicals emitted by power plants, industries and automobiles, in treating dementia. paroxetine had the most promising effect, as they inhibited chemical structure of SSRIs presents a type of blueprint for how to as well as smoke from fires, according to the U.S. Environmental In the current study, Prof. Nekkar Rao and team looked at the growth of amyloid-beta plaque by 74.8 percent and 76 develop a medication that will prevent beta-amyloid aggregation.” Protection Agency. how SSRIs — specifically, fluvoxamine, fluoxetine, paroxetine, percent respectively. “We can explore developing new drugs based on that For this study, researchers compared the health records of sertraline, and escitalopram — might affect beta-amyloid The researchers hope that their current findings — using model to treat Alzheimer’s,” says Prof. Nekkar Rao. more than 482,000 men 40 and older with pollution data gathered aggregation in the brain. drugs that have already gained approval from the United Still, the scientists note that further research is needed to from 66 air quality monitoring stations across Taiwan. The researchers experimented with different types and States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — may pave the confirm these benefits before healthcare practitioners can Smoking and frequent betel quid chewing were associated with quantities of SSRIs in the laboratory, aiming to establish way to a more effective, safe, and readily available treatment recommend SSRIs for the treatment of dementia. increased risk, but so too were heavy levels of particulate pollution. which types and dosages might help people with dementia. for Alzheimer’s disease. (Source: Medical News Today) (Source: WebMD)

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Study reveals best use of wildflowers Anomalously huge planets have been detected orbiting a to benefit crops on farms bafflingly young star A wee baby star at the tender age of just 2 million years has revealed With bee pollinators in decline and pesky strawberry plots on 12 small New York state itself to be quite the precocious little cosmic object. crop pests lowering yields, sustainable and farms that represented a gradient of land- Astronomers have discovered it has not one, but four planets in organic farmers need environmentally friendly scapes, from farms surrounded by natural the protoplanetary disc of dust and gas that surrounds it - and they solutions. habitat to farms next to agricultural lands. are all gargantuan, with the biggest coming in at 11 times the mass One strategy is to border crops with wild- Each farm had two strawberry plantings, of Jupiter, and the smallest about the mass of Saturn. flower plantings to attract pollinators and pest one plot bordered by a wildflower strip, and predators. But scientists have suggested that another control plot on the other side of the such plantings may only be effective when farm, edged with mowed grass. farms are surrounded by the right mix of The researchers conducted surveys of pol- natural habitat and agricultural land. linators, pests, wasps that parasitize pests, For the first time, a Cornell University fruit yield and fruit damage over three years. study of strawberry crops on New York farms The annual yield tested this theory and found that wildflower The tiny parasitizing wasps lay their eggs strips on farms added pollinators when the inside tarnished plant bug nymphs — a pest farm lay within a “Goldilocks zone,” where that costs New York strawberry growers 30 25 to 55 percent of the surrounding area percent of their annual yield. When the eggs contained natural lands. Outside this zone, hatch, the larvae feed on the nymphs. flower plantings also drew more strawberry The wildflower strips were increasingly pests, while having no effect on wasps that effective at attracting pollinators as each year Moreover, their orbits are incredibly distant. The outermost is kill those pests. passed. The result that “between 25 and 55 more than 1,000 times the distance from the star than the innermost. Still, more pollinators in this ideal land- percent [surrounding natural landscapes] That’s the most extreme range of orbits ever observed in a planetary scape zone boosted strawberry yields overall of the Royal Society B, suggests targeting farms are already low on natural habitat and was the best range in terms of promoting system; Pluto, for context, is only around 102 times the distance from The analysis has implications for many types wildflower borders to farms with the right beneficial insects, making a wildflower strip bees,” closely matched what the Goldilocks the Sun as Mercury. of state and federal programs in the United conditions and modifying wildflower plant too small to attract more insects. theory predicted, Grab said. The star is named CI Tau, located around 500 light-years away in States and abroad that promote establishing species could maximize success. “It’s in this zone in the middle, where But when it came to pests, wildflowers a star-forming region of the constellation of Taurus, and it’s been a bit pollinator habitats on farms. The rationale behind the Goldilocks zone there’s enough natural habitat around, and outside the Goldilocks zone attracted the of a brain teaser since 2016. That’s when the first of its planets - the Huge amounts of money theory: wildflower strips surrounded by too there are beneficial insects there, and you most pests and didn’t add more wasps. “It largest of the four, the super-Jupiter named CI Tau b - was discovered, “We’re investing huge amounts of mon- much natural land would not add addition- can attract them [insects] from the natural suggests the parasitoids are not responding orbiting really close to the star, completing a full orbit every 9 days. ey on these programs and right now it’s al beneficial insects, because ample habitat habitat into the crop habitat to actually see a to wildflower strips at all,” Grab said. More Because it’s so close, it’s what is known as a “hot Jupiter,” which not part of the policy to think about the would drown out a small strip of flowers. On benefit in terms of crop production,” Grab said. study is needed to understand why. is a type of planet that shouldn’t exist according to current models of landscape context of where these habitats the other hand, farms surrounded by other In the study, the researchers planted Analyses revealed many wildflower spe- planetary formation. That’s because gas giants can’t form that close are placed,” said Heather Grab, Ph.D. ‘17, cies attracted both pests and bees, but some to their host star - gravity, radiation and stellar winds prevent the gas the paper’s first author and a postdoctor- species like fleabane (Erigeron annuus) lured from coalescing. Yet exist they do, seen orbiting about 1 percent of stars. al researcher in the lab of Katja Poveda, In the study, the researchers planted the most pests and were least effective at One explanation for their existence is that hot Jupiters start to associate professor of entomology and a strawberry plots on 12 small New York drawing bees. form much farther out, then migrate inwards - but the estimated co-author of the study. “If you wanted to optimize the wildflower timescale for this is hundreds of millions of years, not two. The paper, “Landscape Context Shifts state farms that represented a gradient of patches, I would suggest we eliminate some Piqued by this strange system, astronomers used the Atacama the Balance of Costs and Benefits From landscapes, from farms surrounded by natural of those from the list of recommended species Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to search CI Tau’s Wildflower Border on Multiple Ecosystem habitat to farms next to agricultural lands. in the plantings,” Grab said. protoplanetary disc for signs of other planets. Services,” published Aug. 1 in Proceedings (Source: phys.org) (Source: sciencealert.com)

Oldest evidence for animals Plastic waste of ocean could impact human Good gorilla fathers are found by researchers health and food security: new research more reproductively successful: new study Researchers at the University of California, Each year, an estimated 18 billion pounds Riverside, have found the oldest clue yet of of plastic waste enters the world’s ocean Researchers at Northwestern University, the Max Planck Institute animal life, dating back at least 100 million from coastal regions. That’s about equiv- for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund years before the famous Cambrian explosion alent to five grocery bags of plastic trash studied why wild male mountain gorillas in Rwanda spent so much of animal fossils. piled up on every foot of coastline on the time with the kids in their group even when they didn’t know who The study, led by Gordon Love, a planet. All that plastic is causing harm to the father was. Published in Nature Scientific Reports on Monday, professor in UCR’s Department of Earth the creatures that live in the ocean, from the study showed how much more successful these male gorillas Sciences, was published today in Nature coral reefs smothered in bags, to turtles were at reproduction and challenged assumptions on paternal care Ecology & Evolution. The first author is gagging on straws, to whales and seabirds in primates. Alex Zumberge, a doctoral student working that starve because their bellies are so “About 15 years ago, I worked as a research assistant for the Dian in Love’s research group. jammed with bits of plastic that there’s Fossey Gorilla Fund, studying male gorilla behavior. I was very struck Rather than searching for conventional no room for real food. by how much time males and kids spent together, even in large groups body fossils, the researchers have been New research is emerging apace where multiple males might be the father,” Stacy Rosenbaum, a post- tracking molecular signs of animal about the possible long-term impacts of doctoral fellow at Northwestern University and lead author on the life, called biomarkers, as far back as different steroid biomarker, called tiny pieces of plastic on the marine food amends the National Oceanic and Atmos- study, told Newsweek. “It looked very much like fathering in humans, 660-635 million years ago during the 24-isopropylcholestane (24-ipc), from chain — raising fresh questions about how pheric Administration’s Marine Debris Act which just isn’t something that we really think of apes engaging in.” Neoproterozoic Era. In ancient rocks rocks in South Oman. it might ultimately impact human health and funds the program through 2022. The In a study she’d published a few years ago, Rosenbaum found and oils from Oman, Siberia, and India, Biomarker evidence and food security. law fosters efforts to clean up plastic trash that male gorillas weren’t treating their own biological children any they found a steroid compound produced However, the 24-ipc biomarker evidence About 40 percent of all plastic produced from the world’s oceans and encourages differently from other kids in their group, so she decided to figure only by sponges, which are among the proved controversial since 24-ipc steroids is used in packaging, and much of that federal trade negotiators to prod “leaders out why they interacted so differently from many other mammals. earliest forms of animal life. are not exclusively made by demosponges is used only once and then discarded. of nations responsible for the majority of The new study found that the male gorillas who groomed and rested Early animals and can be found in a few modern algae. Less than a fifth of all plastic is recycled, marine debris” to improve management more with the young in the group had more reproductive opportunities “Molecular fossils are important for The finding of the additional and novel 26- though many countries and businesses of waste that ends up in the oceans. with the female gorillas. Male gorillas who spent the most time with tracking early animals since the first sponges mes ancient biomarker, which is unique to are trying innovative solutions to increase The bill’s co-sponsors kids sired five times as many children as the gorillas who spent the were probably very small, did not contain a demosponges, adds extra confidence that that number. Trump agreed with Democratic Sena- least amount of time with kids. That could be because the females skeleton, and did not leave a well-preserved both compounds are fossil biomolecules Package to plastic tor Sheldon Whitehouse, one of the bill’s chose to mate with the male gorillas because of the interactions they or easily recognizable body fossil record,” produced by demosponges on an ancient National Geographic magazine de- co-sponsors that trade talks with the Philip- had with the young. Zumberge said. “We have been looking seafloor. voted a special cover package to plastic pines should include plastic waste. “We’re “We actually first found this result more than three years ago. I for distinctive and stable biomarkers that The study also provides important in June 2018, and since then, the issue okay with that,” he said. “I understand. A was pretty skeptical that it was real, so we waited until we had more indicate the existence of sponges and other new constraints on the groups of modern has received more attention from the lot comes from there.” paternity results, and sure enough, not only was the relationship early animals, rather than single-celled demosponges capable of producing unique media, public, and politicians the world Trump also blamed other unnamed still there, it got stronger,” Rosenbaum said. organisms that dominated the earth for steroid structures, which leave a distinctive over. Here, we track some of the devel- countries that “abuse the oceans” and (Source: Newsweek) billions of years before the dawn of complex, biomarker record. The researchers found opments around this important issue. whose trash floats to the West Coast of multicellular life.” that within modern demosponges, certain We will update this article periodically the United States,” creating, he said, a The biomarker they identified, a steroid taxonomic groups preferentially produce as news develops. “very unfair situation.” compound named 26-methylstigmastane 26-mes steroids while others produce 24- President Trump called out other “It’s incredible. It’s incredible when Mammals cannot evolve fast (26-mes), has a unique structure that is ipc steroids. nations, including China and Japan, for you look at it,” Trump said. “People don’t enough to escape current currently only known to be synthesized by The “combined Neoproterozoic “making our oceans into their landfills” realize it, but all the time we’re being in- certain species of modern sponges called demosponge sterane record, showing when he signed legislation last week to undated by debris from other countries.” extinction crisis demosponges. 24-ipc and 26-mes steranes co-occurring improve efforts to clean up plastic trash Comparatively, the beaches of the Unit- “This steroid biomarker is the first in ancient rocks, is unlikely attributed to from the world’s oceans. ed States are among the world’s cleanest. The sixth mass extinction is underway, this time caused by humans. evidence that demosponges, and hence an isolated branch or extinct stem-group “As president, I will continue to do Kamilo Beach in Hawaii, which faces the A team of researchers have calculated that species are dying out so multicellular animals, were thriving in of demosponges,” Love said. “Rather, the everything I can to stop other nations Pacific gyre, where ocean trash collects, quickly that nature’s built-in defense mechanism, evolution, cannot ancient seas at least as far back as 635 ability to make such unconventional steroids from making our oceans into their land- is the exception. But most of the world’s keep up. If current conservation efforts are not improved, so many million years ago,” Zumberge said. likely arose deep within the demosponge fills,” Trump said at a White House signing plastic trash collects in coastal regions mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that The work builds from a 2009 study phylogenetic tree but now encompasses ceremony. “That’s why I’m please — very and on beaches in developing nations nature will need 3-5 million years to recover to current biodiversity by Love’s team, which reported the a wide coverage of modern demosponge pleased, I must say — to put my signature that lack adequate municipal waste col- levels. And that’s a best-case scenario. first compelling biomarker evidence groups.” on this important legislation.” lection systems. We humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly for Neoproterozoic animals from a (Source: eurekalert.org) The law, passed with bipartisan support, (Source: nationalgeographic.com) that nature’s built-in defense mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become ex- SoundBender levitates objects by curving sound waves around obstacles tinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3-5 million years to recover. Levitation is often thought of as the realm of magicians or hampering development in this field,” says Gianluca Memoli, There have been five upheavals over the past 450 million years The Jetsons, but it is technically possible. That said, the co-creator of SoundBender. “We have achieved incredibly when the environment on our planet has changed so dramatically tech seems to be moving pretty slowly. Now, researchers dynamic and responsive control, so real-time adjustments that the majority of Earth’s plant and animal species became extinct. at the University of Sussex have developed SoundBender, are just one step away.” After each mass extinction, evolution has slowly filled in the gaps a technology that bends sound waves around obstacles to As for what you might one day be able to do with this with new species. acoustically levitate objects above them. technology, the team has a few ideas. SoundBender could The sixth mass extinction is happening now, but this time the The SoundBender is a hybrid system, combining phased be put to work in interactive museum displays, directing extinctions are not being caused by natural disasters; they are the arrays of transducers (PATs) and acoustic metamaterials. smells from diffusers to targeted spots or rooms, or sculpting work of humans. A team of researchers from Aarhus University and PATs are made up of a series of small transducers that each shapes out of fire or fog. That last bit sounds like it begins the University of Gothenburg has calculated that the extinctions are give off pulses of ultrasound waves, which can be directed to cross over with the team’s previous work in fog screens moving too rapidly for evolution to keep up. by changing the order they pulse in. These are arranged in a like MisTable and MistForm. If mammals diversify at their normal rates, it will still take them rectangular plate, above which sits a circular metamaterial “Following our breakthrough, the potential now is for 5-7 million years to restore biodiversity to its level before modern hu- designed to guide the sound waves up and around, creating a device that can bend around larger objects, potentially mans evolved, and 3-5 million years just to reach current biodiversity a “hollow” space in the middle. even as the obstacle is moving,” says Sriram Subramanian, levels, according to the analysis, which was published recently in the This combination allows small objects to hover above co-creator of SoundBender. “We are also pursuing how to scientific journal, PNAS. obstacles placed in the center of the sound field, which the flame, for example, or moving clouds of particles to create make the device broadband so it can work for all frequencies However, not all species have the same significance. Some extinct team demonstrated by levitating a particle over the top of visible “holograms.” of sound. This would allow, for instance, sending the music animals, such as the Australian leopard-like marsupial lion Thylacoleo, a Lego figure. The process could also be used to generate Significant drawback of a radio behind a corner or creating zones of silence in the or the strange South American Macrauchenia (imagine a lama with haptic feedback when someone places their hand in the “This is a significant step forward for ultrasound levita- middle of a dance floor.” an elephant trunk) were evolutionary distinct lineages and had only beam, or to move non-solid objects – controlling a candle’s tion and overcomes a significant drawback that has been (Source: New Atlas) few close relatives. (Source: Science Daily) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 SOCIETY OCTOBER 17, 2018 University of Tehran’s Jahad Daneshgahi Tehran municipality to make disabled-friendly bus stops to manufacture subway equipment SOCIETY TEHRAN — Tehran municipality has taken desk SOCIETY TEHRAN — Jahad Daneshgahi, the Uni- measures to make bus stops across the city desk more accessible for people with disabilities, councilor Majid versity of Tehran›s academic center for Farahani said on Tuesday. education, culture and research, will domestically produce Last week in a note to Tehran Municipality the city council equipment for developing subways, deputy mayor of Tehran has urged the directorate for traffic and transport affairs to for traffic and transport affairs has said. increase accessibility for the physically challenged people at As per a memorandum of understanding signed the bus stops and the municipality saw to it, ISNA quoted between Jahad Daneshgahi and directorate for traffic Farahani as saying. and transport affairs at Tehran Municipality on Monday the research center will provide Tehran metro with home-grown equipment, YJC reported. Mohsen Pourseyyed Aqaei explained that thankfully Iran is fully capable of manufacturing all subway equipment re- garding rail equipment and construction materials. Though some equipment still should be imported to the country and in order to develop rail transport “we” need to become self-sufficient in manufacturing such equipment and now with the newly signed memorandum of understanding Jahad Daneshgahi will produce them. He further explained that the decision for domestic production of the equipment is not just because of the brutal sanctions imposed on Iran, but also to improve the national industry. He also noted that Tehran should have 12 operation- al subway lines to provide the whole province with public transportation. Moreover the municipality has put bus stop sings in Braille Currently there are five operational subways lines in the for people with vision loss, he added. city of Tehran which deliver some 2.2 million rides on a daily basis, and lines 6 and 7 are yet to be completed and Making the city disability-friendly requires A view of a subway station of line 6 which is under construction once they are fully operational they can increase the metro determination ridership to some 5 million a day. metropolises by helping to reduce motor-vehicle use. breathing dangerously polluted air, with those in develop- The new law on the rights of persons with disabilities has As Pourseyyed Aqaei said after the completion of line Large amounts of breathable particles (particulate ing countries at considerably greater risk. According to a been approved on December 27, 2017, by the Majlis [Iranian 6 and 7 Tehran Municipality is planning on constructing a matter, or PM) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), produced large-scale study by the Health Effects Institute published parliament]. According to Hossein Nahvinejad, deputy direc- new subway line within the next 5 years. in part by industrial emissions and road traffic, are by the Independent in mid-April air pollution was respon- tor for Iran’s Welfare Organization rehabilitation affairs, the According to a United Nations 2014 report, half of the responsible for shortening the lifespans of city dwellers. sible for 6.1 million deaths in 2016, with ambient (outdoor) law will be fully implemented by the next Iranian calendar world’s population is now urban and this means that subways Public transportation systems such as subways have air pollution being the largest contributor, accounting for year starting on March 21, 2019. are vital for commuting in crowded cities, something that thus seemed like a solution to minimize air pollution 4.1 million deaths. Global deaths attributed to ambient air One of the articles of the law aims to create an environment will become more and more important over time. They can in the urban environment. pollution are estimated to have increased by 19.5 percent in which people with disability can have an equal chance also play a part in reducing outdoor air pollution in large More than 95 percent of the world’s population are from 3.3 million in 1990. of accessing social facilities as normal people. People with multiple disabilities can use public transportation– including buses and subway – free of charge. Head of Iran’s Welfare Organization Anoushirvan Mo- Iran inaugurates school special for Retirees’ recruitment ban applies to hseni-Bandpey said in mid-July that the government has Afghan nationals Tehran mayor, says councilor allocated a total budget of 2 trillion rials (nearly $47 million) for implementing the law on rights of persons with disabilities. SOCIETY TEHRAN — An ele- SOCIETY TEHRAN — Tehran desk desk But Nahvinejad said on Monday that in order for the law mentary school opened Mayor Mohammad to go into effect fully the Welfare Organization require a in Varamin, southeastern Tehran, for Af- Ali Afshani is subjected to the newly budget of 120 trillion rials (nearly $2.8 billion). ghan nationals, Fars reported on Tuesday. adopted law banning the retired to Looking around the city it is clear the Tehran is not much The school including 6 classes was be employed once again, councilor disability-friendly and it’s already too late. This doesn’t solely opened during a ceremony with Edu- Elham Fakhari said on Monday. concern one organization. There are number of responsible cation Minister Mohammad Bat’haei in The law to ban employment of the bodies which have to join hands in both allocating the nec- attendance. retired was passed in mid-September essary budget as well as developing necessary infrastructure The school was built in a collective at- by the Majlis [Iranian parliament] and Mohammad Ali Afshani to the city a better place for people who are already making tempt between Iranian philanthropists it will be implemented by November 15. a great effort to live a better life. and United Nations High Commissioner are allowed to attend schools now. “Afshani is retired and as per the Council of Urban Development and for Refugees, the report added. There are some 450,000 foreign na- law he should resign,” Tasnim news Architecture may run for the mayor. In an interview with the Tehran Times tional students studying at schools in Iran agency quoted Fakhari as saying. The ban on employment of retirees LEARN ENGLISH in early August deputy for internation- of which 420,000 are Afghan nationals, The vice president for legal affairs includes governors, ambassadors, al affairs department of the Ministry of Karimi said stating that, this increased [Laya Joneidi] has also said that all mayors and deputy ministers but You Missed The Deadline! Education Gholamreza Karimi said that the number of students by 110,000 and mayors, including Tehran mayor are not Guardian Council members, Tehran province ranks first in the number now all students who have a health permit subjected to the law, she said. vice president, heads of the three A: And so, I just wanted to check in with you and find out of foreign national students as more than from Ministry of Health and a statement She further explained that city branches of government (president, where we are with this project. As you know, you’ve missed a 100,000 students are studying at schools from Interior Ministry can attend schools. council has not elected any potential judiciary chief, and parliament speak- fairly significant deadline last week, and this will negativity in Tehran. Karimi also explained that there are candidates for the position. er), deputy parliament speaker, and some schools which are solely allocated presidential aides. impact the team’s ability to move forward with the next Up to the year 2015 documented stu- However, there are speculations dents who amounted to 300,000 could to Afghan national students and Afghan that Transport Minister Abbas Ak- Moreover exceptions have been stages of this project. enroll at schools in Iran, however, fol- teachers also teach the students, however, houndi, City council chairman Mohsen made to war veterans who suffer from B: I know, I’m really sorry that I missed the deadline. But really, lowing a decree issued by the Leader of they are required to implement the cur- Hashemi, tourism chief Ali-Asghar over 50 percent disabilities, those who it wasn’t my fault. You see, we had all of these unexpected the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed riculum subjects taught at other Iranian Mounesan, Mohammad-Ebrahim were held captive for more than three technical problems at the last minute, and that I couldn’t Ali Khamenei in May 2015, all foreign schools, but in general most Afghan stu- Ansari-Lari, the managing director years in the Iraqi prisons following get into the database and extract the kind of information nationals, even those who have no iden- dents are studying at schools along with of Kish Free Zone Organization, Pir- Iraq’s war against Iran in the 1980s, that I needed for the data analysis. You know, if the tech guys tification and are living in Iran illegally, Iranian students. ouz Hanachi, Secretary of Iran High and also children of the martyrs. would have done their job and kept the CRM stable, then I wouldn’t have missed my deadline. A: Oh, come on! An excuse like that is tantamount to lying. You’re Climate change already negatively affecting mental health, study shows essentially blaming the tech team for your time management Mental health has already been impacted by events linked Nick Obradovich, the study’s co-author and Massachusetts The study also noted a 4 per cent rise in reports of poor issues, rather than accepting responsibility for the fact that you to climate change, such as multi-year temperature warm- Institute of Technology research scientist, said: “It’s really mental health linked to Hurricane Katrina, which struck were procrastinating for the past two weeks. ing, increased rainfall and extreme weather events, a new important to consider this as yet another piece in the puzzle the US Gulf Coast in August 2005 and affected millions B: No, I’m not trying to pass the buck here; I know that it study shows. of understanding how climate change will influence society, of people. was me who is ultimately responsible for getting this done. Scientists analysed data from nearly two million US and the conclusion here is that it’s not likely to be good.” Delving deeper into the findings, Dr Obradovich said: But the thing is, I could have finished on time if the system residents who reported the state of their mental health The sheer scale of the study adds important weight to the “One of our theories is it’s possibly being driven through hadn’t gone down. And you know, with everything I’ve got for 30 days with the US Centres for Disease Control and growing body of evidence that shows exposure to climate the effects of higher temperatures upon sleep. However, going on now, I can’t afford to waste time dealing with tech- Prevention between 2002 and 2012, coupling this with change-related heat worsens mental health and increases there’s a lot of other ways it could be happening.” nical problems. I’ve got a lot on my plate and there are only climate data. suicide rates. He believed other possible factors could include the twenty-four hours in a day... On average, months with temperatures above 30C or Alarmingly, Dr Obradovich’s team also found that women negative effects of heat upon an individual’s productivity more than 25 days of rainfall saw increased reports of stress, and those on low incomes were 60 per cent more likely to and cognitive function, or its impact upon the brain’s ability A: I’m not going to accept this excuse. You’re using these depression and “problems with emotions”, scientists said in report mental health problems as a result of weather than to regulate emotion. small technical glitches as a crutch and trying to ration- the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. the highest earners. (Source: The Independent) alize the fact that you’ve missed your deadline. Look, we have standards and I expect you to live up to those standards. No more phony excuses. If you’re in over your head, you ENGLISH IN USE tell me. No more missed deadlines. Now, I want that data on my desk by nine am! LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION Key vocabulary fairly significant:very important or very relevant impact: to have an effect on something Traffic-related deaths up move forward: continue, go on رشد 2.5 درصدی مرگ های حوادث رانندگی نسبت unexpected: coming without warning 2.5% yr/yr last minute: at the last moment به سال گذشته tantamount: same as, equivalent to Some 5,497 lost their lives in traffic-related accidents over the first 4 بــه گــزارش خبرگــزاری فــارس در 4 ماه نخســت امســال 5 هــزار و 497 نفــر در حــوادث رانندگی essentially: in essence, basically months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22) which کشــور جــان خــود را از دســت دادنــد کــه نســبت بــه مــدت مشــابه ســال گذشــته 2.5 درصــد ,procrastinate: leave tasks or duties for a later time indicates a 2.5-percent increase compared to the same period last year pass the buck: blame someone else, pass on the responsibility رشــد داشــته است. .ultimately: at last; in the end; eventually Fars reported on Sunday پزشــکی قانونــی کشــور اعــام کــرد: بــر اســاس آمارهــا، 4 هــزار و 281 نفــر از تلفــات تصادفات on my plate: another way of saying I have many things to do Data, published by Iran’s forensics organization shows that about 4,281 4 of the individuals are men and the rest are women. ماهــه نخســت امســال را مــردان و ی کهــزار و 216 نفــر را نیــز زنــان تشــکیل داده انــد. glitch: a small fault in a machine or piece of equipment, that stops it working Fars province with 483 deaths, Tehran province with 399 deaths, and اســت انهای دارای بیشــترین تلفــات حــوادث رانندگــی بــه ترتیــب، فــارس بــا 483، تهــران بــا as a crutch: used to indicate you justify failure with excuses Khorasan Razavi province with 377 deaths are the areas with the highest 399 و خراســان رضــوی بــا 377 کشــته بودنــد. .rationalize: to explain bad behavior in a way that (falsely) number of fatalities caused in road crashes makes it seem proper or better phony: not true, fake or false in over your head: too much to handle PREFIX/SUFFIX PHRASAL VERB IDIOM Supplementary vocabulary behind schedule: later than expected “mon(o)-” Gross somebody out Have sticky fingers procrastination: the action of delaying one›s work fabricate: to create an untrue story Meaning: one, single Meaning: to make someone wish they had not Explanation: have a tendency or inclination to steal things justify: to give the reasons why you did something wrong For example: Ireland opened the first commercial seen or been told about something because it is so For example: I think the new cashier we hired has tardiness: the quality of being late often monorail in 1888. unpleasant [= disgust] sticky fingers, because money has begun disappearing (Source: irlanguage.com) For example: His dirty fingernails really gross me out. from the till on the days that he’s working. ساعت: 19:40 امضاء صفحه آرا: ساعت: امضاء مسئول صفحه: ساعت: امضاء ادیتور: ساعت: امضاء سردبیر:

I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y OCTOBER 17, 2018 WORLD IN FOCUS 13 Syria Idlib deal going ahead despite Merkel’s projection regarding nationalist missed deadline: Kremlin movements in Europe 1 On Tuesday, progovernment daily Omran Center, said the deal may still reach Al-Watan said HTS’s refusal to withdraw fruition. 1 In this regard, those like Angela Merkel and Macron “gave Ankara a powerful slap.” “Although the time frame has nominally don’t actually feel any responsibility. “It puts the agreement on the edge of the expired, there are continuing efforts to im- abyss and provides the justification for the plement the deal,” he told AFP. Syrian army and Russian air force to start a Oliver said all stakeholders in the deal, military operation to oust [HTS] from the even local actors, realized that the timeframe area,” it wrote. granted in the public agreement would not It said Ankara had asked “Moscow to give be enough. it more time to influence” HTS members “That’s why it needs more time,” he said. who were resisting the deal. One possible hurdle is the internal divide That came a day after Syria’s top diplomat within HTS over the deal. said it was too soon to say whether the deal According to a brief this month by the had been fulfilled. Omran Center, HTS chief Abu Mohammad “We have to wait for the Russian reac- al-Jolani appears supportive of the deal and tion. Russia is monitoring and following the of aligning with the Turkish-backed National situation,” Foreign Minister Walid Muallem Liberation Front, the second-most-powerful told reporters in Damascus. group in Idlib. But he said Idlib would inevitably return A second faction, led by an Egyptian Undoubtedly, if this process doesn’t stop, the tendency to to government control, implying that a mil- commander, was leaning toward reject- nationalism will spread across the Europe, and especially in the itary assault was still on the table. ing the deal and any partnership with Eurozone. European officials are now deeply concerned about “We have to wait, but at the same time the NLF. next year’s parliamentary elections in Europe. If this time the our troops are still ready around Idlib,” The Idlib region, home to about 3 million expressed relief after the buffer zone deal, The terms of the accord mention only extreme right parties can raise their total votes and thus gain Muallem said. people, is the country’s last major opposition hoping that it would help avert a military “radical fighters,” without specifying HTS, more seats in the European Parliament, there will be a critical After a string of battlefield wins this year, bastion and has been in Assad’s sights for assault that could have caused a humani- and give no details on monitoring mecha- situation in the Green Continent. troops loyal to President Bashar Assad hold months. tarian catastrophe. nisms, besides Turkish and Russian patrols. The fact is that far-right extremists in countries such as France, about two-thirds of Syria. World powers and aid agencies had Nawar Oliver, an analyst at Turkey-based (Source: Reuters) Sweden, Austria and Germany have been able to increase their votes, and while strengthening their position in their country’s political equations, they have many supporters in the social at- mosphere. Trip to cover up truth Finally, the German Chancellor remarks, shouldn’t be regarded By staff & agencies U.S. media reported Monday that the oil-rich kingdom The controversy has troubled Saudi’s traditional Western as a kind of self-criticism, but rather are a new projection of the U.S. top diplomat Mike Pompeo met Tuesday with Saudi is considering an admission that Khashoggi died after an allies, who are key arms suppliers to the kingdom, and also European leaders. Merkel, Macron and other European officials King Salman and the crown prince seeking to defuse interrogation that went wrong during an intended abduction. undermined efforts by Mohammad bin Salman to present who are now warning about the emergence of nationalism in a crisis over missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, with The UN human rights chief called Tuesday for the lift- himself as a modernizing ruler. Europe should accept their role in this equation. American officials saying Riyadh had agreed the need ing of the immunity of officials who might be involved in An investment conference seen as a platform for the crown This is the main prerequisite for reforming the foundations for a “thorough” probe. Khashoggi’s disappearance. prince and dubbed the “Davos in the Desert,” scheduled in Europe. If they refuse to feel responsible, the collapse of the The urgent talks came after U.S. President Donald Due to the seriousness of the case “I believe the inviola- to take place in Riyadh next week, has been hit by a string European Union will be inevitable, an issue that Merkel and Trump dispatched Pompeo to the Persian Gulf kingdom bility or immunity of the relevant premises and officials... of prominent cancellations. Macron are well aware of. amid a growing international outcry about Khashoggi’s should be waived immediately,” Michelle Bachelet said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Ford chairman Bill disappearance. in a statement. Ford and Larry Fink, the head of investment giant Black- Khashoggi has not been seen since he walked into the The investigators, who searched the premises for eight Rock, were among the latest business barons to cancel Macron reshuffles cabinet, Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 to sort out marriage hours into Tuesday morning, took samples with them, in- plans to attend. paperwork. cluding soil from the consulate garden, one official at the US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he still plans hoping to a draw line under “Rogue killers” could be to blame, Trump said after scene said. to attend but would “take [it]... into account” if more in- turbulent few months telephone talks on Monday with the king. Istanbul police are now also planning to search the nearby formation came out. After first meeting with the king, Pompeo held separate consul’s residence, a diplomatic source said. The controversy meanwhile threw into doubt a $400 French President Emmanuel Macron reshuffled his government talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir and Trump’s comments came after a telephone conversation million deal the Saudi Public Investment Fund negotiated on Tuesday, naming the head of his ruling party to the sensitive powerful Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. with King Salman, father of the crown prince, the first such with Hollywood’s most powerful talent agency as part of post of interior minister and maintaining a left-right balance “We are strong and old allies. We face our challenges talks since the crisis erupted. the crown prince’s drive for a foothold in the entertainment as he builds a broad base to fight the 2019 European elections. together,” the crown prince said as he warmly welcomed “Just spoke to the King of Saudi Arabia who denies any industry. Macron’s immediate aim is to steady an administration after a Pompeo at the palace. The two men were also due to have knowledge of whatever may have happened ‘to our Saudi Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel said the Khashoggi case series of resignations that have challenged his authority. He also dinner together later Tuesday. Arabian citizen’,” Trump tweeted. was “very, very concerning,” although he stopped short of wants to inject new energy into his social and economic reform “The secretary and the foreign minister agreed on the “The denial was very, very strong,” Trump told reporters. pronouncing the deal was dead. agenda and reverse a slump in his popularity. importance of a thorough, transparent, and timely investi- “It sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue Trump has threatened the kingdom with “severe pun- gation,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert killers. Who knows?” ishment” if it is shown that Khashoggi was killed inside its said later. But CNN cited two sources as saying the Saudis are Istanbul mission. Turkish police Monday searched the consulate for the preparing a report that his death resulted from a botched But he has also made clear he is reluctant to curb all-im- first time since the disappearance of Khashoggi, a Saudi interrogation, while the Wall Street Journal said the kingdom portant arms sales to Saudi Arabia. national and U.S. resident who had become increasingly was weighing whether to say that rogue operatives killed Britain, France and Germany also released a rare joint critical of Prince Mohammad. Khashoggi by mistake. statement saying they were treating Khashoggi’s disap- Turkish officials have said they believe he was killed After his crunch talks in Riyadh Tuesday, Pompeo was pearance “with the utmost seriousness” and calling for a – a claim Saudi Arabia has denied – with the controversy expected in Turkey on Wednesday to meet Turkish Foreign “credible investigation.” dealing a huge blow to the prince’s efforts to showcase a Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, the state-run Anadolu news Riyadh, however, has vowed to hit back against any reform drive and burnish the kingdom’s image. agency said. punitive measures imposed over the affair. Pressure mounts on Australia over child refugees held in Nauru Hundreds of people marched to the Aus- the urgency of this issue.” tralian parliament on Tuesday to demand Three representatives from the ruling France’s leader had been expected to announce the revamp the government suspend its policy of Liberal Party also broke ranks to call for the last week before postponing it, a delay he said was to ensure sending asylum seekers and refugees to children to be brought to Australia. the right decisions were made but which opponents said raised remote Pacific territories, and bring chil- About 1,100 people are currently be- questions about the depth of experience in his party. dren already detained on Manus Island ing held on Nauru including 102 children, A Macron aide said there would be no shift in policy direction. to Australia. according to the Asylum Seeker Resource “We have at the same time incoming names with a reputation About 500 protesters representing 30 Centre. Single men are detained on nearby in their areas of expertise, which will strengthen the government’s different groups from around rural Aus- Manus Island. efficiency, and others who have a broader profile,” the official said. tralia, including high school students, took Looming by-election Macron and his prime minister, Edouard Philippe, had been part in the rally, amid mounting concern The fate of the families threatens to weighing the reshuffle for two weeks following the resignation over a five-year-old offshore detention become a major political problem for of interior minister Gerard Collomb, one of Macron’s earliest policy that requires any asylum seekers Morrison’s government, which has a par- backers. Collomb’s departure followed two other ministerial who attempt to get to Australia by boat liamentary majority of just a single seat resignations just weeks earlier. to be held offshore and banned from ever and is facing a by-election this weekend In the end, the appointment of Christophe Castaner as interior settling in Australia itself. in Sydney. minister, moving from the position of head of Macron’s political The march was organized to “focus at- The constituency of Wentworth, which party, was the only high profile change. tention on the plight of asylum seekers includes the beachfront suburb Bondi and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who has spearheaded Ma- and refugees who remain on Nauru and some of the city’s wealthiest neighbour- cron’s euro zone reform push, and Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Manus Island, and particularly the need “The mental health situation of the refu- seek its protection. hoods, was previously held by Malcolm Le Drian retained their posts. to provide homes and safety for children gees indefinitely held on Nauru is devastat- Turnbull who was deposed by Morrison ’OK to be white’ Nonetheless, other lower profile positions underlined Ma- and their families either in Australia, or in ing,” Dr Beth O’Connor, MSF psychiatrist, in late August. Meanwhile, Morrison’s government is cron’s ambitions to strengthen the broad base of his Republique another country that would welcome them”, said in a statement last week. “Over the “The issue is front and centre of the also facing ridicule after some of its own En Marche (REM/LRM/LREM/LaREM/ The Republic on the Rural Australians for Refugees said in a past 11 months on Nauru, I have seen an by-election campaign,” said Al Jazeera members backed a parliamentary motion move!/En Marche!/Forward!/Onward!/Working!/On The Move!) statement. alarming number of suicide attempts and correspondent Andrew Thomas. declaring “it is OK to be white”. party as he prepares to go head-to-head with France’s far-right On Monday, nearly 6,000 doctors incidents of self-harm among the refugee In a close race, the Liberal Party is de- Officials blamed an “administrative in next May’s European elections. delivered a letter calling on Prime and asylum-seeker men, women and chil- fending a winning margin of 17.7 percent, process failure” after it emerged on Tues- Didier Guillaume, a former Socialist Party chief whip, moves Minister Scott Morrison to remove dren we treat.” which was supported by Turnbull’s personal day that the attorney general had issued into the job of agriculture minister. Franck Riester, a lawmaker children from detention given the Some children were suffering from trau- popularity. The electorate is seen as one of instructions to Liberal members to back belonging to a group which splintered from the center-right Les serious physical and mental health matic withdrawal syndrome and were un- the most progressive in Sydney. the motion, drafted by right-wing popu- Republicains (The Republicans) after Macron blew apart the tradi- risks they face. able to eat, drink or even walk to the toilet, Doctors Without Borders (known by its list Pauline Hanson and railing against tional mainstream parties last year, will head the culture ministry. “The medical profession is demanding O’Connor added. French initials, MSF), which worked on Nauru what it described as “the deplorable rise Macron’s popularity has sunk in recent months as voter frus- children and families be moved from Na- The United Nations High Commissioner for nearly a year until it was forced to leave of anti-white racism”. tration has welled up over a leader many see as arrogant and the uru,” the Australian Medical Association for Refugees has also called for the evacuation by the island’s government last week, said The motion was defeated 31-28, with sev- architect of policies that favor the affluent, including the scrapping tweeted on Tuesday. “For thousands of of the offshore camps given the deteriorating the mental health situation was “beyond eral government ministers voting in favour, of a wealth levy and a cut to corporate taxes. doctors to be motivated to take this course health of those confined there, stressing that desperate”. The medical group was given including its top official for indigenous affairs. The cabinet resignations and a scandal surrounding the violent of action is testament to the severity and Australia has a responsibility to those that just 24 hours to leave. (Source: Al Jazeera) conduct of a presidential bodyguard have distracted Macron, a 40-year-old former investment banker, from his push to overhaul the pension and unemployment benefit systems. 450 terrorists killed in Egypt’s Sinai offensive: army Opponents on the left and right have sought to depict Macron The Egyptian army said Tuesday that 450 terrorists al-Rifai told AFP. “All airstrikes are carried out by the army outside res- as a leader with diminished star power now paying the price for are estimated to have been killed in its eight- According to army figures, about 30 soldiers have been idential areas,” Rifai said Tuesday. centralizing authority and decision-making in the hands of a month offensive against Daesh (ISIL) in the Sinai killed during the operation. Journalists are barred from going to areas targeted in small inner circle, but he faces no immediate threat. Peninsula. Militants began an insurgency in Egypt after the 2013 the Sinai 2018 campaign, although the army organized His parliamentary party holds a commanding majority in the The military launched a large-scale operation, dubbed ouster of Islamist President Mohammad Morsi, who was a rare visit to the North Sinai capital of El-Arish in July. National Assembly, his presidential term runs until 2022, and “Sinai 2018,” in February to rid Sinai of Daesh militants forced out by the military in the face of mass protests against A countrywide state of emergency was imposed in April the opposition is divided. after an attack on a mosque in the north of the peninsula his rule and that of his Muslim Brotherhood. last year, following two suicide bombings at churches that Analysts, however, said a reshuffle alone may not be enough killed more than 300 people. The army Tuesday rejected criticism from rights groups were claimed by Daesh. to draw a line under the challenging few months. Since the start of the campaign, 450 militants were pre- over the impact on civilians of its campaign in Sinai. On Tuesday, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended “Past presidential terms have shown that there has been no sumed to have been killed “in the north and the center of It says people in the peninsula support its operation the measure by a further three months. tangible benefit from cabinet reshuffles,” said Jerome Fourquet of Sinai by [soldiers] and police,” army spokesman Tamer and receive humanitarian aid. (Source: AFP) pollster IFOP. “There is good reason to believe this will be the same.” (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 14 WORLD SPORTS OCTOBER 17, 2018 Manchester United fans divided on potential Mourinho charged by FA over ‘abusive’ comments takeover bid from Saudi Crown Prince

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has been charged Manchester United fans are divided over over comments he made in Portuguese to a television camera Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad after his side’s win over Newcastle. bin Salman’s apparent interest in a takeover It is claimed Mourinho used “abusive, insulting or improper bid for the club. language” after the 3-2 comeback victory at Old Trafford on 6 The Saudi royal family, worth an estimat- October. ed £850billion, are understood to be keen The Football Association used a lip reader and the 55-year- on buying United from the Glazer family, old’s remarks were interpreted as offensive. who took over in 2005, to rival Abu Dhabi’s Mourinho had been under pressure amid reports he would ownership of Manchester City. be sacked. The move would be hugely controver- His side had been 2-0 down to winless Newcastle at half-time sial amid international outrage over Saudi of the Premier League game, but they scored three goals in the Arabia’s role in the apparent murder of a final 20 minutes to turn the match around. dissident journalist. After the game, Mourinho said he could “cope with the man- However, investors warmed to the news of hunt” against him. a potential takeover, with Manchester United A 90th-minute winner from Alexis Sanchez ended a run of PLC’s share price rising by more than five four games without a win, United have recorded their worst per cent on Monday. league start for 29 years and are eighth in the table. Speculation was fuelled after it emerged Mourinho has until 18:00 BST on Friday to respond to the that United co-owner Avram Glazer is due to charge. fly to Riyadh for an investment conference (Source: BBC) next week, although a number of prominent business leaders have already pulled out over Saudi Arabia’s alleged involvement in the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. And United supporters have had their Bolt offered contract with say on social media, with opinions certainly divided. Some are for the takeover, believed Maltese club - report to be worth between £3bn and £4bn, advo- cating that ousting the Glazer family would Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt has been offered a two- be a positive step and could possibly provide year contract to play soccer with a Maltese club, ESPN reported, a means for the club to clear its debt. triggering speculation he may be set to walk out from his trial at ‘We might actually get owners who want Australian team Central Coast Mariners. us to be the best in the world and not just a Some, however, have taken umbrage with ‘We’d be sellouts like all the teams we Minister of Defence. Maltese champions Valletta FC said they hoped to sign the cash cow,’ one Twitter user said. the appalling human rights record of Saudi so often criticize for it. We’d be worst than During his time as Crown Prince, he led eight-times Olympic gold medallist in time for him to participate ‘Why [are] people complaining?,’ another Arabia’s rulers. Chelsea and on par with City and PSG,’ the a huge anti-corruption drive, with around in their Maltese Super Cup match on Dec. 13 against Balzan. added. ‘It would only be good for the club. ‘From a team investment standpoint it user added. 500 people arrested and cash assets worth “A champion is always welcome and at Valletta FC we believe If they wanna [sic] pay £3-4bn for the club would be good,’ one user began on Reddit. Bin Salman is effectively the most influen- around £600bn targeted. nothing is impossible,” ESPN quoted Valletta managing director they will pay £6-700m to clear the debts! ‘From any moral, respectable, club, or liter- tial royal in the Kingdom as the king suffers Manchester United have been contacted and CEO Ghasston Slimen as saying. ‘Glazers just want to skim off the top. They ally any other standpoint this would be an from Alzheimer’s. for comment. Bolt’s agent in Australia, Tony Rallis, had also confirmed the don’t care about the club!’ absolute disaster.’ The Crown Prince is also the country’s (Source: Daily Mail) approach, ESPN said. Bolt scored two goals for the Mariners in a pre-season trial match on Friday but has not been offered a professional contract Concussion & vision problems - Ireland’s Race for world No. 1 heats up after by the A-League team. A Mariners spokesman said there was no change in Bolt’s Latimer counts cost of 15-second loss Novak Djokovic’s victory in Shanghai position at the club, describing reports that he might quit his trial as “rumors”. The 32-year-old Jamaican has repeatedly expressed his hope to win a contract ahead of the Mariners’ 2018-19 A-League cam- paign which kicks off this weekend. Most Australian soccer pundits said Bolt had shown signs of improvement and better fitness in the Mariners’ 4-0 win over an amateur local side on Friday but felt he was some way off the level of being able to compete in the Australian top flight. (Source: Reuters)

German regulator probes Sky’s Champions League streaming deal with DAZN Irish boxer Jordan Latimer says he has where I was or any memory of fight.” Novak Djokovic extended his incredible updated rankings. Germany’s antitrust regulator said on Tuesday it was investi- concussion, ear damage, facial injuries and Latimer’s corner threw the towel in 15 form at the Shanghai Masters, winning a “This was definitely one of the best gating whether Sky Deutschland’s streaming deal with DAZN to vision problems after a bout which lasted seconds into the bout as he attempted to record fourth title Sunday to set his sights service weeks that I’ve had in my career,” air Champions League soccer matches was in accordance with around 15 seconds. get back to his feet after taking a flurry on the world No. 1 spot. Djokovic said. competition law. Latimer, 20, took on Scotland’s 2018 of blows, including a heavy left uppercut. The Serb defeated 21-year-old Berna “I was saying before that I have never Sky Deutschland is owned by Sky Plc, which has just been Commonwealth Games bronze medallist In stark contrast to his opponent’s Coric 6-3 6-4 to claim his 32nd Masters played on faster courts here in Shanghai, taken over by Comcast in a $40 billion deal. DAZN, part of ty- John Docherty in Newcastle on Saturday. plight, 20-year-old Docherty has already 1000 title, now leaving him just one behind so this year more than ever I needed a lot of coon Len Blavatnik’s Perform Group, is positioning itself as the But Docherty - making his professional pointed to a “dream come true” after his Rafael Nadal’s all-time record. success with the first serves in, and I have ‘Netflix of sport’. debut - put Latimer down after eight seconds promoter Eddie Hearn told the super-mid- Victory means Djokovic’s winning streak had plenty of success with first serves and The Federal Cartel Office said in a statement announcing before the towel was thrown in. dleweight he will get to box in America now stands at 18 matches as he closes to high per cent of first serves in every match. the investigation that Sky had acquired rights from European Manchester-based Latimer says he has in November. just 35 points behind world leader Nadal in “So obviously that brings me a lot of joy.” soccer governing body UEFA to broadcast all Champions League “no recollection” of where he was and that The 2018 Gold Coast medallist wished the race to be No. 1 after the season-ending The extra 1,000 ranking points help games from 2018-21. he still has “double vision”. Latimer a “speedy recovery”. Sligo-born ATP Finals in London. Djokovic break into the world’s top two It then reached an agreement with DAZN to share the slate of “I’ve got a really bad concussion,” said Latimer meanwhile - who now has two “It’s phenomenal, I’m very proud of for the first time since June 2017, while matches, meaning that from this season no Champions League Latimer, who claims he took the Metro wins and a loss to his name - says he it,” Djokovic told the ATP website. “Ob- he also earned $1,360,560 in prize money soccer can be watched on terrestrial TV in Germany. Arena bout at four days’ notice. lived a “dream” in competing on a tel- viously the last three, four months have for his efforts in Shanghai. “We are investigating whether and in what form the coop- “Done my ear drum in. Think a slight evised show. been terrific for me. Victory extends Djokovic’s love affair eration between the two companies was agreed, and whether it fracture in my cheek bone. Damaged nose. But after stressing the need to focus on “Not many holes in the game in general, with Masters 1000 events, after his defeat has served or hindered the interests of consumers,” cartel office My eye sight is still double vision. And my recovering, he said he will no longer take especially this week. Everything worked of Federer in the final of August’s Cincinnati President Andreas Mundt said in a statement. balance isn’t great still. CT scan done. bouts at short notice. perfectly.” The 31-year-old Djokovic didn’t Masters helped him become the first man In that context the cartel office also said that Sky, as Germany’s “The risk didn’t pay off. I didn’t quit, I “I won’t put my family through that drop serve all week -- a total of 47 service in history to win all nine titles since the leading Pay-TV operator, is subject to particular restrictions in was knocked out on my feet. I was asking again,” he added. games -- and moves above Roger Federer series’ inception in 1990. cooperating with competitors, and that the deal with Perform where I was as I have no recollection of (Source: BBC) into the world No. 2 spot after Monday’s (Source: CNN) may serve to strengthen its market position. Sky Deutschland said it had been informed by the cartel office about the investigation and would cooperate fully, but declined to comment further. Barcelona star Arda Turan faces 12 years jail for No comment was immediately available from Perform Group, whose DAZN sports streaming service operates in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and Canada. ‘attack’ on Turkish pop star (Source: Eurosport) Turkish prosecutors on Monday charged Barcelona player and said “the only thing I care about is my wife Aslihan”, Arda Turan over a brawl with a prominent singer, asking for admitting regretting leaving her at home to go to a nightclub the footballer to be sentenced to twelve-and-a-half years in jail. just before she was due to give birth. The prosecutors charged Turan, who is currently on Record of ill-discipline Ukrainian twins banned for loan to Istanbul club Basaksehir, with sexual harassment, The attacking midfielder, who won 100 caps for the national unlicensed possession of weapons and causing intentional side, has for years been Turkey’s best-known footballer and match fixing injury over the fight with singer Berkay Sahin, the state-run is a strong supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Anadolu news agency said. He backed Erdogan strongly after the failed July 2016 Ukrainian twins Gleb and Vadim Alekseenko have been banned Sahin, who performs under his first name Berkay, was also coup, appearing at rallies outside his home and the Turk- from tennis for life and each fined $250,000 (£190,018) for charged, with prosecutors demanding up to two years in jail. ish president even came as a witness to Turan’s marriage. match fixing. Turan, 31, had last week been summoned to an Istanbul Turan is notorious for poor behaviour both on and off The pair were found guilty of multiple match-fixing offences police station to give a statement about the incident but the field. at a number of ITF Futures tournaments between June 2015 was allowed to walk free. The incident, which took place He was banned for a record 16 games by the Turkish and January 2016. outside an Istanbul nightclub and reportedly left Sahin with football authorities in May after he shoved and verbally They also arranged for another person to bet on matches a broken nose, has transfixed Turkey over the last days. abused a referee in a game for Basaksehir. which they contrived the result. Turkish media reports said that the dispute concerned according to the statement cited in Turkish media. In June 2017, Turan was thrown out of a training camp The case was based on an investigation by the Tennis In- Berkay’s wife, Ozlem Ada Sahin. Turan’s wife Aslihan Dogan Video then emerged in Turkish media of the incident by former coach Fatih Terim following a fracas with a re- tegrity Unit. was not present. which shows a gun being flung onto the sofa at the hospital. porter on a plane. The match-fixing offences occurred at tournaments in Ro- ’Disproportionate reaction’ Former Turkish international Burak Yilmaz, who currently Ironically, weeks later Terim himself resigned after mania, Russia, Germany and Turkey on the Futures tour, tennis’ According to his statement to police, Turan said after the plays for Trabzonspor, was with Turan at the nightclub and himself becoming involved in a fight at a kebab restaurant. third-tier of tournaments. fight he went to the hospital where Berkay was being held, is listed as a witness. Turan joined Basaksehir last season on loan from Bar- Vadim Alekseenko is 1,113th in the ATP rankings, having clutching a gun and asking to be shot if the singer believed In a statement on his widely-followed Instagram account, celona, where he had largely endured an unhappy spell on reached a career-high 497th in June 2014. it was true he harassed his wife. Turan described some media reports about the incident as a the bench after joining from Atletico Madrid. Gleb Alekseenko is ranked 1,724th, with a career-high of 609 He claimed to Berkay that he did not know that Ozlem “lie” and also an affront to his wife, who is eight-and-a-half Pundits say he has been on the decline ever since leaving in May 2011. was his wife. months pregnant. Atletico. (Source: Goal) Turan said the gun then went off when he took it back, Turan admitted he had reacted “disproportionately” (Source: AFP) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y OCTOBER 17, 2018 SPORTS 15 Queiroz’s double standard policy Ex-Iran keeper Sosha Makani over Team Melli players’ retirement has possible torn ACL SPORTS TEHRAN — Mjøndalen IF goalkeeper Sosha SPORTS TEHRAN — Carlos Queiroz’s un- deskMakani has sustained a knee injury and will deskcompromising policy on taking back likely miss the Norwegian Premier League season. players after declaration of retirement from the Team Melli, has all of the sudden changed when it comes to Team Melli striker Sardar Azmoun. Azmoun announced his retirement from interna- tional football soon after the 2018 World Cup when he became the target of numerous insults on social media for failing to score in any of Iran’s three group stage games at the competition. BUT he came out of the retirement amid criticism. Azmoun had a nerve to say that the Iranian people had to thank him for playing in the games, because he spent his time representing his country in Russia instead of going on vacation. What a disrespectful remark, some may say! What an arrogant attitude, some may agree! To wear Iran color is a great honor for every player. Azmoun has recently said he is a “soldier of Iran”, but he has yet to apologize for that OFFENSIVE comment. The 31-year- old injured the anterior cruciate ligament in his Under Queiroz’s inflexible rules, no player has been knee in Monday’s training. allowed to come out of retirement after announcing Makani will receive an MRI to determine the extent of the injury. departure. The Former Iran goalie, who has played for Iranian giants For example, Hadi Aghili and Mehdi Rahmati had Persepolis from 2014 to 2018, has joined Mjøndalen IF in 2016. a change of heart and decided to return to Team Melli, With four minutes remaining of the Norwegian Premier League, but Queiroz told them the door is closed. it seems Makani has missed the rest of the season. Indeed, the door was closed to them but not to Azmoun. There’s a ‘Double Standard policy’ for a coach, who on and on talks about discipline and professionalism. Queiroz’s policy that applies to some but not all Iran Olympic Football Team players reminds me of George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’: to Play Oman “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” TASNIM — Iran Olympic football team will play a friendly match with Oman Olympic football team on November 20. Wins for China PR, Kyrgyz Republic, Korea Republic held The Iranian team, headed by Zlatko Kranjcar, are preparing for the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship qualification which will A fightback from Panama saw them hold- Lippi’s men took a 1-0 lead at half-time. be held in Thailand next year. ing Korea Republic to a 2-2 draw, China The East Asians - who were held to a Iran were scheduled to face Iraq Olympic football team in PR scored a much needed win over Syria goalless draw by India on Saturday - had Tehran on October 12 but the match was cancelled. while Kyrgyz Republic edged Malaysia in not scored since their 2-0 win over Thai- Iran have not qualified for the Olympic Games since 1976 in international friendly matches on Tuesday. land in June but almost doubled their lead Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Korea Republic, China PR and Kyrgyz in the 65th minute but Gao Lin missed Republic will all play in Group C of the his chance to get a second goal from the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 and Tuesday’s penalty spot. friendlies were the latest as the three pre- China, however, made amends three min- ‘Happy to be back for Team pare for the Continental showpiece on utes later when Wu Lei converted from the January 5-February 1. penalty spot as Lippi’s men kept the Syrians Melli’: once-retired Sardar KOREA REPUBLIC 2-2 PANAMA at bay to register a much needed win. Cheonan: Panama came from two goals MALAYSIA 0-1 KYRGYZ REPUBLIC Azmoun down to share the spoils with Korea Republic Melaka: Kyrgyz Republic were made to in a 2-2 draw in an international friendly at work hard for their 1-0 win over Malaysia in MNA — Iranian striker Sardar Azmoun, who had once announced Cheonan Stadium on Tuesday. an international friendly at the Hang Jebat retirement from national duty, said that he is happy to be back Korea Republic took an early lead, needing Stadium on Tuesday. in Team Melli. just six minutes to find the back of the net Malaysia almost gave Kyrgyz Republic a Addressing Iran-Bolivia pre-match press conference on Mon- against a Panama side who were coming off Cooper’s free-kick. Republic’s last home match of 2018. The scare in the 29th minute when Norshahrul day, Azmoun said that ‘family’ was the main reason behind his a 3-0 defeat to Japan on Friday. The Central Americans, continued to press Taeguk Warriors are scheduled to face Aus- Talaha’s shot hit the woodwork following decision of retirement. Park Joo-ho finished off beautifully after the Koreans at the start of the second half as tralia and Uzbekistan next month as they Syahmi Safari’s cross. He went on to say that Team Melli’s Captain Masoud Shojaei Hwang Hee-chan beat two defenders down the they pushed hard for the equalizer. continue their preparations for the AFC The Southeast Asians, preparing for the and head coach Carlos Queiroz helped him very much to change right before his cut-back found an unmarked Their persistence paid of in the 49th min- Asian Cup 2019 UAE. 2018 AFF Cup, came close again nine minutes his mind. “I’m a soldier for my county and happy to be back.” Park, whose shot took a slight deflection past ute after Rolando Blackburn capitalised on Korea Republic are in Group C along- from the break but Kyrgyz Republic custodian Sardar Azmoun, also known as Iranian Messi, quit national Panama goalkeeper Luis Mejia. an errant back pass by Nam Tae-hee to fire side China PR, Kyrgyz Republic and the Pavel Matiash was at his best as he parried duty just after coming home from the 2018 Russia World Cup. Paulo Bento’s men then doubled their home the equaliser past Korea Republic Philippines. Zaquan Adha Abd Radzak’s header. The Rubin Kazan striker felt insulted by comments from national lead against the run of play through Hwang goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo. CHINA PR 2-0 SYRIA Kyrgyz Republic, preparing for Group A team supporters and believed they have resulted in his mother In-beom’s strike from the top of the box Since head coach Bento took the helm in Nanjing: China PR flexed their muscles of the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019, were more becoming ill again. in the 33rd minute following Son Heu- August, Korea Republic have yet to suffer a as they defeated Syria 2-0 in an internation- enterprising in the second half as they found Team Melli is going to face Bolivia in a friendly match on ng-min’s assist. loss. Bento’s side started with a 2-0 win over al friendly at the Nanjing Olympic Sports gaps in the Malaysian defence. Tuesday in Tehran-based Azadi Stadium as a preparation for Panama. who have not collected a win Costa Rica and played to a 0-0 draw with Centre on Tuesday. The Central Asians finally broke the dead- the 2019 AFC Asian Cup which is going to be held in the United since April, were not to be denied as they Chile last month, before beating Uruguay Syria, who came into the match off a 1-0 lock through Sagynbaev Bekzhan’s strike in Arab Emirates from January 5 to February 1. pulled one back at the stroke of half-time 2-1 in Seoul on Friday. win against Bahrain on Friday, fell behind to the 68th minute as Aleksandr Krestinin’s following Abdiel Arroyo’s header off Armando The friendly against Panama was Korea Gao Lin’s strike in the 20th minute as Marcelo side secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory. Famous Iranian Japan power past Uruguay actor Parastui meets Two goals in each half ensured Japan a 4-3 win over Uru- coming off the bench. wrestlers ahead of World guay, as they continued their unbeaten streak heading into They leveled the score in the 57th minute when a lapse the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 next January. of concentration in the Japanese defence allowed Edinson Championships Japan, who beat Panama 3-0 last week, enjoyed a superb Cavani to find the back of the net. start at the Saitama Stadium on Tuesday when Shoya Naka- Two minutes later, the Uruguayans failed to clear the TASNIM — Actor Parviz Parastui attended the training camp jima’s long-range pass cut through the Uruguayan defence ball from danger following a Japan corner, where a string of the Iranian wrestlers ahead of the 2018 World Wrestling to find Takumi Minamino, who beat goalkeeper Fernando of passes found Ritsu Doan in the box and the 2016 AFC Championships. Muslera with his right-footed strike in the 10th minute. Youth Player of the Year let loose a left-footed strike to the The competitions will be held in Budapest, Hungary from Uruguay, ranked fourth in the world, equalised through bottom right corner of the net to make it 3-2. October 20 to 28. Gaston Pereiro’s strike, following a set-piece in the 28th Minamino scored his second in the 66th minute with a “I am following wrestling since I was a six-year-old boy. Hard minute but the Samurai Blue regained the lead when Shoya half-volley after Muslera was forced into a diving save by to believe but I walked kilometers in funeral ceremony of Gho- Nakajima forced Muslera into parrying his shot and Yuya Doan’s crackling strike. lamreza Takhti (Iranian wrestling legend). Wrestling has won Osako pounced to hit the ball home eight minutes later. Substitute Rodriguez pulled one back for the visitors in the most medals for our sports and I am following the results of The South Americans, who suffered a 2-1 loss to Korea the 75th minute, courtesy of Cavani’s assist but Japan held the Iranian wrestlers in the international events,” Parastui said. Republic last Friday, made two substitutions in the sec- on to seal a convincing win. “I wish our wrestlers all the best in the World Wrestling Cham- ond half with Jonathan Rodriguez and Federico Valverde (Source: the-afc) pionships in Hungary. Wrestling is our first sport and I wish our athletes to win medal in the competition,” he added. Indonesia 2018: Six memorable moments Parastui, 63, is an Iranian actor and singer. The Indonesia 2018 Asian Para Games The hosts enjoyed their best perfor- tennis player Kyu-Seung Kim went threw up highlights aplenty as almost mance at an Asian Para Games, finishing into the final of the quad singles as the Keita injured during 3,000 of the best athletes in the con- fifth in the overall medals table with an undisputed underdog. tinent went head-to-head for medal unprecedented 37 golds and backed by Facing the number one seed Koji Guinea’s AFCON qualifier glory. There were records broken and a raucous, passionate home support. Sugeno, and having lost the second set against Rwanda history was made over the eight days Nowhere was this more in evidence after a good start, Kim’s chances of gold of competition, which ended on Satur- than at the badminton arena, where looked over. But the 54-year-old diabetic day (13 October). Here are some of our fans cheered them on to six golds, in- had a secret weapon in his bag – a can Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita has suffered a suspected favourite moments. cluding the first and last medals of the of cola. A drop in his blood sugar level hamstring injury during Guinea’s clash with Rwanda on Unified Korean Team makes competition. in the second set led to a quick drinks Tuesday afternoon. history Dream debut break, and the results could not have China’s golden century Keita started the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match Indonesia 2018 was a landmark event Iran’s Ehsan Mousanezhad Karmoz- been better as he stormed to a 6-1 win It may have been expected that China in Kigali but was forced off in the first half. before the first medal was even handed di had the ultimate in dream debuts at in the deciding third set to claim an would top the medals table at Indone- And to make matters worse, a stretcher was not available out, as North and South Korea marched Indonesia 2018. emotional gold. sia 2018, but the scale of their domi- so Keita had to be carried off the field by a teammate. together at the Opening Ceremony in a The judoka, who had only been com- Fantastic Fotimakhon nance was remarkable. They claimed It’s now unlikely that the £52 million midfielder will be fit world-first for a Para sport event. peting in the sport since 2017, fought a There were many stunning individual a stunning 172 gold medals during the for Liverpool’s clash with Huddersfield Town on Saturday. But the history did not end there; the thrilling final in the men’s -100kg against performances in the pool during Indo- Games, surpassing the century mark Keita’s injury will provide a further headache for Jurgen two countries not only competed to- reigning Paralympic and Asian Para nesia 2018, and Uzbekistan’s Amilova on the fourth full day of competition, Klopp as James Milner, Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk gether in swimming and table tennis as Games champion, Choi Gwang Geun. Fotimakhon was one of the best. Not only setting world records in athletics, pow- and Sadio Mane are all carrying injuries ahead of the game the Unified Korean Team, but they also The former powerlifter won the hearts did she win seven medals including four erlifting and swimming along the way. against Huddersfield. claimed a stunning bronze medal in the of the Indonesian fans as he battled to golds, but she also set two new world Their women’s wheelchair basketball Milner injured his hamstring against Manchester City pool. Their podium finish in the men’s 4 a stunning gold medal win over the de- records in the space of two days; in the team claimed gold with a 100 percent 10 days ago but reports claim that the midfielder could be x 100m freestyle relay 34 points raised fending champion in one of the biggest women’s individual medley SM13 and win record, while their women’s sitting available. the roof of the GBK Aquatic Centre on shocks of the Games. the women’s 100m breaststroke SB13, volleyball side successfully retained their Salah was forced off in Egypt’s win over Swaziland last the second night of competition. Surprise secret to success where she knocked an impressive three Asian Para Games title. week and has already returned to Liverpool for treatment. Home happiness for Indonesia Veteran South Korean wheelchair seconds off the previous mark. (Source: Paralympic.org) (Source: Metro) Prayer Times Noon:11:50 Evening: 17:45 Dawn: 4:50 (tomorrow) Sunrise: 6:13 (tomorrow) OCTOBER 17, 2018 ART&CULTURE I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y www.tehrantimes.com Managing Director: Ali Asgari Editor-in-Chief: Mohammad Ghaderi Editorial Dept.: Fax: (+98 21) 88808214 — 88808895 Tour a fantasy world of Persian [email protected] Switchboard Operator: Tel: (+98 21) 43051000 Advertisements Dept.: Telefax: (+98 21) 43051450 Public Relations Office: Tel: (+98 21) 88805807 Subscription & Distribution Dept.: Tel: (+98 21) 43051603 tales in “Tehran Times” www.eshterak.ir Distributor: Padideh Novin Co. Tel: 88911433 1 The characters of Ferdowsi’s epic Webmaster: [email protected] masterpiece Shahnameh—like Rustam as Printed at: Rooztab - ISSN: 1017-94 a symbol of a strong Iranian man, winged No. 18, Bimeh Alley, Nejatollahi St., Tehran, Iran angels, dragons and demons—are all seen P.o. Box: 14155-4843 here and there on the front pages of the Zip Code: 1599814713 editions picked for the collection. “Iranian miniatures have long been accompanied by Persian texts telling the story of a writer, a poet, or a hero to help viewers to better understand the story,” Saadi told the Tehran Times in an interview on Saturday. In the contemporary world, where miniatures, tales and stories are sinking into oblivion, the art has his own key. He said, “I tried to separates texts from images. That is, there is no real story told Film Museum of Iran to host but the images remain here and there. And sure enough, the text is not in Persian, so Forum and Forum Expanded it cannot distract the viewer.” “The viewer only sees miniatures of ARTTEHRAN – The Film Museum of Iran will old Persian tales through images. It is like deskbe hosting the Forum and Forum Expanded, taking a quick trip and touring inside the a Berlin Film Festival program that will screen a lineup of short ancient Persian tales and returning home films on Saturday. through a newspaper from the modern world,” he explained. This was accomplished by adding miniatures to the world of art of today he said, adding, “I actually made it modern.” “I set the characters, and the viewer can make a story out of it. When you see the work you think it tells you a story or you can trace a storyline, but actually, An art aficionado visits Yazdan Saadi’s exhibition “Tehran Times” at Seyhun Gallery in Tehran on October 12, 2018. (Honaronline/ there is no story.” Mojtaba Arabzadeh) Saadi said that, in fact, the exhibition calls on the visitors to engage in a clever not have the potential to be worked and the photo. remarked. visual game. played with.” “I wanted to pick something that Saadi also noted that the paintings “They suddenly travel on a fairy tale The editions of the Tehran Times selected reflected the moment. I chose the Tehran on the front page of the daily are done and then return to the real world through for the collection were published in 2014. Times because of its name and its beautiful in such a way that one can read the back a painting. He said, “I wanted the news to be old graphic fonts. It was classic and attractive, of the page. “Today Is 11th June 1993”, a co-production between Germany “With a simple image on a newspaper, and be forgotten. I did not intend to give a so I chose the daily out of several English “I practiced to accomplish [painting] on and Bosnia directed by Clarissa Thieme, will be screened in the I take the visitors to a fantasy world and specific perspective to the visitors because I dailies I came up with.” a type of material whose back page would Forum and Forum Expanded in Tehran. bring them back home in time. This does did not want to draw the visitors’ attention He added that he began in 2014 and not be spoiled. I thought maybe someone The Forum and Forum Expanded is a program independently not happen with usual paintings; it is the to the texts. finished the same year, when he came up who has the painting would like to open organized by the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art as part newspaper that reminds one of being in “I liked the graphic design of the daily. with the idea of mixing Persian miniatures the frame and read the news some years of the Berlin Film Festival – Berlinale. the moment.” I worked on the 2014 editions. The logo with English texts. He called it a simple later, since all the pages of the daily are A selection of six Iranian and foreign short films already screened He also explained about his reasons for was located just in the middle of the page research effort for himself. preserved in one frame,” he concluded. at the Berlinale will go on screen during the program. selecting the Tehran Times for use as an in the best place possible. It was quite “I intended to depict the stories from The exhibition will run until October The short films are “Bruce Lee in the Land of Balzac” by Ma- artistic material. “I knew this would not simple and the top photo was right in the many years ago on an upscale daily leading 24 at the gallery located at No. 11, 4th ria Thereza Alves from France, “Falgoosh, Blames & Flames” by be good with Persian fonts since they do middle with two columns each besides to a fine and interesting contrast,” he St., Vozara Ave. Mohammadreza Farzad from Iran, “Have You Ever Killed a Bear or Becoming Jamila” by Marwa Arsanios from Lebanon and “On Construction of Griffith’s Films” by Harun Farocki from Germany. Iranian center to organize photo Also included are “Today Is 11th June 1993”, a co-production Iranian films line up between of Germany and Bosnia directed by Clarissa Thieme and for Poland’s Tofifest contest on Arbaeen pilgrimage “Xenogenesis” by Morishita Akihiko from Japan. Forum and Forum Expanded director Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is expected to talk about the program and the Arsenal Institute before the screening session, which will be organized in collaboration with Iran’s Art and Experience Cinema and the Embassy of Germany. The Forum and Forum Expanded aims to expand the under- standing of what film is, to test the boundaries of convention and open up fresh perspectives to help grasp cinema and how it relates to the world in new ways.

Iranian cineastes picked for Duhok festival jury

ARTTEHRAN – Iranian film editor Mastaneh Mo- deskhajer and her fellow screenwriter, Khosro Sina, have been selected for the jury of the 6th Duhok International Film Festival running in the Iraqi city from October 20 to 27. Hedyeh Tehrani acts in a scene from “Orange Days” directed by Arash Lahuti. A poster for the Arbaeen pilgrimage photography contest. ARTTEHRAN – Four Kid” directed by Arian Vazirdaftari. It tells ARTTEHRAN – Al-Ummah, relations between Iranian and Iraqi people, deskIranian movies will the story of Sara, a 22-year-old woman who deska satellite institute of the organizers said. be screened at the 16th Tofifest Interna- is a babysitter for 7-year-old Matin. One Iran’s Study Center of the Islamic Revolution Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have tional Film Festival, which will be held in day, Matin tells a story that makes Sara Cultural Front, plans to organize a photography embarked on a journey to the Iraqi city of the Polish town of Torun from October plan to steal something from the house. contest on the Arbaeen pilgrimage this year. Karbala to observe the holy day of Arbaeen 20 to 28. The festival also will screen director “Iran and Iraq Cannot Be Separated” at the holy shrines of Imam Hussein (AS), Among the films is “Orange Days” di- Jafar Panahi’s “3 Faces” and “Taxi”. is the main theme of the competition, the the third Imam of the Shia, and his brother, rected by Arash Lahuti about Aban, the “3 Faces” is about a relationship between center announced on Tuesday and asked Hazrat Abbas (AS). only female contractor in the cutthroat popular Iranian actress Behnaz Jafari and photographers to send their photos to the Arbaeen, which will be observed on Octo- and male-dominated orange harvesting a provincial girl who lives with a dream institute until November 21. ber 30 this year, marks the end of the 40-day industry, who enters a competition to win of becoming an actress. The competition aims to neutralize the mourning period following the martyrdom a large contract. “Taxi” stars Panahi as a taxi driver talk- videos and other materials published on of the Imam and his loyal companions on The lineup also includes “Like a Good ing to passengers in the streets of Tehran. the social networks to damage the friendly Ashura. This combination photo shows film editor Mastaneh Mohajer (L) and screenwriter Khosro Sina. They will judge the films selected for the Kurdish Cinema com- “Tom and Jerry”: Tim Story in talks to Nicole Kidman radically transforms for petition, the organizers have announced. American director and actress Canan Gerede is the president direct for Warner Bros. drama “Destroyer” of the jury. Iranian director Mostafa Gandomkar’s “Alan” won the Golden LOS ANGELES (Hollywood LONDON (Reuters) — Hollywood star Leaf for Best Kurdish Short Film at the Duhok festival last year. Reporter) — Tom and Jerry are ready Nicole Kidman undergoes a dramatic to play cat and mouse once more. makeover for new drama “Destroyer”, Filmmaker Tim Story is in talks to playing a tired-looking and worn out police direct a live-action hybrid Tom and detective with a painful history. Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Jerry movie for Warner Bros. Animation The Oscar winner swaps her blonde locks Group, The Hollywood Reporter has for a short bob and rugged style to play Erin Tracks” album to be adapted confirmed. Bell, a detective whose past continues to into 1970s-based movie Tom and Jerry began life as a series of haunt her years after infiltrating a criminal long-running shorts created by animation gang undercover in an operation with NEW YORK (Billboard) — The director of Oscar-nominated pioneers William Hanna and Joseph devastating consequences. film “Call Me by Your Name” is pulling on Bob Dylan for cinematic Barbera and first introduced in 1940. “Tom and Jerry” (Photofest) “I just felt her and I felt sadness and I Cast member Nicole Kidman and director inspiration. They centered on the exploits of house sequel. Story next has the “Shaft” reboot, felt pain for her,” Kidman said at the BFI Karyn Kusama arrive at the world pre- In an interview with The New Yorker, Luca Guadagnino said cat Tom and his never-ending battle starring Samuel L. Jackson and Jessie London Film Festival on Sunday. miere of “Destroyer” during the London that a producer on “Call Me By Your Name” acquired the film rights with mouse Jerry. Seven of the shorts, T. Usher, which is due out June 4, 2019. “I thought there was a restlessness and Film Festival, in London, Britain October to Bob Dylan’s 1975 record, “Blood on the Tracks”, and asked the released by MGM, won Oscars from 1943- In addition to Tom and Jerry, Warner a complexity to her anger which I thought 14, 2018. (Reuters/Simon Dawson) director if he wanted to make a movie based off of it. Guadagnino 53. The animated pair have remained Bros. has movement on another property I had never seen on screen, particularly is the result of a lot of trauma,” Kidman agreed, only if Richard LaGravenese wrote it. in the pop culture consciousness over as well. Harry Potter filmmaker Chris in the form of a female.” said. “That’s the beauty of cinema, you “Somehow, the moon shot landed,” he said. “LaGravenese cleared the years, first getting their own full- Columbus has boarded an animated The 51-year-old is no stranger to use the image, you don’t always have to his schedule and, between April and July, hunkered down to produce length theatrical film with 1993’s “Tom “Scooby-Doo” movie as creative producer. changing her looks for roles, such as when have the words.” a hundred-and-eighty-eight-page screenplay following characters and Jerry: The Movie”. The animated franchise, about a gang she played Virginia Woolf in “The Hours”, Director Karyn Kusama described through a multiyear story, set in the seventies, that he and Guadag- Story is also known for 2014’s “Ride of friends who solve mysteries with the for which she won an Oscar. Bell as a “really complicated human” nino had invented, drawing on the album’s central themes. ‘When Along”, starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, help of their Great Dane, last appeared Critics have praised her performance in dealing with regret, guilt and shame. they’re repressing, we dramatize the repression, and what that does and its 2016 sequel. He also directed on the big screen with the 2004 live- “Destroyer” and described her appearance A team of hairdressers and makeup to them,’ LaGravenese says. ‘And we dramatize what happens when a pair of “Fantastic Four” movies, as action/hybrid “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters as “almost unrecognizable”. artists worked together to transform you let your passions take over too much.’“ well as “Think Like a Man” and its 2014 Unleashed”. “The way I look and behave in the film Kidman’s looks.