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We Can't Remain in JCPOA with No Benefit WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.13056 Saturday FEBRUARY 24, 2018 Esfand 5, 1396 Jumada Al thani 7, 1439 IAEA reaffirms Iran’s Cleric urges Judiciary to Zahra Nemati nominated “The Lost Strait” leads compliance to nuclear deal bring police murderers for International winners at National Will for 10th time 2 to justice 2 Women’s Day award 15 Manifestation Awards 16 Majlis approves next year’s $268b budget bill ECONOMY TEHRAN — The Ira- with 83 votes in favor, 120 votes against We can’t remain in desk nian parliament (Maj- and 9 abstentions, media reported. lis) on Thursday approved a 12.175-quad- Then the bill was returned to a joint rillion-rial (about $268 billion) national parliamentary committee for revisions. budget bill for the next Iranian calendar The joint commission is a legislative body year, starting March 21, IRNA reported. responsible for reviewing budget bills as On December 10, 2017, President well as the five-year development plans. JCPOA with no benefit Hassan Rouhani presented the admin- After revision, the public resources in istration’s draft of the national budget the budget bill increased by 14.3 percent to bill to the Majlis. 4.43 quadrillion rials (about $97.792 billion), See page 2 The bill was rejected on January 28 from 4.25 quadrillion rials (about $93.818 during the open session of the parliament billion) of the previous proposed bill. Iran sped up work on seaborne reactors in response to U.S. failure to respect JCPOA POLITICS TEHRAN — The about recent letter by Iran to the Inter- deskspokesman for the national Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) on development of nuclear propulsion. has said Washington’s lack of commitment It came after a quarterly report on Iran’s to the nuclear deal prompted Tehran to nuclear program by the IAEA, which is polic- accelerate work on development of nuclear ing the deal’s restrictions, showed that Iran marine propulsion. had informed the agency of a “decision that In an interview with ISNA published has been taken to construct naval nuclear on Friday, Behrouz Kamalvandi talked propulsion in future”. 2 Syria slams Western silence on fatal terrorist attacks against Damascus civilians By staff & agencies a few thousand terrorists in its suburbs. Syria’s United Nations envoy has de- Bashar al-Ja’afari was speaking at a nounced the United States and Europe United Nations Security Council meeting for their silence on the carnage of civil- on the situation in Syria on Thursday. ians in Damascus by the terrorist groups After losing most of the Syrian territo- operating in Eastern Ghouta, saying it is ries under their control, foreign-backed “unacceptable” to endanger the lives of eight militant groups, including the notorious chathamhouse.org million in the capital in order to protect al-Nusra Front 13 ARTICLE Saudi-UAE move in the Sahel region is for rivalry with Iran: Prof. Entessar Trump slammed By Hanif Ghaffari EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW countries want to portray themselves as sup- lucrative market, as does Qatar. We should look at for suggesting Political analyst porters of global anti-terrorism and hence are the Saudi-UAE move in the Sahel not in isolation By Javad Heirannia committing themselves to militarily supporting but in the broader context of their rivalry with Iran. teachers should TEHRAN — Professor Nader Entessar from South the West African countries and increasing their In other words, the binary views of the Saudi-UAE be armed Alabama University says that “Saudi Arabia and political leverage in the Sahel region. axis compel them to make knee-jerk moves to check- the UAE have been looking at the Sahel region What is the strategic importance of the mate Iran in every arena irrespective of the extent By staff & agencies Why EU is worried? of West Africa as a major source of investment.” Sahel region for Saudi Arabia and UAE? of their immediate gains. The United States President Donald “We should look at the Saudi-UAE move in uropean officials continue to worry A: As I stated in my answer to the previous Right after that Saudi Arabia and UAE joined Trump has been slammed for suggesting the Sahel not in isolation but in the broader con- about their political future. The so- question, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been G5 Sahel force summit in Paris and pledged their that teachers should be armed to help text of their rivalry with Iran,” Entessar tells the cial, political, economic and security trying to expand their economic, political, strate- support, Qatar’s emir visited the region to sign prevent school shootings. E Tehran Times recently. gic and cultural foothold in Africa. Their recent trade and economic deals. How much potential do Trump made the divisive proposal on developments in Europe show that the Following is the text of the interview: European Union is not in a good position. endeavor in the Sahel region must be seen in the have the Sahel region to help Qatar get rid of the Wednesday during a “listening session” Saudi Arabia and UAE have pledged to This has caused European officials and overall context of Saudi-UAE influence buying hardship caused by Saudi Arabia and its allies? with survivors of last week’s mass shooting financially back a five-nation coalition force in many experts and analysts to warn Eu- machination in the African continent. A: The Sahel region’s potential as a conduit to at a Florida high school. the Sahel region of West Africa. What are the rope’s issues about the future. A future One of the reasons as to why Saudi Arabia and greatly alleviate Qatar’s hardship is minimal at the Following the remarks, families of reasons behind such funding? whose signs are now visible. UAE joined the initiative is to contain the influence present time, but Qatar sees the Sahel region of Africa victims of gun violence, survivors of A: Here are two main reasons for this. One is In the course of the Munich Security of Iran and Qatar in the Sahel region. Basically, what as yet another place it can compete economically mass shootings, gun control advocates, economical. Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have Conference, the confusion of European are these countries competing for in the Sahel region? with Saudi-led Arab countries and score a point teachers and some politicians called the been looking at the Sahel region of West Africa as countries was clear about current issues A: Iran has also been seeking to establish an against its Saudi-UAE rivals. However, the Saudi-led idea “terrible” and said the administration a major source of investment. The second reason in the international system. Many Europe- economic foothold in the continent of Africa as countries have an upper-hand there because of should instead focus on reforming gun is political and strategic. These two Persian Gulf an politicians could not hide their fears of Tehran sees Africa as an untapped and potentially their military commitments and economic muscle. control legislation. these developments. On the other hand, the Trump, who admitted it was a contro- presence of the Trump government in the versial idea, said he believed “a teacher United States has become a serious problem Iranian diplomat says missiles are matter of ‘national security’ who was adept at firearms … could very for Europe. The president of the United Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Ara- you had meetings with European officials about about the latest developments. JCPOA (Joint well end the attack very quickly”. States looks at the EU and the euro area qchi has said Tehran will not compromise on the Iran nuclear deal, because you know President Comprehensive Plan of Action) is in a very critical He added: “I really believe if these cow- negatively. Donald Trump welcomes the its missile defense program, noting missiles are Trump has basically told Congress and European moment, in the next three months I am sure we ards knew that the school was well-guarded collapse of the European Union. However, necessary to guard the country against possible allies that they have to, in his words, fix the Iran deal would have a big challenge. Of course this is a … I think they wouldn’t go into the school some European politicians continue to play foreign aggression. by May or else the sanctions will be imposed again. challenge President Trump has started more than to start off with, it could very well solve on the land of the United States. “We would not negotiate on our missiles, bal- Answer: Well we are in close contact with E3 a year ago, he tried to somehow destroy JCPOA your problem.” Also during the World Economic Summit listic missiles. These are a matter of our national and EU, External Service, we consult with them because there is no role to fix or to change or to Trump in the past has said it was in Davos, the Chancellor of Germany and the security; nobody would compromise on their very closely. In the recent weeks I have visited alter JCPOA, it’s a package, it’s not linked to any “wrong” of anyone to suggest that he President of France both gave a significant national security,” Araqchi said in an interview Paris, Berlin and now London. I have been in other issue, it’s a package of gives and takes, you was in favor of bringing guns into the warning about the return of nationalism and with the BBC in London.
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