'JCPOA2' Would Undermine Iran: General
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WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13341 Saturday MARCH 2, 2019 Esfand 11, 1397 Jumada Al thani 24, 1440 Assad trip INSTEX will not have Tractor Sazi beat Khashayar Alvand, communicates Iran’s much benefits for Iran: Sepahan in Iran screenwriter of plan to stay in Syria 2 ex-diplomat 2 Professional League 15 “Paytakht”, dies at 51 16 Asian shipments of Iranian oil to surge in upcoming months ‘JCPOA2’ would TEHRAN — Imports by the four major 49 percent lower than the same month Asian buyers of Iranian oil are expected to in 2018, the data collated by Thomson pick up in the upcoming months through Reuters showed. May, Reuters reported citing trade sources. After an expected hiatus in Iran’s oil According to Refinitiv data, February exports to some of the country’s main imports into Asia are expected to nearly customers following the reimposition of undermine Iran: general double to 1.38 million bpd. the U.S. sanctions, once again the country’s Asia’s top four buyers of Iranian old buyers came back to take advantage crude - China, India, Japan and South of the 180-day window which has been See page 2 Korea - imported a total 710,699 barrels presented by the waivers granted in No- per day of crude from Iran in January, vember. 4 Apple’s enterprise program block is not limited to Iran: official TEHRAN — Apple Inc. has blocked en- online payments as well as ride-hailing terprise programs due to its rule for app and food delivery services. distribution policy, which is worldwide The Apple users have access to apps and is not limited to Iran, head of the through App Store, which is not applicable Information Technology Organization of for Iranian developer during past years Iran, Amir Nazemi, told Mehr on Thursday. due to U.S. sanctions, he explained. Iranian users of iOS systems do not have Another method, which is used fre- access to some of their applications which quently in Iran, was enterprise program, they have installed from other sources the app developers provide the iOS ver- than App Store since Wednesday, which sion on their website for Apple users, includes Iranian online banks services, he said. 10 Zarif: The West is not everything TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Mohammad these groups regard the West as a pivotal Javad Zarif said on Thursday that the West point, but today’s world is not like that,” fanatics are wrong to think everything he said, Mehr reported. Mehdi Bakhshi lies with the West and that one cannot The foreign minister added this survive without the West. does not mean that the West is not Zarif made the remarks in a speech important anymore but it means at Tehran University of Medical Scienc- the West is not everything and not es. everything is supposed to originate Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ “And some are anti-West… Both of from the West. 2 REPORT Combat drone mass production started REPORT Fatemeh Salehi TEHRAN — On Thursday, the Iranian Air and covers a 1,000-kilometer combat radius. of unmanned aerial vehicles and the top drone Maryam Khormaei Mehr News Agency Force (IAF) officially unveiled the production The UAV weighs 450 kilograms and can carry power in the region. Mehr News Agency journalist line of Kaman-12, a domestically-manufactured a payload as heavy as 100 kilograms. Iran’s UAV program has expanded in recent journalist unmanned combat aerial vehicle. The combat drone was first unveiled on years with more than a dozen models operating The unveiling ceremony was attended by January 30 during the Eqtedar 40 Exhibition for a variety of functions ranging from surveil- Deal of the century: Vice-President for Science and Technology Sore- at the Imam Khomeini Grand Prayer Grounds lance to intelligence gathering, carrying bombs Cohen retaliating na Sattari and Air Force Commander Brigadier in Tehran, ahead of the 40th anniversary of the and Kamikaze operations. U.S. in pursuit of General Aziz Nasirzadeh in Tehran. 1979 Islamic Revolution. They have been playing a significant against Trump: The aircraft can fly at the top speed of 200 IRGC Aerospace Commander Amir-Ali Ha- role in the fight against Takfiri terrorists Arab carte blanche kilometers per hour for 10 straight hours. jizadeh had previously described Iran as one of as well as monitoring U.S. warships in the Disclosure or lies It can use an airstrip as short as 400 meters the world’s top four or five countries in the field Persian Gulf. 2 ared Kushner, U.S. President Donald onald Trump’s former lawyer Trump’s son-in-law, and senior ad- Michael Cohen has painted a dull viser, and Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s picture of Trump’s character, but MiddleJ East envoy, have once again em- Hezbollah: UK terrorist designation ‘insult’ to Lebanon theD effect of his testimony on Trump’s fate barked on a journey to the Middle East Lebanon’s Hezbollah has issued a statement obedience” to the United States, Lebanon’s Daily military apparatus as a “terrorist group”. remains unclear. and Arab countries in order push the “strongly rejecting” a British decision to consider Star newspaper reported. Javid, an extreme right-wing politician of the The other day, the testimony of Michael Israeli-Palestinian peace plan on what the resistance movement a terrorist organization. “The British government, in this decision, Pakistani origin, said the UK government was no Cohen was held before the U.S. House is called the “deal of the century”. “Hezbollah strongly rejects the condemned insulted the sentiments and the free will of the longer able to maintain a distinction between Hez- Oversight and Reform Committee against On Tuesday, U.S. Embassy in the United British decision to include Hezbollah on what is Lebanese people, who consider Hezbollah such bollah’s political and military activities and thus the U.S. President Donald Trump and his Arab Emirates said in a statement that called the ‘terrorist organizations list,’ and stresses a political and popular force that they granted it will include the group’s political unit in its blacklist. 2016 presidential campaign. Kushner and Greenblatt met with Emir- that Hezbollah is a resistance movement against big representation in Parliament and Cabinet,” The UK’s Labour Party has voiced its official Cohen who pleaded guilty to eight ate’s crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Israeli occupation,” read the Friday statement. read the statement. UK Home Secretary Sajid objection to the move. counts of crime will have to surrender Mohamed bin Zayed on their first day of The statement stressed that nothing would Javid said on Monday that the government will Already approved by Parliament, the House to prison on May 6 to begin a three-year trip in the Middle East. stop Hezbollah from defending the country’s in- designate the entire Hezbollah organization as a of Lords is widely expected to back the decision sentence. During a week-long audition According to report, the U.S. officials dependence and freedom from “Israeli greed” in terrorist entity as of Friday subject to the approval which would see support for Hezbollah punishable marathon, Cohen called President Trump are scheduled to go to Bahrain and then Lebanon’s “land, resources and territorial waters.” of the parliament. by up to 10 years in jail. a “liar”, “cheat” and “racist” and regretted meet with Oman, Qatar and another Arab The party added that the move showed “servile The UK had previously blacklisted Hezbollah’s (Source: Press TV) to have chosen to take part in concealing state’s officials. Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening In an interview broadcast on Mon- to his own conscience. day on Sky News Arabia in Abu Dhabi, Cohen’s confession is interesting as he Kushner said: “We’ve been able to keep Russia, China veto U.S. push for UN action on Venezuela was Trump’s personal lawyer from 2006 a lot of the details private, which I think The United States and Russia both failed on sition leader and head of the country’s elected voted no. Three countries abstained. until May 2018 and knows a great deal is very constructive. In past negotiations Thursday in rival bids to get the United Nations- National Assembly, over President Nicholas “By voting against this resolution some mem- about his secrets. In 2006, he joined The which we’ve studied, a lot of times details Security Council to take action on Venezuela, Maduro. Guaido last month declared himself bers of this council continue to shield Maduro Trump Organization and then became a would get out prematurely and that would cementing a global split over how to deal with the interim head of state. and his cronies and prolong the suffering of vice-president the organization. cause politicians to have to run away from a political and humanitarian crisis in the South Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-drafted UNSC the Venezuelan people. This man-made crisis Of course, Cohen’s disclosure wasn’t the plan.” American country. resolution, calling for a free and fair presidential has extended well beyond Venezuela’s borders limited to Trump’s character but he pointed Kushner added: “we have focused on Russia and the U.S. have been at loggerheads election in Venezuela and unhindered aid access. and threatens to destabilise the region,” U.S. to Russia’s meddling in Trump’s presi- four principles to create the plan. The first over a U.S.-led campaign for international rec- The U.S.