Massive Turnout at Ayatollah Shahroudi's Funeral
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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.13289 Thursday DECEMBER 27, 2018 Dey 6, 1397 Rabi’ Al thani 19, 1440 ‘Iran spearheading Shahr-e Sokhta yields Iran tops Middle East Painter Sara Ashrafi new civilization rare 4000-year-old for applied mathematics showcases new collection against the West’ 2 relics 10 in 2017 12 at Danish library 16 3m barrels of oil to be sold to private sector at IRENEX ECONOMY TEHRAN — Irani- deskan Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh announced on Wednes- day that the heads of the three branches accorded to sales of three million barrels of crude oil at Iran Energy Exchange (IREN- EX) via a 100-percent-rial mechanism, IRNA reported. 4 Iran says has held talks with Taliban with knowledge of Afghan government POLITICS TEHRAN — Tehran deskhas been holding talks with the Taliban with the knowledge of the Afghan government, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani said on Wednesday during a visit to Kabul. The talks were held “to help curb the se- curity problems in Afghanistan,” Shamkhani told Hamdullah Mohib, the Afghan president’s national security advisor. 2 Syrian air defense systems shoot down Israeli missiles Massive turnout at Ayatollah Syrian air defense systems have intercepted “hostile” missiles fired by Israeli warplanes, nearly a month after government force foiled another Israeli act of aggression against the country. See page 2 Syria’s official SANA news agency cited a military source as saying on Tuesday that khamenei.ir Shahroudi’s funeral the Israeli missiles were launched from the Lebanese airspace, 13 ARTICLE Best is yet to come from Persepolis: Branko Ivankovic ARTICLE Hamid Bayati tournament started in 2003 under the Croat’s His football philosophy and aggressive style, Syed Zafar Mehdi Tehran Times journalist EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Journalist By Masoud Hossein & Farrokh Hesabi leadership. has changed Persepolis into a team with winning By demonstrating patience, Ivankovic has mindset, a team to beat. from New Delhi TEHRAN — Having a smile on his face, Branko proved himself as of one of the world’s greatest It’s no secret that the recipe for success is Ivankovic welcomed us warmly in Shahid Kazemi coaches. He never fusses about lack of financial perseverance as well as hard work, sacrifice, and Cabinet reshuffle in Stadium in southern Tehran. support or the ban of transferring players in the above all love. ‘Extermination’ of Shias The 64-year-old coach has stolen the show two transfer windows. Ivankovic says he wants to leave the legacy Afghan govt.; reform with four titles in Iran. Ivankovic has won back- He had already inspired Iran U23 football of love and passion in the world. continues in Pakistan to-back Iran Professional League title and two team to title in the 2002 Asian Games. In his recent interview with the Tehran Times, or election game Super Cups. Persepolis reached the final of the Coach Ivankovic still is hungry to win more Ivankovic said Iranian players are very talented prominent political leader and former Champions League for the first time since the and says he is not finished yet with football. and valuable with great potential. 15 member of Pakistan’s national assembly was gunned down by ‘unknown assail- n December 23, Afghan President A ants’ in the port city of Karachi late on Tuesday. Ashraf Ghani nominated Amrullah Syed Ali Raza Abidi, a former leader of Mutta- Saleh and Asadhullah Khalid, as Further cooperation among Iran, Russia and Turkey necessary in Syria: Logoglu O hida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was not your ministers of interior affairs and defense forces in Syria. potential flashpoint town of Manbij. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW average, reticent, self-effacing politician. He respectively. Saleh replaces Wais Ahmad Major players in and around Syria have start- While Ankara considers PYD and YPG as ter- By Payman Yazdani was someone who voiced strong, unpopular Barmak while Khalid succeeds Tariq Shah ed positioning their forces as discussions get rorist groups, these Kurdish groups have been political opinions, without fear or favor. Bahrami. TEHRAN — A senior member of Turkey’s CHP under way on how to proceed once U.S. forces U.S. close partners in Syria in the U.S. alleged Just hours before his cold-blooded murder Amrullah Saleh and Assadullah Khaled, says further cooperation among Iran, Russia and vacate the country and their fight against the fight against ISIL. in the upscale Karachi neighborhood, the social both former heads of the Afghan intel- Turkey is necessary after the U.S. withdrawal last remnants of the ISIL. To know more about the opportunities and media-savvy entrepreneur-turned-politician ligence agency, have been appointed to from Syria. Turkey vowed on Monday that the fight threats of the U.S. withdrawal from Syria for Turkey had blasted the Imran Khan-led Pakistan the critical posts of interior minister and After President Trump said he would withdraw against ISIL would not be slowed by the U.S. we reached out to Dr. Osman Faruk Logoglu, a Tehreek Insaaf (PTI) for being hand-in-glove defence minister, respectively. all U.S. troops from Syria, Turkey’s president withdrawal from Syria, where Ankara-backed senior member of Turkey’s Republican People’s with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), These changes are taking place in the on Dec. 21 delayed operations against Kurdish groups reinforced their positions around the Party (CHP). 7 a government body responsible to streamline Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) efforts against corruption. which remains only five months before the Although no group has yet claimed respon- Afghan presidential election begins. So The many challenges of assisting those affected by war sibility for Abidi’s targeted killing, observers the appointment have fuelled accusations By Marjan Golpira Ritz said the ICRC closely follows a mandate that calls A. I have been in Iraq in the past three years as believe it could be the handiwork of forces that that Ghani was trying to attract political TEHRAN — Katrina Ritz, head of the Inter- for providing assistance to “all affected, on all sides”. the head of delegation. We, obviously, have a big have killed people like Amjad Sabri, Khurram support ahead of the election. national Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) The mandate, promoting the law, is based on delegation there, due to the size of the emergency Zaki and Sibte Jafar in recent past. The inimical Given that the president of Afghani- in Iraq, describes the situation on the ground the international humanitarian law and includes that took place in 2014, and today we still have 11 forces that seek extermination of ‘others’ in the stan faces major challenges in this coun- in Iraq “stable” but in need of much assistance. all victims of wars and conflicts. offices all over Iraq. We are working with 1,100 Iraqi Islamic republic of Pakistan. try, he has had political and security “I think what we often think is when the war is Ritz also described tasks designated to the colleagues, and we have around 150 international Incidentally, the deadly attack on Abidi, a failures. Now with the deterioration of over, the situation becomes normal. But I think ICRC in details. delegates, too. We travel with our own cars, we don’t prominent Shia politician, took place the day the situation in Afghanistan, it seems when the war is over we see how much humani- Following is the excerpt of the interview. have escorts, we don’t have weapons in our offices, Pakistan marked 142nd birth anniversary of that the beginning of the peace process tarian aid is needed.” How large is your delegation in Iraq, and so we really try to base our security on acceptance Mohammad Ali Jinnah, country’s founder could have guaranteed political revival In her recent interview with the Tehran Times, how do you manage to stay safe in conflict zones? within the communities. 7 who had envisioned a state where all Muslims, and perhaps a victory in the upcoming actually all citizens, would co-exist peacefully. presidential election. Jinnah’s dream, unfortunately, has been Meanwhile, the Taliban have refused hijacked by the radical Takfiri forces today. to hold direct talks in the recent summit Pakistan is home to second largest Shia that has been held in the United Arab population in the world, after Iran, with over Emirates, with the Afghan government, Migratory 18-20 million Shia citizens. The earliest inci- calling it a puppet of America and insisting dents of violence against the community go only on negotiating with the U.S. birds return to back decades but the systematic persecution of On the other hand, the actions of Shias, according to historians, started during major international actors for direct Hour al-Azim Zia ul Haq’s dictatorship in 1980s. contact with the Taliban and bypassing The military and intelligence agencies aided the Afghan government are among the terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Si- issues that have raised Ghani’s concern wetland pah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, the offshoots of Wahhabi to maintain his position in the Afghan SOCIETY school of thought, which Zia adhered to. Over National Unity government. For example, TEHRAN – Hour al- desk the years, the groups have become stronger with recently, Russia and the United States Azim wetland has been tacit support of secret local and foreign agencies. have had direct talks with the Taliban suffering water scarcity in recent years, According to official statistics, since without active participation of the Af- which posed a threat to bird migration, 2001, more than 5,000 Shias have been ghan government.