Envoy: Iran not Monthly gas condensate Alireza Jahanbakhsh: Iranian producer 21112influencing 4 exports from South Pars The eye-catching Iranian, Katayun Shahabi NATION Ansarullah’s decisions ECONOMY up 9% yr/yr SPORTS in name and style ART& CULTURE picked for Cannes jury WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Tehran says backs Assad, wants political solution for Syria 2 12 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 37th year No.12538 Wednesday APRIL 27, 2016 Ordibehesht 8, 1395 Rajab 19, 1437 Ambassador: Park’s Italian visit to Iran will Iran greatly values ties with companies definitely deepen ties to build 1 Banking cooperation will be Latin American states: Rouhani GW of solar very much facilitated between Iran and POLITICAL TEHRAN – Irani- policies.” The president also said, “Tehran and farms in Iran Korea, Kim Seung-Ho says deskan President Hassan Rouhani made the remark dur- Montevideo have strong determination Rouhani said on Tuesday that expan- ing a meeting with Uruguay’s Vice to expand all-out friendly relations and EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Reports have surfaced that Ital- By Negar Asadi sion of relations with the Latin American President Raul Sendic Rodriguez in no third country can affect these rela- countries is one of Tehran’s “principled Tehran. tions.” ian companies Genesis and Dynkun TEHRAN — The Republic of Korea’s ambassador to Teh- have signed a memorandum of un- derstanding with officials from Iran’s ran says President Park Geun-hye’s visit to Iran will “defi- See page 2 nitely open a new chapter in relations”. northwestern Qazvin province, for 100 “Definitely her visit will open a new chapter in our rela- PV plants of 10 MW each. tions, because it is the very first Korean president’s visit to The potential for solar PV in Iran your country and Iran’s president has never visited Korea is beginning to be explored, after and it is the first event in our long history,” Ambassador the majority of sanctions against Kim Seung-Ho said in an exclusive interview with the Teh- the country were dropped earli- ran Times in his office on Monday. President Park will start er in the year. It now appears that a three-day visit to Iran on May 1. Park, who will be leading two Italian companies have taken a delegation of some 200 businesspeople, plans to initiate the first official plunge. Reports discussions with Iran on a wide range of areas including en- emerged in Iran on Sunday that ergy and engineering. The visit will be the first by a South two Italian companies have signed Korean leader since the two countries established diplomatic a deal to build an array of plants, relations in 1962. totaling 1 GW of capacity, which The visit follows the lifting of sanctions on Iran under a are due to be constructed over the landmark nuclearuclear deadeall bebetweentween next 9-10 years. Tehran and ggreatreat powers in JulJulyy The memorandum of understand- 2015. The agreementgreement went into ing (MOU) covers 100 PV plants, effect in January.uary. each with a capacity of 10 MW, thus Ambassadordor Kim saidsaid SeoulSeoul totaling an impressive 1000 MW. The attaches greateat iimportancemportance Italian representatives from Genesis to Park’s tripip to Iran, and Dynkun visited Iran on Sunday to seeming confidentonfident discuss the project with officials from that the visitsit wiwillll the province of Qazvin, after already expand coopera-opera- having preliminary meetings over the tion betweenn ththee proposal. two countrieses in It is an extensive agreement, which many areas. will be funded by foreign investors to the tune of $1.5 billion. See page 2 President.ir 4 $2b ruling has vexed Tehran, I’ll return to Isfahan as a tourist, South African president says PERSPECTIVE international arbitration TOURISM TEHRAN — “I will anybody to feel grandeur,” ISNA quoted By Mahmood Monshipouri under consideration deskreturn to Isfahan as a him as saying. Professor of San Francisco tourist after leaving Iran,” South Africa’s “I thought that Naqsh-e Jahan is State University and University Iran establishes committee President Jacob Zuma said after visiting a mere square but there are sever- of California, Berkeley to issue money seizure the historical city of Isfahan on Monday. al buildings, each with a particular Zuma led a high-level delegation on philosophy,” he said after visiting the U.S.-Saudi ties: No By our staff writer a state visit to Iran on Sunday. places. longer the same here seems to be no end to Tehran and Washington “I advise others to regard Isfahan as He thanked President Hassan Rou- a tourist city as well,” he said. hani and Isfahan governor Rasoul throwing the book at each other. Ever since the 1979 resident Obama’s recent trip to T “Visiting places like Naqsh-e Jahan South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma and his Zargarpour who provided him the revolution in Iran, the two have seen no moment of Saudi Arabia was about noth- square and Chehelsotun palace makes wife visiting Chehelsotun palace. chance to visit the city. P amity until recently when their senior officials shook hands ing more than an ardent attempt before the press, sitting at one negotiation table. to reassure the Saudis that the United Rational diplomacy brought Iranian Foreign Minister Mo- Russia reviewing Iran’s offer to sell 40 tons of heavy water States wishes to support their efforts to hammad Javad Zarif and his U.S counterpart John Kerry even to maintain regional and domestic stabili- a street walk in Geneva, raising hopes for further clearing the air. Moscow is reviewing Tehran’s Ministry’s head of the De- RIA Novosti. The United Nations, the ty. However, partly because of his stat- And they made it, the nuclear deal, formally known as the offer to sell 40 tons of Iran’s partment of Arms Non-Pro- On Monday, Iranian For- European Union and the ed personal convictions that the Saudis Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). heavy water from its nuclear liferation and Control said eign Ministry spokesman United States lifted nucle- have acted as “free riders” in the region Things were pretty good until the U.S. Supreme Court on power facilities. Tuesday. Hussein Jaber Ansari said Iran ar-related sanctions on Iran under the U.S. security umbrella, and in Wednesday ruled that almost $2 billion in frozen Iranian as- Moscow and Iran have “No agreement on this issue was in talks with Russia on the following Tehran’s imple- part because of the pressure from the sets must be turned over to American families of people killed not yet reached an agree- has been reached, so far this sale of its heavy water from its mentation of its obligations U.S. Congress to divulge the Saudis’ al- in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut ment on the purchase of 40 issue is only being reviewed. nuclear power projects, add- under the nuclear deal leged involvement (in terms of funding and other attacks blamed on Iran. tons of Iran’s heavy water Negotiations are needed in or- ing that several countries signed last July with six world and ideological support) in the 9/11 at- The ruling has come in for a lot of flak from Iranian offi- from its nuclear power fa- der to work out conditions that among the six world powers powers to ensure the peace- tacks on the United States, the nature of cials, who have condemned the act, naming it a “theft.” cilities and negotiations are would be acceptable for both have shown interest in pur- ful nature of its nuclear pro- this visit as well as the president’s mes- “It is a theft. Huge theft. It is highway robbery. And be- needed, the Russian Foreign parties,” Mikhail Ulyanov told chasing the heavy water. gram. (Source: Sputnik) sage/mission sharply contrasted with the lieve you me, we will get it back,” Foreign Minister Zarif has cordial nature of his previous meetings. told The New Yorker in a recent interview. Two questions remain: (1) why the Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior foreign policy adviser to the Man meets death saving bird 9/11 attacks have suddenly become Supreme Leader has also said, “Iran is insistent on upholding a contemporary issue? And (2) what SOCIETY its rights and will take it back from the U.S.” TEHRAN next, eventually sat on a high them can only present death explains the motivations of U.S. sena- desk Prosecutor General Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri has writ- — A vil- voltage power line, where to human being. tors to place the Saudi regime in legal ten to the Foreign Ministry asking for probe into the verdict. lager died in an attempt to it happened to be in close As “ask an engineer” jeopardy? The fact that the Obama ad- Iranian officials also unanimously have called for measures detangle a sack from a stork’s proximity to the man’s house. website puts it, birds don’t ministration is opposed to such a move to be taken in order to put pressure on the U.S. to nullify the foot in Mahabad, northwest- The villager then climbed get shocked when they sit on on the grounds that this act will violate ruling. 2 ern Iran, on Saturday night, up the post lamp to liberate electrical wires because they a 1976 law that gives foreign nation- IRNA reported. the stork when unthinkable are not good conductors of als broad immunity from American Kamran Hosseini, head of occurred. He got electrocuted.