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.13367 Wednesday APRIL 17, 2019 Farvardin 28, 1398 Sha’aban 11, 1440 Blacklisting IRGC Iran faces 37th Fajr Intl. Film rooted in U.S. ‘chain coaching dilemma Festival to open with 1990 of defeats’ 2 15 war drama “The Scout” 16 Iran takes part in Iraq Agrofood Zarif, Assad discuss new Trade Show TEHRAN — The Islamic Republic of the Iraqi trade show, he said that plastic developments in the region Iran is participating at Iraq Agrofood & products and materials account for Iran’s Plastprintpack Exhibition 2019 with as maximum exports share value, so the growing See page 2 many as 40 companies. trend of demand in Iraq for production of Speaking on the sidelines of the exhi- this sector indicates high susceptibility of bition, Commercial Attaché of the Islamic Iraqi market for these products. Republic of Iran in Iraq Nasser Behzad Focusing on promoting petrochemical said that Iraqi market is open to Iran’s downstream products and boosting the level trade and production of plastic materials. of target markets especially in neighboring While visiting the Iranian pavilion at Iraq should be prioritized, he stressed. 4 Knowledge-based companies export $450m of products TEHRAN — Knowledge-based companies rials (about $14 billion) during the Iranian exported $450 million of products in the calendar year 1396 (March 2017-March previous Iranian calendar year 1397, which 2018), he said. There are over 4300 knowl- ended on March 20, the vice president edge-based companies and 41 science and for science and technology announced, technology parks in different provinces. IRNA reported on Monday. The improvement of knowledge-based Sourena Sattari said that the knowl- companies boost job creation, production edge-based companies sold 900 trillion and economic condition, he said. rials (about $21 billion) of products during He added that each province should im- the past year. prove the startups and knowledge-based This is while the figure was 600 trillion companies according to the regional ecosystem. Bahrain strips 138 of nationality TEHRAN — A Bahraini court has sen- al-Hammadi said in a statement on tenced 138 people to jail and revoked Tuesday. their citizenship on “terror-related” Meanwhhile, Bahraini police have charges, the public prosecutor said. detained a journalist, who works for a Their jail term varies between three pro-government daily newspaper, after Reuters years and life term. he criticized the media’s “misinformation The defendants were convicted of campaign” surrounding the devastating Syrian President Bashar Assad (R) gestures in a meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascs on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. establishing a “terror” cell, Ahmad Saudi-led war on Yemen. 13 PERSPECTIVE The most important threats to brown bear populations in Iran African Union sets Hanif Ghaffari By Jamshid Parchizadeh life goods have increased, and as a result the conducted on the bears in Iran, and therefore Political analyst deadline for Sudan TEHRAN — Iran is a vast country with an presence of illegal hunters within protected little is known on their ecology, current distri- area of 1,623,779 km2 in which there are 164 areas for the purpose of bear poaching has bution, population size, and trend. This has power transfer mammal species including the Asiatic black risen. The bear skins are sold for up to USD resulted in a lack of state-run monitoring of bear and brown bear. Human-bear conflict is 2,000 illegally at the Iranian market. the bears in the Iranian protected areas. All TEHRAN— The African Union has Merkel worried the main reason for the brown bear number 3) Food scarcity makes bears get attracted these events can affect the decision-making warned Sudan’s military that the country reduction and range collapse in this country. to areas where livestock (cattle, goat, sheep, process by the relevant wildlife authorities. has 15 days to install a civilian government about European In this short article, I summarize the most and horse), orchards and crop fields including Therefore, it is crucial to launch projects on or risk getting kicked out of the bloc, as parliamentary important threats to brown bear populations maize, sunflowers, apricots, grapes, mul- the bears to count and determine their current a sit-in demanding the army hand over in Iran: berries, walnuts, roots, seeds, buds, and population structure in Iran for prioritizing power entered its 11th day on Tuesday. elections 1) Based on a false traditional belief, bear beehives are available. In response, rural conservation going forward if their extinction Sudan must aim to hold “free, fair and meat has lots of medical uses, and therefore residents use both guns and poisonous lures is to be avoided. Iran’s Department of the Envi- transparent elections” as soon as possible, erman Chancellor is worried the bears are killed regularly by local people to kill them in order to defend their crops ronment (DoE; the governmental organization) the AU’s Peace and Security Council said about the failure of traditional throughout the country. and livestock. is fully responsible for planning, funding, and it in a statement on Monday. European parties in the par- 2) Huge profits from trafficking luxury wild- Unfortunately, not many studies have been conducting the projects. “A military-led transition would be G completely contrary to the aspirations liamentary elections. If parties such as the German Democratic Christian of the people of Sudan,” it added. Party fail in the European parliamen- Paris brands Yellow Vests anti-Semitic justifying atrocious violence: expert Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy tary elections, there will be a good Ahmed on Monday became the first foreign TEHRAN (FNA) — Ramin Mazaheri, author a rise, but a return to the historical average”. saw far fewer anti-Semitic crimes (311), so in opportunity for nationalist parties! leader to meet with members of Sudan’s and journalist, says the French mainstream Ramin Mazaheri is an Iranian-American 2018 France regressed to the mean - there was In this way, nationalist parties can ruling military council and pledged his politicians seek to discredit the anti-establish- author and journalist based in Paris. He has not an “anti-Semitic explosion”. take the lead in the European Union support for the neighboring country, Al ment Yellow Vest movement by any means authored several books on the western polities. There are roughly the same number of yearly and the Eurozone. This is the worst Jazeera reported. including branding them anti-Semitic which, His works has appeared in various journals, racist acts in France towards Muslims, a sub- news possible for the Chancellor of “The Transitional Military Council has at the same time, serves to justify the use of magazines and websites, as well as on radio ject which gets far less media attention and Germany. It should not be forgotten met many demands of the protesters, but excessive forces against protesters. and television. certainly far less political attention. Howev- that Merkel has long been the main some of the demands of the protesters Speaking to FNA, Ramin Mazaheri strongly Below is the full text of the interview: er, it is significant that there are roughly 10 leader of Europe. need time to answer,” said General Jalal blasted French President Macron for his pro-Zi- times more Muslims than Jews in France, so However, many international af- What is the status of racism, more spe- Eldin Alshaik, a member of the council, onist policies, including his recently declared individual Jews are definitely targeted more fairs analysts have argued that Merkel cifically anti-Semitics acts, in France? after the meeting. bid to seek to ban anti-Zionism under the false often than individual Muslims. About 90% was incapacitated in the face of the A: It has been widely reported that anti-Se- He also vowed that the sit-in would claim that it is a form of anti-Semitism. of these racist crimes are against places of European economic crisis and other mitic acts in France rose 74% in 2018. While not be dispersed from outside the army’s “The accusations, the marches, the media worship and not against people, thankfully. crises in the complex. Basically, one of I condemn these crimes very strongly, I also headquarters and appeared to change the coverage - it seems like all that was setting On an institutional level, we cannot say the main reasons for the dissatisfaction think that 2018 shouldn’t be blown out of council’s position on former president up this attempt to criminalize opposition to that there is much anti-Semitism in France of the European public opinion with proportion because the number of such acts Omar al-Bashir’s extradition to The Hague. Zionism,” he said. - Jews routinely hold top cabinet posts, for the traditional parties has been the fluctuates wildly. For example, they dropped “The decision whether to extradite Mazaheri further noted the records of an- example. Muslims, suffer from far greater economic and security defeat of an 58% in 2016. On average, France has about al-Bashir to the [International Criminal ti-Semitic acts in France, saying the claimed rates of socioeconomic poverty and political infant like Angela Merkel. 500 such acts per year, and in 2018 there were Court] will be made by a popularly elected rise in anti-Semitic acts last year “is not really disempowerment. Angela Merkel has many concerns 541 reported crimes - sadly typical. But 2017 7 government and not the transitional mili- these days! She knows well that the tary council,” he said at a press conference failure of the traditional European in Addis Ababa.