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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.13317 Tuesday JANUARY 29, 2019 Bahman 9, 1397 Jumada Al Awwal 22, 1440 IRGC rejects claims U.S. after dividing Iran Strong Iran “Immortality” to stage Iranian bases targeted and Europe through left empty-handed Daesh atrocity at Fajr in Syria 2 Warsaw summit 2 in Asian Cup 15 theater festival 16 Shipping line established between See page 2 Chabahar Port, 3 Indian ports ECONOMY TEHRAN — A ship- the arrival of the first container ship to deskping line was estab- Shahid Beheshti Port of Chabahar on lished between Iran’s southeastern port Sunday, IRNA reported. of Chabahar and three Indian ports of The official said the ship will unload its Mumbai, Mundra, and Kandla, an official 3,700 TEU cargo at Shahid Beheshti Port. in Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organi- Having the loading and unloading ca- zation (PMO) announced. pacity of 8.5 million tons of commodities Behrouz Aghaei, the director general per year, Shahid Beheshti Port can berth of Sistan-Baluchestan Ports and Maritime the ocean liners with the capacity of up Department, said the line was set up by to 100,000 tons, Aghaei noted. ‘If Israel starts a war it will lead to recapture of occupied lands’ POLITICS TEHRAN — The dep- elimination and the freeing of the occu- deskuty head of the Islam- pied (Palestinian) territories,” Brigadier ic Revolution Guard Corps has said any General Hossein Salami said on Monday, fresh malign move by Israel against Iran Fars reported. will be responded by the recapture of the “Our strategy is the elimination of Is- occupied lands from the Zionist regime. rael from the world’s political geography. “We announce that if Israel takes any And it seems Israel is doing these malign action to wage a war against us, that war acts to bring itself closer to that reality,” will definitely be the one to bring about its he added. Bahrain’s Supreme Court upholds Sheikh Ali Salman’s life sentence Bahrain’s highest court has upheld life cannot be appealed. sentences against three opposition leaders, The 53-year-old Salman was convict- including top cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, on ed in November of “communicating with Mohammad Moheimani charges of spying for Qatar, a judicial Qatari officials... to overthrow constitu- source said Monday. tional order,” a ruling rights groups have Al-Wefaq secretary-general Salman and denounced as a travesty of justice. Iran has isolated U.S. two senior al-Wefaq leaders Sheikh Hassan The London-based human rights group Sultan and Ali Alaswad were sentenced Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy to life imprisonment in November. The (BIRD) said the verdict marked the end Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ verdicts issued Monday are final and of a “long, flawed trial.” 13 PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE Heshmatollah Rahnama Europe’s vague future Martin Love Latin American expert By Hanif Ghaffari with the public. Which side are the European reconstruction of Europe and the Eurozone”, Political analyst from TEHRAN — The EU does not have a quiet time! Union and the eurozone really heading to? Will designed to reconcile the EU with disgruntled North Carolina The activity of the nationalist and extremist groups the future of Europe finally be clear these are the citizens after a decade of financial and immigra- and movements in Europe has created a lot of questions that concern the mentally ill, such as tion problems, is urgent, not least to stem rising U.S. tyranny moves concerns among the leaders of the European Merkel and Macron? far-right parties. But he cannot move without Trump may get Union. In such a situation, people like the French Chancellor of Germany is still thinking of Germany’s agreement. against Venezuela’s President and German Chancellor are worried building a new Europe! Angela Merkel and Em- However, we should not forget that the French his personal about the future of the eurozone and the Euro- manuel Macron both speak of a Europe which can President and German Chancellor have little op- elected government pean Union. This concern increases over time. withstand nationalism and far right movements. portunity to face the internal crises of Europe! It donnybrook, but in The occurrence of a variety of security, political, But the realization of this common dream seems should not be forgotten that the popularity of the he gravity of the declaration of economic and social crises has created many chal- not so easy! Today extremism have spread all French president has drastically fallen in recent Venezuela the coup d’etat against Maduro lenges in the European Union and the eurozone. over the European countries, and their power days, following the increase in public discon- Tis sobering. The coup strategy inte- The emergence of these challenges has led to is increasing day by day. tent France. And in Germany, Angela Merkel’s t appears that Trump (and now grates different variables: international a sharp decline in the popularity of traditional Emmanuel Macron has recently emphasized coalition government is not well placed, and its especially with his appointments pressure for recognition of the parallel parties in Europe. In such a way, nationalist par- the need for building a stronger Europe! The popularity had a remarkable decrease during Iof some of the worst of the Zionist government and chaos and death inside ties have been able to increase their popularity French president insisted that his “historic the recent months. 13 Neocons who planned decades ago the the country. march to destroy polities that did not The current chain of events seems to exactly kowtow to U.S. demands and have been planned out step-by-step: the submit to the “Empire of Chaos”) has attempted theft of weapons by a group of been searching for a signature interfer- members of the Bolivarian National Guard UN envoy says truce holding after 184 Saudi-led violations ence and possibly a war to assert U.S. on the morning of January 21, followed by Yemen has accused Saudi Arabia and its allies Saudi warplanes, he said, had staged 36 committees had carried out separate operations hegemony. incidents of violence concentrated in the of repeatedly violating a ceasefire in the Red Sea airstrikes across Yemen, spanning the Sa’ada against mercenary sites in different battlegrounds, Perhaps Trump and minions have west of Caracas; U.S. Vice-President Mike port city of Hudaydah, reached in the Swedish province in north to Hajjah province in the killing and injuring dozens of them. found their primary target now, which is Pence’s video supporting Juan Guaidó capital Stockholm last month. northwest. Griffith denies ceasefire broken the lowest hanging and geographically and calling for demonstrations on Jan- Yemen’s armed forces spokesman Brigadier The Yemeni military official said the United In an interview published by Asharq Al-Awsat nearest fruit – resource rich Venezue- uary 23; the swearing-in of Guaidó; U.S. General Yahya Sare’e said Monday that Saudi-led Nations should hold the Riyadh regime and its on Monday, Griffith insisted that the ceasefire la – given the political and economic President Donald Trump’s recognition forces had violated the ceasefire 184 times over mercenaries fully responsible for their failure was still in place. problems faced by Nicolas Maduro, of Guaidó a few minutes later; ongoing a period of 48 hours. to abide by the ceasefire. “Our assessment is that the ceasefire in Hu- which in fact are largely the result of incidents of violence; the convening of a He accused Saudi mercenary forces of commit- Earlier this month, UN special envoy for Yemen daydah is generally holding, despite any security U.S. economic and other sanctions on meeting of the Organization of American ting further crimes against the people of Yemen Martin Griffiths met Mohammed Ali al-Houthi incidents that have been taking place,” he told the proponents of the so-called “Bo- States (OAS) to seek recognition of the in clear violation of their obligations under the who pledged that the Supreme Revolutionary the Saudi-owned newspaper via email. livarian Revolution”. parallel government; the U.S. $20 million Stockholm agreement. Committee under his order will fully observe Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates What would be Trump’s signature war announced by Pence for “humanitarian Sare’e told Saba news agency that the forces had the ceasefire. launched the Hudaydah offensive in June 2018 but many have asked? All his predecessors aid”; and yet more programmed violence. carried out 119 artillery attacks, fired four missiles Yemen mounts retaliatory attacks have been facing strong resistance from Yemeni in the White House had at least one, the Not everything went as planned. Re- and conducted 44 operations against residential In response to the Saudi escalation, Sare’e armed forces — led by the Houthis — as well as most damaging of which to date was garding the international front, the attempt neighborhoods, farms and army sites. confirmed that the Yemeni army and the popular the city’s residents. 13 the Iraq War, with Libya and Syria not to get the OAS to recognise Guaidó as far behind. Might it be North Korea? president failed, with only 16 votes out Nah, probably because the Norks had of 34. This is not a new failure: the Lima developed a nuclear deterrence and the Group (formed in 2017 by right-wing Latin Ceremony means to deliver nuclear bombs, at least American governments), now weakened in East Asia if not farther out to Hawaii by the Mexican government’s anti-inter- and California, and anyway Kim Jong ventionist stance, emerged out of a similar held to Un has an arresting and even jovial per- situation.