Bahrain, Saudi Entering Quagmire by Betraying Palestine
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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 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13405 Saturday JUNE 8, 2019 Khordad 18, 1398 Shawwal 4, 1440 Mossad fabricating Putin, Xi denounce Iran, Croatia Parisian festival intelligence to blame Iran U.S. sanctions football federations spotlights Iran’s post- for Fujairah false flag 2 on Tehran 3 sign MoU 15 revolution cinema 16 Netherlands plans to join INSTEX See page 2 TEHRAN — The Dutch government an- the country’s legislative body on Wednes- nounced that it plans to join the financial day, noting its support of the INSTEX, Bahrain, mechanism of Instrument in Support of announced its plan to invest and join this Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) to do business European financial mechanism. with the Islamic Republic of Iran, IRNA In response to a question about how “The reported on Friday. Blocking Statute” function was revived by the The Dutch government, in response EU to counter U.S. sanctions, Dutch foreign and to the Parliament questions about EU foreign trade ministers emphasized that the measures to counter the U.S. sanctions union regards the U.S. sanctions “illegal” and Saudi entering against Iran, wrote a letter to the leaders of is not to officially recognize it. 4 Tehran dismisses Trump, Macron’s quagmire anti-Iran remarks TEHRAN — Tehran has dismissed the keep Tehran from what they called getting recent remarks made by French Presi- nuclear weapons. dent Emmanuel Macron and his Amer- “I don’t think we have differences over ican counterpart Donald Trump, saying Iran… I don’t think that the president wants by betraying such remarks are of no help in saving the to see nuclear weapons and neither do I,” Iran nuclear deal. Trump told reporters ahead of a meeting with In a statement on Friday, Foreign Macron in Caen. Macron also said Paris and Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said Washington shared the same objective on Trump’s “contradictory” and “groundless” Iran, saying they sought to prevent Iran from claims do not deserve a new reaction. getting a nuclear weapon, reduce Iran’s ballistic In their meeting in France on Thursday, activity, contain Iran’s regional activity and Palestine Trump and Macron called for efforts to establish peace in the region. 2 Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’ TEHRAN — Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Nadler (D-N.Y.) and several other top senior Democrats that she’d like to see Democrats who are aggressively pursuing President Donald Trump “in prison” as she investigations against the president, accord- clashed with House Judiciary Chairman ing to multiple sources. Nadler and other Jerry Nadler in a meeting on Tuesday committee leaders have been embroiled in night over whether to launch impeach- a behind-the-scenes turf battle for weeks ment proceedings. over ownership of the Democrats’ sprawling khamenei.ir According to Politico, Pelosi met with investigation into Trump. 13 PERSPECTIVE Saudi Arabia steps up ballistic missile program with Chinese aid ARTICLE Mostafa Mousavi Sabet By Yuram Abdullah Weiler TEHRAN — Saudi Arabia has reportedly under the 1987 Missile Technology Control Analyst and journalist Head of the Tehran Times stepped up its ballistic missile program with Regime. Art & Culture Desk the help of China, with the administration of Back in January, The Washington Post U.S. President Donald Trump withholding published satellite images of a Saudi military intelligence on the issue. base, indicating that Riyadh was testing and Festivals Council Citing three sources familiar with the matter, possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles. Quds Day message: CNN reported on Wednesday that based on Jeffrey Lewis, a missile expert at the Mid- The occupied West comes to cope classified U.S. intelligence, Riyadh had ex- dlebury Institute of International Studies in panded both its missile infrastructure and Monterey, California, said the Saudi instal- Bank is NOT Israeli with Iranian films’ technology through recent purchases from lations closely resembled a design used by festoxification Beijing. China, though they were smaller. heartland The sources said that the Trump admin- In March 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mo- he Cinema Organization of Iran istration did not initially disclose its knowl- hammed bin Salman threatened that the It’s just time the world recognizes that (COI) as the country’s highest pol- edge of the Saudi missile development to key kingdom would be quick to develop nuclear Judea and Samaria are legitimate.” icy-making body in film industry has members of Congress. weapons if Iran — which Riyadh views as its Texas agriculture commissioner T The move, they added, infuriated Democrats intelligence, the missile development “could arch rival in the region — did so. “ a newly established council to supervise and church elder Sid Miller mark another step in potential Saudi efforts Iran’s presence at international film events. who discovered the matter “outside of regular Many U.S. Congress members are con- Another Quds Day has passed. People to one day deliver a nuclear warhead were it In the announcement about the council, U.S. government channels and concluded it cerned about the provision of nuclear around the world took to the streets to ever to obtain one.” COI director Hossein Entezami actually had been deliberately left out of a series of technology to Saudi Arabia, a destabilizing stand in solidarity with the Palestinian According to Press TV, Saudi Arabia is the commissioned the members to cope with briefings.” force under the Salman clan, amid Trump’s People, and to condemn the ongoing Zionist U.S.’s top arms buyer, but it is barred from “the plague of” festoxification, Iranian The informed sources also stressed although attempts to reach lucrative nuclear deals occupation of the Palestinian homeland. buying ballistic missiles from Washington filmmakers’ attitude to make films for the Saudis’ objective was not clear from the with the kingdom. Their message was clear: the Occupied screening in international events. West Bank is not the Israeli heartland. Filmmakers make films at least for two Established in 1979 by Imam Khomeini, simple reasons: first to express themselves, the founder of the Islamic Republic, Quds second to express viewpoints on a topic. Syrian army finds U.S.-made arms in militant depot in Quneitra Day provides an annual opportunity for Festivals and events alike give them this Muslims and other people of conscience to TEHRAN — Syrian government forces have to clear the area of hidden explosive devices as al-Nusra Front, in Maar Tahroma village of chance. express their outrage over the more than carried out a string of clean-up operations and ordnance left behind by the militants. the country’s northwestern province of Idlib, Due to their subjects, a large number 70 years of ongoing Israeli injustice to Pal- in the country’s southwestern province of According to Press TV, the source added killing dozens of the extremists in the process. of the films annually produced in Iran estinians. In sharp contrast, U.S. President Quneitra near the Israeli-occupied Golan that the weapons were hidden inside two un- Syrian government forces also pounded fail to be screened publicly. Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Heights, discovering a substantial amount derground tunnels dug by terrorists, which the positions of the terrorists in al-Latami- Domestic distributors, major movie Kushner, seem intent on legitimatizing the of munitions, some of them U.S.-built, from included artillery rounds, rockets, night-vi- nah town, located 39 kilometers northwest theaters or cineplexes view the films as Zionist land grab of occupied Palestinian a former stronghold of foreign-backed Takfiri sion devices, American BGM-71 TOW an- of Hama, dealing heavy blows to them. non-commercial and, as a result, they are territory, which has even been referred terrorists. ti-tank missiles as well as various types of Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed reluctant to allocate a place for the films to as “the heartland of Israel” in a Texas An unnamed military source told Syria’s machine guns. militancy since March 2011. The Syrian govern- on their schedules. department of agriculture news release. official news agency SANA that Syrian soldiers Separately, Syrian army units targeted and ment says the Israeli regime and its Western This negative attitude pushes the film- The last half-hearted effort against launched the operations on the outskirts of destroyed the rocket launch pads of the terrorist and regional allies are aiding Takfiri terrorist makers to present their movies overseas, illegal settlements on Palestinian lands the town of Jubata al-Khashab on Thursday group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known groups that are wreaking havoc in the country. so they choose sensitive subjects from occurred during the administration of within the country for their works in or- George H.W. Bush, who withheld loan der to convince festival organizers around guarantees from the Israeli entity. “We the world to include them in their galas. have a longstanding policy that feels Dozens of Iran’s annual film produc- Bachukheh that settlements are counterproductive tions are shorts and documentaries, which to peace,” Bush insisted. “This is a long- would either fail to obtain permissions standing policy, and I am determined to for nationwide screening or at best re- wrestling see that that policy not be altered.” Unfor- ceive limited screenings at the Art and tunately, successive U.S. administrations Experience Cinema, movie theaters that competition in have not shared even this lukewarm level are dedicated to screening art films. This of political determination, and, of course, organization only has 14 theaters across under the auspices of the current Wash- the country.