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U.S., Friends Responsible for Volatility in the Region WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13579 Monday JANUARY 13, 2020 Dey 23, 1398 Jumada Al Awwal 17, 1441 Zarif meets Majlis voices Iranian-made ALS Iranian strike on U.S. Oman’s new sultan unwavering support medicine saves $42,000 bases in Iraq only first in Muscat 3 for IRGC 3 per patient annually 9 part of response 10 British ambassador to Tehran summoned to Foreign Ministry U.S., friends responsible TEHRAN — British Ambassador Rob to hear Iran’s official protest to him and Macaire, who was arrested briefly by the British government. Iran during demonstrations in Tehran The British diplomat was reminded on Saturday afternoon, was summoned that his presence in illegal gatherings has to the Foreign Ministry on Sunday af- no conformity with his responsibility as ternoon. his country’s political representative in for volatility in the region The British ambassador was summoned Iran and that his behavior is in contrast to for his “unconventional behavior and the 1961 Vienna convention on diplomatic Qatar’s Emir calls for comprehensive regional dialogue presence” in the illegal gatherings, the relationship, the ministry said. Foreign Ministry said. It added the British government should See page 2 The ministry said he was summoned provide answers in this regard. 2 Iran had no intention to hide causes of plane crash: Shamkhani TEHRAN — Ali Shamkhani, secretary of It took time to announce the caus- Iran’s Supreme National Security Council es due to necessity to investigate (SNSC), said on Sunday that Iran had no all hypotheses, especially “possible intention to hide causes of the Ukrainian actions of the enemies in jamming”, plane crash on Wednesday. “hack of the systems” and “the issue “From the beginning of the crash, we of infiltration”, explained Shamkhani had no intention to hide its causes,” he who served as defense minister in said during a memorial service for two the Khatami administration from victims of the crash. 1997 to 2005. 2 KRG supports Baghdad’s decision on U.S. troop pullout from Iraq The president of Iraq’s semi-autonomous any decision taken by Baghdad, and that Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, says Kurdish officials back the resolution passed the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) by Iraqi lawmakers that calls for the ex- supports a decision made by the central pulsion of foreign forces. government in Baghdad concerning the The Iraqi MPs approved the resolution withdrawal of U.S. military forces from after the United States assassinated Lieu- the country. tenant General Qassem Soleimani, the com- Speaking in a meeting with Iraq’s care- mander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic taker Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and the in Erbil on Saturday, Barzani highlighted second-in-command of Iraqi Popular Mo- khamenei.ir that the KRG throws its weight behind bilization Units (PMU), 10 EDITORIAL Who is the new Sultan of Oman? ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi Martin Love By Farzad Farhadi cluding the Chairman of the committee for the newspaper released a report on his successor. Political analyst from Tehran Times editor-in-chief TEHRAN — Haitham bin Tariq bin Taimur future vision of “Oman 2040? and the Minister According to the newspaper, when the physi- North Carolina @ghaderi62 sworn in as the ninth Sultan of Oman. Haitham of Heritage and Culture from February 2002 cal conditions of the late sultan worsened, he bin Tariq was born in 1954 and in some cases to January 2020. Haitham bin Tariq also held had secretly named his preferred successor in Trump’s terrorist served as special envoy to the late sultan Qaboos several posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a sealed envelope and submitted it to the royal Protesters in Iran Bin Saeed. such as the secretary general and the deputy family council. act to derail public The new sultan is the cousin of the late sul- foreign minister for political affairs. He was the The succession process involves the opening may be bolstering tan and his genealogy goes back to one of the first head of the Oman Football Association from of sealed letters in the court in Muscat identify- opinion oldest Arab families ruled in the country. He 1983 to 1986. ing the sultan’s choice of successor, if the court U.S. imperialism graduated from the Oxford University Foreign Unlike the late Sultan of Oman, who had no cannot agree among itself. children, Haitham bin Tariq has four children. Qaboos has no children and has not publicly y his wrong calculations, Trump Service Program in 1979. The Undersecretary rom afar it can be upsetting to hear The new sultan was named after request by appointed a successor but he secretly recorded committed a terrorist act against of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Political about protests at some universities the Defense Council to appoint Qaboos bin Said’s his choice in a sealed envelope addressed to the two senior Iranian and Iraqi military Affairs was among his other executive positions. in Iran, allegedly spawned by anger B successor. royal family council. F officials, and faced the U.S. with another He was sent to the Arab League Summit in over the unintentional downing of the A few weeks earlier and following the height- The name of the most important succes- serious challenge. Jordan as Oman’s representative during his commercial aircraft near Tehran. One can ened speculations over the worsening physical sors of the late sultan was also published There are several points regarding the last mission. understand the anger over the horrible conditions of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Guardian earlier. recent terrorist attack that led to the mar- He has previously held various positions, in- 7 accident of mistaken identity, but let’s tyrdom of Commander Qassem Soleimani get real about this tragic event. and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, including The most important to say is that if the timing of the U.S. presidential election anyone blames the U.S. for the accident, and Trump’s unfavorable conditions in Trump repeats Syria intention: U.S. troops are taking the oil they most definitely are not alone. In fact, the domestic arena. U.S. President Donald Trump has once again has the oil. We have the oil.” Three days later, Turkey launched the offen- even a candidate for the White House in Analyzing Western and Arab media, revealed his intention to take possession of Syr- Trump has before too publicly mused about sive with the aim of purging the northern Syrian November, Tulsi Gabbard, a U.S. House we come to the conclusion that the U.S. ian oil in what is seen by experts as a move that stealing Syria’s oil reserves. regions near its border of U.S.-backed Kurdish representative from Hawaii and a veteran president’s terrorist act was purely due to would amount to a war crime. In October, after ordering the withdrawal militants, whom it views as terrorists linked to who has consistently opposed U.S. “wars his personal reasons. Since taking office in Defending his decision to leave some Amer- of American forces from Syria, Trump said he local autonomy-seeking militants of the Kurdistan of choice”, has stated that ultimate blame the White House, Trump has been heav- ican troops in the war-torn country, Trump wanted a U.S. oil firm to go to the Arab country Workers’ Party (PKK). must be placed on the U.S. She is not alone ily involved in various issues and cases told Fox News Friday night that “they say he to tap its oil. In late October, the U.S. Defense Department in Congress, as if to say, if Qassem Soleima- against himself that have caused a crisis left troops in Syria... do you know what I did? “What I intend to do, perhaps, is make a deal confirmed that “mechanized forces” would be ni and others had not been assassinated, of domestic legitimacy for him and the I took the oil.” with an ExxonMobil or one of our great compa- redeployed in eastern Syria to protect oil fields the aircraft would never have been hit by government. “The only troops I have are taking the oil, nies to go in there and do it properly,” he said there, a clear departure from Trump’s earlier a rocket because a rocket would never Some of the cases against the U.S. they are protecting the oil,” Trump said, prompt- back then. order to pull out all troops from the country. have been fired. Which is true. president are as follows: ing the interviewer, Laura Ingraham, to try to In a major U-turn in the U.S. military In November, the U.S. president made it clear Iran’s military would not have been The tax evasion case: with some tricks correct him by saying the soldiers were there policy, the White House announced on Oc- that his only mission to keep troops in Syria was in such a heightened state of alert over and tax fraud techniques, Trump has to guard the facilities. But the president cut tober 6 that the U.S. would be withdrawing to take possession of the country’s oil. possible attacks by U.S. cruise missiles been able to multiply the inheritance her off. its forces from northeastern Syria, clearing “We’re keeping the oil. We have the oil. The or whatever. That Iran was in such a and wealth left by his father.
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