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.13525 Monday NOVEMBER 11, 2019 Aban 20, 1398 Rabi’ Al awwal 13, 1441 Iran says not to rely Kazem Jalali to become Mokhtari takes Movies from on foreigners’ JCPOA Iran’s new ambassador silver at World Para Iran line up for promises 2 to Moscow 3 Atheltics C’ships 15 Kolkata festival 16 New oil field with 53b barrels of reserve discovered in Iran French intelligence service TEHRAN — Iranian President Hassan in the oil-rich province. Rouhani announced on Sunday the discov- President Rouhani’s announcement ery of a major oil field with an estimated would mean Iran’s proven crude oil re- in-place reserve of 53 billion barrels in serves would be boosted by a third, since southwestern Khuzestan province, Shana the country’s proven crude oil reserves are reported. estimated to be about 150 billion barrels. caught in self-inflicted trap The field has a depth of 80 meters Mentioning the need for new tech- and extends over 2400 square kilome- nologies for developing the country’s oil See page 2 ters between Bostan District in Dasht-e fields and for increasing their recovery Azadegan County and Omidiyeh County factor, 4 Concrete casting starts at phase II of Bushehr nuclear plant TEHRAN – The concrete-casting operation “Cementing process of the nuclear re- of the new phase of the Bushehr nuclear actor of the Bushehr power plant’s phase power plant started on Sunday, II is one of the key processes and an im- The concrete-casting operation was portant event in the site by which we have launched in a ceremony attended by Atomic taken a giant stride towards development Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) chief of nuclear power plants in the country,” Ali Akbar Salehi, a number of state and Mahmoud Jafari, the executive manager provincial officials, parliamentarians and for the new phases of the Bushehr nuclear manager of Russian companies active in plant, told reporters on the sidelines of the site. the ceremony. 2 Morales calls for new elections after OAS audit Bolivian President Evo Morales has said he in the October 20 election. will call for new elections after the Organ- “In the following hours, in agreement ization of American States (OAS) released with all political forces, [we] will establish a report saying that a disputed vote last [the steps] for this [to take place],” he said. month that sparked protests should be No other details were immediately annulled due to irregularities. available. In a news conference on Sunday, Morales’s comments came shortly after Morales also said he would replace the the OAS said in a preliminary report issued members of the electoral board which on Sunday it could not verify the result after File photo File came under fire after being mired in finding “clear manipulations” during an widespread allegations of electoral fraud audit of the vote. 13 PERSPECTIVE Professor: Principles override concern that Trump impeachment could hurt Democrats ARTICLE Hanif Ghaffari By Fatemeh Mohammadipour Professor Shapiro says, “There are with most Republican party ideological goals Ebrahim Fallahi Head of the Tehran Times TEHRAN — Robert Y. Shapiro, the former principles at stake that override any but also setting his own course in the immi- Tehran Times journalist Politics Desk chair of the Department of Political Science at concern that impeachment could hurt gration and trade issues. Columbia University, says Democrats in the the Democrats.” Thinkers such as John Merschheim- House of Representatives have launched an Following is the text of the interview with er believe that America has pursued liberal Trump’s defeat impeachment inquiry into President Donald Professor Shapiro. foreign policy since World War II, and it is Is OPEC stuck in a Trump because he has abused presidential The dominant ideology in the United necessary for America to abandon this policy message in Kentucky power as a tool to ask the Ukrainian presi- States of America is Republicanism and classical and act realistically in foreign policy. What is cycle of endless cuts? dent to launch an investigation against Joe liberalism. But Donald Trump seems to be a your opinion? he heavy defeat of the Republican n its latest annual World Oil Outlook Biden, a possible rival in the 2020 presi- mercantile individual, and he uses American A: There is an active debate about this among Party in the Kentucky state election (WOO) report, published last week, dential faceoff. nationalism to his advantage. What do you foreign policy and political experts. My own shows that the closer we get to the the Organization of the Petroleum T “The Ukrainian issue is about the abuse think of it? view is for a middle course between realism I US presidential race next year, the lower Exporting Countries (OPEC) predicted of presidential power to use the tools of gov- A: It is not so much nationalism but rather and liberalism, but with priority given to the the chances of a president winning. As The its oil production and market share to ernment and foreign policy against a political he benefitted from being outside the Republican use of diplomacy and alliances and interna- atlantic Donald Trump wants his party to fall in the years to come. opponent,” Shapiro tells the Tehran Times. party and could set his own path consistent tional organizations over military force. 11 believe that he was the hero of the campaign This view of the future says a lot about in Kentucky, who almost—but not quite— the cartel’s policies in facing the ever grow- rescued a deeply unpopular governor from ing U.S. shale which is casting a dismal defeat.But to understand why November Jordan announces ‘full sovereignty’ over lands leased by Israel shadow over the future role which OPEC 2019 is so ominous for Republicans, you need Jordan’s king on Sunday announced “full sover- the peace treaty with Israel is overwhelmingly enclaves came amid anti-government protests members are going to be playing in the to understand why Kentucky Governor Matt eignty” over two pieces of land leased by Israel, opposed by Jordanians, more than half of whom against the Jordanian leadership based on eco- global oil market. Bevin was so unpopular in the first place. ending a 25-year arrangement spelled out in the are of Palestinian origin. nomic and diplomatic issues, including the issue According to the latest WOO re- The story does not end there! Kentucky countries’ landmark peace agreement. Twenty five years after the signing of the 1994 of the enclaves. port, OPEC expects its production of was one of the states where Trump won King Abdullah II said in a speech to the Jordan-Israel peace treaty, Israeli control over In 1997, a Jordanian soldier opened fire crude oil and other liquids to decline the previous presidential election. In oth- government’s new Cabinet on Sunday that the enclave has ended, and control of the area at a group of Israeli schoolgirls touring the to 32.8 million barrels per day (bpd) er words, Kentucky’s electoral votes in Jordan would end the “annex of the two ar- returned to Jordan on Saturday. so-called “Peace Island” at Naharayim, killing by 2024 from its current 35 million the run-up to the Republican election in eas, Ghumar and Al-Baqoura, in the peace The final Israeli tour of the area took place seven and prompting then-King Hussein to bpd. This means that the cartel plans 2016 were favored by Republicans. On the treaty and impose our full sovereignty on Saturday, following failed diplomatic attempts to conduct condolences visits with the families. to go further with its plans for cutting other hand, Trump never predicted that every inch of them.” extend the clause of the treaty that gave Israel In 2017, an Israeli embassy security guard in production even after the current pact Democrats would lose in both Kentucky Israel, which has controlled the lands for over control of the enclave for 25 years. Amman killed two Jordanians. is over in 2020. and Virginia in the one year remaining in 70 years, had been permitted to lease the areas Under the terms of the 1994 Jordan-Israel Three years earlier, an Israeli soldier at a Considering the significant growth in the US presidential election. Undoubted- under the 1994 peace agreement. peace treaty, the enclaves have been allowed to border crossing killed a Jordanian judge he U.S. shale production over the past few ly, this defeat has deeply concerned the One of the areas, a popular visitors’ site in remain under Israeli control, but Jordan was deemed a threat. years, and to be exact, since the OPEC Republican Party leaders. If the results northern Israel, is known in Hebrew as the given the option under the treaty to assume full Just last month, Amman recalled its ambas- decided to cut production in order to relieve of the recent governorship elections in “Peace Island.” But with relations cool, Abdul- control of both enclaves after 25 years. Last year, sador from Israel over the prolonged detention the negative impact of U.S. shale’s flow on Kentucky and Virginia (which led to the lah announced earlier this year that he would King Abdullah II of Jordan announced that he without trial in the Jewish state of two Jorda- oil prices, it seems that although OPEC Democratic Party’s victory) are repeated end the lease. would exercise the option.