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cleric 2 her last breath 2 Sardar Azmoun 15 instrument 16 ‘114 foreign SMEs ready to cooperate in Iran’s oil projects’ ECONOMY TEHRAN — A them acquainted with our projects and our deskmember of the en- capacities and to prepare the ground for Army stages See page 2 ergy committee of Iran Chamber of joint development plans.” he was quoted Commerce, Industries, Mines and as saying on the sidelines of the 15th Kish Agriculture (ICCIMA), Reza Padidar, International Energy Exhibition (known said 114 foreign small and medium as Kish ENEX 2019). enterprises (SMEs) have expressed He further noted that ICCIMA has willingness to cooperate in Iran’s oil received information from European projects, Tasnim reported. SME representatives that visited Iran and “We are planning to invite these com- identified those which were interested war games panies to Iran in [Iranian month] Ordibe- in participation and investment in the hesht (April 21 – May 21, 2019) to make country’s energy projects. 4 Mass clemency awaiting inmates on revolution anniversary POLITICS TEHRAN – Iran’s “based on broader criteria” than the past. desktop judge says Lead- However, the top judge said, the excep- er of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah tions included in the previous amnesties Seyyed Ali Khamenei is going to grant will be again taken into account in the amnesty to a large number of prisoners upcoming clemency. on the occasion of the 40th anniversary Article 110 of the Constitution grants of the Islamic revolution. the Leader the right to pardon or re- In a meeting with senior judicial officials duce the sentences of convicts upon a on Thursday, Judiciary chief Ayatollah recommendation from the head of the Sadeq Amoli Larijani said the clemency is Judiciary. World powers denounce U.S. interference By staff & agencies Assembly, declared himself interim president. Venezuela has plunged further into political Shortly after Guaido took an oath swear- crisis amid a growing row over President Nico- ing himself in before his supporters, the las Maduro’s future as the country’s leader. United States President Donald Trump Maduro started a second term on January publicly recognized him as the country’s

Faraj Samadi 10 following a widely-boycotted election last leader. In response, Maduro broke off dip- year that many foreign governments refused lomatic ties with the United States and gave to recognize. On Wednesday, Juan Guaido, the the U.S. diplomats 72 hours to get out of IRNA/ leader of the opposition-controlled National his country. 13

ARTICLE ARTICLE Hanif Ghaffari U.S. magazine names Qassem Soleimani top defense thinker of year Martin Love Political analyst POLITICS TEHRAN — The Washing- In a fiery speech, the senior general responded, Political analyst from deskton-based magazine Foreign “Trump! You must not threaten our nation and North Carolina Policy has put Commander of the Islamic Rev- must not insult our president… You must know olution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Ma- what you are talking about; ask your predecessors Brexit deadlock in jor General Qassem Soleimani at the top of its and take advantage of their experiences,” Tasnim In U.S. one new 2019 list of Global Thinkers in the defense and news agency reported. London security field. “We are near you, where you can’t even im- NYT columnist just The magazine recently published its 10th agine…Come; we are ready. We are the man of he negative vote by the Parliament annual special edition of Global Thinkers with this arena. You know that this war would mean made a serious in England to the Theresa May 10 categories of 10 people each, placing General annihilation of all your means. You may begin Tplan to leave the European Union Soleimani on top of the list of the most influen- the war, but it is us who will end it,” he added. impact has created a difficult and complicated tial people in the defense and security sector, Trump threatened Iran again in a tweet in situation in London. followed by German Defense Minister Ursula when he delivered a blistering response to an November inspired by popular American drama he Power of the Press, provided People like Boris Johnson and von der Leyen. all-caps tweet addressed to President Hassan series “Game of Thrones.” It featured a picture of it’s the right particular medium, conservative figures demand a “hard A short write-up on the senior Iranian com- Rouhani, in which Trump had issued a military himself with the caption “sanctions are coming Tpacks at least an incipient punch. Brexit” and a clean break from the EU, mander described him as the “public face of threat against the Islamic Republic. November 5.” Take for example the so-called “news- and there are those like Labor Party Iran’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s The U.S. president had threatened Iran with General Soleimani fired back at Trump by paper of record” in the United States, Leader Jeremy Corbyn who call for threats”. actions “the likes of which few throughout history posting an Instagram photo with the caption, the New York Times, which despite early elections and the withdrawal of General Soleimani made headlines last July, have ever suffered before.” “I will stand against you.” 2 decades of obfuscations and bias in May from power. certain arenas such as the Middle East British PM May is trying to present remains the one newspaper which, if Plan B to the Parliament, although the mainstream media were to be ab- the plan does not seem to meet the Turkey expects creation of Syria security zone in few months: Erdogan solutely shunned, would probably be demands of the opposition. Beyond the By staff &agencies buffer zone ourselves. Our only expectation from fruition so far. the last to meet that fate. turmoil and controversy over Brexit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says our allies is that they provide logistical support Erdogan and his United States counterpart Too many smart readers who more Former British Prime Minister Tony the Ankara government expects a “security zone” to Turkey’s effort,” he added. Donald Trump held a telephone conversation or less try to keep up with politics and Blair is calling for a second Brexit to be created in neighboring Syria within a few “Our patience has a limit,” Erdogan said. “We last week, where the Turkish leader expressed international affairs and have some grasp Referendum and considers Brexit “the months as the United States withdraws its troops will not wait forever for the fulfillment of the Ankara’s determination to establish a safe zone of things at least have continued to “trust” single biggest threat to the United from the war-torn country. promises given to us.” in northern Syria. the NYT, and when it is clearly pointed Kingdom” and wants people to “rise “The zone should be aimed at protecting Since 2012, Turkey has been calling for the Trump has suggested creation of a 30-kilometer out or revealed that the paper has erred up” against it. our country from terrorists not protecting ter- establishment of a safe zone of 30-40 kilometers safe zone along Turkey’s border with Syria, but time after time and misled readers in the London has of late become the focus rorists right beside our border, and should be between the northern Syrian towns of Jarablus has not specified who would create, enforce or past, it’s like dropping a stink bomb on of opposition to the ideas, policies and established within a few months,” Erdogan and al-Rai in a bid to drive out Kurdish Peo- pay for it, or where it would be located. the morning commute train into the Big tactics of British politicians on Brexit said in a speech in Turkey’s eastern province ple’s Protection Units (People’s Defense Units/ Ankara has been threatening for months to Apple with potential reverberations all as British citizens are faced with an of Erzurum on Friday. Yekîneyên Parastina Gel/YPG) and to protect launch an offensive in northern Syria against across the country and particularly in uncertain future. The UK is due to leave “Otherwise, we will definitely form this safe or civilians. However, the plan has not come to the U.S.-backed YPG militants. 13 Washington. the European Union on March 29. They One column last Sunday in the paper by know all too well that a hard exit or a one Michelle Alexander, a recently hired no-deal Brexit will have a dire outcome writer, has heartened seekers of truth like for the UK. few others in years. Alexander, a respected No wonder that those like Corbyn professor now at Union Theological Sem- stress the need for a clear agreement with Fifth Art inary in Manhattan and a longstanding Europe. British citizens are aware that and respected civil rights advocate, wrote a “soft Brexit” agreement with Europe, such a lucid piece about Palestine that it in the style of PM May, will only lead to Festival of has flummoxed the entrenched “Israel the loss of many privileges for London. can do no wrong” masses and left them At the same time, holding a referendum Resistance in the dust, gasping unsuccessfully to again in Britain will also lead to a new counter her arguments (especially on crisis in the country, and will outrage opens in Martin Luther King Day) that it is high the supporters of Brexit deal. time the wrongs against the Palestinians Each one of the options will cer- are addressed and Likud Israel is at last tainly have consequences for London Tehran challenged for its various and obvious crimes. Iran, of all countries, well knows and neither one will offer a stable and A man visits an exhibition of photos during what those crimes have been for seven improved situation for the British. In the Fifth Art Festival of Resistance at the decades or more against the natives of other words, Brexit is the UK frus- Institute for Intellectual Development of the Holy Land. tration point with Europe and the Children and Young Adults in Tehran on Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the international system. January 24, 2019. Over time, the UK public frustra- revolution in Iran, was speaking out Mohammad Moheimani Over 5,000 artworks, inducing posters, against the Zionist program way back tion will grow over the Brexit crisis. cartoons, paintings, and illustrations, are in the 1960s, if not earlier, even when It matters little whether the Labor on view at the festival, which opened on he was exiled from Iran by the Shah for Party or Conservative Party holds the Thursday. over a decade, and it’s one of several big top political and executive positions in The Revayat Cultural Foundation is the UK. What matters is the complex reason the Israelis and the U.S. have long

Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ the main organizer of the event that will sought the end of the Islamic Republic situation that London will face for at be running until February 13. least a decade. 13 since 1979. 7 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y POLITICS JANUARY 26, 2019 MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS FATF would be Army stages war games just like JCPOA: cleric POLITICS TEHRAN — The Irani- of the Army Ground Force, assessment of deskan Army kicked off drills, the power, mobility and agility of the troops codenamed “Eghtedar 97” (Power 97) in Is- as well as the aerial logistics of the airborne fahan Province on Friday. unit’s copters. POLITICS TEHRAN — The interim Friday prayer desk During the military exercises, the UAV Iran’s Armed Forces hold routine military preacher of Tehran says the Financial units of the Army flew two Mohajer drones exercises throughout the year. Action Task Force (FATF) has been created by the think along with two RF-4 fighters over the area to Officials have repeatedly underscored tanks of plundering countries who are after disarming carry out their joint reconnaissance mission that the Iran will not hesitate to strengthen the Islamic Republic. and send the images of their targets back to its military capabilities, including its missile Addressing worshippers in Tehran on Friday, Hojatole- their bases on the ground, Mehr reported. power, which are entirely meant for defense, slam Kazem Seddiqi said joining the FATF, like signing Invisible to radars, Mohajer drones are and that Iran’s defense capabilities will be the JCPOA, would only lead to harsher sanctions and manufactured by the Army Ground Force never subject to negotiations. increased pressure against Iran, ILNA reported. and are capable of carrying out missions in Army to use armed robots to “In the economic war, they want to monitor our spend- different climates. counter threats ing and know from where we earn our revenues and with Troops from the 55th Airborne Brigade Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, chief of Army’s whom in the world we have economic interaction,” Sed- and the 25th Rapid Reaction Brigade also Center for Strategic Studies, said on Thursday diqi underlined. parachuted into the target zone from CH-47 that the Army is seeking to use armed robots “A wise person would never tell its secrets to the ene- Chinook and Bell 214 helicopters. in order to counter threats. mies,” he warned. The purpose of the war game, which “The Army Ground Force of the Islamic involve around 12,000 assault forces from Republic of Iran has so far tested and unveiled Plan underway to all units of the Army Ground Force, is to a few of its [armed] robots,” Pourdastan said, develop border evaluate the recent changes in the structure IRNA reported. province Press TV’s Hashemi vows to speak out against U.S. injustice until her last breath POLITICS TEHRAN — Iran’s interior minister said Marzieh hashemi, who was released on Wednesday after a “suicide watch”. deskthe Rouhani administration is going to spending 10 days in U.S. detention without charge, has “When I heard that… [I said] I know that I’m not launch a grand scheme for development of the province of spoken to Press TV about her experience and how she is going to kill myself, so there could be something else Sistan-Balouchestan in southeast Iran. resolved to prevent others from being subjected to such up here,” she said. In comments on Thursday, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli mistreatment by the American justice system. That’s when she asked one of the prisoners who was said a delegation from his ministry came up with a detailed During a live interview with Press TV from Washington getting out to inform her daughter that “if anything happens plan for development of the province after a 6-day visit to on Thursday evening, Hashemi said while she had long to me she knows it’s not from suicide.” different parts of the underprivileged region and prioritizing been “harassed” by American security officers during Hashemi said she was “humbled” by global calls to free the needs, Tasnim reported. her previous trips to her homeland, the detention took her, but the mission was far from accomplished as many He said the practical initiatives, coming into 486 categories, everything to a “whole new level.” others could face the same ordeal as long as the U.S. justice were submitted to President Hassan Rouhani, whose office “In general, when I travel throughout the United States system remained the same. is going to communicate the grand plan to 24 ministries and domestic flights… I always have to be at the airports “I’ve always been a person to say what I believe, and to and administrative organizations to carry out the practical three to three-and-a-half hours prior to flight just to make be a firm believer in trying to fight for what is right and what measures in the province. it through all obstacles,” she said. on for the mug shot.” is true and very much against oppression,” Hashemi said. Hashemi said she was with her son, Reza, when the Hashemi was taken to the court after spending a night “So, people like me always pay a price.” U.S. veteran held FBI arrested her and put her in handcuffs on January 13 in the facility’s “unbelievable conditions,” where she was “What happened to me could happen to anyone, and it’s before boarding a flight to Denver. incarcerated in solitary confinement next to other people not about me, Marzieh Hashemi,” she added. over ‘private She spent the night at St. Louis airport before being from different nationalities that the FBI had detained for Hashemi doubled down on the need to change once transferred to the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, unknown reasons. and for all detention laws used as a “fear tactic” by U.S. complaint,’ Iran DC, the next day. To get to the courtroom, Marzieh was forced to climb authorities to incarcerate innocent people without any There, FBI agents kept telling Hashemi that she was the stairs while in shackles because of the malfunctioning charges as long as they pleased. says not being charged while they took her fingerprints. elevators that authorities had been unable to repair due “I don’t believe that a majority of American people and POLITICS TEHRAN — A U.S. Navy veteran detained “Then, they said they had to get my DNA,” Hashemi to the ongoing government shutdown. people around the world believe that this should be al- deskin the northeastern city of Mashhad in July said, adding the agents performed a DNA swap on her “The overall treatment… was one of sheer disrespect, lowed in a country that says it believes in human rights,” is being held in connection to a “private complaint,” the As- against her will. disregard and no one should be treated like this,” she said. she added. “So I am calling and asking people to stand in sociated Press reported on Friday, citing Mehr news agency. She was then moved to Washington’s central jail and then “Yes, I live in Iran, I work in Iran right now, but I solidarity and condemn these types of acts.” Michael White, 46, has been held since July, and is the to another detention facility, where she was “strip searched”. do come back and forth into the United States, it is my “It is with fear that powers-that-be try to control those first known American to have been detained in Iran since “Our viewers know me, I am… a practicing Muslim and home and I have the right to come back here whenever who believe in freedom. But ultimately, it’s the people Donald Trump became president. I do adhere to hijab,” she said. “So for me, a scarf is even I want,” she added. united who can make changes and I’m asking to demand The Friday report quoted prosecutor Gholamali Sade- important to wear in front of males and I was subjected At one point, Hashemi said, there were guards sitting an end to this oppression that is taking place in the U.S. ghi as saying the case is still “under investigation,” without to a strip search and I was not allowed to put my scarf outside her cell that inmates later on said had her under judicial system,” Hashemi added. 13 elaborating. He did not confirm reports that the man faces security charges. Under Iranian law, a private complaint would refer to allegations made by a citizen, not the state. U.S. magazine names Qassem EU says SPV to be launched Iran-Russia Soleimani top defense thinker of year ‘very soon’ 1 The IRGC commander is widely Ali Khamenei in November 2017. By staff and agency Le Drian told the French parliament’s ties developed seen as a strategist in the counter-terror- According to Press TV, in January 2015, The European Commission said it’s foreign affairs committee on Wednesday uniquely after ism operations against Takfiri terrorists the head of Iraq’s Badr Organization cred- seeking to launch “very soon” a special that the SPV should be established in in Syria and Iraq. ited Tehran and General Soleimani with purpose vehicle (SPV) to help Europe- the coming days. JCPOA: envoy The powerful general leads Iranian saving the Baghdad government when an companies bypass U.S. sanctions “It will work as a sort of clearing military advisers backing the national Daesh first unleashed its campaign of on Iran. house that will allow in euros for Iran POLITICS TEHRAN — Iranian Ambassador to terror in Iraq a year earlier. Three European diplomats said the to benefit from some of its oil resourc- desk armies of Syria and Iraq in their fight Moscow Mehdi Sanaei has described as against terrorism. “If it were not for the cooperation of official unveiling could come as early es and at the same time buy essential “unique” the development of Iran-Russia political and se- General Soleimani was present on the Islamic Republic of Iran and General as Monday, Bloomberg reported on products from the main three main curity relations in the aftermath of the Joint Comprehensive the ground to supervise the decisive Soleimani, we would not today have a Thursday. (European) partners,” Press TV quoted Plan of Action (JCPOA). stages of Iran-backed operations against government headed by Haider al-Abadi “The SPV preparations have pro- him as saying. Sanaei made the remarks in a panel at the Institute for Daesh, which lost in late 2017 all the in Baghdad,” Hadi al-Ameri said. gressed; they are at an advanced stage,” SPV is a European Union’s initia- Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS) in Tehran. territories it had seized in Iraq and Syria. Several reports have also emerged Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for EU tive intended to protect trade with Iran Bilateral ties have yet to use all the potentials to further He had been photographed on an- over the past few years of assassination diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini, against newly reimposed U.S. sanctions. develop, Mehr the ambassador as saying. ti-terrorism battlefields from Iraq’s plots against General Soleimani by the said on Thursday. President Donald Trump withdrew The two countries’ common approaches and perspectives Mosul to Syria’s Aleppo. U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia – which are The four EU diplomats who com- the U.S. unilaterally from the 2015 nu- towards global trends and shared regional interests, espe- The general took personal command of believed to be among the major supporters mented on the timetable all declined to clear deal in May and ordered sanctions cially in relation to the Middle East developments, were the the battle against Takfiri militants in the of the Takfiri terrorists wreaking havoc be named because of the sensitivity of against Iran. The first round of sanc- most important force behind the development of political Syrian city of Bukamal, located in Dayr on the Middle East. the matter. One of them cautioned that tions went into force on August 6 and relations, he explained. al-Zawr Province, in November 2017. In November 2018, The New York while the official launch had been set the second round, which targets Iran’s In Iraq, at the height of Daesh’s terror Times reported that Saudi Major General for Jan. 28, outstanding issues meant oil exports and banks, were snapped France says camp in neighboring Iraq, he assisted the Ahmed al-Assiri took part in a meeting there could be a short delay. EU member back on November 4. Baghdad government in commanding the in Riyadh in 2017 that involved plans to states have agreed the SPV should be In an interview with the European ready to impose operation to retake the strategic oil-rich assassinate Soleimani. finalized by the end of the month, the Council on Foreign Relations published sanctions on Iran city of Tikrit from Daesh in 2015. A recent report by Kuwaiti newspaper diplomat said. Another diplomat said on January 11, Mogherini said that the He declared the end of Daesh’s terri- al-Jarida also said that Washington that while Jan. 28 was in play, the date United States cannot impose its policies if missile talks fail torial rule in a letter addressed to Leader gave Israel a green light to assassinate had been pushed back before. on the 28-nation bloc’s legitimate trade of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed General Soleimani. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves relations with Iran. POLITICS TEHRAN — France is ready to impose deskfurther sanctions against Iran if no pro- gress is made in talks over its ballistic missile program, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday. Demonstrators hold sit-in to protest moves to join CFT “We are ready, if the talks don’t yield results, to apply sanctions firmly, and they know it,” Le Drian said, Reu- ‘U.S. will impose more sanctions if Iran joins Palermo Convention’ ters reported. Also, diplomats previously told Reuters that France, POLITICS TEHRAN — A number of demonstra- Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Britain and other EU countries were considering new eco- desktors held a sit-in at a mosque in Tehran Chairman Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh told reporters on nomic sanctions against Tehran. on Thursday to protest efforts by Iran to join the CFT and January 20 that 3 of the faults have been corrected. Those could include asset freezes and travel bans on the Palermo Convention, saying it will expose Iran to more To become a law, the Guardian Council should vet the the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and Iranians sanctions by the United States. bill for compliance with the Constitution. developing the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, The U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the According to the constitution, in cases when the parlia- three diplomats said. return of sanctions have made Iranians to lose their trust ment and the Guardian Council disagree on a bill the issue of international bodies or conventions. is referred to the Expediency Council for final arbitration. U.S. imposes The CFT (the convention combatting financing of ter- ‘U.S. will impose more sanctions if Iran joins rorism) and Palermo (the UN Convention against Trans- Palermo Convention’ sanctions on national Organized Crime) are prelude to access the FATF Mostafa Mirsalim, a conservative member of the Expe- (Financial Action Task Force). diency Council who ran for the 2017 presidential election, entities linked with On January 21, the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) sent the has said that the U.S. will impose more sanctions if Iran IRGC CFT bill, which the Guardian Council says there is still 19 joins the Palermo Convention. faults with it, to the Expediency Council for final decision. “The U.S. has sanctioned us and is forcing others to do POLITICS TEHRAN — U.S. Treasury Department ‘Colonial conventions’ consequences of joining to the CFT and Palermo. so. If we join the Palermo Convention, the U.S. will impose desk has issued a new batch of sanctions against In a statement, the demonstrators urged the Expediency The letter said that joining the CFT and Palermo is against more pressure against us,” he told Mehr news agency in an four entities that it says have ties to the Islamic Revolution Council not to approve what they called “colonial conventions”. “national sovereignty”, lets “foreigners’ interfere in country’s interview published on Friday. Guards Corps (IRGC) and airlines that are already on Wash- The statement noted that the economic problems in the affairs”, lets “the enemies know the country’s financial and Mirsalim noted that the U.S. will become aware of Iran’s ington’s black list, Russia Today reported. country should be resolved through relying on domestic banking systems and impose more sanctions in future”, and financial mechanisms if it joins the Palermo and will impose The new sanctions list published by the Treasury on capacities and the youth. also “undermines independence of the judiciary system”. more sanctions. Thursday contains only one Iranian entity – a cargo airline A movement called “No to FATF” has also released a On October 7, 2018, the parliament voted in favor of President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. unilaterally based in the southern town of Qeshm – Qeshm Fars Air. poster calling for avoidance to approve the conventions. the CFT. At the time, a total of 143 lawmakers out of 268 from the 2015 nuclear deal in May and ordered sanctions The company was subjected to U.S. punitive measures 40 economic, political, judicial, international relations ones present in the parliament voted in favor of the bill. against Iran. The first round of sanctions went into force over its ties to another Iranian airline, Mahan Air, which experts sent a letter to Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, the However, the oversight Guardian Council rejected the bill on August 6 and the second round, which targets Iran’s oil was already sanctioned by the U.S. new chairman of the Expediency Council, warning of negative by finding 22 faults with it. exports and banks, were snapped back on November 4. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JANUARY 26, 2019 INTERNATIONAL

Thousands of Yemenis rally to Israel sends ‘strongly- worded’ messages to honor ‘martyrs’ of Saudi war Lebanon over Hezbollah Thousands of Yemenis have rallied on the deeds,” Abdul-Malik Badreddin concluded. missiles streets of Yemen’s northern city of Sa’ada to He added that “hypocrites and those who commemorate fallen soldiers on Martyrs’ Day. committed profoundly evil deeds” followed The demonstrators stressed their will- the schemes drawn up by arrogant powers. ingness to counter what they described as Abdul-Malik Badreddin then warned that foreign occupation and American policies in “wicked forces” in the Muslim world were the region, Yemen’s al-Massirah TV channel hell-bent on distancing people from their reported on Friday. moral values. Protesters chanted slogans such as “We “Takfiris will pay the price for their wrong shall remain loyal to our martyrs” and “We choices both in this world and the hereafter. will not abandon our principals” as they Believers in God have always been drawn marched while they condemned those who against forces of the evil throughout history,” had “betrayed the nation”. the Ansarullah chief pointed out. The protesters also expressed their de- The House of Saud regime and a number termination to resist sanctions, fight the of its regional allies launched a devastating Saudi regime-imposed aggression and raise military campaign against Yemen in March awareness among the public to thwart the 2015, with the aim of bringing the govern- “enemy’s schemes”. ment of fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Israel has reportedly sent strongly-worded messages to Lebanon, At the rally, Ansarullah movement leader Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing delivered through France, warning the country of the conse- Abdul-Malik Badreddin urged the Yemeni Ansarullah. quences of the precision missiles possessed by the Hezbollah nation to continue resistance against the According to a new report by the Armed resistance movement. invaders. Conflict Location and Event Data Project According to Israeli media, the issue was discussed at length He said “hypocrites and those who commit- (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organ- during a Wednesday meeting between the regime’s President ted profoundly evil deeds” carry out schemes ization, the Saudi regime-led war has so far Reuven Rivlin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron drawn up by arrogant powers. claimed the lives of around 56,000 Yemenis. in Paris. “The enemy seeks to use all methods to The Saudi-led war has also taken a heavy The talks, also attended by Israeli air force commander Ami- weaken the will of our nation in the face of determined to stand up to oppressive measures forces have built great military capabilities at toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying kam Norkin, were held ahead of Macron’s planned visit to Beirut. its aggression,” said Abdul-Malik Badreddin. of the Saudi regime and its regional allies, all levels -- land, sea and air,” he said. hospitals, schools, and factories. The United In a move coordinated with Prime Minister Benjamin Net- Last month, Yemen’s warring parting which are involved in an atrocious military “The enemy launched an economic war Nations has already said that a record 22.2 anyahu, Rivlin has reportedly stressed Tel Aviv’s concern over withdrew forces from the strategic port city campaign against the impoverished country. against us in a bid to exert the maxim level million Yemenis are in dire need of food, Hezbollah’s “large rocket and missile arsenal”, and what Israel of Hudaydah following a peace deal signed Addressing his supporters via a televised of pressure. It, however, could not break the including 8.4 million threatened by severe calls “efforts made by Iran and Hezbollah to improve the precision in the Swedish capital of Stockholm on De- speech broadcast live from the Yemeni capital will of our people,” Abdul-Malik Badreddin hunger. According to the world body, Yemen of the missiles the Lebanese organization holds.” cember 13. Sana’a on Thursday evening, Abdul-Malik said, adding, “The enemy seeks to use all is suffering from the most severe famine in He has also expressed the regime’s worry about the tunnels The House of Saud regime-led coalition Badreddin said, “The honorable people of methods to weaken the will of our nation more than 100 years. Israel says Hezbollah has dug near the occupied territories. has, however, violated the truce on many Yemen have decided to stand against op- in the face of its aggression.” A number of Western countries, the Unit- (Source: agencies) occasions. On Thursday, heavy clashes were pression,” calling upon Yemenis from all He highlighted that those who chose to ed States and Britain in particular, are also reported in the city following a Saudi regime social strata to remain resilient in the face pledge loyalty to the Saudi regime-led military accused of being complicit in the ongoing attack on the city. of existing challenges. alliance stood with oppressors against the aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime Yemeni nation determined to “We will continue our steadfastness until the oppressed Yemeni nation. with advanced weapons and military equip- withstand Saudi-led oppression aggression against us ceases. The enemy is doing “Such people are standing on the wrong ment as well as logistical and intelligence UN names members of Elsewhere, the leader of Yemen’s Ansarul- its utmost because it is extremely frustrated side and against righteousness. They must give assistance. lah (Houthi) movement says his country is after failure to occupy our country. Our armed an account on the Day of Judgment for their (Source: Press TV) international inquiry into Khashoggi murder

Rights groups call for access to Saudi detainees The United Nations human rights office has said that a team of international experts would conduct an inquiry into the murder Rights groups have called on the House of Saud regime to protests and political parties are banned, says it does not of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. grant them access to detainees in the kingdom a day after have political prisoners and denies torture allegations. Of- Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, British parliamentarians threatened to publish their own ficials have said monitoring of activists is needed to ensure summary or arbitrary executions told Reuters news agency on report detailing allegations of mistreatment unless Riyadh social stability. Thursday she will travel to Turkey next week to head an “inde- allows them in by next week. Despite ending a ban on women driving last year, over pendent international inquiry” into Khashoggi’s killing at the Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) a dozen women’s rights activists were arrested starting in Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. on Friday called on Saudi Arabia to allow independent mon- May, most of whom had campaigned for the right to drive Callamard, a French academic and director of the Columbia itors to meet detainees, including women’s rights activists and an end to the kingdom’s male guardianship system. Global Freedom of Expression initiative at Columbia University who were allegedly tortured and prominent figures held in Amnesty said it had documented 10 cases of torture and in New York, reports to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva an anti-corruption campaign. abuse while the activists were held at an undisclosed location and has a global mandate to investigate executions. International scrutiny of Saudi Arabia’s human rights last summer. HRW said monitors should also get access to In a statement, the UN human rights office said that Callamard record and its role in the Yemen war has intensified in the princes and businessmen still being detained after scores of would be accompanied by Helena Kennedy and Duarte Nuno wake of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the the country’s business elite were rounded up in November Vieira on the visit to Turkey from January 28 to February 3. kingdom’s Istanbul consulate last October. 2017 on Prince Mohammed’s orders in a campaign that Kennedy is one of Britain’s most established lawyers and a The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, critics decried as a shakedown and power play. Member of the House of Lords. summary or arbitrary executions had told the Reuters news Several of those detainees, including Amr Dabbagh and of getting at the truth of the treatment of detainees, including Nuno Vieira is a professor at the faculty of medicine of the agency on Thursday she would travel to Turkey next week to Bakr bin Laden, were released earlier this week, but others still prominent citizens, or of holding anyone responsible for University of Coimbra in Portugal and an expert in pathology head an “independent international inquiry” into the murder. believed to be held include former Riyadh Governor Prince crimes accountable,” said Michael Page, deputy director and forensic science. The Saudi regime Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Turki bin Abdullah, Saudi-Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed of HRW Middle East. He also serves as president of the Ibero-American Network (MBS), who has denied allegations that he ordered the mur- al-Amoudi, and former economy minister Adel Fakieh. Saud al-Qahtani, an adviser to Prince Mohammed who of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science Institutions and as der, is pushing ambitious reforms in a bid to transform the HRW said the kingdom’s Human Rights Commission was fired for his role in the Khashoggi murder, reported- vice president of the European Confederation of Experts on kingdom’s economy and society. and public prosecutor, both government entities, lacked ly oversaw the torture of at least one woman activist and Evaluation and Repair of Bodily Injury. But they have been accompanied by a crackdown on the independence to conduct a credible and transparent the interrogation of some detainees in the anti-corruption Last week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said dissent and more assertive regional policies. investigation. campaign. he does not have the authority to decide himself to launch an The Persian Gulf state, an absolute monarchy where public “Saudi Arabia’s internal investigations have little chance (Source: agencies) investigation into the death of Khashoggi and no country had submitted an official request to launch a criminal investigation. The House of Saud regime insists that the death of Khashoggi, a Saudi national and vocal critic of Crown Prince Mohammed Saudi teen Rahaf al-Qunun demands social disobedience in kingdom bin Salman (MBS), was a “rogue operation” carried out without as flagrant violation of human rights there. Saudi Arabia.” “It’s daily oppression. We are the latter’s knowledge and has put 11 defendants on trial for the Qunun took to Twitter on Friday to de- treated as an object, like a slave. We could crime, including five who the Saudi prosecution is seeking the mand such an action, Arabic-language New not make decisions about what we want,” death penalty for. al-Khalij news website reported. the Saudi teenager pointed out. But the international community has questioned the credi- “When injustice becomes a law, resistance Qunun landed in Canada on January 12, bility of Riyadh’s investigation and some have speculated that becomes a duty,” she wrote. and was welcomed by the North American those indicted are such high-level figures that they must have The 18-year-old fled to Thailand while vis- country’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland been working on the orders of Prince Mohammed. iting Kuwait with her family in early January. at Toronto’s airport. “This is a very brave new (Source: agencies) Her case grabbed international attention Canadian,” Freeland told reporters. on social media after she barricaded herself Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a Bangkok airport hotel room to resist said on Friday that Canada had accepted a being sent home to her family. request from the United Nations High Com- Greek parliament approves Qunun told Canada’s CBC News network missioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to take in and the Toronto Star daily newspaper on the Saudi teenager. Macedonia’s new name January 14 that she was beaten up for not The House of Saud regime severed its praying and locked in the house for six months diplomatic relations with Canada last year, for cutting her hair short. and barred the Canadian ambassador to Ri- After decades of claims, counterclaims and, at times, ugly politics, “I was exposed to physical violence, perse- yadh after Ottawa criticized Saudi regime Athens and Skopje have resolved one of Europe’s most intractable Saudi teenager Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, ence in the oil-rich conservative kingdom in cution, oppression, threats to be killed,” she authorities for detaining female activists and conflicts. A lengthy, stormy debate in Greece’s 300-seat parliament who was granted asylum in Canada earlier the wake of a widening crackdown against said. “I felt that I could not achieve my dreams the kingdom’s human rights record. concluded on Friday with a majority of 153 legislators voting in favor this month, has called for social disobedi- Muslim preachers and intellectuals as well that I wanted as long as I was still living in (Source: Press TV) of a deal seeking to end the two neighbors’ long-running dispute by renaming the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as the Republic of North Macedonia. A total of 146 MPs voted against the deal and one abstained. “Today is a historic day. Greece protects an important part of Prosecute Myanmar army chief for Rohingya ‘genocide’: UN envoy its history, the heritage of ancient Greek Macedonia,” said Greek Myanmar’s army chief should be prosecuted for “genocide” anmar army chief to be prosecuted for genocide. will be vulnerable to extreme weather. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Twitter at the end of a bruising against the Rohingya, a United Nations’ human rights in- A UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar last year said that Bangladesh is spending $280m transforming Bhashan process which saw his ruling coalition ally quit earlier this month. vestigator has said. the military campaign, which refugees say included mass Char, a muddy silt islet that only emerged from the sea two Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev congratulated Tsipras Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights killings and rape, was orchestrated with “genocidal intent” decades ago, into a camp for some of the refugees. and hailed the outcome as a “historical victory”. in Myanmar, added that holding the perpetrators to account and recommended charging Min Aung Hlaing and five other Some of the Rohingya themselves, living in overcrowded According to the contentious Prespes Agreement, signed for their crimes was necessary before the refugees who fled generals with the “gravest crimes under international law”. and squalid camps in southeastern Bangladesh border district in June last year, the small Balkan country will now be inter- the country could return. Since August 2017, some 750,000 Rohingya have fled of Cox’s Bazar, have expressed unease about moving, while nationally recognized as North Macedonia in exchange for Lee, who is barred from Myanmar, was speaking on Friday Rakhine to Bangladesh, where they now live in overcrowded the UN has insisted that any relocation must be voluntary. Greece unblocking its path towards NATO and European Union during a trip to Thailand and Bangladesh, where she met camps. Myanmar has said it “absolutely rejects” that the Inter- membership. Its language will be recognised as “Macedonian” officials and Rohingya driven out of western Rakhine state Spokespersons for Myanmar’s military and government national Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction to rule on its and its citizens as “Macedonian/Citizen of the Republic of after an army crackdown in 2017. could not be reached for comment. actions. The country is not a party to the Rome Statute that North Macedonia”. “Min Aung Hlaing and others should be held accountable The country has previously denied almost all allegations established the Hague-based court. The vote in Athens, which came nearly two weeks after MPs for genocide in Rakhine and for crimes against humanity and made by refugees against its troops, which it says were en- Non-parties can be referred to the ICC by the UN Security in Skopje narrowly approved the name change, settles the coun- war crimes in other parts of Myanmar,” said Lee, referring gaged in legitimate counterterrorism operations. Council, though diplomats have said permanent members tries’ 27-year dispute. to the military’s commander-in-chief. On Thursday, Lee visited an island off Bangladesh where China and Russia would likely veto any such move. Societies in both countries, however, remain polarized. It was the first time Lee had publicly called for the My- Dhaka aims to move Rohingya refugees despite worries it (Source: agencies) (Source: Al Jazeera) II NN TT EE RR NN AA TT II OO NN AA LL DD AA II LL YY 44 ADVERTISEMENTSECONOMY JANUARYJANUARY 26,26, 20182019

STOCK MARKET IRENEX to hold 4th TEDPIX 162940.9 IFX 1980.15 round of offering oil Sources: tse.ir, Ifb.ir within 2 weeks CURRENCIES USD 42,000 rials ENERGY TEHRAN — National Ira- oil sale was $52.42 per barrel. desknian Oil Company (NIOC) One of the changes in the third round of EUR 47,836 rials will offer light crude oil at Iran Energy Exchange offering compared to the previous rounds GBP 54,914 rials (IRENEX) for the fourth time by the next two was that the purchasers could pay both in weeks, an NIOC director announced. Iranian rial and in foreign currencies, the rate AED 11,437 rials Making the remarks on Wednesday, Amir- of which was estimated at CBI’s online Sana Hossein Tabianian, the NIOC’s representative system (accessible at sanarate.ir, a website Source: cbi.ir for offering crude oil and related products at that records daily forex trade from across the IRENEX, expressed hope that the changes domestic exchange bureaus). fect (November 4). In the first round, NIOC sidered as a turning point in Iran’s strategic created in the process of offering during the On November 11, NIOC offered 700,000 could sell some 280,000 barrels of crude oil at oil industry and capital market and also a third round have facilitated the condition for barrels of light crude oil at the price of $76.29 $74.85 per barrel. With the daily supply amount platform for producers and consumers to COMMODITIES the customers, Shana reported. per barrel at IRENEX for the second time. of one million barrels per day, the market be in touch and pay lower trade costs in a Brent $61.15/b NIOC offered one million barrels of light The first round of offering occurred on wrapped up by selling eight 35,000-barrel- transparent business environment, can be crude oil at IRENEX for the third time on October 28, just few days before new U.S. cargos of oil on the day. translated into creation of a new energy stock WTI $53.34/b January 21. The set price for that round of sanctions on Iran’s petroleum sector took ef- Establishment of IRENEX, which is con- market that results in economic development. OPEC Basket $60.52/b Gold $1,283.70 /oz Silver $15.40/oz The lesson of Davos: China has arrived Platinium $807.10/oz On Wednesday in Davos, there was a telling institutions” along the way. conversation on trade, climate change or new But multilateralism is hardly Trump’s moment involving a senior Chinese official. Set against these profound anxieties, China technologies seemed worth having without cup of tea. After all, in his first week in office, Sources: oilprice.com, Moneymetals.com At a panel on how “global orders fail,” Fang can look almost serene. In 2017, China stole reference to Chinese perspectives or practices. he hammered the final nail in the coffin of Xinghai, the vice chairman of the Chinese gov- the show at Davos when President Xi Jinping While Chinese companies and business execu- the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an Obama- NEWS IN BRIEF ernment’s main securities regulator, offered his styled himself as a guardian of the international tives were ubiquitous at the forum’s sessions, era multilateral trade pact that would have assessment of the state of politics in the West. order in the face of imminent Trumpist chaos. talk of China’s repression — not least Beijing’s bound the Asia-Pacific region more closely “You have to realize that democracy is not This year, Vice President Wang Qishan echoed detention of possibly more than a million peo- to an American-led status quo. Real estate deals working very well,” Fang said. “You need politi- Xi’s stance. ple in the far-western region of Xinjiang — or Instead, he has engaged in a trade war that down 60% in a cal reforms in your countries.” “Many countries are increasingly looking its allegedly unfair trade practices was con- has rocked markets, put U.S. business inter- month He added that he meant this “with sincerity.” inward when making policies, barriers to in- spicuously absent. ests at a disadvantage overseas and spooked Fang’s remarks drew collegial chuckles from ternational trade and investment are increas- On Wednesday evening, the local govern- countries throughout Asia. the Davos crowd but left behind a lingering ing, and unilateralism, protectionism and ment of the Chinese port city of Dalian hosted “We are already seeing the effects of the unease. On one hand, it’s not unusual for an populism are spreading in the world,” Wang a lavish dinner for forum attendees, flying in trade tensions,” Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s emissary of authoritarian Beijing to deflect said on Wednesday, jabbing at the Trump dumpling chefs from Dalian’s Shangri-La Hotel finance minister, said at another panel. Heng ECONOMY TEHRAN — The number of real estate deals criticism by pointing out the weaknesses of administration. “All these are posing serious while touting the city’s cutting-edge broadband warned of the potential havoc that sustained desk fell 60 percent in the past Iranian calendar political systems elsewhere. On the other hand, challenges to the international order.” connectivity. U.S.-China animosities may exact on global month of Dey (December 22, 2018 - January 20, 2019), IRIB it seemed blindingly obvious that Fang was right. Of course, things aren’t quite as calm as they “This year, China is really the country eve- supply chains. reported citing the data released by the Ministry of Roads and Economists bemoaned the financial uncer- were two years ago. China is now locked in a ryone is talking about,” Karin von Hippel, the “The big uncertainty is the U.S.-China trade Urban Development. tainty provoked by polarization in Western soci- protracted trade war with Washington. Beijing head of the Royal United Services Institute in negotiation, which is not really about trade; Also as reported, the housing market experienced a 9.8-per- eties. Corporate leaders scoffed at the fumbling has detained several foreign nationals — includ- London, told Today’s WorldView. “China is it’s about a new world order,” Hendrik du Toit, cent increase in prices during the past month compared to Dey inadequacy of Western political leadership. ing two Canadians — on flimsy grounds. Its a growing power and is obviously a threat in the chief executive of major asset management of the previous year. Activists lamented the lack of imagination and ambitious global infrastructure plans have both some ways, but at the same time, it’s so big and firm Investec, told CNBC, forecasting danger- empathy among Western elites. excited and worried observers, who fret over will be so powerful that we can’t treat China ous economic head winds. “And if we get a Nearly 9m tons “We need to breathe fresh life into democ- how a budding authoritarian hegemon may as an enemy. We all have to figure out ways dysfunctional world order having come from racy,” Kumi Naidoo, the secretary general of refashion the world’s politics. If there were to work with it.” a space which was very, very good for business of goods loaded, Amnesty International, told Today’s World- once any illusions that Xi’s China could be a “Rationally, what the U.S. should be doing over the last 20, 30 years since communism unloaded at Iran’s View. He decried how illiberal leaders such as “liberal” power, there certainly aren’t any now. is to strengthen multilateral institutions that fell, then there may be some big hits along the President Trump have gained power through Yet at Davos, China seemed far more an will ultimately constrain China,” Mahbubani way and there may be some big challenges.” port in a month divisive campaigning, “undermining public opportunity than a boogeyman. No major said at a panel. (Source: Washington Post)

ECONOMY TEHRAN — Over 8.985 million tons of deskcommodities were loaded and unloaded at the ports of Iran during the ninth Iranian calendar month Asia stocks at of Azar (November 22 – December 21, 2018), Tasnim news agency reported on Friday citing the data released by Iran’s seven-week top Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO). As reported, the figure shows 31 percent fall from that of the same month in the past year. after U.S. techs rise PMO’s data put the loading and unloading figure at Shahid Asian stocks rallied to a seven-week high on Friday, Rajaee Port, Iran’s biggest container port which is located in buoyed by gains in U.S. technology firms as pockets the southern province of Hormozgan, at 4.726 million tons of strength in corporate earnings eased some of the during the ninth month of this year. anxiety over a slowing global economy. IN THE NAME OF GOD Spreadbetters expected European stocks to First Announcement open slightly higher, with Britain’s FTSE adding ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BROADCASTING “114 foreign SMEs ready to 0.2 percent, Germany’s DAX gaining 0.6 percent and France’s CAC advancing 0.45 percent. cooperate in Iran’s oil projects” The euro hovered near a six-week low versus the 1 Elsewhere in his remarks Padidar mentioned next dollar following dovish-sounding comments from INTERNATIONAL TENDER NO. 97-11/200 year’s budget plan saying, “Realizing the 1.5 million barrels per European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, who Tender Holder: day of exports at a price of $54 which has been anticipated in expressed concerns about the euro zone economy. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BROADCASTING (IRIB) the next year’s budget plan is quite achievable.” MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares “The next year’s budget has been planned based on $54 oil outside Japan gained more than 1 percent to scale and I see the oil prices at least at $60-$65 per barrel throughout its highest since Dec. 4. Subject of Two-Stage Tender: 2019.” he added. The index was headed for a gain of 0.8 percent The Tender of Purchasing Equipment for Infrastructure, Storage, and Processing Communication this week, with shifting sentiment around Sino-U.S. trade talks partly helping to offset growing concerns of IRIB’s Data (Tehran IRIB Center) according to the tender documents over slowing global economic growth. Global shipping rates slump The Shanghai Composite Index was up 0.9 per- Deadline of Receiving Documents: in latest sign of economic cent after regulators announced new measures to strengthen Chinese banks’ capital. As of publishing second announcement of advertisement latest by the business hour dated on Wednesday slowdown Tech-heavy South Korean shares added 1.4 per- January 30, 2019. cent. Australian stocks climbed 0.7 percent, lifted Freight rates for dry-bulk and container ships, carriers of most of the by higher prices of commodities such as iron ore world’s raw materials and finished goods, have plunged over the last and crude oil. Place of Receiving Documents: six months in the latest sign the global economy is slowing significantly. Japan’s Nikkei advanced 1 percent with technology Secretariat of Tenders’ Commission, Technical Purchasing (KALA) Dept., Media Technology and The Baltic Dry Index, measure of ship transport costs for materials companies boosted by a surge in their U.S. peers. like iron ore and coal, has fallen by 47 percent since mid-2018, when a “Investors who were already excited about the U.S. Development Deputy Office, Bldg. No. 2, IRIB, Jam-e Jam St., Vali-e Asr Ave., Tehran trade dispute between the United States and China resulted in the world’s chip sector’s earnings the day before got even more two biggest economies slapping import tariffs on each other’s goods. reassured after they saw how their stocks moved,” Dry-bulk commodities are taken as a leading economic indicator, said Shogo Maekawa, a global market strategist at Type and Amount of Guarantee for Participating in Tender: because they are used in core industrial sectors like steelmaking and JPMorgan Asset Management. The amount of USD 87,423 which should be in the form of extendable bank guarantee power generation, and analysts say the recent declines in activity point Maekawa added that a recovery in the global to a serious economic slowdown. cyclical chip sector is taken as a silver-lining amid This was after U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on concerns about a cooling world economic momentum. Time and Place of Delivering Priced Bid: Thursday the United States and China were “miles and miles” from According to the latest Reuters polls of hundreds The sealed A, B & C packages/envelopes should be submitted within one main envelope marked with resolving their issues. of economists from around the world, a synchro- tender number no later than 15 p.m. on Saturday March 02, 2019 and submitted to the Secretariat of “The global economy and dry-bulk shipping market are showing us nized global economic slowdown is under way and very real signs of distress,” said Jeffrey Landsberg, managing director any escalation in the U.S.-China trade war would Commission of Tenders. of commodity consultancy Commodore Research. trigger a sharper downturn. “While dry-bulk rates often face at least some pressure during the “Equities may be drawing some support but the early stages of a year, the magnitude of the declines being seen lately markets are bracing for next week’s events,” said Time and Place of Opening Envelopes have been very rare,” he said. Masahiro Ichikawa, senior strategist at Sumitomo The date of opening envelopes A&B is at 8:30 a.m. on Monday March 04, 2019 in the office of Vice The Baltic index has lost a quarter of its value since the start of the Mitsui Asset Management. President of IRIB Planning and Financial Resources and opening of envelope C will be after technical year, and dry-bulk is not the only shipping market under pressure. “The U.S.-China trade discussions will provide The Harpex Shipping Index, which tracks container rates, has insight into how talks are progressing, while the evaluation. dropped by 30 percent since June 2018. British parliamentary voting is a key Brexit event. It should be noted that bidders should hold license from the authorized bodies. As a measure of the demand for shipping manufactured goods And there is also the FOMC (Federal Open Market For more information, please contact the following phone numbers: 0098-21-22166313 from producers to consumers, container rates are also seen as a lead- Committee) meeting.” ing economic indicator. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will visit the United It is obvious that cost of publishing two advertisements shall be borne by the winner of tender. Their slump underscores weakening manufacturing data from Asia, States on Jan. 30 and 31 for the next round of trade Europe and North America. negotiations with Washington. Public Relations Dept. of IRIB “Slowing global economic growth, the unresolved U.S.-China trade The two sides are “miles and miles” from resolv- conflict, the U.S. government shutdown, and Brexit drama are all sources ing trade issues but there is a fair chance they will of uncertainty dragging at sentiment,” said Hussein Sayed, chief market get a deal, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross strategist at futures brokerage FXTM. said on Thursday. (Source: Reuters) (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JANUARY 26, 2019 ENERGY 5 Oil advances for third day as Oil CEO says prices are more likely to hit $90 than $40 Venezuela muddles market dynamics during 2019

Oil rose for a third day as a deepening crisis reached. Oil prices should sit around the $60 to $80 a barrel range throughout in Venezuela that threatens to complicate “Risk appetite improved with gains in 2019 with volatility set to remain in the energy markets, Crescent OPEC’s task of balancing world oil supplies stock prices” and concerns over Venezuela Petroleum’s chief executive told CNBC Thursday. outweighed a surprise jump in U.S. crude are also contributing to oil’s increase, said Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Majid inventories. Tomomichi Akuta, a senior economist at Jafar, CEO of the United Arab Emirates-based oil and natural Futures in New York extended gains Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting gas producer, said prices were subject to huge fluctuations and on Friday, paring most of a weekly loss. Co. in Tokyo. Still, uncertainty over the predicting prices was as hard as it had ever been. U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition trade war and Brexit are capping the “(Prices are) the most volatile in 30 years. That’s partly because of Venezuela’s opposition as its real advance, he said. of certain tweets but also because there isn’t much spare capacity government and the threat of sanctions West Texas Intermediate crude for and that’s where you see volatility,” he said. on the Latin American nation’s oil exports March delivery rose 53 cents to $53.66 a Jafar said he remained optimistic of a trade deal between the have dealt a big blow to President Nicolas barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange U.S and China and that the global economy was still growing Maduro. U.S. crude inventories rose the as of 4:48 p.m. in Tokyo. It rose as much “pretty well.” The CEO said that should provide a decent base most since November last week and gasoline as 81 cents earlier on Friday and is down for oil prices across the 2019 calendar year. stockpiles climbed to a record high, the 14 cents for the week. “It will be in this $60 to $80 range. It will be volatile, but $90 Energy Information Administration said Brent for March settlement added 53 is more likely than $40,” he said. Thursday. cents to $61.62 a barrel on the London- Oil prices steadied on Thursday as fears over the global eco- Venezuelan production will probably based ICE Futures Europe exchange. The nomic outlook checked any price rises coming from a U.S. threat drop by 300,000 to 500,000 barrels a day contract dropped $1.08 for the week. The of sanctions on OPEC member Venezuela. this year, but sanctions could expand the global benchmark crude was at an $7.93 Brent crude futures traded at $60.99 a barrel at around 3:36 outage by several hundred thousands of premium to WTI. p.m. GMT (10:36 a.m. ET) while U.S. West Texas Intermediate barrels, RBC Capital Markets strategists U.S. crude inventories rose 7.97 million futures sat at $52.72. Helima Croft and Michael Tran wrote in barrels last week against expectations for (Source: CNBC) a note. “The road back for Venezuela will a decline of 750,000 barrels, according to be extremely arduous given the depths of the EIA. Gasoline stockpiles climbed for the economic and humanitarian crisis.” a eighth week to the highest in data going Maduro illegitimacy Crude has rallied 18 percent so far in back to 1990. January, set for its best month since April regime change raises hopes for an eventual ahead of Chinese Vice Premier Liu He’s “While crude inventories tend to rise declaration sparks confusion 2016, as the Organization of Petroleum production rebound in a country that has scheduled visit to Washington next week. in winter, U.S. stockpiles increasing at in U.S. oil sector Exporting Countries and its allies started lost 50 percent of its output in the past Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the a faster pace than expected may be an fresh output cuts. But managing the five years. world’s two biggest economies are still indication that the trade war has started The U.S. designation of Juan Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate Venezuela crisis could become difficult Mixed signals “miles and miles” from resolving their impacting U.S. domestic manufacturing,” president has created confusion among refiners, producers, ser- for the group if Washington opts to impose Asian stocks rose Friday as investors differences, while White House economic said Makiko Tsugata, a senior analyst at vices companies and traders now unsure of the legality of future wider sanctions, which may tip the market assessed mixed signals on whether a trade adviser Larry Kudlow said President Trump Mizuho Securities Co. in Tokyo. commercial transactions with state-owned PDVSA, sources told into deficit. Conversely, the possibility of a deal between the U.S. and China is likely remains “rather optimistic” a deal can be (Source: Bloomberg) S&P Global Platts Thursday. "Literally every company is asking the same question: What does this mean?" one U.S. refining industry lobbyist said Thursday. "Is Maduro PDVSA? No one knows. There›s just no specificity." The Maintenance on key Kurdistan-Turkey Russia: no OPEC+ emergency meeting U.S. on Wednesday declared the presidency of Nicolas Maduro illegitimate, and recognized Guaido, the head of Venezuela›s crude oil pipeline likely in Feb/Mar: sources planned over Venezuela’s chaos National Assembly, as the country›s legitimate president. Oth- er countries, including Canada, followed the U.S. with similar Stakeholders of the Iraq Kurdistan-Tur- No one has proposed the holding of an declarations. key pipeline are mulling when to sched- extraordinary meeting of OPEC and its Trump administration officials and supporters of the move said ule maintenance on the key crude oil non-OPEC partners over the chaos in OPEC it was aimed at cutting off the Maduro regime from oil revenues. supply artery, trading and industry member Venezuela, Alexander Novak, the What "we're trying to do today is look at the issues involved in sources said Thursday. energy minister of the non-OPEC leader disconnecting the illegitimate Maduro regime from its sources Oil flows along the 1 million bpd Russia, said on Thursday. of revenues and finding ways to transfer those revenues to the capacity pipeline are likely to stop for Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan new, legitimate government" of Guaido, John Bolton, President about two weeks some time between Guaidó, the president of the Nation- Trump›s national security adviser, said in an interview with Fox the end of February and early March al Assembly, declared himself interim Business Network on Thursday morning. due to maintenance on the Turkish president on Wednesday, and the Unit- The "natural resources of Venezuela belong to the people of side of the project, trading sources ed States supported him against Nicolas Venezuela not the dictator Maduro," Senator Marco Rubio, Re- added. But exact dates still need to Maduro, whom the U.S. Administration publican-Florida, tweeted Thursday. "Valero & Chevron should be finalized. declared a “usurper” with no legitimacy work with The works are likely to curb ex- to the presidency. But sources said the Trump administration has offered no ports from OPEC’s second-largest Maduro, in turn, severed diplomatic guidance on legal obligations in commercial dealings with Ven- oil producer, with flows of Kurdish ties with the U.S. on Wednesday and gave ezuela going forward, complicating crude and refined product KBT crude and Kirkuk crude set to Kurdistan was trying to get the works U.S. diplomats in Venezuela 72 hours to er oil prices, Russia’s Energy Minister trading, joint ventures with PDVSA and investments in the South be impacted. pushed back to later in the first quarter leave the country. Novak told news agency TASS that the American country's oil sector. Flows on the pipeline, which are ex- due to a heavy loading schedule at the Right-leaning Latin American nations, oil market is very complex and it is diffi- "Unless there›s some kind of formal sanction, I don›t think ported via the Turkish port of Ceyhan, start of the year. including Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina, cult to forecast how it would react to the it creates legal trouble," said Joe McMonigle, an analyst with have been averaging 530,000 bpd in A representative at BOTAS declined also recognized Guaido, while leftist Cuba developments in Venezuela. Hedgeye Risk Management. "But, it could present other exposure the past month, according to estimates to comment while officials at KRG and Bolivia support Maduro. According to the IMF, Venezuela’s econ- and risk that private companies just don't want to take." compiled by S&P Global Platts. were unavailable for comment. Russia, China, and Turkey stay by omy is expected to collapse by another Elizabeth Rosenberg, director of the energy program at the Flows from the Kurdistan Regional The federal government of Iraq Maduro, with Russia saying Maduro is 18 percent in 2019. More than 3 million Center for a New American Security and a former senior sanc- Government have recently been aver- restarted exports of Kirkuk crude the legitimate president and warning Venezuelan people have fled the country tions adviser at the Department of the Treasury, said Treasury aging around 430,000 bpd, with the through the Kurdistan-Turkey pipe- the U.S. against a military intervention. amid an aggravating humanitarian crisis may issue formal guidance on sanctions compliance obligations remaining volumes coming from the line in mid-November after it agreed Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA— and an extreme poverty rate of 40 percent. related to Guaido's designation. But, Rosenberg said, Treasury federal Iraq-operated Kirkuk fields a tentative deal with KRG. led by oil minister Manuel Quevedo, a The economic collapse adds to years is unlikely to issue such guidance if it may be quickly overtaken marketed by Iraq’s State Oil Marketing KRG’s pipeline is owned 60 percent former army officer who holds OPEC’s of mismanagement and underinvestment by potential new sanctions, despite a push from U.S. business Organization. by Rosneft and 40 percent by Kurdish rotating presidency for 2019—said that in the oil industry to further complicate interests for additional clarity. Sources said that BOTAS, which private firm KRG Group. Capacity was “we don’t have any other president” than attempts in Venezuela, one of OPEC’s five "Treasury is very careful and they›re not going to move before operates the Ceyhan terminal, was expanded to 1 million bpd in November, Maduro. founding members, to stop the steep de- they know what is going on, even if they understand there's a planning scheduled repairs over a shortly before the new exports began. Asked today whether the political cline of its oil production. screaming urgency from the financial services and energy com- 15-day outage in January but that (Source: Platts) crisis in Venezuela could lead to high- (Source: oilprice.com) munity to tell them what is going on," she said. "If they›re waiting in the wings with a sanctions action, they›re not going to show their cards right now," one source said Thursday. (Source: Platts)

‘Under siege’, oil industry mulls raising returns and PR game Germany to auction even When the global oil industry held its biggest annual gathering However, even European oil majors such as Shell and BP, this week in the Swiss town of Davos, it invited banking which pay billions of dollars in dividends, have struggled more offshore wind power bosses and fund managers to discuss two key topics - climate to remain popular with investors. change and pressure from investors. “We need to engage with policymakers and the public Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is set to hold more auc- The conclusion of the discussions was worrying for those to understand the huge task we have ahead,” Hess said. tions for offshore wind power, plugging a current gap in tenders present - pressure is rising and the industry is losing a Tax on whole value chain for the next three years that the industry has said would harm battle not to be seen as one of the world’s biggest evils. BP chief Bob Dudley said the industry needed to explain turbine makers and hamper green targets. The answer? Lure investors with higher returns and the challenge of producing and making energy affordable Germany will probably add about 5 gigawatts in capacity in the raise the PR game. for an increasing global population, which will see energy coming years, bringing the total capacity envisaged by the end of “There is no doubt - and there is a consensus coming use rising 30 percent by 2040. next decade to 20 gigawatts, said Deputy Economy and Energy here in various meetings in Davos - that our industry is “You cannot just tax energy-intensive industries and Minister Thomas Bareiss in an interview on Wednesday in Ber- literally under siege and the future of oil is at stake,” said not the users of energy and think you’re going to solve the lin. Industry lobbies representing companies including Siemens Mohammed Barkindo, secretary-general of oil producer problem. People need to use less energy. Philosophically, Gamesa Renewable Energy SA have pushed to increase tenders. group OPEC. trying to look at emissions across the entire value chain is Boosting capacity “is a feasible step to help achieve the clean “The industry needs to come together and respond critical,” Dudley told Reuters. power target,” said Bareiss, adding that the Berlin government will positively with facts and figures. We are not shying away pension funds including that of Norway saying they would The head of state-run Saudi oil giant Aramco, Amin probably announce details next month. “The proposal assumes from the fact that we have not been able to communicate stop investing in the stocks of oil companies. Nasser, said investors would ultimately differentiate between that the overhaul of the mainland grid will be able to take the well,” Barkindo said. Winning hearts and minds cleaner and more polluting companies. additional offshore power -- that’s a must,” he said. The industry gathered on the sidelines of the World The oil industry has repeatedly tried to explain that if Aramco wants to list its stock sometime after 2021 in Germany has held just two offshore wind auctions, one in Economic Forum, holding a series of closed-door meetings. it stops investing in new projects, the world will face an what could become the world’s largest initial public offering. 2017 and one last year. In both tenders, capacity was won by The chief of oil giant Chevron, Michael Wirth, had energy shortage and price spikes because renewables and Nasser said the latest research by Stanford University found investors who offered to build parks without subsidies. The re- discussions with bosses from BP, Royal Dutch/Shell, Total nuclear energy cannot meet rising energy demand as the Aramco was the cleanest major oil company in the world sults spurred industry, opposition parties including the Greens and Aramco for the first time as U.S. companies joined global population grows. thanks to zero gas flaring and modern field technology. and environmentalists to demand a faster build out of seaborne European and Middle Eastern peers in debating climate “How do you get the hearts and minds of investors He said oil companies could help cut emissions by end power, exploiting the clean power’s competitiveness. change. Darren Woods, head of the biggest U.S. oil firm, back? That is a real challenge for our industry,” said John users but should not ultimately be responsible for them. Merkel’s coalition of Christian Democrats and the Social Dem- Exxon Mobil, participated in the meeting via telephone. Hess, the founder of independent U.S. producer Hess Corp. “We have to look at what we control. I have control of ocrats has until now hesitated to bow to the pressure, citing the The meetings were also attended by John Flint, chief of He said investor frustration with the oil industry was what I send to the grid in Saudi Arabia. But we do not have need to keep offshore capacity growth in step with an overhaul HSBC, Ron Mock, president of Ontario Teachers’ Pension manifested by the fact that the share of energy companies control over factories in Europe,” Nasser said. of the mainland power grid. Plan, and executives from investment firms Canyon Partners in the S&P index had shrunk to 5.5 percent, from 16 percent “However, it doesn’t mean we don’t care about end Germany is building two new north-south transmission “su- and ValueAct, two sources present at the discussions said. 10 years ago. users. As a company we are looking at what we can do to per highways” to take wind and solar power from the northern The climate change debate has split the oil industry “We will have to compete against other industries in increase the efficiency of end users,” he said. plain to the more industrialized south, but the 50 billion-euro over the past decade. the S&P to create the value proposition that makes us Aramco invests in research to make cars more efficient, ($57 billion) upgrade won’t be ready before 2025 at the earliest. While U.S. majors took an initially soft approach toward more attractive. A new paradigm is coming up which is increase mileage per gallon and the use of hydrogen in cars. Germany’s offshore capacity rose to 6.4 gigawatts by the end global warming, Shell had urged that the industry be held to generate free cash and share some of this cash with It recently acquired high-end rubber producer Arlanxeo of last year, the second largest market in Europe after the U.K. responsible not only for its own emissions, but also for investors,” he said. to help reduce tire friction. While Germany will likely meet an interim capacity target of 7.7 those of consumers. The U.S. oil industry has been booming in recent years “We need to boost efficiency or get rid of CO2 by gigawatts by 2020, no auctions were planned between this year Linked to that debate was pressure from investors urging but investors have been frustrated by heavy debts and a technology,” Nasser said. and 2021 when tenders were set to resume. the oil industry to help tackle climate change, with some lack of free cash flow and dividends. (Source: Reuters) (Source: Bloomberg) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 6 INTERNATIONAL JANUARY 26, 2019

Less power to him Are PGCC states seeking

Turkey’s parliament has given President Erdogan too much sway over economic matters. alternatives to Saudi Arabia? The same day Turkey’s central bank turned down President Recep Tayyip Er- There appears to be multiple ways in which both Kuwait and Oman can dogan’s exhortations to cut interest rates, the parliament forge strategic alliances within and beyond the PGCC without tying their granted him emergency pow- ers to act as he sees fit in the event any “negative develop- fates to the house of Saud ment” threatens the country’s By Clayton Crockett but has also reported a 100 percent increase financial stability. Lawmakers in trade with the blockaded nation. Lacking also created a new Financial An officer in the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense Kuwait’s duties as mediator of regional spats, Stability and Development once shared with me an idiom reflective of life it is easy to miss Oman’s gestures toward Committee, but the president in the Persian Gulf: the camel falls once, and autonomy, such as a recent mutual defense has the authority to second- suddenly every man has a knife. The Persian pact signed with the United Kingdom. Both guess its recommendations. Gulf Cooperation Council was created with Oman and Kuwait have fulfilled their regional This was unwise, and the intent of ensuring its member’s states’ duties by playing ball at the latest summit not only because the president harbors eccentric notions about sovereignty, but the recently concluded — and holding their tongues on the Khashoggi economics and finance, notably his unshakable belief that high and inconclusive — summit in December affair, but they aren’t hiding their wayward interest rates are the source of “every evil in an economy.” (The held to address the ongoing blockade against glances. central bank recognizes that rates need to stay high — the bench- Qatar invites a reassessment of the United Qatar, like Kuwait, is small and has needs— mark is now 24 percent — in order to curb rampant inflation.) States’ priorities in the region. Saudi Arabia among them food and a future after fossil Erdogan already has too much control over the levers of the currently holds the spotlight with its fumbling fuels. Despite the ongoing blockade against economy. Last summer, as he started his second term as president, of an extrajudicial murder, ongoing war in it, Qatar has not only pledged $15 billion he claimed by decree the exclusive power to name the governor Yemen and tribal-familial drama, but recent in investments to the Turkish economy but of the central bank, as well as hundreds of other officials. In the moves by steadier hands in the region betray also unilaterally exited OPEC and snubbed process, he sidelined people widely regarded as market-friendly, a growing notion that the camel may have its Persian Gulf counterparts by sending a including former deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek and finally stumbled. more junior minister to represent it at the former finance minister Naci Agbal. Dismayed investors were Beginning in 2019, Kuwait, led by the latest summit . Tens of billions were likewise not reassured when Erdogan appointed his son-in-law, Berat respected Sheikh Sabah, will begin coor- pledged by PGCC members to Bahrain in Albayrak, to lead the new ministry of treasury and finance. dinating and sharing military experience Both Oman and Kuwait have fulfilled their the past decade, and like the money Qatar These measures aggravated an ongoing economic and cur- with Turkey. The move represents not only regional duties by playing ball at the latest has pledged to Turkey or that the PGCC has rency crisis in Turkey, drastically devaluing the lira. the latest push by Turkish president Recep pledged to its other regional beneficiaries, it With the Turkish economy now heading toward its first reces- Tayyip Erdogan into the Saudis’ sphere of summit and holding their tongues on the comes with a price and an expectation. The sion in a decade, this is an especially inopportune moment for the influence but also shows concern on behalf Khashoggi affair. future of the PGCC will undoubtedly be a president to assume even greater authority over the economy. of the Persian Gulf’s moderate voices. Presi- tumultuous one with economic — and possibly Municipal elections in March will give voters a chance to dent Donald Trump was quick to support the provide their own, and the need to seek a big all: moral superiority. human — casualties. Saudi Arabia, through express their frustrations over the state of the economy, and Saudis’ blockade on Qatar , and considering brother-like benefactor is going to be hard if Under the looming shadow of the house the commodification of its Islamic heritage, will be seen as a vote of confidence — or lack thereof — in Er- his defense of the regime in the aftermath of not impossible for the smaller Persian Gulf of Saud, it is fair for heads of smaller families has staked claim on a culture it can export. dogan’s presidency. Ahead of that vote, investors need to trust the botched Khashoggi murder, who could states to abandon. Weak but wealthy states and states to fear the ultimatum now facing Turkey, though bringing its own baggage, that Erdogan will not put his finger on the scales. To provide expect him to defend Kuwait if the Saudi will be seeking a bellwether of political Islam Qatar. Sheikh Sabah in Kuwait, ever aware of offers a safer, more globalized alternative this reassurance, Erdogan should appoint independent-minded royal family decided to seize its oil fields or that actually has a political future. the tiny Persian Gulf state’s vulnerability, is that seems to be opening pockets. technocrats to the new financial stabilization committee, ensure otherwise infringe on Kuwaiti sovereignty? Turkey has done well to position itself reminded by the standoff that assurances must The PGCC was an initiative of the Sabah that the committee’s deliberations are transparent, and pledge Two years of embargo against a PGCC mem- as the obvious alternative to Saudi Arabia’s be made regarding his oil-rich state’s security. family and a logical step forward for the region to act on its guidance. ber state have strained Kuwait’s ability to leadership. Deploying troops to a blockaded Kuwait is sparse. Its deserts are empty save of micro-states to ensure security with the He would also be wise also to commit to honoring the central effectively mediate, and Turkey’s moderate Qatar sent a few messages. First, that the for oil and it is still trying to figure out how backing of a world power, the United States. bank’s independence. Turkey’s economic recovery depends on it. Islamism, democracy (with serious caveats) Saudis’ actions in the Persian Gulf region to grant a few rights to the migrant workers The reaction by post – invasion Kuwait to (Source: Bloomberg) and general stability in leadership make it weren’t ignored beyond the peninsula. Sec- on whom it heavily relies without making its seek stability through cooperation should be an obvious alternative for leadership in the ond, that Persian Gulf microstates were citizens feel threatened. Such states — and mirrored by post – Qatari embargo Kuwait wider Middle East. recognized as individual states with identi- the Persian Gulf has a few — require outside and post – Khashoggi affair Kuwait. Even with Turkey’s ability to maintain vast cultural ties beyond their relations to one another. help and benefactors. finite resources and populations unprepared and entertainment industries, moderate And lastly, that a Muslim country existed Kuwait, however, isn’t alone in quietly to support post – oil economies, there appear View on Davos: Elites Islamism, an aggressive foreign policy and that was prepared to stand up to Saudi pursuing an agenda that runs counter to the to be multiple ways in which both Kuwait and influence both sides of the West-Russia di- Arabia — and to contest its leadership in Saudi-Bahraini-Emirati triangle. Another Oman can forge strategic alliances within without answers chotomy has clearly impressed potential allies the region. Those messages had been sent example is Oman, the quiet eccentric of the and beyond the PGCC without tying their throughout the region. The PGCC was created well before Crown Prince Mohammed bin PGCC, whose Sultan Qaboos bin Said not only fates to the house of Saud. Delegates at the World Economic Forum fear a growing public to provide security to micro-states unable to Salman gave Turkey the sweetest gift of hosted a recent “Made in Qatar” exhibition (Source: The National Interest) backlash against global capitalism but are not equipped to offer solutions. Any advantage that politicians see in attending the World Economic Forum are these days weighed against the disadvan- tage of being seen to attend. Brexit has kept Theresa May away Intelligence report highlights AfD extremism from Davos this year. The gilets jaunes protests have persuaded Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, to give it a miss. Both By Melanie Amann, Jörg Diehl, Martin Knobbe other parties as “more than simply an opponent with a dif- ferent opinion, but part of a despicable system that must leaders are too busy grappling with crises born in a backlash & Andreas Ulrich against globalization to visit a jamboree for business elites. be renewed from the ground up.” Of Western Europe’s three most powerful states, only Ger- When Andreas Kalbitz was elected to represent the right-wing ’Almost undeniable’ many is represented by the head of government. In a sombre Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Brandenburg state According to the far-right faction’s worldview, the German speech on Wednesday, Angela Merkel warned of brittleness in parliament, he immediately signed a membership applica- folk is everything while the individual is nothing. Non-Germans the international rules-based order. She pledged to defend the tion for the “German Parliamentary Society.” The venerable are, for Höcke, “foreign bodies” for whom integration is “global architecture” but warned also that reform is essential club, founded in 1951, is located right next to the Reichstag impossible and who must, therefore, be ostracized. When to win back legitimacy in the eyes of people who feel financially building in Berlin and is open to all state and federal repre- Höcke talks about his idea of “re-migration” of foreigners, insecure, left behind, and who turn to extremists for redress. sentatives. “Here is a refined parliamentary culture in the it is but a “thinly veiled demand for the arbitrary revoca- This is a familiar diagnosis, even in Davos, but there is not style of British clubs,” raves Kalbitz, a former paratrooper. tions of citizenship and indiscriminate mass deportations,” much consensus on remedies. The forum itself can hardly ad- But if you believe Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, according to the report. vertise itself as a place of antidotes to nationalist demagoguery the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Höcke’s name appears hundreds of times in the report, when its keynote speaker this year was Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s (BfV), Kalbitz has no business belonging to a club that, in more than any other. Officials carefully analyzed his speeches new far-right president. Last year that role was taken by Don- its own words, strives to promote a culture of “parliamen- as well as his book, and they also looked at statements he ald Trump. Both were given sycophantic receptions, yet these tary collegiality.” Kalbitz is suspected of posing a threat to made before his involvement with the AfD. They believe the men embody the problem that Merkel identified. They are not the country’s liberal democratic constitution. Just a few AfD co-leader Alexander Gauland (L) Brandenburg AfD research of the sociologist Andreas Kremper, who collected interested in healing social division when stoking grievance is days ago, the BfV announced it was looking into initiating chief Andreas Kalbitz evidence that Höcke had written for the right-wing extremist the means by which they take power. surveillance of the party’s youth organization, the “Young National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) before joining There is no mystery over the policy areas that need most Alternative.” Meanwhile, the agency views the party’s ultra- German domestic the AfD. The report’s authors said it was “almost undeniable” urgent attention: the distributional mechanisms – progressive conservative faction, known as “The Wing,” with an even that Höcke was the same person as the NPD author “Landolf taxation and public investment – that functioned as social sta- greater degree of suspicion. intelligence officials have Ladig.” Höcke’s diction “has linguistic and argumentative bilizers through the second half of the 20th century. Partly the Der Spiegel has obtained a BfV report of more than 400 taken a closer look at the similarities with well-known interpretive patterns” of the cause is ideological aversion to any kind of state intervention, pages in which the agency does not condemn the AfD as a far-right fringe of the NPD, such as when he warns of the impending death of the partly the problem is the capacity of multinationals to shop be- whole. But its focus on “The Wing” and its leader, Björn German people. The officials noted that Höcke’s partner tween national jurisdictions and deprive governments of rev- Höcke, is a tough blow to the far-right camp. The BfV closely populist party Alternative for Kalbitz expresses himself much more carefully, but they said enue. There are non-economic features of popular discontent, analyzed the “ethno-nationalist ideology” of Höcke, Kalbitz Germany. What they found that his sometimes-ambiguous statements must be seen in the context of Höcke’s speeches. most prominently in hostility to immigration. But the cultural and their like-minded colleagues. The report also makes is that the wing’s leaders may backlash against globalization is inseparable from inequalities clear that the intelligence service has run out of patience For years, Kalbitz has successfully managed to avoid that can be addressed through extra spending and by tackling with AfD leaders Jörg Meuthen and Alexander Gauland’s pose a threat to democracy any real scrutiny. He ascended through his party’s ranks injustice through the tax system. strategy of shirking responsible for the radicals in their party. in the country. and eventually became the floor leader and chairman of the There will not be any progress on those fronts at Davos. It is not Kalbitz himself is a master of ambiguous communication. AfD’s state chapter in Brandenburg despite a reputation for a place where politicians coordinate policies as a counterweight When he’s not out in the marketplaces and taverns, instead Kalbitz. “Don’t picture something rigid or bureaucratic,” moving in far-right circles. to the might of big business. But without such coordination na- finding himself in more dignified surroundings like the par- Kalbitz says. “Affiliation is based on commitment.” Depend- Kalbitz once visited a tent camp the organization had set tional governments are diddled by the hyper-mobility of global liamentary society, the 46-year-old’s tone is much milder. ing on what’s needed at the time, they seek out the necessary up and today sys it is “rather cheap” for journalists to bring capital. The competition to secure investment easily becomes He doesn’t seem terribly perturbed by the fact that his power actors. Often the goal isn’t to get their own people elected, it up. He claims to have been invited to come along on a a race to the bottom in terms of workers’ rights, pay and tax base has fallen into the intelligence service’s crosshairs. but to “slow down or correct” certain positions or people visit to the camp, but he can allegedly no longer remember receipts. That is why there is immense soft power in the EU’s At the lectern, however, Kalbitz knows exactly how to rile whose views don’t correspond to those of “The Wing.” who issued the invitation or why. As to why he accepted the single market. Alignment of rules on a continental scale allows up his audience. The BfV has put him in the same ideological The intelligence agency has made clear that the precau- invitation, he says AfD voters “aren’t interested” in such for more meaningful regulation of multinational behavior, as camp as Höcke, both of whom call for Muslims and refugees tionary measures haven’t helped. “The Wing” is “a majority of questions. has been demonstrated by robust European commission action to be stripped of their legal rights. Kalbitz has only malice people who pursue a common purpose” -- that’s sufficient to ’Splinters of suspicion’ against tech giants such as Google and Apple on matters of fair and contempt for his political opponents and has suggested put the faction under observation. It’s a potentially dangerous The BfV’s report, which includes 1,000 pages of source competition and unpaid tax. civil war may be unavoidable. development for Höcke and Kalbitz, the party’s respective material, includes an endless list of taboo violations. The In British politics, there is a myth that “Europe” shrinks national A dangerous development leaders in the German states of Thuringia and Brandenburg. sober bureaucratic language in which the report was com- sovereignty. So entrenched is it that MPs sometimes struggle For a long time, the AfD’s “Wing” faction was able to avoid Kalbitz notes contentedly that he hasn’t come under open posed is in stark contrast with the quotations about “foreign to conceive of Brussels as a place where nation states’ power is the intelligence agency’s scrutiny. The BfV’s former head, attack from anyone within the AfD, but the party does have peoples,” the “audacity of economic migrants”. “BfV officials enhanced. But they will find it out soon enough if Brexit goes Hans-Georg Maassen, was considered within the party to be many civil servants in its ranks. Official observation of a have identified similar language across all levels of the AfD ahead, when the effects of political and economic detachment a secret supporter of the AfD and the party’s moderate wing, group within the party they belong to could have serious -- but these are merely “splinters of suspicion,” they say, not from the European project become clear. A delegation of Con- the “Alternative Middle,” remained weak and marginalized. occupational consequences. “sufficiently hardened” for an observation of the entire party servative ministers, including the chancellor, Philip Hammond, “The Wing” acts strategically, renouncing any fixed organi- The BfV has evaluated all of the statements made by and the “deployment of intelligence resources.” and international trade secretary, Liam Fox, are passing through zational structures and theoretically accepting anyone who alleged “Wing” followers, especially those made at the right- The BfV officials hold the AfD’s leadership, particularly Davos last week, where they will make the now familiar pitch signs the founding manifesto. So far, some 3,000 people wingers’ annual “Kyffhäuser summit,” named for the low the co-heads Meuthen and Gauland, partly responsible for that Britain is open for business. What they mean, in reality, is have done so. But: “A membership in the traditional sense mountain range nearby. The ideology of Höcke, Kalbitz and “The Wing.” The report argues, for instance, that neither that Brexit Britain, having rashly given up its seat in the most is not possible,” the faction says. other speakers is antithetical to human dignity and the rule man has demonstrated “a clear distancing or rejection” of powerful rule-making chambers of Europe, will be ever more “The Wing” also has no formal leadership structure, not of law, the BfV’s report found. The AfD members are “un- the right-wing extremist identitarian movement. The intel- at the mercy of global capital. even a designated head. Yet everyone within the AfD still willing to accept democratic decisions that contradict their ligence officials also noted “that the AfD’s federal leaders, (Source: The Guardian) knows who calls the shots within the faction: Höcke and ideology,” the report states, adding that the party views who answer for the entire party ... 13 ساعت: امضاء صفحه آرا: ساعت: امضاء مسئول صفحه: ساعت: امضاء ادیتور: ساعت: امضاء سردبیر:

I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JANUARYJANUARY 26, 2019 ANALYSISANALYSIS && INTERVIEWINTERVIEW 77 Turkish court authenticates audio that revealed spy agency MIT’s false flag in Syria

By Abdullah Bozkurt information that needed to be kept secret and are The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a state- considered to be a state secret,” it said. ment regarding the audio at the time, saying the A Turkish court recently confirmed the authenticity In July 2015 German weekly magazine Focus recording of the highly sensitive meeting attended of a leaked audio clip in which top-ranking Turk- published a report on an audio recording of a by people who are responsible for the security of ish officials are heard discussing the possibility of high-level security meeting at the Turkish For- Turkey was leaked to social media and claimed an intervention in Syria in a false flag operation eign Ministry concerning possible military action that it had been tampered with. In an attempt to conducted by Turkish intelligence agency MIT. in Syria by means of a false flag operation that spin the story, the Foreign Ministry said the senior In the leaked recording, then-Foreign Minister was recorded and then leaked by the US National officials were meeting to make a contingency plan Ahmet Davutoglu, then-Foreign Ministry Under- Security Agency (NSA). in the event of an attack on the tomb of Suleiman secretary Feridun Sinirlioglu, MIT Undersecretary The Turkish government blamed the leak on Shah, and it reaffirmed Turkey’s determination Hakan Fidan and then-Deputy Chief of General the Gülen movement, a civic group that is high- to defend the tomb. Staff Gen. Yasar Güler are heard discussing mil- ly critical of the Erdogan government, although Yet Turkish court documents, revealed in Jan- itary operations in Syria in Davutoglu’s Foreign the investigation failed to provide any evidence uary 2019, did not include any claim of tampering Ministry office on March 13, 2013. to that effect and found nobody from the group and did not support the Foreign Ministry’s state- Fidan says in the recording: “If needed, I would who might have been involved in the leak. In fact, ment, which was an apparent attempt to contain dispatch four men to Syria. [Then] I would have the recording exposed major security flaws in the the damage and manipulate the leak. them fire eight mortar shells at the Turkish side ministry as its CCTV system and jamming devices In the recording the voice of Davutoglu can be and create an excuse for war.” were not sufficient to prevent illegal recordings. The heard saying that the “prime minister said this The judicial confirmation of the scandalous then-Ankara deputy public prosecutor Veli Dalgali [Jaber Castle] must be considered an opportunity content was inadvertently revealed when the public submitted a file to the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s at this juncture.” Two weeks before the leak, clashes prosecutor tried to pin the leak on a group critical of Office on July 9, 2014, saying the perpetrators between opposition groups — specifically, the Free the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were unable to be identified with the available Syrian Army (FSA) and ISIL — had intensified in as part of espionage charges. The statements in evidence. The details of the file reveal that even the region around the castle. The news that ISIL the leak, included in the indictment as allegations, the basic security measures required to be in place had taken control of a town near it prompted im- were formally confirmed by the Ankara 4th High where top secret meetings are held were not taken. mediate reactions from Turkish officials. When in fraudulent connections to Turkey began in 2008. argument, either. “They [the government] want the recording Fidan asked why they were being The Deniz Feneri administration was accused of fun- to drag Turkey into a war [in Syria]. [They are] persistent on pushing an attack on the tomb of A top-secret meeting was held at the Foreign neling money collected for charity from workers in working on plots to win international legitimacy [in Suleiman Shah, Davutoglu responded by saying Ministry with the participation of the minister, Germany into various companies and businesses in the case of a Turkish intervention in Syria],” Kemal that the pretext for an incursion must be acceptable his undersecretary, the MIT undersecretary and Turkey. The Frankfurt State Court sentenced three Kiliçdaroglu, leader of the CHP, said. Then-inde- to the international community. Turkish nationals to prison terms of up to six years pendent Kütahya deputy Idris Bal said the leaking The Turkish foreign minister also said, “Without the deputy chief of general staff. The conversation on Sept. 17, 2008 for involvement in embezzling of the conversation served the national interest. a strong pretext, we cannot tell US Secretary of in the meeting was illegally recorded for reasons and misusing donations totaling 17 million euros. “In the final analysis, this [leaking] represents State [John] Kerry that we need to take extraor- of political and military espionage, and the The prosecutor in the case announced that there the exposure of a dirty game [and] is good in that dinary measures.” Davutoglu added that Kerry were suspicions of possible connections to the case context,” he added. had asked him whether Turkey was determined recordings were posted online. in Turkey. The Erdogan government helped derail The conversation in the audio recording also to strike Syria. According to the audio file, Fidan the probe on the Turkish side and freed all suspects focuses on whether the Turkish military should said: “If needed, I would dispatch four men to Syria. Criminal Court in a reasoned decision that was Turkish court decision verifying the authen- named in the indictment. enter Syria to protect the tomb of Suleiman Shah, [Then] I would have them fire eight mortar shells announced on Jan. 16, 2019. ticity of a scandalous audio recording that calls Following the leak of the audio recording, the the grandfather of Sultan Osman I, founder of the at the Turkish side and create an excuse for war. “A top-secret meeting was held at the Foreign for a false flag operation in Syria. Turkish government banned YouTube in March Ottoman dynasty. The tomb used to be located at We can have them attack the tomb of Suleiman Ministry with the participation of the minister, Prosecutor Dalgali’s investigation reveals there in the face of the revelations, while the opposition his undersecretary, the MIT undersecretary and was only one CCTV camera in the hall where the accused the government of planning a “provoca- the deputy chief of general staff. The conversation meeting was held and that it covers only the entrance tion” involving Syria that had been exposed on In the recording the voice of Davutoglu can be in the meeting was illegally recorded for reasons of the hall and the elevator. Jamming devices used social media. “Now they have banned YouTube heard saying that the “prime minister said this of political and military espionage, and the re- to prevent mobile devices from working during to prevent the world from learning about it. They [Jaber Castle] must be considered an opportunity cordings were posted online. The Ankara Chief meetings were also not properly operating at the know they would be considered war criminals,” Public Prosecutor’s Office launched this espionage time of the meeting. Dalgali said in his written Gursel Tekin, then-deputy chairman of the main at this juncture.” Two weeks before the leak, case on March 27, 2014 in investigation file No. report that the leaked audio recording might have opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said. clashes between opposition groups — specifically, 2014/47602,” the court said in its ruling. been made in the meeting room by means of a The YouTube ban was lifted in June 2014 after the The investigation of the leak was turned into an in- recording device or bugging device that could be country’s highest court ruled that the two-month the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and ISIL — had dictment on June 6, 2016 under file No. E.2016/24769, affixed to a wastebasket, remote, multipurpose ban on the video-sharing website violated freedom intensified in the region around the castle. and the same allegations were included in the indict- plug or easily portable items. Dalgali noted that of expression. ment. The Ankara court announced its decision on after exhaustive searches of the meeting room by Then-prime minister and current president Jaber Castle, a historic fortification within Syria’s Shah as well.” Feb. 17, 2017 but postponed the publication of its the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), it Erdogan confirmed the security meeting at a borders and a highly sensitive location protected Then-Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Sinirli- reasoned decision until January 2019. was clear that the audio was not recorded from public rally in the city of Diyarbakir, saying that by a Turkish army contingent. It was later moved oglu, who currently serves as Turkey’s ambassador The authenticity of the recording had previously outside through an audio surveillance system but the wiretapping of his foreign minister’s office was to another location after the castle was flooded due to the United Nations, was also recorded as saying been confirmed by Turkish officials, but the judicial from inside the meeting room. “immoral,” an act of “cowardice,” “dishonest” and to dam construction. In early 2015 Turkey moved that Turkey’s national security had turned into review of the allegations and the court’s acceptance At the urging of the government, Turkish prose- “mean.” Then-Turkish President Abdullah Gül, the tomb 22 kilometers (14 miles) west of Kobani cheap material for domestic political consumption. of the charges of the prosecutor in its reasoned cutor Dalgali derailed the probe, did not investigate also an Islamist, sided with Erdogan and strongly to protect it from the threat posed by the Islamic Gen. Güler warned, “What we are going to do is a decision could land the Erdogan government in the illegal schemes plotted among officials in viola- condemned the audio surveillance and leaking of State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). direct reason for war.” hot water internationally and might help build tion of Turkish law and hushed up the investigation the conversation, calling it an act of espionage. According to the Treaty of Ankara, which was The recent decision that verified the content of a case against his government in the future for when he could not identify the leaker. As a reward, Instead of questioning the false flag that would drag signed on Oct. 20, 1921 between colonial power the recording was made in case No. 2016-238 by fueling the civil war in Syria. he was promoted to membership of the 5th Chamber NATO’s second largest army into a war in Syria, he France and the Turkish Parliament, the compound the Ankara 4th High Criminal Court, which has The court underlined that the seven minute, of the Supreme Court of Appeals. Dalgali is also one said: “This is an act of espionage against Turkey’s housing the tomb of Suleiman Shah is considered also tried suspects over their affiliation with gov- seven second clip was obtained through audio sur- of the prosecutors who helped whitewash a massive security. Those who took part in this, those who Turkish territory. The 2003 protocol between Turkey ernment critic Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish Muslim veillance of the meeting attended by the foreign corruption case involving German-based Turkish contributed to it, will definitely be exposed [and] and Syria gave Turkey transit rights through Syrian cleric who has been living in exile in the United minister and military and government officials. “It charity Deniz Feneri e.V., which was run by people will be, as prescribed by law, harshly punished.” territory to access the tomb in order to maintain States since 1999. is obvious that the conversations in the audio are close to Erdogan. The probe into Deniz Feneri’s The political opposition did not buy Erdogan’s and repair it. (Source: Nordic Monitor)

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HEALTH TEHRAN— Only significance in preventing cancer, he deskthree to five percent suggested. of cancers occur among children, head Adopting a healthier lifestyle is also of the cancer department at the Ministry another important factor in preventing of Health has said. cancers, he concluded. In addition to environmental factors in On January 18 it was announced that the causation of the cancers, genetic and a national campaign to combat cancer, inherited faulty genes also play a role in aiming to increase hope among the pa- cancer incidence among children, IRNA tients as well as public awareness about news agency quoted Ali Qanbari Motlaq the disease, has been initiated in Iran. as saying on Thursday. The national campaign is intended to Knowing symptoms of cancers can help increase public awareness about the fact in earlier detection of cancers in children, that cancer is preventable and encour- he said, highlighting that thankfully the sur- age public participation under the theme in controlling risk factors for developing vival rate for pediatric cancers is about 70 “cancer is preventable and treatable with cancer, Raeisi highlighted. FARDA Legal Institute percent. Elsewhere in his remarks Qanbari self-care and hope”, Alireza Raeisi, deputy In early January, head of the Iranian Motlaq noted that 40-50 percent of cancers health minister has said. Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Soci- FARDA Legal Institute are preventable and the number indicates The campaign also seeks to challenge ety, Hassan Abolqasemi, announced that that prevention is an important factor. the erroneous, commonly held belief that currently, there is an estimated 900,000 Public misconceptions about cancer cancer is not treatable and also foster pol- cancer cases in Iran and 110,000 new cases should be changed and this is of great icy makers’ cooperation in health sector are diagnosed each year. 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About 65% of Iranian Islamic startups children aged 3-5 have smart phones: official and economic TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — Some 65 percent of children deskin Iran between 3-5 years of age have smart cellphone or tablets, said Khosro Saljouqi, the executive director of children’s internet plan of the Ministry of Information and development Communication Technology (ICT), ILNA reported on Friday. TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — An esti- startups and houses to six companies, he The figure is stated according to a survey conducted by the desk Statistical Center of Iran in the past Iranian calendar year 1396 mated 1.6 billion Mus- explained. (ended on March 20, 2018). lims around the world is a great market for The selected startups at the events are cultural services and startups to create jobs supported by the center and Innovation and and make money. Prosperity Fund affiliated with the presi- Startups, as new business models which dential office. aim to meet market need, is now mingled Several companies left the center after with our everyday life. commercialization of their cultural and re- We have already receive several services ligious achievements and products, he said. and products through newly emerging start- “With the help of interesting inves- ups. In Iran, as an Islamic country, religious tors we create value added and support headband, bag and flags for all age rang- During the event, computer programmers beliefs and thought is a great part of everyday startups,” he said. es for Arbaeen trek, which is observed by and others involved in software develop- life of most people. This is an untapped field, which can estab- Iranians prior to Arbaeen, the 40th days of ment collaborate intensively on software However services and products related lish Islamic startups to be active in national Imam Hossein (As) martyrdom in the battle projects, he explained. to religious affairs are mainly provided in and international levels, he added. of Karbala in 680 AD, to Iraq over the past According to statista.com, as Islam is the the market traditionally. The center’s international corridor on few years, Khaki said. second largest religion in the world, the halal Today, halal food, navigation apps for religious market mulls over the capacities Some multilingual children’s story books product market is expected to grow to over religious sites, and religious products, are of Islamic world exhibitions held in different are provided by some companies on Islamic 58.3 billion by 2022.The largest sector of the parts of Islamic tourism, which holds a major countries and introduce Iranian products at issues as well, he said. global halal industry is Islamic finance with “However we can consider this figure as an opportunity,” share of the market. international market, he said. He also pointed to another company which a 43 percent share of the market, followed by he said during a meeting held on children and cyberspace at Iran’s Quran arts and technology incuba- Iran has already participated in exhibi- provides information for Muslim families on halal food with a 36 percent market share. the ICT Ministry on Wednesday. tor center of Academic Center for Education, tions held in Malaysia and Russia and plan halal travels and they hold tours for Iranian The halal food market has massive po- All Iranian and foreign software and applications have some Culture and Research, known as Jahad-e to attend events in May 2019, he explained. cities and other countries. tential for growth, and in many countries limitation for different age ranges in their setting, however Daneshgahi, focuses on development of The center also plans to launch a clinic to They have already performed tours to one can find such items as halal foie gras, many parents are unaware of it, he lamented. religious activities and to boost related provide professional consultation for running Russia and Malaysia, he explained. halal frozen meals, and halal chicken nug- No organization is responsible for development of cy- cultural market. Islamic startups and to support the startups He named a software for family fund of gets to name a few. berspace services for children. The Ministry of Education is Despite the great market for Islamic prod- active in this field, he added. Qard al-Hasaneh, interest-free loan, which The global market revenue of halal food responsible for children above six however only 13 percent ucts, the world of Islam has a great potentiality Islamic startups in Iran make it easier for families to calculate. is projected to rise from about 1.25 trillion of kids go to kindergarten below that age, he explained. for earning money and job creation, the head About ten companies now offer their Fashion and jeweler hackathon U.S. dollars in 2016 to about 2.57 trillion Hence the parents should be informed about children of center Rahim Khaki told IRNA. services and products with the support of The center plans to hold the first fashion dollars in 2024, with the largest share of the psychology and training, he lamented. The incubator supports technolo- the center, he said. and jeweler hackathon on the theme of Surah market value coming from North America. He said that there is very small appropriate content for gy-based and innovative business and He named a company which provides Al-Kawthar, the shortest Surah of Holy Quran. Some of the biggest growth opportunities Iranian children in cyberspace. create a good atmosphere for entrepre- facilities for different Islamic rituals in the The artists can have conceptual idea for the for the global halal market include brand- Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation has pub- neurs to help startups, he said. form of application. world Al-Kawthar in their artistic products ing halal food as healthy and producing lished a guideline for different computer games for children The center holds 16 events for Islamic Some companies produce backpack, including ring or necklace, he said. organic halal food. however most of the parents are unaware of it, he explained. Investment on IT, information and services for children is one of the most beneficial ones, which can attract Iranian National conference to explore space IAU to hold technomart on agriculture as well as foreigner investors, he explained. technology application and natural resources Deputy education minister for training Alireza Kazemi announced in December 2018 that about 20 million internet users out of 56 million users are below 18 in Iran. People spends from 20 to 80 hours per week in cyber- space, which change sleeping time and encounter them to unnecessary information and issues, he said. In mid-November, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Ministry announced that it plans to intro- duce parental control applications in the near future. According to a survey conducted by the ICT Ministry, only eight percent of Iranian parents monitor their chil- dren’s online activity. The survey revealed that Iran is not very successful in content creation for children and to control children’s online activity.

TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — Iran (VSAT) communication, satellite TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — The Is- agriculture products and animal science. Breakthrough in addiction deskUniversity of Science design challenges, space program desklamic Azad University The selected plans will be introduced and Technology will hold a national managements and satellite images (IAU) will host the second technomart on to IAU branches for investment, Payam treatment as scientists conference on space technology and new applications. agriculture and natural resources from Najafi, an official with IAU, said. its application from January 28 to According to the United Nations February 2 to 4 at the IAU permanent IAU has a great capacity due to its ERASE cocaine-associated 30, Mehr reported on Friday. Program on Space Applications, fairground, ISNA reported on Wednesday. professional human resources and vast memories in rats Several workshops, speech cere- education and research activities in The event aims to support research infrastructures in the field of agriculture monies as well as an exhibition will astronomy and astrophysics, also plans and knowledge-based companies and natural resources and through holding be held on the sidelines of the event. related to the space environment— active in the field of agriculture. technomarts, they can be commercialized, A new breakthrough in memory research could one day help Workshops will be held on different commonly referred to as basic space The technomart covers different fields he added. to prevent recovering addicts from relapsing. applications of space technology in- science—are considered to be among including agricultural biotechnology, ag- Some holding companies, academic In a study on rats, researchers have identified a way to ‘erase’ cluding remote sensing in agriculture, the initial steps for countries seeking to ricultural inputs including fertilizers and associations affiliated to the Ministry of cocaine-associated memories to cut down on relapse behavior Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR), establish indigenous capacities in the seeds, hydroponic greenhouse systems, Science, Research and Technology and in the future, even outside of the controlled environment. development of space-based mar- development and use of space science agriculture machinery, irrigation auto- investment funds will also attend the event, The experts say this could make for a much more effective ket, Very-small-aperture terminal and technology and its applications. mation and water resource management, he concluded. treatment method than current options such as ‘exposure therapy,’ which often falls apart when a patient is out of the therapist’s office and back in the outside world. What is optogenetics? Iran, Iraq discuss ICT cooperation The researchers were able TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — Iran’s Information and Com- sit and cyber security as well as forming joint working to observe the functions of the deskmunication Technology (ICT) Minister group for investment in Iraq’s cellphone and landline rat’s brain using a technique Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi and his Iraqi counterpart telephone projects as other fields Iraq and Iran can co- called optogenetics. Naim al-Rubaye discussed further cooperation in the field operate with each other. Optogenetics targets geneti- of communication and information technology during a He invited the Iraqi communications minister and his cally modified cells in the brain meeting in Tehran on Tuesday, IRNA reported. delegation to take part in Iran International Exhibition of using precise bursts of light. As a neighboring country, Iraq can benefit from Iran’s Electronics, Computer & E-commerce (ELECOMP) 2019. Using optogenetics, they space technology achievements, Azari Jahromi said. Iraq welcomes Iranian technology companies were able to tweak neurons as- Iran has already benefited from space technology in Iraq welcomes Iranian companies active in different sociated with rats’ cocaine-cue water management, agricultural development and envi- fields of telecommunication and technology to offer ser- memories. ronment protection, he said. vices, Naim al-Rubaye said for his part. After erasing these neurons, Iran and Iraq can develop their relationship in different “Iraq is being developed in the field of ICT and technology,” they found the rats were less fields of communication, he said. he said, urging Iran for further cooperation in this field. likely to engage in drug-seeking Iran is studying and planning or digital economy and Al-Rubaye named fiber-optic communication, 3rd and 4th behavior, even when they were Iraq with young human resource have a good atmosphere Iran’s ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi (l) generation mobile phones, international gateway, bandwidth in a new environment. for further cooperation with Iran, he added. and his Iraqi counterpart Naim al-Rubaye pose for a and telecommunication infrastructures as items Iranian Before optogenetics, Azari Jahromi also named boosting internet tran- photo in an undated picture. companies can invest in. scientists had to open the skull and implant electrodes into living tissue to stimulate neurons with electricity and measure their response. The researchers used a technique known as optogenet- First live TV news coverage of underwater world to be broadcasted ics, in which light pulses are used to control genetically Sky News is to broadcast the first live TV But plastic pollution and climate change frontiers of our knowledge. keeping the rise in the Earth’s temperature modified cells, to tweak neurons associated with the rats’ news bulletins from under the sea to draw are major threats. “But the deep ocean is the last great fron- to 2C, 99% of shallow reefs will die. cocaine-cue memories. attention to the plight of the world’s oceans. John Ryley, head of Sky News, said: tier, the last great piece of our planet that Without coral, the fish and so much other After erasing these, they found the rats were less likely Working with scientists from the Nekton “Broadcasting pictures from so far under we still don’t know about.” life will disappear. to engage in drug-seeking behaviour, even when placed in mission we will use small submarines to de- the sea will take our audiences to places no Coral reefs are the most diverse ecosystem Paris Stefanoudis, Nekton mission scien- a new environment. scend past coral gardens into the dimly lit one has been before. on the planet. They cover just 1% of the ocean tist, said researchers are racing to document ‘While we’ve always known that the brain forms these cue-as- and little explored ‘twilight zone’ at a depth “It’s with tremendous excitement but also floor, yet harbour 25% of marine species. species before it is too late, adding: “This sisted memories, the specific circuits have never been clearly of 300m (984ft). trepidation that our team will embark on this Not only do they support an extraordinary change is happening very quickly. identified,’ said Mary Torregrossa, PhD, associated professor of The three one-hour programs in the Deep ambitious project; excitement about uncovering variety of life in the nooks and crannies of “Over the last 50 years coral reefs have psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine. Ocean Live series will use pioneering technol- an area of the planet that has yet to be fully the coral, but open water fish are also drawn experienced change they have not experienced ‘We’ve found a central piece in the cue-memory puzzle, ogy to beam live pictures up to the surface. explored, trepidation that the scale of the prob- to the reefs to spawn. for thousands of years. and we also show that taking out that piece in a substance use The dives, announced on the second anni- lem may be even greater than we fear it to be.” However, global warming is causing cat- “So we are in a rush to have baseline in- scenario can help reverse relapse-like behaviors.’ versary of the Sky Ocean Rescue campaign, The ocean covers more than 70% of the astrophic damage. Just a 1C to 2C rise in formation of coral reefs so we understand Exposure therapy, which attempts to break the association will take place around Aldabra, one of the planet, yet less than 5% has been explored. water temperature can cause coral to eject how they will change in future.” between memory and particular cues, is often used to treat world’s largest and most remote coral atolls, We have better maps of Mars than we do of the algae it contains, on which it depends for Aldabra is on the edge of the Indian Ocean mental health disorders, including addiction. 600 miles southwest of the Seychelles. the seabed. While shallow waters have been energy. If the conditions persist for as little gyre, a rotating mass of water that draws in But, when a patient is no longer in the controlled setting The island is known as the “Galapagos of the catalogued by scuba divers, the depths below as four weeks, the coral can die. huge amounts of plastic rubbish from as far of a therapist’s office or rehab facility, its effectiveness breaks Indian Ocean” because it has so many endemic 40m are rarely visited. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate away as southeast Asia. Several tonnes of down, the researchers explain. species. The large number of sharks and other “We have had this great era of space Change recently warned that even if global debris have washed up on the island. (Source: dailymail.co.uk) predators in the area are a sign of a healthy reef. exploration and that has pushed back the action to limit greenhouse gases succeeds in (Source: news.sky.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JANUARY 26, 2019 SCIENCE 11 Self-assembling nanomaterial offers pathway This ancient dead bug could change what we know about to more efficient harnessing of solar power opal formation

Solar rays are a plentiful, clean source of energy that each combination had subtle differences The markets of Southeast Asia are common places to find the fossils that is becoming increasingly important as in geometry that affected the dyes’ excited of insects, embedded in amber millions of years old. But last year, the world works to shift away from power states, the occurrence of singlet fission, and gemologist Brian Berger found something much more rare and sources that contribute to global warming. the yield and lifetime of harvestable electrons. astonishing. But current methods of harvesting solar Significance The piece he bought features an insect inclusion, except it’s not charges are expensive and inefficient — with “This work provides us with a library of preserved in amber - the lithified resin of ancient trees - but in pre- a theoretical efficiency limit of 33 percent. nanomaterials that we can study for har- cious opal, a mineraloid whose formation is still largely a mystery. New nanomaterials developed by researchers vesting solar energy,” said Professor Adam “As evidenced in the photos, you can see what appears to be a at the Advanced Science Research Center Braunschweig, lead researcher on the study complete insect encased beautifully inside,” Berger wrote in a blog post. (ASRC) at The Graduate Center of The City and an associate professor with the ASRC “Upon close inspection, the insect appears to have an open mouth University of New York (CUNY) could provide Nanoscience Initiative and the Chemistry and to be very well preserved, with even fibrous structures extending a pathway to more efficient and potentially Departments at Hunter College and The from the appendages.” affordable harvesting of solar energy. Graduate Center. The Gemological Institute of America has studied the specimen The materials, created by scientists with the Functional materials in detail, and issued a report and certificate authenticating the find. ASRC’s Nanoscience Initiative, use a process “Our method for combining the dyes into According to the report, it’s a real (as opposed to synthetic), unal- called singlet fission to produce and extend functional materials using self-assembly tered, untampered precious opal, with a genuine insect inclusion. the life of harvestable light-generated elec- means we can carefully tune their proper- Which raises the question: how on Earth did it even come about? trons. The discovery is described in a newly ties and increase the efficiency of the critical “If it is an opal replacement of amber, it challenges our current published paper in the Journal of Physical light-harvesting process.” understanding on the formation of opal,” geologist Ben McHenry, Chemistry. Early research suggests these The materials’ ability to self-assemble senior collection manager of Earth sciences at the South Australian materials could create more usable charg- could also shorten the time for creating that have absorbed solar photons to couple Museum, told ScienceAlert. es and increase the theoretical efficiency of bined various versions of two frequently used commercially viable solar cells, said the re- and share energy with — or “excite” — neigh- “I think this specimen might actually be quite pivotal in our solar cells up to 44 percent. industrial dyes—diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) searchers, and prove more affordable than boring dyes. The electrons in these dyes then understanding of how opal forms.” “We modified some of the molecules in and rylene. This resulted in the formation of current fabrication methods, which rely on decouple so that they can be collected as Our current theories about opal formation require water with a commonly used industrial dyes to create six self-assembling superstructures, which the time-consuming process of molecular harvestable solar energy. high silica content, and cracks and cavities. In Australia, where most self-assembling materials that facilitate a scientists investigated using electron micros- synthesis. To develop the materials, researchers com- copy and advanced spectroscopy. They found of the world’s opals can be found, acidic groundwater dissolved the greater yield of harvestable electrons and The research team’s next challenge is to silica in rocks, and washed it down into the sediment. extend the electrons’ xcited-state lifetimes, “Our method for combining the dyes into develop a method of harvesting the solar As the pH level of the water re-stabilized, the silica was deposited giving us more time to collect them in a solar charges created by their new nanomaterials. in cavities in the rock - including pockets left when the acidic water cell,” said Andrew Levine, lead author of the functional materials using self-assembly Currently, they are working to design a rylene dissolved the calcium carbonate of buried bones (this is how we get paper and a Ph.D. student at The Graduate means we can carefully tune their molecule that can accept the electron from opalized fossils). (Source: sciencealert.com) Center. the DPP molecule after the singlet fission The self-assembly process properties and increase the efficiency process. If successful, these materials would The self-assembly process, Levine ex- of the critical light-harvesting process,” both initiate the singlet fission process and plained, causes the dye molecules to stack says the author. facilitate charge-transfer into a solar cell. ESA wants to start mining in a particular way. This stacking allows dyes (Source: phys.org) the moon by 2025

Humans haven’t set foot on the moon in decades, but that could Plants and soil reaching limit of CO2 Scientists find Andes grew to towering change soon. The first step in that process is to learn more about so-called “in-situ” resource management. Mining materials on the absorption, say scientists heights in two explosive ‘growth spurts’ moon could aid future manned missions, and the European Space Agency (ESA) aims to begin testing mining technologies on the The soil and plants that soak up carbon Far from a process of smooth, inevitable moon with a 2025 robotic mission. dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere could ascendance, the formation of the iconic The ESA has signed a contract with ArianeGroup to launch the be reaching their limit of absorption of Andes Mountains was downright explo- mission, which is still in the early planning stages. The company is human emissions — pushing our planet sive. As the peaks rose skyward along the currently developing a next-generation heavy-lift rocket called the closer to the brink of no return when it western coast of South America dozens Ariane 6. A four-engine variant of that rocket will have enough power comes to climate change. That’s the latest of millions of years ago, violent volcan- to reach the moon with substantial payloads. ArianeGroup plans to message from top scientists. ic activity rocked the continent, a new launch this vehicle for the first time next year. The proposed ESA Currently, the terrestrial biosphere — study finds. launches would start before the 2025 mining mission gets underway. which is made up of the Earth’s vegetation Researchers made the discovery by The unmanned mission will investigate what resources we can and land — soaks up around 25 percent studying the buried remnants of the expect to extract from lunar regolith. Almost none of the moon’s of carbon dioxide emissions caused by continent’s tectonic plates. And what surface is exposed — the dusty regolith covers the surface to a depth humans. However, moisture levels in the scientists found surprised them. of about 12 feet (3.65 meters) with the exception for the odd lava the biosphere impact the amount it can The 4,300-mile-long (7,000 kilom- “This is a big deal! If soil moisture In the case of the Nazca plate, more tube or crater wall. In some areas, it can be up to 16 feet (about 5 absorb. As we experience more periods eters) Andes — the longest continuous continues to reduce NBP at the current than 3,400 miles (5,500 km) of litho- meters) thick. of extreme dryness and wetness, these mountain range in the world — didn’t rate, and the rate of carbon uptake by the sphere, the outer, rigid part of the crust Scientists hope that regolith will serve as a source of building natural sinks are being put at risks, found form in the way that scientists had long land starts to decrease by the middle of and upper mantle, was lost to the mantle, material and water. Water is useful not only for keeping astronauts the authors of a study published in the thought. Previously, geologists held that this century — as we found in the models the researchers said. alive (both for drinking and breathable oxygen) but for manufac- journal Nature. the Nazca oceanic plate, which lies under — we could potentially see a large increase Scientists can image these plates using turing rocket fuel on the moon. We know there are places on the To arrive at their conclusion, the the eastern Pacific Ocean, had steadily in the concentration of atmospheric CO2 data collected from earthquake waves, surface with water ice deposits, but it would be much easier if we researchers at the Columbia University and continuously subducted (slipped and a corresponding rise in the effects much like a computed tomography (CT) could just get ice from scooping up regolith. School of Engineering and Applied Science of global warming and climate change.” under) South America, which made scan allows doctors to see the insides studied what is known as net biome She told Newsweek the tipping point the ground rise and eventually create of a patient. productivity (NBP). That is defined by for maximum carbon absorption could the towering Andes. To the age of dinosaurs the United Nations’ Intergovernmental be reached as soon as 2060. Also, she The “Andes Mountain formation has “We have attempted to go back in Panel on Climate Change, tasked with was shocked to find “just how large the long been a paradigm of plate tectonics,” time with more accuracy than anyone combating global warming, as: the “net effects of soil moisture are.” study co-author Jonny Wu, assistant has ever done before. This has resulted gain or loss of carbon in an area, equal Earth’s carbon uptake professor of geology at the University in more detail than previously thought to the net ecosystem production, minus “We knew that soil moisture anomalies of Houston, said in a statement. possible,” Wu said. “We’ve managed to the carbon lost from events such as a could affect year to year variability of the Nazca oceanic plate go back to the age of the dinosaurs.” forest being cut down, or setting on fire. Earth’s carbon uptake — but we didn’t But after studying the underground In the case of this study, after analyzing Effects of soil moisture remnants of the Nazca oceanic plate, know it had such a large effect on the these underground tectonic leftovers, the It’s not as simple as feeding lunar soil into a machine and waiting Using results from the Global Land which sit about 900 miles (1,500 km) mean long-term uptake.” researchers were able to piece together for useful materials to come out. Separating the useful elements Atmosphere Coupling Experiment- underground, the researchers learned Dr. Pierre Gentine, associate professor how the Andes formed. The subducting won’t necessarily be easy in a low-gravity environment, and there’s Coupled Model Intercomparison Project that the plate did not go through a steady of earth and environmental engineering Nazca plate slammed into a transition a lot we still don’t know about the effects of regolith on machinery. (GLACE-CMIP5), which measures the and continuous subduction. Rather, the at Columbia University who led the study, zone, or a discontinuous layer in the The abrasive nature of lunar dust could damage mining equipment effects of soil moisture on the Earth’s Nazca plate was at times torn away from commented: “Essentially, if there were mantle, which slowed the plate’s move- or erode protective coatings on spacecraft. The health effects of climate, the researchers mapped out the Andean margin (the place where it no droughts and heat waves, if there were ment and caused buildup above it, the regolith are also unclear, but we know it’s more chemically reactive the impact of possible scenarios, such was subducting), which led to volcanic not going to be any long-term drying over researchers said in the statement. than dust on Earth. Astronauts who breathe small amounts of it as flooding or droughts. activity, the researchers said. the next century, then the continents Their model suggests that the currents over time could end up with respiratory or neurological disease. Julia Green, a Ph.D. student at When tectonic plates move under- would be able to store almost twice as phase of the Nazca subduction began in (Source: extremetech.com) the Columbia University School of much carbon as they do now.” ground — that is, when they creep under what is now Peru, during the late Cre- Engineering and Applied Science and “Because soil moisture plays such Earth’s crust and enter the mantle — they taceous period, about 80 million years lead author of the study, explained: “We a large role in the carbon cycle, in the sink toward the core, much like fallen ago, the researchers wrote in the study. saw that the value of NBP, in this instance ability of the land to uptake carbon, leaves sinking to the bottom of a lake. Then, the subduction moved southward, A simple 3D imaging system a net gain of carbon on the land surface, it’s essential that processes related to But these sinking plates retain some of reaching the southern Andes in Chile would actually be almost twice as high if its representation in models become a their shape, offering clues to what the by the early Cenozoic, about 55 million can capture moving objects at it weren’t for these changes (variability top research priority.” Earth’s surface looked like millions of years ago, they said. 500,000 frames per second and trend) in soil moisture. (Source: Newsweek) years ago. (Source: livescience.com) In recent years various techniques have emerged that make 3D imaging cheaper and faster. Some consumer devices, such as the iPhone X and the Microsoft Kinect, can create such images. And in Stellar winds, the source material for the universe, are clumpy, new research suggests industry, similar approaches make 3D imaging a key part of many production lines where non-contact data acquisition is important. Data recorded by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of a we looked at X-ray data from the high-mass X-ray binary But there are significant limitations on these techniques, par- neutron star as it passed through a dense patch of stellar wind system known as OAO 1657-415 we saw that this peak at 6.4 ticularly for high-speed imaging of moving objects. These problems emanating from its massive companion star provide valuable keV had an unusual feature. The peak had a broad extension mean that practical systems cannot capture images faster than insight about the structure and composition of stellar winds down to 6.3 keV. This extension is referred to as a ‘Compton around 1,000 frames per second. and about the environment of the neutron star itself. A paper shoulder’ and indicates that the X-rays from neutral iron are Today, that looks set to change thanks to the work of Hongwei describing the research, led by Penn State astronomers, appears being back scattered by dense matter surrounding the star. Chen and colleagues at Tsinghua University in Beijing. These guys January 15, 2019, in the journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal X-ray binary system have built a simple 3D imaging system that records movies at a Astronomical Society. This is only the second high-mass X-ray binary system frame rate of 500,000 frames per second. “Stellar winds are the fast-flowing material -- composed of where such a feature has been detected.” First, some background. There are two practical limits on how protons, electrons, and metal atoms -- ejected from stars,” said The researchers also used the Chandra’s state-of-the-art fast 3D images can be recorded. The first is the repetition rate of Pragati Pradhan, a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy and engineering to identify a lower limit on the distance from the the illumination system, which can freeze the action while beaming astrophysics at Penn State and the lead author of the paper. neutron star that the X-rays from neutral iron are formed. a known pattern onto an object to reveal its shape. The second is “This material enriches the star’s surroundings with metals, Their spectral analysis showed that neutral iron is ionized the refresh rate of the CCD chips that capture light. kinetic energy, and ionizing radiation. It is the source material for at least 2.5 light-seconds, a distance of approximately 750 Of these, the refresh rate of CCD chips is the most restrictive. star formation. Until the last decade, it was thought that stellar million meters or nearly 500,000 miles, from the neutron For example, it limits the iPhone X in slow-mo mode to 120 frames winds were homogenous, but these Chandra data provide direct of signature energies at various distances from the neutron star to produce X-rays. per second. evidence that stellar winds are populated with dense clumps.” star. Neutral -- uncharged -- iron atoms, for example, produce “In this work, we see a dimming of the X-rays from the But higher speeds are possible with high-speed illumination The neutron star observed is part of a high-mass X-ray fluorescence X-rays with energies of 6.4 kilo-electron volts (keV), neutron star and a prominent line from neutral iron in the X-ray systems using digital light-processing devices, which have a refresh binary system -- the compact, incredibly dense neutron star roughly 3000 times the energy of visible light. Astronomers spectrum -- two signatures supporting the clumpy nature of rate of around 10 kilohertz. paired with a massive ‘normal’ supergiant star. use spectrometers, like the instrument on Chandra, to capture stellar winds,” said Pradhan. “Furthermore, the detection of Chen and co have improved on both counts. Their illumina- Neutron stars these X-rays and separate them based on their energy to learn Compton shoulder has also allowed us to map the environment tion system, which is laser based, uses a clever trick to encode Neutron stars in binary systems produce X-rays when about the compositions of stars. around this neutron star. We expect to be able to improve information at much higher rates than before. The technique first material from the companion star falls toward the neutron “Neutral iron atoms are a more common component of our understanding of these phenomenon with the upcoming stretches each pulse and then encodes patterns both in time and star and is accelerated to high velocities. As a result of this stars so we usually see a large peak at 6.4 keV in the data from launch of spacecrafts like Lynx and Athena, which will have in wavelength before compressing the pulse again. In this way, acceleration, X-rays are produced that can inturn interact with our spectrometers when looking at X-rays from most neutron improved X-ray spectral resolution.” the patterns can refresh at a rate of up to 50 megahertz. the materials of the stellar wind to produce secondary X-rays stars in a high-mass X-ray binary system,” said Pradhan. “When (Source: sciencedaily.com) (Source: technologyreview.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 SOCIETY JANUARY 26, 2019

90,000 clunker taxis are Silent death: Zagros Mountains forest plying the roads plagued by deforestation, degradation SOCIETY TEHRAN — Some 90,000 clunker taxis desk are plying the roads in Iran, an official with ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — Deforesta- ized by the Forests, Range, and Watershed traffic police has said. desktion and degradation are Management Organization. The old taxis are being used 8 times more than private cars, gravely threating the Zagros Mountains The administration must also allocate YJC quoted Mohammad Tarahhomi as saying on Monday. forest and the current trend can seriously budget to shift from logging to wood im- There are 1.5 million clunker vehicles and 9 million clunker harm the ecology of the region and its port in order to move toward sustainable motorcycles in Iran, he regretted, adding that unfortunately biodiversity in the near future. development. scrappage of old, high-emission vehicles is loosely linked with Zagros Mountains forest steppe ecore- Ja’far Nouri, director of governmental importation of vehicles which is now banned. gion with an area of about 6 million hectares discretionary punishments organization of (3.5 percent of Iran) is located primarily in Mahabad and Piranshahr, West Azarbaijan Iran, ranging northwest to southeast and province, also told IRNA news agency that roughly paralleling the country’s western 17 tons of smuggled logs have been seized border. The forests constitute 40 percent of in the area and the violators got fined 68 the country’s forested area and is stretching million rials (nearly $1,600). over 12 provinces. These forests have also The fine is only for carrying the smuggled been called western oak forests, due to the log and is levied by the governmental dis- dominancy of oak species. cretionary punishments organization and According to the Science Direct West- other environmental organizations would ern oak forests are home to many species impose the fine for harming the forests, including, the Persian squirrel which is the Nouri stated. indicator species of this region. Persian squir- Normally smugglers transfer the logs from rels and oak trees have symbiotic relation- roads linking West Azarbaijan to central Iran. ships, in which forests provide ecological Head of natural resources and watershed requirements of Persian squirrels such as management department of Mahabad, Majid When vehicles are being manufactured in a country there food and shelter and, in return, the Persian Patou, said that in the current year more should exist a scrappage scheme as well, he highlighted. squirrel contributes in seed germination than 100 tons of smuggled logs have been Referring to the clean air law Tarahhomi noted that the law and forests’ regeneration. Limitations on forest exploitation, stricter of the smuggled logs have been seized and seized on Mahabad roads. mandates scrappage of old and polluting vehicles. A wide variety of wildlife, including wolves, rules on timber importation to the country the rest were imported out of province, Even those who want to cut broken Comprising 34 articles, the law on clean air was adopted by leopards, and even the Persian fallow deer as well as increased custom tariffs on them, he regretted. branches, fallen or damaged trees in their Majlis [the Iranian parliament] in July 2017 after 6 years of con- which was once thought extinct have made have given rise to illegal logging in protected The ban on exploitation of endangered own gardens should obtain necessary per- tinuous revisions. their homes in the mountains. areas of Zagros forests. forests has worsened the situation in western mits from natural resources and watershed Iran’s automobile industry is failing to live up to international Deforestation and poaching are the ma- Illegal loggers cut trees and take them and southwestern forests and led to greater management department, Patou noted, standards in manufacturing low-emission vehicles. Although jor threats to wildlife in the region. The to charcoal furnaces. smuggling of logs, he added. adding that some of the smugglers try to the industry ministry and car manufacturers are legally bound lack of accurate knowledge about these Zagros mountain forests in West Azarbai- In January 2017 in line with the laws hide tree logs cut from the forests beneath to observe the law in producing clean and eco-friendly vehicles forest habitats also hinders the effective jan, covering an area of 110,000 hectares, regulating all aspects of policy making the fallen and broken trees gathered from in practice they ignore or fail to meet the standards. planning and management of these forests are being plagued by illegal logging for and project managements with regard to around the riversides to flout the law, According to a bill passed by the cabinet all car manufactur- and the wildlife within them. Preparing some time now. environmental factors Majlis [Iranian par- so that all log cargos must obtain legal ers were obligated to scrap a car in exchange for each car they update maps and awareness of past to pres- On January 15 commander of the pro- liament] has prohibited any exploitation permits. produce, however the law was overturned and now regarding ent changes would be useful for wildlife tection unit of natural resources and wa- of endangered forests by the fourth year of Decreasing custom tariffs on imported the halt on importation of cars much less clunkers are being conservation planning. tershed management department of West implementing the sixth five-year national wood, easing timber importation, and growing scrapped annually. Zagros Mountains forest’s importance Azarbaijan explained that in the current development plan. trees for logging are some of the measures Ali Mohammadi, an official with traffic police, said in early lies with its capability to be a barrier against year (starting on March 21, 2018) more than With 157 MPs voting for the bill, exploita- that can help in the battle against illegal January that the scrappage of clunker vehicles has decreased sand and dust storms to the central Iran and 150 tons of smuggled log has been seized. tion of forests for commercial and industrial logging and deforestation in Zagros forests. by 65 percent in the current Iranian calendar year (starting on 40 percent of the country’s water reservoir Over the past decade generally some purposes will be brought to a halt by 2020. Short-term and long-term plans to March 21, 2018) compared to a year earlier. exist in the region. 10 tons of smuggled log have been seized, By that time all exploitation contracts will address illegal log trade should be imple- While last year some 140,000 vehicles were scrapped this year Over previous decades of drought spells, but the number have grown 15-fold this be expired and none will be renewed. mented before the ban on exploitation of only 50,000 old vehicles were discarded, he added. tree diseases and wildfires have threatened year, IRNA news agency quoted Yousefali All exploitation projects will be banned endangered forests would go into effect Clunker cars, produce great deal of emission and cause air the forest, but now illegal logging is a bigger Embrahimpour as saying. with the exception of broken branches, fallen fully by 2020, or the forests will be severely pollution especially in metropolises like Tehran. Tehraners have danger to the precious ecosystem. Despite all the efforts only 10 percent or damaged trees which can be only author- degraded within the next few years. experienced a 17 days of excellent air quality since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2018). LEARN ENGLISH How is the world performing in the battle against climate change? ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — Climate change has taken yet made it to one of the top three places in the rankings. Sending a Quote via Email deskits toll on the environment worldwide In this year’s index, Sweden leads the ranking, fol- and three years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, lowed by Morocco and Lithuania. The group of medi- Tracy: Melanie, can you help me with something? 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ENGLISH IN USE Key vocabulary account: a statement that shows how much money you LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION owe for things you have bought from a shop, bill quotation: a statement of the price of an item or service costing: charge, make someone pay 2,400 students suffering autism حضور 2400 دان شآموز اوتیسمی در مدارس please note that: being informed of something due: if an amount of money is due, it must be paid at a attend schools nationwide در سال جاری particular time play it safe: go with the safest option life saver: someone or something that gives you a lot of Some 2,400 students suffering autism are attending schools رئیــس ســازمان آمــوزش و پــرورش اســتثنایی گفــت: تعــداد دان شآمــوزان اوتیســمی help when you are in a very difficult situation nationwide, director general for special schools organization حاضــر در مــدارس در ســال جــاری بــه حــدود ۲۴۰۰ نفــر رســیده اســت .Supplementary vocabulary affiliated with Education Ministry has said cargo: freight of a ship, airplane مجیــد قدمــی گفتوگــو بــا خبرگــزاری فــارس گفــت: محتــوای آموزشــی تولیــد ,link: a word icon, etc., on which a user may click to move The curriculum for such students is meticulously designed to another part of or different website, document Fars news agency quoted Majid Qadami as saying on Friday. شــده بــرای ایــن دانــش آمــوزن بــا دقــت طراحــی شــده اســت. attachment: something attached, as a document added وی ادامــه داد: تعــداد دان شآمــوزان اوتیســمی حــدود ۲ هــزار نفــر بــود کــه امســال to a letter, or an picture in an email etc. The number of students with autism has grown from 2,000 etiquette: conventional requirements as to social behavior; since last year (March 2017-18), Qadami, said, adding that بــه ۲۴۰۰ نفــر رســیده اســت و در تــاش هســتیم در هــر اســتان یــک مدرســه بــرای proprieties of conduct as established in any class or “we are trying to set up a school for students with autism دان شآمــوزان اوتیســم داشــته باشــیم. community or for any occasion (Source: irlanguage.com) in each province.”

PREFIX/SUFFIX PHRASAL VERB IDIOM Without water, “-ium” Wear down Sell ice to Eskimos

everything Meaning: a word ending that indicates chemical Meaning: to gradually become flatter or smoother, Explanation: a persuasive salesperson, such that element or group or to make something become like this, because of they could sell something to people who have no need withers For example: Your body needs calcium to build rubbing or use or use for it and maintain strong bones and teeth. For example: My shoes have worn down at the heel. For example: I can’t believe you were able to sell an extra 200 units to the hospital. You could sell ice to Eskimos! I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JANUARY 26, 2019 WORLD IN FOCUS 13

World powers denounce Brexit deadlock in London

1 European leaders play a game with regards to Brexit. Ger- man Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior European officials have repeatedly argued that with the British PM failure of Brexit in U.S. interference the British Parliament, there will be no further talks on this issue, 1 Maduro accused Guaido of staging is already struggling with unpaid bills and and Europe does not intend to give fresh concessions to London. a coup and ordered his arrest. creditors demanding payment. Nonetheless, within a few hours of voting in the British Parlia- Venezuela defense min.: Britain: Guaido right person ment, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced that if May’s Maduro is ‘legitimate president’ to take country forward plan fails in the Parliament, he will negotiate with Britain further. Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Pa- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, The European dual approach has greatly boosted opponents of drino said on Thursday that Nicolas Maduro who declared himself president on Wednesday, May’s Brexit in the British Parliament, an issue that has enraged was the country’s “legitimate president” and is the right person to take the country forward, May. Obviously, March won’t mark the end of Brexit in England that the opposition was carrying out a coup Britain’s Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt said and Europe, but will be a starting point for conflicts between after Juan Guaido, the leader of congress, on Thursday. Europe and England in the international system. The conflict declared himself president. “The United Kingdom believes Juan will only weaken Britain in terms of domestic and foreign policy Padrino said the United States and other Guaido is the right person to take Vene- as well as its economy. governments were carrying out an economic zuela forward. We are supporting the U.S., war against Venezuela, an OPEC (Organization Canada, Brazil and Argentina to make that of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) nation happen,” he told media during a visit to Intelligence report highlights with the world’s largest crude reserves. Washington. Meantime, military commanders across Hunt added that Britain did not regard AfD extremism Venezuela are taking to the airwaves to vow Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela’s legitimate leader 6 have in no way distanced themselves from the aggressive loyalty to embattled President Nicolas Maduro. following elections on May 20 last year that diction of the ‘Wing’ protagonists.” On the contrary, the reported Major General Victor Palacio said on Britain said had been “deeply flawed”. states: At “The Wing” events, the AfD’s leaders often use the same Thursday he categorically rejected any acts Venezuelan lawyers seek terminology and manner of speaking as those on the far-right. threatening stability in Venezuela. protection for Guaido Meuthen, an economics professor, tries to curate a “moder- Major General Manuel Gregorio Bernal Three Venezuelan lawyers are asking the ate, integrative image for himself in the media,” the report says, also backed Maduro, saying the president Inter-American Commission on Human Rights though it adds that at the Kyffhäuser summit he uses “aggressive represents an independent country in the to grant precautionary measures to protect xenophobic rhetoric.” With Gauland, the AfD’s parliamentary nizing Venezuela’s opposition leader as the Venezuelan embassy in face of imperialist aggression. Guaido and his family. floor leader in the Bundestag, the BfV agency noted only an “eth- country’s interim president unless there are Observers say the strong support by the Turkey calls for solidarity The document, filed only hours after Guai- no-nationalist view of society.” free and fair elections soon. army as well as Russia and other countries The Venezuelan Embassy in Turkey on Thurs- do declared himself an interim president of In the future, the AfD’s leaders will have a harder time dis- Government spokesman Steffen Seibert have dealt a significant blow to the U.S. efforts day urged solitary from the people of Turkey. the country, states that the request does not missing Höcke as an insignificant regional player. From now on, said on Friday that “Venezuela needs a chance to oust Maduro, forcing the EU to backpedal “We expect solidarity from the Turkish equal to a recognition of the legitimacy of the the BfV will register how the party’s high functionaries react to to return to democracy” and Germany does on its “Maduro must go!” stance. people,” the embassy said in a statement, Maduro administration. his outbursts, with the report citing Höcke’s call last September not consider President Nicolas Maduro to be Spain pushes for election Anadolou Agency reported. In his first comments since declaring him- to join demonstrations in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, legitimate. deadline “We strongly condemn the fascist attacks self interim president, Guaido said he would which was the site of a weekend of ugly race riots. Intelligence Seibert said Germany is eager for the EU Meantime, Spanish Foreign Minister Jo- attempting to undermine the legitimacy of consider granting amnesty to Maduro and officials said the city became host to an “extremist-friendly mix” to reach a common line on Venezuela at a sep Borrell says that Spain is pushing for the President Nicolas Maduro’s government,” his allies if they helped return Venezuela to of normal citizens, neo-Nazis and hooligans. meeting of diplomats in Brussels on Friday. European Union (EU) to back Venezuelan the statement read. democracy. Despite the report’s findings, the BfV agency’s interventions UN calls for Venezuela probes opposition leader Juan Guaido if President Erdogan: Impossible for The remarks are part of a soon-to-be aired against the AfD likely won’t be terribly disruptive. While it’s Separately, the United Nations human Nicolas Maduro does not call elections by a Turkey to approve developments interview the opposition leader gave to Univi- true that intelligence officials could use covert surveillance to rights chief has called for independent in- deadline yet to be set. in Venezuela sion that were published on its website. monitor “The Wing” and the “Junge Alternative” more closely, vestigations into violence linked to protests The deadline is being discussed on Friday It is impossible for Turkey to approve World powers denounce U.S. the methods used would have to be proportionate. That means in Venezuela, allegedly involving excessive use by officials of the 28 countries in Brussels and of the developments in Venezuela, Turkish interference eavesdropping on phone calls is pretty much out of the question. of force by security or pro-government forces Borrell says it should be “short and minimal,” President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, However, Iran, Turkey, Russia, and Chi- To do that, the “G10 Commission” in the Bundestag would have that reportedly left at least 20 people dead. without further specifying. adding that he believed the people of Vene- na have come to the defense of Venezuela’s to get involved, but that step is generally only taken against terror Michelle Bachelet’s office in Geneva said “We are trying to look for a solution that avoids zuela would continue to support President embattled leader. suspects or violent right-wing or left-wing extremists. It’s also that she “urged all sides to conduct immedi- confrontation and more deaths,” Borrell told Nicolas Maduro “As a country that believes in democracy ... unlikely that the BfV would be permitted to use informants, ac- ate talks to defuse the increasingly incendiary reporters during a weekly government briefing. Speaking at a joint news conference with his wherever in the world there is a coup attempt, cording to officials. At most, the agency could install observation atmosphere.” U.S. diplomats leave Caracas Maltese counterpart in Ankara, Erdogan said we stand against them all without distinction. teams and save person-specific information in the data network She said an independent, impartial probe embassy he found the U.S. President Donald Trump’s Everyone has to respect the result of the bal- shared by Germany’s federal and state-level intelligence services. was needed for any violence leading to death Elsewhere, a U.S official says that some comments on Venezuela shocking and added that lot boxes,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip All the same, Kalbitz said the AfD was still exploring legal ac- or injury, whether caused by excessive force American diplomats and their families have democracies needed to respect election results. Erdogan said. tion. “I’m used to being maliciously misunderstood. But it’s new by security forces or armed groups - pro-gov- headed in a caravan to the Venezuelan capital’s Death toll reaches 26: NGO China also denounced the foreign that a federal agency is doing it,” he says. Take one of Kalbitz’s ernment or not. airport amid diplomatic standoff with Maduro. Twenty-six people have been killed since intervention into Venezuela’s domes- despicable quotes, for instance, about what a failure of the AfD The office of the UN High Commissioner for A letter written by a U.S. Embassy security the latest wave of protests against Maduro tic politics. would mean for Germany. In 2017, he told a group of “Wing” Human Rights ((OHCHR) said on Friday “at officer requesting a Venezuelan police escort broke out four days ago, the Caracas-based “China always maintains the principle of adherents: “All that would be left would be to say: ‘Helmets on!’” least 20 people are reported by credible local for 10 vehicles was leaked earlier on Friday Observatory of Social Conflict said on Thurs- non-interference in the internal affairs of other The BfV agency, he complains, didn’t bother to mention what he sources to have died after allegedly being shot on social media. day. countries, opposing external intervention in said next: “But I don’t want that.” by security forces or members of pro-govern- U.S. orders non-emergency The previous toll from the protests - which Venezuelan domestic affairs,” Foreign Ministry (Source: Spiegel) ment armed groups during demonstrations embassy staff to leave Venezuela began when a group of soldiers took over a spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. Tuesday and Wednesday.” The U.S. State Department ordered command post in the north of the capital in Russia warned the U.S. not to intervene non-emergency government employees to leave India calls for dialogue defiance of the socialist regime - had stood at 16. militarily in Venezuela, saying its support Press TV’s Hashemi vows India called for dialogue among stake- Venezuela and said the U.S. citizens should U.S. requests UN Security for Guaido was a “path to lawlessness and holders in Venezuela amid the ongoing “strongly consider” leaving the country, the Council meeting bloodshed”. to speak out against U.S. political crisis in the oil-rich South Amer- U.S. Embassy in Caracas said The U.S. has called for a meeting of the On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Ministry ican nation. injustice until her last breath Maduro said that if the U.S. officials had UN Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the spokesman Bahram Qassemi also said the Foreign Ministry spokesman Raveesh Ku- any sense they would pull out their own dip- crisis in Venezuela, the U.S. mission to the Islamic Republic “backs Venezuela’s nation “I just want to reiterate again, on Friday, tomorrow, mar told news website Wire on Friday: “… it is 2 lomats from Caracas rather than defying his United Nations said. and legitimate government in the face of any that if there is a demonstration in your city, wherever you are for the people of Venezuela to find a political order to leave. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is ex- foreign meddling in the country’s domestic in the world, that people come out for these protests,” she said. solution to resolve their differences through Maduro accuses the U.S. of pected to attend the open meeting requested affairs or any illegitimate and illegal measure Concluding her remarks, Hashemi reiterated her will to con- constructive dialogue and discussion without for Saturday, diplomats said. such as attempts for a coup or moves against tinue the fight at all costs. ‘leading major provocation’ resorting to violence.” Pompeo also called on members of the the people.” “I will speak out until my last breath always,” she said. “The U.S. is leading a major provocation “We believe democracy, peace and security Organization of American States (OAS) Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance “They came for me last week; tomorrow who are they going against Venezuela,” Maduro said. in Venezuela are of paramount importance for to recognize National Assembly President movement has also voiced support for to go to? Who are they going to pick up? When are you going to “I believe that in the world there is no doubt the progress and prosperity of the people of Juan Guaido as the interim president of the Venezuelan president in the face of say enough is enough? And I have to stand up for what is right that it is Donald Trump himself who wishes to Venezuela,” Kumar said, adding that the two impose a defacto... government.. in Venezuela, Venezuela. the U.S.-backed coup against Maduro’s no matter the cost,” she said. countries enjoyed “close and cordial relations.” At a meeting in Washington, Pompeo said “legitimate” government. against the people and against democracy.” Maduro thanks Russia, China “Donald Trump with his insanity of thinking “the time for debate is done. The regime of for- Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar, who made head- that he is the policeman of the world, believing and Turkey for support mer President Nicolas Maduro is illegitimate.” lines last November after becoming the first Turkey expects creation of In a post on Twitter, Maduro hailed Moscow, that he is the one in charge of Latin American Pompeo also pledged $20m in humani- Somali American ever elected to the U.S. Beijing and Ankara for their support amid and the Caribbean, it’s a major provocation.” tarian assistance to Venezuela and called on Congress, condemned the U.S. moves in Syria security zone in few the crisis. “[But] I tell you President Putin , just as Venezuelan security forces to protect Guaido’s Venezuela, calling on all to support efforts “I thank Russia, China, Turkey and other months: Erdogan I told people yesterday... everyone to work, physical safety. aimed at “facilitating a peaceful dialogue” in governments and people of the world for their everything will work, and the country continues The U.S. is also seeking to ensure that the crisis-hit country. Turkey considers the YPG a terrorist organization and strong support of the legitimately established 1 to go forward, and the government continues Venezuelan oil revenue goes to opposi- The European Union has not recognized an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK/ government of Venezuela” he said in a Twitter to govern,” he added. tion leader Juan Guaido, and to cut off Guaido as Venezuela’s new head of state, but Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê), which has been fighting for an post. Venezuela’s Supreme Court members money from President Nicolas Maduro, called for new elections in the South American autonomous region inside Turkey since 1984. “Venezuela is not alone!” he adds. applauded and pledged their unwavering national security advisor John Bolton said country. The Turkish military, with support from allied militants of The developments followed as Maduro said: support for President Maduro. on Thursday. Bolivia’s leftist President Evo Morales af- the so-called Free Syrian Army, has launched two cross-border “I had a phone call with President of Russia Germany: ‘Venezuela needs a The announcement signals that Washington firmed his long-standing alliance with Maduro, operations in northern Syria, dubbed “Euphrates Shield” and Vladimir Putin, with whom I spoke for about is willing to go beyond traditional diplomatic offering to stand by Venezuela’s side against “Olive Branch”, against the YPG and the Islamic State in Iraq chance to return to democracy’ 20 minutes, President Putin always expressing measures and will seek to starve Maduro’s what he often calls the U.S. meddling in South and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) Takfiri terrorists. Moreover, Germany says it favors recog- his solidarity with Venezuela.” government of revenue as his administration America’s affairs. Video shows U.S. deploying 250 trucks of arms in Syria despite pullout claim Meantime, the U.S. has reportedly deployed at least 250 trucks filled with weapons to its bases in Syria despite Trump’s decision Russia: U.S. igniting arms race in outer space by weaponizing it to withdraw all American forces from the country. Russia has warned that the United States’ new space that would seek to develop space-based sensors to detect A video by the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights missile program would weaponize outer space and ignite incoming missiles. (SOHR), based in Britain, purportedly shows the entry of about an arms race there. Reagan’s “Star Wars” program, officially known as 250 trucks loaded with weapons and logistical equipment. In a statement on Friday, the Russian Foreign Minis- the Strategic Defense Initiative, was a similar weapons The SOHR said it had obtained information from a number of try said that the space program recently declared by the plan that was introduced in the 1980s and sought to reliable sources that a column of over 100 vehicles carrying military administration of the United States President Donald develop new technologies for missile systems in outer and logistical equipment had entered the Syrian territory in the Trump would violate the practice of using outer space space. It was, however, dropped by later administra- east of the Euphrates, coming from Kurdistan Region of Iraq. for peaceful purposes. tions due to the complexity of the technology and its According to the Observatory, the arms have been distributed “It is obvious that the appearance of weapons in high costs. among the U.S. military bases in Hasakah, Raqqah and Aleppo. space would be contrary to the established prac- The development comes as the U.S. and Russia are The founder of an infamous private military company recently tice of international cooperation in the exploration already at loggerheads over a range of other issues, said the U.S. troops in Syria could be replaced with mercenaries. and use of outer space for peaceful purposes,” the prominently a missile treaty that also dates back to the In an interview with Fox Business, Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater statement read. Cold War. now called Academi, welcomed Trump’s Syria pullout decision, adding It compared the plan with the ill-fated “Star Wars” The White House has recently accused Moscow of that the U.S. allies should not be abandoned in the war-torn country. program launched by former President Ronald Reagan violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Damascus ‘welcomes’ Kurdish negotiation in the midst of Cold War rivalries between America and (INF) — signed in 1987 — and has announced it will appeal, talks to start ‘in days’ the former Soviet Union. unilaterally stop complying with it in February. Russia weapon did not fall under the category of armaments Elsewhere, the head of a Syrian Kurdish group says talks with “We are deeply disappointed that the U.S. — instead has denied violating the INF and has warned against banned by the INF. Damascus will begin “in days” following the government’s “pos- of building a constructive dialog on strategic stability the U.S.’s pullout. Earlier this week, Russia also announced that it had itive” reaction to a negotiation appeal. and the prevention of an arms race in space — chose The INF banned all land-based missiles with ranges proposed putting on a demonstration of the missile for “There are attempts to carry out negotiations. The Syrian to return to the next version of the Star Wars program of 310 to 3,420 miles and included missiles carrying American inspectors. Washington rejected that offer, government stance was positive,” Reuters quoted YPG chief Sipan of the times of President Ronald Reagan,” it said, both nuclear and conventional warheads. nevertheless. Hemo as saying. “We believe they will start in the coming days.” calling on Washington to “abandon such irresponsible A new missile developed by Russia has fueled that Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned of a “We want to be on good ties as neighbors, but the Turkish adventures.” dispute. On Wednesday, Russia officially released the new arms race if the agreement collapses. state does not accept this,” said Hemo. “If Turkey attacks our Last week, Trump unveiled a space missile program specifications of the missile for the first time, saying the (Source: Press TV) region, we will respond appropriately.” I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 14 WORLD SPORTS JANUARY 26, 2019

Olympic champion Adrian Djokovic destroys Pouille to set up having treatment for testicular cancer Nadal showdown A rampant Novak Djokovic completed a That was all the head-start Djokovic needed U.S. swimmer Nathan Adrian, a five times Olympic gold med- stunning 6-0 6-2 6-2 demolition of Lucas as he roared to a 5-0 lead before many fans allist, has announced he is undergoing treatment for testicular Pouille on Friday to storm into his seventh had settled in their seats. cancer with surgery scheduled for next week. Australian Open final and set up a mouth- The Serb smiled ruefully after wasting a The 30-year-old said on Instagram, where he was pictured in a watering title match with Rafa Nadal. set point with an ambitious drop shot from hospital gown, that his sights remained set on competing at next The six-times champion was at his dev- the baseline falling short. year’s Tokyo Summer Olympics, which would be his fourth Games. astating best in the one hour and 23 minute But with another two in the bank, he could “Life, like swimming the 100 free, can come at you hard and procession as he gave the hapless Pouille afford the luxury. fast as you can’t always see who, or what, may be chasing you a brutal lesson in Grand Slam tennis and Pouille did little with the reprieve, smack- down,” said the American, who won two relay golds in Rio de extended his perfect semi-finals record to ing a wild forehand long, and the set was Janeiro 2016 in a U.S. team that included Michael Phelps. 7-0 at Melbourne Park. gone in 23 minutes. Adrian also won two golds at London 2012, one of them the A day after second seed Nadal conceded A low rumble of unease coursed through 100m freestyle, and another at Beijing 2008. only six games to 20-year-old Greek Stefanos the stadium as Djokovic broke to lead 3-1 “Recently I went to the doctor as something didn’t seem quite Tsitsipas in their one-sided semi-final, Djok- in the second, with fans being served up an right...after a few tests and visits with a specialist, I unfortunately ovic continued the next generation smack- execution rather than treated to a contest. learned that I have testicular cancer,” he said. down by coughing up only four. After Pouille held serve to 4-2, the crowd “On the bright side, we caught it early, I have already started Attacking the lines with machine-like pre- erupted. treatment and the prognosis is good. I will be back in the water cision, he broke the 28th-seeded Frenchman But even his most loyal fans would have in a few short weeks with my sights fully set on Tokyo,” he added. seven times yet never looked in danger of tutted at how he conceded the second set Adrian also has an Olympic silver and two bronzes, including conceding a break point. in 33 minutes. the 50 and 100m freestyle at Rio. He struggled to remember whether he had Bidding for his 15th Grand Slam title Djokovic win. He squandered a chance to hold serve He has eight long course world championship gold medals, played any better in his previous Melbourne and a record seventh at Melbourne Park, His quarter-final against Kei Nishikori with an errant backhand then lazily fired three silvers and two bronzes. semi-finals. Djokovic will meet Nadal in Sunday’s final lasted only 52 minutes before the 29-year- wide off the same wing to give up a two- (Source: Reuters) “It’s definitely one of the best match- seven years after edging him in a five hour old Japanese retired, while Pouille slogged set lead. es I have ever had on this court, definitely. 53-minute epic, the longest Grand Slam through more than three hours against Milos From there it was academic, as Djokovic Everything worked the way I intended before final on record. Raonic. whipped through the last set in 27 minutes, the match,” said Djokovic, after Pouille netted “I would definitely want to buy the ticket The Serb was unbeaten by Frenchmen in with Pouille yet another of the Tour’s young Two Bulgarian players meekly on a second match point. for the match, for those who haven’t yet,” 27 previous matches at the Grand Slams, his hopefuls left humbled by the master Serb. The score would suggest it was Djokovic’s Djokovic quipped in his on-court interview. last defeat coming against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga “When he’s like this, he’s unbelievable, charged with match-fixing most dominant semi, just edging the 6-2 6-2 “That (2012 final) was a once in a life-time at the 2010 quarter-finals in Melbourne. and not so many players can beat him for 6-1 humiliation of David Ferrer in the 2013 event and hopefully the outcome will be the UNDER SIEGE sure,” said 24-year-old Pouille. Bulgarian prosecutors have charged two second division players tournament. same for me.” A nervous-looking Pouille felt the weight “Maybe one or two. I don’t really know with match-fixing as part of an investigation into alleged corruption Only five unforced errors came off his Before he and Pouille entered the court on of history and was soon under siege, striking what to say.” in Bulgarian football, the domestic football association (BFU) said. racket, 22 fewer than Pouille’s haul. Friday, all the signs pointed to a comfortable a double-fault to fall 2-0 behind. (Source: Reuters) The BFU said prosecutors had charged players Lubomir Vitanov and Ivan Topuzov from Bulgarian club Bansko with establishing a criminal organization, aiming to commit crimes against sport. Koulibaly back to action at stadium Investigators checking whether Sala’s Prosecutors said the players allegedly manipulated unspecified Bansko games in Bulgaria’s second division during the 2016-2017 where he suffered racist abuse flight was properly licensed season. Neither Bansko nor the players, who were suspended indefinitely by the BFU, were immediately available for comment when contacted by Reuters. Soon after the announcement, Bulgarian authorities, including the BFU, were criticized by fans on social media and websites for punishing only smaller clubs. There have been media reports of widespread match-fixing and corruption in the Balkan country for years, but nobody has been brought to trial and the European Commission has criticized the authorities for doing little to fight the problem. The first documented manipulated game in the country took place in 1949 when Levski Sofia and city neighbors Akademik drew 1-1 in order to guarantee that CSKA, Levski’s bitter rivals, would be relegated to the second division. (Source: Mirror)

More mature and with mixed feelings about posted on Napoli’s Twitter feed that the An investigation into the missing flight that of silent reflection” for the player and pilot a role he did expect to have, Napoli defender last few weeks had changed him. was carrying Premier League footballer will take place at the next round of Premier Hazard on Sarri criticism: Kalidou Koulibaly returns to Serie A action “I’ve become more mature over the Emiliano Sala will look at “all operational League fixtures on Tuesday and Wednesday. on Saturday for the first time since he was last three weeks,” he said. “I don’t think aspects” including licensing and flight plans. Argentine striker Sala, 28, signed for Cardiff I don’t care racially insulted during a match at San Siro. I could’ve responded in this way before.” The Piper PA-46 Malibu disappeared from Nantes last weekend and was travelling Koulibaly, widely regarded as one of Asked if he liked being a symbol in the on Monday with Cardiff City’s new signing between the cities on Monday night. Eden Hazard has brushed off Maurizio Sarri’s claim he is more the top defenders in Serie A, has become a fight against racism, he replied: “Yes, and no and pilot Dave Ibbotson on board. At 19:15 GMT, Mr Ibbotson made a an individual than a leader and said he doesn’t care about the symbol of the battle against racism in Italian —— no because it’s sad that we have to fight A search near Guernsey was called off request to descend, before losing contact Chelsea coach’s comments. football since the incident on Boxing Day. against discrimination in this day and age.” on Thursday afternoon despite pleas from with Jersey air traffic control. Sarri criticized Hazard after Chelsea’s limp 2-0 defeat to Ar- The Senegalese defender was subjected “I believe we are all equal and that’s a Sala’s sister. The Air Accident Investigation An extensive search took place, but senal last week and made a remarkable claim that some players to racist insults from some Inter Milan value I’ve had since I was little. It’s some- Branch said it had launched a probe. Guernsey’s harbour master explained are “extremely difficult to motivate.” fans during Napoli’s 1-0 defeat and his thing I can believe in and I can show that Mr Ibbotson, 59, of Crowle, Lincolnshire, a “difficult” decision was made to call it “I’m not focused on what the manager says,” Hazard said after anger boiled over when he was sent off to everyone.” held a private pilot’s licence and passed off, saying the chances of survival were Chelsea beat Tottenham to reach the Carabao Cup final. “I don’t for dissent. “We need to teach these values from an a medical exam as recently as November, “extremely remote”. care about that to be fair. If the manager has to say something he Inter were ordered to play their next early age, in school and throughout life. I don’t according to Federal Aviation Administra- However, Romina Sala said she feels will say it. We are big men so we can talk together, no problem at two home games behind closed doors need to say to my own son, but it’s always tion records. The Civil Aviation Authority her brother is still alive and pleaded with all.” Hazard scored his 13th of the season and Chelsea won 2-1 to while Koulibaly was given a two-match hard to explain what racism is to a child.” said the aircraft was registered in the US, rescuers not to give up hope. take the semifinal against Spurs to penalties, where they prevailed ban which, combined with the Serie A Koulibaly said there had been a positive so fell under its regulations. Mr Barker acknowledged the family 4-2. And the Belgium captain said he and his teammates did not winter break, means he has not played a side to what happened, in particular the US law states private pilots cannot make were “not content” with the decision to need a public dressing down from their head coach to play better. league game since. support from his family. a profit by carrying passengers. stop actively searching but said he was “In the dressing room, most of the players have won almost In the wake of the incidents, the Italian “It’s great to know they’re behind me,” There were “alarm bells all around” “absolutely confident” no more could have everything,” Hazard said. “We are big players and we know when federation has issued new guidelines to he said. “I’ve had messages from people the incident, aviation consultant Alastair been done. He insisted UK coastguard pro- we are not playing well and when we are playing good. In the end, match officials on how to deal with racism who don’t know me personally so I’ve had Rosenchein told BBC Radio Wales’ Good tocols were followed and said he hoped the we just need to look in the same way and try to win games. That’s it. during matches. lots of support over the last three weeks. Morning Wales programme. families of the missing pair found some “I don’t have a problem with it at all. The manager thinks By coincidence, Koulibaly’s return will Some negative things have happened but He said: “The one issue is whether a comfort in the incident remaining open, what they want to think. For me, the best response is to be on be in a match against Inter’s neighbours I’ll never forget all the support I’ve had.” single-engine air craft should be flying despite searches ceasing. the pitch and to win games. I did it. AC Milan at the same San Siro stadium. Koulibaly said that did not appreciate at night, in winter, over water and with However, a petition launched in France “I understand when the team is not playing well, the manager Born in France to Senegalese parents, the problem when he first moved to Italy passengers. “This is the real issue - it is a to have the search resumed has gathered has to criticize the players. I don’t like to say I’m the best player, his importance to Napoli was all too obvious until he started to understand Italian. really bad combination.” more than 55,000 signatures. but it’s always this kind of player who can put the team winning in the 3-2 home win over Bologna when “France is more advanced in that re- Mr Rosenchein explained that if the Cardiff City’s owner Vincent Tan said: the game [who is criticized]. I just try to do my best. their opponents scored with two headers. spect,” he said. “I’ve never had a problem of engine failed, the pilot would need to land “Monday evening’s news shook everyone (Source: ESPN) In four-and-a-half seasons at Napoli, this type, either in football or life in general.” - and at night he would not have visual cues at Cardiff City FC to the core. Koulibaly has become one of European club “I grew up with Turkish, Senegalese, to rely on. He said despite only 1,400 of “The response from the football commu- football’s most accomplished defenders North African (and) French friends. ...it the planes being built there was a “quite nity has been truly touching and we place and his imposing physical presence has was a big mixture but there was never any significant” number of deaths and injuries on record our sincere thanks to those who earned him the nickname K2. problem.” from flights involving them. have sent messages of support. Scaloni has ‘good feeling’ Messi The 27-year-old said in an interview (Source: Reuters) It has also been confirmed that “a moment (Source: BBC) will return

Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni has said he has “a good feeling” that Lionel Messi will return to the national team in March. Osaka, Kvitova chase double delight in Melbourne final Barcelona’s Messi has not featured for Argentina since cap- The rewards could not get bigger when Petra Kvitova takes She missed the 2017 tournament at Melbourne Park while taining them at the World Cup, where they were knocked out on Naomi Osaka in Saturday’s Australian Open final with recovering from the surgery and it was just not a case of by winners France. one of them set to emerge as a fresh champion at Melbourne overcoming a physical injury as the attack left an indelible Argentina take on Venezuela in Madrid on March 22 and Park as well as the new world number one. mental scar too. Czech Republic in Dresden four days later, with the friendlies Four months after stunning 23-times Grand Slam champion “I have been in the final of the Grand Slam, but this is a part of their preparations for the Copa America in June. Serena Williams in the final of the U.S. Open last September, little bit different,” she told reporters on Friday. Asked about Messi’s possible return, Scaloni told reporters: 21-year-old Osaka is one win away from becoming the first “I’m not playing on the grass, but I think it’s just probably “We will probably talk days before we provide the list for the player since Jennifer Capriati to win the next Grand Slam a little bit more special because it’s after everything I have FIFA March window. after her maiden major title. been through. So I think it’s just different, but I don’t think “When the time comes, we will speak to him, and we have a The fourth seed, one of the cleanest strikers of the ball it’s, like, more nervous.” good feeling. I hope he can be with us and be happy.” in women’s tennis, is not expecting it to be a cakewalk, es- The 28-year-old, currently sixth in the rankings, won the Scaloni, who took charge of Argentina on a temporary basis pecially being pitted against an opponent as aggressive as Sydney International warm-up before arriving in Melbourne after the World Cup before accepting the role full time last month, Osaka and also more experienced with two Wimbledon titles and has not looked back, having strolled past her opponents said his only regret so far was not having had the chance to coach under her belt. in a 11-match winning streak. Messi. Messi, who spent Christmas in his native Rosario, has not Osaka fought back from a set and 4-1 down against Tai- Osaka told reporters after her semi-final win. “I’ve watched Saturday could, however, be a different fight against the publicly spoken about his national team future. wan’s Hsieh Su-wei in the third round at Melbourne Park and her play the Wimbledon finals. big-hitting Osaka, who hammered 56 winners and clubbed Brazil coach Tite has said he hopes the Barcelona star will be showed her determination in winning two more three-setters “I know what a great player she is. It’s definitely going 15 aces to defeat another Czech player in Karolina Pliskova. part of the Argentina squad at the Copa America, adding: “I want to keep a 13-match victory streak in Grand Slams running. to be very tough for me.” “I need to play my best tennis, what I can say. I think Messi and all the best players to come to Brazil. She will need all of that grit if she hopes to stop Kvitova, Kvitova is one match away from capping one of the most Naomi is on fire. She’s in very good form,” Kvitova said. “I reiterate that a team, in order to be the best, must beat their who is yet to drop a set en route to her maiden Australian inspiring comebacks in the history of the sport, having had “She’s an aggressive player, which I am, as well. So I rivals and overcome high-level opponents. That is why we want Open final, in their first career meeting. to undergo a nearly four-hour surgery on her playing hand think it will be about who gonna take the first point and Neymar, Messi, [Alexis] Sanchez, [Luis] Suarez also.” “I think to have the opportunity to play her for the first in 2016 after being attacked by a knife-wielding intruder push the other a little bit.” (Source: Soccernet) time in a final of a Grand Slam is something very amazing,” at her home in the Czech Republic. (Source: Eurosport) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JANUARY 26, 2019 SPORTS 15

Queiroz: Asia’s big guns Persepolis midfielder Adam Hemati out for season

SPORTS TEHRAN — Persepolis football team midfielder are coming for Iran desk Adam Hemati underwent a successful surgery on Friday to repair a torn meniscus. The 24-year-old player has been ruled out for the rest of the season. Hemati joined Persepolis in 2017 and scored a crucial goal in Abu Dhabi: Islamic Republic of Iran head coach Carlos 1-0 win over Sepidrood in Iran Professional League. Queiroz has been quick to dismiss the notion that his side He was also a member of Persepolis in the AFC Champions are favourites to win the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 after League, where the Iranian team became runners-up in the Thursday’s impressive 3-0 win over China PR saw Team competition. Melli book their place in the semi-finals. Mohsen Rabikhah is another Persepolis player who has suffered Iran shone brightly throughout the victory, with goals an injury setback in the team’s winter camp in Doha, Qatar. from Mehdi Taremi, Sardar Azmoun and substitute Karim Ansarifard ultimately making the difference as Queiroz’s charges reached the last four of Asia’s premier event for the Sky Blues in talks with former first time since 2004. Despite their impressive form – Iran have now racked up Iranian international striker four wins and five successive clean sheets – Queiroz remains adamant that the three-time champions of Asia are still not one of the tournament’s leading contenders ahead of Sydney FC are in talks to sign former Iranian international for- next Monday’s semi-final showdown with Japan in Al Ain. ward Reza Ghoochannejhad in what would be a massive boost “The win against China is a very important one for both to their A-League title hopes and forthcoming AFC Champions me and my players,” declared the former Manchester United League campaign. assistant coach. The Herald understands the Sky Blues are close to securing “Our dream has always been to be in the middle of the the 31-year-old on a loan deal for the remainder of the season top teams in the final four, something which we have now from Cypriot powerhouse APOEL FC. done and are very happy about. Ghoochannejhad - nicknamed ‘Gucci’ - scored 17 goals in 44 “However, there are only three favorites to win this compe- appearances for Iran before retiring after last year’s World Cup tition and they are Japan, Korea Republic and Australia. For in Russia, where he was part of Carlos Queiroz’s squad but did us to be labelled favorites is not correct, it is an ill-fitting tag.” not play a minute. “In front of us we have just another game. Of course, the Prior to joining APOEL, he played two seasons for SC Heer- game has added significance in terms of enthusiasm and enveen, where he bagged 27 goals in 67 Eredivisie matches. excitement, but when the whistle goes you simply have to play. Reports in the Cypriot media say Ghoochannejhad could be “This is especially true as now we know the big sharks just days away from confirming a move to Australia. will come for us – the favorites of Asian football – Japan and Sitting in second place on the A-League ladder, two points Korea Republic are coming for us, so we need to do more.” “We must always progress with the same humble attitude did against China will not work [in the match against behind leaders Perth Glory, the Sky Blues remain firmly in With Japan waiting in the wings, Queiroz believes Iran and strive to be better every game,” he said. Japan], so we need to ensure that we improve game the hunt for silverware despite some shaky form under rookie must improve even further if they are to overcome one of “I always say to my team that after a match the Ira- after game.” coach Steve Corica. the best sides in Asia. nian shirt must always be in a higher place. What we (Source: the-afc) The addition of Ghoochannejhad could give them a much-needed new dimension up front and a quality strike partner for Adam Le Fondre. Iran down China to seal Asian Cup We just focus on Japan match: Their interest in Ghoochannejhad has been longstanding. The club originally looked at him as a marquee player for this semis berth Sardar Azmoun season but were unable to meet his wage demands. He subsequently signed a two-year contract with APOEL, which made him one of the highest-paid players in Cyprus, but has played only 10 times and is seeking a move to a team where he will feature more regularly. Born in Mashhad, Iran, Ghoochannejhad’s family migrated to the Netherlands when he was four years old. He spent the first eight years of his career playing for clubs in the Netherlands and Belgium before a two-season stint with Charlton Athletic in the English Championship. The prospect of living in Australia is understood to be appealing to Ghoochannejhad and he has held encouraging discussions in recent days with Sydney FC officials, including Corica and football director Terry McFlynn. The Sky Blues have a chunk of their salary cap left to spend and are keen to add another attacking player to their final-third stocks this month. Numerous players are on their radar but Ghoo- channejhad is their preferred candidate - not only because of his pedigree but his status as an Asian player, which means he could be part of their AFC Champions League squad under the 4+1 rule without squeezing out another import. SPORTS TEHRAN — Iran scoreboard 2-0. SPORTS TEHRAN — Iran na- firmly in the hunt for silverware in the Asian It is now on APOEL to accept the offer on the table, with another desknational football team Iran were the dominant team in the desktional football team Cup after 43 years. Greek club understood to have put in a bid for Ghoochannejhad. defeated China 3-0 in the 2019 AFC Asian second half and created several chances forward Sardar Azmoun says the match “We are a united team in the UAE and The Sky Blues cannot go any higher than the current bid due to Cup quarter-final on Thursday. but the team’s strikers wasted their against China is finished and from now on work together to win our matches. In the salary cap restrictions. In the match held in Abu Dhabi’s opportunities. they just focus on Japan contest. first goal, I understood Taremi is unmarked Corica will be hoping the deal gets over the line sooner rather Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, Sardar Substitute Karim Ansarifard scored Team Melli defeated China 3-0 Thursday and sent the ball to him. I will again pass than later to help cover for the expected absence of Siem de Jong Azmoun robbed a ball from Feng Xiaoting Iran’s third goal after a gift from Shi Ke night to secure a place at the 2019 AFC the ball to each of my teammates who is for several weeks, with the Dutchman having suffered a knee in the 18th minute and passed it to in the added time. Asian Cup semi-finals. in a much better position,” Azmoun said. injury in their 1-0 win over Wellington Phoenix. Mehdi Taremi who was ready to open Team Melli will face Japan in the The 24-year-old striker set up Mehdi “Thanks to everyone who supported (Source: smh.com.au) the empty goal. competition’s semis on Jan. 28. Taremi for Iran’s opener and then scored his us so far and we have two more important In the 31th minute, Azmoun took Iran last won the Cup in 1976 third goal in the tournament after round- matches. First, we focus on beating Japan advantage of yet more blunder from and they are looking forward to end ing the China goalkeeper in the first half. and we know that how strong Japan. I hope China defender Liu Yiming and then their 43-year trophy drought in the Iran will meet The Samurai Blue on we will defeat them and we need the help Paralympians win rounded goalkeeper Yan Junling to made competition. Monday as Carlos Queiroz’s team remain of our supporters,” he declared. prestigious awards

Paralympic champions Alexandr Kolyadin and Zulfiya Gabidullina Abdulaziz scorcher sees Qatar eliminate Korea Republic will hope that 2019 is as successful as last year after they were Qatar continue to impress at AFC Asian Cup 2019 as – having probably not expected Hwang to miss a named Best Male and Female Athlete of the Year in Kazakhstan they beat Korea Republic 1-0 in the quarter-finals on header in front of him – could only sky his shot from at the annual People’s Favourite Awards. Friday to advance into the last four. two yards out. For Para Nordic skier Kolyadin the prize represents a special Following a goalless first half at the Zayed Sports City Then, in the 77th minute, the Taegeuk Warriors boost ahead of the World Championships in Prince George, Stadium, Abdulaziz Hatem emerged as the hero with came excruciatingly close to breaking the deadlock Canada, next month. a stunning 78th-minute strike to win it for Al-Annabi. when Kim Jin-su’s delicate 20-yard freekick clipped The result continues their impressive run at Asian the outside of the post with Saad beaten. Cup 2019, where they have thus far won five consecutive Barely a minute later, Qatar finally went ahead games while scoring 12 goals and conceding none. following a moment of inspiration from Abdulaziz, Nonetheless, for most parts of Friday’s encounter, who received possession 30 yards out from goal, de- it was the South Koreans – boasting Tottenham star cided to let fly on his left foot and produced a fantastic Son Heung-min in the side – that looked the likelier laser-guided effort into the bottom corner. to progress. Immediately from the restart, Korea Republic In a first half that was bereft of many clear oppor- looked to have levelled the scores when Lee Yong’s tunities, Korea Republic had the best chance when deflected cross was expertly guided home by Hwang, Hwang In-beom pounced on a loose ball on the edge just three minutes in the second 45, having done well only for the strike to be correctly ruled out for offside. of the box and tried to bend one into the top corner to latch onto a 60-yard clearance and make his way And, as the game entered its dying stages, the Tae- that sailed just high and wide. to a shooting position. geuk Warriors went all out in search of an equalizer But things really came to life after the break with Lee Chung-yong was next to threaten the Qatar but Qatar held firm to secure their place in the semis. Hwang Ui-jo forcing Saad Al-Sheeb into a smart save goal when the ball fell to him at the back post but (Source: Fox Sports Asia) In 2018, he became the first Kazakh Para athlete to win Paralympic Winter Games gold in PyeongChang following his victory in the men’s 1.5 km standing. Moriyasu: Japan growing stronger The 45-year-old is also a professional snow sculptor display- Dubai: Hajime Moriyasu liked what he led to Japan’s goal, as they were award- “It was good that the players did not far without conceding a goal. ing his work in public places around his hometown Kustanai. saw as Japan moved into the AFC Asian ed a penalty after Ritsu Doan had been concede any goals to Vietnam. It was good Moriyasu, speaking before Japan’s Gabidullina was voted the best female athlete following her Cup UAE 2019 semi-finals on Thursday. brought down in the box. The midfielder that we had many goal scoring opportu- semi-final opponents were known, said: three medals at the Indonesia 2018 Asian Para Games. Their place in the last four against Is- then stepped up to convert. nities but Vietnam played with patience, “The approach will be based on our op- The class S3 swimmer is the first athlete from Kazakhstan to lamic Republic of Iran was sealed with “As a team, we earned another solid and accuracy is something we need to ponents, but we have learnt so much in take a gold medal in the Paralympic Games after she won the a 1-0 win over plucky Vietnam and the experience, and hopefully, it will be the improve in our next match.” the Asian Cup. women’s 100m freestyle S3 at Rio 2016. Japan head coach said the performance same for the next match. The 1-0 win meant Japan became the “We have had to defend, as was the It was the eight edition of the People’s Favourite Awards. against feisty opposition was proof that “As we have players with little inter- first team in the tournament’s history to case against Saudi Arabia (in the Round As a tradition, each winner is drawn by famous Kazakh the Samurai Blue are growing stronger national experience, it is important that win five consecutive matches with single of 16) and sometimes, we dominated but illustrator Valery Krestnikov and the draw is sold after the with each passing match. they are exposed to tough matches on a goal margins. couldn’t find a way through. These expe- ceremony in a charity auction. Japan dominated the tie at the Al Mak- big stage like the Asian Cup. “The players were really focused despite riences will be used to prepare the team The winners of the 27 categories were chosen by online voting. toum Stadium and shrugged off being “Playing tough matches and winning finding it difficult to score. They kept doing for the semi-final.” The list includes Kazakh actress Samal Yeslyamova who won the denied a goal in the first half by a Video in the knockout stage boosts confidence what they had to do, which was very pleasing.” Japan will meet Iran at the Hazza bin Best Actress award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival for her role Assistant Referee (VAR) review to advance. and also leads to the development of the Up next for Japan will be the impressive Zayed Stadium in Al Ain on Monday. in the movie “Ayka” shortlisted for the 2019 Oscars. Ironically, it was a VAR review that players and team.” Iran, who have won all five matches thus (Source: the-afc) (Source: Paralympic.org) Prayer Times Noon:12:17 Evening: 17:44 Dawn: 5:42 (tomorrow) Sunrise: 7:08 (tomorrow) JANUARY 26, 2019 ART&CULTURE I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y www.tehrantimes.com Managing Director: Ali Asgari Editor-in-Chief: Mohammad Ghaderi Editorial Dept.: Fax: (+98 21) 88808214 — 88808895 Iran seeks UNESCO status [email protected] Switchboard Operator: Tel: (+98 21) 43051000 Advertisements Dept.: Telefax: (+98 21) 43051450 Public Relations Office: Tel: (+98 21) 88805807 Subscription & Distribution Dept.: Tel: (+98 21) 43051603 www.eshterak.ir Distributor: Padideh Novin Co. for dotar instrument Tel: 88911433 Webmaster: [email protected] ARTTEHRAN – Iran is Printed at: Hamshahri No. 3 - ISSN: 1017-94 deskseeking to register the art of dotar craftsmanship and playing Tehrantimes79 Tehrantimesdaily the two-stringed, long-necked lute on UNESCO’s Representative List of the No. 18, Bimeh Alley, Nejatollahi St., Tehran, Iran Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. P.o. Box: 14155-4843 A UNESCO committee has recently Zip Code: 1599814713 begun mulling over Iran’s file for the instrument, Behruz Vejdani, a Persian music scholar who has collaborated in collecting information for the file, told the Persian service of MNA on Friday. The instrument, mostly common in northeastern Iran, is played in Persian mystic music. It is also played in regions in the Central Asian. Vejdani said that the file was submitted GUIDE TO to UNESCO 18 months ago to avoid SPIRITUAL AWAKENING any claim from other countries on the instrument. However, he said that the other A usurped stone in a house causes the ruin of countries can ask UNESCO to add them that house. to the file but it refers to dotar as native Imam Ali (AS) Iranian instrument. UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will WHAT’S IN ART GALLERIES announce its decision about the file Painting during its 14th session, which will take An exhibition of paintings place in Bogotá, Colombia from December by Hooman Bayat is underway at 9 to 14, 2019. Shokuh Gallery. The art of crafting and playing A group of dotar players performs during the Khorasan Music Week at the House of Humanities Thinkers in Tehran on March 9, The exhibit named “Qajar Kamancheh, a bowed string instrument, 2018. (Mehr/Masud Saki) Play” will run until February 5 was inscribed on the UNESCO’s list as at the gallery located at 19 Amir a joint file from Iran and Azerbaijan in Earlier in 2012, Iran has officially inscribe the art of crafting and playing on UNESCO’s list for the Republic of Nuri Alley, North Salimi St. near December 2017. objected to UNESCO’s decision to tar, a long-necked stringed instrument, Azerbaijan. Andarzgu Blvd. Saye Gallery is playing host to an exhibition of paintings by Mahsa Makki. The exhibit entitled “Posture, Schmitt’s “Partners in Crime” on stage in Tehran Piece, Prague” runs until January ARTTEHRAN – “Partners “I believe people must talk about their 30 at the gallery located at No. deskin Crime”, a play by feelings and share their words, and find 21, 13th Alley, Sanai St. of Karim Franco–Belgian playwright and novelist an expert to solve their problems,” he Khan Ave. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is currently said. Paintings by Farinaz on stage at the Parviz Parastui Hall in “In this play, I have tried to push Nasirpur are currently on display Tehran. these types of couples to rethink and in an exhibition at Deilaman Speaking to the Persian service of save their lives because these problems Gallery. MNA, Sevak Nazarian, the director of will eventually affect their children and The exhibit titled “Story of the play, said that the play narrates the their future,” he added. Blot’s Texture” will run until life of many Iranian couples who are Schmitt weaves the story around two February 5 at the gallery located in a state of emotional unavailability. spouses. Gilles is suffering from amnesia at No. 50 Purmeshkati St. off “However, this is a worldwide as the result of an accident, returns from Shariati Ave. problem and can happen to a couple the hospital, and his wife Lise tries to A large group of artists, in any country. When one partner of a help him remember his life. including Negar Motahhari, couple expects the other to turn into what Milad Qanbari and Ani Arezumanian Mahshid Arab, Mona Fazel, he/she desires, the problem appears,” Ani Arezumanian (L) and Milad Qanbari act in a scene from “Partners in Crime” by Sevak are the two actors of the play, which will Nazanin Hashemian, Saghar Nazarian has said. Nazarian at the Parviz Parastui Hall in Tehran. (Tiwall/Sara Saqfi) be running until January 30. Anvari and Firuzeh Bakhtiari, are displaying their latest paintings in an exhibition at Atashzad Gallery. The exhibit titled “Utopia” will run until January 30 at the gallery Leader’s speeches on sacrifice, martyrdom published located at 3 North Abbaspur CULTURE TEHRAN – “Line of Sacrifice”, a The first three volumes contain the speeches the Leader (Tavanir) St. near Vanak Sq. deskcomprehensive collection of speeches made for the war veterans, while the fourth volume A collection of paintings by of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed contains his memories on sacrifice and martyrdom. Tahereh Nayebi Ardestani is on Ali Khamenei on the culture of sacrifice and martyrdom, The fifth book includes letters and messages on the view in an exhibition at Golestan was unveiled during a ceremony in Tehran on Monday. topic, while the last one contains a photo collection on First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri reads from a book Gallery. Published by the Foundation for Martyrs and War martyrs. from “Line of Sacrifice” at the unveiling ceremony of the The exhibit will be running Veterans’ Affairs, the six-volume collection covers the “Line of Sacrifice” is offered with a CD containing collection at the Foundation for Martyrs and War Veterans’ until January 30 at the gallery speeches the Leader has delivered over the past 40 years. the entire collection. Affairs on January 22. (FMWVA/Saeidreza Razavi) that can be found at 34 Kamasai St. in the Darus neighborhood. An exhibition of paintings by Masiha Mandegar and Nushin Claudio Magris’ “A Different Sea” published in Persian Mohaqqeqi is currently underway at Shalman Gallery. CULTURE TEHRAN – Acclaimed Translated by Maryam Sepehri, the 1991 a woman. falsehoods. desk Entitled “Figure in the Italian scholar and writer book is about Enrico, a young intellectual He has been taught by his closest Magris has won several literary awards Shadows”, the exhibit will run Claudio Magris’ novella “A Different Sea” man who leaves his city to spend several friend, Carlo, a philosopher and poet who including Vilenica Prize in 2009, FIL until January 30 at the gallery has recently been published in Persian by years living alone with his ancient Greek committed suicide in his early twenties, to Literary Award in Romance Languages located at 27 Kavusi Alley, West Farhang-e Arash Publications in Tehran. texts, his flocks and, every now and then, search for an authentic life, free of social in 2914 and Franz Kafka Prize in 2016. Rudbar St., off Mirdamad Blvd. Tania Esmaeilian and Setareh Heidarzadeh are showcasing their paintings in “Pardis and Parisa” to go on stage at Vahdat Hall an exhibition at Sherveh Gallery. ARTTEHRAN – The Iranian troupe Aio plans Peyman Mansuri will conduct the orchestra while Farzad performance in 1973 to celebrate Tjeknavorian’s 80th birthday. The exhibit named “It’s deskto restage maestro Loris Tjeknavorian’s Amini is the director of the performance. “Pardis and Parisa” was Tjeknavorian’s first Persian opera, Autumn” will run until January opera “Pardis and Parisa” at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on February Earlier in January 2018, Mansuri conducted the opera which was performed in several countries, including the U.S., 30 at the gallery located at 9 4 and 5. at Vahdat Hall for the first time in 45 years after its debut England and Armenia. Photo: A poster for “Pardis and Parisa”. Khojasteh Alley, Daemi St. off Fatemi St. Zimbabwe declares popular musician Director says no harm intended with Sculpture An exhibition of sculptures Mtukudzi national hero Oscar-nominated child murder film by Aref Rudbari is underway at CAMA Gallery. HARARE (Reuters) — President Em- NEW YORK (Reuters) — The director Twitter that the film had made her family The exhibit titled “Verza” will merson Mnangagwa declared Zimbabwe’s of an Oscar-nominated short film about relive the event all over again. Other family continue until January 30 at the internationally renowned musician Oliver two boys who murdered a British toddler members said the film humanized the two gallery located at No. 44, 10th Mtukudzi a national hero on Thursday, in 1993 on Thursday defended the film, young killers. Golestan, Pasdaran St. granting him a status following his death saying he never intended to bring fresh Lambe said in a statement that the film that has been a preserve for ruling party anguish to the families involved. “was never intended to bring any further Photo elites and independence veterans. “Detainment”, a 30-minute film about anguish to the family of James Bulger and A collection of photos by Mtukudzi, 66, and affectionately known the death of James Bulger, caused a furor we never intended any disrespect by not as “Tuku”, died at a local clinic on Wednes- in Britain after it was nominated for an consulting them. Ali Zanjani is on display in an exhibition at Ag Gallery. day from diabetes, ending a career that Oscar on Tuesday in the short film category. “While it is a painfully difficult case spanned four decades and 67 albums. An online petition asking for the film to to understand, I believe we have a The exhibition will run until Zimbabwean musician Oliver Mtukudzi Mnangagwa told mourners at Mtuku- be withdrawn from Oscar contention has responsibility to try and make sense of March 1 at the gallery located sings at the funeral of Movement for dzi’s house outside Harare that the deci- attracted more than 130,000 signatures. what happened,” he added. at 3 Pesyan St., off Moqaddas Democratic Change (MDC) leader, sion to confer national hero status on the The James Bulger case, in which two Lambe said there was “no depiction Ardebili St., in the Zafaranieh Morgan Tsvangirai, in Buhera, Zimbabwe, musician was unanimously made by his 10-year-old boys lured Bulger from a of the murder or graphic details of any neighborhood. February 20, 2018. (Reuters/Philimon government and ruling party. northern English shopping mall and kind” in the film. Photos by Negar Zandedel Bulawayo) Mnangagwa was making his first public tortured him to death, is one of Britain’s “Detainment” won several awards at and Zahra Paydar are on display in an exhibition at Theme Gallery. appearance since he cut short a trip abroad Earlier, opposition leader Nelson Cha- most notorious criminal cases. film festivals in Europe in 2018 but has The exhibit entitled “On saying he wanted to calm the country fol- misa said there was no question Mtukudzi “Detainment,” directed by Vincent no theatrical release date. Observation” will run until lowing violent protests last week sparked was a national hero who unified the nation. Lamb, uses transcripts of police interviews, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts January 31 at the gallery that can by his decision to increase fuel prices. Mtukudzi’s music cut across generations official records and security camera footage and Sciences, whose members choose the be found at 10 Zebarjad Alley, “We have agreed that he is a national and in his later years he produced duets of the boys luring Bulger away from the Oscar nominees, did not return a request North Villa St., off Karim Khan hero,” Mnangagwa said to cheers and with younger musicians, some of whom mall. Actors play the parts of the two for comment on Thursday. The Oscar Ave. ululation. The government will pay all he nurtured at his arts center in Norton, convicted boys. winners will be announced at a ceremony expenses for his funeral. outside Harare. Bulger’s mother, Denise Fergus, said on in Hollywood on Feb. 24.