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WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13256 Saturday NOVEMBER 17, 2018 Aban 26, 1397 Rabi’ Al awwal 9, 1440 World knows that Five of Iran’s Alireza Jahanbakhsh Iranian designs receive Iran is ‘honest’ abducted border one to watch at nominations at World Architecture 2 guards freed 2 AFC Asian Cup 15 Festival in Amsterdam 16 State Duma ratifies temporary agreement See page 2 on free trade zone between EAEU, Iran The State Duma (lower house of par- environment and national environment, Response to liament) ratified the temporary agree- the use of protective measures and customs ment on formation of a free trade zone administration. between the Eurasian Economic Union Chairman of the Board of the Eur- (EAEU) and the Islamic Republic of Iran asian Economic Commission (EEC) on Thursday. Tigran Sargsyan told TASS earlier that The agreement signed in Astana on the provisional agreement on free trade Saudis will May 17, 2018 sets the main rules of trade zone with Iran was expected to come into between the EAEU and Iran most closely force starting 2019, after the ratification to those of the World Trade Organization procedure is completed in all countries (WTO), which Iran does not belong to. It that signed the agreement. be ‘covert but also specifies the issues of most favorable (Source: TASS) Cancer drug, lenalidomide, produced in Iran SOCIETY TEHRAN — Iran suc- to treat anemia in patients with cer- painful’ desk ceeded in domestically tain blood/bone marrow disorders production of lenalidomide, a cancer drug, (myelodysplastic syndromes-MDS). for one-twentieth of its original price, IRNA Lenalidomide may lessen the need reported on Thursday. for blood transfusions. According to WebMD, lenalidomide Lenalidomide-- with the trade name is used to treat certain cancers (multiple Revlimid—was approved in the United myeloma, mantle cell lymphoma-MCL). States in 2005. According to drugs.com It works by slowing or stopping the price guide each Revlimid oral capsule growth of cancer cells. It is also used 25 mg costs about $730 per unit. 12 Funeral prayers held for Khashoggi in Mecca and Medina By staff & agencies The prayer, known as “Salat al-Ghaib” or Funeral prayers have been held in ab- “prayer for the absent”, was offered at dawn sentia for slain Saudi journalist Jamal in Medina with the participation of Salah Mohammad Babaei Khashoggi at the Grand Mosque in Mecca Khashoggi, the son of the murdered Wash- and Prophet Muhammad’s mosque in the ington Post columnist. Muslims perform IRNA/ Saudi city of Medina, two of the holiest the prayer when the body of the deceased places of Islam. has not been found. 13 ARTICLE Netanyahu govt. must pay the price for crime in Khan Yunis: Hamas senior spokesman ARTICLE Hanif Ghaffari and another wounded. The subsequent Israeli Martin Love Political analyst EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Political analyst from By Mohammad Fatemizadeh airstrikes killed five other Palestinians, includ- ing another commander with the Palestinian North Carolina TEHRAN — In the aftermath of the Zionist resistance movement. regime’s infiltration of the Gaza Strip, which The group defined the exact place where the Democrats vs targeted and killed an Izz al-Din Qassam bri- targeted killing took place as the area of the Shahid The recent gade commander, there were many questions Ismail Abu Shanab mosque, three kilometers Trump: The dispute raised about the incident. Why, for example, did (1.8 miles) east of Khan Yunis. liberalized scene the Israelis do it? It smashed the ceasefire in Tehran Times spoke to Ali Baraka, a senior is intensified formation, but now apparently the ceasefire is member of the Palestinian Hamas movement in at Azadi is a purely back on again. Lebanon. Following is the full text of the interview. he mid-term elections in the Unit- Israeli special forces made their way into What was behind the recent Zionist crime good, smart anodyne ed States ended with the majority the coastal sliver using a civilian vehicle in the Gaza Strip and the assassination of one of Tof Republicans in the Senate, and which resulted in a drive-by shooting near the Hamas leaders? What is your assessment of ust to demonstrate how inaccurate Democrats’ victory in the House of Rep- the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. commander in Hamas’ military wing. the Israeli take on the cease-fire agreement in and craven the U.S. mainstream me- resentatives. Democrats in the House dia can be, one must note a late-night Assassinated was Nour Baraka, a senior In the clash a Zionist officer was also killed recent days? 7 J of Representatives are now preparing news broadcast this week about the further themselves to confront Trump and chal- carnage in the Gaza arena. The talking head lenge his position at the White House, Re-imposition of sanctions is violation of UN Security Council resolution: Jenkins commented that the Zionists responded with as they seem to be disappointed with massive bombing runs on Gaza because the resistance of the Senate to Trump EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW As announced before, U.S. returned all the agreement. It is also an instance of self-harm, Hamas sent flying 300 or so (ineffective) and his friends. By Javad Heirannia nuclear sanctions against Iran. Do you think since it damages the image and prestige of the “firecracker” rockets in to Israel, and now Describing the political sphere ruling that this sanctions is according to U.S. national United States. By most of the world the United Israel may be preparing another invasion of over the U.S. House of Representatives, TEHRAN — Peter Jenkins, former UK Ambas- interest in long term? States is seen as behaving like a spoiled, willful what amounts to the largest open-air prison the Washington Post writes; “ Democrats sador to the IAEA and UN says that the re-im- A: No, I do not. The re-imposition of sanctions child, seeking to destroy and destabilize for no on earth – an amplified and defenseless took control of the House on Tuesday night, position of sanctions by U.S. against Iran puts puts at risk the July 2015 nuclear agreement known good reason. Worse, the re-imposition of sanctions Warsaw Ghetto redux. a victory that will transform a Republi- at risk the July 2015 nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA. The value of that agreement has amounts to a violation of a UN Security Council However, the broadcaster failed to can-controlled chamber that supported as the JCPOA. been amply apparent over the last three years. It resolution (2231) and so suggests the kind of mention that exactly at the moment where and protected President Trump into a Former associate fellow of the Geneva Centre provides the International Atomic Energy Agency disregard and disrespect for UN resolutions that some sort of ceasefire between the Israelis legislative body ready to challenge and for Security Policy also adds that “It is a foolish with the access it needs to determine the absence of the world has come to associate with rogue states. and the Gazans was at hand, it was the investigate him.” absurdity to put such an agreement at risk by undeclared, illicit nuclear activity in Iran. It enables The only obvious U.S. interest that this absurdity Israelis who invaded Gaza, breaking any The Democrats intend to quickly start denying Iran many of the economic benefits that Iran to build confidence in the exclusively peace- serves is currying favour with U.S. allies in the Mid- ceasefire, with a few handpicked guerrillas with a legislative package of anti-cor- Iran anticipated on entering into the agreement.” ful nature of its nuclear program. It provides the dle East, allies that have opposed the JCPOA from (gorillas?), some dressed as women, riding ruption measures aimed at strengthen- He adds that “Re-imposition of sanctions international community with a formal assurance its inception and fought it through proxies in the in a civilian vehicle to murder a targeted ing ethics laws, protecting voter rights amounts to a violation of a UN Security Coun- that Iran is committed in perpetuity to the Nuclear U.S. congress in 2015. Even that is an aberration. group of Hamas commanders. The Zionists and cracking down on campaign finance cil resolution (2231) and so suggests the kind of Non-Proliferation Treaty. It damages U.S. prestige since it implies that it is expected Hamas to respond, and they did, abuses. disregard and disrespect for UN resolutions that It is a foolish absurdity to put such an agreement possible for relatively minor, insignificant powers creating a pretext for a massive assault The Washington reports; “Tomorrow the world has come to associate with rogue states.” at risk by denying Iran many of the economic to exercise a disproportionate influence over, and on Gaza that may be forming. will be a new day in America,” House Following is the full text of the interview: benefits that Iran anticipated on entering into pervert U.S. decision-making. 7 There seems no end to Israeli cruelty Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca- and subterfuge, and no end to dishonest lif.) declared from the Democratic Party reporting about Israel in the mainstream headquarters in Washington. “It’s about Funeral U.S. media. But note also that probably restoring the Constitutions’s checks and the greatest living intellectual in the U.S., balances to the Trump administration. It’s Noam Chomsky, formerly for decades at about stopping the GOP and [Senate Ma- procession held MIT and now semi-retired in Arizona, has jority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s assaults just recently penned an article spelling on Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable for Social Security out what most of the world already knows, Care Act, and the health care of 130 million and he is Jewish, too.