WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13466 Wednesday AUGUST 21, 2019 Mordad 30, 1398 Dhul Hijjah 19, 1440 Leader names new Europe should Iranian sports journalist Isfahan children’s head of the Islamic Fiqh pre-purchase Iran’s oil battling cancer defines film festival Encyclopedia 2 through INSTEX first 2 family as true love 15 kicks off 16 Aggressors must pay damages for Sanctions supertanker seizure: Raisi TEHRAN — Judiciary Chief Ebrahim all those who violate international rules,” Raisi said on Monday that the release of Raisi said, Fars reported. the Adrian Darya 1 vessel, which was seized On July 4, Britain’s naval forces unlaw- by Britain’s naval forces, is not enough fully seized the Adrian Darya 1 vessel, then and the aggressors must pay damages for known as Grace 1, and its cargo of 2.1 million the illegal confiscation. barrels of oil in the Strait of Gibraltar under intended to “The length of confiscation would not be the pretext that the supertanker had been compensated with the mere act of releasing, suspected of carrying crude to Syria in vi- rather, legal proceedings are required to olation of the European Union’s unilateral receive damages so as to set an example for sanctions against the Arab country. 3 make Iran U.S. move to create safe zone in north Syria is provocative, Tehran says TEHRAN – A U.S. agreement to set up “Such kind of measures, like other surrender not a safe zone in northern Syria is a “pro- actions by the American officials, vocative and worrisome” act, the Iranian are destabilizing and will create in- Foreign Ministry has said. security, apart from being instances The United States and Turkey last of interference in Syria’s internal week agreed to set up a joint operations affairs,” Iranian Foreign Ministry center for a proposed zone along Syria’s spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi to negotiate northeast border. said late on Sunday. 3 See page 2 Rights groups voice solidarity with hunger-striking Bahraini inmates TEHRAN — Human rights organizations all imprisoned dissidents. have expressed solidarity with hundreds of The Americans for Democracy and political prisoners, who have launched a mass Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) hunger strike in protest against mistreatment also expressed solidarity with the as well as poor conditions in Bahraini regime’s prisoners. jails and detention facilities. Earlier in the day, Amnesty Interna- On Monday, the European Center for tional said more than 450 inmates from Democracy and Human Rights (ECDHR) Jau Prison and Dry Dock Detention Cen- expressed solidarity with the hunger-strik- ter had gone on a mass hunger strike to File photo ing inmates in a post published on its express their grave resentment over dire Twitter page, demanding the release of prison conditions, 13 REPORT Russia and China say U.S. missile test could revive arms race Palestinian Fatemeh Salehi TEHRAN — Russia and China have said a new escalation of military tensions. We won’t react to peace and tranquillity”, Geng added. president sacks Mehr News Agency U.S. missile test has heightened military ten- provocations,” Russia’s deputy foreign minister, The missile was launched from the U.S.-Na- journalist sions and risks triggering an arms race, weeks Sergei Ryabkov, told the state news agency Tass. vy-controlled San Nicolas Island off the coast all advisors amid after Washington ended acold-war-era weapons “We will not allow ourselves to get drawn into a of California. pact with Moscow. costly arms race.” Speaking in France on Monday, before news financial crisis Rising corruption The U.S. and Russia terminated the inter- Ryabkov said the test showed Washington of the U.S. test launch broke, Vladimir Putin said mediate-range nuclear forces (INF) treaty this had been working on such missiles long before Russia would only deploy medium- or short- TEHRAN — Palestinian President among the Zionist month after accusing each other of violating the its official withdrawal from the deal. er-range missiles in response to similar moves Mahmoud Abbas has fired all of his ad- accord. Washington said the agreement also tied In Beijing, the Chinese foreign ministry spokes- by the U.S. visors amid a financial crisis in the occupied regime’s top its hands in dealing with other powers such as man, Geng Shuang, said: “This measure from “If the United States produces such offensive West Bank that has led to deep salary cuts. China. the U.S. will trigger a new round of an arms race, systems, we will also do so,” the Russian president Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing officials The U.S. defense department announced on leading to an escalation of military confrontation.” said at a press conference before a meeting with a statement by the Palestinian leader’s Monday it had tested a type of ground-launched He said the test would have a “serious nega- the French leader, Emmanuel Macron. office, announced the news on Monday, orruption has become remarkably missile that was banned under the 1987 INF tive impact” on the international and regional Moscow and Washington have long criti- saying he sacked all of his advisors re- widespread among top officials of agreement, which limited the use of nuclear and security situation. The US should “let go of its cized the treaty but Putin said it was the U.S. gardless of their title or ranking. Cthe Zionist regime. After news about conventional medium-range weapons. cold war mentality” and “do more things that that had made the decision to “unilaterally” President Abbas “also decided to abol- corruption of Benjamin Netanyahu, the “The U.S. has obviously taken a course towards are conducive to … international and regional withdraw. 13 ish the decisions and contracts related Prime Minister of Israel, now one of the to them, and to suspend the rights and ministers in his cabinet resigned due to privileges they received in their capacity corruption charges. as advisors,” the statement added, without Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife are Ilhan Omar: Go to Israel, see ‘cruel reality of the occupation’ providing more details on the number of charged with financial corruption, but TEHRAN— Democratic U.S. Congresswom- At Trump’s urging, Israel denied entry to U.S. government denied visas to several his advisors, who have been relieved of the story doesn’t end here. Now, the re- en Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib sharply criti- Congress’s first two Muslim women over their actors and directors who had been invited their duties, or the costs involved. gime’s Department of Justice has accused cised Israel on Monday for denying them entry support for the Palestinian-led boycott move- to participate last year. The decision comes amid a spending Welfare Minister Haim Katz of serious to the country and called on fellow members of ment. Tlaib and Omar, who had planned to White House spokesman Hogan Gidley kept crunch created after Israel decided in charges including fraud and breach of Congress to visit while they cannot. visit Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West up the administration’s criticism of the two pol- February to hold back some $10 million trust. 71-year old Katz is now faced with Omar, of Minnesota, suggested President Don- Bank on a tour organized by a Palestinian group, iticians. a month in tax transfers. graft charges and accusations that he has ald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Net- are outspoken critics of Israel’s treatment of “Israel has the right to prevent people who At the time, Israel’s cabinet froze about misused important classified information anyahuwere suppressing the congresswomen’s the Palestinians. want to destroy it from entering the country - and $138 million from within the taxes collected by giving them to some of his business ability to carry out their oversight role. Tlaib, of Michigan, and Omar were joined Democrats’ pointless Congressional inquiries for the Palestinian Authority, stating that managers in order to gain financial benefits. “I would encourage my colleagues to visit, Monday by Minnesota residents who said here in America cannot change the laws Isra- the Abbas administration paid the same Katz is a member of Prime Minister meet with the people we were going to meet they had been directly affected by trav- el has passed to protect itself,” Gidley said in amount in prisoner stipends in 2018. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and with, see the things we were going to see, hear el restrictions in the past. They included a statement. The Palestinian president has al- has served in his current post since 2015. the stories we were going to hear,” Omar said at Lana Barkawi, a Palestinian American Before Israel’s decision, Trump tweeted it ready accused the occupying regime According to reports of Hebrew-lan- a news conference. “We cannot let Trump and who’s executive and artistic director of would be a “show of weakness” to allow the two of blackmail and has so far refused to guage news agencies, Katz is the fifth min- Netanyahu succeed in hiding the cruel reality of Mizna, a cultural group that sponsors the representatives in. Israel controls entry and exit take any of the tax transfers, which ister of the regime that has been charged the occupation from us.” annual Twin Cities Arab Film Fest. The to the occupied West Bank. 13 account for some 65 percent of the with corruption. The other officials in the authority’s revenues. list are Prime Minister Benjamin Net- The amount, which totaled around $190 anyahu, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, million a month, is collected by the Tel Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman Aviv regime through custom duties im- and Minister of Communications Dudi posed on goods and products destined for Amsalem.