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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 12 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13578 Sunday JANUARY 12, 2020 Dey 22, 1398 Jumada Al Awwal 16, 1441 Leader orders Iran ‘deeply regrets the Oman swears in Iran edge Korea to probe into disastrous mistake’ of plane successor to book a place at Olympic plane crash 2 downing, promises justice 2 Sultan Qaboos 10 Qualification final 11 Steel exports up 19% in 9 months on year TEHRAN — Iran’s crude steel exports rose trade minister said the ministry has 19 percent during the first nine months of taken necessary measures to maintain the current Iranian calendar year (March the country’s metal exports despite the We accept 21-December 21, 2019) from the same U.S. sanctions. period of time in the previous year, IRNA “We have established a special reported on Saturday. working group in the ministry which As reported, 5.209 million tons of steel is closely assessing the situation and have been exported from the country in making necessary arrangements to mit- the nine-month period of this year. igate the impact of the U.S. sanctions,” In a press conference in last June, Jafar Sarqini told the Tehran Times in responsibility Iranian deputy industry, mining and the press conference. 4 Ukraine: Iran pleaded guilty to Ukrainian plane downed plane incident Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen- and open investigation, bring those re- due to human error: sky said on Saturday that Iran pleaded sponsible to justice, return the bodies of guilty to shooting down Ukrainian plane the deceased, pay compensation, and make even before completion of international an official apology through diplomatic Armed Forces commission’s work. channels,” Zelensky said in a statement See page 3 “Even before the completion of the that was published on his official website. work by the international commission, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander Iran has pleaded guilty to shooting down of the IRGC Aerospace Force, said on the Ukrainian plane. However, we insist Saturday that the Ukrainian passenger on full admission of guilt. We expect Iran plane had been shot down erroneously to assure of willingness to conduct a full by the Iranian air defense system. 2 Iraq in talks to buy Russian S-400 Iraq has resumed talks with Russia to buy “I told Iran’s leadership to buy our its S-300 surface-to-air missile systems, a more powerful S-400 and S-500 missile senior Iraqi lawmaker told the state-run defense systems and to open air, naval RIA Novosti news agency following the and land bases like in Syria,” the state-run U.S. killing of a top Iranian commander TASS news agency quoted Zhirinovsky and Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes there. as saying. Meanwhile, firebrand lawmaker Iraq has several months ago “renewed Vladimir Zhirinovsky urged Iran to buy negotiations on an S-300 contract” with Russia’s advanced S-400 missile systems Russia, Mohammad Reza al-Haider, the in the wake of a flare-up in tensions with chairman of the Iraqi parliament’s defense File photo Washington. committee, told RIA on Thursday. 10 EDITORIAL Trump is the most dangerous man in the world: Adib-Moghaddam PERSPECTIVE Mohammad Ghaderi Salman Parviz By Javad Heirannia US domestic affairs. What is your assessment? countries in the world where a chauvinist ma- Journalist Tehran Times editor-in-chief TEHRAN - Professor Arshin Adib-Moghadd- A: In my first interviews with you about Donald cho-politician such as Trump can garner votes @ghaderi62 am, Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at Trump, immediately when he was elected I said by killing people. This is unthinkable in Europe, the London Middle East Institute believes that that he is the most dangerous man in the world, even in the contemporary United Kingdom af- Ukrainian plane “Trump is the most dangerous man in the world.” exactly because he is essentially void of intelligence, ter the debacle of the Blair years. Indeed, most No winners in Professor in Global Thought and Comparative much less strategic acumen. The assassination societies of the world would vote for a politician incident: Historical Philosophies and Chair of the Centre for Iranian of General Soleimani and Commander Al-Mu- that talks peace, rather than war. any war Studies at the London Middle East Institute, also handis is clear evidence for the incompetence US Action on Assassination of Sardar Su- of this president to think in logical and rational leimani On the other hand, it shows that the war adds that “Donald Trump is the biggest threat to n a rare accident during my last records and Iran’s terms when it comes to world politics, even in with Iran is important for the U.S at the present the United States itself, as he has clearly jeop- year’s trip to India, a cobra managed terms of US national interests. In fact, Donald moment. What is your assessment? responsibility ardised the country’s interests abroad.” to sneak into a jaguar’s enclosure Here is the full text of the interview. Trump is the biggest threat to the United States A: The state ruling US society has been at war I in one of the country’s oldest and most itself, as he has clearly jeopardised the country’s essentially since its inception, certainly in the he downing of a Ukrainian pas- The United States assassinated General popular zoo in the southwestern city interests abroad. post Second-World War period. This is a garrison senger plane over Iran’s airspace Qassim Suleimani in an act ordered by Presi- of Mysuru. As the Jaguar, named Raja The timing of the killing is related to the re-elec- state, armed to the teeth, after all, and ready to on Wednesday morning, apart dent Donald Trump. By doing so, the United saw the cobra, the two pounced at each T tion campaign, as you indicate. Unfortunately, use force in contravention to international law from the great sorrow that it caused, States appears to have raised tensions with Iran other. When the animal keepers got to the United States continues to be one of the few and multilateral organizations. was only a repetition of similar events to avoid impeachment so that it can marginalize 7 the scene Raja had already killed the that have been recurring continuously cobra and in the process had taken a in the contemporary world. The only few snake bites. The zoo authorities difference between the recent crash rushed Raja to the Zoo Hospital but near the Imam Khomeini International ISIL praises ‘allied’ U.S. for assassinating Gen. Soleimani the feline succumbed to the snake bites Airport and similar crashes around the The ISIL (Daesh) terrorist group has hailed dent Trump directly ordered the U.S. military to hands of its “allies” - a clear reference to the U.S. later same day. world is that none of those governments the recent assassination of Iran’s top military assassinate the top Iranian commander. Many believe that Washington created the Today’s precarious situation in regretted the incidents but Tehran did. commander, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, by The assassination prompted Iran to take re- Daesh terrorist group and helped it rise and the Persian Gulf reminds me of this The reasons behind the tragic its “allied” US forces in Iraq, describing the venge by pouring more than a dozen ballistic commence its reign of terror and destruction incident at the Mysuru Zoo, with the downing of the Boeing 737 airliner criminal act as a “divine intervention” made missiles on two military bases housing U.S. in Syria and Iraq in 2014. U.S. being the cobra, Iran as Raja and near Tehran were announced by Iran’s by direct order of American President Donald troops in Iraq early on Wednesday. Back in January 3, 2016, Trump, then a US world powers the zookeeper. In this Armed Forces General Staff. It listed Trump. Both commanders were admired by Mus- presidential candidate, said during a campaign case, however, the zookeeper is not human error, the security situation in In the early hours of January 3, a US drone lim nations for eliminating the U.S.-sponsored stop in Biloxi, Mississippi, that Democratic pres- too late to save the day. the region and the U.S. warmongering strike assassinated Gen. Soleimani, the command- Daesh terrorists in the region. General Solei- idential candidate “Hillary Clinton created” Although the tensions have been go- policy as the chief reasons. er of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution mani, in particular, was an international figure the Daesh Takfiri group “with [then president ing on for years now but the situation The Armed Forces General Staff, in Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Mu- who played a leading role in promoting peace Barack] Obama”, stressing that “they created” got explosive with the assassination of a statement on Saturday morning, ex- handis, the deputy chief of the Iraqi pro-govern- and security in the region, particularly in Iraq the terror group. General Qassem Soleimani. pressed condolences and sympathized ment Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), near and Syria. Later, on August 10 of the same year, Trump General Soleimani frequently visited with the Iranian and non-Iranian fam- Baghdad International Airport. In an editorial of the terror group’s weekly reiterated what he had said several months ago, Iraq, and these visits were hardly a secret ilies and formally apologized about Four other Iranians and four more Iraqis in propaganda al-Naba publication on Thursday, stressing that Obama was “the founder” of Daesh, and according to the U.S.