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.13582 Thursday JANUARY 16, 2020 Dey 26, 1398 Jumada Al Awwal 20, 1441 Spirit of resistance Any wrong Estili issues apology Fajr poetry festival launches book must be path of future step will harm after Iran’s AFC U23 donation campaign for flood- generations 2 Europeans 2 C’ship exit 11 stricken Sistan-Baluchestan 12 Tehran hosting 2 international exhibitions Zarif, Modi confer on TEHRAN — The 11th International Ex- As reported by Shata, Iranian Industry, hibition of Cement, Concrete, Manufac- Mining and Trade Minister Reza Rahmani, turing Technology and Related Machinery Head of Iranian Mines and Mining Indus- (IRAN CEMENTEX 2020) and the 4th tries Development and Renovation Organ- International Exhibition of Agriculture, ization (IMIDRO) Khodadad Gharibpour Agricultural Machinery and Equipment, and Deputy Industry Minister Hossein pressing issues Input, Irrigation Systems (Iran Agri Show Modares Khiabani attended the opening 2020) are running at the Tehran Perma- ceremony of the Iran CEMENTEX 2020 nent International Fairgrounds. exhibition. 4 See page 2 Iran probing possible U.S. disruption in radar system that caused plane downing TEHRAN — A possible disruption in Iran’s cyber systems have observed Iran’s radar network by the U.S. may have and recorded virtual objects manu- caused the operator mistake the Ukrainian factured by the U.S. in the country’s passenger plan for an incoming Ameri- airspace” can cruise missile, at top Iranian military “Disruption in performance of official said on Wednesday. radar systems by the United States Ali Abdollahi, the deputy com- is not unprecedented,” the military mander of the Armed Forces General official said. Headquarters for coordination affairs, Abdollahi said a team has been es- said “the U.S. mischiefs in the region tablished to investigate such a possi- have been proven before, and so far bility. 2 Russia, China slam decision to trigger Iran deal dispute mechanism TEHRAN — Russia and China have crit- maximum pressure on Tehran. icized the three European parties to the “We have therefore been left with Iran nuclear deal over a move to trigger no choice, given Iran’s actions, but to the dispute mechanism. register today our concerns that Iran France, Britain, and Germany is not meeting its commitments under confirmed on Tuesday that they had the JCPOA (Iran deal) and to refer this triggered the dispute mechanism in matter to the Joint Commission under the nuclear deal, also known as the the Dispute Resolution Mechanism, as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action set out in paragraph 36 of the JCPOA,” (JCPOA), but said they were not joining the three European states said in the The Times of India The Times the United States campaign to exert statement, according to Reuters. 3 EDITORIAL Imam Khomeini had a rather practical turn of mind: Falk ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW revolution, we asked Professor Falk to share his to Iran. What were the objectives of that trip? Farrokh Hesabi Tehran Times editor-in-chief By Maryam Khormaei &Javad Heirannia experience from this historical trip and the visit A: I was chair of a small committee in the Tehran Times journalist @ghaderi62 he later had with the founder of Islamic republic United States with the name, “Committee for TEHRAN — Forty-one years have passed since of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini. the Defense of Human Rights in Iran,” which Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, upon failure to attract Richard Anderson Falk is an American sponsored events with Iranian students and some Legal look into the popular support, fled Iran forever. professor emeritus of international law at prominent figures. It became active within uni- Alarming concerns about Over the past decades, despite being faced Princeton University. He is the author or versity settings as the revolutionary movement arrest of the UK with threats, provocations, harsh sanctions, and co-author of 20 books and the editor or gathered momentum in 1978. Iran National Team even a variety of covert interventions, Iran has co-editor of another 20 volumes. In 2008, The Committee had almost no funding, ambassador to Iran been more stable than ever- a fact even acknowl- the United Nations Human Rights Council but had dedicated members, and achieved ran Football Federation is still weighing up edged by Professor Richard Falk as the former (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term a certain visibility as there was so little the options following their decision to part n the legal term, immunity generally UN Special Rapporteur. as a United Nations special Rapporteur on the attention being given to these historic de- ways with Marc Wilomts and now there means that the person is exempted I Falk, who came to Tehran as a member of an situation of human rights in the Palestinian velopments in Iran unfolding as the months are two potential candidates for the role of from prosecution, in other words the I American delegation in 1979, has an interesting Territories occupied since 1967. passed. The treatment of these issues in Team Melli head coach: Amir Ghalenoei and law and its executors cannot prosecute narrative of Bakhtiar’s desperation on the day Following is the full text of the interview: the mainstream media was not only mostly Ali Daei, with Yahya Golmohammadi, the third the person. The Vienna Convention on of Shah-Escape. very pro-Shah but also quite uninformative, candidate, was named as the new head coach Diplomatic Relations (1961) states that Before Iran’s Islamic revolution, as a mem- As Iran marks 41th anniversary of Islamic ber of an American delegation, you had a visit and even uniformed. 7 of Persepolis on Monday. the immunities and privileges are not in- The Asian section of the 2022 FIFA World tended to benefit individuals; rather they Cup qualification restarts in a little more than are to perform the functions of diplomatic two months and the Iranian federation has not missions as representatives of states. Kata’eb Hezbollah supports Sadr, urge million-man march against U.S. military presence introduced the new head coach so far. Therefore, granting immunity to dip- Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has nian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Following the parliamentary vote, the office of Heaydar Baharvand, acting president of lomats is intended to ensure that they demanded that Iraqis stage a “million-man march” Soleimani and along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhan- Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi Iran football federation, is responsible to perform their duties, and it is not to benefit against the continued US military presence in dis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular asked Washington to dispatch a delegation to select the replacement for Wimots, but it them personally. Immunity is given to the country, days after Iraq’s parliament voted Mobilization Units (PMU), among others, near Baghdad to initiate preparations for the withdrawal seems neither Baharvan nor the federation them as the authority of the sending state. to expel the American troops following an assas- the Baghdad airport. The parliament resolution of American troops, who number around 5,200. are in a hurry to pick the new trainer for On the other hand, among the behaviors sination operation by Washington on Iraqi soil. also urged the Baghdad government to drop a Kata’eb Hezbollah threatens to kick Team Melli’s hotseat. of diplomats in the host country, two most The march is needed “to condemn the Ameri- request for assistance from a U.S.-led coalition U.S. forces out of Iraq if they don’t leave While Marc Wilmots was selected to get prominent principles have been repeated can presence and its violations,” Sadr, who leads of foreign troops purportedly operating against Meanwhile, Kata’eb Hezbollah released a state- the Iranian team to the World Cup 2022, the in all diplomatic law instruments, name- the largest parliamentary bloc, Sairoon, said in a Daesh remnants in Iraq. ment on Wednesday that their forces will kick the Belgian struggled to make any sort of meaningful ly the principle of non-interference and tweet on Tuesday. The Iraqis censured the targeted killings — U.S. military out of Iraq if they refuse to leave. impact on the team’s performance and they lost the principle of respect to the laws and “The skies, land, and sovereignty of Iraq are which were ordered by US President Donald “Their determination to defy the will of the Iraqi back-to-back games against Bahrain and Iraq in regulations of the host country. being violated every day by occupying forces,” Trump — as a blatant violation of the country’s people by refusing to comply with the decision the 2022 World Cup qualification and now the Non-interference principle he added. The cleric, however, cautioned that sovereignty as well as the security agreement be- of the Council of Representatives to withdraw national team is in danger of being eliminated Non-interference in the domestic such a show of popular disapproval should be a tween Baghdad and Washington. its troops from Iraq, and it became clear that from the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup affairs of a state is one of the fundamen- “peaceful, unified demonstration,” but did not In a letter to the parliament following the vote, they do not respect the will of the people, and which will take place in Qatar in 2022. tal principles of international law and a offer a date or location for the proposed rally. Sadr called for an immediate cancellation of the do not hold any weight for international law,” The alarming truth about the current situ- reflection of autonomy and equality of On January 5, the parliament voted over- security agreement with the U.S., the closure of the statement partially said.