Russian Use of Nojeh Air Base Temporarily Stopped
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KRG president Germany’s Bavaria to Hijabs and Xinjiang, Western 21216to visit Iran amid 4 dispatch trade delegation turbans are not China Cultural Week NATION border tension ECONOMY to Iran on Sept. 4 WOMEN a threat to sports ART& CULTURE opensp in Tehran WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Tehran eyeing Latin America as strategic friend 2 16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.12631 Tuesday AUGUST 23, 2016 Shahrivar 2, 1395 Dhi Al Qaeda 20, 1437 Iran comes Intl. 25th in Russian use of Nojeh air Resistance standings at Film Festival Rio Olympics unveils doc By: Masoud Hossein base temporarily stopped lineup By Marjan Golpira the Iranian air base to fly sorties over Syria. grounds in areas like fighting terrorism, they The Iranian team ended the Summer ARTTEHRAN — Twen- “Russia made a request to use Iran’s territo- got our temporary permission for that,” Bah- Olympics in Rio de Janeiro ranking TEHRAN — The Iranian Foreign Ministry deskty-eight documen- ry to battle against terrorists in Syria, and be- ram Qassemi told reporters in his first press 25th in the standings, winning eight spokesman said on Monday that Tehran and tary films, including films by the U.S. cause the two countries share some common conference. medals - three golds, one silver and Moscow have not signed a document on using filmmakers Michael Moore and Oliver four bronzes. Stone, will be screened in the docu- The Rio 2016 Olympic Games drew See page 2 mentary section of the 14th Interna- to a close Sunday following 17 days tional Resistance Film Festival (IRFF), of competition between more than the organizers announced on Sunday. 10,900 athletes representing 206 na- The festival is organized in Tehran tions. every year during the Sacred Defense The Rio Games, which marked Week in September to commemorate the first Olympics to be held in South the anniversary of the 1980-1988 Iran- America – saw the U.S. top the med- Iraq war. al chart in every category for only the Among the highlights of the lineup seventh time in Olympic history and are Moore’s “Where to Invade Next”, the first since 1948, leading all nations in which he spends time in some Eu- with 121 medals, including 46 golds, ropean and African countries, where 37 silvers and 38 bronzes. he compares their methods of dealing Kianoush Rostami claimed a gold with social and economic problems medal in the men’s 85kg weightlifting. with the methods in the U.S. Rostami, 25, a silver medalist in the “Mi Amigo Hugo”, Stone’s docu- same category in London four years mentary about Hugo Chavez, a Ven- ago, made 217kg with his final clean ezuelan politician who served as the and jerk for a total of 396kg, beating 64th president of Venezuela from 1999 his world record by one kilogram. to 2013, has also been selected for the China’s Tian Tao took silver with festival that will be held from Septem- 395kgs despite making only two of his ber 23 to 30. six lifts, while Romania’s Gabriel Sincra- The festival also screens the ian secured bronze with 390kg. Marzieh Soleymani U.S.-English joint production “I Am Ali” Sohrab Moradi won the gold med- by Clare Lewins, which provides insight al in the men’s 94kg category to claim into the extraordinary life and legend- IRNA/ Iran’s second weightlifting gold medal ary career of Muhammad Ali. of the Rio Games. 14 Bahram Qassemi appearing in his first press conference since his appointment as Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman 16 Leader’s 25th Iran Handmade Carpet Exhibition kicks off Moscow: Air force “250-Year-Old cooperation with Iran ECONOMY TEHRAN — 2016), compared with the same Person” to be deskThe 25th Iran period last year, the Head of Iran may resume soon rendered into Handmade Carpet Exhibition National Carpet Center said on opened on Monday at the Tehran August 17. Senior Russian diplomats confirmed Sindhi Permanent Exhibition Fairground. “In the said time, 1,428 tons of that Moscow has stopped using Iran’s More than 700 carpet produc- hand-woven carpets were export- Hamadan airbase for the time being, CULTURE TEHRAN — “A ers are participating in the exhibi- ed, showing 38.1 percent increase, but may resume operations from there desk250-Year-Old Per- tion which will run till August 28, compared to the same period any time soon. son”, a book containing a collection ILNA reported. in the preceding year,” IRIB news “Moscow sees no obstacles to the of speeches and writings of Supreme Iran exported $82.9 million of quoted Hamid Kargar as saying. further use of Iranian infrastructure, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Aya- hand-woven carpets, registering “Iran targets exports of $400 including the air base in Hamadan, tollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, will be 39.5 percent rise, in the first four million of hand-woven carpets by for strikes against terrorists in Syria,” translated into Sindhi, Iran’s Islamic months of the current Iranian cal- the yearend (March 20, 2017),” Russian Ambassador to Tehran Levan Cultural Relations Organization (ICRO) endar year (March 20- July 21, Kargar added. Djagaryan told Interfax on Monday. reported on Monday. Earlier in the day, an Iranian spokes- man said Russia has stopped using JCPOA meets national interest of U.S. and Iran: Barnett Rubin Hamadan airbase for the time being. “Russia has no base in Iran and is not ‘Allies will not support the U.S. if new sanctions enacted against Iran’ stationed here. They did this [operation] However, Rubin notes, “I am confident that and it has finished for now,” Foreign INTERVIEW Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi By Javad Heirannia both sides will continue to try to implement it, despite all the difficulties and mistrust.” told reporters. The Russian envoy also confirmed the halt, but underlined that TEHRAN — Barnett Rubin is of the opinion This is the text of the interview: the agreement between the two sides that the nuclear deal, officially known as the What is your prediction about the fu- to further the operation from the Ham- Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), ture of the JCPOA? adan air base is still in place and Russian meets the “the national interest” of Iran and the A: There are powerful groups in both the flights from there might resume soon. United states. United States and Iran who do not want this “The JCPOA agreement is in the national inter- agreement to succeed. Specifically, they do “The Russian aerospace forces may est of both the U.S. and Iran,” Rubin, now a senior not want the JCPOA to lead to a further relax- resume operations from Iranian base fellow at New York University’s Center on Interna- ation of tensions or cooperation between the Hamadan when it is expedient, and by tional Cooperation, tells the Tehran Times. two countries. Those groups do their best to the decision of leaders of Russian and The JCPOA, as an international pact that find evidence that the other side is cheating or Iran,” Levan Djagaryan said. was negotiated in July 2015 between Iran and taking advantage of the agreement. They can “All the Russian military have currently the six major powers (the five permanent mem- also use their positions in the state or legislative left Iran’s Hamadan Air Base,” he added. The front cover of the English version of “A bers of the UN Security Council and Germany), branch (Congress/Majles) to undermine the The ambassador announced that 250-Year-Old Person” went into effect early this year. Iran, fearing punishment by the U.S. Treasury. agreement. I know that Iran is not satisfied with Moscow hopes Russia and Iran will The decision to render the book into Iran has been complaining that that the pace Some hardliners in the Congress have been the tempo of implementation of sanctions re- strengthen interaction in Syria settle- Sindhi had been made during a meet- of removing financial and economic sanctions trying to kill the deal. Even Donald Trump has lief, and that the Supreme Leader has charged ment process. “Interaction with Tehran ing between the executives of Asgharia under the deal has been slow. Some major promised to tear apart the deal if he wins the the United States with deceitful practices in ne- on Syria has positive perspective,” the Russian official stressed. (Source: Fars) Pakistan, a major Shia Muslim organi- banks are still hesitant to do transactions with American presidential election. gotiation. 13 zation of students in Pakistan, and the Cultural Center of Iran in Karachi. Asgharia Pakistan was founded by Shia students at the University of Sindh Inflation rate in Iran stands at 8.7% The Tehran Times new pocket-sized glossary is in 1968. Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly now available on the market. The reader-friendly has previously published an English ECONOMY TEHRAN — Mohammad Curbing inflation was one of the major is a rich source of the most common journalistic desk version of “A 250-Year-Old Person”. Baqer Nobakht, the head of promises by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani terminology collected by the daily’s retired staff. The book arranged in 17 chapters Management and Planning Organization of during his presidential campaign. Under the It can benefit a wide range of tastes from also gives a chronological account of Iran, on Monday, put the inflation rate for the previous administration, inflation skyrocketed students to professional journalists. Persian the lives of Prophet Muhammad (S) 12-month period ended in the last day of the to cross 44%.