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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 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13523 Saturday NOVEMBER 9, 2019 Aban 18, 1398 Rabi’ Al awwal 11, 1441 Russia voices concern Trade agreement with Iraq proposes Jordan French scholar over full collapse EAEU officially declared as neutral venue for Jean-Claude Carrière of JCPOA 3 to Iranian customs 4 Iran match 15 honored in Tehran 16 Iran starts injecting gas into IAEA inspector tried to centrifuges at Fordow facility TEHRAN — On Wednesday, Iran start- on Iran’s oil export. ed to inject uranium gas into centrifuges “At the presence of inspectors from at the Fordow nuclear facility under the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran supervision of inspectors from the UN started injecting (uranium) gas into cen- nuclear watchdog. trifuges in Fordow,” the Atomic Energy wreck nuclear facilities It is the latest move by Iran to reduce Organization of Iran (AEOI) said. its nuclear commitments in retaliation According to Al Jazeera, a spokesman See page 3 to the U.S. exit from the 2015 nuclear for the IAEA said the UN nuclear watch- deal and restoration of previous sanctions dog’s nuclear inspectors at the site “will and adding news ones, including a ban report back on relevant activities”. 2 Army shoots down intruding drone in southwestern Iran TEHRAN — The air defense system The air defense embarked on targeting of the Army detected and targeted an the drone and shot it down. unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over a In the meantime, Commander of key port city in the southwestern part the Army’s Air Defense Force Briga- of Iran on Friday. dier General Alireza Sabahifard said, Air defense systems, deployed near “Friday morning, an intruding drone the port city of Mahshahr in Khuzestan was targeted by the Army’s domesti- province, detected an unknown drone in cally-made air defense systems near the early hours of Friday. Mahshar.” 2 Ayatollah Sistani warns that foreign sides trying to exploit protests Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah people according to a roadmap that should Sayyed Ali al-Sistani on Friday urged be implemented in a limited time in a bid the politicians in Iraq have a chance to to put an end to corruption”. implement reforms, but warned against In this context, Sheikh Karbalai warned exploiting the protests by foreign and lo- that the delay in meeting the demands cal powers. of the Iraqi people “risks the country.” In Friday sermon, the official repre- On the other hand, Sheikh Karbalai sentative of Ayatollah Sistani, Sheikh stressed that the Iraqi people “should not Abdul-Mahdi Al-Karbalai said that “the forget the favor of the armed forces along File photo political powers in Iraq have a unique with all those who fought Daesh Takfiri chance to meet the demands of the Iraqi group.” 13 EDITORIAL Iran has tipped balance of effective force in Middle East to its advantage: IISS ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi John Chipman, director-general and chief of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. veloping a sovereign capability to conduct Martin Love Tehran Times editor-in-chief executive of the International Institute for Iran has also developed unconventional warfare through third parties. Iran avoids Political analyst from @ghaderi62 Strategic Studies, has written an article forms of asymmetric warfare - such as swarm symmetrical state-on-state conflict. Instead, North Carolina arguing that Iran has tipped the balance tactics and drone attacks - that have allowed it pursues asymmetrical warfare through of effective force in the Middle East to its Iran to offset its enemies’ superiority in con- non-state partners. Leftists make a advantage. ventional weapons. This sovereign capability is of greater Iran actually “Iran has tipped the balance of effective Following is an excerpt of the article: strategic value to Tehran than its con- comeback in Latin force in the Middle East to its advantage by In July 2019 President Donald Trump ventional forces, its ballistic missiles or is managing developing a sovereign capability to conduct tweeted that “Iran has never won a war but even its rejuvenating nuclear program. It America warfare through third parties,” he wrote in an never lost a negotiation”. The International is a weapon of choice that is peculiarly misfortune with article published by The Telegraph on Thursday. Institute for Strategic Studies’ (IISS) anal- suited to today’s regional conflicts. These n Argentina and Uruguay, leftist can- According to the BBC, Iran’s regional ri- ysis of Iran’s networks in the Middle East contests are not defined by state-on-state aplomb didates won the elections and Evo vals have spent billions of dollars on Western published today suggests a reversal: Tehran warfare, involving parity of forces subject ecent reports claim the U.S. is con- IMorales could maintain his position weaponry, much of it from the UK. has lost faith in negotiations following the to international law, but are complex and structing a couple military bases or as the president of Bolivia, but in Chile, Yet for a fraction of that cost, sanc- collapse of the Iran nuclear deal but has congested battlespaces involving no rule outposts in or near Syrian oil fields people have protested against the U.S.- tions-bound Iran has been able to successfully found a way to win in war. of law or accountability, low visibility, and R around Deir ez-Zor in far eastern Syria. backed president. embed itself across the region into a position While the conventional military balance multiple players who represent a mosaic It’s hard to imagine anything more absurd The failure of the U.S.-backed candi- of strategic advantage. remains in favor of the U.S. and its allies, of local and regional interests. or arrogant or, for that matter, illegal. It’s date in the Argentinean election in recent It has a major influence - verging on a con- Iran has tipped the balance of effective force Its doctrine is rooted in Iranian war-fighting not only illegal but stealing Syria’s oil is days was a sign of the U.S. failure in Latin trolling influence in some cases - over the affairs in the Middle East to its advantage by de- experience and revolutionary ideology. America. Leftist Alberto Fernandez, an nothing but raw, in-your-face theft, and opponent of U.S. interventionist policies, if anyone EVER thought the U.S. was in won about 48 percent of the vote in general ANY foreign lands to bring good tidings, election and was announced as the new Iran, Azerbaijan stress expansion of trade ties democracy, respect for human rights that includes alleged women’s rights, then president in the first round. TEHRAN — Iranian Industry, Mining and and joint production projects. this crass move ought to once and for This is while countries such as Ven- Trade Minister Reza Rahmani and Azer- The Iranian minister for his part called all time rip the cover off any assertions ezuela and Cuba have maintained their baijan Republic’s Deputy Prime Minister for pursuing the previous agreements to the contrary about what the so-called anti-U.S. sentiment. Although the U.S. has Shahin Mustafayev stressed expansion of reached between the two countries in- “empire’s” true intentions are. made an unceasing effort in the last two trade ties between the two countries on cluding identification of the items that It’s not smart from a public relations years to overthrow the current regime in the sidelines of the Shanghai international can be included in a preferential trade standpoint, presuming the perception of Venezuela, it has not succeeded. expo in China. agreement between Iran and Azerbaijan the U.S. and its allies like Israel and Saudi The New Left movement in Latin As reported by IRNA on Thursday, the Republic. Arabia could sink any lower than it already America, which was formed by the late two sides discussed the need for further Rahmani traveled to Shanghai on Mon- has. And also consider that it may have been Venezuelan president Hugo Chaves, has development of trade and commercial ties day to meet with Chinese officials as well Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, who gave put Venezuela in many troubles, but re- between Tehran and Baku. as participate in the second Shanghai in- Muhammad ibn Salman the green light to duced U.S. influence in the region to the In the meeting Mustafayev emphasized Iranian Industry, Mining and Trade Minister ternational expo. murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the point that even experts suggested that the need for joining the two counties’ Reza Rahmani talks to the press after meeting Annual bilateral trade between Iran Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. It’s no Washington has lost its backyard. railways and roads, as well as mutual with Shahin Mustafayev, Azerbaijan Republic’s and Azerbaijan Republic is over $500 stretch of the imagination to believe it and The New Leftist governments emerged cooperation in industrial, commercial deputy prime minister, in Shanghai on Monday. million. in Latin America in the late 20th century. it is hard to fathom what they are thinking, Leftist leaders have distanced from some if the Trump gangsters have ever honestly of traditional principles, but maintained thought at all. the fight against American hegemony, just Earlier this autumn it appeared that like their predecessors. Latin America, with Major quake Trump might be removing all U.S. troops rich sources of oil, gas and uranium, as from Syria, if not immediately then over well as great opportunity for investment, leaves 6 dead, a period of a few months.