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EU: Nuclear commitments We expect friendly states to buy more oil and lifting sanctions are essential parts of JCPOA from Iran, Jahangiri says POLITICAL TEHRAN — First Vice that the Europeans should stand against the By staff and agency deskPresident Es’haq Jahang- United States which is humiliating them. Helga Schmid, secretary general of the European External Ac- iri said on Monday that Iran expects friendly The JCPOA is a test for the Europeans tion Service (EEAS), issued a statement on Sunday saying that countries, including China, to buy more to show if they can stand against the U.S. participants at the emergency meeting of the JCPOA in Vienna oil from Iran. pressure. reaffirmed their commitments to preserve the JCPOA. During a meeting with Song Tao, the Mohsen Rezaee, secretary of the Expe- According to the JCPOA, the official name for the 2015 nuclear head of the International Liaison Depart- diency Council, also met separately with agreement, Iran is obliged to put limits on its nuclear activities in ment of the Communist Party of China, Song on Sunday. exchange for termination of economic and financial sanctions. Jahangiri said that China is the main eco- On May 8, exactly one year after the U.S. “Participants reaffirmed their continued commitment to nomic partner of Iran and also buyer of withdrew from the multi-nation nuclear preserving the JCPOA. They recalled that both nuclear commit- the country’s oil. agreement and reimposed sanctions on Iran, ments and sanctions-lifting are essential parts of the agreement,” “We expect friendly countries to be more Tehran announced a partial withdrawal from reads the statement. active in purchasing Iran’s oil,” Jahangiri said. some aspects of the pact, saying that the Following is full text of the statement published on the official He added that Iran is ready to export gas country would no longer adhere to some website of the European Union: to China through Pakistan. of the limits on its nuclear activities. It also An extraordinary meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint “Iran has the biggest gas reserves in the threatened to step up uranium enrichment Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) took place in Vienna on world and we are ready to export gas through if an agreement is not made within 60 days 28 July 2019 upon the request of France, Germany, the United Pakistan,” Jahangiri stated. to protect it from the sanctions’ effects. Kingdom and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The meeting was held The United States has introduced a total In follow-up to that deadline, on July in order to discuss the need regarding the full and effective imple- ban on Iran’s oil export. 7 Iran announced that it has started en- mentation of the JCPOA in all its aspects. “The United States assumed that it can cut riching uranium to a higher purity than The Joint Commission was chaired, on behalf of EU High Iran’s oil sale to zero to ruin our economy. the 3.67% as the Europeans missed the Representative Federica Mogherini, by EEAS Secretary Gener- However, fortunately, one year has passed 60-day deadline to devise a concrete al Helga-Maria Schmid and was attended by the E3+2 (China, since the United States imposed oil sanc- ‘Supporting multilateralism, relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran mechanism to protect the country from France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom) and Iran at the level tions and Iran’s economic state is stable,” countering U.S. hegemony’ and implement agreements between the two the U.S. sanctions. of Political Directors/Deputy Foreign Ministers. Jahangiri stated. The vice president also said Iran’s foreign countries will not change. The two countries INSTEX – the Instrument in Support of Under the terms of the JCPOA, the Joint Commission is re- ‘Reducing nuclear commitments policy is based on supporting multilateralism can provide each other with experiences in Trade Exchanges - is a European special pur- sponsible for overseeing the implementation of the nuclear deal. intended to save JCPOA’ and countering the U.S. hegemony. countering the U.S. pressure.” pose vehicle aimed at facilitating legitimate Participants reaffirmed their continued commitment to pre- Elsewhere, he said that Iran is reducing its Jahangiri also said that an Iranian eco- The communist party official urged all trade between Europe and Iran. serving the JCPOA. They recalled that both nuclear commitments commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, nomic delegation comprising from the central sides to implement their obligations under The European Union announced on June and sanctions-lifting are essential parts of the agreement. They also officially known as the JCPOA, in an effort bank and economy ministry will travel to the deal. 28 that INSTEX has gone into effect. reiterated the commitments contained in chair’s statements issued to save the multilateral agreement. China in future days to iron out a plan for a “Beijing calls on all sides of the JCPOA to Tehran says the mechanism is far short after previous Joint Commissions and, in particular, to continue Iran has repeatedly said if the Euro- financial mechanism between the countries settle differences through negotiation and of Iran’s expectation. Iran insists the mech- discussions at expert level on sanctions-lifting and nuclear issues. peans respect their commitment to the to facilitate trade ties. The vice president political strategies, and believes that if all anism should include Iran’s oil purchases. Participants reaffirmed their strong support and collective JCPOA, it will reverse its decision in re- expressed hope that the talks on devising sides remain committed to the JCPOA we Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran’s perma- responsibility for the nuclear projects (in particular Arak and For- ducing commitments. the mechanism would be “constructive”. will be able to stand against the U.S. unilat- nent representative to the United Nations, dow) that are an essential part of the JCPOA in order to ensure the “Other sides should be committed as For his part, Song said that Beijing is eralism,” he noted. has likened INSTEX to a “beautiful car exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has been committed to the JCPOA. determined to keep friendly ties with Iran. Kharrazi: Europeans should stand without gasoline”. It was agreed that a meeting of the Joint Commission at min- Iran will return to the situation before re- China has always attached great impor- against U.S. humiliation “The current situation of INSTEX does isterial level would be convened in the near future. ducing its nuclear commitments as soon tance to ties with Iran, Song remarked. After a meeting with Song on Sunday, not suffice. This mechanism without money ‘We will continue to reduce commitments until as other sides fulfil their commitments,” He also condemned the U.S. unilateral- Kamal Kharrazi, chairman of Iran’s Strategic is like a beautiful car without gasoline,” he Europeans secure Iran’s interests’ the vice president insisted. ism, saying, “China’s determination to have Council on Foreign Relations, told reporters told reporters on June 29. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi who represented Iran in the emergency meeting of the JCPOA told Reuters the talks were “constructive”. “The atmosphere was constructive. Discussions were good. I Zarif: Caspian Sea talks have been very tough cannot say that we resolved everything, I can say there are lots of POLITICAL TEHRAN — Iran’s Foreign Minister Mo- pian Sea environment, shipping in the Caspian Sea, and commitments,” he said. deskhammad Javad Zarif has said that talks many other issues. Representatives of the parties to the deal met in Vienna on Sun- with the littoral countries of the Caspian Sea over the legal “Nothing will be considered as definitely ratified unless it day for emergency talks called in response to Tehran’s reduction status of the water have been “very tough”. is passed by the Islamic Consultative Assembly (the Iranian of commitments of the accord. “Right after the collapse of the Soviet government, the parliament),” Zarif said, adding that Iran has not reached “As we have said, we will continue to reduce our commitments Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran put all its an agreement with the other parties over its rights of the to the deal until Europeans secure Iran’s interests under the deal,” attention into preserving its interests in the Caspian Sea,” sea surface and seabed. Araghchi said after the meeting. Zarif told parliament on Monday. Referring to bilateral agreements signed around 2000 “As I was the Foreign Ministry deputy chief for legal and between the other Caspian Sea littoral countries, the top international affairs, in the [1990s and 2000s] we held the diplomat said the Foreign Ministry managed through ne- first summit of the Caspian Sea’s five littoral countries’ legal gotiations to prevent violation of Iran’s rights in the sea. representatives. After that, for 21 years, many officials with “One thing we did in the convention related to adjusting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been responsible for the the baseline.” negotiations under the guidance of the Supreme National “Following from there, we insisted that baselines Security Council.” for all [members] should be agreed to by the entire five “These were very tough talks and all our effort was to states, meaning that as long as Iran’s baseline has not lamic Republic of Iran clearly stated that this article of the preserve the rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran during been defined, the other countries’ baselines will not be convention relates to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s the talks, and that is why it has taken 21 years.” recognized either. baseline should be drawn in a way so that we have similar According to Zarif, during the more than two decades, “In a statement filed at the time of the ratification of territorial water to those of the countries which have com- many protocols were discussed around protecting the Cas- the convention and at the time when it was signed, the Is- parable lengths of coastline.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a press conference on Monday that Araghchi delivered Iran’s message to French President Emmanuel Macron last week which offered Tehran welcomes rapprochement with Riyadh plans which are still being studied. 1 He also lauded the United Arab Iran already observes the protocol. Ratifi- Mousavi said the case has technical, le- Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran have been Emirates’ decision to pull its forces out of cation by the Majlis would make it a more gal and diplomatic complexities and Iran trying to salvage the pact since the U.S. withdrew from it in May Yemen as a good step in reducing regional permanent commitment. is pursuing the issue politically and legally. 2018 and re-imposed and toughened sanctions on Iran. tensions, saying Iran would help as much At the same time, under the JCPOA, the He also expressed the hope that the Iranian However, Europeans’ efforts to protect trade with Iran against as it can in this path. U.S. Congress was due to lift sanctions on Iran. diplomat would be released soon. the U.S. sanctions have yielded nothing concrete so far. U.S. not after fruitful dialogue: Zarif proposed that the Iran and U.S. take Britain’s seizure of supertanker On May 8, exactly one year after the U.S. withdrew from the Mousavi those steps immediately. ‘unacceptable’ multi-nation nuclear agreement and reimposed sanctions on Iran, Asked about the implications of Foreign “If Trump wants more for more, we can On seizure of a supertanker carrying the Tehran announced a partial withdrawal from some aspects of the Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s nuclear ratify the Additional Protocol and he can lift Iranian oil, he said it is “unacceptable” that pact, saying that the country would no longer adhere to some of offer to the U.S. in return for lifting of sanc- the sanctions he set,” Zarif said. “He has said a European country “confiscates our oil on the limits on its nuclear activities. It also threatened to step up tions, Mousavi said Iran has said on numer- that he will take any measure to Congress – the orders of the U.S.” uranium enrichment if an agreement is not made within 60 days ous occasions that talks are possible “only fine. Lift the sanctions and you’ll have the tion continues as it is, we will take our third “We regard this measure as a violation to protect it from the sanctions’ effects. if we could get some tangible and practical Additional Protocol sooner than 2023.” step, which would be much stronger than of Barjam,” he stated. In follow-up to that deadline, on July 7 Iran announced that it results out of it.” JCPOA meeting in Vienna was the previous two,” he asserted. He also said the issue was brought up by has started enriching uranium to a higher purity than the 3.67% The U.S. officials’ remarks about holding ‘constructive’ ‘Case of Asadi is complex’ Iran during the Sunday meeting in Vienna, as the Europeans missed the 60-day deadline to devise a concrete talks with Iran are “just a show and they lack Mousavi also commented on the Sunday The spokesman was asked to give details where the sides did not reach an agreement mechanism to protect the country from the U.S. sanctions. seriousness in their proposals,” the spokes- JCPOA meeting in Vienna, attended by Deputy of the latest developments surrounding the on the issue. In a press conference on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman man remarked. Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, saying the detention of Iranian diplomat Asadollah The British government’s move was “an Abbas Mousavi confirmed that if the EU fails to respond to Iran’s “If they are truly after negotiations, meeting was “constructive” and that dip- Asadi in Belgium. illegal move and a bad political decision and demands Tehran will take the next step in reducing nuclear com- what has been put forward (by Iran) can lomatic efforts will continue by all sides to Asadi was arrested in Germany in June we hope they reverse their decision as soon as mitments. In a meeting with Song Tao, head of the International be discussed and is accessible. But as we save the 2015 nuclear agreement. 2018 on the false charges of being linked possible and release the oil tanker,” he added. Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party had predicted, the proposal was opposed “Diplomatic efforts will continue to save to a bomb attack plot in the French cap- Britain captured a supertanker carrying of China (CPC) in Tehran on Monday, First Vice President Es’haq by the Americans because they are not af- Barjam (JCPOA), which is important both ital, Paris. In October 2018, prosecutors the Iranian oil on July 4 by claiming that Jahangiri said Iran’s decision to reduce nuclear commitments are ter a dialogue which could in fact lead to to us and the remaining signatories to the said Germany had extradited the Iranian it was transporting oil to Syria in violation primarily intended to salvage the JCPOA. tangible outcomes.” deal,” he said. diplomat to Belgium. of the EU sanctions. Iran has said its decision to reduce nuclear commitments are Zarif, on a recent visit to New York, not- He added that during the meeting, the According to Belgian authorities, the Ira- Iran has dismissed claims the tanker was based on paragraph 36 of the JCPOA. ed that in 2023, under the JCPOA, Iran’s Europeans objected to Iran’s reduction of nian diplomat had been arrested along with a carrying oil for Syria and said technically it Paragraph 36 provided a mechanism to resolve disputes and parliament, the Majlis, was supposed to its commitments to the JCPOA, while the 38-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman, is impossible for the supertanker to anchor allows one side, under certain circumstances, to stop complying ratify the Additional Protocol to the NPT, Iranian side voiced its strong objection to suspected of plotting a bomb attack on a in Syria’s ports. with the deal if the other side is out of compliance. a voluntary agreement that allows IAEA in- Europe’s inaction in offsetting sanctions as meeting of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad spectors extensive access in Iran to ensure well as their detainment of some Iranians. (MEK) in Paris, attended by U.S. president’s Zarif has called on Britain not to be part the country does not have a covert nuclear “Iran’s measures to reduce its commit- lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and several former of the United States’ “economic terrorism” Iran, Russia to hold joint weapons program. As part of the JCPOA, ments are serious, and if the current situa- European and Arab ministers. against Iran. naval drills in Persian Gulf Iranian general: Scope of battlefields to decide fate of war in Middle East POLITICAL TEHRAN — The commander of the Iranian TEHRAN (Tasnim) — A top Iranian military commander He also warned warmongers against a military conflict military action against Iran, reiterating that the time of hit deskNavy has said Iran and Russia will soon hold said the fate of any war breaking out in the Middle East will in an expanse of 8 million square kilometers in the Middle and run is over. a joint war game in the Indian Ocean which will extend to the hinge on the scale of the theater and duration of the battle, not East, stressing that no power in the world would be able to The U.S. is seeking a way to evade the costs of standing Strait of Hormuz and also the Persian Gulf. on the intensity of the war. end such a war. against Iran and place them on regional countries, Ayatol- “We have agreed to hold naval drill of the two countries in the In a visit to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) “The capacity for long-term management of war in ex- lah Khamenei said, reminding certain regional countries Indian Ocean, and hope this drill will be conducted by the end Aerospace Force’s Missile Units on Monday, Commander of tensive geographical areas, not its intensity or destructive that if they confront Iran, “they will definitely suffer blows of the (Iranian) year,” Admiral Hossein Khanzadi told IRNA. the Khatam al-Anbia Headquarters Major General Gholam power, would determine the final result of a war,” the Iranian and defeat.” Khanzadi said, “When we talk about the Indian Ocean we Ali Rashid said the fate of any war in the future will be decided general added. Ayatollah Khamenei also said that the enemies have re- mean the main important part of it which is connected to Makran by the “scope of the battlefields and the element of time.” Iranian officials and military authorities have frequently sorted to economic war after realizing the futility of military coasts, the Strait of Hormuz and also the Persian Gulf.” “The history of West Asia wars in the past four decades warned the adversaries that they would not be deciding action against Iran. The admiral said coordination meetings will be held soon on shows that the human and material losses inflicted on ini- when to end a war if one ever were to break out. “They have now focused on economic and cultural war, with how to conduct the military exercise. tiators of wars like Saddam (Hussein), the U.S., the Zionist Last year, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah the U.S. Treasury Department working as the headquarters Khanzadi had visited Russia to inspect the Russian naval pa- regime and Saudi Arabia, resulted from a mistake in the Seyed Ali Khamenei said the U.S. government is aware of of the economic war on the Islamic Republic Establishment,” rade on the Neva River in St. Petersburg. calculations and decision making,” the commander said. the crushing response it will have to face in case of taking Ayatollah Khamenei said in April 2018. TECHNOLOGY

I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 30, 2019 IRAN IN FOCUS 3 Pompeo’s call for interview with Raisi: Monafiqeen are U.S. Iranian media lacks ‘honesty’: Tehran soldiers without uniform POLITICAL TEHRAN – Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Rai- desksi has described members of the terrorist POLITICAL TEHRAN – Foreign Min- The remarks came while Zarif, in his latest Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as U.S. soldiers who do not wear deskistry spokesman Abbas visit to New York, was subject to tight U.S. the uniform, expressing his gratitude to the Judiciary and Mousavi has reacted to U.S. Secretary of travel restrictions, under which he could only security forces in identifying American spies and bringing State Mike Pompeo’s call to be interviewed travel between the United Nations, the Iranian them to trial. by Iranian media outlets, saying Iranian UN mission, the Iranian UN ambassador’s “The Monafiqeen are U.S. soldiers without uniform … In journalists have frequently invited him and residence and John F. Kennedy airport. different times, including Operation Mersad, they faced with other U.S. officials for interviews, but they According to reports, all Iranian diplomats unforgettable measures by the children of this nation,” Raisi have flatly refused the offers. and their families were also subject to the said on Sunday, using the term Monafiqeen, which literally “As far as I know, Iranian journalists same restrictions in New York. means “the hypocrites”, to refer to members of the MEK. have frequently invited him and some other “It is certainly not a friendly action. It puts American officials for interviews, but they the members of the mission and their families rejected all of them,” Mousavi said during under basically inhuman conditions. But for a press conference on Monday. me it’s fine because I don’t have any work Pompeo said in an interview on Thursday anywhere other than the three buildings,” that he would be willing to travel to Tehran Zarif told reporters at the United Nations. to address the Iranian people about U.S. Rabiei said at his Sunday press confer- foreign policy. ence that “whenever the U.S. tried to restrict The U.S. secretary of state likened a trip our diplomacy, our diplomats, especially Mr. to Tehran to how Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif, didn’t allow it.” Javad Zarif communicates with the American “Zarif’s visits to several American and public during his trips to the United Nations African countries and his presence on dif- in New York. ferent media outlets made U.S. secretary of “Sure, if that’s the call, happily go there,” state ask for interviews with Iranian media Pompeo said. “I’d like a chance to go, not do outlets,” he said. propaganda but speak the truth to the Iranian However, the spokesman added that people about what it is their leadership has Iran is ready “to make this happen and our done and how it has harmed Iran.” journalist Mr. Marzieh Hashemi can have “We will always call for eternal damnation of the Mon- Mousavi said it is amusing yet rather The Foreign Ministry spokesman says an interview with Mr. Pompeo.” afiqeen,” he said. strange that the U.S. secretary of state re- Hashemi is a 59-year-old American-born Raisi made the remarks while marking the 31st anniversary fers to Zarif’s trips to New York to draw such Pompeo’s offer for talks with Iranian media Muslim convert who has lived in Iran for of Operation Mersad, which took place from July 26–30 1988. conclusion. outlets is “a passive move, in which we do years. She received worldwide recognition The operation, which was the last major military operation “First of all, their action is a defensive one not see any honesty and seriousness.” in January, when she was jailed in the U.S. of the Iran–Iraq War, Iran conducted a successful counter- in opposition to Dr. Zarif’s offensive actions without charge for days and later freed amid attack against a military incursion from Iraq. The invasion in his trips to New York and his direct conver- that Tehran and Washington do not have obligated to facilitate the foreign minister’s public outcry. involved a military force of about 7,000 members of the MEK. sation with the American public,” he stated. diplomatic relations, therefore Zarif’s trips visit to the UN for international affairs, he She was detained by the Federal Bureau Raisi referred to the operation as one of the greatest victories Secondly, he continued, this is “a passive are not to the U.S., but rather “he travels to stated. of Investigation (FBI) at St. Louis Lam- of the Islamic Republic against the hegemons. move, in which we do not see any honesty New York, which is home to the headquar- Press TV’s Marzieh Hashemi can bert International Airport in Missouri on The MEK was established in the 1960s to express a mixture and seriousness. It is similar to their rhetoric ters of the United Nations, for international interview Pompeo: government January 13 while in the U.S. to visit her ill of Marxism and Islamism. It launched bombing campaigns in the past two years about holding talks, affairs and this has nothing to do with the Commenting on the matter, government brother and other family members. She against the Shah, continuing after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, while we are certain that they are not after U.S. government.” spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Sunday that was released on January 23 after some against the Islamic Republic. Iran accuses the group of being a serious agreement.” Based on an agreement between the U.S. Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi can carry 10 days of detention without charge at a responsible for 17,000 deaths. The spokesman highlighted the fact government and the UN, the United States is out an interview with Pompeo. Washington, DC, facility. Based in Iraq at the time, MEK members were armed and equipped by Iraq to fight against Iran alongside the Iraqi dic- tator Saddam Hussein during a war which lasted for 8 years. The MEK’s affiliation to the U.S. government attracted attention in 2012 when the latter removed the former from Easing tension in Persian Gulf is priority of British embassy: ambassador its list of foreign terrorist organizations. The link became more overt after U.S. President Donald POLITICAL TEHRAN – British Ambassador to Tehran on July 20 that the 30,000-ton Stena Impero tanker had deskRobert Macaire has said that easing tension collided with a fishing boat on its route, adding that accord- Trump assumed office in 2017. Trump’s associates, including in the Persian Gulf region is a priority of the British embassy. ing to law, after an accident it is necessary that the causes his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his national security “Easing tension will remain the first priority of the em- are investigated. advisor John Bolton, have attended the MEK’s meetings and bassy and Britain,” he tweeted on Monday. Following the collision, those on board the fishing boat praised the cult group as “democratic alternative” to the Is- The tweet by the ambassador came despite the fact that contacted the British vessel but didn’t receive any response, lamic Republic. a second British Royal Navy warship arrived in the Persian so they informed the Hormozgan Maritime Organization Gulf, a move which will heighten tension in the region. according to the legal procedures, Afifpour added. Tensions have soared since the United States withdrew Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a tweet Civil Defense Organization from the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the 5+1 on July 20, said Iran’s conduct towards the British tanker nations last year and reimposed sanctions, including a ban had been fully within international maritime rules. He also chief says social media on Iran’s oil exports. compared Iran’s action with a seizure of an Iranian tanker In recent weeks, Iran and Britain have seized a tanker by the UK off Gibraltar. is the new den of MEK each, putting further pressure on the agreement. “Unlike the piracy in the Strait of Gibraltar, our action Meanwhile, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei in the Persian Gulf is to uphold int’l maritime rules. As I terrorists said that Britain’s proposal for a European-led maritime said in NY, it is IRAN that guarantees the security of the in Syria essentially does not have the capacity for such a mission to escort tankers in the area is “provocative” and Persian Gulf & the Strait of Hormuz. UK must cease being supertanker. The target was somewhere else. It was passing TEHRAN (MNA) – The commander of Civil Defense Or- “carries a hostile message.” an accessory to #EconomicTerrorism of the US.”On July 4, through international waters through the Strait of Gibraltar ganization has said the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) terrorists In a meeting with Omani foreign minister in Tehran on Britain captured a supertanker carrying the Iranian oil by and there is no law that allows England to stop this tanker. are continuing their hostile acts against Iran, but this time Sunday, President Hassan Rouhani also said, “The presence claiming that it was transporting oil to Syria in violation of In our view the stopping of this ship was maritime robbery in the social media. of foreign forces will not help the region’s security and will the EU sanctions. However, Iran has rejected the claims that and we want this tanker to be freed.”In remarks on July 23, Fortunately, no MEK terrorist remains in Iraq “but now they be the main source of tensions.” the oil tanker was destined for Syria. Tehran has said the Araghchi also said Iran will not let disturbance in shipping are in Albania, following new plots and this time in the social On July 19, Iranian forces impounded a British-flagged capture of the tanker is a violation of the nuclear deal in line in the Strait of Hormuz. media,” Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali said on Monday. oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz for involvement in an with Washington’s “maximum pressure” policy against Iran. “Iran will make any effort to maintain security in this accident with an Iranian fishing boat, after the tanker ig- “Despite what the government of England is claiming, region, especially in the Strait of Hormuz, and will not allow nored distress calls. the target and destination of this tanker wasn’t Syria,” Ira- any disturbance in shipping in this sensitive region,” he said Allah-Morad Afifipour, head of the Ports and Maritime nian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Organization in the southern Hormozgan Province, said Araghchi said on July 7. “The port that they have named Le Drian in Paris. Iran capable of tracing various U.S. stealth aircraft: commander TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The command- “Today, we have achieved complete missile system “Khordad-3rd”. er of the newly established Air Defense self-sufficiency in the field of radar sys- Later on the same day, U.S. President Force of the Iranian Army highlighted tems and powerfully discover and warn a Donald Trump said he had called off a the country’s progress in producing radar variety of advanced American aircraft,” retaliatory attack on a number of targets systems and said the Islamic Republic is the commander went on to say. in Iran and said that he was ready to able to trace various advanced U.S. stealth The remarks came against the backdrop speak with Iranian leaders and come to aircraft and send warnings to them. of increased tensions between Iran and an understanding that would allow the Addressing a military ceremony on the U.S. after the Islamic Republic shot country to improve its economic pros- Jalali made the remarks in a ceremony to commemorate Monday, Brigadier General Alireza Saba- down an advanced U.S. spy drone over pects. “What I’d like to see with Iran, I’d martyrs of Operation Mersad, an operation during the Iran-Iraq hifard referred to Iran’s advances in the its territorial waters. like to see them call me.” war in which the MEK suffered a heavy defeat by Iranian forces. field of air defense and said the country The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps “I look forward to the day where we “Many of the comments [on social media] which are full has made remarkable progress through (IRGC) said on June 20 that a U.S. spy can actually help Iran. We’re not looking of hatred, offense, and mockery are posted by fake accounts using the experiences of the eight years drone that violated the Iranian territorial to hurt Iran,” Trump added. of this group,” he said. of the Sacred Defense (the Iraqi imposed airspace in the early hours of the day was However, on June 24 Trump announced “They are trying to negatively affect the public opinion in war on Iran in the 1980s). shot down by the IRGC Aerospace Force’s new sanctions against top Iranian offi- Iran and stir disappointment among Iranians and indicate “Today, we are able to discover var- air defense unit near the Kooh-e-Mo- cials, including the office of Leader of that the Islamic Republic is inefficient,” the commander ious types of so-called stealth aircraft barak region in the southern province the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed added.Leaked images showed that the U.S.-backed MEK and drones of the enemy and this is only of Hormozgan. Ali Khamenei, Iran’s foreign minister, terrorists have launched social media campaigns against a (small) part of the Army’s air defense The intruding drone was reportedly and senior commanders of the Islamic the Islamic Republic. Iran’s Khorasan newspaper in early capability,” he said. shot by Iran’s homegrown air defense Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). July revealed for the first time part of the organization’s secretive social media influence campaign targeting Farsi, English and Arabic-speaking users on social media. Members are “briefed at the start of their workday and Iraqi MPs voice support for closer Tehran-Baghdad relations start their social media operations at noon. At the end of TEHRAN (FNA) – Iraqi lawmakers of the Iraq-Iran stroyed the country’s infrastructure by its invasion”. the day, feedback is reviewed and issues that have to be parliamentary friendship group, in a meeting with Iran and Iraq have recently been further developing used to defame the Islamic Republic are examined for the Iranian Ambassador to the Arab country Iraj Mas- their bilateral relations. next day,” read the paper.The MEK members fled Iran in jedi, said that they are willing to undertake further On Saturday, it was announced that Iran and Iraq 1986 for Iraq, where they enjoyed backing of former Iraqi measures for bolstering relations between the two will increase their medical cooperation as officials of dictator Saddam Hussein. countries. the two sides agreed to launch educational programs for The MEK has been banned in Iran and around the world Iraq-Iran parliamentary friendship group met the Iraqi researchers, hospital personnel, and physicians for its role in numerous terrorist activities, especially in the Iranian ambassador to Iraq, stressing the parliaments’ to get trained by Iranian experts and researchers in early years after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, taking the roles in developing bilateral relations. the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. lives of thousands of Iranians, along with foreign nationals. The Iraq-Iran parliamentary friendship group said Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks it’s ready to help develop relations between the two Research Qusay Abdul Wahab al-Suhail visited dif- since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, about 12,000 countries. ferent medical centers and hospitals in Iran where have fallen victim to MEK’s acts of terror.Removing a dec- Iraj Masjedi, the Iranian envoy to Iraq, said Tehran he talked Iranian medical officials into helping Iraq ade-long ban on the group, the United States and its allies, is ready to share experiences with Iraq over scientific, set up a medical center for hematopoietic stem cell however, have sought to use the group as a tool to pressure industrial and agricultural sectors after “the U.S. de- transplantation. Iran over the past years. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ADVERTISEMENTSECONOMY JULYJULY 30, 2019

STOCK MARKET Govt. gives green light for TEDPIX 252488.1 IFX 3286.29 Sources: tse.ir, Ifb.ir cryptocurrency mining ECONOMY TEHRAN – Iranian currency mining farms across the country deskgovernment, in a cabinet as many have rushed to mine coins due to meeting on Sunday, approved cryptocurrency cheap electricity. CURRENCIES mining as an industrial activity, IRNA reported. Mining cryptocurrencies is, in nature, a USD 42,000 rials Based on the government’s directive in this very energy-consuming process. Some schol- regard, cryptocurrency miners should get nec- ars even believe that due to its exponential EUR 46,749 rials essary licenses from the Industry, Mining and growth it might consume the world’s entire GBP 51,953 rials Trade Ministry and all the risks regarding the electrical energy by 2020. usage or mining of such currencies is on the In late June, Iranian Energy Ministry AED 11,437 rials involved parties and not subject to government announced that due to bitcoin mining pro- Source: cbi.ir or banking system guarantees. cesses the country’s electricity consumption Using cryptocurrencies in domestic ex- increased by seven-percent this summer. changes is also not permitted. Consequently, the ministry proposed Also, mining cryptocurrencies, like any that the costs of electricity for cryptocur- other industrial activities, will be subject to rency miners should be determined based COMMODITIES tax rules and miners can only be exempted on electricity export rates. Brent $63.05/b from tax if they return part of their earned Following the Energy Ministry, Iran’s currencies into the country’s economic cycle. a cabinet meeting,” the Governor of Central Power Generation and Distribution Com- WTI $56.04/b Homayun Haeri, “a plan to apply the exported Earlier this month, the government’s eco- Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnaser Hemmati an- electricity rate for mining farms was approved pany (known as TAVANIR) also announced OPEC Basket $64.55/b nomic committee approved a mechanism for nounced on July 21. by the government’s economic committee and that using electricity for mining cryptocur- mining cryptocurrencies. As reported, the committee also passed will soon be discussed and voted on by the rencies is illegal and those household or Gold $1,419.20/oz “The government’s economic committee a proposal for applying export rates for the cabinet.” commercial subscribers that use electricity Silver $16.40/oz has approved a mechanism for mining digital electricity used by the domestic miners. Iran has been recently wrestling with for such activities will be cut off from the coins and it will later be put to discussion at According to Deputy Minister of Energy over consumption of electricity by crypto- national grid. Platinium $871.90/oz Sources: oilprice.com, Moneymetals.com NIMA supplies over €17.3b for Over $6b of loans paid to SMEs, imports of goods and services semi-finished projects in 3 months ECONOMY TEHRAN – Iran’s the total amount of loans offered to the ECONOMY TEHRAN –Iran’s do- exporters with guidelines about how they should Tehran City’s real estate deskMinistry of Industry, country’s economic sector stood at 923 deskmestic Forex Management re-inject their foreign currency incomes into Mining and Trade announced that in the trillion rials (about $21.97 billion) in the deals down 64.6% in a Integrated System (locally known as NIMA) the country’s economy. first three months of the current Iranian mentioned period.Central Bank of Iran has supplied €17.357 billion for imports of Based on the new directive, for the petrochemical calendar year (March 21-June 21), some (CBI) has defined supporting production month on year goods and services since it was launched in sector, the exporters should present at least 60 256.17 trillion rials (nearly $6.1 billion) as its major plan in the current Iranian April 2018 up to July 22, 2019, IRNA report- percent of their foreign currency incomes into worth of bank loans have been offered to calendar year, which is named the Year of ed.NIMA, which seeks to boost transparency, NIMA, and a maximum 10 percent could be ECONOMY TEHRAN– The number of real estate deals small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Pickup in Production, and in this regard desk create competitiveness among exchange shops injected into the financial system in the form in Tehran City fell 64.6 percent in the fourth and semi-finished industrial projects with CBI Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati has and a secure environment for traders, is a new of hard currency and the rest could be used for Iranian calendar month of Tir (June 22-July 22), compared an over 60 percent physical progress.Over several times stressed that supporting chance for importers to supply their required importing necessary goods.As for other export- to the same month in the past year, IRIB reported citing 37500 projects and production units re- production units to flourish production foreign currency without specific problems ers, at least 50 percent of the total earnings the data released by Central Bank of Iran (CBI). ceived bank loans in the mentioned time is the priority of the country’s banking and for exporters to re-inject their earned should be presented at the NIMA system and As reported, the number of deals during the fourth month span, IRNA reported on Monday. system in current year.In early May, the foreign currency to domestic forex market. a maximum 20 percent could be distributed of this year has been 4,800, and the housing price has risen Last week, the industry ministry released official outlined CBI plans for neutralizing It was inaugurated to allow exporters of non- in form of hard currency and the rest can be 91.5 percent year on year in Tehran City. a report which indicated that banks and cred- or relieving the impact of U.S. sanctions oil commodities to sell their foreign currency used for imports. As previously announced the Ministry of Roads and Urban it institutions provided both industrial and on the country’s economy and mentioned earnings to importers of consumer products. The instructions, aimed to lead the export Development, the number of real estate deals in Tehran City mining sectors with 300 trillion rials (about providing liquidity and working capital to According to the Governor of Central Bank of revenues from the non-oil exports back into fell 44.8 percent in spring, which corresponds to the first $7.14 billion) worth of loans in the first two maintain and boost domestic production Iran (CBI) Abdolnasser Hemmati, establishing the country’s economy through NIMA, man- quarter of Iranian calendar year, compared to the same months of the current Iranian year (March as one of those plans.CBI’s plans take two direct communication between importers and date all the exporters of goods and services to quarter in the past year. 21-May 21), registering a 41.5 percent rise major approaches, one of which is to secure exporters has significantly increased the volume guarantee bringing back to the country the The ministry’s report said that the number of deals during year on year. finance for production activities and also of exchanges in the NIMA system during the foreign currency amount allocated to them the first quarter of this year has been 21,537, and the housing According to the data released by the to provide the working capital needed for past few months. In late May, CBI unveiled a by the government at lower prices than the price has risen 106 percent year on year in the capital city. Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade, such activities. directive package which provided the country’s free market.

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Public Relations Dept. of IRIB Public Relations Dept. of IRIB I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 30, 2019 ENERGY 5 SATBA to fully support The future of Japan’s energy exports of renewable electricity and environmental policies ENERGY TEHRAN – Head of As reported, a total of 115 renewable deskIran’s Renewable En- power plants were active across Iran as of By Sumiko Takeuchi ergy and Energy Efficiency Organization July 2019 and the construction is ongoing (known as SATBA) said the organization for another 32 plants to supply an extra 380 In the first four parts of this series, I mainly outlined the current state has mobilized all necessary resources to megawatts of renewables to the national and challenges facing the supply side of energy. But reflecting the support the exports of electricity generated power grid. growing popularity of the sharing economy and progress in digiti- from renewable sources especially solar According to PAVEN, currently renew- zation, we are going to see a sea change in how we use energy. In the power plants. able power plants have created 43,450 job last entry in this series, I’d like to think about both the supply and “Following the Ministry of Energy’s opportunities across the country and the demand sides of Japan’s energy, which is at a major turning point. policies, the organization will mobilize volume of private investment in this sector The catalyst for drastic change in Japan’s energy and environ- all its facilities and potentials to support has exceeded 124 trillion rials (over $2.95 mental policies is the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster the export of renewable electricity to billion). that started in 2011. Until then, the government had focused on neighboring countries,” IRNA reported It said the bulk of electricity generation raising the ratio of nuclear power generation to tackle the burgeoning on Monday, quoting Seyed Mohammad from renewables, around 85 percent, came crisis of global warming, but the disaster brought an abrupt about- Sadeqzadeh as saying. from solar and wind plants, adding that face, with Tokyo now seeking to reduce reliance on nuclear power The official voiced SATBA’s readiness biomass accounted for only once percent as much as possible. for eliminating all possible ambiguities in of the total output. this regard, saying that “We offer full com- versify its energy exports in the current Last week, the Energy Ministry’s news Renewables, including hydropower, ac- mitment to operationalize such projects.” Iranian calendar year (started on March portal (known as PAVEN), announced that count for just six percent of the country’s In late February, Sadeqzade had an- 21, 2019), adding electricity generated from the capacity of Iran’s renewable power plants total energy generation, versus natural gas’ nounced that the government plans to di- renewable sources to the export backset. has reached 760 megawatts (MW). 90 percent share.

Private sector operates two third of Iran’s thermal power plants:report ENERGY TEHRAN – Over two third of Iran’s thermal Iran’s energy ministry says the total electricity output from deskpower plants are owned and operated by the renewables have reached 760 megawatts.The country’s thermal country’s private sector, Press TV reported on Sunday, citing a power plants hit a new record last year by generating some 287 report released by Iran’s Energy Ministry. billion megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity. According to the data published on the ministry’s news portal That comes as the government seeks to increase the share of (known as Paven), private owners are currently generating nearly electricity from renewable sources to both diversify the generation 67 percent of Iran’s thermal power. methods and to tackle pollution. In addition, the government has deregulated the postwar pow- “Around 44,000 megawatts (MW) of the capacity of the thermal Iran is currently generating just less than one percent of its er industry structure under which regional power monopolies had power plants comes from the private sector and 21,500 mega- electricity, some 760 megawatts a year, from renewable sources, dominated the supply chain from generation to retail. watts of this capacity is from the public sector,” the report said. including from wind, solar, small hydro, recycled heat and biomass. The deregulation still requires more revisions, but it is hoped Based on the report, the government was seeking to further give The ministry of energy said on Saturday that the private sector that the paradigm shift under which the adjustments of supply and up its shares in the operation and ownership of thermal power had invested some 124 trillion rials (more than $1 billion) in the demand are now entrusted to the market economy rather than the plants which account for more than 92 percent of Iran’s annual renewables industry over the past years. monopolies-led supply chain will be an important starting point for electricity generation. Iran’s current power generation capacity stands at about 81 future reform. And in a new environment with a completely liberal- It said public ownership in Iran’s thermal power will reduce to GW of which the share of renewable power stands at nearly six another 32 plants to supply an extra 380 megawatts of renewables ized market, Japan has to work through the following four changes. nearly 15 percent in the near future with the construction of new percent.Last week, Paven announced that the capacity of Iran’s to the national power grid.Overall, in the next five years, Iran is The first is depopulation. Japan is facing a population decrease, private plants that could generate an extra 12,800 MW of electricity renewable power plants has reached 760 MW. aiming for a 5,000 MW increase in renewable capacity to meet the scale of which the world has never experienced, and half of the each year.The government will build its own new plants to add As reported, a total of 115 renewable power plants were active growing domestic demand and expand its presence in the regional nation’s cities, towns and villages could cease to exist by 2040. some 6,000 megawatts to the current output figures. across Iran as of July 2019 and the construction is ongoing for electricity market. Power transmission network Rapidly depopulating regions are already facing difficulties in maintaining all kinds of social network infrastructure, such as en- ergy and water supplies, and transportation. Several municipalities NIDC digs 41 oil, gas wells in 4 months have suffered from a loss of gasoline stations, and in the near future, ENERGY TEHRAN– National Ira- The official said that of the mentioned maintaining the nationwide power transmission network will also desknian Drilling Company 41 wells, 29 wells were drilled in the fields run into problems. (NIDC) dug and completed digging op- operated by National Iranian South Oil The second is decarbonization. Japan has envisioned a society eration of 41 oil and gas wells during the Company (NISOC), two wells in the fields where carbon dioxide emissions would be cut by 80 percent by first four months of the current Iranian under operation by Iranian Central Oil 2050. The drastic reduction in carbon dioxide would require a calendar year (March 21-July 22), ISNA Fields Company (ICOFC), three wells by shift to electrification of energy demand and low carbonization reported. Iranian Offshore Oil company (IOOC), of power sources. The drilled wells consisted of 17 apprais- three other ones by Petroleum Engineering The electrification of demand means a shift to electrification of al/development wells and 24 workover/ and Development Company (PEDEC), and equipment that previously used fossil fuels as energy to move, as completion wells. four wells by the other companies. exemplified by a shift to electric vehicles from gasoline-powered cars. According to Mohammad Al-e Khamis, NIDC, a subsidiary of National Iranian The electrification of demand is combined with generating the deputy managing director of NIDC for Oil Company (NIOC), undertakes most CO2-free electricity via renewables or nuclear power. Electrici- drilling operation, over 50,929 meters of drilling operations across the country and ty and hydrogen can be made without emitting carbon dioxide, digging has been conducted for the men- drilled 4,489 onshore and offshore oil and depending on methods of production, and we need to make the tioned onshore and offshore wells. gas wells in nearly 40 years. best use of them as much as possible. If low carbonization of power is pursued to the best extent possible under this theory, a trial calculation of supply and demand shows that Japan’s power demand could grow about 25 percent from 2013 Oil loses ground on jitters over economy, hint of Middle East tensions easing levels by 2050. Unless we curb the ratio of thermal power generation Oil prices fell on Monday as investors fretted faster, due partly to the impact of the U.S.-Chi- investors are also focused on meetings of to about 35 percent of the power mix, we would be way off the target over the outlook for global economic growth, na trade war. major central banks — including the U.S. of an 80 percent CO2 reduction by 2050. while weekend talks between Iran and major “For global growth, the outlook there is Federal Reserve, which is expected to lower Even if we used the government’s most ambitious renewable powers ended on a generally positive note, looking shakier … it’s not disastrous but it’s interest rates. energy introduction outlook, renewables would only cover about suggesting an easing of tensions in the Middle not shooting the lights out,” said Phin Ziebell, Still, tensions remain high around the Strait 55 percent of projected power demand in 2050. If we put priority East.As per reuters.com, Brent crude futures senior economist at National Australia Bank. of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil on achieving the 80 percent greenhouse gas emissions reduction were down by 37 cents, or 0.6%, at $63.09 a “Where does oil demand fit in a world passageway.Denmark welcomed the British target for 2050, the remaining 10 percent of demand would need barrel by 0717 GMT. Prices rose 1.6% last week. where it looks like this big boom is now government’s proposal for a European-led to come from nuclear power. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was starting to tail off,” he said, pointing also to naval mission to ensure safe shipping through The third is decentralization. Previously, it was the era of mass down by 20 cents, or 0.4%, at $56.00 a barrel. recent sluggish car sales around the world. the strait.The United States is also working on production where power generated at large-scale power plants is WTI gained 1% last week. Senior U.S. and Chinese negotiators are a multinational maritime security initiative transmitted over long distances to consumption areas, but what’s Economic growth in the United States meeting this week for the first time since trade in the Persian Gulf. on the rise now is distributed power generation technology that slowed less than expected in the second talks broke down in May, as they struggle to U.S. energy companies last week reduced generates electricity closer to where it will be used, such as solar quarter with a boom in consumer spending, resolve deep differences. the number of oil rigs operating for a fourth and wind power. strengthening the outlook for oil consumption. Expectations for progress during the two- week in a row, putting the rig count down The factors that hindered their growth was mainly the high cost But growth outside the U.S. is slowing day Shanghai meeting are low.Traders and for an eighth consecutive month. and the fluctuating power output depending on the weather. But in terms of cost, the price has declined exponentially in recent years. To control an unstable output would require such things as expanding power transmission networks or storing electricity in power storage batteries, but the price of storage batteries is expected to decline Negotiating skills called on at Woodside amid LNG doubts further, which could make them come into popular use. It’s crunch time for Woodside Petroleum. Chief executive Pe- set from a traditionally technical, project-driven company,” Clarity on gas processing Storage batteries ter Coleman has a lot of sixes to hit in the next 18 months to says Credit Suisse energy analyst Saul Kavonic. Adding further complexity is the possibility that Scarborough Storage batteries have traditionally been supported by demand quell the increasing swell of doubters as to whether Australia’s Kavonic goes on to mention that Woodside’s “uniquely pa- gas could be processed at the North West Shelf plant. Mean- for a backup power source in case of disasters, but the decline in cost home-grown LNG pioneer can claim a share of the world’s next rochial” commercial approach to joint venture discussions can while, Woodside is looking to sell a stake in both Scarborough could pave the way for making the most out of zero-marginal-cost global growth wave in LNG. also risk putting partners offside and contributing to confusion and an expansion LNG train at Pluto to a third party, but has renewable energy. According to afr.com, market fundamentals are stacked and delay.Still, as the operator and sole local participant in the no clarity yet on the gas processing fee. The last is digitization. Most of the global population now against Woodside’s $45 billion brace of West Australian LNG unwieldy North West Shelf venture that stands at the heart of Peter Coleman has long declared that tolling agreements uses the internet and stays connected. In addition, the dramatic projects: Customers in Asia, perhaps fed up with the premium Woodside’s “Burrup Hub” gas processing strategy for WA, the are the keys that will unlock the ambitious investment in decline in sensor prices has made it possible to quantitatively they are paying for contracted LNG over the depressed spot rate, company has some powerful allies.With the federal government growth that he has shaped.The fact that 2019 marks 40 grasp ideas for products and services that consumers’ desire. are proving reluctant to lock themselves into new long-term standing behind it, the regulator for offshore petroleum licenses years since Scarborough gas was discovered and 48 years Reflecting changes in the preferences of consumers fed up with a contracts. They have plenty of choice from the plethora of new is said to be putting pressure on the Scarborough and Browse for Browse gas is testament to the difficulty – and cost – of deluge of goods in their lives, all businesses that have previously projects going ahead overseas.Then the downward pressure venture partners to move ahead with development, else risk bringing the large but remote resources online. Both have supplied goods as tools are now shifting their focus to offering a on contract LNG tariffs combined with Australia’s high cost an adverse decision when retention rights over the fields come seen several iterations of development concepts over the strong customer experience. base, is raising questions on likely levels of returns even if they up for renewal next year.Federal Resources Minister Matthew past decade, notably floating LNG. Browse was also en- Tire manufacturers, for example, are making a transition to do proceed.Gas from the Browse fields would be processed at Canavan has declared he “can’t see a reason for additional delay” ergetically pursued by Coleman’s predecessor Don Voelte offering sensor-embedded tires to customers to provide optimal the North West Shelf LNG plant near Karratha. on Browse, while WA Premier Mark McGowan has promised as a controversial greenfield LNG project at James Price maintenance services at optimal timing. Energy is just a means At the same time, Woodside has to drag reluctant partners to fast-track a pipeline to bring Browse gas onshore.But it is a Point on the Kimberley coast before the ballooning capex – a of moving equipment that makes people’s lives more convenient. over the line at both the $11 billion ($15.9 billion) Scarbor- United Nations of partners that need to be brought on board. rumored $100 billion – turned even the most enthusiastic We may see the advent of service providers that do not offer such ough LNG project and the $20.5 billion Browse project.It is Because gas from both Scarborough and Browse would be cold in 2013.Several of those that sought to make a go of the equipment as cars, air conditioners and refrigerators but instead the latter that has worried some, given without alignment, the processed mostly in existing LNG production infrastructure, resources have walked away over the years, most recently offer such value as mobility, a comfortable indoor environment and two biggest pillars underpinning growth for the $32 billion oil alignment is needed not only between the field partners but BHP from Browse and ExxonMobil from Scarborough.The proper management of necessary food. There is great potential in and gas producer beyond its 100 million barrel output target between (and with) the owners of the infrastructure.For Browse, history of Browse is important because it makes reaching a the world of energy, too, for digitization to create new businesses in 2020 crumble. that means agreement not just between Woodside and its field gas processing deal all the more difficult, says Matt Blumberg and change the industrial structure. Two projects hammered out partners Shell, BP, PetroChina and the Mitsui-Mitsubishi joint at Hayberry Global Fund, recalling that BHP had wanted These trends prompting a revolution in Japan’s energy in- With technical design matters at the two projects broadly venture, but also with Chevron and BHP that have stakes in the Browse to be tied back to the North West Shelf plant when dustry are inescapable and some of them have already made hammered out, it is a different sort of challenge facing Coleman North West Shelf plant 900 kilometers to the south in Karratha Woodside was pushing for James Price Point. substantial headway. It’s important to picture the future of and his senior team, one that calls on the negotiating skills and where the 13.9 trillion cubic feet of gas would be processed.At “Now Woodside is pushing for Browse gas to be tolled through Japan’s energy industry that is led by these big trends as well diplomacy that professional acquaintances of the seasoned Scarborough, whose 9.2 tcf of gas would be processed at the the North West Shelf JV, but without a stake in Browse, BHP’s as to see how to connect the dots toward such a future. A few ExxonMobil executive highlighted when he was named for Pluto LNG plant, also near Karratha, Woodside needs agreement interest is in maximizing profitability for the North West Shelf; decades may not be enough time to change the social infra- the top job at the Perth-based company in 2011. from 25 percent field partner BHP. But the deal for processing it is going to be difficult to come up with a compromise,” he says. structure of energy, but the transition is definitely underway. “Woodside now faces the internal cultural and commercial gas at Pluto is complicated by existing Pluto LNG partners The “biggest issue in the North West Shelf at the moment It can be said that Japan now stands at the crossroads of a capability challenge to progress highly commercial JV alignment Kansai Electric and Tokyo Gas, with BHP having no stake in is partner alignment, and the longer these issues persist the good future and a bad one. discussions that are key to growth, requiring a departure in skill the infrastructure. more overseas competition intensifies.” (Source: japantimes.co.jp) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 6 INTERNATIONAL JULY 30, 2019

Unlike U.S., China never Traitors seek to separate Hong seeks to be world leader By Xu Hailin Kong and fuel street violence GLOBALTIMES – Michael Pillsbury, one of US President Donald Trump’s advisers, said Thursday at the Washington DC-based GLOBALTIMES – Some protest forces ists and activists, Wolfowitz was responsi- think tank the Atlantic Council that “the competition to forever in Hong Kong are closely connected with ble for developing the US’ Defense Planning stop China from taking the position as No.1 in the world is primary foreign politicians Guidance, 1994-1999. It was blunt, and later for Trump,” according to the Voice Of America (VOA) Chinese site. Western politicians have penetrated Hong described by US Senator Ted Kennedy as China never seeks to be a leader of the world, but it will also Kong years ago, looking for opportunities to imperialist.In part the unedited Wolfowitz never be a vassal of the US or it will never desist from developing brainwash local society and foster leaders Doctrine declared, “Our first objective is to just because it actually leads in some fields. Preventing China for a color revolution.The Hong Kong media prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either from gaining leadership in the world is a wishful surmise of the mogul who financially supports the Demo- on the territory of the former Soviet Union US within its own set of topics, which suggests that China will do cratic Party is believed to be manipulating or elsewhere… to prevent any hostile power whatever the US asks and hopes it to. This is definitely impossible. Hong Kong politics behind the scenes. from dominating a region whose resources Currently in some fields China has made advanced achieve- Protesters face off with police (bottom) would, under consolidated control, be suffi- ments and even leads the world. China is narrowing the gap during a demonstration against an extradition cient to generate global power,” according with the US in some fields and increasing its influence. China’s bill in Hong Kong on Sunday. to globalresearch.ca. development experience is also welcomed by many developing Protest against the Hong Kong extradi- Lai said during his own online show that countries. This is the result of China’s rapid development in the tion bill has been used by the opposition he and Wolfowitz had known each other for past few decades, rather than that acquired through colonial to create a violent movement, evident in a a long time. expansion like Western countries. series of violent attacks against the Legisla- Lai and Wolfowitz were already friends China’s investment in research and development (R&D) is tive Council, national emblem and innocent when the latter became head of the US-Taiwan very telling evidence. Between 2003 and 2013, China led the civilians, bringing chaos and disruption to Business Council in 2008, Mark Simon, a world on annual R&D spending growth with an average of 19.5 Hong Kong’s public order and affecting its senior executive at Next Media Group, con- percent. In 2018, China spent a record $370.6 billion on R&D - economy. firmed, according to Hong Kong-based Eng- in purchasing power parity - second in the world after only the It is obvious that what the opposition to lish newspaper South China Morning Post US, and so narrowed the gap. the extradition bill opposes is not a simple report in June 2014.In Lai’s chart of “political As a matter of fact, it is not China or some other countries amendment, but the rule of law in Hong Kong. investments,” Simon is his right-hand man. that want to compete with the US for the position of No.1 in the It seeks to challenge the central government Simon’s father worked in a US government world. It is the US that is always worried that its leading position and make Hong Kong “independent.” department. Simon served in the US Navy and is not solid enough. However, Washington refuses to attribute As demonstrations by extremist forces was focused on intelligence assignments after the cause to its own flaws but rather to the development of other in Hong Kong grow increasingly violent, the war,” said Voice of America on July 12 in its the US has accumulated forces by training he graduated from Georgetown University, countries, which Trump says are “taking advantage of America.” intervention of foreign forces has become Chinese version. a group of people who are directly engaged one of top schools in diplomacy, reported East Such being the idea, it is understandable that the US launched more apparent. However, such intervention “Mike Pence and Michael Pompeo met in demonstrations. Week.Simon transferred to Hong Kong for a trade war against China, scrapped trade privileges under the cannot grow in Hong Kong society without Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee- Since the Occupy Central Movement in business after service. Wen Wei Po report- Generalized System of Preferences for India and initiated a the cooperation and assistance of a group of ying, in some way that is a symbol that the 2014, batches of people have received training ed that Simon processed Lai’s donations to Section 301 investigation into the French government’s digital traitors. Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and Martin US’ strategy in Hong Kong has succeeded, in the US and local media staffs have under- local political parties.Ellen Bork was one of services tax. These reckless and wayward actions have damaged Lee Chu-ming are representatives of this Lai was there to claim an award from the US,” gone dedicated training by the US in Southeast Lee’s assistants from 1998 to 1999. She was the reputation of the US internationally, shaken its status, and group of traitors. Chan Man-hung, director of the One Belt Asia.Since then, some young people have also reportedly connected to Jesse Helms, affected its influence in the world. From last year to this year, these so-called One Road Research Institute at the Chu Hai played a major role, and the US is leveraging the then chairman of the US Senate Foreign After Trump took office and upheld his America First policy, democratic leaders have had unprecedented College of Higher Education in Hong Kong, large-scale social demonstrations as a cover Relations Committee. Later she served as the US seemed to have abandoned the rational and fair way of levels of contacts with the US government was quoted as saying in an interview with to promote a color revolution, he said.The deputy director of the Project for the New development but instead childishly dealt with tariffs and used and Western parliaments, forming increas- Hong Kong-based media outlet takungpao. best way out for Hong Kong is offense rather American Century at Freedom House, a US- sanctions as a conventional weapon. The Trump administration ingly brazen collusion that has fueled the com on July 24. than retreat, Chan stressed. based government-funded NGO that con- aims to make America great again but it forces other countries to expansion of street politics in Hong Kong. Chan said that the US has been proactively Collusion with Western politicians ducts research and advocacy on democracy, sacrifice their own interests for the greatness of the US. Washington Since past centuries, traitors have always intervening in protests against an extradition It is an open secret in Hong Kong that the political freedom and human rights. Now should consider changing its gestures of being the world leader. played a special role in conflict between China bill that would allow criminal suspects to be forces protesting the extradition bill have been Bork is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy The international system was built by the US after World War and foreign powers. In addition to directly extradited to the Chinese mainland, Macao, sponsored by the US. The activist, also the Initiative, a Washington-based think tank. II. It has fulfilled the savior complex that the US once had and still serving external forces that invade and sup- and the island of Taiwan, and that Lai was founder of the Next Digital Group, Jimmy Lai Financer behind the opposition has. As globalization develops, the world structure is changing, press China, their role usually includes de- overseeing implementation of the protests. Chee-ying, was exposed by WikiLeaks to be Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, 71, was born in which demands reform of the existing international system to stroying the internal solidarity of the Chinese Taking a close look at the protests and closely related to US intelligence personnel, South China’s Guangdong Province. He adapt itself to the characteristics of the new era. The world system people and helping external forces brainwash aftermath in Hong Kong, people will notice all according to Hong Kong-based newspaper was smuggled from the Chinese mainland should not be a tool for anyone to profit but a framework and the Chinese people. Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and approaches match a typical color revolution Wen Wei Po. to Hong Kong in 1960.In 1981, Lai founded safeguard for the shared development of mankind. Martin Lee Chu-ming are typical examples such as gaining sponsorship from the US, In mid-2014, an email related to Next the Giordano fashion chain. By the end of This, rather than the so-called ambition of overtaking the of modern traitors. fostering leaders, establishing political parties Digital Group executives was leaked that the 1980s, he produced 200,000 T-shirts US, is the reason China strives for reforms in the international US intervention and organizations aimed at subverting the indicated that the group has been commu- with a radical slogan on it for the so-called system and order. Such a misunderstanding of China stems from In March and May, major representatives government, brainwashing Hong Kong society nicating with the US Consulate General in democracy movements, and he took this op- a wrong contention, which will thus lead to biased arguments of the Hong Kong rebellion, including Anson with extreme “Western values,” leveraging Hong Kong.During protests against the ex- portunity to get to know Democratic Party and conclusions. Chan Fang On-sang and Martin Lee Chu- emergencies to carry out street-level political tradition bill, Lai had a high-level meeting founder Martin Lee Chu-ming. ming, both of whom received donations from activities, leveraging media to create fake with senior US officials including Mike Pence, In 1990, Lai sold all his shares in Giordano Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, led the Civic Party news, forging so-called public opinion and Michael Pompeo and US National Security at a low price and established the Next Dig- in Hong Kong to meet with US Secretary of coercing the government, Chan pointed out.A Adviser John Bolton. ital Group in Hong Kong.In October 2011, For Abe, victory State Michael Pompeo and US Vice President color revolution is planned after long-term At the end of May 2014, Lai met with records of Lai’s sponsorship to Hong Kong’s Mike Pence, starting an international war of preparation, and it takes a while to make Paul Wolfowitz, the former US deputy sec- pan-democrats and religious figures were comes with a caveat public opinion against the extradition bill. sure it can be used to deal with China, Chan retary of defense, on a yacht for five hours, leaked. The records indicated that from 2006 By Chen Yang In a provocative move by the Apple Daily, said in another interview with takungpao. according to a report from Hong Kong-based to 2010, he donated more than HK$10 million a Hong Kong-based newspaper founded in com on July 6. Chinese language magazine East Week on ($1.28 million) to the Democratic Party in 1995 by Jimmy Lai Chee Ying, a leaflet that Now with trade tensions have increased June 19, 2014. Hong Kong and the Citizens Party, respec- GLOBALTIMES – Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic could be used as a protest sign for rioters in between the US and China, it is obvious that Wolfowitz, Lai’s buddy, is a foreign policy tively, plus HK$20 million to former Hong Party (LDP), led by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the field was published in the paper. the US regards China as its No.1 enemy. There- hawk. In 1982, he was appointed as assis- Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun. and junior partner Komeito won a majority of the seats in Hong Kong is fighting for the US, according fore, the US has launched a comprehensive tant secretary of state for East Asian and In 2009, Lai’s donation accounted for election to the House of Councillors or the Upper House to a US media report published within a week attack on Hong Kong at both the international Pacific Affairs. Meanwhile, he was one of the 99 percent of non-member donations to the election, on July 21. According to The Nikkei, “Of the 124 after Lai’s meeting with senior US officials. level and the internal level, Chan pointed prominent neoconservatives in the George Democratic Party and 68.2 percent to the seats that were contested, the ruling coalition secured “Lai did not elaborate what kind of support out.Besides local people in Hong Kong in- W. Bush administration. Citizens Party. Lai’s role as a main sponsor 71, with Abe’s LDP winning 57. That is enough to give the US officials have committed, instead, he said itiating protests, foreign consulates have According to a May 2018 report from thus emerged.Some commentators believe coalition a majority in the Upper House.” that the US officials well understand Hong participated with the cooperation of foreign globalresearch.ca, a Montreal-based website that his aim was to manipulate Hong Kong The election result reflects Japan’s public mandate. The Kong is fighting for the US in the new cold media, Chan said.Chan also confirmed that featuring a media group of writers, journal- politics behind the scenes. victory of the ruling party in the Upper House election indicates that Abe administration’s policies are generally recognized by most Japanese. Meanwhile, voting for the ruling party shows the citizens’ desire for stability. According to the Japanese Constitution, members of the UAE troop drawdown: Beginning of the end for Yemen war Upper House serve six-year terms and about half the seats are up for grabs every three years. This time, 124 of the 245 seats TEHRAN (FNA)– The United Arab Emirates has been were up for grabs. After the election, the LDP holds 113 seats forced to withdraw its occupying troops from Yemen in in the Upper House. That being said, even if the LDP has more coordination with key ally Saudi Arabia. This should mark than half the seats in the Upper House, it can be argued that the beginning of the end for the failed US-backed, Saudi-led the foundation of its support is not quite strong. war on Yemen. Moreover, the Upper House is not as important as the House The UAE, a leading member of the Western-backed Arab of Representatives, or the Lower House, in Japan. When there coalition battling the Ansarullah movement, is reducing its is a disagreement between the Upper House and the Lower military presence after almost five years of failed war on the House, the country’s Constitution “grants more power to the poorest country in the Arab world. The Persian Gulf state Lower House by giving its decision precedence,” said The has pulled many troops from areas including the Southern Mainichi. port of Aden and the Western coast, but claims it remains Since Abe assumed office as prime minister for the second committed to the ousted government of president Abd-Rabbu time in 2012, he has been committed to amending Japan’s Mansour Hadi. postwar pacifist Constitution. But securing more than half the The drawdown was not a last-minute decision and had been seats in the Upper House is not enough. Japan’s Constitution discussed extensively with Riyadh. It came after the failed stipulates that a proposed amendment must be approved by attempt to defeat the resistance movement of Ansarullah a supermajority of two-thirds of the elected membership of amid international condemnations for the ongoing human each house. But this condition has not been met. Now Abe rights violations and war crimes in the war-torn country by has only two years left in office and faces time constraints to the Saudi-led coalition. amend the Constitution. Although the LDP, the Komeito, the Indeed, behind the drawdown is a disastrous failure of Japan Innovation Party (JIP), the Constitutional Democratic decision-making that led to the war on Yemen in 2015; the Party of Japan (CDP) and some individuals without party signature initiative of the Crown Prince MBS. Thanks to his affiliation who are members of the National Diet support the leadership, Saudi cities and infrastructure are now targets revision of the Constitution, the specific plans of each party for a once-ragged army that has developed increasingly Instead, Cairo sent a small contingent of several hundred been made since the campaign was launched, as the country for the amendment are different. sophisticated drones and missiles. The war is the worst soldiers and three to four ships to assist Riyadh.And in recent is heavily defended by land and sea. For example, the LDP advocates the revision of Article 9 humanitarian catastrophe in the world. instances, even those countries that agreed to participate Last but not the least, the Saudi coalition’s inability to win of the Constitution, the JIP wants to reduce the members of The Trump administration’s decision to sell billions in in the Saudi-led campaign developed conflicts of interest or even to advance in Yemen has a two-pronged diagnosis: the National Diet, and the CDP insists on limiting the rights arms to Riyadh without congressional approval has only with Riyadh over the course of the fighting; for example, The fact that the Ansarullah are well-situated to repel foreign of a prime minister to dissolve the Lower House. It means the encouraged the crown prince to continue the quagmire too. the Saudis and the Emiratis are backing forces that are at fighting forces; and the fact that the Saudi military suffers game among different parties is complicated.In addition, the The Saudis are not more capable of winning the war with more odds over the future of Yemen and this has created friction from its own systemic ineffectiveness and divisions – for attitude of the Japanese toward constitutional revision has munitions. The American support has singularly helped in that has at times erupted into violence between local actors. instance, the UAE’s failed efforts to bring its power to bear not changed with Abe’s long-term governance. According to five years to support the Saudis in bombing civilian targets In the prevailing environment, expect the Saudi coali- in the fight war and its recent decision to withdraw. a poll released by the NHK Broadcasting Culture Research or increasing the carnage of the war. Children are the most tion fighting in Yemen to be forced more into a stalemate Which is to say: The illegal war on Yemen has been a Institute in April last year, only 29 percent of respondents think at risk and are paying a horrible cost. following the UAE’s decision. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi had disaster for all involved parties, and so ending it is both it is necessary for Japan to revise the Constitution. And any On the other hand, the war on Yemen has exposed the promised a swift campaign in what has now become one of the smart thing to do as well as the right thing to do under constitutional revision requires a national referendum. The tenuous nature of Saudi Arabia’s relationships with its prin- the fiercest battles in the devastating conflict. Their initially international law and UN Charter. And because American Abe administration may be able to persuade members of the cipal Muslim allies. The most important of them, Pakistan, stated goal was a total defeat of Ansarullah in Yemen, but interference is most successful in regions that suffer from National Diet to support constitutional amendments through surprisingly refused to send its army to assist the regime. after a couple of years they changed their claim, and said conflict or insecurity, ending the war has the added benefit political promises and exchange of interests, etc. But it is The Sisi government in Egypt also refused to send large their goal is to cut off the Ansarullah’s main supply line and of potentially weakening the War Party’s ability to meddle obviously difficult to make the Japanese people to accept it. numbers of ground troops to participate in the fighting. force them back to the North. However, little progress has in regional affairs. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 30, 2019 ANALYSIS & INTERVIEW 7 Most Dem Presidential Candidates Democrats blowing on embers with a Politicized Are Attacking Trump’s Korea Policy Mueller By Tim Shorrock consortiumnews-Robert Mueller appeared to have difficulty understanding and answering questions during his day-long OUTLINE — first-debate-2020-bernie-sanders-joe- hearings on Wednesday but snapped to attention to make po- biden-rtr-img litical points, says Joe Lauria. Led by former vice president Joe Biden, the leading Democratic candidates for president in 2020 have fo- cused on President Trump’s friendly (though presently shaky) relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un as a prime example of a foreign policy that’s gone off the establishment tracks and left traditional US allies in the dust. With their next televised debate set for next week, Biden and most of his competitors hope to con- vince voters—especially those who voted Republican in 2016—that Trump’s personalized style of US power projection presents an existential danger not only to the United States but als0 to its friends around the world. “We need allies,” Biden told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on July 5, five days after Trump revived his once-stalled negotiations with Kim in a historic meeting on the North Korean side of the demilitarized zone arranged with the support of South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Yet Trump “is absolutely dissing them,” the Democratic front-run- ner continued, and is instead “embracing thugs. He’s embracing Kim Jong-un, who is a thug.” Even as Trump and Kim announced at the DMZ that Former Russiagate special counsel Robert Mueller’s ap- their new negotiating teams would soon begin a new round pearance before the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary of talks, Biden continued his line of attack, declaring on and Intelligence Committees on Wednesday was an exercise by Twitter and in the CNN interview that the conversation the Democrats of trying to extract statements that would keep at the border was merely a “photo op” that “gave Kim Russiagate alive and an attempt by the Republicans to finish off everything that he wanted: legitimacy.” Since then, of the story once and for all. course, those talks have been delayed by continued dis- Appearing to be feigning, or actually suffering early signs putes between Washington and Pyongyang, most lately us in your face, do something.” DMZ, close analysts of the Korea situation, and the South of senility, the nearly 75-year old Mueller disappointed both about an upcoming series of US–South Korean military Biden’s approach reflects a basic misunderstanding Korean officials who have been in discussion with the White parties and the public. He declined to answer 198 questions, exercises and the North’s latest test, on Wednesday, of of the peace process in Korea. His overwhelming focus House, predicted that the next step in US–North Korean according to a count by NBC News. When he did answer he was two short-range missiles. on Trump’s relationship with Kim—shared by the other talks will involve North Korea’s giving up a major chunk often barely intelligible and mostly stuck to what was in his final Yet, given all that’s happened in Korea over the past candidates—obscures Korea’s agency in the peace process of its nuclear program in return for a partial lifting of US report, though he often had to fumble through pages to find 18 months, it’s hard to see how Biden’s tough line toward and the real issues at stake for Washington, Seoul, and and UN sanctions that are crippling the most vulnerable passages he could not recall, eating into committee members’ Kim—or a return to the confrontational days of 2017, Pyongyang. “This is a rare moment in history where US parts of the North’s economy. That would move both sides five-minute time limit. when all-out war seemed a distinct possibility—could and Korean interests are aligned,”said Hyun Lee, US past the disastrous summit in Hanoi in late February, Mueller especially refused to comment on the process of his win over the swing voters the Democrats need to defeat national organizer for Women Cross DMZ and the Korea when Trump walked out after unsuccessfully pressing investigation, such as who he did or did not interview, what coun- Trump. On most issues, particularly immigration, the Peace Treaty Campaign, in a talk in Washington on July 16. Kim to accept a deal that would have involved the North tries his investigators visited and he even dodged discussing some president’s racist stands and outrageous tweets give the In a discussion at the Center for International Policy, giving up its entire weapons program before obtaining any relevant points of law. It was an abdication of his responsibility party plenty of ammunition, no manner who the nominee Lee identified the “greater motivating factors” behind the sanctions relief whatsoever. This was seen in Pyongyang to U.S. taxpayers who footed his roughly $30-million, 22-month is. But on Korea and Kim, not so much. US talks with North and South Korea as Trump’s need as a demand for surrender or capitulation—something probe.But when it came to making political statements, the former Since the first Trump-Kim summit, in June 2018, North to show a win before the 2020 election; Kim’s need to they have said they will never do. FBI director suddenly rediscovered his mental acuity. He went Korea has refrained from testing any long-range strategic lift sanctions as part of his drive to improve North Ko- Biegun expressed the new US flexibility a day before way beyond his report to say, without prosecutorial evidence, weapons, and the United States and South Korea has rea’s beleaguered economy; and Moon’s need to make Trump’s meeting at the DMZ, when he informed his South that he agreed with the assessment of then CIA Director Mike stopped the massive military exercises that so angered progress in inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation Korea counterpart, Lee Do-hoon, that the US government Pompeo that WikiLeaks is a “non-state, hostile intelligence agency.” the North in years past (the ones coming up in August before his own term is up in 2022. The organizations she was prepared to move the US–North Korean negotiations Mueller called “illegal” WikiLeak‘s obtaining the Podesta will be much smaller). And despite an onslaught of me- works with, Lee added, are working in Washington and forward “simultaneously and in a parallel” manner. Bie- and DNC emails, an act of journalism. In the 2016 election, the dia stories about North Korea’s still-formidable military in Congress “to create a political space in DC to prepare gun, whose role was eclipsed in Hanoi by John Bolton, Espionage Act would not apply as the DNC and Podesta emails capabilities, the two Koreas have taken advantage of the for peace in Korea.” Trump’s hardline national security adviser, added in a were not classified. Nor has WikiLeaks been accused by anyone first major diplomatic opening since the early 2000s to Any discussion of the peace process, in fact, must speech to the conservative Atlantic Council on June 19 of stealing the emails. And yet the foremost law enforcement make enormous strides in scaling down tensions on the begin in South Korea. The talks between Trump and that “the door is wide open” for negotiations, and said figure in the U.S. accused WikiLeaks of breaking the law merely border, including destroying dozens of front-line guard Kim only came about because of the encouragement of he and his North Korean partner were committed to for publishing. posts and getting rid of mines. President Moon, who began the current wave of diplomacy “regain our momentum” by returning to the basic areas Though Mueller’s report makes no mention of The Guardian’s “If Biden tries to make North Korea a campaign issue in January 2018 when he invited Kim to send emissaries of agreement—including establishing new US–North tale that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort visited and tries to say that Trump is appeasing the Kim regime, to the Winter Olympics in the South. Even Shinzo Abe, Korean political relations and building a “lasting and WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy, he is wasting his time,” said Harry Kazianis, a prominent Japan’s right-wing prime minister and Trump’s closest stable peace regime”—that came out of the first summit when questioned on this, Mueller refused to refute the story, for conservative and senior director of Korean Studies at the ally in Asia, has jumped on the bandwagon, offering his in Singapore in June 2018. Bolton, as many observers which there isn’t a scrap of evidence. That was another purely Center for the National Interest, a think tank founded by own direct talks with Kim (he’s also now embroiled in noted, was nowhere to be seen at Trump’s meeting at political and not legal intervention from the lawman. former president Richard Nixon. “The 2020 election will a bitter economic and diplomatic dispute with Moon the DMZ. While Mueller concluded there was no evidence of a con- come down to economics, not nuclear weapons on the over Japan’s World War II–era conscription of Korean Despite Biegun’s signaling and Trump’s insistence spiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign to throw the Korean Peninsula,” he told The Nation in an interview. laborers). that he’s in “no hurry” to get an agreement, North Korea 2016 election, he has not let up on the most politicized part of his Still, Biden’s competitors have kept up the political Biden’s emphasis on the nuclear umbrella—under recently complained about new, albeit small, US mili- message: that Russia interfered “massively” in “our democracy” offensive. At the first Democratic debate, on June 27, which the United States has pledged to defend non-nu- tary exercises with South Korea, and said they make it and is still doing it. There was no waffling from Mueller when it Senator Kamala Harris called North Korea “a real threat clear South Korea and Japan with its own weapons—also hard to trust the United States. In statements carried came to this question. in terms of its nuclear arsenal” and said Trump “embrac- shows an appalling lack of understanding about the North on its official news agency, KCNA, the North Korean He bases this on his indictment of 12 GRU Russian military es” Kim, “a dictator, for the sake of a photo op.” Senator and its motives. Those weapons, which are carried on foreign ministry said the upcoming “19-2 Dong Maeng intelligence agents whom he alleges hacked the DNC emails and Elizabeth Warren continued the attack in a tweet a few US ships and planes in the Pacific region, are part of (Alliance)” drills scheduled for August are “clearly a transmitted them to WikiLeaks. Mueller knows those agents days later, saying that instead of “squandering American the arsenal that Kim Jong-un would like to see directed breach of the main spirit” of the June 12 statement in will never be arrested and brought to a courtroom to have his influence on photo ops,” the United States “should be elsewhere, and they explain why he has insisted on the Singapore, where Trump canceled large-scale mili- charges tested. In that sense the indictment was less a legal than dealing with North Korea through principled diplomacy wording “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” in tary drills and—to the shock of many—called them a political document. that promotes US security, defends our allies, and up- any joint statements with Trump. It’s also a key issue for “provocative.” Underscoring its concerns, on Monday Among the inaccuracies about Russiagate that were recycled holds human rights.” South Korean peace activists. KCNA broadcast photographs of Kim examining a new at the hearing is that the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Senator Bernie Sanders, in contrast, has been more “There’s been a lack of discussion about what South submarine that experts cited by The Wall Street Jour- Agency spent $1.25 million in the United States to influence the nuanced. “I have no problem with [Trump’s] sitting down Korea and the US should give up to help North Korea nal “believe could carry multiple missiles, including election. That figure belonged to a unit that acted worldwide, not with Kim Jong-un,” he told ABC’s This Week. But in his give up its nuclear weapons,” Tae-ho Lee, an activist those with nuclear capabilities.” And then came this just in the U.S., according to Mueller’s indictment. In fact it only view, he said, Trump has badly damaged the State De- with People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, week’s launch of what South Korea called a “new kind spent $100,000 on Facebook ads, half coming after the election, partment and its ability to manage foreign affairs. “We one of the largest and most influential NGOs in South of short-range ballistic missile,” one that is similar to and as even Mueller pointed out, some were anti-Trump. need to move forward diplomatically, not just do photo Korea, said during a recent visit to Washington. “Secu- two projectiles fired last May. North Korea, in a KCNA Cambridge Analytica, by contrast, had 5,000 data points on opportunities,” he added. rity assurances to North Korea are impossible without dispatch, said the test was a message to South Korean 240 million Americans, some of it bought from Facebook, that It’s a close race for the Democratic nomination: In a removal of the nuclear umbrella.” He also said the “warmongers who are running high fever in their moves gave an enormous advantage for targeted ads to the Trump cam- poll released July 19 by NBC News, Biden led the pack combination of the US and South Korean militaries, to introduce the ultramodern offensive weapons into paign, which says it put out 5.9 million Facebook ads based on this with 25 percent, with Sanders and Warren holding steady linked in an alliance since 1954, are an “overwhelming South Korea and hold military exercise in defiance of data. It paid at least $5.9 million to the company co-founded by at 16 percent and Harris just behind at 14 percent. This power.” For the past 30 years, he pointed out, South the repeated warnings from” the North. Recently, the Trump’s campaign strategist Steve Bannon. But we are supposed week, a CBS poll had it even closer, with Biden still at 25 Korea’s military spending alone has been higher than South began deploying the first of 40 F-35A advanced to believe that a comparatively paltry number of social media percent, but with Warren at 20, Harris at 16 and Sanders North Korea’s entire GDP. fighter jets made by Lockheed Martin. messages from the IRA threw the election. at 15. The next three—Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke, and Sanders, alone among the Democratic candidates, The North Korean statements and actions alarmed Mueller implied in his testimony that there was a link between Juli?n Castro—came in at 6, 4, and 2 percent, respectively. has been paying attention to and meeting with peace Kazianis, of the Center for the National Interest. “If the IRA and the Russian government despite an order from a A total of 20 candidates will square off next Tuesday and activists and has incorporated into his platform some the situation remains unaddressed” and US and North judge for him to stop making that connection. In focusing again Wednesday on CNN. of their ideas for engagement. He recently used a cam- Korean diplomats can’t return to “dialogue and com- on Russia, no member of Congress from either party raised the When it comes to foreign policy, Biden has been by paign video that featured an interview with Christine promise…we could very well go back to the days of content of the leaked emails. far the most outspoken. He outlined his philosophy in a Ahn, executive director of Women Cross DMZ, to argue North Korean nuclear testing, ICBM launches, and For the Democrats especially, it is all about the source, who major speech on July 11, in which he castigated Trump that Trump’s insistence on tough sanctions until an President Trump calling out ‘little rocket man,’” he is irrelevant, since no one disputes the accuracy of the emails as an “extreme” threat to US national security and again agreement is reached is threatening progress. “Peace is warned Monday in The American Conservative. Yet that exposed Hillary Clinton. (That the source of authentic doc- criticized his “cozy” relationship with Kim. (Writing in The the best path for American security,” he says. Sanders’s even after Pyongyang’s angry statements, Secretary uments is irrelevant is demonstrated by The Wall Street Journal Washington Post, neocon columnist Josh Rogin said that stance is winning support from other progressives within of State Mike Pompeo has assured reporters that a and other major media using anonymous drop boxes pioneered Biden views the 2020 election “as the last chance to save Democratic ranks, such as Representative Ro Khanna of new round of talks will start soon. On Tuesday, he by WikiLeaks.) Were a foreign power to spread disinformation what’s left of the United States’ moral and international California, a Sanders backer who was the primary author said the United States is prepared to “provide a set of about candidates in a U.S. election (something the candidates credibility and respect.”) of a bill that passed the full House on July 11 calling for a security arrangements” that would guarantee to North do to each other all the time) that would be sabotage. But the But the former vice president’s alternative policy on “binding peace agreement” to bring a formal end to the Koreans that “if they disband their nuclear program,” leaking and publication of the Clinton emails was information Korea, spelled out in his earlier interview with Cuomo on Korean War. Khanna’s bill, an amendment to a National the United States “won’t attack them.” The next round valuable to American voters. And WikiLeaks would have pub- CNN, was a throwback to his days in the Obama admin- Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020, marked of negotiations, he added, “will begin in a couple of lished Trump emails, but it never received any, Editor-in-Chief istration, which (contrary to a ludicrous claim by Trump the first time that Congress had taken a stand on ending weeks.” Later, he downplayed the latest test, telling Kristinn Hrafnsson told Consortium New‘s webcast CN Live! at the DMZ) rejected the idea of direct talks with North the 70-year-old war. reporters that “lots of countries posture before they With “collusion” off the table, the Democrats have been ob- Korea unless Pyongyang gave up its nuclear weapons first. The vote was the result of intense lobbying by an array come to the table.” sessed with Trump allegedly obstructing an investigation that Trump, Biden told CNN, “ended our relationship, as a of peace groups, including Ploughshares, Win Without Still, if personalities matter, Biden is unlikely to shake found no underlying crime. That’s something like being arrested practical matter, with South Korea and Japan as a united War, and Peace Action. In a statement, Ahn called the his disdain for Kim and the North Koreans. Last May, for resisting arrest when you’ve committed no other infraction. front and let China off the hook.” He accused Kim of doing vote on the Khanna amendment a “game-changer.” She responding to Biden’s initial criticisms of Trump’s re- In his morning testimony, Mueller amplified the misperception nothing in return. “And what have we done? We’ve suspended added: “It’s a clear sign that the American people want lationship with Kim, KCNA called him “reckless and that the only reason he didn’t charge Trump with obstruction is exercises.” Asked what he’d do differently, Biden offered a an end to the oldest U.S. conflict, and that ending de- senseless, seized by ambition for power.” In an echo of because of a Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel policy taste of the militarism that Trump tried in 2017. “I make it cades of hostilities with a peace agreement is the only its denunciation of Trump in 2017 as a “dotard,” KCNA that a sitting president can’t be indicted. clear that we’re going to move our defenses up, as we did way to resolve the nuclear crisis.” In a sign that civil said that what Biden uttered “is just sophism of an im- But then Mueller came back from a break in the hearing to before, and we’re going to make sure we have the capacity society groups may be having an impact on the Trump becile bereft of elementary quality as a human being, let issue a “correction.” It was not true that he had concluded there’d to deal with it near term. I’m going to let South Korea and administration, Ahn and Hyun Lee recently met with alone a politician.” been obstruction but was blocked by the OLC policy, he said. In Japan know we’re there for them. We are their nuclear Stephen Biegun, Trump’s chief negotiator, to discuss If the Democrats are smart, they will realize that words fact he never concluded that there had been obstruction at all. umbrella. We’re there for them. And China understands, the prospects for peace. like that, like North Korea’s latest missile salvos, are often “We didn’t make a decision about culpability,” Mueller said. “We if you don’t want us in your throat here, if you don’t want In the weeks after Trump’s meeting with Kim at the a prelude—even an invitation—to dialogue. didn’t go down that road.” 13 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 8 ADVERTISEMENTS JULY 30, 2019

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James Lovelock at 100 says asteroids New space discovery sheds pose key threat to humanity light on how planets form Researchers at Dartmouth College have discovered a planet orbit- James Lovelock has spent a lifetime the moon, he became expert at freezing ing one of the brightest young stars known, according to a study pondering the forces that shape Earth. and reviving hamsters, all in the name published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Aged It was a pursuit that brought about his of research. at approximately 45 million years old, the star and its planet could most famous creation: a view of the world In the interview, Lovelock explained provide valuable information on how planetary bodies form. where life maintains the conditions for how Gaia theory might have turned out Known as an exoplanet because it is outside of the solar system, life, which he niftily named Gaia theory. very differently. The name was suggested the planet was found as part of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet The hypothesis, as it was back then, was by a neighbor of his, the novelist William Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. While thousands of exoplanet wholeheartedly embraced by the fledgling Golding, but Lovelock heard “gyre” rather discoveries have already been made, only a handful have been green movement of the 1970s. But for than Gaia. The misunderstanding was discovered circling relatively young stars. Lovelock, who turned 100 on Friday, more cleared up later, with Golding exclaiming: The exoplanet observed in the Dartmouth research -- known pressing threats to the planet come from “No, no, no, I meant the Greek goddess!” as DS Tuc Ab -- can be considered a “pre-teen” in planetary time. nature, not humans. In particular, he’s If humanity can avoid death by asteroid, The planet is no longer growing, but, because of its young age, it worried about asteroids. Lovelock sees a new dawn for life on Earth. is still undergoing rapid changes like losing atmospheric gas as In a video interview from his home Never mind the anthropocene, the epoch a result of the radiation coming from its host star. in Dorset, Lovelock gave his full backing defined by human influence on the planet. Planets can take millions or billions of years to reach maturity. to work by space agencies to deflect or Lovelock talks of the Novacene, a future Since that process cannot be observed in real time, researchers destroy any incoming space rocks on a explored in his latest book, where artificial are searching for planets around young stars to catch the process collision course with Earth. intelligence rules the world. in action and learn how planets form and evolve. “We have ample evidence that asteroids “This, I think, opens a doorway “One of the overall goals of astronomy is understanding the big repeatedly hit planets in the solar system for the evolution of new species or picture of how we got here, how solar systems and galaxies take and they do catastrophic damage when organisms which are entirely running shape and why,” said Elisabeth Newton, an assistant professor they do,” he said in the video, recorded on information,” he said. In this future of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. “By finding for the Science Museum as part of its Lovelock, a maverick from the start, He built the electron capture device, of digital beings, humans may still have solar systems that are different from our own -- especially young celebration of Lovelock’s career. has a long list of achievements to look an instrument that sniffed faint traces of a place. Writing in Novacene, Lovelock ones -- we can hope to learn why Earth and our own solar system “I’m a cheerful person and I don’t like back on. When a former boss, a specialist pollutants such as the chlorofluorocarbons noted that our bit-based overlords may evolved in the ways that they did.” the idea we’re going to be wiped out. It in airborne diseases, moaned that no (CFCs) that were destroying the ozone put organic life to good use – to keep the DS Tuc Ab is about six times the size of Earth, between the seems such a waste, after all this time, equipment existed to measure draughts layer. Before heading to California to work planet cool. sizes of Neptune and Saturn. Given the size, it likely has a com- doing all these things, all for nothing.” in a room, Lovelock went and invented it. on instruments for NASA’s exploration of (Source: The Guardian) position similar to that of the giant planets in our solar system. The exoplanet has two suns and makes one full orbit around its main star in just eight days. The planet was first observed by NASA satellite in November of A good first step toward nontoxic solar cells 2018 and was confirmed by the Dartmouth team in March using Solar panel installations are on the rise in the U.S., with stored in a battery for later use. The energy to overcome data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and other ground- more than 2 million new installations in early 2019, the this barrier is provided by sunlight. The most promising and space-based observatories, such as the South African Large most ever recorded in a first quarter, according to a recent compounds for solar cell applications have a band gap Telescope (SALT). report by Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood of about 1.5 eV, or electronvolt, Mishra said. The planet is about 150 light years away from Earth. Each Mackenzie Power & Renewables. Mishra discussed the possibility of synthesizing light year is a distance of just under 6 trillion miles. To meet the ever-increasing demands, low-cost and KBaTeBiO6 with Pratim Biswas, assistant vice chancellor, “We were really excited when we confirmed this discovery more efficient alternatives to silicon-based solar cells -- the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor and chair of the because the planet orbits such a bright, well-known young currently the most widely used technology -- are desirable. Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical star. Our whole team worked together to learn everything we In the past decade, lead-halide perovskites have surged Engineering. Shalinee Kavadiya, then a McKelvey could about this solar system,” said Newton, who led a team as the most promising class of alternative materials; Engineering doctoral student and now a postdoctoral of scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel however, they are unstable. They contain lead, which research associate at Arizona State University, got to Hill, the University Texas at Austin, and other research centers is toxic and poses potential health and environmental work on perfecting the recipe. from around the world. hazards such as groundwater contamination. “Shalinee spent about six months synthesizing the NASA’s TESS mission is looking for planets around nearby A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Using materials informatics and quantum mechanical material,” Mishra said. “Once she was able to synthesize stars using the transit method. The approach detects when light Louis has found what they believe is a more stable, less calculations on one of the fastest supercomputers in the it, as we had predicted, it was stable and had a band gap is blocked as a planet passes between Earth and the planet’s toxic semiconductor for solar applications using a novel world, Arashdeep Singh Thind, a doctoral student in of 1.88 eV, which we also predicted.” host star. Researchers then review observations from other double perovskite oxide discovered through data analytics Mishra’s lab based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mishra said these are first-generation solar cells that telescopes to confirm the discovery. and quantum-mechanical calculations. found KBaTeBiO6 to be the most promising out of the need more fine tuning of the band gap, but it is a good “The star’s brightness lets us study the planet in detail Their work was published online June 11 in Chemistry 30,000 potential oxides. first step toward nontoxic solar cells. because the more photons you have the better statistics you of Materials. “We found that this looked to be the most stable “This shows that we can go away from these lead-halide have. A discovery of this sort with such a unique age and an Rohan Mishra, assistant professor of mechanical compound and that it could be synthesized in the lab,” perovskites,” Mishra said. “This opens up a really big unusual planet size would not be possible without TESS,” engineering & materials science in the McKelvey School Mishra said. “More importantly, whereas most oxides space for designing semiconductors not just for solar cell said Newton. of Engineering, led an interdisciplinary, international tend to have a large band, we predicted the new compound applications but also for other semiconductor applications, Planets are larger when first formed and are thought to become team that discovered the new semiconductor, made up to have a lower band gap, which is close to the halide such as LCD displays.” smaller over time as they cool and lose atmosphere. Because of potassium, barium, tellurium, bismuth and oxygen perovskites, and to have reasonably good properties.” Next, the team will study the role of any defects in this this planet is still forming, the team hopes to detect atmosphere (KBaTeBiO6). The lead-free double perovskite oxide was The band gap is the energy barrier that electrons must new semiconductor and look to more advanced synthesis evaporation in action. Understanding this process could help one of an initial 30,000 potential bismuth-based oxides. overcome to form free carriers that, in the context of a techniques, including using aerosol techniques. researchers predict what might happen to the exoplanet over Of those 30,000, only about 25 were known compounds. solar cell, can be extracted to power an electrical device or (Source: Science Daily) the next billions of years and can also be used to understand how atmospheric escape might have affected older planets, including Earth. “We hope that by seeing this planet’s atmosphere, we can ‘Meteorite’ smashes into field SpaceX tests next-gen rocket Starhopper provide a snapshot of what planets look like at a young age,” in India in Texas, builds in Florida said Newton. The TESS satellite was launched on April 18, 2018. According to NASA, the TESS mission will survey 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun to search for transiting exoplanets, including those that could support life. (Source: Science Daily)

New Mexico chile plant selected to be grown in space

It’ll be one giant leap for chile-kind. A hybrid version of a New Mexico chile plant has been selected to be grown in space as part of a NASA experiment. The chile, from Española, New Mexico, is tentatively scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station for testing in March 2020, the Albuquerque Journal reports. A NASA group testing how to produce food beyond the Earth’s atmosphere and the chile plant was created with input from Jacob Torres — an Española native and NASA researcher. Torres said the point of sending the chiles into space is to A suspected meteorite – glittering, magnetic technology department, informing him SpaceX is marching on with tests of its next- Texas sites will make many Starships. demonstrate how NASA’s Advanced Plant Habitat - which rec- and weighing more than 10kg – startled about this peculiar object that looks like generation Starship rocket and spacecraft, “This is a competition to see which reates environmental needs for plant growth like Co2, humidity farmers when it crashed into a paddy field a piece of rock but its glitter is much with test fires in Texas and construction location is most effective. Answer might and lighting - works not only for leafy greens, but for fruiting by an Indian village on Monday evening. more than that of an unpolished stone. in Florida. be both,” he said on Twitter in May. crops, as well. Some men were working in the field in Its magnetic pull makes it even more Company founder Elon Musk tweeted He’s also described the Starship as the “Which means that if we do go on a deep space mission, or Mahadeva village, Bihar state, when the intriguing,” Mr Ashok said. video showing a test on Thursday of a spaceship and upper stage of the rocket we do go to the moon or a mission to Mars, we will have to figure object fell out of the sky. “However, we need to wait till the prototype for the new system, called combined, while a Super Heavy version out a way to supplement our diets,” he said. “Understanding “A group of farmers were working in the department sends experts who can study the Starhopper, at the company’s facility in will have a booster needed to escape Earth’s how to grow plants to supplement the astronaut’s diet would be fields when they heard an unusually loud object and arrive at a definitive conclusion.” Boca Chica, Texas. gravity. If its destination is the moon or Mars, essential to our mission to going to Mars. So that kind of fuels thud,” said Shirsat Kapil Ashok, a district Meteoroids are objects in space which The test was a short launch, or hop, that it won’t need the Super Heavy booster to get our research that we’re doing now.” magistrate, according to The Wire India. range in size from dust grains to small lifted the Starhopper a few dozen meters off those celestial bodies and return to Earth. The “Española Improved” chile plant is a cross between a “When they looked around to find the asteroids, according to NASA. into the air, untethered. The company is SpaceX’s mission has long been to send northern New Mexico seed and the popular Sandia seed from source of the sound, they spotted the object When these so-called “space-rocks” testing how its new engine, the Raptor, people to Mars to establish a settlement there. the Hatch Valley. It will be the first fruiting plant that the U.S. lying in a hole – about five feet deep – that survive the trip through the Earth’s will work with the new Starship. Musk has described the Raptor engines will grow aboard the Space Station. was dug into the ground by the impact atmosphere and arrive on the ground, The Texas video, shot from a drone, as using subcooled, liquid oxygen and NASA’s astronauts have previously grown greens, and a zinnia of the fall.” they are known as meteorites. showed the shiny metal Starhopper, which methane. Part of the reason for methane bloomed in space in 2016. Onlookers said the suspected meteor Relatively small meteorites, where the is covered in stainless steel, lifting off as it in the rocket is greater efficiency and ability Matthew W. Romeyn, NASA’s lead scientist on the pepper sent up smoke and caused people nearby rock measures only a few meters across at was surrounded by a large cloud of smoke. to produce it on Mars for a return trip. project, said in an emailed statement that the group chose the to flee, according to the AFP news agency. most, are thought to be relatively common. Tests have not been obvious at the The test in Texas took place on the same Española-Sandia hybrid because of the shorter growth cycle, as The villagers dug the object out and The Earth’s terrestrial record of larger Florida location, which is in an isolated evening that SpaceX successfully launched well as its ability to thrive within the smaller confines of the Ad- handed the rock, which is magnetic, to impacts is unclear, because craters are industrial park in Cocoa, but a tall its 18th cargo mission to the International vanced Plant Habitat. The growth period may be longer in space. local government officials. often obliterated by erosion, burial and prototype of the Starship is visible from Space Station, on a Falcon 9 rocket topped “As a bonus, the Española Improved is one of the few chile “We have written to the state’s plate tectonics. the surrounding area. by a cargo Dragon spacecraft. pepper cultivars from the Hatch Valley that is also regularly con- principal secretary, science and (Source: The Independent) Musk previously said both Florida and (Source: UPI) sumed red, so we can leave it to the crew to decide if they would like their chile peppers green or to wait for the fruit to fully ripen to red,” Romeyn said. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Schrieffer dies in Florida Chiles could even boost morale, Torres said, when astronauts have something tasty and different from the pre-packaged meals. John Robert Schrieffer, a physicist who shared in the versity at one time. practically zero resistance. “Just by having something fresh to eat, a type of crop you 1972 Nobel Prize in physics for developing a pioneering Along with colleagues John Bardeen and Leon Coop- In 2005, he was sentenced to two years in prison for grew yourself, being away from home for a long time that picks theory of superconductivity, has died. He was 88. er, Schrieffer was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics killing a man and injuring seven other people while driving up your morale, it brings positivity and adds to the mission that Family members say Schrieffer died in his sleep for developing the BCS theory. It is considered the first more than 100 mph (161 kph). you’re doing,” he said. “That’s one important aspect of the re- at a nursing facility Saturday in Tallahassee, Florida, successful microscopic theory of superconductivity — the He is survived by three children. search that we’re doing.” where he had been a professor at Florida State Uni- ability of certain materials to conduct electricity with (Source: AP News) (Source: AP News) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 10 HERITAGE & TOURISM JULY 30, 2019

Tanzania to shut part of Centuries-old wildlife preserve to big game hunters windmills to DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) — Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday ordered the sprawling Selous Game Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site, to be split in two to restrict the access of big game hunters. come to life again Covering 50,000 sq km (19,000 sq miles), the Selous reserve is one of the largest protected areas in Africa, and is famed for HERITAGE TEHRAN — Restora- Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts its elephants, lions, black rhinos, hippos and giraffes. desktion work has been com- and Tourism Organization announced in About 8% of the Selous, which is larger than Switzerland, is menced on six mudbrick windmills that are November 2017 that Iran has proposed As- dedicated to photo-tourism while the rest is a hunting reserve. still standing tall in Tabas-e Masina, South bads for possible inclusion in the UNESCO “Tourists come here and kill our lions, but we don’t benefit a Khorasan province, eastern Iran. World Heritage list. lot from these wildlife hunting activities,” Magufuli said. Such vertical-axis windmills, locally known “Asbad is a smart technique to grind grains, as Asbads, are dotted across the provinces a technique which goes back to ancient times of Sistan-Baluchestan, South Khorasan and when the people living in the eastern parts Khorasan Razavi, fueled with strong northern of Iran, in an attempt to adapt themselves winds that are usually blowing in the region. with the nature and transform environmental The six windmills are mounted on mud- obstacles into opportunities, managed to brick platforms in Kheirabad neighborhood invent it,” according to UNESCO’s website. of Tabas-e Masina and they date back to “The earliest-known references to wind- Qajar era (1789–1925), a local official said, mills are to a Persian millwright in 644 CE CHTN reported on Sunday. and to windmills in Seistan [Sistan], Iran, in Foundations, which provide the struc- 915 CE,” the Encyclopedia Britannica says. ture’s stability from the ground, are being Currently, they are on the itinerary of avid reinforced, walls are covered and strengthened travelers and researchers to the region, who using cob material, and rooftops also being want to feel such subtle yet simple mechanism amended during the current phase of the in person as several windmills have been Centuries-old vertical-axis windmills are being restored in Tabas-e Masina, South restoration, the official explained. restored and brought back to life. Khorasan province, eastern Iran. Ancient coins, antiquities seized in

File photo: A herd of elephants is seen at the Singita Gru- southwest Iran HERITAGE TEHRAN — Iranian authorities have Other objects included a Drachma coin dating back meti Game Reserve, Tanzania, October 7, 2018. (Picture deskrecently confiscated tens of historical to the Parthian era (247 BC–224 CE), two Islamic coins, taken October 7, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner) coins and relics from two suspects in Ramshir, south- 9 coins dating back to the era of the advent of Islam, and “I want the Selous Game Reserve to be split into two. A bigger western Khuzestan province. another Islamic coin dating back to the 11th century, area of the wildlife sanctuary on the upper side should be turned “A total of 61 ancient coins and relics were recov- gold-plated silver buttons, 22 opal beads, metal brace- into a national park where hunting activities are not permitted.” ered from two antique dealers while they were making lets, a gunmetal ring and different metal pieces, which Magufuli said some 47 hunting blocks licensed to tourist a bargain,” a local tourism official said, IRIB reported were spotted by a metal detector, the official explained. hunting companies would be allowed to continue to operate on Sunday. The ancient province is home to three UNESCO World in the lower part of the game reserve. 48 of the seized objects are estimated to date back to Heritage sites of Susa, Tchogha Zanbil and Shushtar He did not specify the size of either area but said the move Elymais kingdom that was semi-independent state of the Historical Hydraulic System yet it is a region of raw would “preserve our wildlife species and boost the growth of 2nd century BC to the early 3rd century CE, frequently a beauty where its visitors could spend weeks exploring. the tourism sector”. vassal under Parthian control, and located at the head of The province is also a cradle for handicrafts and arts Tourism is the main source of hard currency in Tanzania, the Persian Gulf in the present-day region of Khuzestan. whose crafters inherited from their preceding generations. which is known for its beaches, wildlife safaris and Mount Kil- imanjaro. The sector brought in $2.43 billion last year, up from $2.19 billion in 2017, according to government data. Foreign arrivals from Bazargan border up 57% in 4 months on year Magufuli made his announcement at the inauguration of TOURISM TEHRAN — Foreign Meanwhile, 4,173 passenger busses have construction work for the $3 billion Rufiji hydroelectric project deskarrivals from Bazargan moved to the other side during the period, at an at Stiegler’s Gorge, inside the Selous reserve. border, shared with Turkey in northwest- average of 34 busses per day, Akbarzadeh said. The World Wildlife Fund said the proposed dam would put ern Iran, surged 57 percent in the first four Iran topped the list of international arrivals the site and the livelihoods of over 200,000 people at risk, and months of the current Iranian calendar year in Turkey in the first two mounts of the past that UNESCO had warned that any resulting damage would put (started on March 21) from a year earlier, Iranian calendar year (March 21-May 21, the Selous’s status of World Heritage Site at risk. director of the border terminal has said. 2018). Over 350,000 Iranians visited Turkey Magufuli said the project would take up only 3 percent of A total of 617,292 people, of whom 179,104 in the two-month period, which contributed the wildlife sanctuary. were foreign nationals, crossed the border into to 11.7 percent share of its total arrivals. “Tanzania is among global leaders in conservation activ- Iranian soil during the four-month period, In January-November 2018, 1.894 million ities, having allocated over 32 percent of our country’s total Jaber Akbarzadeh told IRNA on Monday. Iranian tourists visited Turkey, 18.17 percent land to conservation,” he said. “Nobody can teach us about The number of foreign nationals who left less than the same period in 2017, accord- conservation.” Iran crossing the border added up to 156,801, ing to data compiled by Turkey’s Ministry which shows an 88 percent hike, the official of Culture and Tourism. announced. Nearly 7.8 million foreign nationals visited ROUND THE GLOBE Talking about outbound Iranian passen- Iran during the past Iranian calendar year gers, he said the border terminal has registered 1397 (ended on March 20) that shows a 52.5 Historic center of Zacatecas 142,807 Iranians going to Turkey during the percent increase year on year. The Islamic four months. Republic hosted 5.1 million travelers in 1396. Zacatecas was one of the principal centers of silver mining from the early Spanish period until the 20th century and its architecture and layout reflect its economic importance How an airplane engine gets made and the resultant cultural flourishing which influenced developments in these fields in central and North America. Derby, England (CNN) — Behind closed doors at the UK Weights are used to balance the fan and ensure it works headquarters of Rolls-Royce Aerospace, machinery whirs, to specifications. fans hum and blades screech as some 1,000 people go about “A bit like you would if your car wheels were a bit the complex task of getting an airplane engine off the ground. wobbly, you can stick some extra weights on the in- “It’s all about keeping customers happy and keeping up side -- we effectively bolt some weights on the inside with the popularity of the engine we’re trying to make,” says to counteract any sort of minor differences in vibration Michael McCree, an improvements engineer on Rolls-Royce’s -- so what we need to do is build a kind of net vibration Trent XWB engine line. of zero across the engine, across all the parts, to make “Sure, we’ve done the designs that are popular, we’ve sure that the customers’ ride is as smooth as possible,” done products that are popular -- but can we keep the pro- says McCree. duction rate going?” The experience of flyers is always at the forefront of Rolls- The Trent XWB engine is a turbofan jet engine that powers Royce’s mind. Ideally, you’re barely aware of the engine up the Airbus A350 XWB. Chance are, you’re flown with one. -- except for the fact it’s getting you from point A to point B. You’ll find it powering airlines around the world, such as As CNN Travel walks past this section of the line, one The Rolls Royce Trent XWB fuels the Airbus A350 XWB. Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa. Rolls-Royce employee is spinning the fan in a big box-like More than 1,800 Trent XWB engines are in service or on machine. Computer software is illustrating where he needs the engine in place, ready for trial. order worldwide. And at the Rolls-Royce facility in Derby, in to place the weights. While the engine’s on the test bed, testers experiment with how well the engine handles startups, emergency shutdowns A World Heritage, the Historic Centre of Zacatecas is the East Midlands area of England, the goal is to manufacture “It’s really important that it’s as balanced and accurate and even run-ins with birds -- dead birds as well as gelatine located in the south central part of the state of Zacatecas, these engines safely, quickly and to the highest standard. as possible,” says McCree. models are thrown into the engine to recreate a bird strike. between the Bufa and Grillo hills. It was founded in 1546 McCree guides CNN Travel through the process, providing Any imbalance would cause major problems for the engine. Thrust is also recorded, you don’t want any imbalance after the discovery of a rich silver lode, Zacatecas reached an insider look at how the XWB engine gets made and the Walking around the facility, there are people everywhere. as that would impact how the engine runs. the height of its prosperity in the 16th and 17th centuries. steps required for it to take off, from manufacturing and Yes, there are machines -- but it’s not as robotic as you The engine is also tested for cabin odor issues via a so- Built on the steep slopes of a narrow valley, the town testing, to taking to the sky. might expect. called sniff test. has breathtaking views and there are many old buildings, The Trent XWB engine is made up of eight key modules. “It’s a really, really skilled job -- rather than a big machine “We make sure there’s no smell coming from the engine both religious and civil. The cathedral, built between 1730 “We build six out of those eight modules in Derby,” says mind,” says McCree, who studied Mechanical Engineering that could go into the cabin,” says McCree. and 1760, dominates the center of the town. McCree. “We contract two to suppliers.” at Imperial College London before he started a graduate So what happens if oil is suspected to be leaking? It is notable for its harmonious design and the Baroque The IP compressor is built by KHI in Japan, meanwhile job at Rolls-Royce. Cameras are taken into the engine and changes can be profusion of its façades, where European and indigenous the LP turbine is assembled by a company called ITP in The next step is to marry the combuster section to the made. decorative elements are found side by side. Spain, then passed back to the UK. intercase. The intercase is where the engine with the shaft The length of the testing process at Rolls-Royce varies. A World Heritage site, the historic center of Zacatecas McCree starts the tour of the Derby XWB engine pro- going through the middle connects out to the gear box. New products will be thoroughly examined for several days, has almost completely preserved of the urban design in duction line with the fan case. This part of the production line is part of a skillet line: but established engines that are already in production can the sixteenth century, taken as a basis for further de- This is what goes around the outside of the engine and “So basically the floor moves forward while the tooling be confirmed flight-ready after a shorter period of testing. velopment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. is usually covered with cowling, which bears the name of remains still, so the team will follow that engine moving When the engine is ready for operation it’s taken apart, The peculiar and representative architecture of the both the product and the airline. forward,” says McCree. split in half via a hydraulic machine and transported on the 18th and 19th century make the city a clear hierarchy “It’s there to hold all of the wiring and pipework, as well The engine, at this point is essentially “bald,” says Mc- back of a truck, usually to Airbus’ HQ in Toulouse in France, among the major work by volume and modest buildings. as to contain the fan blades,” says McCree, pointing out a Cree. You need to turn the engine from a core to what’s ready to form part of an Airbus A350 XWB. The historic area comprises 15 religious complexes, bare fan case with a carbon fiber top. called a dress core. Each engine will go through roughly 3,000 flight cycles mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries, among them the The fan case has a “wet” side” and a “dry” side. The wet “Dress core’s when you put all your pipes that connect before it needs to be serviced, transporting thousands and convents of San Juan de Dios, San Francisco, San Au- side is where the fuel and oil go and the dry side is where your hot and your cold engine, any sort of cables that run thousands of passengers to their destination. gustin and Santo Domingo. the cables and electronics sit -- far enough away from the through,” says McCree. So how does the airplane engine get the aircraft off the The Historic center of Zacatecas is a typical model of liquids to avoid any issues there. The fan case is then brought through, situated on the ground? urbanization based on the irregular topography of a narrow “We have three fitters per shift, working per fan case,” floor and the engine is lifted up and dropped into the center “There’s four words to describe our jet engine which are glen. Today, the city of Zacatecas retains a wealth docu- explains McCree. of the fan case. suck, squeeze, bang, blow,” says McCree. mentary that illustrates a significant stage in the history of “Each fan case is split into thirds, so one person is working It’s now more recognizable as an airplane engine, but First up: suck -- the fan on the front sucks in air and Mexico and humanity as well, as monumental architectural on a set build area, rather than having to cross over to work it’s still not ready to fly. 80% of that air goes through past the engine and blows air styles that blend together, achieving an exceptional value. around each other.” Perhaps the most impressive part of the facility is the out the back -- that provides the majority of the thrust, that (Source: UNESCO) The next step is the part of the engine you’ll see on an test bed. airplane -- the big fan that spins at the front. It’s a vast, lengthy room with a gargantuan facility holding pushes your engine forward. 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I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 30, 2019 TECHNOLOGY 11 Iranian researchers attain 3D Tehran to host micro-structure printing technology pharmaceutical industry innovation festival TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN – Two Iranian What is Electrohydrodynamic deskresearchers at Sharif Uni- (EHD) printing? TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN – Azadi Innovation Factory in Teh- versity of Technology have managed to attain The 3D printing or additive manufacturing deskran will host the 17th pharmaceutical industry 3D micro-structure printing technology which is a process of making three dimensional solid innovation festival on August 4, Pardis Science and Technology is said to be for the first time in the Middle East, objects from a digital file. The creation of a Park announced on its website on Saturday. Mehr reported on Sunday. 3D printed object is achieved using additive Cosponsored by Iran National Technomart and the vice pres- Professor Mohammadreza Movahhedi and processes. In an additive process an object is idency for science and technology, the festival aims to create an PhD student Keyvan Mohammadi have man- created by laying down successive layers of opportunity for investors and industrialists to meet innovators and ufactured a type of 3D micro-structure printer, material until the object is created. entrepreneurs, and to lay the groundwork for investment in plans. which had been only produced previously in According to the International Journal of the U.S., Britain, Switzerland and Japan. Emerging Technology and Advanced Engi- “In recent two decades, 3D printing has neering, electrohydrodynamic (EHD)-inkjet revolutionized the publication industry,” Mo- printing is a novel high resolution inkjet print- hammadi said. ing technology with the advantages of being a 3D printers in micro- and nanometer scales maskless, non-contact, direct-write and addi- are much more complicated in comparison tive process. Its printing resolution exceeds by with macro scale ones, he added. about two orders of magnitude in comparison The super-resolution electrohydrodynamic to the conventional inkjet printing systems. (EHD) printing has the ability to produce pieces It is used in the field of micro/nano man- with micron resolution, he noted. ufacturing for patterning of large class of “Big companies like Airbus, Siemens and materials on a variety of substrates with Boeing are developing 3D printing technology The 3D printers in micro- and nanometer the options to use either Drop-On Demand to make pieces for using in pharmaceutical, (D-O-D) or continuous mode. Printable car manufacturing and military industries.” scales are much more complicated in electronics especially flexible electronics is Mohammadi said that he has done researches comparison with macro scale ones and the one of the many fields where this technology The festival’s secretariat received 80 plans, of which eight were on this issue since four years ago. has a lot to offer as the same EHD-inkjet selected for the festival, Iran National Technomart Director Milad “We have been invited to Harvard Uni- super-resolution electrohydrodynamic setup can be used for electrospraying for Sadrkhanlou said. versity, University of Pennsylvania and the (EHD) printing has the ability to produce thin film layer deposition, electrospinning for The festival also provides educational courses for inventors and National University of Singapore to present pieces with micron resolution interconnection and EHD jetting for making supports them for marketing, he added. the 3D printing technology,” he said. electrodes. A lot of research has been carried Over 35 agreements worth more than 300 billion rials (about $7 Movahhedi, for his part, called the 3D print- world in coming years.The project focuses on body as well, he said.This technology can be out in the recent past to make its transition million) were signed during the past editions of the event, he noted. ing as an emerging technology, which will be electrohydrodynamic printing, which is different used in different fields of medicine, aerospace from a research tool to a commercial man- Azadi Innovation Factory is the first branch of Pardis Science one of the ten important technologies of the from previous types and can be used in human and car manufacturing industries, he added. ufacturing process. and Technology Park, which was established in October 2017 in district 22 of Tehran. It homes to several startup teams, accelerators and venture capitals. Homegrown medicine meets shortage of foreign Iranian knowledge-based Iran ConFair showcasing products firms to attend MAKS 2019 six new nano-products In early July, the Iranian Food and Drug Administration (IFDA) announced that the homegrown medicine can meet the shortage TEHRAN – A number of Iranian TEHRAN– Six new homegrown na- of foreign products. knowledge-based firms will attend the no-products are being showcased at According to IFDA, 120 factories in the country produce medicine 14th International Aviation and Space the 19th International Exhibition of and 70 factories produce pharmaceutical raw materials. There are Salon, MAKS 2019, which will be held Building and Construction Industry, also 56 distributing companies and 12,000 pharmacies all around from August 27 to September 1 at Zhu- Iran ConFair 2019, which is currently the country. kovsky International Airport, southeast underway in Tehran.Ceramic ultrafil- Today over 97 percent of the demand of medicine in Iran is met of Moscow, Russia. tration membranes used in treatment by domestic companies and just 3 percent, equaling 30 percent in Supported by Iran National In- of grey water, anti-scour resin-bound terms of foreign exchange value, is imported. novation Fund and the vice presi- paving, nano-concrete and nano-pipes The imported medicines are either those which their techno- dency for science and technology, and plumbing fittings, nano-thermal and logical knowledge for manufacturing is not available in Iran or are the knowledge-based firms will also sound structure, and superhydrophobic of higher technology methods for production in other countries. participate in B2B meetings during gloves are the six products.The exhibition In February, the then IFDA director Mehdi Pirsalehi said that the event, ISNA reported on Sunday. runs until August 9 at Tehran Permanent 120 homegrown medicines came onto Iran’s market over the Ira- The exhibition is a great op- International Fairground. nian calendar year 1396 (March 2017-18) despite U.S. sanctions portunity for companies in order Nanotechnology and construc- against the country. to expand their export market for tion industry knowledge-based products. According to nanowerk.com, nano- MAKS provides a unique opportu- The main objective of MAKS is to technology has a significant impact in the face treatments e.g. Teflon, polysilazane nity to experts in the field and busi- demonstrate achievements of Russian construction sector. Several applications based coatings, etc. now this feature has Robots are being put on nessmen for establishing multi-lev- high tech and receptiveness of the have been developed for this specific sector become a marketing tool / motto for na- el connections, further developing domestic Russian market to joint to improve the durability and enhanced notechnology applications, especially for duty to help solve the industrial cooperation and finding projects with foreign partners. performance of construction components, consumer markets like construction, textile, recycling crisis new business partners. MAKS is held in Zhukovsky – the energy efficiency and safety of the buildings, etc.In addition to these materials, new light- The key role of the Aviation Sa- town synonymous to the aviation sci- facilitating the ease of maintenance and to weight, flame-retardant, self-healing and lon as a generator of new alliances ence and technology – at the airfield provide increased living comfort.Though resilient construction materials, e.g. new The U.S. is facing a recycling crisis that is burying cities and towns and productive ideas is recognized of the country’s central test base – self-cleaning feature has been possible to nanocomposites, are expected to be helped in tens of millions of tons of garbage a day. The problem began last worldwide. Gromov Flight Research Institute. attain using micron sized coatings and sur- in their development by nanotechnology. year when China, the world’s largest recyclable processor, stopped accepting most American scrap plastic and cardboard due to con- tamination problems, and a glut of plastics overwhelming its own processing facilities. Historically, China recycled the bulk of U.S. waste. Contamination in the U.S. is high since recyclables are often The hardest truths we’ve learned about 5G dumped into one bin instead of multi-streamed or separated from the source. Now China has strict standards for recycling materials Embrace it or disdain it, the 5G data revolution is coming presidents feeding the 5G hype machine, it’s easy to see how tant fees. Vodafone will charge for unlimited 5G based on it will accept, requiring contamination levels in a plastic bale, for either way. 5G’s ultrafast speeds will soon land on new phones, a bias for ultrafast speeds could develop among everyday the speed bracket you want. For example, you’ll pay less if example, contain one-tenth of 1%. starting at the high end. But we’ve already learned what people. It’s easy to see how people who don’t live in the right you don’t mind slower 5G speeds, and more if you want to The situation is dire for many local economies as recycling costs these first-generation 5G phones will be like, and they shed metropolitan areas, or who live in rural surroundings, will stream video. skyrocket. It’s forced many cities and some small communities to light on some of the challenges that everyone might face in trail behind in 5G adoption. We think European carriers are on the right track. More stop recycling all together. Now more waste is ending up in landfills these early days of 5G. We’ve tested 5G speeds in multiple Some countries -- like the US, UK, Australia, South Korea, people will upgrade from 4G to 5G if they sweeten the deal, and incinerators. cities around the world, from Los Angeles to Seoul. We’ve and Switzerland -- are ahead of the curve with 5G, while not if they sour it with charge upon charge. To tackle this environmental catastrophe, U.S. companies and been wowed. We’ve been frustrated. But each time, we learn other world powers -- China, Japan, Russia, for example Here’s how to pick the best 5G network when the time researchers are developing AI-assisted robotic technology that can something new about the 5G experience. -- aim for a 2020 rollout. is right. work with humans in processing plants and improve quality control. Here are our biggest takeaways about 5G data so far, As with the switchover from 3G to 4G, staggered adoption You may also pay a price with battery life The goal is to have robots do a better job at sorting garbage and re- based on the testing we’ve done over the last few months. is to be expected. But when the gulf between 4G and 5G You could pay more than just cash for 5G speeds. CNET’s duce the contamination and health hazards human workers face in Consistency is more satisfying than speed speeds -- and what you can do with them -- is so large, it’s global testers noticed that using 5G on phones like the Moto recycling plants every day. Sorting trash is a dirty and dangerous job. For some future uses of 5G, pushing down a lot of data quite possible for that gap to widen even more. Z3, Galaxy S10 5G, and LG V50 seemed to tap their battery Recycling workers are more than twice as likely as other workers to really quickly will let you do cool, resource-intensive things We found two notable exceptions to this emerging sen- reserves faster than 4G networks. be injured on the job, according to a report at the University of Illinois on the fly, like play smooth, real-time games with high-res sibility. One is that 4G networks will get faster alongside 5G After at least four hours apiece of relentless 5G testing, School of Public Health. The profession also has high fatality rates. graphics and participate in lag-free video chats while walking growth. The other is that in countries with exceptionally fast the batteries on our test phones drained significantly. In The way the robots work is simple. Guided by cameras and down the street.Carriers with faster 5G speeds theoretically 4G service, like Australia, we won’t see dramatic differences the case of the Moto Z3, four hours of testing completely computer systems trained to recognize specific objects, the robots’ have the advantage over those that don’t in how quickly they in real-world activities over 5G and 4G -- at least not at first. zapped the Mod attachment, which cut off 5G capability. arms glide over moving conveyor belts until they reach their target. can get you the data you need. AT&T got our top testing 5G phones are expensive Our first test with the Galaxy S10 5G, for Verizon, Oversized tongs or fingers with sensors that are attached to the arms speeds at 1.8 gigabits per second in a curated test in Los Phone prices are already spiking year over year, far out- drew about 50% of its power in four hours and was snag cans, glass, plastic containers, and other recyclable items out Angeles, and a Verizon publicist logged 2Gbps at a 5G node stripping the cost of inflation. 5G raises those costs.5G phones down to 40% after five and a half hours of full-throt- of the rubbish and place them into nearby bins. in Chicago, one of Verizon’s early 5G markets. have to have a compatible chip to connect to 5G networks, tle testing. That said, the S10 5G has a slightly larger The robots — most of which have come online only within And yet, the high-frequency spectrum that makes those which means mobile chipmakers like Qualcomm, the world’s screen and a battery than the Galaxy S10 Plus (6.7-inch the past year — are assisting human workers and can work up to skyrocketing speeds possible for 5G, called millimeter wave largest, can charge more. So far, most 5G phones we’ve used and 4,500 mAh versus 6.1-inch and 4,100 mAh), and twice as fast. With continued improvements in the bots’ ability to (mmWave), isn’t good at traveling long distances, or getting so far have been premium devices, which means you’re also the S10 Plus can go from at least 6 am to midnight spot and extract specific objects, they could become a formidable through glass or walls the way that 4G can. That makes tacking on extra for fancier cameras and other specs. Prepare on a single charge -- about 18 hours. The S10 5G was new force in the $6.6 billion U.S. industry. coverage limited. to pay up. Nothing about 5G is cheap. on a trajectory to last far less.These battery problems Researchers like Lily Chin, a PhD. student at the Distributed Bouncing between 5G and 4G speeds has been frustrating Take, for example, the Galaxy S10 5G, which costs $300 might dissipate some when Qualcomm launches its Robotics Lab at MIT, are working to develop sensors for these in our real-world tests when, in one location, your entire more on Verizon than the 4G Galaxy S10 Plus. The S10 5G smaller, more power-efficient Snapdragon X55 chip robots that can improve their tactile capabilities and improve Netflix series could download in 3 minutes, and in another, is a little larger, has a slightly bigger battery, a couple more for second-generation 5G phones. their sense of touch so they can determine plastic, paper and it takes over 10 minutes. camera tools... but is it really worth $300 more for all that The weather could get in your way metal through their fingers. “Right now, robots are mostly re- We had a better overall experience using Sprint because and access to 5G? Scientists worry that 5G radio signals could throw weath- liant on computer vision, but they can get confused and make its 5G network covers a larger area, which kept the data Some 5G phones and setups are cheaper, like the $480 er forecasting out of whack, but it’s the weather itself that mistakes,” says Chin. “So now we want to integrate these new flowing more predictably. Sprint uses a different layer of Moto Z3 and its $350 Moto Mod (that’s the part that ac- buyers should also consider. tactile capabilities.” the spectrum, called sub-6Ghz, or sub-6. Those longer tually connects to 5G). Xiaomi announced the Mi Mix 3 Soaring July temperatures brought the point to bear dur- Denver-based AMP Robotics, is one of the companies on the wavelengths don’t bring quite as much speed, but they do 5G last February that cost 600 euros (about $675, £535 ing two of our tests. The Galaxy S10 5G on both T-Mobile in leading edge of innovation in the field. It has developed software travel farther, even through building and car windows.The or AU$960), and the Oppo Reno 5G converts to just over New York (90 degrees) and Verizon in Chicago (95 degrees) — a AMP Neuron platform that uses computer vision and machine fastest-possible downloads are exhilarating, but in these $1,000 (£800, AU$1,400). dealt with the heat by switching to 4G to cool down. That’s learning — so robots can recognize different colors, textures, early days, the rush doesn’t last. But we don’t want to pay more for 5G not entirely unexpected. Both T-Mobile and Verizon use the shapes, sizes and patterns to identify material characteristics so Gap between have and have-nots will widen The cost of the phone doesn’t even consider the cost of high-frequency mWave spectrum, which puts the devices they can sort waste.The robots are being installed at the Single That rush you get when you download a whole season service. Carriers have spent billions of dollars building out at greater risk of overheating, especially when completing Stream Recyclers plant in Sarasota, Florida and they will be able of a TV series in mere seconds isn’t just exhilarating, it’s 5G networks. In the US, at least, the plan is to recoup some resource-heavy tasks like streaming video or creating ad- to pick 70 to 80 items a minute, twice as fast as humanly possible addicting. The baseline changes. Even in my early tests, I of that expense by charging you more per month to use vanced photography effects. and with greater accuracy. caught myself feeling disappointed if I “only” recorded 400 5G data (perhaps a lot more of it, too). But we don’t think The Galaxy S10 5G on Sprint’s network -- which uses the “Using this technology you can increase the quality of the megabits per second on the Speedtest.net app and not a gig. today’s spotty 5G service is worth paying more for, not right so-called “midband” frequencies (a subset of Sub-6) -- didn’t material and in some cases double or triple its resale value,” says Yet in real life, my home Wi-Fi just clocked 300Mbps now. Verizon has temporarily waived its $10 per month 5G seem to have the same problems in the 90-plus heat. In more AMP Robotics CEO Mantaya Horowitz. “Quality standards are on a Galaxy S10 Plus, with AT&T’s mobile data network at surcharge. In Europe, the trend is to bundle extra services moderate, 74-degree temperatures, the Galaxy S10 5G held getting stricter that’s why companies and researchers are working just under 200Mbps.With carriers, phone-makers and even into your unlimited data plan -- without charging exorbi- on better to Verizon’s 5G service than it had the previous day. on high tech solutions.” (Source: msn.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 SOCIETY JULY 30, 2019 Can Iran get a second chance at 56% of motorcycles running in only 5 provinces extraordinary long-extinct Caspian tiger? ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — Some 56 percent of the total deskmotorcycles in the country are running in 1 Initial attempts to bring back such a report was not prepared till December only five provinces, Ali Mohammadi, a senior traffic police formidable tigers 2010, when the DOE representatives went official has said. In the Iranian calendar year 1389 (March to St. Petersburg to attend the international Of all 32.9 million vehicles in the country, motorcycles amount 2009- March 2010), two Siberian tigers tiger conservation forum.” to 11.6 million, accounting for 35 percent of the total vehicles were sent to Iran from Russia in exchange “Certainly, there is no proper habitat for moving in the country, he stated. of two Persian Leopards; aiming to restore tiger in Iran. If there are intentions to revive According to the statistics, 56 percent of motorcycles are plying the Caspian tiger generation in the country, the tiger population in Iran, or, in other words, the roads in 5 provinces of Tehran, Khorasan Razavi, Isfahan, but after a while the male one died due to an to ensure a stable population of it, a natural Fars and Khuzestan, he added. outbreak of glanders (an infectious disease habitat must be prepared, including, good There are 2 million motorcycles in Tehran, 1.3 million in occurs primarily by ingestion of contaminated vegetation cover, clean water and enough bait. Khorasan Razavi, 1.2 million in Isfahan, 916,000 in Fars, and food or water). Before restoring the Caspian tiger in the 564,000 in Khuzestan, he also said. The female tiger was quarantined for country, other species of red and roe deer five years on the charge of being infected must be increased; for example, 20 tigers in with the virus, but with the help of wildlife a hypothetical area may need a population enthusiasts and the DOE after undergoing of 10,000 large mammals, which may take several medical tests, the animal was then several years to expand. moved to a suitable place in Tehran Zoo. After that, the tigers must gradually enter DNA tests added a spark of hope the prepared area; If there is no wild tiger, to the sad story the tigers kept in captivity should be used Although, 8 subspecies of tigers have as a parent and re-wild their cubs. been identified, in 2004 scientists revised The whole process is very difficult, costly, the known classification to five subspecies and time consuming. from those previously identified, as they had What the DOE did, the transfer of two been from a genetic standpoint that were In fact, saving the tiger from extinction Siberian tigers from a Russia to a wildlife park separated by humans after years. and maintaining its habitat is the biggest in Iran has nothing to do with a conservation Lately, researchers and studies proposed program,” he explained. that restoring the lost cats is possible, as the concern of the international community He went on to add that to start conserva- Siberian or Amur tiger show genetic kinship for the conservation of biodiversity, tion process, one should initially notice the to the Caspian, because they once ruled from reason behind Caspian tiger reintroduction in Caspian Sea’s south shore to the forest areas because if we cannot save a precious and Iran; merely restoring an extinct species out The capital city of Tehran alone has the biggest share of mo- of China and Korea, north to the forested flexible specie like tiger from extinction, of curiosity or enthusiasm toward history, or torcyclists constituting 21 percent of the estimated 56 percent, edges of Siberia, while human cleaved their there is no hope to save the more unknown using a flag species to attract people’s attention he noted, IRNA reported on Sunday. territory in two, separating the Caspian tiger and support, while playing the international In contrast, provinces of Kohgiluyeh-Boyerahmad with 25,000 from the Siberian. species that do not attract attention, and role of Iran in protecting global biodiversity. motorcycles, Ilam with 34,000, Ardabil with 50,000, Chahar But the question come up that whether the world will be depopulated of animals. Why conservation of tigers is Mahal-Bakhtiari with 65,000, and South Khorasan with 84,000 the current nature of Iran has the capacity to important? motorcycles are among the cities with the lowest number of mo- accept and remain such an enormous species? them to disappear was tiger’s dependence Tiger cubs were also captured for illegal “In fact, saving the tiger from extinction torcycles in the country, he explained. And is it possible to revive a species which on the water resources and its presence trade, in addition, land use changes, super- and maintaining its habitat is the biggest “This year, issuing license plates for motorcycles has increased once gone extinct in the same region? near river basins, lake edges and sea shores, stitions and using their organs in tradition- concern of the international community for by 35 percent.” How Caspian tiger faded away where the highest concentration of human al medicine were among the other factors the conservation of biodiversity, because if How motorcycles are disadvantageous? in Iran? population exists and the conflicts pushed eradicated tigers.” we cannot save a precious and flexible specie According to a report by the World Bank, motorcycles are the Kaveh Feizollahi, a zoologist and an expert them toward extinction. Is it possible to bring back the like tiger from extinction, there is no hope second largest contributor to PM in Tehran, even before cars in the field of tigers, told IRNA that “tigers The second one is related to the prey, vanished Caspian tiger? to save the more unknown species that do which greatly outnumber them. are flexible species which can adopt to a wide the natural prey they mainly fed on was Feizollahi went on to say that “the word not attract attention, and the world will be One of the main reasons behind their high contribution to range of habitat and climate conditions, from deer, and they attracted to northern Iran “possibility” is usually used in two distinct depopulated of animals. emissions is that a large part of the fuel consumed in motorcy- the tropical regions of Asia to the ever-snowy probably because of the good population meanings; if the word means the possibility According to an article released in 2010, cles burns incompletely. The Tehran motorcycle fleet consists areas of Siberia. of red deer and roe deer. of a theoretical and scientific idea in an ideal the cost of protecting each wild tiger was mostly of carburetor-equipped motorcycles which are typically On the other hand, their reproductive However, with population of deer declined, setting, then the answer is yes. estimated at $10,000 per year, while the less fuel efficient and emit more emissions compared to newer, rate is relatively high and the gap between the tiger was inevitably feeding on the wild But it is very unlikely, as it is used in its price of a tiger skin on the smuggling market fuel injection technology. the regenerations is short; it can change its boar, which has severe population fluctuations daily sense, according to the records and is twice that. On the other hand, motorcycles can contribute to road fa- hunting technique depending on the prey and is a temporary source of food. conditions of the country’s wildlife. This will require an annual budget of $40 talities due to the low safety; motorcycle riders known as the and habitat. However, some of its features The third item is hunting, tiger hunting Assuming that the word “possibility” has million to protect tigers in the world. One of highest contributors to road casualties holding a great share in have made it vulnerable to human devel- intensified during their final periods living been used in the first sense, it should be said the conservation activists pointed out that the accidents happened in the country. opment in West Asia. in Iran, due to the reduction of prey and that before any such project is started, a feasi- the budget in global economy is less than a According to the World Health Organization, almost half of The first feature of tigers which caused hunting livestock. bility study must first be prepared. However, drop of water,” he concluded. all deaths on the world’s roads are among those with the least protection – motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians. Pedestrians responsible for 26% of road crashes last month WORDS IN THE NEWS SOCIETY TEHRAN — Pedestrians had a share Tehran Traffic Police, said in Late-April that about 45 per- deskof 26 percent in urban traffic accidents cent of all deaths caused by traffic accidents in Tehran were Refugees in Afghanistan happened during the Iranian calendar month of Tir (June related to pedestrians last year (March 2018-March 2019). 22- July 22), Nader Rahmani, a senior traffic police of- According to the latest data released by Iran’s Forensics (May 2, 2001) ficial has said. Organization traffic-related accidents claimed lives of 4,129 The head of the United Nations Refugee Agency, Ruud Lubbers, During the first month of summer, 48 percent of urban Iranians during the past 3 months (April 21-July 22). is travelling to the Taliban political capital Kandahar in southern road crashes occurred in streets, 15 percent on highways Crossing the street at designated crosswalks or intersec- Afghanistan to present an appeal to stop the civil war for one and 10 percent on boulevards, he noted. tions, making sure that of using crossing signals, avoiding year. From Takhar, Kate Clark reports. Referring to rollovers having a high fatality rate than jaywalking (crossing the street, not at a designated crosswalk), Refugees camped out in Takhar province are among the most other types of vehicle collisions, he said that overturned car increasing your visibility at night by a carrying a flashlight badly hit and least supported of the seven hundred thousand accidents were responsible for road crashes by 4 percent or wearing reflective clothing, crossing the street and walk Afghans who›ve fled drought or fighting since last summer. during the past month. in well-lit areas, making eye contact with drivers in stopped The Takhar refugees were driven out of their homes by Taliban And pedestrians also were to blame for 26 percent of vehicles to ensure they see you, and avoiding distractions, advances last year, many with only the clothes they stood up in. the accidents, he concluded, IRNA reported on Monday. such as looking at your phone when walking or crossing a The most traumatized of those simply don›t know what happened Ehsan Momeni, head of traffic accidents department of street can enhance pedestrian safety. to family members -- whether they were killed, captured, or fled elsewhere. The situation is difficult even for those who are still in their homes. In the town of Dashti Qala in the far north of Extreme weather has damaged nearly half Australia’s marine ecosystems since 2011 the province on the Tajikistan border, people are living right up against the front line despite occasional artillery exchanges. Extreme climate events such as heatwaves, examined the effects of marine heatwaves, Heatwaves, for example, compounded the that period of 2011 to 2017, it really backs up Afghans cling to their homes and land because the prospect of floods and drought damaged 45% of the ma- heavy rainfall from tropical storms, cyclones effects of the underlying global heating trend that it’s not just the Great Barrier Reef that we becoming a refugee is so terrible. In Takhar there are few resources rine ecosystems along Australia’s coast in a and droughts on coral, kelp, mangrove and and left little time for organisms to adapt. have to think about. It’s all around the country.” seven-year period, CSIRO research shows. seagrass communities. “All of the people around the country work- The team of scientists looked at events, in the community to support the displaced. The province has More than 8,000km of Australia’s coast It paints a bigger picture of the extent to ing on these systems for years have done a including the 2011 marine heatwave in West- been hit by drought and a Taliban economic blockade which was affected by extreme climate events from which the climate crisis is fuelling widespread great job of documenting the impacts and ern Australia, cyclone Yasi, the back-to-back has driven prices skywards. Wheat costs five times as much as 2011 to 2017, and in some cases they caused change across Australia’s marine ecosystems. repercussions,” Russ Babcock, the study’s mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, it did a year ago. irreversible changes to marine habitats. The study found that big climate events lead author, said. and the mangrove dieback in the Gulf of This is the human cost of the civil war -- lost homes, broken The study collated all the published were exacerbating the effects of human-in- “If you stand back and have a look at how Carpentaria in 2015-16. families and the situation where both sides channel resources research by leading scientists, who have duced climate change. many [climate events] have happened between (Source: The Guardian) into fighting. The head of the United Nations Refugee Agency, Ruud Lubbers, has called the situation insane. He wants both sides in the civil war to call a ceasefire so that Afghans can try to cope with the worst droughts in living memory. ENGLISH IN USE Words camped out: sleeping outdoors, usually in a tent LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION drought: a long period of time during which no rain falls. driven out: forced out traumatized: upset by an event or a situation, with possible Education, labor ministries ink تفاهم وزراء برای بازگرداندن کودکان .long-term psychological damage front line: the place where two armies are fighting each other MOU on out-of-school children بازمانده از تحصیل به مدارس artillery exchanges: when one side uses heavy weapons against the other The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and وزارت آمــوزش و پــرورش تفاهــم نامــه مشــترکی بــا وزارت رفــاه بــرای بازگردانــدن cling to: try hard not to leave Social Welfare have signed a memorandum of understanding aiming to کــودکان بازمانــده از تحصیــل امضــا کردنــد. .prospect: if there is a prospect of something happening, there bring out-of-school children back to school is the possibility that it will happen The memorandum of understanding will pave the way for future steps, ISNA بــه گــزارش روز یکشــنبه ایســنا، محمــد بطحایــی وزیــر آمــوزش و پــرورش گفــت: امــروز blockade: an action that is taken to prevent goods from news agency quoted Education Minister Mohammad Bat’haei as saying on تفاهــم نامــهای امضــا میشــود کــه نقشــه کار بــرای ادامــه مســیر کامــا مشــخص شــود. .reaching a place Sunday بطحایــی در هشــتمین جلســه شــورای هماهنگــی بهبــود و ارتقــای شــاخصهای آموزشــی human cost: the cost of the war in terms of its effect on people He made the remarks over the 8th session of council meeting for improving و پرورشــی مناطــق محــروم و کمتــر توســعه یافتــه کــه در وزارت رفــاه برگــزار شــد گفــت: insane: mad educational standards in underprivileged and underdeveloped areas at the ceasefire:an agreement between countries or groups who are at هــدف اصلــی ایــن برنامــه و شــورای هماهنگــی ارتقــای شــاخصها بــود، هرچنــد ایــن Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.“The meeting is aiming to live up to war to stop fighting for a time. (to) cope with to deal with something educational standards, however, the current conditions are unjustifiable, رونــد قابــل قبــول نیســت و بایــد بــا ســرعت بیشــتری حرکــت کنیــم. .in living memory: for as long as people can remember and we should move faster,” he added (Source: BBC) PREFIX/SUFFIX PHRASAL VERB IDIOM Be kind to me! “amphi-” Think something out Cut to the chase Meaning: both or around Meaning: to think about all the parts of some- Explanation: to reach the most important points For example: A good museum in the castle thing carefully before deciding or planning ex- quickly is stuffed with antiquities, while a Roman actly what to do For example: Come on, cut to the chase already—what amphitheater overlooks all. For example: He went for a walk to think things out. exactly are you trying to ask me? I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 30, 2019 WORLD IN FOCUS 13 U.S. private military companies plunder Democrats blowing on embers with a Politicized Syrian oil facilities: Russia’s General Staff Mueller

TEHRAN — U.S. private military companies base in Syria, according to Rudskoi. 7 Instead of leaving it at that, Mueller said in his report numbering over 3,500 personnel are plun- “Within the 55-km zone around al-Tanf, and testimony that Trump was not “exonerated” of an obstruction dering Syrian oil facilities under the cover U.S. instructors are training a large armed charge. That led to blaring headlines Wednesday morning while of the international anti-terror coalition’s formation, Magavir al-Saura, and some small the hearing was still going on. “Trump was not exonerated by my aircraft, Head of the Russian General Staff’s militant groups for the so-called Army of report, Robert Mueller tells Congress,” said the BBC. “Mueller Main Operational Department Colonel-Gen- Arab Tribes. The militants’ total numerical Report Did Not Exonerate Trump, Mueller Says,” blared the eral Sergei Rudskoi told a Defense Ministry strength is 2,700 men,” the Russian general HuffPost. press briefing on Monday. reported, providing footage obtained from But in what may have been the most embarrassing moment “Aside from training militants, the U.S. drones. for Mueller, Republican Congressman Michael Turner (R-OH) structures in Syria are involved in plundering A part of the militants trained at the al- pointed out that a prosecutor does not have the power to exon- oil facilities and deposits in the area across Tanf base is being airlifted by U.S. combat erate anyone. A prosecutor prosecutes. the Euphrates that belong to the legitimate helicopters beyond the Euphrates, the Russian “Mr. Mueller, does the Attorney General have the power or Syrian government. Lately, U.S. private general added. authority to exonerate?” Turner asked the witness. “What I’m military companies have been observed to “The most trained saboteurs are being putting up here is the United States code. This is where the At- actively beef up their personnel. Today, the delivered to the territories controlled by torney General gets his power. And the constitution … . mercenaries of the private military companies the government troops to destabilize the “Mr. Mueller, nowhere in these [documents] … is there a in Syria exceed 3,500 people,” the Russian situation and prevent the strengthening of process or description on ‘exonerate.’ There’s no office of exon- general stressed. the Syrian government’s positions there,” eration at the Attorney General’s office. … Mr. Mueller, would Specifically, the U.S. military structures Rudskoi commented. you agree with me that the Attorney General does not have the have organized the production and sale of The basic goals of the militants trained power to exonerate?” Syrian oil from the Conaco, al-Omar and by the U.S. military instructors are to carry “I’m going to pass on that,” Mueller replied. Tanak oilfields located east of the Euphra- out subversive operations, destroy Syrian oil “Why?” Turner asked. tes River, the Russian general pointed out. and gas infrastructure facilities and conduct “Because it embroils us in a legal discussion, and “A criminal scheme of Syrian crude “All this activity by U.S. private military general added. terrorist attacks against government troops, I’m not prepared to do a legal discussion in that arena,” cross-border deliveries is in effect. Actually, companies is conducted under the cover “In exchange for assistance in oil smug- he pointed out. Mueller said. Syrian national wealth is being plundered,” of the international anti-terror coalition’s gling, the United States is beefing up both “Such groups have been spotted in the Pointing to a CNN headline that had just appeared, “MUELLER: Rudskoi stated. aviation. In actual fact, this is smuggling Kurdish and Arab formations with arms and areas of the communities of al-Suwayda, TRUMP WAS NOT EXONERATED,” Turner said: “What you According to TASS, a considerable business seized by the Americans from the they subsequently use them against each Palmyra and Abu Kamal,” the Russian gen- know is, that this can’t say, ‘Mueller exonerated Trump,’ because part of revenues from the hydrocarbon IS [the former name of the Islamic State other,” Rudskoi said, adding that “all these eral specified. you don’t have the power or authority to exonerate Trump. You smuggling is spent on maintaining illegal terrorist organization outlawed in Russia],” factors are only exacerbating the situation The U.S. military base near the settle- have no more power to declare him exonerated than you have armed formations, bribing sheikhs of tribal Rudskoi explained. in the war-torn region.” ment of al-Tanf is located at the junction the power to declare him Anderson Cooper.” unions and instigating anti-government The U.S. incessant deliveries of armament Training of militants of the borders of Syria, Iraq and Jordan. Turner said: “The statement about exoneration is misleading, sentiments, according to the Russian and military hardware to the area across the The U.S. military are training up to 2,700 It also embraces the 55-km zone around and it’s meaningless. It colors this investigation— one word general’s data. Euphrates also cause concern, the Russian militants from different groups at the al-Tanf the town. of out the entire portion of your report. And it’s a meaning- less word that has no legal meaning, and it has colored your entire report.” Yemen hits Saudi command center with ballistic missile TEHRAN — Yemeni army forces have destroyed a military He said the drones had successfully hit their targets and Situation in Syria is better command center in Saudi Arabia’s southern province of halted air traffic at the airport. Najran after targeting it with a domestically-manufactured Yemeni forces regularly target positions inside Saudi than it was last year: Al ballistic missile, a Yemeni military official says. Arabia in retaliation for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, which Muallem Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesman for began in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall a former regime the Yemeni Armed Forces, told Yemen’s Arabic-lan- and eliminate the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has 1 Talks during the meeting underlined the necessity guage al-Masirah news website that the short-range been defending the country along with the armed forces. of carrying out joint projects and opening new prospects of the ballistic missile successfully hit a command center According to Press TV, the U.S.-based Armed Conflict standing economic cooperation between the two countries to in Saqqam area. Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit be up to the level of the distinguished relations between them. He added that the missile had been launched early on conflict-research organization, estimates that the Saudi-led The two sides also discussed the possibility of training and Sunday, destroying the base and leaving a large number war has claimed the lives of over 60,000 Yemenis since qualifying the administrative and the technical staffs and of de- of Saudi-led troops either killed or wounded. January 2016. veloping the systems of the administrative work and automating The missile launch came a few hours after fresh drone The years-long military aggression has also taken a the work of the Ministry’s institutions. attacks by Yemeni forces on an airport in Najran. heavy toll on Yemen’s infrastructure, destroying hospi- The Russian side expressed readiness to provide everything Saree had said earlier in the day that the Yemeni forces tals, schools, and factories. The United Nations has already that could improve the administrative work in a way that would used Qasif-K2 combat drones to first target a command warned that more than 24 million Yemenis are in dire need curb the reduce the waste and would increase the revenues and and control center at the Najran airport and later hangers of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from the production in general. and military sites there. extreme levels of hunger. The policy of Bahrain Ethics report accuses UNRWA leadership of abuse of power dictatorship: survival by TEHRAN — A confidential internal report their personal objectives”. immediate removal should be carefully the report, while the secretary-general’s from the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency’s The report alleges that the “inner circle” considered”. spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, confirmed in committing crimes ethics office has detailed alleged abuses of is made up of Commissioner-General Pierre Al Jazeera obtained a copy of the ethics late June that the report had been received. authority among the organisation’s senior Krahenbuhl, Deputy Commissioner-Gen- office report from a source close to UNR- “An investigation of the allegations con- 1 Now, Al Khalifa feels trapped in an extremely weak management team. eral Sandra Mitchell - who resigned from WA, who said that agency employees were tained in the report you mention is ongoing. position and is grabbing at everything to get out of this situation With input from dozens of current and her post in late July - Chief of Staff Hakam concerned about a seeming lack of action Until this investigation is completed, the and gain more power. former staff, the 10-page document cites Shahwan - who left the agency in early July after it was sent to UN Secretary-Gener- Secretary-General is not in a position to make On the other hand, Al Khalifa regime wants to keep running “credible and corroborated reports” that - and Senior Adviser to the Commission- al Antonio Guterres’s office in December any further comments on this matter,” he the country in chaos and fear, so that the opposition movements members of an “inner circle” at the top er-General Maria Mohammedi. last year. said in a statement. will be interrupted by all the turmoil and cannot reach their goals. of UNRWA have engaged in “abuses of It concludes that the individuals’ alleged Al Jazeera understands that the UN Office “As he has shown in the past, the Secre- In this situation, Abbas Salman, a member of the Bahraini authority for personal gain, to suppress conduct presents “an enormous risk to of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) has tary-General is committed to acting swiftly opposition group, Al Wafa, says that “Al Khalifa regime is only legitimate dissent and to otherwise achieve the reputation of the UN” and that “their opened a probe into allegations detailed in upon receiving the full report.” after starting chaos in Bahrain, but at the same time it is too weak to stop the revolutionary movements and reach its goals.” One other crucial point here is why the world community and international organizations such as the United Nations and its Sudan’s Hemeti meets el-Sisi before resumption of power talks Security Council have been silent about all the ongoing oppres- TEHRAN — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has demands for a transition to civilian rule. sion in Bahrain, including the assassination of all the opponents. met in Cairo the deputy head of Sudan’s ruling Transitional On June 3, at least 127 demonstrators were killed and Undoubtedly, the silence and indirect approval of international Military Council (TMC), General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, scores wounded in a raid on a sit-in, the rallying point in organizations toward all the crimes and brutality of Al Khalifa have whose forces have been accused of carrying out a brutal the protest movement’s struggle for democracy, according made the regime more confident to keep its criminal activities crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in June. to doctors linked to the protest movement. against the opponents. Surely, if the international organizations Dagalo, who is widely known as Hemeti and is seen A joint probe by prosecutors and the TMC on Satur- had stepped in and showed their disapproval, today we wouldn’t as the most powerful of the generals now running Sudan, day said that security forces, including an RSF general, took see such massive crimes against humanity in Bahrain. “presented the latest developments on the current situa- part in the raid on the protest camp outside the military tion”, the Egyptian presidency said after Monday’s meeting headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, despite having no in the capital. orders from their superiors to do so. El-Sisi, a former army chief, reiterated Egypt’s “strategic According to Al Jazeera, Hemeti has consistently de- Four dead, several injured in support” in maintaining “the stability and security” of its nied that his men were involved in the crackdown, which California shooting neighbour, Sudan, the presidency added. triggered international outrage. Egypt’s government has been a strong backer of the TMC On Sunday, Sudanese police fired tear gas at scores TEHRAN— A gunman killed at least three people at a Califor- after the military overthrew longtime President Omar al- of protesters demanding an independent probe into the nia food festival on Sunday before being shot dead by police, Bashir on April 11 in the wake of months-long mass protests On July 17, the two sides signed a power-sharing deal aimed June raid. and police were hunting for a second person they believed was against his three-decade autocratic rule. at forming a joint civilian-military ruling body which, in turn, Separately, the doctors’ committee linked to the protest involved in the killing. Hemeti, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces would install civilian rule. The negotiations on Tuesday are movement said on Monday that five protesters, including Some 15 people were wounded during the mass shooting (RSF) - the feared paramilitary group accused of war crimes meant to iron out remaining issues between the two sides. four students, were shot dead and several wounded at a at the three-day Gilroy Garlic Festival in northern California, in Darfur under al-Bashir - has also shored up support from Protesters killed rally in a town in central Sudan. some of them hurt in the crush of bystanders trying to flee, Persian Gulf Arab allies, meeting Saudi Arabia’s Crown The protests in Sudan were triggered in December fol- “Five martyrs succumbed to direct wounds from sniper police said. Prince Mohammed bin Salman in May. lowing the tripling of the price of bread but quickly trans- bullets during a peaceful rally in al-Obeid,” the committee Police reached the scene within a minute of the first shots His meeting with el-Sisi came a day before talks between formed into a challenge to al-Bashir’s rule. Demonstrations said in a statement. ringing out at 5:45 p.m. and officers shot and killed the gunman the TMC and the protest leaders were set to resume. continued after his removal as protesters intensified their The reason for the rally was not immediately clear. moments later, according to Scot Smithee, who heads the Gilroy Police Department. According to Press TV, a second person, “was involved in some way, we just don’t know in what way,” Smithee said late New British PM waits for EU to move on Brexit on Sunday. TEHRAN — New British Prime Minister will leave the European Union without any deal.” May was forced to resign after failing and the rest of the UK. “We have no idea of a motive,” he added. Boris Johnson is waiting for EU leaders to agreement at all if necessary on October 31, three times to get the Brexit deal through the “The backstop has to be abolished,” Smithee said the gunman had cut through a fence to get into agree to renegotiate their Brexit deal be- AFP reported. House of Commons, in the process delaying Johnson’s spokeswoman said. the annual Garlic Festival in Gilroy, 30 miles (48 km) southeast fore he meets them, his spokeswoman said Brussels says it will not reopen the text. Britain’s EU exit twice. “He remains confident that the EU will of the city of San Jose. Monday, as the government stepped up “no In phone calls last week, German Chan- Opposition among MPs is focused on the stop claiming that the withdrawal agreement Footage uploaded to social media appeared to show festival deal” planning. cellor Angela Merkel and French President “backstop” arrangement intended to keep cannot be changed, but until that happens attendees scattering in fear and confusion as loud popping sounds “He obviously wants to meet EU leaders Emmanuel Macron both invited Johnson to open the border between British Northern we must assume there will be a ‘no deal’ could be heard in the background. and negotiate but not to be sat down and visit, but he has yet to announce any foreign Ireland and EU member Ireland. Brexit on October 31. “What’s going on?” a woman can be heard asking on one told that the EU cannot possibly reopen the travel ahead of the G7 summit in August. Brussels says this is vital for peace in “The government’s central focus is pre- video. “Who’d shoot up a garlic festival?” withdrawal agreement,” the spokeswoman “The withdrawal agreement has been Northern Ireland, which was once plagued paring for that.” Aerial footage showed the festival grounds apparently deserted said. rejected by parliament a number of times by violence. A multi-million pound (dollar) advertis- but with many emergency and police vehicles on surrounding Johnson, who took office last week, now and clearly it’s not going to pass in its But critics say it risks keeping Britain tied ing blitz is planned to alert businesses and streets and police in bullet-proof gear. wants to change the exit terms struck by current form,” the spokeswoman said. to EU rules long after Brexit and erecting ordinary people on what to do to prepare “It’s just incredibly sad and disheartening that at an event his predecessor Theresa May but insists he “It needs to change if there’s going to be a trade barriers between Northern Ireland for “no deal”. that does so much good for the community had to suffer from a tragedy like this,” Smithee said. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 14 WORLD SPORTS JULY 30, 2019

Former Man United defender Bernal claims Colombia’s first Evra announces retirement

Former Manchester United left back Patrice Evra announced his retirement from soccer on Monday, bringing a trophy-laden Tour de France title 20-year career to an end. Egan Bernal became the first Colombian to the Alps and ended fifth overall, was the Evra played for United between 2006 and 2014 and won win the Tour de France when he retained race’s most exciting rider. nine major trophies, including five Premier League titles and the overall leader’s yellow jersey after Sun- The world number one, who had been the Champions League. He made more than 700 club appearances day’s 21st and final stage won by Caleb fighting to become France’s first winner in total and also earned 81 caps with the France national team. Ewan of Australia. since Bernard Hinault in 1985, was voted The 38-year-old also won two Serie A titles with Juventus The 22-year-old Bernal, the youngest this year’s most aggressive rider after also after leaving United and said he will now move into coaching. rider to win the race in 110 years, gave Team winning two stages. “My playing career is officially over,” Evra said in an inter- Ineos — formerly Team Sky — their seventh “Alaphilippe changed the deal of this view to Gazzetta dello Sport. “I started training for the UEFA B title in the last eight editions. Tour de France, no question about it,” said Coaching License in 2013, now I want to finish it and then go on He beat team mate and defending Tour director Christian Prudhomme. to get the UEFA A license. champion Geraint Thomas of Britain by “There was also the absence of (four- “In a year and a half, if everything goes well, I’ll be ready to one minute 11 seconds, with Dutchman times champion) Chris Froome, which gave lead a team.” Following his stint with Juve, he was with French Steven Kruijswijk coming home third, 1:31 hope to many riders.” side Olympique Marseille but left by mutual consent in 2017 after off the pace. Slovakian Peter Sagan wrapped up a kicking a fan before a Europa League match which led to a ban “It’s incredible, I don’t know what to record seventh green jersey for the points from European competitions by UEFA for the rest of the season. say. I’ve won the Tour but I don’t manage classification, surpassing the previous mark Evra last played professionally in 2018 for Premier League to believe it. I need a couple of days to as- he held jointly with German Erik Zabel. side West Ham United, where he signed a short-term contract. similate all this,” said Bernal. Frenchman Romain Bardet won the polka The Frenchman also posted a video montage of his career “It’s for my family and I just want to dot jersey for the mountains classification, highlights on Twitter and Instagram with the caption: “Thank hug them. It’s a feeling of happiness that a consolation prize after he dropped out you, goodbye.” I don’t know how to describe it. of overall contention early on. (Source: Reuters) “This is the first Tour for us, Colombi- Sunday’s stage, a mostly processional ans. Many Colombians have tried before, ride from Rambouillet that ended on the we’ve had great cyclists in the past. But Champs Elysees, as it has done every year I’m the first one to win the Tour! Colombia since 1975, was won by Ewan, who snatched Puma signs partnership with deserves it.” and landslides in the Alps. but his Mitchelton-Scott team also claimed his third stage win on his Tour debut. Manchester City manager Guardiola Also the winner of the white jersey for Kruijswijk’s Jumbo-Visma team shone four stages. Yates’ twin brother Simon won Ewan burst through on the right side the best Under-25 rider, Bernal did not win throughout the race, winning four stages two stages while Matteo Trentin and Daryl of the cobbled avenue to beat Dutchman a single stage, but he was first at the top of through Dylan Groenewegen, Wout van Aert, Impey took one apiece. Groenewegen and Italian Niccolo Bonifazio, Puma has agreed a new long-term partnership with Pep Guardiola, the Col de l’Iseran when the decisive 19th Mike Teunissen and the team time trial. France’s Julian Alaphilippe, who wore who were second and third respectively. the manager of English Premier League champions Manchester stage was stopped because of hailstorms Briton Adam Yates failed to impress the yellow jersey for 14 days but cracked in (Source: Reuters) City, the German sportswear company said on Monday. Puma signed a strategic partnership with Manchester City in February, taking over from Nike as it seeks to make up for the Dalilah Muhammad breaks 400m hurdles Verstappen wins chaotic German loss of Arsenal to German rival Adidas. Puma said Guardiola would serve as a brand ambassador, en- world record after ‘freak’ concussion Grand Prix dorsing Puma products on and off the pitch, and also advise the company on the development of new clothing and shoe innovations. (Source: Mirror)

PSG ‘egos’ not easy for team - Julian Draxler

The “egos” of some Paris St-Germain stars mean that “it is not easy for the whole team”, says the club’s German winger Julian Draxler. Draxler plays alongside Neymar - who has been linked with a move back to Barcelona - Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani at the Ligue 1 champions. “All of them are exceptional players, it is hard to find in the world players of this level,” Draxler told AFP. Muhammad came back from a mild concus- tice consistently,” said Muhammad, whose Max Verstappen took full advantage of his was never-ending. I am just very happy.” “But of course they have their own minds, their own heads.” sion to break the 16-year-old world record previous personal best was 52.64 from 2017. rivals’ calamities on Sunday to win an epic, Kvyat confirmed that he became a father He added: “They live football, they want to score every game, in the 400m hurdles at the USATF Outdoor “I was hoping for it this whole weekend.” rain-lashed and wildly-spectacular German on Saturday night when his partner Kelly so they have an ego. Championships on Sunday night. She has a In 2012, Muhammad finished fifth at Grand Prix for Red Bull ahead of Sebastian gave birth to a daughter. “So sometimes it’s not easy for the whole team, but if you are knack for overcoming obstacles — beyond her last NCAA Championships for USC. Vettel of Ferrari. He said: “It is amazing to be back on lucky enough to play alongside these players, it’s just a pleasure just the 10 barriers on the track — and Twenty days later, she was sixth in her The 21-year-old Dutchman secured his the podium and incredible for Toro Rosso, every day.” PSG sporting director Leonardo said Neymar can surprising herself. first-round heat at the Olympic trials, a second win of the season and seventh of after so many years.” leave PSG “if there is an offer that suits everyone” after his fellow “I’m still in shock,” Muhammad said full six seconds slower than what she ran his career, finishing ahead of four-time After the record-breaking heat, the race Brazilian failed to turn up for the first day of pre-season training after clocking 52.20 seconds on a wet at Drake Stadium on Sunday. world champion Vettel, who had started began in steady rain with the field on full earlier in the summer. track, similar to the conditions for her She stayed in the sport, unsponsored, 20th and last on the grid. wet tyres behind a Safety Car through four However, Brazil striker Neymar is currently with the club on Rio Olympic title. and in Los Angeles, financially support- New dad Daniil Kvyat of Toro Rosso was formation laps before a standing start. their tour of China. Muhammad, who took .14 off Yuliya Pe- ed by her parents. Her mom, Nadirah, third as he secured only his third Formula The conditions did nothing to deter (Source: BBC) chonkina‘s mark from 2003, said she was “kind worked as a child protection specialist in One podium. Hamilton who made a near-perfect start of shut down” after falling in training two weeks New York City. Father Askia served as a The race was a disaster for champions from his 87th pole position. ago. She lost focus while running — without Muslim Chaplain for the New York City Mercedes who were celebrating their 200th The race distance was reduced to 64 laps hurdles — and took a “freak” fall, scraping skin. Department of Correction and an adjunct Formula One start of the modern era and as the spray rose high in plumes throughout Bale’s agent blames Madrid “Nothing major,” the Queens, N.Y., professor of Islamic Studies at the New 125 years of motorsport, both defending the pack, Vettel romping forward from 20th for failed China deal native said. “Yesterday was like, OK, I’m York Theological Seminary. five-time champion Lewis Hamilton and to pass six cars in the first five corners. ready to run again.” Something clicked under those circum- his team-mate Valtteri Bottas crashed and Leclerc, in the other Ferrari, rose to sixth Muhammad moved after hurdle six in stances in 2013. Muhammad lowered her failed to score any points. from 10th on the opening lap. Gareth Bale’s proposed transfer to Chinese Super League side Sunday’s final, surging past 2015 World best time from 56.04 to 53.83 to win the Hamilton eventually finished 11th af- Hamilton led by two seconds from Bottas Jiangsu Suning broke down because Real Madrid “changed their silver medalist Shamier Little to her outside U.S. title. Then she earned world silver, ter six pit stops but was then promoted to after lap one, Verstappen having made a minds,” his agent Jonathan Barnett has told ESPN FC. coming around the last curve. (This field picking up a Nike sponsorship along with it. ninth following 30-second penalties for poor start, as the field jostled for space and On Sunday, Bernabeu sources told ESPN FC the proposed was one of the deepest of the four-day meet But 2014, 2015 and even early 2016 Alfa Romeo drivers Kimi Raikkonen and grip, Sergio Perez spinning backwards into transfer was called off after the Wales international’s family opted with four Olympic or world medalists, plus brought more hurdles — a quad injury, “per- Antonio Giovinazzi. the stadium entry wall and damaging his against the move. Sydney McLaughlin, the fastest woman in sonal problems,” and, four months before the Lance Stroll of Racing Point came home Racing Force. However Barnett has blamed Madrid’s hierarchy for the deal the world in 2018 and, until Sunday, 2019.) Olympic trials, reportedly changing coaches fourth to deliver his team’s best finish ahead That required a Safety Car intervention falling through -- and said that Madrid had given Bale’s camp the As Muhammad strained for home, she from Yolanda Demus (mother of now-former of Carlos Sainz of McLaren and Alex Al- for three laps, during which the leaders pitted green light to negotiate a move, only to go back on that agreement heard the voice of coach Lawrence Johnson American record holder Lashinda Demus) to bon of Toro Rosso. “It was amazing, but for intermediates, before racing resumed. when it was close to being finalised. in her head, saying, you’ve got to execute Johnson, who also coached Olympic 100m really tricky out there,” said Verstappen, After 25, Verstappen pitted for medium Last week ESPN FC learned that Madrid were willing to let that last 40 meters. Drop your arms. hurdles champion Brianna McNeal. who made four pit-stops and survived a compound slicks, a gamble by Red Bull. The Bale move to China on a free transfer -- a deal which would have “I was just trying to hold on,” she said. It worked. Muhammad clocked a per- complete 360-degrees spin. Dutchman complained vigorously about saved the club around €100 million in salary and taxes over the The celebration didn’t match the enor- sonal-best 52.88 to win trials. She went “To make the right calls, you had to be his tyres before spinning at the final corner remaining three years of the 30 year old’s contract. mity of the moment. Muhammad saw her to the Olympics owning the fastest time focussed. We put on the slick tyres and we and recovering. Marca reported on Friday that Bale was to be paid €22m-a-sea- time, clapped her hands and leaned over in the world for the year by 1.08 seconds had a 360! But it was alright.” Another Virtual Safety Car was then son [after taxes] on a three year contract with Jiangsu, though momentarily before accepting a hug from over her next-closest competitor in Rio. She Vettel, for whom the result brought re- deployed briefly, as Hamilton pitted for Barnett has told ESPN FC that story was “fake news.” McLaughlin, who finished second in 52.88 lived up to overwhelming favorite status, demption after he had crashed out while softs from the lead, before Leclerc went Reports have suggested that, when Madrid president Flor- to make her first world team. taking gold by a comfortable .42. leading in heavy rain last year, said: “It was off at Sachs Curve. entino Perez learned that the Chinese Super League club were “I’ve been kind of hitting that time in prac- (Source: nbc sports) a long race and at some stages if felt like it (Source: AFP) willing to pay so much money to Bale, he decided that his club could not let such a valuable player leave for nothing. Jiangsu had already signed Brazilian defender Miranda before adding Croatian forward Ivan Santini on Monday, which means Dressel emerges with Phelps aura after scandal-hit world swim there is no room left for any foreign additions. American superstar Caeleb Dressel has invited comparisons …… ‘Dangerous’ at Olympics (Source: Soccernet) to Olympic legend Michael Phelps after lighting up a world Above the fray, Dressel repeated in the 50 and 100m swimming championships plagued by doping rows, a sexual freestyle, as well as the 100m butterfly -- but not before harassment arrest and a fatal nightclub accident. setting an eye-popping new world best of 49.50 seconds to Dressel came away from Gwangju with six gold medals eclipse Phelps’s old bodysuit mark by 0.32. Lukaku left out of squad for and two silvers, winning all four of his individual events Inevitably, talk turned to next year’s Tokyo Olympics Man Utd friendly in Norway and obliterating Phelps’s 10-year-old 100 metres butterfly and whether Dressel can emulate Phelps, who racked up a world record for good measure. record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games. But even the heroics of swimming’s tattooed golden boy But Dressel revealed he had been feeling the strain. Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku has been left out of were often overshadowed by an explosive doping controversy, “I’ve got pimples on my face, I’m losing some hair,” said the 26-man squad travelling for Tuesday’s pre-season friendly which was looming even before Chinese giant Sun Yang set the 22-year-old, who swept to seven gold medals at the 2017 against Kristiansund. foot in South Korea. world championships in Budapest. Lukaku was part of the pre-season tour of Australia and the Following bombshell allegations in a FINA doping panel “This is a lot of stress but I’m not sitting in my room Far East, but did not play because of injury. report, claiming the triple Olympic champion had allowed “He’s not a drug cheat,” Sun’s coach Denis Cotterell flipping through my medals. I won less than seven, that United remain in talks with Inter Milan over the Belgium blood vials to be smashed with a hammer after being visited told AFP, adding that Chinese swimming has taken “me- doesn’t bug me one bit. international, 26, but there is no agreement over a fee. by testers, several swimmers made their feelings very clear. ticulous care” to clean up its act since the state-sponsored “If this is where we’re at heading to Tokyo, we’ll be very The Old Trafford club rejected a 60m euro (£54m) bid for Australia’s Mack Horton and Briton Duncan Scott doping of the 1990s. dangerous next year,” added Dressel, after the United States Lukaku from the Italian giants earlier in July. refused to shake Sun’s hand after losing to the hulking “It’s absolutely critical for the athletes, the association, once again topped the medals table with 14 golds -- nine Inter boss Antonio Conte has said the forward is his number Chinese swimmer, provoking a furious reaction from for the whole sake of China’s respect on a world stage that more than nearest rivals Australia. one summer transfer target. Sun, who yelled at Scott: “You’re a loser!” they’re well and truly distanced from that past,” said the Dressel said he had been “absolutely devastated” to Italy full-back Matteo Darmian, another player linked with Sun, who retained his 200 and 400m freestyle world Australian, claiming that Sun was one of the most tested hear that two people had died and several athletes injured move away from United, is also absent from the squad heading titles, insisted he was “protecting each and every athlete” athletes in swimming. when a balcony inside a Gwangju nightclub collapsed at to Norway for Tuesday’s match. by refusing to let what he called “unlicensed” testers “He’s tested year in, year out. You can’t have the perfor- the weekend. (Source: Goal) take his blood. mances he’s had over the years without doing the work.” (Source: Eurosport) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 30, 2019 SPORTS 15

Iran basketball win Portugal Sohrab Moradi to undergo surgery in Germany

SPORTS TEHRAN — Iran’s Olympic gold medalist four-team tournament deskSohrab Moradi will undergo shoulder sur- SPORTS TEHRAN — Iran national basketball gery in Germany. deskteam claimed the title of the Oliveira de He is not able to participate at the 2019 International Weight- Azeméis International Tournament. lifting Federation (IWF) World Championships after suffering Team Melli defeated hosts Portugal 74-70 in their a shoulder injury in training. third match. Iran had already defeated Denmark and Slovakia in the tournament. Iran will leave Portugal for Russia to take part in a four-team tournament with participation of Russia, Greece and Hungary, scheduled for Aug. 8 to 11. Mehran Shahintab’s team will also partake at a tourna- ment in China, where they will face Nigeria, Montenegro and Poland from Aug. 19 to Aug. 25. Iran have been drawn with world’s second-ranked Spain, Puerto Rico and Tunisia in Group C of the 2019 FIBA World Cup. The competition will be held in China from 31 Aug. to 15 Sept. The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for The world competition will be held in Pattaya, Thailand men›s national basketball teams. from September 16 to 25. Rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, this edition will be Moradi, who broke weightlifting’s longest standing world the first FIBA Basketball World Cup since 1967 that will record on his way to gold in the men’s 94kg class at the 2018 not occur in the same year as the FIFA World Cup, but Asian Games, suffered a spinal cord injury in February. a year following the latter. He lifted 189kg in the opening discipline to better the snatch Also, the group stage will expand from 24 to 32 teams. record set at 188kg in 1999 by Greece’s Akakios Kakiasvilis. The top eight teams, including Japan as the hosts of the 2020 Now, Moradi is facing a fresh injury in five months. Summer Olympics (and the top two teams from each of the He will travel to Germany early Tuesday. Americas and Europe; and the top team from each of Africa, Asia and Oceania) in this competition will qualify for the men›s basketball event in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Both the Czech Republic and Montenegro will make Persepolis eye Brazilian their first appearances in the FIBA World Cup as debutants. striker Anderson Lopes

TASNIM — Persepolis football team of Iran have set their sights Iran, Bangladesh friendly cancelled on capturing Brazilian forward Anderson José Lopes de Souza. The 25-year-old striker currently plays at Japanese club Hok- SPORTS TEHRAN — The Bangladesh Football Hong Kong, slated for Sept. 10. kaido Consadole Sapporo. deskFederation (BFF) has changed its mind Bangladesh are in Group E along with Oman, India, Iranian media reports suggest that Persepolis are going to to play a FIFA friendly against Iran. Afghanistan and Qatar. sign him as Mario Budimir’s replacement. The Southeast Asian team wanted to play Iran on Sept. “Nepal have expressed their desire to play a match in Lopes has played at Brazilian clubs Tombense, Avai and At- 5 in Doha, but Iran wanted the match two days later, Dhaka within the next 8 to 10 days, but we are not in a lético Paranaense. just three day before Bangladesh against Afghanistan position to host them at the moment and we are working Malian forward Modibo Maïga has been also linked with a match. That is why BFF decided not to play against the on fixing the opposition -- either a country or clubs -- for move to Persepolis. top-ranked Asian nation. friendly matches. Everything will be finalized within a few The 31-year-old striker has most recently played at Buriram “We will have a friendly, but not against Iran. We want to days,” said BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag. United of Thailand. try continue getting up in the FIFA [Rankings] and playing The eight group winners and four best runners-up Iran would have not value in that because they would be will advance to the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals too good,” Bangladesh coach Jamie Day said. and the final round of qualifying for the FIFA World Iran, who have been drawn in Group C along with Iraq, Cup Qatar 2022. Ali Alipour set to sign for Bahrain, Cambodia and Hong Kong at the 2022 FIFA World The next best 24 teams from the second round of the Cup and AFC Asian Cup China 2023. joint qualifiers will compete in a separate competition for the Turkey’s Çaykur Rizespor Team Melli will start the campaign with a match against remaining 12 slots in the 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023. Persian Football — Persepolis forward Ali Alipour has report- edly caught the eye of Turkish top-flight football club Çaykur U.S. claim the 2019 FIBA U19 Women’s U.S. teen wins $3 million at Fortnite Rizespor, Gunebakis.com.tr reported. The Turkish club is also eying Fenerbahçe striker Michael Basketball World Cup title World Cup Frey and Aderinsola Habib Eseola who plays in Kazakh football The dominance of the U.S. at the FIBA NEW YORK (Reuters) — American club Kairat. U19 Women›s Basketball World Cup teenager Kyle Giersdorf won $3 million Alipour had been also linked with a move to Belgian club has resumed after they secured their on Sunday after taking the top prize in a Zulte Waregem. eighth triumph at the event, regaining tournament in New York for the popular The 24-year-old forward helped Persepolis wins Iran Profes- the title they relinquished to Russia online video game Fortnite. sional League for three seasons in a row. two years ago. Giersdorf, 16, from Pennsylvania, was Alipour also played a key role in helping Persepolis reaches The U.S. won an overtime classic one of at least 100 players competing the 2018 AFC Champions League final. against Australia 74-70 in Bangkok to for $30 million in total prize money, deliver a seventh title in eight editions, as the booming popularity of video and adding to their previous successes in online games has drawn top-dollar 1997, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 investments and fueled the emerging Zohrabzadeh wins silver and 2015. professional sport. at Asian Mountain Bike It was Paige Bueckers and Aliyah Playing under the name “Bugha,” Boston who impressed in the Final Giersdorf won the solo finals portion Championships of the competition after the former of the Fortnite World Cup by scoring dropped an all-action 17 points, 8 59 points, 26 more than his nearest rebounds and 5 assists, while Boston competitor “psalm,” according to the TASNIM — Iranian cyclist Ali Zohrabzadeh won a silver medal contributed a 12-point and 11-rebound Fortnite World Cup Leaderboard, post- at the 25th Asian Mountain Bike Championships. Zohrabzadeh finished in second place in the men cross double-double as USA completed a All-Star Five for her efforts during the ed on the game’s website. tlegrounds. Tencent also owns a 40% country event. flawless 7-0 campaign. competition, while Paige Bueckers of “Words can’t even explain it. I’m stake in Epic Games. Kazakhstan’s representative won the gold medal. Izzy Anstey starred for a heartbro- USA had double cause for celebration just so happy,” Giersdorf said in an Global revenues from esports, The bronze medal went to the Japanese cyclist. ken Australia with 16 points and 12 after being crowned MVP. She led the interview at the event at Arthur Ashe or professional video game compe- The competition was held in Beirut, Lebanon. rebounds as they posted their best finish tournament in assists and was joined Stadium in Queens, New York, posted titions, will hit $1.1 billion in 2019, in more than two decades, having last in the All-Star Five by her teammate by organizers on Twitter. “Everything up 27 percent since last year, thanks reached the title game back in 1997. Rhyne Howard who made a crunch I’ve done, the grind, it’s all paid off. to ballooning revenues from adver- Earlier in the day, Spain returned play down the stretch of the Final to It’s just insane.” tising, sponsorship and media rights, Hosts Iraq in action on to the podium for the first time in four help seal the title. Giersdorf did not immediately re- according to a report released earlier editions, having last took a medal dur- Alexandra Fowler of Australia made spond to a request for comment. this year. opening day ing successive Final appearances in the lineup too for her near tournament Launched in 2017, Fortnite’s pop- Overall, the global video and elec- 2009 and 2011. They took bronze with double-double, while Billie Massey did ularity has helped Epic Games reach a tronic games market, excluding reve- a 58-52 success against Belgium as manage to make it a double-double $15-billion- valuation last year. It com- nues from esports, will generate $152.1 The 2019 WAFF Championship kicks off on Tuesday with hosts Lola Pendande did the business with for Belgium and was rewarded for petes with other games like Electronic billion in 2019, up 9.6% over last year, Iraq meeting Lebanon in a Group A tie at Karbala Stadium. 14 points, 6 boards and 4 assists. taking them to a historic place in the Arts Inc’s Apex Legends and Tencent according to a report by gaming ana- Yemen will play Palestine in the second match with Syria She was rewarded with a place on the Semi-Finals. Holdings Ltd’s PlayerUnknown’s Bat- lytics firm Newzoo. completing the group. Almoez Ali targets silverware galore with Al Duhail SC With a new season in Qatar looming large, and knockout goals following his country’s success at this year’s AFC stage action in the AFC Champions League set to Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates. resume next week, Al Duhail SC star and AFC Asian Having seen influential forward Youssef El Arabi Cup 2019 winner Almoez Ali has declared that both leave to join Greek side Olympiakos, Al Duhail have he and his teammates are fully focused on winning since been boosted by the arrival of Iraqi sensation as much silverware as possible in the weeks and Mohannad Ali, a signing which has been resoundingly months to come. endorsed by Ali. Al Duhail are scheduled to meet rivals Al Sadd SC “Mohanad Ali is a young player and a good striker over two legs in the AFC Champions League Round of 16 with exceptional skills,” he said. on August 6 and 13, before facing the same opponents “He will certainly help the club a lot given the when their latest domestic campaign gets underway performances we have all seen when he was playing with the Qatari Super Cup on August 17. in the Iraqi Pro League and for his national team. Despite the hectic nature of football’s modern- Any competition [for places in the team] between day calendar, Ali has targeted nothing but success us, can only be very beneficial for the team.” for the side which finished as runners-up to Al Sadd Duhail are one of the clubs that enters competitions After shining brightly at the AFC Asian Cup, Ali has Syria will open their campaign against Lebanon on Friday. in last season’s Qatar Stars League standings, but to win and not just to compete. become a target for some of Europe’s biggest clubs. But, The four-team Group B will kick off on August 4, with Jordan exacted a degree of revenge by comprehensively “We promise our fans that we will give 120 percent despite the interest, the 22-year-old insists that it will meeting Bahrain and Saudi Arabia facing Kuwait. claiming the Amir of Qatar Cup title. and do our utmost to regain the league title, while [in always be a case of team first and individual second. The respective group winners will advance to the final “The preparations for the new season have been the AFC Champions League] our chances are good “It is true that there have been some offers from on August 14. different from previous seasons,” the Qatar international because we have gained experience from playing at European teams, and this can only be good for the The 2019 WAFF Championship will serve as ideal forward told Al Duhail’s official website. this level before. player and the national team,” he explained. preparation for the nine teams ahead of the Asian Qualifiers “We have been focusing on a number of things which “Our goal is to [also] win that competition, and “But now I am with Al Duhail and I am focusing on for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar and AFC Asian Cup have been determined by both the coaching staff and we are very focused on our games to come against Al putting the benefits of the team first and winning titles.” China 2023, which kick off in September. the club management, and we are mindful that Al Sadd,” added Ali who emerged as top scorer with nine (Source: the-afc) (Source: the-afc) Prayer Times Noon:13:11 Evening: 20:31 Dawn: 4:34 (tomorrow) Sunrise: 6:11 (tomorrow) JULY 30, 2019 ART&CULTURE I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y www.tehrantimes.com Managing Director: Ali Asgari Editor-in-Chief: Mohammad Ghaderi Iran youth organization to hold Editorial Dept.: Fax: (+98 21) 88808214 — 88808895 [email protected] Switchboard Operator: Tel: (+98 21) 43051000 Advertisements Dept.: Telefax: (+98 21) 43051450 Public Relations Office: Tel: (+98 21) 88805807 film festival promoting marriage Subscription & Distribution Dept.: Tel: (+98 21) 43051603 ARTTEHRAN — Tehran’s www.eshterak.ir Distributor: Padideh Novin Co. deskDepartment of Sports 9 433 Tel: 88 11 and Youth Affairs plans to organize a Webmaster: [email protected] Printed at: Jame Jam Bartar Borna - 44197737 festival of movies that promote marriage, the organizers announced on Monday. Tehrantimes79 Tehrantimesdaily Five films have been selected to go on screen for five days. Filmmakers, members No. 18, Bimeh Alley, Nejatollahi St., Tehran, Iran of the cast and crew and social science P.o. Box: 14155-4843 experts will attend Q & A sessions after Zip Code: 1599814713 each screening during the festival, which will take place at the Tehran Book Garden from August 2 to 6. The films are “Bride” by Behruz Afkhami, “The Dream of Marriage” by Asghar Hashemi, “Spouse” by Mehdi Fakhimzadeh, “Narges” by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and “Marriage, Iranian Style” by Hassan Fat’hi. The festival will be organized to mark GUIDE TO the marriage anniversary of Imam Ali (AS) SPIRITUAL AWAKENING with Hazrat Fatima (SA), which falls on August 3 this year. Envy is the sign of the worst faults, and a “Bride” tells the story of Hamid, a young university graduate who has no job and halter dragging men towards every evil. falls in love with the girl from a wealthy Imam Ali (AS) family. The girl’s father will not agree to the marriage unless Hamid finds a good job, so Hamid begins drug trafficking to gain the father’s approval. Abolfazl Purarab and Niki Karimi, the “Russian Elite Image of Iran” main stars of the film, were introduced to the world of cinema through this film. published in Persian Jahangir has finished his military service in the film “The Dream of Marriage” CULTURE TEHRAN — Russian historian Dmitry deskShlapentokh’s book “Russian Elite Image of and dreams of marrying Nahid. But Nahid’s Iran: From the Late Soviet Era to the Present” has recently father asks him to find a job first. Jahangir’s Bijan Emkanian (R) and Kamand Amirsoleimani act in a scene from “The Dream of Marriage” by Asghar Hashemi. been published in Persian by the Islamic Revolution Document retired father Mashallah Khan begins to Center in Tehran. solve the problem. for embezzlement. The man who is the to Adel, a young man she has grown up of an Iranian girl who wants to marry Translated by Vahid Shokati Amaqani, the 2009 book traces Akbar Abdi, Kamand Amirsoleimani deputy director believes he will replace with herself, finds out he is in love with a foreigner. Her father is a religiously the Russian elite’s view of Iran over the 20 years of post-Soviet and Bijan Emkanian are the main stars. the manager, but his wife gets the post Narges. Adel marries Narges and gets dogmatic merchant and this results in history. Starring Mehdi Hashemi and Fatemeh instead, leading to turmoil in personal arrested in a big robbery. many problems for the young couple. The author discusses that Motamed-Arya, “The Spouse” portrays a life and work. Farimah Farjami and Abolfazl Purarab The film stars Dariush Arjomand, throughout most of the late Soviet couple who works together in a company Afaq and Adel ruin their life through star in the film. Fatemeh Gudarzi, Shila Khodadad and and post-Soviet period, two whose managing director gets arrested robbery in “Narges”. Afaq who is married “Marriage, Iranian Style” tells the story Mohammadreza Sharifinia. major trends in the approach to Iran have dominated the Russian elite. The first emphasizes the Iran’s “Beloved” to compete in Asia Exhibit to feature docs forming memoirs of strategic importance of Russia’s rapprochement with Iran and Pacific Screen Awards Iranian suspect in Mykonos murders case is mostly supported by Russian Imperial Nationalists. For these groups, an Iran-Russia rapprochement would not be a temporary use of Iran as a bargaining chip in dealing with the West, but a permanent alliance. Front cover of the Persian The second group believes version of Russian author that Russia should use Iran as Dmitry Shlapentokh’s book, a bargaining chip in dealing “Russian Elite Image of Iran: with the United States and as a From the Late Soviet Era to useful trade partner, but not a the Present”. permanent ally. Supporters of this view usually see Russia either as a self-contained country or as closed to the West, mostly Europe. Shlapentokh is an associate professor of history at Indiana University in the U.S. He is the author of many articles and books related to the former USSR, including “Russia Between East and West”, “Soviet Ideologies in the Period of Glasnost”, “The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life” and “The Role of Small States in the Post-Cold War Era: The Case of Belarus”. A scene from Iranian director Yasser Talebi’s documentary, “Beloved”. A poster for Kazem Darabi’s memoirs “Teahouse Painting”. ARTTEHRAN — Iranian the best photography award and the High CULTURE TEHRAN — An Darabi was sentenced to life deskdirector Yasser Talebi’s School Students Award in the Journey deskexhibit will open at imprisonment in 1997 for having a hand in acclaimed documentary “Beloved” will be Section the publisher Sureh-Mehr in Tehran on gunning down four members of the Kurdish Action on Film Megafest competing in the 13th Asia Pacific Screen It was also honored at the 67th Trento August 5 to showcase documents the author opposition in the Mykonos Restaurant in Awards (APSA), Iran’s Documentary Film Festival in May in Italy. The film of “Teahouse Painting” used to write the the German capital in 1992. picks “Box Man” and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) received the jury special mention and a memoirs of Kazem Darabi, the Iranian Under German law, life sentences are announced in a press release on Monday. UNESCO honorable mention. suspect in the 1992 Mykonos Restaurant reviewed by authorities after 15 years to decide ARTTEHRAN — Iranian director Manuchehr deskTeimurzadeh’s short film “Box Man” is competing The film is about an 82-year-old In addition, “Beloved” has taken first assassinations case in Berlin. whether the guilty party can be released. On in the 15th Action on Film Megafest, an international film festival woman who prefers a hard, solitary place among the top five mid-length films The key documents writer Mohsen December 10, 2007, Darabi was released and writers competition, which is currently underway in Las Vegas herder’s existence with her cows to a more selected by audience votes at the Hot Docs Kazemi accumulated over 11 years and prematurely after 15 years of imprisonment in the U.S. State of Nevada. comfortable life among people. festival in Canada, Toronto in May. a collection of the papers that were and subsequently deported to Iran. The film tells the story of a middle-aged reporter, who is The documentary has received many The 13th edition the Asia Pacific presented by Darabi will be put on view In February, Darabi attended a meeting making a film about a teenager who lives in a wooden box and awards at several international festivals. Screen Awards ceremony will take place at the four-day exhibit, the publisher held at the Art Bureau in Tehran to unveil doesn’t come out. The most recent honors were bestowed in Brisbane, Australia on November 21. announced on Monday. his memoirs “Teahouse Painting”. The reporter is astonished when he becomes familiar with the on July 13 during the Sole Luna Doc Film The nominees in various sections will Several sessions on the book will also Sureh-Mehr also plans to publish the fantasy world in the box and teenager’s life. Festival in Palermo, Italy. The film received be announced during October. be organized during the event. book in German, Arabic and English. The festival will be running until August 3. Isfahan festival to screen top animations from Annecy ARTTEHRAN — A selection of movies professionals. Russi Taylor, longtime voice deskhonored at different editions of the Annecy Iranian director Abbas Jalali-Yekta’s “Son of the Sea” International Animated Film Festival in France will go on won the City of Annecy Award at the 2019 Annecy in June. of Minnie Mouse, dies at 75 screen during the 32nd International Film Festival for Children The Isfahan festival also plans to hold a review of Danish and Youth in Isfahan, the organizers have announced. children’s films this year. A selection of 8 features and GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — Russi Taylor, an actress who gave “Ten movies have been chosen to be screened in a special animations by Danish filmmakers will be screened during voice to Minnie Mouse for more than three decades, has died. program during the festival,” Tandis Tabatabai, an official this review program. Walt Disney Co. chairman Bob Iger announced Taylor’s death in charge of the international section of the festival, said in In addition, films and animated movies from Georgia in a statement Saturday. Taylor died Friday in Glendale, California, a press release on Monday. and Tatarstan will be reviewed during special programs at Disney said. She was 75. The cause was not immediately clear. Iranian animators are frequent visitors to the Annecy the festival, which will be running in the central Iranian Taylor was married to the man who voiced Mickey Mouse A scene from “Son of the Sea” Abbas Jalali-Yekta. festival, a major international event for around 10,000 film city of Isfahan from August 19 to 26. opposite her, Wayne Allwine, from 1991 until his death in 2009. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Taylor became the official voice of Minnie in 1986, beating out more than 200 competitors who auditioned. She voiced Minnie across Disney projects in film, Actresses of color make equal-pay quest a group effort television and theme parks, including the movie “Who Framed LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Aretha using hard-won success to boost others are eight ball,” said Gabrielle Union (“Think Like an episode, ask to be the executive producer,” Roger Rabbit?” and the TV show “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.” Franklin and Annie Lennox recorded “Sisters among the measures slowly gaining traction a Man,” ?Being Mary Jane”). de la Reguera said. The #MeToo movement “Minnie Mouse lost her voice with the passing of Russi Taylor,” Are Doin’ it For Themselves” in 1985, the in an industry where most actors are hunting Changing entrenched behavior takes time, consumed their attention, but she continues Iger said. “For more than 30 years, Minnie and Russi worked Queen of Soul tried out a pointed ad lib for for their next job and women of color face Union said, but “little by little we’re communicating, advising women one-on-one as they learn to together to entertain millions around the world — a partnership the empowerment anthem. entrenched barriers. and women of color, specifically black women, are navigate Hollywood’s intricate system, which she that made Minnie a global icon and Russi a Disney Legend.” ?‘Equal pay, that’s what we say!’” she “One of the first things we say is, ‘Find out like, ‘Oh, hell nah.’ We are so woefully underpaid, said is more challenging than the still-growing Bill Farmer, who voiced Goofy alongside Taylor, said in a exclaimed in one take, as recounted by Lennox what the people around you are making,’” said under-appreciated, disrespected.” industry in her native Mexico. statement that she was “as wonderful, funny, and sweet as Minnie at a gathering of female filmmakers last fall. entertainment lawyer Nina Shaw, a founding Ana de la Reguera (“Power,” upcoming What performers earn is difficult to Mouse, and as talented yet humble as you would expect.” “And I said, ‘She gets the message. She knows member of Times Up, the organization movie “Army of the Dead”) saw the value of verify, say researchers who track film and She also provided voices for many other minor Disney characters what this is about.’” created in 2018 to fight sexual misconduct networking as part of “Latinas Who Lunch,” TV employment. Privacy concerns are one and for several smaller characters on “The Simpsons,” including Actresses, especially women of color, are and workplace inequality. “And more and an informal group started by Eva Longoria. obvious reason, as are the complex deals that Bart’s nerdy classmate Martin Prince. getting the message as well: In seeking the more, we’re finding that people are willing Actresses, as well as writers and directors, include compensation for acting and other “It was a privilege to have known her and an honor to roles and money that their talent warrants, to talk to each other.” gathered to share their experiences and job work (as with HBO’s “Big Little Lies,” which have worked with her,” Iger said, “and we take comfort in they’re putting sisterhood to work. Without knowledge of what other actors and career building tips. Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman starred the knowledge that her work will continue to entertain and Giving colleagues a peek at their paychecks, with a similar track record are getting for “We were actually encouraging each other to, in and produced). The actors guild, SAG- inspire for generations to come.” speaking out about economic disparity and equivalent work, “you are way behind the say, shadow (observe) a director, ask to direct AFTRA, does not publish specific salaries.