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Ambassador’S “The Monafiqeen Are U.S WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13449 Tuesday JULY 30, 2019 Mordad 8, 1398 Dhi Al Qada 27, 1440 Iran, Russia to hold Monafiqeen are Iran basketball win Exhibit to feature docs joint naval drills in U.S. soldiers Portugal four-team forming memoirs of suspect Persian Gulf 2 without uniform 3 tournament 15 in Mykonos murders case 16 Iran, Iraq ink MOU to develop Islamic financial instruments We expect friendly states TEHRAN — Iran’s Securities and Ex- Chairman of Iraq Securities Commission. change Organization (SEO) on Monday Establishing a commodity exchange signed a memorandum of understanding branch in Iraq in order to provide a plat- (MOU) with Iraq Securities Commission form for export and import of goods and for cooperation in developing Islamic fi- consultations on legal and technical issues nancial instruments and establishing joint related to the capital market were among to buy more oil from Iran investment funds. issues covered in the MOU. As reported by the Securities and Ex- In the event, the two sides also agreed on See page 2 change News Agency (SENA), the MOU educational cooperation, including holding was signed in a ceremony attended by senior exhibitions and launching Arabic IRVEX, officials from both sides including SEO Head publishing capital market books in Arabic, Shapour Mohammadi and Alaa A. Al Saedi, as well as holding MBA courses in Iraq. Tehran welcomes rapprochement with Riyadh TEHRAN — Foreign Ministry spokesman signal and our reaction to any positive Abbas Mousavi on Monday described as signal would be positive,” Mousavi said a “positive signal” a call by Riyadh for during a press conference in Tehran. talks with Tehran, calling on all Muslim “The Islamic Republic welcomes any countries to set aside their differences to initiative that aims to bring Muslim coun- move forward. tries together because we have common “We regard this move as a positive enemies,” he said. 3 Ammar al-Hakim says economic war on Iran is ‘comprehensive’ TEHRAN — Ammar al-Hakim, leader of mediary role in reducing tension between the Iraqi National Wisdom Movement, has Iran and the United States. said that economic war has been launched He added that his will not forget Iran’s against Iran and a number of other coun- supports in difficult times. tries, yet the one imposed on Iran is more U.S. President Donald Trump has “difficult” and “comprehensive”. imposed several rounds of sanctions on “No side wants war, because its conse- Iran after he withdrew the U.S. from the quences will not be limited to the Middle 2015 Iran nuclear deal last year. Amir Kholoosi East region and will spread to the whole Trump has even introduced full ban on world,” ISNA quoted him as saying on Iran’s oil export, a move which has been Monday in an interview with NAS news. described as an economic war against ISNA/ He noted that Iraq can play an inter- Tehran. REPORT Situation in Syria is better than it was last year: Al Muallem REPORT Ramin Hossein Abadian Syrian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign The authorities will also continue the political lives of a number of civilians and injured others. Faranak Bakhtiari Mehr News Agency Affairs and Expatriates Walid Al Muallem laid out process and the program to restore the regions Local sources told SANA’s reporter that coa- Tehran Times journalist journalist the steps that contribute to the strengthening of which infrastructure suffered the worst,” Walid lition warplanes targeted with airstrikes al-Rez friendship between Belarus and Syria, unlocking Al Muallem said. village in al-Basira area, and that a number of the potential of cooperation between the two According to him, terrorism is the international civilians were martyred and other were injured, The policy countries in an interview with the Belarus 1 TV epidemic; it can spread. So the current fight in most of them women and children. Can Iran get a channel, BelTA has learned. Syria is to protect the whole world. “But the efforts The sources said the airstrikes also caused of Bahrain The minister said that today the situation of one state are not enough. To defeat this evil, damage to houses in the village and a state of second chance at in the country is better than it was last year we need international commitments and their panic among locals due to the intensity of the dictatorship: or several years ago. The country’s authorities fulfillment. A stop must be put to the financing explosions. extraordinary long- hold more than 80% of the territory under of terrorists and their armament, the spread of Syria, Russia discuss enhancing survival by control. There are still some terrorist activi- terrorist ideology,” Walid Al Muallem noted. economic cooperation, trade exchange extinct Caspian tiger? ties in the north-west and north-east part of Civilians martyred, others in- Meanwhile, Internal Trade and Consumer committing crimes he outstanding Caspian tigers once the country. “We are determined to liberate jured in airstrikes by U.S.-led Coali- Protection Minister Dr. Atef Naddaf on Monday roamed over most of northern prov- the state from them. We also insist and will discussed with a delegation from United Russia l Khalifa regime of Bahrain has start- tion on Deir Ezzor countryside inces of Iran, have gone extinct half do our best to make all the foreign forces that The illegal U.S.-led international coalition Party means to invigorate and develop relations T ed a new series of oppressive actions a century ago, but recent studies show are illegally present in Syria leave the country. of economic cooperation and trade exchange be- against revolutionary movements carried out airstrikes on al-Rez village in the east- that tigers can make a comeback using the A The fight against terrorism will be continued. ern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which claimed the tween Syria and Russia. 13 in the country. Recently, two young Bah- Siberian tiger subspecies, which detected rainis were executed, even though their genetic similarities with the Caspian tiger. innocence was already proved. But here the question arises that can Iran After this brutal execution, Zia al-Bah- IRGC releases video of capturing UK ship get a second chance to return the big cats rani, a top leader of Bahrain’s opposition TEHRAN — The Islamic Revolution Guards can be heard saying, according to the video which warship... your tanker British Heritage under my and not lose them again? February 14 Revolution Youth Coalition Crops (IRGC) on Monday released audio and video was included in a report by Tasnim news agency. control. You are ordered do not to interference Once the tigers were predicted to soon announced that Bahrain’s current gov- footages warning a British Royal Navy warship An officer on board the warship responds: in my operation.” become extinct in the world if effective ernment has lost its legitimacy and the to stay out of way as IRGC boats move to seize a “This is British warship Foxtrot 236: I am in Tension emerged between Tehran and Lon- conservation measures are not deployed, country’s dictator leaders are now running UK-flagged oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. vicinity of an internationally recognized strait don after British troops seized an Iranian oil July 29 was observed as a day dedicated terrorist operations against their own peo- Iranian forces seized the British tanker near with a merchant vessel in my vicinity conducting supertanker in international waters off Gibraltar. to awareness and support worldwide to ple while the Zionist United States and the the Strait of Hormuz on July 19, after it tried to transit passage.” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas conserve the tigers whose population Britain are completely silent against all flee the scene of a major collision with an Iranian The Iranian officer replies: “British warship Mousavi told reporters on Monday that London’s dropped dramatically to less than 4,000 this brutality, implying that they approve fishing boat. Foxtrot 236, this is Sepah navy patrol boat: don’t move in impounding the Grace 1 tanker amounted individuals in the wild. of the dictatorship’s crimes. In the audio clip, British warship HMS Mon- put your life in danger.” to a breach of the nuclear deal that Iran signed Caspian tiger’s roar has not Following the horrifying executions, trose (F-236) is heard declaring its position “in The IRGC also released recordings of another with the UK and five countries in 2015. been heard for years Vice-Speaker of the Supreme Lebanese Shia the vicinity of international waters” as it escorts incident on July 10. He said the issue came up during a meeting Once upon a time, the Caspian tiger Parliament, Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan the oil tanker Stena Impero. “This is British warship Foxtrot 236, go ahead,” of the representatives of the remaining parties (Panthera tigris virgata) ranged from east- also released a statement and condemned “British warship Foxtrot 236, this is Sepah a British naval officer can be heard saying. to the nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint ern Turkey through the southern Caspian Al Khalifa regime for unjustly executing [IRGC] navy patrol boat: you are required not to His Iranian counterpart responds by saying: Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in Vi- region of northern Iran to the forested areas the two Bahraini political activists. interfere in this issue,” an Iranian naval officer “British warship Foxtrot 236, this is Sepah navy enna on Sunday. in Afghanistan, and northwestern China.
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