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WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.12909 Thursday AUGUST 24, 2017 Shahrivar 2, 1396 Dhul Hijjah 2, 1438 Saudi Arabia has been Iranian companies ready to Healthcare city aims Iranian theaters get harmed by its policies: contribute in Iraq’s energy to boost Iran’s medical box office boost Zarif 2 projects: Zanganeh 4 tourism prospects 10 16 ‘New Trump strategy for Nuclear snap-back Afghanistan to prove abortive’ By Javad Mohammadi by Afghanistan as well as that allow- Leader of the Islamic Movement of Af- ing dominance of non-Muslims over ghanistan Party Mohammad Mukhtar Muslims is against the law of Islam,” he Mufleh said increasing America’s mil- clarified. itary presence in Afghanistan, under He said similar to Russian’s fruitless can offset U.S. violation Trump’s new strategy, will yield no presence in Afghanistan, giving any POLITICS TEHRAN — fruitful result. opportunity to American forces would deskThe Iranian In an exclusive interview with the mark another wrong measure. government can show a stronger Tehran Times, Mohammad Mukhtar Mufleh recalled that presence of reaction to violation of nuclear deal Mufleh, Leader of the Islamic Move- US forces, although effective in some if violated by the other parties, a ment of Afghanistan Party and advisor other parts of the world, can exert no senior official with the Expediency to the Afghan Chief Executive, touched positive effect in Afghanistan given Council said late on Tuesday. upon the new strategy announced by that the two sides lack religious com- “Iran can activate its yellow cake Trump government towards Afghani- monalities. production plant based on the article stan and presented the stance taken He underlined that military pres- 36 of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of by the Afghan government on the US ence of Americans had no compliance Action reached between the Islamic measure. with the goals and interests pursued Republic and Group 5+1 (the U.S., “Increasing the number of foreign by the Afghan nation since US forces Russia, China, France and the UK plus militants cannot resolve issues faced mainly sough domination. 13 Germany),” Secretary of the Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaee said. Rezaee made the remarks as he was elaborating the Expediency Iran-Europe trade up 94% Council’s view towards a Majlis bill on countering the U.S. adventurist measures in the region. on year in H1 His remarks came after Ali Akbar ECONOMY TEHRAN — Trade the implementation of Iran’s nuclear Salehi, the director of the Atomic Energy deskexchange between deal with G5+1, has played an Organization of Iran, said that Iran can Iran and Europe increased 94 percent important role in pushing the figure resume uranium enrichment to the in the first half of 2017 from the same up, the report added. purity of 20 percent in five days in the time in 2016, based on the latest Europeans imported €5 billion of Fordow plant if necessary. figures released by the European goods from Iran in the first half of 2017, Iran and the G5+1 reached a deal in Union’s statistics agency Eurostat. showing 224 percent growth from €1.54 Vienna in 2015 which stresses curbing Iran-Europe trade stood at €9.9 billion in the same period in 2016. Iran peaceful nuclear activities in billion in the first six months of this Their exports to the Islamic exchange for removal of sanctions. year, while the figure was €5.1 billion country in the first six months of Washington has been a major in the time span from January to June 2017, registering 37 percent rise, hit cause of problems in the way of the 2016, the same report confirmed. €4.9 billion, while the figure stood at implementation of the deal over The upward trend of Europe’s €3.56 billion in the same time in the past two years. 2 imports of Iranian crude oil, following preceding year. EDITORIAL Fresh Saudi airstrikes kill dozens in Yemen’s Sana’a ARTICLE By Mohammad Ghaderi Dozens of people have lost their lives in fresh timated 70 people were in the inn prior to the The friendly fire incident took place on By Setareh Behroozi Tehran Times editor-in-chief air raids conducted by the House of Saud re- aerial assaults. Tuesday as the Saudi regime jets mistook a Tehran Times Journalist gime warplanes against residential areas in Meanwhile, the Saudi regime air raids, group of troops loyal to the former president Yemen’s western Sana’a Province. which targeted security centers in the south Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi for members of Arabic-language al-Masirah television of Sana’a City, killed two Yemenis and injured the country’s Ansarullah (Houthi) movement Tehran councilors Negative balance; network reported on Wednesday that the over 10 others, according to the report. in the central province of Ma’rib. Afghanistan’s bodies of at least 30 people were recovered Separately on Wednesday, Yemeni army sol- The House of Saud regime has been leading a set sights on from the rubble of an inn in Sana’a province’s diers and allied popular forces launched rocket brutal military campaign against Yemen for more rescue Arhab district, which was hit by Saudi air raids. and artillery attacks on positions held by Saudi re- than two years to reinstall Riyadh-friendly Hadi, cleaner sky Hussein al-Tawil, head of the Sana’a branch of gime mercenaries in several areas across Yemen. and to eliminate the Ansdarullah movement. As evidence displays, the capital’s air pol- Afghanistan has been suffering from a Yemen’s Red Crescent, confirmed the death toll as The attacks killed three Saudi regime mer- The Saudi regime aggression, however, has lution and traffic congestion are amongst positive balance policy for many reasons. rescuers continued to pull bodies from the rubble. cenaries in Yemen’s southern Ta’izz and Bay- failed to achieve its goals despite spending billions the main concerns of the newly-elected A positive balance in the concepts of Hakim Al Masmari, a journalist with the da provinces. of dollars on the war and enlisting the cooperation Tehran City Council. international relations and foreign policy is Yemen Post, told Al Jazeera from Sana’a that Saudi warplanes kill 3 Hadi loyalists of its vassal states as well as some Western countries. During the first session of the fifth a policy that less powerful states, a policy air raids hit several areas of the city. in friendly fire incident The protracted war, which has been accom- Tehran City Council on Wednesday, the that less powerful states give ways and “It is probably the biggest massacre Yem- Elsewhere, Saudi regime warplanes have panied by a naval and aerial blockade on Yemen, chairman Mohsen Hashemi highlighted credit to more powerful countries in re- en has witnessed by the Saudi-led coalition,” mistakenly killed three troops loyal to Yemen’s has so far killed over 12,000 people and led to the need for following-up on different turn for a privilege, while reassuring equal Al Masmari told Al Jazeera by phone. Saudi regime-backed former president and a humanitarian crisis in the impoverished state. urban management plans with the aim distribution of credits between the power- The death toll is expected to rise as an es- injured eight more. (Source: agencies) ful countries to keep them both pleased. of reducing traffic congestion and de- The policy had precedent in the history creasing air pollution in the capital as of Iran before the Islamic Revolution, when Erdogan conveys Turkey’s unease over U.S. support for Kurdish militants one of the main programs of the council. the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasty continued Hashemi proposed the expansion of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednes- pendence referendum in September. annulment of this referendum decision.” public transportation as the solution for to give credits to the then two powerful day told U.S. Secretary of Defense James Both Turkey and the United States have Masoud Barzani, the Kurdish region’s pres- states, Russia and England, simultaneously. environmental problems Tehrani citizens Mattis that Turkey felt unease over U.S. sup- voiced concerns over the referendum, with the ident, announced the vote on whether to se- are grappling with. History, of course, tells us that the adop- port for Kurdish militant group YPG, presi- former’s Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, cede from Iraq would be held on September 25. tion of such a policy has not only had any He also pointed to reducing gener- dential sources said. saying earlier on Wednesday he would ask Iraqi Cavusoglu says Turkey has been saying al expenses and government involve- effect on controlling the insatiable appetite In a statement following meetings between Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani to cancel it. all along that “the referendum decision is of colonial powers, but also failed to secure ment in urban management and im- Mattis and Turkish officials, the sources said the Cavusoglu told reporters in Baghdad that wrong” and that he would tell the Iraq Kurd- proving cultural and social services as and safeguard the national interests. two sides emphasized the importance of main- Turkey’s expectation from Irbil, the capital of ish leaders so “once more” when he visits Irbil This has happened to our Afghan the aims of the new council. taining the territorial integrity of Syria and Iraq, the autonomous northern Iraqi Kurdish re- later on Wednesday. He is of the opinion that air pollution, brothers for many years, while the adop- as Kurdish northern Iraq gears up for an inde- gion, is “very plain and clear - and that is the (Source: Reuters) tion of such policy over the years has not massive traffic jam, noise pollution, urban had the slightest impact on the improve- environment damages, the sprawling city, ment of the situation in the country.

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