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.13461 Wednesday AUGUST 14, 2019 Mordad 23, 1398 Dhul Hijjah 12, 1440 Rouhani says U.S. not in a position to draw Iran’s enriched Amir Naderi’s classics Tehran-Baku ties redlines for Iran’s uranium stockpile “Waiting”, “Harmonica” to are growing 2 defense capabilities 2 hits 370 kg 3 hit Iranian theaters again 16 Conflicting reports about the Intra-Yemeni talks release of Iranian oil tanker TEHRAN — It was announced on might free the tanker soon. Tuesday that Britain might soon release “Britain is interested in releasing the Iranian-operated oil tanker Grace Iran’s oil tanker Grace 1 … following the 1. However, a few hours later it was exchange of some documents, we hope the needed for united Yemen announced that Gibraltar, where the release will take place soon,” said Eslami, tanker was seized, has denied it is about the organization’s deputy chief. to free the captured tanker. But a source for the government of According to IRNA, Jalil Eslami, an the British Mediterranean territory told See page 2 official at Iran’s Ports and Maritime Reuters the report was not correct, the Organization, first said that Britain Guardian reported. 3 Iran’s daily gasoline output exceeds 100m liters TEHRAN — Gasoline production in Iran sian Gulf Star Refinery’s third phase as has exceeded 100 million liters per day, the main source of increase in the coun- according to the chairman of the Asso- tries gasoline production capacity, saying ciation of Iranian Refining Companies. that the refinery is currently producing 45 The country has achieved total self-re- million liters of gasoline on a daily basis. liance in gasoline production and the sur- In late July, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan plus production is exported to neighboring Namdar Zanganeh had said that the coun- countries, Nasser Ashouri told IRIB. try’s daily gasoline production is 15 million Ashouri Mentioned the launch of Per- liters more than the consumption. 5 Sheikh Zakzaky Arrives in India for medical treatment TEHRAN — Nigeria’s Muslim cleric intelligence agency, Department of State Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Zakzaky arrived in the Services (DSS), from their residence in the Indian capital, New Delhi, for medical city of Zaria to the airport in the capital treatment on Tuesday, a report said. Abuja, where they could fly to India. The 66-year-old cleric, along with his Sheikh Zakzaky, the leader of the wife Zinat, embarked on a journey to India Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), is on Monday, the Information Nigeria news also being accompanied by some officials outlet reported. It added that earlier in the of security services as well as medical day, the couple was heavily escorted by personnel, while travelling to India, the khamenei.ir armed security forces of Nigeria’s domestic report further said. 13 ARTICLE Iran-Kashmir cultural similarities PERSPECTIVE Hamid Bayati By Quayyum Raja It is unfortunate that the Muslim coun- between the British and the first Dogra ruler Mohammad Homaeifar Tehran Times journalist MASHHAD — On first of August 2019, tries have lost so much trust in each other of Jammu Kashmir, Mahraja Gulab Singh. Tehran Times journalist I had been invited by a PhD Persian stu- that the harsh visa restrictions have made As the spiritual leader of Iran, Ayatullah dent of Ferdowsi University named Zeinab the communication and cultural exchanges Khamenei highlighted in his speech in 1985 Salhi to attend the wedding of her brother between them very difficult. Therefore, they about Dr. Allama Iqbal’s contribution to Per- The failure of Raza in their home village Ghohestan in don’t have first hand information about each sian literature, Iqbal never visited Iran, but A blood money that Rostamoun. It was a 6 hour drive from other. Despite the fact that I had been very his poetry showed as if he was born, brought is beyond calculation Washington’s the Holy city of Mashhad. I had never at- interested in Iranian culture and history, up and educated in Iran. Dr. Iqbal is called in my visit to Iran has elucidate many things I the sub-continent as Allama Iqbal honoured economic plans for Iran tended an Iranian wedding before. So, I our years ago, in September 2015, was very excited. heard from secondary sources about Iran’s with a title by the people as the Poet of East. cultural values. He was a Kashmiri by background, but the sweetness of Eid al-Adha (Eid n May 2018 when Donald Trump I spent many years in the United Kingdom Qurban) was turned into bitterness after the Islamic Revolution of Iran, where All I knew that Farsi was our language of lived most of his years in Lahore. Therefore, F officially abandoned its nuclear instruction until the British occupied the sub- Iran calls him Iqbal Lahori and I have seen for Muslims all around the world, espe- agreement with Iran, he promised we used to hear that the Iranian Revolution cially in Iran. The news was shocking, I has negatively changed many things in Iran. continent though it was still taught in Kashmir among other things, a metro station in Mash- that they will pose a new round of very more than three thousand Muslims had People were oppressed and they lacked a free- as a second language until mid 1960s. There had after his name. The Father of Islamic severe sanctions on Iran. United States are many official documentations in Farsi, Revolution of Iran, Ayatullah Khomeini also died or got injured over the annual Hajj Department of the Treasury had made dom of choice in all aspects of life including pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. including the Amritsar Agreement of 1846 had a family connection in Kashmir. 6 a lot of supposedly “detailed” and com- marriage, female education and jobs. The news first came on September plicated calculations. 24th, leaving Muslims in an unbeliev- According to their estimations, when able agony and pain. According to the the first phase of sanctions were placed Russia’s top nuclear official says work on new weapons will continue reports from Saudi Arabia, “on the way on Iran’s gold and automotive industry TEHRAN— Russia’s chief nuclear official was linked to the testing of the new “Burevestnik” Our center also continues to work in this to the Stoning of the Devil ritual, there on August 2018, Iran was supposed to says the country will continue to pursue the cruise missile, which Russian President Vladimir direction,” Solovyev said, explaining that were two major overcrowdings in two experience its first economic shock. Then, development of new weapons, following the Putin had touted earlier this year. the institute’s work served both civilian and points that caused a stampede over which in November, with posing oil and bank- death of five top Russian nuclear scientists in Rosatom officials said the incident occurred military objectives. many pilgrims from different countries ing sanctions, Iran’s economy will be an explosion last week. during the testing of a rocket. The head of the nuclear center, Valentin were crushed.” completely paralyzed. Alexei Likhachev, director of Russia’s nuclear In a video interview published late Sunday, Kostyukov, also said that the test had been preceded At the time, the Director of Iranian Hajj The American officials had also con- agency Rosatom, said in a memorial service an official at the scientists’ research institute in by a year of careful work and that a state commission and Pilgrimage Organization announced sidered two months for the period of for the five scientists in Sarov on Monday that Sarov said they had been working on “sources was investigating what went wrong. that “there are still no reports about the tolerance (until the beginning of 2019). they were the “pride of the country” and the of thermal or electric energy, using radioactive “These people were the elite of the Russian exact number of the victims and their iden- According to these estimations, some “pride of the atomic sector.” materials, including fissile materials and Federal Nuclear Center and have tested under tities, so we don’t know if they include people like Trump’s National Security “The best tribute to them will be our continued radioisotope materials.” some of the most incredibly difficult conditions,” Iranian pilgrims or not.” However, it was Advisor John Bolton even announced work on new models of weapons, which will The official, Vyacheslav Solovyev, did not he said of the deceased scientists. soon revealed that there were many Irani- that Iran’s economy and even its govern- definitely be carried out to the end,” Likhachev said. provide specifics, however. While U.S. President Donald Trump has ans among the victims, and the numbers ment! Will collapse by the end of 2019. The explosion that killed the five scientists He said such work was normal. attempted to develop a personal relationship kept rising every day. Now, in the second half of 2019, not took place at an Arctic military facility on the “These developments are also actually with Putin, tensions between the two countries The severe shock that followed the only Americans’ estimations about Iran’s coast of the White Sea last Thursday. happening in many countries. The Americans have been exacerbated by the demise earlier this incident and the distress of people who economy have proven to be wrong, but the U.S. military specialists speculate that the incident last year... also tested a small-scale reactor..