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Iran Daily condoles with its readers on the Europe becomes Iran’s martyrdom anniversary of Imam Muhammad Taqi (PBUH), the ninth Shia Imam petchem customer 4 Number 5711 ● Tuesday August 22, 2017 ● Mordad 31, 1396 ● Dhu al-Qadah 29, 1438 ● Price 5,000 Rials ● 12 Pages ● www.irandailyonline.ir Foreign funds for Iran’s oil sector Drawing foreign investment for Iran’s oil sector will continue to be a top priority during President Hassan Rouhani’s second term in office, said Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh on Sunday. top priority: Zanganeh “Attracting foreign investment and technology is China urges halt to 3 a priority for us in the oil industry, whether in shared US-South Korea military drills fields or for increasing the production of oil at fields that are already operational,” he said in a live television interview on state TV, Reuters reported. Zanganeh, who won parliamentary approval on Sunday to remain oil minister, has been credited for increasing Iran’s crude output since many global sanc- tions were lifted last year following an international deal on Iran’s nuclear program. He has also won praise for a multibillion-dollar deal with France’s Total to develop South Pars, the world’s largest gas field. Total will be the operator with a 50.1 percent stake, alongside Chinese state-owned oil and gas company Persepolis looks to change 11 CNPC with 30 percent and National Iranian Oil Co. subsidiary Petropars with 19.9 percent. fortunes on Asian level The project will cost up to $5 billion and production is expected to start within 40 months, Iran’s Oil Minis- try said in a statement last month. ZZarif:arif: IIranran wwillill wworkork Continued on Page 4 ttoo ssustainustain nnuclearuclear ddealeal Barcelona terror attack driver ‘arrested’ Stars pay tribute to ‘King 12 The main suspect in the Barcelona terror attack has of Comedy’ Jerry Lewis been arrested, Spanish media said on Monday. Younes Abouyaaqoub is believed to be the driver who plowed a rented white van down the popular tourist promenade of Las Ramblas in central Barce- IRIB NEWS lona on Thursday. oreign Minister Mohammad Javad When it started being implemented ners to urge against American non-perfor- A total of 13 people were killed while more than Russian airstrikes Zarif said his top priority is to en- some six months after conclusion, the mance but has said it is prepared for any 120 were injured. Fsure that a 2015 nuclear deal be- deal terminated all nuclear-related sanc- scenario. Another man was found dead in his car, stabbed to tween Iran and six other countries will tions against Iran in return for certain death, after the terrorist is believed to have hi-jacked kill over 200 Daesh stand. measures by the Islamic Republic to limit Relations, economic diplomacy the car after the van’s airbag set-off, disabling the Speaking in a televised interview on its nuclear program. vehicle’s electrics. terrorists in Syria Sunday night, Foreign Minister Zarif said But the new US administration has Elsewhere in his Sunday interview, Za- A woman in the coastal town of Cambrils, south the ministry, under his watch, would work been unhappy with the deal, which was rif said the enhancement of relations with of Barcelona, was also killed by five men police be- The Russian Air Force killed a large number of first and foremost to keep the Joint Com- negotiated under the administration of Iran’s neighbors and activating economic lieve were part of the same group as the Barcelona Daesh terrorists and destroyed their vehicles and prehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in former president Barack Obama. The new diplomacy were two other major priori- attack. large caliber weapons as they were heading to the place, Press TV reported. White House occupant has attempted to ties. Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, the Russian Defense Min- “Priority number one of the diplomatic undo every one of Obama’s major policy “We are in a region, where, unfortu- istry said. apparatus will be to sustain the JCPOA achievements. And that includes the Iran nately, there are upheavals and turbu- and to prevent America’s deal-breach- deal. lence stemming from the wrong policies ing,” he said. “We must not allow Amer- Trump has adopted a hostile posture of [certain] regional countries, danger- ica to execute or violate the deal at Iran’s toward the JCPOA even as his adminis- ous foreign interventions, and a surge in cost.” tration has certified Iranian compliance extremism,” he said. “Our region needs He said the JCPOA had been built on twice so far, allowing for the continued calm.” distrust and envisaged the necessary waiving of certain sanctions against Iran. He also said Iranian diplomacy had to rules to deal with non-performance by After the second certification, Trump as- facilitate the country’s development. parties. signed a team of his White House con- “In the past,” he said, “foreign pol- On Sunday, Zarif received a favorable fidants to search for, and offer to him, icy was not only incapable of helping vote of confidence in Parliament to work “options” to potentially decertify Iranian our development but also incurred REUTERS as foreign minister in President Hassan compliance. He had wanted the State De- costs, because of pressure by foreign The ministry further noted that more than 200 ter- Rouhani’s second term. During a final partment to search for such options pre- powers.” rorists have been killed in the strikes, RT reported. debate in Parliament, President Rouhani, viously, but the department had come up Things had changed under President The strikes on the terrorist column destroyed who was in attendance to defend his cabi- empty-handed. Rouhani, he said. around 20 SUVs armed with large-caliber weapons net picks, stressed the preservation of the Also during a recent summit of the G20 The Iranian foreign minister suggested and mortars. Russian jets have also taken out a num- JCPOA. in Germany, Trump attempted to urge Eu- that the JPCOA had removed barriers in At the same time as Abouyaaqoub’s arrest, anoth- ber of armored vehicles, including tanks, the minis- The JCPOA, a major foreign policy ropean countries not to do business with the way of trade with Iran by removing er man wearing an explosive belt was shot down in try added. The ministry noted that Daesh terrorists, achievement of President Rouhani’s first Iran. That activity by the US president United Nations Security Council resolu- Subirats, west of Barcelona. having suffered heavy losses in Raqqa and Homs term, was finalized between the Islamic constituted a violation of the text of the tions that had been imposed under Chap- There was some confusion over whether the two provinces, are now trying to make their last stand Republic on the one side and the United JCPOA, according to Iran. ter VII of the UN Charter. incidents are the same thing. in Deir Ezzor. The defeat of Daesh in the province States, the UK, France, Russia, China, All of that Trump administration rheto- Zarif said that would also help a revi- Police would only confirm an operation was ongo- will probably mark the defeat of the entire terrorist and Germany on the other in July 2015. ric and action has strengthened specula- talized Iranian role in international or- ing in Subirats. organization. Zarif was Iran’s chief negotiator in the tion and concern that the US may want to ganizations on the issue of human rights. A person is believed to have called the police after “The defeat of Daesh in the Deir Ezzor region multilateral talks that culminated in the unilaterally pull out of the deal. Iran has He said Iran had to play that role more seeing Abouyaaqoub in a petrol station in Subirats, will be a strategic defeat for the international terror- deal. been in contact with its European part- strongly now. Spanish media said. ist group in the Syrian Arab Republic,” the Defense The other suspects have been killed by police or Ministry underlined, echoing the words of Russia’s detained following last week’s attacks in Barcelona Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. and the seaside resort of Cambrils. Daesh claimed Just over a week ago, Shoigu said the fall of US suspends issuing nonimmigrant responsibility for the assaults, believed to be its first Daesh in Deir Ezzor might signal the end of the ter- in Spain. ror group’s self-proclaimed kingdom. visas for Russians The suspected terrorists had been preparing bombs “Today there are key points, including Deir Ez- for “one or more attacks in Barcelona,” regional po- zor. I would say, first of all, Deir Ezzor. There have The US Embassy in Russia said Monday it US to cut its embassy and consulate staff in employees. lice chief Josep Lluis Trapero told reporters, reveal- been military actions for more than one year. Peo- would suspend issuing nonimmigrant visas Russia by 755, or by two-thirds, heightening The US Embassy said on Monday that ing that traces of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) – a ple bravely fight there. Regularly, two or three, or for eight days from Wednesday in response tensions between Washington and Moscow Russia’s decision to cut its staff “calls into homemade explosive that is a Daesh hallmark – had it happens, four times a week, food, medicine, am- to the Russian decision to cap embassy after the US Congress approved sanctions question Russia’s seriousness about pursu- also been found. munition are being delivered there,” Shoigu said. staff. against Russia for the alleged intervention in ing better relations.” It insisted however The suspects accidentally caused an explosion at “This is perhaps the main point at the Euphrates, The embassy made the decision after the the 2016 US election and for its activities in that it will able to maintain adequate staff- the house on the eve of Thursday’s attack in Barcelo- which will in many ways indicate the end of the Russian Foreign Ministry ordered a cap on Ukraine and Syria.

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