WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13552 Thursday DECEMBER 12, 2019 Azar 21, 1398 Rabi’ Al thani 15, 1441 Iran will surmount Iran foils AFC officials reminisce Tehran FICTS sanctions major foreign about 2019 ACL final in festival announces 2 cyberattack 3 Tehran, official says 15 documentary lineup 16 Exclusive exhibition of Iranian See page 2 products opens in Tashkent UN unable to TEHRAN — An exclusive exhibi- Iran International Exhibitions Com- tion of Iranian products opened in pany, as well as Uzbekistan’s deputy Uzbekistan capital city Tashkent on minister of investment and foreign Wednesday and will wrap up on Fri- trade. day, Shata reported. Zadboum and Hosseinzadeh have The inaugural ceremony of the ex- travelled to Uzbekistan accompanying verify arms hibit was attended by Hamid Zadboum, an Iranian trade delegation and are also the head of Iran’s Trade Promotion planned to take part in the 13th meeting Organization (TPO), and Bahman Hos- of Iran-Uzbekistan Joint Economic Com- used in Aramco seinzadeh, the managing director of mittee on Thursday and Friday. 4 Iran: PGCC statement on islands attack were insult to national sovereignty TEHRAN — The Iranian Foreign Minis- for unwise policies, should respond to the try on Wednesday deplored the anti-Iran public opinion that what have they done statement by the Persian Gulf Cooperation so far except creating and reinvigorating Council (PGCC) as baseless and a rep- the Takfiri terrorist groups in Iraq, Syria from Iran etition of old allegations, saying claims and Yemen as well as paving the ground of ownership over the Iranian islands for alien countries to enter the Persian in the Persian Gulf is insult to national Gulf?” Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas sovereignty. Mousavi asked in reaction to the statement “A few regional countries, which issued by the PGCC in its 40th meeting have thus far been providing supports in Riyadh on Wednesday. 2 UN: The third party is involved in killing Iraqi demonstrators UN mission in Iraq said in a report that ers and security forces in order to create the third party is involved in the premed- chaos and strife, it added. itated killing and kidnapping of some Also, leader of Iraq’s Asaib Ahl al- demonstrators. Haq group, which is part of the country’s Previously the Iraqi Defense Ministry Popular Mobilization Forces or Hashd announced third party brought gas bombs al-Sha’abi, said Washington and Tel Aviv to kill protesters. are members of “a third party” that has A “third party” is responsible for the been behind many deaths during the recent Reuters horrific murder and targeting of protest- unrest. 13 EDITORIAL ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi U.S. halts military training for Saudi students after shooting Afshin Majlesi Tehran Times editor-in-chief U.S. bars former Saudi diplomat from entering country Tehran Times journalist @ghaderi62 Training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel intended to allow for a broader review of security Navy spokeswoman Lieutenant Andriana in the United States was stopped until further procedures that would eventually apply to all of some Genualdi said the safety stand-down and oper- Why the official notice after a Saudi airman shot and killed three 5,000 international military students in the U.S. ational pause began on Monday for Saudi Arabian Tribal tourism people last week at a base in Florida. The safety stand-down only applied to the aviation students. She said the grounding included death toll in recent The Pentagon’s decision will have far-reaching some 850 visiting students from Saudi Arabia. three different military facilities: Naval Air Station gives chance to effects on visiting Saudi personnel, including The FBI has said it believes Alshamrani acted Pensacola, Naval Air Station Whiting Field, and events has not been grounding more than 300 Saudi Arabian military alone before he was fatally shot by a deputy sheriff. Naval Air Station Mayport, all in Florida state. discover another aviation students as part of a “safety stand-down”. “I don’t have any evidence to suggest that there “Given the traumatic events, we feel it is best announced yet The Pentagon later on Tuesday said the move is a larger ring or larger conspiracy,” a military to keep the Royal Saudi Air Force students off the face of Iran would also affect infantry personnel and all other official said. flying schedule for a short time,” Genualdi said. he main question that has been Saudi military training, other than classroom Saudi-American alliance Alshamrani was on the base as part of a Navy or both domestic and foreign trav- raised in regard to the events of lessons. Such coursework, which includes Eng- The shootings have again raised questions training programme designed to foster links with elers, tribal tourism is all about Tthe past few weeks that followed lish-language classes, will continue. about the U.S. military relationship with Saudi foreign allies. He had started training in the U.S. in Fopening eyes to new places, tradi- the gasoline price reform is about the Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old lieu- Arabia, which has come under heightened scrutiny 2017 and had been in the Pensacola area for the past tions, cuisines, beliefs, and ways of life. number of the dead and why it has not tenant in the Saudi Royal Air Force, opened fire in Congress over the war in Yemen and Saudi 18 months. Also called ethno-tourism, ethnic been announced yet? in a classroom at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Arabia’s killing of Washington Post columnist A group that tracks online extremism has said tourism or tribe tourism, it lays the Opposition media, focusing on the Florida on Friday, killing three American sailors Jamal Khashoggi last year. Alshamrani appeared to have posted criticism of ground for you to feel indigenous people death toll, pursue a completely biased and wounding eight other people before being U.S. military leaders have sought to portray U.S. wars in predominantly Muslim countries and by living with a nomad or rural family or agenda to create mistrust in people and shot dead by police. the attack as an isolated incident that would not quoted slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on enjoying an independent stay. However, incite international organizations to issue A senior Pentagon official said the move was affect the overall U.S.-Saudi relationship. Twitter hours before the shooting spree. 13 as the name implies, it’s a trip for recre- human rights resolutions against Iran. ational purposes rather than being an Intentionally announcing false fig- expedition for anthropological research! ures, such as 350, 500, or even thousands There are many tourists from all over Terrorists, White Helmets transport chemicals to the Idlib by Trump are just a few examples of the world who tend to observe the lifestyle rumors and propaganda campaign by In coordination with the so-called “White Helmets” cess was supervised by experts from Al-Nusra was carried out in conjunction with a local leader of these hardworking people and spend the opposition media. terrorist group and the supervision of Turkish terrorists who have French, Belgian and Turkish of the terrorist “Al-Nusra Front”. a few days watching activities such as Now the question is whether there are and European experts, the terrorists of Al-Nusra nationalities. Many documents, which were found by the milking, yogurt making, buttering, oil- no official statistics about the number Front organization transported a shipment of The sources added that the cylinders arrived Syrian Arab Army in the areas liberated from ing, woolen, carpeting and much more. of those killed, or if there is, why it takes chemicals packed in cylinders containing toxic last Wednesday at dawn to the city of Saraqib terrorism where the White Helmets operate, Many Iranian and foreign tourists are so long to be announced. chlorine gas towards the cities of Saraqib and and were stored in one of the headquarters of confirmed the organization’s engagement with interested in sleeping in the nomadic Our investigations show that the Maarat al-Numan, south of Idlib. the Takfiri organization south of the city of Idlib, terrorist organizations and its support for them black tents. exact number of the dead is available The mentioned cylinders reached the two while the other cylinders headed to the area of with preparing and promoting the use of chemical For some, it’s a great opportunity to the relevant organizations, but it has regions from outside Idlib governorate by two Maarat al-Numan. weapons against civilians, like what happened in to learning more about the world and taken some time to be announced, as it cars belonging to the “White Helmets” terrorist The sources quoted a member of the “White Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside several yourself. Some other may say, in our requires exact analysis of why and how group, the Russian Sputnik Agency quoted local Helmets” group as saying that the process of times and in areas in Aleppo where the Syrian globalized age, seeing indigenous cultures they were killed. sources as saying, adding that the transfer pro- transferring the “cylinders” to their new locations Arab Army was falsely accused. 13 with the naked eye yields more memo- In other words, the establishment not rable and authentic experience. And for only is not indifferent to this important others, tribal tourism may simply be a issue, but it is seriously seeking to clarify Mourners bid kind of nosy exercise to discover people the various aspects of the matter so that whose appearance and way of life look the rights of the dead and also their very different to their own.