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See page 2 Amir Hatami: Iran, China share common interests and threats POLITICS TEHRAN — In a meet- U.S. unilateral actions threaten interna- desking with his Chinese tional peace and security. counterpart Wei Fenghe in Beijing on Friday, Hatami said that insecurity in one re- Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami said gion can spread to other parts in the world. that Iran and China share common interests The brigadier general also called for and also face common threats. expansion of Iran-China cooperation. “The two countries have common For his part, Wei said that China is interests and threats and can expand ready to expand cooperation with Iran. cooperation in this framework,” Hata- Upon his arrival in Beijing on Thursday, mi remarked. Hatami told reporters that Iran-China The Iranian defense minister also said defense ties are “strategic”. 2

Two terror cells dismantled in western Iran POLITICS TEHRAN — In a ince of Kermanshah during two ambush deskstatement on Friday, operations,” the statement read, Mehr the Intelligence Ministry announced reported. that it had dismantled two terrorist Two days after the assassination of cells in Kermanshah province, west- Hassan Maleki, commander of the traffic ern Iran. police in Ravansar City in Kermanshah “Two armed terrorist cells which had province on August 14, the intelligence illegally crossed into Iran were dismantled forces arrested 12 members of a terrorist by intelligence forces in the western prov- group related to this case, it added.

Iraq: Protesters torch Rouhani: U.S. should leave government buildings in Basra By staff & agencies and set fire to the headquarters of the lo- Angry demonstrators in Iraq’s port cal government, the ruling Islamic Dawa city of Basra have set government Party (Islamic Call Party/?izb Al-Da?wa buildings on fire after returning to Al-Isl?miyya), the Supreme Islamic Council Syria in favor of peace the streets to continue deadly protests and the Badr Organization. over corruption and lack of better Some of the demonstrators also set Tehran summit stresses co-op until terrorists routed in Syria public services. on fire the offices of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq president.ir Hundreds of people flooded the streets (League of Righteous People/Khazali Net- Russian President Putin(L) and his Turkish counterpart Erdogan(R) attended a trilateral summit on Syria in Tehran on Friday. The meeting was hosted by President Rouhani (C). of Iraq’s second-biggest city on Thursday, work), 13

ARTICLE REPORT Hamid Bayati Russian, Turkish presidents meet Leader Ramin Hossein Abadian Tehran Times journalist Ayatollah Khamenei says Iran and Russia can ‘contain’ U.S. Mehr News Agency POLITICS TEHRAN — Russian Pres- Journalist deskident Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Did Trump deceive separately on Friday with Leader of the Islamic Tripartite summit Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran. Macron again? The meetings took place after the two presidents in Tehran; Idlib attended a trilateral summit on Syria in Tehran peaking at a meeting of EU Foreign with their Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. operation and the Ministers in Vienna, French Foreign In the meeting with Putin, the Leader said Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s re- end of terrorist S cooperation between Iran and Russia in Syria marks on the necessity of holding missile has truly manifested a “leading example” and a and regional negotiations with Iran sur- crisis in Syria “very good experience” of mutual cooperation. prised many of his addressees! Ayatollah Khamenei said Tehran and Moscow While the fate of the Joint Compre- ehran hosted a tripartite summit can extend their cooperation globally on other hensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is am- with the presidents of Turkey, Rus- issues as well. biguous as a result of the United States’ sia and Iran on September 7, 2018. “One of the areas that the two sides can coop- to protecting the 2015 nuclear deal, adding in Ayatollah Khamenei also called Iran and T withdrawal from the nuclear deal, and According to many observers, the summit erate with each other is containment of America, practice they obey the U.S. because they are de- Turkey two “decent” and “powerful” countries also the European officials’ delay in pre- result can determine the fate of Idlib in because America is a danger to humanity,” the pendent on Washington. in the region who seek “common wishes” for senting their package of proposals, the the northwest of Syria. Leader suggested, adding there is a “possibility the Islamic world. French Foreign Minister emphasizes on Islamic power bloc The fate of Idlib is still uncertain, awaiting of containing America”. In view of such shared interests it is neces- holding talks with Iran on regional and During his meeting with the Turkish presi- the tripartite summit with the presidents of Ayatollah Khamenei cited the course of de- sary to deepen political and economic ties, the missile issues! dent, Ayatollah Khamenei said today unity among Turkey, Russia and Iran in Tehran, where velopments in Syria as a “successful example” Leader remarked. Le Drian said: “Iran must respect the Muslim states is the most pressing issue. the leaders of the three countries make a of containing the United States. The Leader also praised Erdogan’s stance fundamentals of the JCPOA [nuclear deal] The Leader said unity and cooperation final decision on the future of the Idlib and The Leader went on to say that it is for 40 toward the sufferings of the Rohingya commu- and I think that is the case, but Iran cannot among Muslim states will “surely help resolve the opposing militant groups. years that the U.S. is attempting to “uproot” the nity in Myanmar. Ayatollah Khamenei also told avoid discussions, negotiations on three the problems facing the region” and it is due to Iranian, Russian and Turkish author- Islamic Republic, but during these years Iran has Erdogan that “the issue of Palestine is important other major subjects that worry us -- the this reason that the United States is “worried” ities met in Tehran on Friday to discuss grown powerful “more than 40 times” and this by and it must not be forgotten even for a moment.” future of Iran’s nuclear commitments after about the unity among Muslims and formation various issues among which was Syria’s itself shows a successful example of containing For his part, Erdogan said the situation in 2025, the ballistic question and the fact of an “Islamic power bloc”. Idlib as Damascus is getting ready for an Washington. the region is “critical” and expressed hope that there is a sort of ballistic proliferation on operation to end domination of armed For his part, President Putin criticized the U.S. problems facing the regional countries would be the part of Iran... and the role Iran plays U.S. worried about and terrorist groups. for creating problems in financial trade, saying solved through cooperation between Islamic states. to stabilize the whole region.We must talk Since 2017, widespread coordination by creating restrictions in financial exchanges formation of Islamic The Turkish president also criticized the be- about these three subjects, Iran must be between Moscow and Tehran, as the most the U.S. is committing a “strategic mistake” be- havior of the West toward “independent Muslims aware of this and that’s the message I send power bloc, Leader prominent Damascus allies, and Ankara has cause it would undermine trust in the U.S. dollar states”, saying this entails friendship and solidarity to them from Vienna.” says in meeting with emerged as advocates of the Syrian case, and weaken it. among Muslim nations especially between Iran Indeed, what does Le Drian’s words which has led to the Astana talks a year Putin also said Europeans just pay lip service Erdogan and Turkey. mean? Is it merely another role-playing and a half ago with important decisions by the French officials? Or should we look on crisis reduction in Syria. The Tehran for other factors behind these statements? summit was held when the Syrian army is Accordingly, there are some points that ready for operations, and while the West need to be taken into consideration: has started its own moves. Middle east/ Europe/ Americas Syrian affairs analysts and observers The fact is that France has long been believe these talks and their results can regarded as “an emissary of Trump”, Gilan hosts affect the start of the Um Almaarek (fate though Le Drian has insisted that it’s not of Idlib) and the zero hour of the Syrian true. This is while he has taken a firm line national military operation, and thus there is high on Iran’s missile program and regional likelihood of an operation post the summit. interventions that mirrors the rhetoric Damascus insists on dominating its from Washington. mat weaving entire territory, and the Russians are de- Besides, a review on Le Drian’s state- termined to get rid of Tahrir al-Sham’s ments shows that agreements were made festival and has urged Turkey to find a solution, between France and the United States to especially since the Tahrir al-Sham group form an opposition to Iran’s policies. Mean- Iranian craftswomen weave traditional has been a major obstacle to the ceasefire while, in 2017, Macron and Trump started a baskets during a national mat weaving and peace process in Syria. “joint and comprehensive” move, in a fully festival in Fashtakeh village, northern The Russians continue to send drone coordinated manner, to change the JCPOA. Gilan province, on September 6, 2018. from Idlib to their air base in Hamim. On this basis, Macron was committed Matting is the art of weaving or plaited Moscow does not find the current situation to provide the ground for holding missile strips of organic fibers into mats which and security conditions with its demands negotiations with Iran, and also for making are cool and suitable to the hot tropical in Tartus and Latakia. Meanwhile, Turkey, the so called sunset clauses included in the climate. concerned about the wave of displaced Morjtaba Mohammadi text of the deal permanent. These were the Raw material for crafting mattress- people from the battle of Idlib has strength- French men duties. Now, apparently, the es and basketry, which are dominantly ened its forces on the border with Syria.

JCPOA is about to be destroyed as a result IRNA/ lengthy dried leaves, are prevalent in Turkey has a widespread political and of the U.S. pulling out of the deal. 7 many regions across the country. military impact on Idlib. 7 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y POLITICS SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS ‘Unaware we Tehran summit stresses co-op are in war condition’: cleric until terrorists routed in Syria POLITICS TEHRAN — Iranian President Hassan POLITICS TEHRAN – A Tehran Friday prayer leader deskRouhani, Russian President Vladimir Pu- desksays U.S. President Donald Trump has tin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who had said that “we are seeking to conquer the Middle East”, but gathered in Tehran on Friday for a trilateral summit on Syria Trump and his companions will soon take this wish to the issued a joint statement reaffirming their respective countries’ grave, Mehr reported. determination to continue cooperation until full eradication Addressing worshippers, Ayatollah Mohammed Emami of terrorist groups in Syria. Kashani said the venal, wrong-headed U.S. president has Following is a summary of the statement issued at the end said “the day I entered the White House, I asked how long of the Tehran summit: it will take to conquer the Middle East.” The parties reaffirmed their determination to continue Emami Kashani further said the U.S. and Zionist regime cooperation in order to ultimately eliminate Daesh, al-Nusra are waging a war against Iran “but it seems we are not aware Front and all other individuals, groups, undertakings and we are in war conditions.” entities associated with al-Qaeda or Daesh, as they have been designated as terrorists by the UN Security Council. They also emphasized their strong and continued commit- Iran, allies agree ment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic as well as to the purposes to end terror in and principles of the UN Charter and highlighted that they Idlib: Zarif should be respected by all. They also stressed their conviction that there could be no military solution to the Syrian conflict and that it could only end through a negotiated political process. POLITICS TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister desk The trio also urged the need to support all efforts to help all Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday Syrians restore their normal and peaceful life and to alleviate that while President Donald Trump is busy humiliating U.S. their sufferings. In this regard, they called upon the inter- humanitarian agencies, to increase their assistance to Syria. safe and voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced allies with “little games”, Iran and other responsible actors national community, particularly the United Nations and its They also highlighted the need to create conditions for the persons to their original places of residence in Syria. have agreed to end terrorism in Syria’s Idlib. “As @realDonaldTrump destroys US credibility & humil- iates his ‘allies’ with “little games”, we’re delighted to engage with responsible powers today in Tehran to further move Leader: Enemy has waged media war to create anxiety, doubt in society towards political solution in #Syria. Agreed to work to end POLITICS TEHRAN – Leader of devaluation, saying with regard to such terrorism & avoid human suffering in #Idlib,” Zarif tweeted. deskthe Islamic Revolution problems, the media war and disinformation It came as the presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey met Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday called campaigns by ill-wishers were influential. at a key summit in Tehran to discuss key issues of interest, on the Iranian nation and officials to refrain “Of course, we don’t expect anything other mainly a planned Syrian operation to retake Idlib. from creating an atmosphere of despair than wickedness from the enemy; however, and disappointment and a sense of having we should be careful not to contribute to reached a deadlock. this misrepresentation,” he remarked. Americans well In a meeting with the chairman and “I am a critical person and do not other members of the Assembly of Experts, compromise in dealing with problems and aware of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei said, “Those wishing responsible bodies; however, I stress that the Iranian nation ill have put a media and manner of expression and taking action defense power: propaganda war on their agenda in parallel must not be such that the people would general with an economic war, therefore criticisms grow skeptical,” the Leader remarked. should be out of goodwill and aimed at He stressed that despite all of the POLITICS TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution reformation,” the leader.ir reported. disinformation campaigns by ill-wishers desk Guards Corps (IRGC) Deputy Coordi- He expressed his gratitude over the as well as the problems, the Islamic Republic nator Ali Fadavi has said the United States is not capable reports presented in the meeting and pointed is advancing. of waging a war against Iran, noting that the Americans are to the importance and urgency of national Pointing to the importance of taking well aware of Iran’s defense power. unity and formation of public opinion in confidence-building measures by the “During the four decades after the Islamic Revolution, the this direction. alongside this war, an important media The objective of this media war, he said, government, he urged those with a tribune to Americans have taken many measures against our country, Pointing to the enemies’ plots against the and propaganda war is also underway, which is to create angst, despair, disappointment help in this bid, because “no administration not out of strength but out of fear,” Brigadier General Fadavi Islamic Republic, he said, “Despite all [their] is neglected most of the time.” and a sense of deadlock, make people can operate without the help and support said, Tasnim reported on Friday. hostile measures, such as the military attack He stressed that the media war existed skeptical toward each other and toward of the people.” “However, they have realized that taking military ac- in Tabas, the imposition of an eight-year in the past, but it has grown more intense. the government and exaggerate the number “The solution to the problems of tion would never work, and that’s why they are waging an war, the downing of a passenger plane and “According the intelligence at our disposal, and magnitude of the economic woes in the the country is not walking out on the economic, psychological war,” he stated, adding that the economic blockade, they have not achieved the U.S. and Zionist regime’s espionage mind of the society. administration and distancing oneself Islamic Republic will turn the threats into opportunities. anything, and now the Islamic establishment services have set up establishments for this ‘We don’t expect anything other from the activities of responsible bodies, is like a virtuous tree with firm bases that media war and are seriously planning and than wickedness from the enemy’ but the remedy is the creation of a healthy is bearing fruit and growing.” endeavoring to contaminate the society’s Ayatollah Khamenei also pointed link between public opinion and relevant Iran to exceed The Leader said the problems Iran is thinking atmosphere with the financial help to the issues concerning gold coins, bodies, speaking up and making criticism facing is because it had chosen to move of the Qaruns of the region around us.” foreign currencies and national currency and at the same time providing intellectual past uranium against the general current of the hegemonic and practical help.” enrichment levels powers and the domineering system. “Today, the Islamic establishment is facing ‘Creation of parallel institutions “If under any condition and arrangement, an all-out economic war that is being led not the way to reform’ if JCPOA fails the people, particularly the elite, neglect the The Leader of the Islamic Revolution conditions and status of the establishment, from a war room and with absolute precision said, “Bickering is not the way to reform, POLITICS TEHRAN – A senior Iranian nuclear we will certainly suffer blows,” he added. and full attention; however, alongside this just as the creation of parallel institutions deskenergy official said on Wednesday that On economic issues, Ayatollah Khamenei and [doing] parallel work with the Tehran is ready to enrich uranium beyond previous levels said, “Today, the Islamic establishment is war, an important media and propaganda administration is not expedient and in case the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement facing an all-out economic war that is being war is also underway, which is neglected successful and experience shows that actions fail to salvage it. led from a war room and with absolute most of the time.” should be taken by those responsible for Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) spokesman precision and full attention; however, them within legal channels.” Behrouz Kamalvandi said that the country “will reach even more advanced levels” of uranium enrichment if the oth- er parties leave the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Press TV reported, citing IRIB. Idlib should be ruled by Syrian government: Jaberi Ansari He also said that the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities POLITICS TEHRAN — Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a He added, “In addition to these two principles, the third tactic,” he noted. are moving forward at a favorable pace. desktop aide to Foreign Minister Mohammad principle, which is very important for Iran, is the humanitarian He also said the trilateral Friday summit in Tehran involving Javad Zarif, has said that Idlib is part of the Syrian territory side of the issue due to presence of two to three million Iranian, Russian and Turkish presidents discusses the latest that should be ruled by the Damascus government. Syrians in this region. This humanitarian issue should be developments in Syria and the necessary cooperation between Ambassador “A number of fundamental principles should be observed considered in any solution regarding Idlib.” the sides. about Idlib. First, terrorists should be cleaned out in this Commenting on claims about use of chemical weapons in The summit meeting in Tehran is in line with the calls for closer region. This region is the focal point of al-Nusra Front forces Idlib by the Syrian government, he said Western countries continuation of the Astana talks aimed at bringing an end who are known as terrorist by all countries and international and certain countries in the region are not happy with the to the conflict in Syria. Tehran- bodies and confrontation with them is legitimate. The second ongoing developments in Syria and thereby they have launched Jaberi Ansari, Iran’s point man for the Syria talks, said the Islamabad ties principle is that Idlib is part of Syria’s territory, and like a psychological warfare in this regard. Astana talks are aimed at ending the Syrian conflict, adding other regions in the country, it should be ruled by the central “It is obvious that the Westerners use the issue of chemical the talks will continue until the crisis is completely resolved. POLITICS TEHRAN – Iranian Ambassador to Paki- government,” he said in a televised interview aired late on attacks as tool to reach their political objectives to prevent The summit in Tehran took place at a time that Syria is deskstan Mehdi Honardoost said on Wednesday Thursday. an end to the Syrian crisis, and they may repeat using this preparing to purge Idlib from terrorists. that Iran and Pakistan as two important neighbors in the region should make more efforts to enhance mutual cooperation. Honardoost said cooperation among important regional countries like Iran, Pakistan and Turkey can create a great Rouhani: U.S. should leave Syria in favor of peace alliance in this geopolitical and sensitive region with huge POLITICS TEHRAN – President The summit took place as the Syrian tive acts which involve chemical weapons. “extremely annoyed” by the United States’ material and human resources, IRNA reported. deskHassan Rouhani said government is preparing an assault on the “The remaining groups of extremists support for Kurdish YPG in Syria. He added that what is important in geopolitics of Pakistan on Friday that the United States should last stronghold of terrorists in northwest [in Syria] are currently concentrated in Erdogan urged his counterparts at the is its role in regional considerations and the foreign policy leave Syria as soon as possible because its Idlib province. the de-escalation zone in the province of summit to agree to a cease-fire. “There are of the country is based upon this. presence there has been detrimental to the Rouhani said that the civilian population Idlib. Terrorists are making attempts to many civilians in Idlib. We must be careful,” a peace process in the country. in Idlib should not suffer during counter-ter- disrupt the ceasefire; moreover, they are he said. “If we can make a cease-fire here “It is absolutely clear that America is rorism operations. carrying out and preparing various kinds today, I believe that this will be one of the present in Syria illegally and is only fueling “The only goal in Syria and the region of provocations, including using chemical most important steps of the summit.” U.S. pursuing aggression and supporting the Apartheid can only be peace, but to achieve sustainable weapons,” Putin stated. He added, “We don’t want Idlib to be pressure Zionist regime [there]. Hardly any positive peace, a serious fight against terrorism is Idlib, home to some 3 million people, turned into a ‘sea of blood’… we should find role can be expected (from the U.S.) in the inevitable,” the Iranian president noted. remains largely in the hands of terrorists. a reasonable solution to the Idlib issue.” campaign against Syrian (peace) process. [The U.S.] presence Friday’s talks marked the third time the The area is controlled by a coalition of ex- He also noted that it is possible to relocate only exacerbates problems, and hampers leaders have come together to negotiate the tremists, including al-Qaeda affiliate like militants, who attack the Russian Hmeimim Tehran in India the achievement of sustainable peace in Syr- Syrian conflict. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). airbase, from Idlib province to other areas. POLITICS TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of State Mike ia,” Rouhani emphasized during a trilateral Putin: Terrorists in Idlib taking Russia has urged Turkey to rid Idlib of “We believe that we can try to remove deskPompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis summit on Syria in Tehran with his Russian provocative moves to use chemical arms the jihadists, which have launched attacks these elements, which bother our Russian were on an official visit to India with a top agenda priority and Turkish counterparts, Vladimir Putin During the meeting, Putin stated that on the Russian Hmeimim airbase. friends and pose a threat to Hmeimim, to of pressuring New Delhi to stop buying Iran’s oil. and Recep Tayyep Erdogan. terrorists in Idlib are engaged in provoca- Erdogan, for his part, said that Ankara is more remote places,” Erdogan said. A senior U.S. State Department official, who was not named in reports, said on Thursday that American and Indian officials were engaged in “very detailed conversations” to Amir Hatami: Iran, China share common interests and threats persuade India to stop oil imports from the Islamic Republic, Press TV reported. 1 “Leaders of the two countries insist on bilateral stra- to expand ties. ment to boost defense and military cooperation in Tehran in “We’re asking all of our partners, not just India, to reduce tegic cooperation which requires consultations,” the Iranian Elsewhere, he said that his visit to China was aimed at pre- November 2016. According to then Iranian defense minister to zero oil imports from Iran, and so I’m confident that will defense chief remarked. paring the grounds for the implementation of a pact signed Hossein Dehqan, the pact aimed at boosting cooperation on be part of our conversation with India,” the official said. Hatami noted that the relations have always been good between the countries’ defense ministers in 2016. long-term strategic interests as well as countering the growing and given the current regional developments, it is essential According to Press TV, the two countries signed an agree- threat of terrorism exhibited by groups such as Daesh. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 INTERNATIONAL Saudis still refuse to allow plane to Brazil presidential candidate take Ansarullah to Geneva peace talks in serious condition after Yemen’s Ansarullah (Houthi) movement says 19 cars and 15 buildings. stabbing the scheduled peace talks are still on hold as Dozens of people were evacuated as a the House of Saud regime is still refusing to result of the attack, the report added. allow its delegation to fly to the Swiss city The latest strike by Yemeni forces brings of Geneva. the tally of missile attacks to 185 since the A delegation from Yemen’s former gov- beginning of the war in March 2015, the Saudi ernment of the Saudi regime-allied fugitive regime coalition says, adding that at least Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi 112 people have been killed in the attacks. threatened to leave if Ansarullah delegation This is among the very few official figures does not arrive within 24 hours. that Riyadh has allowed to be released on its Former government’s delegation, led by own death toll throughout the war. ex-foreign minister Khaled al-Yamani, ar- Yemen alarmingly facing growing rived in Switzerland on Wednesday to attend cases of malnutrition the talks brokered by the United Nations to With the devastating impact of the ongoing push for peace in the country and bring the campaign led by the House of Saud regime in years-long crisis to an end. Riyadh against the impoverished country of Yamani told reporters in Geneva that “it Yemen, there has been a constant rise in the The leading candidate in Brazil’s presidential election is in a will take a decision within a few hours whether cases of malnutrition there, many of them serious but stable condition after being stabbed at a campaign to continue in Geneva or to withdraw.” life-threatening. rally, doctors said. The Saudis, however, are “still refusing The Saudi-backed coalition war on the Jair Bolsonaro, 63, was stabbed in the city of Juiz de Fora, to give permission to an Omani plane” to poorest Arab state has unleashed a human- about 200km north of Rio de Janeiro, on Thursday. land at the Yemeni capital Sana’a and take itarian and economic crisis on the already The far-right presidential candidate underwent emergency the delegation to Geneva, Ansarullah said Geneva would be allowed to return to the The Saudi-UAE alliance has controlled impoverished country. surgery for a wound in the abdomen and could take two months on Thursday. rebel-held capital Sanaa after the talks end”. Yemeni airspace since March 2015. Thousands have been killed in the Saudi to fully recover, said Dr. Luiz Henrique Borsato, who operated It posted a statement on Yemen’s official Hamza al-Kamali, a spokesperson for the The last UN-backed peace negotiations regime-led invasion, and the country has on the candidate. SABA news agency, saying the Ansarullah Yemeni government, added that the flight for Yemen were held in Kuwait two years ago. been pushed close to the edge of famine. A “His internal wounds were grave and put the patient’s life need to “ensure the safety of the delegation” to take the Ansarullah to Switzerland was The talks continued for several months cholera outbreak, resulting from the devas- at risk,” Borsato said. and require a guarantee that they would be given clearance three days ago. but no constructive results were reached due tation of Yemen’s health infrastructure, has Bolsonaro is expected to spend at least a week in hospital, he allowed to return “smoothly” to Sana’a airport. One source in the Yemeni government to serious differences between rival parties. also claimed more than 2,000 lives. added. Videos shared on social media showed Bolsonaro, whose The United Nations envoy to Yemen Martin delegation in Geneva told Reuters news agency 37 Saudis injured in Yemeni Saudi regime war has also pushed the agenda includes cracking down on crime in Latin America’s largest Griffiths had to postpone the talks due to delay that if the Ansarullah did not leave Sana’a “by missile attack on military camp impoverished nations to the edge of famine. country, being carried through a crowd by his supporters when he in the arrival of the Ansarullah delegation. 12pm” [09:00 GMT] on Friday, “I think the Elsewhere, in a rare announcement, the The United Nations Security Council is suddenly stabbed with a knife to the lower part of his stomach. “He continues to make efforts to overcome government delegation will decide to leave”. House of Saud regime has admitted that at (UNSC) this week urged both sides to “take The attacker was arrested immediately. obstacles to allow the consultations to go The Ansarullah -run Saba news agency least 37 people have been injured in a Yem- a first step towards ending a conflict that He was identified as Adelio Bispo de Oliveira, 40, who said he forward,” Griffiths’s office said in a state- defended the group’s absence, reporting that eni missile attack carried out in response to has brought severe pain and humanitarian was “carrying out a divine mission, a mission from God”, accord- ment, adding that he remained “hopeful” the the Saudi regime-led alliance was “refusing the regime’s military aggression against the suffering to the Yemeni people”. ing to Luis Boundens, head of a union of federal police officers. Ansarullah would attend the talks. to give required authorizations to an Omani impoverished neighbor. Now entering its fourth year, the war has Oliveira was affiliated with the left wing Socialism and Liberty The UN envoy said the talks — the first plane in the capital Sanaa to transfer the The Yemeni army and popular committees pushed more than 22 million people to seek Party from 2007 to 2014, the party said in a written statement, since 2016 — are meant to be trying to build [Ansarullah] delegation to Geneva”. backed by the Ansarullah movement fired humanitarian assistance. in which it repudiated the violence. trust between the two parties. The news agency reported that the An- the missile at a Saudi National Guard camp According to United Nations Children’s Authorities are investigating the suspect’s mental health, Ansarullah will attend Geneva sarullah “blamed the UN for failing to secure in the southern province of Najran on late Fund (UNICEF), 11 million children, a number police said. Bolsonaro is the frontrunner in the first round of talks ‘if demands are met’ the authorizations from the alliance which Wednesday. greater than the entire population of Switzer- the presidential elections next month with 22 percent support, Hameed Assem, part of the Ansarul- controls Yemen’s airspace”. Saudi regime officials said they had “in- land, need humanitarian assistance every day. according to a poll published by the Institute of Public Opinion lah delegation that was supposed to fly to Mohammad Abdul-Salam, the Ansarullah tercepted” the missile and the injuries were The Saudi regime war has also effectively and Statistics (IBOPE), a private media company in Brazil. Geneva, told Al Jazeera on Friday that the main spokesman who has previously held caused by shrapnel, Saudi regime-owned news put Yemen under siege by blocking all major It was the first public opinion poll since former president three demands from the Ansarullah includ- secret talks with the Saudi regime-United channel Al Arabiya reported on Thursday aerial and maritime gateways to the coun- and popular leftist, Luiz Inacio (Lula) da Silva, was barred from ed “transport of wounded rebels to Oman, Arab Emirates (UAE) alliance in Oman, also night. try, worsening a severe shortage of food and running by Brazil’s electoral court on September 1. repatriation of rebels who have already re- blamed the UN, saying it should “speak to the According to the report, 23 of the injured medicine that has led to widespread famine Lula, who was previously leading the opinion polls, is cur- ceived treatment there and a guarantee that Americans’, who he claimed control Yemeni were taken to hospital while the remaining 14 and disease outbreaks. rently serving a 12-year prison sentence for fraud related to a the Houthi delegation attending the talks in airspace. were treated on site. The debris also damaged (Source: agencies) corruption scandal. Bolsonaro, described as a right-wing nationalist and popu- list, has caused a number of controversies in recent years with 166 skulls found in mass grave in Mexico’s Veracruz comments in 2015 that he didn’t believe men and women should not receive equal pay because women become pregnant and a Authorities in Mexico have found at least 166 skulls in a shedding light on the identity of the remains. number of “homophobic” comments. mass grave site in the eastern state of Veracruz. Authorities used drones and ground-penetrating radar Under Brazilian campaign laws, Bolsonaro’s tiny coalition has Jorge Winckler, state attorney general, said on Thursday to locate the pits and began digging about a month ago. almost no campaign time on government-regulated candidate that investigators discovered the remains in 32 graves in the They released photographs of investigators combing ad blocs on TV and radio. central part of Veracruz, following an August 8 tip from an through the thick vegetation at the site, wearing white That means he relies on social media and raucous rallies unidentified person. protective suits and gloves. around the country to drum up support. If Bolsonaro is not “Aside from human remains, we have found more than Lawlessness in Veracruz spiked under former governor able to go out in the streets, it could jeopardize his campaign. 200 items of clothing, 114 pieces of identification, as well Javier Duarte, who governed the Gulf coast state for Presi- But Flavio Bolsonaro, the candidate’s son, said early on Friday as different accessories and personal items,” Winckler said. dent Enrique Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party outside the hospital where his father was treated that he was He did not reveal the precise location of the burial pits, until 2016. conscious and the attack was a political boost. citing the safety of personnel still working at the site. Two former state police chiefs and a string of ex-officials “I just want to send a message to the thugs who tried to ruin The bodies were buried there at least two years ago, have been charged with running hit squads that abducted the life of a family man, a guy who is the hope for millions of Winckler said. He did not rule out finding more corpses. and presumably killed unwanted individuals during Duarte’s Brazilians: You just elected him president. He will win in the Veracruz, an important trafficking route for drug gangs administration. first round,” he said. moving narcotics north towards the US border, has long Duarte himself is in jail awaiting trial on allegations of Bolsonaro’s rivals in the race expressed outrage at the attack. been racked by bloody wars between drug cartels. involvement with organized crime and siphoning off millions Another 37,000 people are reported as missing. Fernando Haddad, who will likely replace Lula as the Workers Some 3,600 people have gone missing in the Gulf Coast of dollars during his tenure, and prosecutors recently added The latest mass grave site wasn’t the biggest burial Party presidential candidate, said the stabbing was a “shame” state since 2006, when Mexico deployed its army to fight charges of ordering the hit squads to “disappear” his enemies. pit found in Veracruz, Holman said, noting investiga- and a “horror.” the country’s powerful drug cartels, causing a record spike “These forced disappearances were not only carried out tors found more than 250 skulls in unmarked graves in President Michel Temer and Bolsonaro’s electoral rivals Ciro in violence. with his knowledge but under his orders,” they said in June. March last year. Gomes, Marina Silva, and Geraldo Alckmin all condemned the More than 200,000 people have been murdered, including He denies any wrongdoing. Winckler called on residents whose family members have violence. Haddad has also been charged with corruption and a record 28,702 last year. (Source: agencies) disappeared to come forward to for DNA testing in the hope came in last with six percent in the Ibope poll, which, however, also found that a third of Brazil’s population is undecided. Brazil’s first round of voting will take place on October 7. Four dead, including gunman, in U.S. bank shooting (Source: agencies) A gunman opened fire in a bank building “Per Fifth Third Bank, the shooter was not in the United States city of Cincinnati on an employee of Fifth Third,” police spokes- Thursday (Sep. 6), killing three people and woman Tiffaney Hardy said via email. sending terrified bystanders diving for cover, The quickly-responding police were Rescuers continue search for before police shot and killed him. credited with preventing wide scale carnage. Gun shots rang out just after 9 am at the Witnesses told local media they heard as survivors after Japan quake high-rise headquarters of Fifth Third Bank, many as 20 gunshots. a regional financial institution in Ohio’s One unnamed construction worker told Rescue workers have continued to search for survivors after a third-largest city. WLWT television that he saw two victims powerful earthquake triggered landslides on Japan’s northern Five people were shot, some multiple times, being brought out in the aftermath, including island of Hokkaido. and one victim died at the scene while two one woman in a blood-soaked shirt. At least 16 people were killed and dozens are missing, feared others succumbed to their injuries in hospital. Bank employees sheltered in situ for an trapped in mud and debris from Thursday’s landslides. Police identified the gunman, felled in a hour or more as officers swept the building and Around 1.6 million homes on Hokkaido remained without shootout with officers, as 29-year-old Omar cordoned off several downtown city blocks. power on Friday, after the 6.7-magnitude quake damaged a Perez. He was not immediately determined to It was the latest in more than 200 mass thermal plant that serves the region. have any connection to the bank, according shootings in the U.S. this year alone, with Thousands of rescuers, including troops called up from the to detectives. “There may be a possibility that previous incidents often leading to mostly Self-Defense Forces, joined the effort, searching through debris there’s some mental health issues involved fruitless calls for gun control reforms. some 200 rounds of ammunition and a le- of the first emergency calls and four of them and handing out emergency water supplies. here,” Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac In June, a gunman killed five and injured gally-bought 9mm semi-automatic handgun shot the suspect, killing him at the scene. In the small, rural town of Atsuma, more than 20 people were told a news conference, cautioning that the two at The Capital Gazette newspaper offices when he entered the lobby of the 30-story The building the gunman targeted was still missing on Friday after landslides wrecked and buried houses. investigation was in its early stages. in Annapolis, Maryland. building, Isaac said. said to have strict security, and it wasn’t clear “We’ve heard there are people still stuck under the mud, so Police believe Perez was armed with (Source: AFP) Several officers arrived within minutes how he was able to get in. we’ve been working around the clock but it’s been difficult to rescue them,” a Self-Defense Forces serviceman in Atsuma told public broadcaster NHK. Trump slams anonymous New York Times op-ed writer as ‘gutless coward’ Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government would The United States President Donald Trump has again slammed In an interview that is slated to be aired on Friday on Fox the president’s removal if he is “unable to discharge the “make an all-out effort to save lives” and urged residents to remain the “gutless coward” who wrote an explosive, anonymous News, Trump said the Times never should have run the piece. powers and duties of his office.” cautious amid forecasts for more bad weather in the coming days. article on the New York Times that has plunged Trump’s “Well, number one, the Times never should have done On the internet and in Washington, rumors are going “Please give your sympathy to people who spent a dark night presidency into its worst crisis yet. that, because really what they’ve done is virtually, you know, around about who the author might be, prompting nearly in fear, and do everything you can to restore electricity as soon Invoking national security concerns, Trump said on you could call it treason, you could call it a lot of things, but every cabinet-ranked member of the government to deny as possible,” Abe told an emergency cabinet meeting on Friday. Thursday the “failing” newspaper should reveal the official’s to think you have somebody in all of the Cabinets -- so many it was them. Abe also warned residents to “exercise extreme caution” amid name, before encouraging reporters to investigate the matter. people, as you know,” Trump said. The manifesto followed the release of excerpts from a forecasts for more rain, which could cause further landslides, “The latest act of resistance is the op-ed published in The White House has been shaken by a fevered hunt for bombshell book by Watergate reporter Bob Woodward, while officials warned of the dangers of more quakes. the failing New York Times by an anonymous, really an the senior official who declared, in an unsigned article for who portrayed Trump’s White House as an out-of-control “Large quakes often occur, especially within two to three days anonymous, gutless coward,” Trump told supporters at a The New York Times published on Wednesday, that senior “crazytown.” [of a big one],” said Toshiyuki Matsumori, in charge of moni- rally in Billings, Montana. officials were quietly working within the Trump administration The Woodward book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” toring earthquakes and tsunamis at the meteorological agency. “Nobody knows who the hell he is, or she,” Trump said, to frustrate the president’s “worst inclinations.” reported that senior aides lifted documents from the Oval The quake struck as Japan was recovering from a typhoon adding: “Unidentified deep state operatives who defy voters In one eye-opening passage, the anonymous writer says Office desk to keep the president from acting on his impulses, which hit the Western part of the country on Tuesday, killing to push their secret agendas are truly a threat to democracy cabinet members initially considered invoking the 25th reinforcing the assertions in the Times article. 11 people, injuring hundreds and closed the regional airport. itself.” Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which provides for (Source: agencies) (Source: agencies) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

STOCK MARKET Iran, India push TEDPIX 137714.2 IFX 1579.93 for expanding Sources: tse.ir, Ifb.ir

CURRENCIES bilateral co-op in USD 42,000 rials EUR 48,880 rials ports, transport GBP 54,243 rials

AED 11,436 rials ECONOMY TEHRAN – In a meet- technical problems over the next one to desk Source: isna.ir ing on Thursday, Iranian three months. Minister of Transport and Urban Develop- “Indian side had investment in Chabahar Iranian Minister of Transport and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi (L) shaking ment Abbas Akhoundi and Indian Road port and we are moving towards utilization of hand with Indian Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari during a meet- Transport and Highways Minister Nitin the Chabahar port,” Indian agencies quoted ing in New Delhi on Thursday. Gadkari stressed the need for further ex- Akhoundi as saying, adding that the handing using rupees and rials. banking channel, which has been approved COMMODITIES pansion of mutual cooperation. over of the port should be done “during one “We have already moved one step for- by Central Bank of Iran (CBI). WTI $67.88/b In the meeting the officials discussed month. We have done everything”. ward...We should introduce a banking Finally, Gadkari committed himself to Brent $76.71/b different important areas of cooperation, The two sides also emphasized the channel to India, which we already did it hold talks with all involved Indian com- including the necessity of going through necessity of forging banking relations and it fortunately has been formally ac- mercial and economic organizations and OPEC Basket $75.18/b with the agreements on the development between the two countries by providing cepted by the Indian side”, Akhoundi said. to resolve all technical issues, especially of the Chabahar port and resolving all easy-to-work schemes and mechanisms He noted that India has also introduced a in the banking sector. Gold $1,201.75/oz Silver $14.22/oz 68,000 production units active in Iran Platinium $788.60/oz ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iranian Deputy Industry units at over 70 percent. Sources: oilprice.com, Moneymetals.com deskMinister Mohsen Salehinia said that there The official further said that when these units start opera- are about 80,000 production units in the country, of which tion 74,000 new jobs will be created in the industrial estates. 68,000 units are active, IRNA reported. Najafi has previously announced that through supportive NEWS IN BRIEF Of the mentioned number, 90 percent are small indus- measures taken by the government, some 201 industrial trial units, six percent are medium-sized industrial units units that had stopped their activity resumed their opera- Tehran hosting and four percent are large industrial units, the official said. tion during the first quarter of current Iranian calendar intl. poultry, The deputy minister further said that some 195 trillion year (March 21-June 21). rials (about $4.6 billion) of facilities were paid in the frame- Referring to the 350 trillion-rial (about $8.13 billion) livestock work of production thriving plan to 28,202 enterprises in facilities with 10-percent interest rate allocated to the small exhibition the past Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20, 2018). and medium-sized entrepreneurs (SMEs), the official said Some 4,600 small and medium-sized units are under these facilities should be paid to the units that can continue construction in industrial estates of the country, Sadeq Na- their activity. ECONOMY TEHRAN — The 17th International Exhibi- jafi, the managing director of Iran Small Industries and He also announced that 36 Iranian SMEs attracted above desktion of Poultry, Livestock, Dairy, and Related Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO), announced last $2.3 billion of foreign investments during the previous Ira- Industries (IRANPLEX 2018) is being held in the Iranian capital month and put the physical progress of constructing these nian calendar year. from September 6 to 9, IRIB reported. As reported, some 230 Iranian companies and 30 foreign exhibitors from 10 different countries are participating in this South Pars platform 14C installed IMO secretary general to arrive year’s event to showcase their latest products and findings in different fields including production, research, machineries, on offshore spot in Tehran today equipment, related services, veterinary medicine and vacci- ENERGY TEHRAN — Platform ECONOMY TEHRAN — nation, and etc. desk14C of Iran’s South Pars deskInternational Maritime The exhibition is held at the Tehran International Perma- gas field (in the Persian Gulf), which had Organization(IMO) Secretary General Kitack nent Fairgrounds. been loaded at Sadra industrial yard in the Lim will arrive in Tehran on Saturday southwestern province of Bushehr on Sep- to attend a ceremony to mark the 70th 54 Iranian tember 1, was installed on its designated anniversary of the establishment of the companies offshore spot on Wednesday, Shana reported. organization, as announced by the head The 2,200-ton structure, which is the of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization attending 60th second platform of South Pars phase 14 (PMO). Damascus Intl. of development, will start operation soon, Mohammad Rastad said IMO’s adding 500 million cubic feet of gas per secretary general visiting Tehran is a good Fair day to the capacity of the gas field, Public has already achieved 82 percent progress, opportunity to introduce Iran’s maritime countries in the world in terms of ownership ECONOMY TEHRAN — Some 54 well-known Iranian Relations Department of Pars Oil and Gas according to the operator of this phase. capabilities to the world, PMO news portal of the ships and vessels, the official noted. deskcompanies are taking part at the 60th Damas- Company (POGC), which is in charge of Hamidreza Masoudi also said that phase published. The World Maritime Day theme for cus International Fair, Iranian ambassador to Syria told IRNA. implementing development phases of South 14 enjoys the most Iranian technical and This is an important maritime event 2018 is “IMO 70: Our Heritage – Better Calling the running exhibition a good chance for Iranian Pars, reported. engineering capabilities among the similar in Iran and it shows the great maritime Shipping for a Better Future”, as published companies, Javad Torkabadi said that participating in Rebuild The project for implementing phase 14 projects. status of the country as Iran is among the 20 on the organization’s website. Syria project is a good opportunity for major Iranian private sector companies, active in industrial, construction, and in- frastructure sectors, to showcase their capabilities. Trump suggests trade battle with Japan The 60th Damascus International Fair is being held in the Syrian capital on September 6-15. Some 1700 domestic and U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested agenda. foreign companies from 48 countries are participating in the to The Wall Street Journal that he will take The Trump administration has pushed event. The fair has been held annually since 1954. on Japan next in his fight to cut trade deficits Japan to further open its automobile and As Director General of Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) with trading partners, according to a column agriculture markets as part of efforts to reduce of Iran’s Arabic-African Affairs Office Farzad Piltan announced carried on the paper’s online edition Thursday. the chronic U.S. trade deficit. that Iranian firms also plan to participate in Rebuild Syria Citing a phone call he received from Trump, The column drew measured reactions from Exhibition which is going to be held on October 2-6, 2018. James Freeman, a columnist for the paper, Japan. Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso told Iran can assist Syria in developing military equipment along- wrote that the president “described his good reporters in Tokyo on Friday, “I don’t know side efforts for the reconstruction process in the war-stricken relations with the Japanese leadership but President Trump’s relationship with The country, Iranian officials say. Iran’s private sector has high then added: ‘Of course that will end as soon Wall Street Journal nor whether he actually enough capacities to help the Syrian people and government as I tell them how much they have to pay.’ “ said that.” in the reconstruction process, they believe. Trade is likely to be a major topic when “We both have to do our part” to realize a Trump meets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fair trade relationship, added Aso, who doubles around Sept. 25 on the sidelines of the U.N. as finance minister. General Assembly. Toshimitsu Motegi, the minister in charge We must face China Even if Trump wraps up negotiations U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Japanese Prime of trade talks with U.S. Trade Representative with Canada, Mexico and Europe, “the trade Minister Shinzo Abe in Palm Beach, Florida, in April. Robert Lighthizer, said he is aiming for an together, new U.S. envoy uncertainty won’t necessarily end,” Freeman arrangement that benefits both Japan and wrote. “It seems that he is still bothered by During the call, he wrote, the president trade deficits with America’s trading the United States. to Brussels tells EU the terms of U.S. trade with Japan.” sounded “still very focused on eliminating partners,” in line with his “America First” (Source: The Japan Times) The United States and the European Union must overcome their trade disputes and stand up to China’s “economic ag- gression” together, U.S. President Donald Trump›s new China’s Iranian crude imports seen to Gold up as dollar slips against ambassador to the European Union said on Friday. have peaked at 874,000 b/d in Aug. yen on trade jitters Gordon Sondland, a hotel magnate who was sworn in on June 30, said in an opinion piece for Politico Europe that China’s crude imports from Iran are likely cluding one VLCC cargo to Myanmar, cFlow Gold steadied on Friday as the dollar slipped U.S. gold futures rose 0.2 percent to Washington and Brussels needed to seize the new momen- to have peaked in August at 874,000 b/d showed. The volume was 14.1% lower than versus a currency basket despite fears over $1,206.70 an ounce. tum created by a July agreement to avoid U.S. tariffs on ahead of the looming re-imposition of U.S. the average 676,000 b/d recorded over the looming China-U.S. trade tariffs, and as The dollar lost ground against the safe- European cars. sanctions in November, according to S&P first eight months of the year. investors turned their attention to U.S. haven yen and Swiss franc after a report “I see real opportunities for the transatlantic relation- Global Platts’ trade tracker cFlow. Most Iranian crude imported to China payrolls data due later. suggested U.S. President Donald Trump ship to be a force that curtails Chinese economic aggression The last record high was in April 2014, is consumed by Chinese refineries, with the The public consultation period for pro- would next take up trade issues with Japan. and unfair trade practices,” Sondland said, citing concerns at 803,000 b/d, data from China’s General balance saved in bonded storage rented posed U.S. tariffs on an additional $200 Battered emerging market currencies also such as Chinese overproduction, state subsidies and rules Administration Customs showed. by the state-owned National Iranian Oil billion of Chinese imports ended at 0400 recovered their poise. requiring foreign companies to share their know-how with The imports in August included barrels Company. GMT Friday. Tariffs could go into effect “The stronger yen versus the dollar is Chinese firms. directly shipped to China and a VLCC cargo China is expected to remain the biggest at any moment, though there is no clear leading to some buying in gold ... The recent “We all share an interest in seeing China offer greater that offloaded in Myanmar and was report- buyer of Iranian crude despite the sanctions, timetable. low of around $1,160 in August is really market access and eliminate unfair trade practices, and to- edly sent via the China-Myanmar pipeline as Beijing has often said that business be- The dollar has gained considerably from the bottom in gold for now,” said Yuichi gether we can insist China take the necessary steps to allow to a refinery in southwest China. tween the two countries will run as normal global trade tensions but slipped off two- Ikemizu, Tokyo branch manager, ICBC its economy to operate more fairly,” Sondland said, striking The arrivals last month took inflows despite U.S. sanctions. week highs this week, helping gold stabilize. Standard Bank. a constructive tone despite recent EU-U.S. tensions. from Iran over January-August to 165.57 “The company’s business will be hurt A weaker dollar makes dollar-priced gold Elsewhere, investors will be closely watch- Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear accord, million barrels, 72% of total Iranian crude if it has to suspend imports from Iran,” an cheaper for non-U.S. investors. ing a U.S. employment report due later in his imposition of tariffs on EU metals exports and his insist- imports of 229.99 million barrels over full executive with Sinopec said last week, add- “I’m struggling to (see) how the dollar the day for clues on the pace of interest rate ence that European allies increase military spending and year 2017, cFlow data showed. ing the company was in talks with relevant could extend gains from here. Other central hikes. The payrolls report is expected to show lower import tariffs have overturned long-standing, warm “It is unlikely the inflows will rise further parties to mitigate the risks. banks are becoming hawkish, the pound a robust rise of 191,000 jobs. transatlantic ties. in the rest of the year and the record [volume Sinopec is the biggest refiner in the world could come back up and the euro, once the Gold has tumbled about 12 percent from Despite Trump›s tariffs on European exports, Brussels imported] in August was probably because by capacity and throughput, absorbing ECB starts tightening. Gold is due for a a peak of $1,365.23 in April, though present shares Washington›s concern about China›s closed markets of Chinese buyers’ intention to take as many around two-thirds of China’s crude arrivals rally,” said Fawad Razaqzada, analyst at levels have invoked a lot of physical buying and what Western governments say is Beijing’s domination Iranian barrels as possible ahead of the re- from Iran. It bought around 149.83 million FOREX.com. in Asia, traders and analysts said. of global trade through state intervention and subsidies. imposition of U.S. sanctions in November,” barrels of Iranian crude oil in 2017, account- Spot gold edged up 0.1 percent to Spot silver was up 0.2 percent at $14.1 However, the European Union and the United States dif- a Hong Kong-based analyst said. ing for 8.6% of its total crude throughput, $1,201.04 as of 1020 GMT, after it hit a near per ounce. fer on how to force Chinese reform, such as the removal of Chinese buyers have likely loaded 17.42 according to filings with the U.S. Securities one-week high on Thursday at $1,206.98, Platinum fell 0.5 percent to $786.70, barriers to foreign investment. million barrels or 581,000 b/d of crude from and Exchange Commission. and was headed for a third straight session while palladium rose 0.6 percent to $980.90. (Source: euronews) Iran in August for September delivery, in- (Source: Platts) of gains. (Source: CNBC) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y SEPTEMBERSEPTEMBER 8, 7, 2018 2018 ANALYSISENERGY & INTERVIEW 5

Oil steady as U.S. crude OPEC crude oil production rises to 32.89m bpd in Aug. inventories fall, products gain as cuts unwind: Platts survey OPEC’s crude oil production in August, not including newest Oil prices steadied on Friday as a rise in stocks On the supply side, U.S. crude oil production member Congo, rose to a 10-month high, with Iraq surging to of refined petroleum products offset a big fall last week remained at a record 11 million barrels record output and Libya recovering from militia fighting, more in U.S. crude inventories to the lowest level per day (bpd), a level it has largely been at than offsetting Iran’s slide as the sanctions-hit country struggles since 2015. since July. to keep its customers, according to the latest S&P Global Platts Brent crude futures edged down 10 cents Outside the United States, U.S. sanctions survey. to $76.40 a barrel by 0917 GMT. U.S. West against major oil producer Iran are fuelling The 15 members of OPEC pumped 32.89 million barrels per Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures lost expectations of a tighter market towards the day (b/d) in the month, the survey found. Taking away Congo, 3 cents at $67.74 per barrel. year-end. which joined the organization in June, OPEC’s August output U.S. commercial crude oil inventories fell by “The main driver of oil prices, in our view, of 32.57 million b/d is the highest since it produced the same 4.3 million barrels to 401.49 million barrels in remains the reimposition of U.S. ... sanctions amount in October 2017, as it unwinds supply cuts that have the week to Aug. 31, the lowest since February against consumers of Iranian oil,” Standard been in place since January 2017. 2015, U.S. Energy Information Administration Chartered said this week. Pressure from U.S. president Donald Trump to moderate oil (EIA) data showed on Thursday. “We have cautiously subtracted only prices, plus fears of an overtightening market due to U.S. oil But sentiment suffered due to a rise in 500,000 bpd from Iranian supply, assuming sanctions on Iran that go into effect in November, prompted refined product stocks coupled with relatively its production at 3.3 million bpd for 2019 and OPEC and 10 allies to agree June 23 in Vienna to reduce over- weak demand for fuel during this summer’s 2020,” SEB Markets commodities analyst compliance with their cuts and increase output by 1 million b/d U.S. driving season - when consumption Bjarne Schieldrop said. in the months ahead. normally peaks. Saudi Arabia will need to keep production The 12 OPEC members with firm quotas achieved 115 percent Gasoline stocks rose by 1.8 million barrels, between 10.5 million bpd and 10.7 million compliance in August, according to Platts calculations. Libya while distillate stockpiles, which include diesel bpd to the end of 2020 “to prevent oil prices and Nigeria are exempt, while Congo has yet to be given an and heating oil, climbed by 3.1 million barrels, from spiraling higher”, he added. allocation. the EIA said. Washington has indicated it may offer Iranian production has already begun to suffer in advance of “(Gasoline) stocks ... are now 3.5 percent temporary sanction waivers to allied countries the sanctions, falling to 3.60 million b/d in August, according above the year-ago level. More worryingly, the Brennock of London brokerage PVM said. result, the alarm bells are now ringing that a that are unable to cease imports immediately to the survey. surplus to the five-year norm now stands at 5.4 “This bears all the hallmarks of a gasoline glut will persist for the foreseeable from Iran. Platts Analytics estimates that some 1.4 million b/d of Iranian percent, the highest since June 2017,” Stephen disappointing summer driving season. As a future,” he added. (Source: Reuters) oil is expected to leave the market by November. Meanwhile, Iraqi production swelled to 4.68 million b/d in August, up 110,000 b/d from July and the highest recorded Mexico’s next president says historic oil Russia’s huge natural gas pipeline to in the 30-year history of the Platts OPEC survey, as exports from both the country’s southern port of Basra and through auctions will continue China nearly complete the Turkish port of Ceyhan saw increases. Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s biggest producer and the world’s largest crude exporter, pumped 10.49 million b/d in August, the survey found. That is far above its quota of 10.06 million b/d under the supply cut agreement, but below the 10.8 million to 11 million b/d that it had signaled it would produce at the June meeting. Kingdom officials have said demand for Saudi crude has yet to require such levels of production just yet, but added that they stand ready to supply the market as needed. Libya rises, Venezuela falls Libya added the most barrels in August within OPEC, as output recovered to 940,000 b/d with the lifting of force majeure in July on loadings from the country’s eastern ports, which had been blockaded for about a month by a militia group, as well as the ramping up of production from the Sharara field after the Mexico’s next president said he will continue Lopez Obrador didn’t provide the Gazprom’s Power of Siberia natural gas $3.2 billion (218 billion Russian rubles) in kidnapping of some workers there in mid-July was resolved. with oil auctions in the first signs that he dates for bid rounds, leaving it unclear pipeline from Russia to China is 93 percent the pipeline project, up from the $2.3 billion Libyan production in July was 670,000 b/d, the lowest it is backtracking on plans to scale back the whether auctions will immediately be held complete, the Russian gas giant said in an (158.8 billion rubles) investment last year, had been since April 2017. country’s historic 2014 energy reforms. in December or whether the process of update on its major projects. according to Russia’s TASS news agency. Nigeria increased its production by 70,000 b/d in August, “We are preparing the rescue plan for the auctioning will restart then. Mexico’s A total of 2,010 kilometers (1,249 miles) Gazprom and CNPC have also discussed according to the survey, with loadings up in the month. oil industry that will consist of producing National Hydrocarbons Commission plans of pipes are laid for the Power of Siberia another pipeline from Russia to China via Venezuela continued its production decline, as output more crude oil soon, and we will need these to hold auctions for more than 40 blocks gas pipeline between Yakutia and the Rus- the western route—the so-called Power slumped to 1.22 million b/d in August, a year-on-year plunge companies that have experience, most of and Pemex farm-out deals on February 14. sian-Chinese border, or on 93 percent of the of Siberia 2 pipeline—that would source of 680,000 b/d, the survey found. The country is in the throes them national companies,” President- The leftist leader had previously route’s length, Gazprom said in a statement. gas from Western Siberian gas fields, but of an economic crisis that has impaired its ability to maintain elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told indicated that future oil auctions, which The natural gas pipeline is expected to little progress has been made regarding its oil facilities, pay workers and afford diluent to produce its reporters on Thursday in Mexico City. “We have lured some of the world’s biggest oil start sending gas to China at the end of 2019 the specifics of this project. extra heavy crude from the Orinoco basin. August output was are already preparing tenders for the drilling companies, could be suspended or canceled and its completion is among Gazprom’s Gazprom is dominating gas supplies also affected by a tanker collision at the Jose terminal late in of wells, and we are getting ready because as his government seeks to strengthen top priorities. to many European markets while it vies the month that led to its shuttering for repairs. we are going to launch those tenders from Pemex and focus on expanding refining The two-string submerged crossing of to meet the surging Chinese natural gas But a settlement reached August 20 with ConocoPhillips over the first days of December.” capacity. He has also said that more than 100 the Power of Siberia pipeline under the demand as the country is in the middle of a $2 billion owed to it by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA Lopez Obrador said he will travel to his oil contracts already awarded to companies Amur River is 78 percent complete, and the massive switch from coal-fired to gas-fired provides some hope that the country’s crude exports could rise home state of Tabasco on Saturday to meet such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Exxon Mobil Atamanskaya compressor station adjacent heating in millions of homes. in the weeks ahead. ConocoPhillips had been seeking to seize with representatives from oil companies. Corp and BP Plc are being reviewed. to the border is also under construction, Although Chinese companies are look- PDVSA’s assets in the Caribbean under an international court The meeting will take place with his pick for Pemex’s crude oil output has declined the Russian company says. ing to boost domestic natural gas produc- ruling which had severely impaired the Venezuelan company’s energy minister Rocio Nahle and the next every year since 2004, which Amlo has Gazprom has a 30-year contract with tion, local production won’t come even ability to export crude. chief executive officer of Pemex, Octavio pledged to turn around with an additional 75 CNPC for the supply of an annual 1.3 close to meeting surging demand, and The Platts OPEC figures were compiled by surveying OPEC

Romero, according to a spokesman for Lopez billion pesos ($3.9 billion) for exploration trillion cubic foot of natural gas via the China is expected to increasingly rely on and oil industry officials, traders and analysts, as well as re- Obrador who asked not to be identified, and production investment. infrastructure. gas imports. viewing proprietary shipping data. citing internal policy. (Source: Bloomberg) This year, Gazprom plans to invest nearly (Source: oilprice.com) (Source: Platts)

U.S. shale boom begins to cool First Announcement Permit No. 1397.2739 The US shale oil industry is slowing as logistical chal- production by 1.5m barrels a day in the 12 months to lenges including labor costs and a lack of adequate July. Industry executives are now debating whether the 1397/2739 pipeline capacity pile up, the chief executives of some slowdown is just a necessary pause for breath, or a sign of the largest production and oilfield services companies that the headlong growth of the past couple of years N.I.S.O.C have warned this week. could be gone for good. Invitation For Prequalification Evidence is accumulating that the boom in the indus- Kibsgaard argued that there might be a more fun- Invitation For Prequalification N.I.S.O.C try that began two years ago is cooling off, particularly damental problem with the Permian than the logistical TENDER NO. : 08-21-9540013 in what has been its incandescent center, the Permian difficulties causing the present slowdown. He emphasized National Iranian South Oilfields Company(NISOC)intends to Basin of western Texas and eastern New Mexico. the increasing prevalence of “child” wells, drilled close to TENDER NO. : 08-21-9540013 At a Barclays conference in New York this week, the older “parent” wells, and showed analysis from Schlum- purchase the following goods National Iranian South Oilfields Company intends to purchase the following goods chief executives of Schlumberger and Halliburton, the berger suggesting that they delivered lower production, world’s largest and third-largest listed oilfield services are used in the shale industry for hydraulic fracturing: when adjusted for their length and the weight of sand used Description Quantity. companies, both highlighted a slowdown in the number pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into wells in hydraulic fracturing to bring them into production. HSL (AN ULTRA WT.CMT.ADDITIVE)FOR OIL WELL CEMENT,IT 01 Items including FUNCTIONS AS A FLUID LOSS CONTROL ENITANDER,IT INCREASE 2000 BG. of new wells being brought into production. Jeff Miller, at high pressure to open cracks in the rock and release He concluded: “This suggests that the Permian growth THE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF CEMENT,IT HAS VERY SPECIFIC IN 22 LB chief executive of Halliburton, talked about a “decrease the oil and gas. potential could be lower than earlier expected.” SURFACE AREA WHICH RESULTING IN SLURRY STABILITY & ZERO (10 KG) BAGS in customer urgency” that had put pressure on the prices The shale industry has slowed even though U.S. Miller of Halliburton, however, was more upbeat FREEE WATER SHOULD BE COMPATIBLE WITH ALL API CEMENT &TO the company could charge in several parts of the U.S. benchmark crude has for most of the past four months about the long-term outlook for U.S. oil and gas, saying BE PACKED IN WATER-PROOF MULTI-WALL BAGS PALLETIZED ON Along with project delays in the Middle East, he added, been above $65 a barrel. Executives have highlighted that despite the immediate problems, “we are still in the REINFORCED PVC PALLETS, SHRINK COVERED NOTE: MATERIAL the slowdown would cut 8-10 cents from Halliburton’s early innings of a strong North America cycle”. SAFETY DATA SHEETS(MSDS) IS ESSENTIAL FOR TECHNICAL the problems caused because much of the increase in EVALUATION MANUFACTURE,TRADE MARK(ORDER MESC) third-quarter earnings per share, which had been expected activity during the industry’s upturn in the past two years Thomas said EOG’s expectation for the Permian Basin NO.,(PRODUCT/EXPIRY) DATE,MSDS TO BE MARKED ON BAGS METAL to be about 52 cents. Halliburton’s shares closed almost has been concentrated in the Permian Basin. was “probably a little bit more subdued on growth than STRAPPED(2 NUMBERS HORIZONTALLY& 2 NUMBERS VERTICALLY) 6 percent lower after Miller’s statement on Wednesday. Rising costs for labor and equipment, difficulties most people would have it”. REF HALLIBURTON{SES-4(HSL)} OR APP.EQUVALENT Paal Kibsgaard, his counterpart at Schlumberger, in disposing of the unwanted water and natural gas He added: “It’ll grow certainly for the next few years, Vendors who intend to participate in the A/M tender are requested similarly warned that the North American market for produced alongside the oil, and above all a shortage of but it’ll grow at a slower pace every year and won’t be Vendors who intend to participate in the A/M tender are requested to send their resume & tendency letter hydraulic fracturing had “already softened significantly pipeline capacity for taking crude from the wilds of west the thing that’s going to destroy oil prices again because tovia sendfax/ mail their to the following resume address & tendency not later than 14letter days after via the fax/ second mail announcement. to the Thefollowing applicants more than we expected” in the third quarter. The Per- Texas to refineries and export terminals along the Gulf it’s going to grow so fast. addressshould have relevantnot later background than in supplyin 14 daysg the requiredafter goods the and second capability announcement. to provide a bid bond of mian Basin in particular, he said, faced challenges that of Mexico coast have undermined the economics of oil ”However, Trisha Curtis of Petronerds, a research Euro 20,603 / Rls 1,000,000,000 in favor of NISOC. Iranian vendors shall submit their resume Acc. to he expected to “have a dampening effect on production production in the region. group, said that even if Kibsgaard was right about slowing The applicantsforms Nos. should01, 02 and 03 have which are relevant available at www.shana.ir.background www.nisoc.ir in supplying growth, wellhead prices and investment levels in the Bill Thomas, chief executive of EOG Resources, one of productivity, that simply set up a spur for fresh innova- the required goods and capability to provide a bid bond of Euro coming year”. the largest U.S. exploration and production companies, tion in the industry. 20,603 / Rls 1,000,000,000 FOREIGN PURCHASING in favor of DEPT NISOC. Iranian vendors On Thursday morning shares in Weir Group, a UK told the Barclays conference: “When you’re focused on “People have kept saying ‘this is a problem the indus- shall submit theirKouy-e- resumeFadaeian Islam Acc. (New to Site)Bldg forms NO Nos. 104, Ahvaz, 01, 02Iran and 03 which engineering company, fell 7 percent in early trade after one basin, one play, it gets very difficult to continue high try can’t solve’, but somehow the industry has always Tel.fax No.: +98-61 -34457437 it warned of a “considerable softening” in U.S. demand rates of growth. found a way,” she said. “That is the challenge, but it is are available at www.shana.ir and www.nisoc.ir last month, and some “deferrals” on orders from oil and ”The rebound in the U.S. shale oil industry since also the opportunity.” FOREIGN PURCHASING DEPARTMENT gas companies. The company makes the pumps that 2016 has been remarkable, raising the country’s crude (Source: Financial Times) Bldg NO 104, Material procurement Management Complex Yemeni official threatens to halt oil shipments from southern region Kouy-e-Fadaeian Islam (New Site) Ahvaz, Iran Tel.fax No.: +98-61 -34457437 A Yemeni provincial official threatened on Thursday day (bpd), accounting for about half of Yemen’s total produced about 500,000 bpd before the civil war that to halt oil shipments from the southern Hadramout oil production. broke out in 2014. Public Relations region if the internationally-recognized government United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed southern South Yemen has been rocked by violent protests www.shana.ir doesn’t comply with demands of protesters against Yemeni separatists control most southern provinces, in the last two weeks after the Yemeni rial lost more the deteriorating economic situation. including Hadramout, and have been at odds with the than half its value against the U.S. dollar since the www.nisoc.ir Hadramout Governor Salmeen al-Bahseeni made Saudi-based president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. start of a civil war in 2015. http://iets.mporg.ir the threat in a speech broadcast by the regional radio Yemen is a small producer with proven oil reserves Al-Bahseeni and other southern officials back the روزنامه : تهران تایمز نوبت اول 17/6/97 نوبت دوم :station based in the provincial capital Mukalla. of around 3 billion barrels, according to the U.S. En- protesters and accuse Hadi’s government of misman- 97/6/20 Hadramout produces about 100,000 barrels per ergy Information Administration (EIA). The country agement. (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 6 INTERNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The sheer, despicable The ‘steady state’ is shirking hypocrisy of Saudi Arabia its obligations If the president is unfit to serve, the anonymous op-ed authors have a duty to their country to come forward publicly By Bradley P. Moss The recent publication in The New York Times of an anony- mous op-ed by a “senior official in the Trump administration” brings into sharp relief the extent to which various members of the Trump administration are not just knowingly working By Anthony Harwood to curb the president’s recklessness, but are doing so based in part upon the belief that those impulses are the result of In typical fashion, Saudi Arabia’s response to this week’s UN something deeper and more fundamentally unstable about report claiming it may be responsible for war crimes in Yemen the man himself. is full of bluster. I long had assumed the president was prone to childish How dare the human rights experts make ‘false allegations’ tantrums and had little time and less inclination to understand that the Riyadh-led coalition has targeted civilians, restricted the mechanics of governance. I was nonetheless skeptical of humanitarian aid and carried out arbitrary detentions, it says. the legitimacy of concerns about his mental or psychological This despite all evidence to the contrary. health, especially when assessed from afar. Such concerns Whether it’s air strikes on school buses killing dozens of chil- should never be haphazardly invoked. The op-ed, though, dren or the bombing of ships carrying humanitarian aid as they claims that a cadre of senior appointees—which it dubs the wait at a harbor entrance, the truth is plain to see. “steady state”—has taken it upon itself to steer the govern- With 6660 civilians killed, 10,563 injured, 1.1 million hit by ment through choppy waters of erratic presidential behavior. cholera and 22 million in need of aid, the war in Yemen is the Despite having good reason to doubt the president’s ability world’s biggest humanitarian crisis. to fulfill his duties, it suggests, these officials are leaving an But when you consider these stark facts it is hard not get riled unstable individual in a position of unparalleled power so by one thing which stands out from the Saudi rebuttal just for that they can achieve specific policy objectives. its sheer audacity. And the op-ed is far from the only evidence that this is the case. The statement expresses “surprise for the report’s disregard Several other anonymous “senior White House officials” have of the great humanitarian role played by the coalition states in leaked to media outlets such as Axios that they have privately Yemen, and the huge humanitarian assistance it has provided admitted to one another that the president is “unstable, and in order to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.” at times dangerously slow.” These reports repeatedly point to Hang on, if you hadn’t spent the past three years bombing the “adults in the room” protecting the government from a president Several other anonymous “senior White House officials” country back to the Dark Ages, there would be no need for any whose stability they personally question. have leaked to media outlets such as Axios that they have of the humanitarian aid which you are so proud of. There is a logic behind supporting officials who stay in It’s a bit like a reckless motorist who wilfully causes carnage an administration to ensure the president’s recklessness is privately admitted to one another that the president is on a motorway expecting a pat on the back for picking up the kept in check. That logic, however, cannot and should not “unstable, and at times dangerously slow.” medical bill afterwards. override the constitutional system of government Americans The UN report found that coalition air strikes — armed with ultimately hold most dear. President Donald Trump — warts, by the president, his capacity to competently handle foreign remedies built into our Constitution that are designed for British and American firepower — have hit residential areas, foreign interference, and even potential criminal collusion diplomacy, and his profound disregard for equal applica- this moment. There is the removal procedure of the Twenty- markets, funerals, weddings, detention facilities, civilian boats notwithstanding — is the duly elected chief executive. He tion of the rule of law. More than once I have said — as have Fifth Amendment — and there is impeachment. Those are and medical facilities. received the necessary votes from the Electoral College. He other Never Trumpers — that the president appears to be the lawful means by which a president can be removed from Not only this but the UN’s Group of Experts “have reasonable took the oath of office as president of the United States. He out of his depth on issues of policy substance, and that the office prior to the completion of his term. grounds to believe that individuals in the government of Yemen is the constitutional head of the executive branch. Trump administration appears to be advancing its goals in It is unlikely that either remedy would be pursued at this and the coalition may have conducted attacks in violation of the My message to the “steady state” is simple: If you truly spite of him rather than under his direction. The president’s moment, especially with the midterm elections a mere two principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution that believe what you say about the president’s purportedly erratic, continued interference with, and attempted disruption of, months away. That is neither here nor there. It is the right may amount to war crimes.” unstable, and antidemocratic behavior, your obligation is not the ongoing special-counsel investigation into alleged Rus- of our duly elected representatives in Congress to decide Time after time the Saudi authorities — who profess to uphold to stand by and do the dirty bureaucratic work behind the sian collusion is particularly appalling and reflects his view whether such a drastic step should be taken. It is not the international law and human rights — throw their toys out of scenes. Your obligation to the country, and to the Constitution, that he can treat the Justice Department similar to how he right of anonymous senior administration officials, no mat- the pram when they are accused of flouting it. is to come forward, publicly, and inform both Congress and used his legal “fixers” in his private life. ter how noble or well-intentioned they are in their efforts, You can see it in their the American public of exactly what you have seen. But those concerns don’t justify what these officials de- to engage in the equivalent of an administrative coup d’état over-the-top response to There is new This is probably not the most popular opinion among at scribe. If the president is not mentally, physically, or psy- so they can maintain their temporary grip on government criticism from Canada least some of my fellow Never Trumpers. I have been vocal chologically fit to continue serving, or if he has engaged in power and authority. about their continued evidence from an and clear in my concerns about the policy choices advanced reckless behavior in conflict with his oath of office, there are (Source: The Atlantic) incarceration of women’s Associated Press rights activists. investigation You can see it in their brass neck claims not to be that the Saudi- ‘We are experiencing an epochal shift’: Ischinger pirating transmissions of led coalition In a DER SPIEGEL interview, former Ger- its responsibility? the World Cup, Champions man Ambassador to Washington Wolfgang A: When the strongest country, namely League, Premier League, in Yemen has Ischinger says that U.S. President Donald Germany, limits itself in the fight against Formula One or any other actually been Trump is endangering the world order. For Islamic State to shooting a few photos over passing sporting event negotiating, Germany, the epochal shift amounts to no Syria with a reconnaissance plane while whose broadcast rights less than a loss of identity. leaving it to Denmark, with a population of are owned by rival Qatar paying and By Britta Sandberg & Mathieu von Rohr just 5 million, to send a few real warplanes, — despite all evidence to helping Al- Mr. Ischinger, was there a single mo- then something isn’t right. Germany often the contrary. ment when you realized that the old world only does the bare minimum. That is not a But this month’s prize Qaeda, the terror order was slipping? recipe for leadership. for sheer hypocrisy must group behind the A: Absolutely. It was in February 2007, France and Great Britain are more surely go to both Saudi 9/11 attacks. the year before I took over the chairman- practiced in taking on a global role. Is Ger- Arabia and the United ship of the Munich Security Conference. many even able to practice global politics? Arab Emirates, who for a year have been blockading Qatar, ac- Vladimir Putin was speaking in Munich and A: It’s not about transforming Germany cusing the tiny Persian Gulf state of supporting terrorism, which in an extremely aggressive tone, he called into a global political actor, but about de- Doha denies. into question the U.S. claim to leadership. I veloping the EU to the point where it can For there is new evidence from an Associated Press investi- was sitting in the audience and, behind me, resolutely and credibly defend the interests gation that the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has actually been a journalist said: This is going to change the of its more than 500 million citizens. negotiating, paying and helping Al-Qaeda, the terror group be- world. It was a turning point, the beginning What steps should the EU take to hind the 9/11 attacks. of something new. increase its foreign policy credibility? So, a months-long offensive, Operation Swift Sword, was “The World in Danger” (“Welt in Ge- A: If we don’t abandon the principle of portrayed as a victory in the mountainous province of Shabwa fahr”) is the title of your new book. How bad consensus on European foreign policy deci- for Emirati and Yemeni fighters over Al-Qaeda forces which had is the situation? as they used to be. Germany take on more responsibility in the sions and finally move to majority decision- dominated the region for three years. A: We are experiencing an epochal shift. Why not? world and spend more money on defense. But making in this area as well, the EU will never The UAE ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, said Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the A: Because Trump isn’t to blame for eve- the Germans themselves are deeply skeptical become a respected foreign policy actor. The the triumph would “disrupt the terrorist organization’s network situation has never been as dangerous as it rything. Even Barack Obama was no longer of such a course. best example for how we might be able to do and degrade its ability to conduct future attacks.” is today. Primarily because mutual trust has willing to take care of everything. For decades, A: I don’t share your view. There was that is what European Commission President What wasn’t revealed was how weeks earlier the two sides vanished. We can only see the rough outlines Germany was able to outsource its security. This a public opinion survey taken recently by Jean-Claude Juncker recently achieved in had reportedly negotiated for trucks full of masked Al-Qaeda of what the new political age will look like. relatively harmonious relationship between the (the pollster) Allensbach. It found that more Washington. Because of the European treaties, terrorists to quietly leave the area. About 200 Al-Qaeda fighters There is Russia’s new role, China’s expansion, superpower and its voluntarily subordinate Germans are prepared to accept greater de- he has the say when it comes to European received payment, with one getting £20,000 ($26,000). Some violent conflicts around the world such as the European partners is coming to an end and fense spending than we had actually thought. trade policy. He was able to tell Trump: I have even joined the coalition side. war in Syria, the consequences of which we will not return in its erstwhile form. And it’s The mood among voters is not such that the represent 500 million Europeans, we are This is the same Yousef al-Otaiba who repeatedly accuses in Europe have particularly felt. A once reli- not a bad thing that a process of emancipation government would be punished were it to a trade power, even larger than the U.S., so Qatar of funding terrorism. able partner like Turkey is faltering, and we has begun. Trump is forcing us to grow up. do more to protect Germany and fulfill its let’s now make a deal. It led to Doha’s ambassador to the U.S., Sheikh Meshal bin have experienced significant instability even But have the Germans understood that alliance obligations. But it is necessary to Do you expect German Chancellor Hamad Al-Thani, saying: “For now, we must pose urgent ques- within the European Union. But no politi- they must change their role in this new world? explain convincingly why such a step is in Angela Merkel to leave a legacy on this issue? tions to the UAE and Saudi Arabia: How can they in good faith cian has unsettled the world to the degree A: A lot of what the German govern- our interest and that we are not just doing A: In Emmanuel Macron, she has a French give arms, safe passage and financing to terrorists? What are Donald Trump has. Since he entered office in ment is doing is correct, but it isn’t enough. it because Trump told us to. partner who has called for joint progress on the terrorist groups doing with all of these funds and weapons?” January 2017, the entire liberal world order Ever since Konrad Adenauer (Germany’s Do you really believe it is possible to EU reform. If we don’t take the initiative now For now, a list of people who may be responsible for war seems to be in danger. first postwar chancellor), there have been convince the Germans to become a military to create a Europe that can protect itself from crimes in Yemen has been passed to the UN high commissioner Is Trump destroying the West with two cornerstones of German politics: The power again? internal and external threats, then we will for human rights. his rhetoric? European project and the trans-Atlantic A: It’s not about Germany becoming a have missed a huge opportunity. One that The UN report also urged the international community to A: If it were only actions that mattered bond, the EU and NATO. power, it’s about whether and how to push won’t come back right away. Macron is not a “refrain from providing arms that could be used in a conflict”— in foreign policy, I would be more sanguine. It is imperative that we invest more in through European interests. We have to learn panacea, but I view him as a great opportunity a reference to America and Britain, who have been arming the Because the U.S. is still doing more for NATO these two cornerstones. The EU will cost the lessons of the Syrian conflict. The accept- because he has given us the chance to think Saudi-led coalition. than all the rest of us put together. Unfor- more if we expect it to protect its exter- ance of the refugees has cost us many billions boldly together. The plane that flew for an hour over the market in Dahyan, tunately, the current situation isn’t the only nal borders. And if we want to preserve of euros and has permanently changed the What do you think the German gov- northern Saada, before launching its deadly payload killing 40 thing that matters. Words do too. And Trump’s NATO, then it is misguided for us to act political landscape -- and unfortunately not for ernment should do in the face of Trump’s children on the school bus was armed with a U.S.–made 500lb words act like poison to the cohesion of the with gentlemanly nonchalance as though the better. What did we actually do to contain frontal attacks on Germany? laser-guided MK82 bomb. West. The West needs a symbol, and that is we never agreed to the 2-percent goal (of this conflict when such a thing was still pos- A: I would double the number of German For the perpetrators to say the Saada attack was a “legitimate what we have lost under Trump. And because increasing defense spending to 2 percent sible? What did we do when large numbers diplomats in Washington and in the German military operation carried out in accordance with international we Germans finally became embedded in the annually). We have an example to set. We of refugees first began arriving in Italy? Not consulates in the U.S. Funding for public rela- humanitarian law” is despicable, and the UN is right to call out West after a long journey over the last 70 are the largest, most substantial and most much! The German government looked away tions in the U.S. should be massively increased, those responsible. years, it is a particularly painful loss, almost prosperous country in Europe. The stra- at the time and more than anything, did all together with the numerous German companies And as long as the U.S. continues arming the coalition with a loss of identity - much worse than for the tegic challenges we currently face are so it could to avoid getting involved. Such an there. Far too rarely do Trump voters in Kansas the types of Lockheed Martin weapons used on that school bus, French or the British. significant that it is misguided to treat the accusation is unavoidable, and now we are or Idaho hear positive stories about the friendly and the UK rolls out the red carpet at every opportunity for Can’t we just wait until Trump is gone? balanced budget as some sort of holy grail paying for it in the form of our helplessness and hard-working Germans who have created Saudi Arabia, we too will be complicit in the carnage they cause. A: The scar that will result will be difficult to which all else is secondary. in the face of the current drama. so many jobs in America. (Source: Newsweek) to heal. Things will never be quite the same Many politicians have demanded that Do you believe Germany is dodging (Source: Spiegel) ساعت: امضاء صفحه آرا: ساعت: امضاء مسئول صفحه: ساعت: امضاء ادیتور: ساعت: امضاء سردبیر:

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U.S. to pay price for leaving JCPOA, Tripartite summit in Tehran; Idlib operation and the end pressing EU: SIPRI chief of terrorist crisis in Syria TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The director of the the Action Group will be. The U.S. adminis- Stockholm International Peace Research In- tration’s policy has been set and the Group’s stitute (SIPRI) said the U.S. would pay a price main mandate will be to ensure it is carried in the long run for unilaterally withdrawing out. However, pressure can be put on U.S. from the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran allies in different ways with different degrees and world powers despite the EU’s opposition. of regard for their sensitivities. Whether the “In the longer term, the U.S. will pay a price Action Group will make things easier or harder for unilaterally breaking out of the JCPOA for the EU over the U.S.-Iran relationship and attempting to press the EU into imple- is hard to tell. menting a policy it opposes. However, that is President Trump’s national security the longer term and this U.S. administration adviser John Bolton said on August 22 that does not seem much focused on longer term the Europeans have to make a choice between considerations,” Dan Smith told Tasnim. the U.S. and Iran in observing American Dan Smith has a long record of research sanctions. How much do you think Europe and publication on a wide range of conflict could resist? and peace issues such as nationalism, identity A: EU trade with the U.S. is far, far greater politics, armed conflicts, ethics of intervention, than EU trade with Iran. Therefore, if pushed 1 So far, the summit’s details have not been posted but gender aspects of conflict and peace building. to a choice, relations with the U.S. will take the Tehran summit might decide to create a security belt in Idlib In recent years, his work has broadened to priority. This is especially true for businesses with the aim of protecting the borders of Turkey and Russian encompass other contemporary issues such and the EU can only do a limited amount bases and dealing with the Jabhat al-Nusra Front. as the relationship between climate change to press European companies to continue It is undeniable that Damascus wants Idlib under control of and insecurity, peace and security issues in trading with and investing in Iran. Things are the Syrian government, and does not consider the long-term the Middle East and global conflict trends. complicated, however, by the current round solution that Turkey seeks to satisfy the Tahrir al-Sham group. Smith has served four years in the UN Peace- of so-called “trade wars”; if EU relationships Moscow, however, has a similar view of the Syrian government. building Fund Advisory group, two of which with the U.S. deteriorate significantly, there The intense Russian and Syrian airstrikes on the outskirts of Idlib (2010–2011) were as Chair. He has lived most might be more room for maneuver for the are proof that Moscow and Damascus do not have much patience. of his adult life in the UK with a 10-year spell EU in relation to Iran. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated, “Our pa- in Norway. He has traveled professionally In the longer term, the U.S. will pay a price tience about Idlib is not indefinite.” to more than 60 countries. for unilaterally breaking out of the JCPOA Damascus and its allies can care less about Trump threats on The following is the full text of the in- and attempting to press the EU into imple- invading Syria, if they begin to carry out an operation. According terview: menting a policy it opposes. However, that is to some analysts Iran, Russia and Turkey have come to believe On August 23, the European Commis- Trump’s diplomatic maneuvers can the longer term and this U.S. administration that the battle of Idlib is decisive in setting the stage for solving sion adopted a first package of €18 million for does not seem very focused on longer term the Syrian crisis. projects in support of sustainable economic always surprise observers but at considerations. In fact, it can be argued and social development in the Islamic Repub- present, it seems unlikely that new Do you believe that new round of talks It is undeniable that the Syrian crisis is lic of Iran, including €8 million assistance between Tehran and Washington could change approaching the final to the private sector. High Representative/ talks would quickly produce a viable anything given to the fact that other parties that Damascus stage in Idlib. The U.S. Vice-President Federica Mogherini said, “Since compromise. of the JCPOA have remained committed to wants Idlib Navy and Russian mili- the renewal of the EU-Iran relations as a re- the deal? under control tary array is a sign of the sult of the Iran nuclear deal, cooperation has ing ways to support the continuation of the recently named senior policy adviser Brian A: President Trump’s diplomatic maneu- readiness of the two great developed in many sectors. We are committed JCPOA. I am encouraged that they are trying Hook as special representative for Iran in vers can always surprise observers but at of the Syrian powers for a regional or to sustain it and this new package will widen to follow fine words with the right deeds. charge of “Iran Action Group” to coordinate present, it seems unlikely that new talks government, and global military confron- economic and sectoral relations in areas that This is an encouraging first step. I hope it is Trump’s pressure campaign on the Islamic would quickly produce a viable compromise. tation if a solution is not are of direct benefit to our citizens”. What not the only action the EU takes because by Republic following Washington’s withdrawal Several rounds of talks might be required does not consider found, or if Trump wants do you think about the package? How much itself it is not nearly enough to make a real from an international nuclear deal with Teh- before a workable agreement could repro- the long-term to stand on the path to could this help Iran? difference for Iran. ran. What’s your take on the action group? duce. It would be worth making that effort solution that Idilb liberation. A: It is important that the EU is seek- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo A: It is not at all clear what the effect of if at all possible Donald Trump has Turkey seeks warned severely against to satisfy the any Syrian army opera- Tahrir al-Sham tion and its allies in Idlib, Did Trump deceive Macron again? which has raised the ques- group. Moscow, tion as to why the U.S. 1 However, Paris commitment to Washington re- have been able to offer this package to Iran earlier, the mains strong! It seems that Macron is once again deceived White House has asked them to postpone it so that the however, has president did not have by Trump and his false promises, just like the way he was effects of the secondary sanctions on our country would a similar view such a strong reaction deceived in 2017 over “changing the JCPOA”. Anyway, be determined. against the Syrian army this position taken by the French authorities will have In other words, much of Europe’s delay in delivering of the Syrian and their battles in south- no results but destroying Paris’ international reliability. their package to Iran is the result of secret negotiations government. ern Syria and Ghouta’s The next point here is that, according to informed and instructions given by the Trump government to foreign Damascus. sources, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had direct ministers of European countries, including Jean-Yves The reason behind it is Israel and Saudi Arabia that have pushed and regular talks with Le Derian and other French senior Le Drian. During the last Vienna meeting (negotiations Trump to take this stance, because they do not want Russia, Iran officials on the JCPOA, and matching the practical posi- between Iran and members of the P4 + 1), Le Drian offi- and Syria to win. They don’t want that Russia to realize its goals tions of Paris and Washington. cially announced that the proposed package of European in Syria. It’s not unlikely that this issue was discussed during Though it was thought that negotiations would be countries to Iran will not be presented soon! Bolton’s trip to Tel Aviv and has got an agreement during his stopped after the withdrawal of Trump from the nuclear Without a doubt, Le Drian decided to play the role of meeting with Israeli officials deal, the existing evidence suggests that these bi-lateral U.S. Secretary of State “Mike Pompeo” in his absence, In any case, the Tehran summit is expected to lead to an negotiations are still going on. the way former French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius agreement between the leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey on the joint operation in northwest Syria. In other words, the fate The latest order issued by Trump, Pompeo and Bolton played the role of U.S. Secretary of State in the negoti- to the French government is about the Europe’s package ations with Iran over the course of the nuclear talks, as of Idlib is tied to Tehran’s meeting, and the decisions that were made to counter Trump and Western’s threats. of proposals for Iran. Although the European troika could he expressed John Kerry’s demands from his tongue!

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commander and son to Afghanistan N.I.S.O.C 1397/2697 NATIONAL IRANIAN SOUTH OILFIELDS COMPANY TEHRAN (FNA) — The decision by “infinite war,” one that has afflicted every Invitation For Prequalification NATIONAL IRANIAN SOUTH OILFIELDS COMPANY N.I.S.O.C the War Party in Washington to send its level of the U.S. establishment from the Invitation For Prequalification TENDER NO. : 08-21-9340009 17th commander to Afghanistan points White House and the Pentagon to the to the dark future being readied for the special ops community: a failure to see National Iranian South Oilfields Company(NISOC)intends to long-suffering people of that ill-fated the truth. He has already acknowledged TENDER NO. : 08-21-9340009 country. that the war in Afghanistan - the one he National Iranian Southpurchase Oilfields Company the(NISOC) followingintends to purchase goods the following goods Some 17 years into the war, Gen. Aus- has been fighting on and off for almost tin Scott Miller has gone to Afghanistan two decades – is “generational,” a war Items Material Description Quantity. to take over control of the U.S.-led oc- of abysmal repetition. 1 CASING, API GRADE P-110, SEAMLESS 1500LE cupation, replacing outgoing Gen. John He now admits what he and other Nicholson. Miller is the 17th commander commanders had always failed to con- "VAM FLUSH JOINT “THREAD , RANGE 3 (MAX LEN: 40.5 FT) to lead the protracted war, one of the sider after 17 years: “This young guy AS PER API 5CT / ISO 11960 worst current man-made humanitarian sitting behind me,” he said, referring SIZE (OD), WEHGHT (PPF), AS SPECIFHED disasters. to his uniformed son, “I never anticipated He has been participating in the war in that his cohort would be in a position to MARKING; COLD DIE STAMPED IN ACCORDAE WITH API 5CT Afghanistan from the beginning, though. deploy as I sat there in 2001.” 5 IN , 18 PPF, VAM FLUSH JOINT He was present during the 2001 U.S. That is a pretty shocking fact. America invasion, then at the rank of lieutenant and its crew of geopolitical dreamers are colonel. He was among the forces sent stuck in the quagmire of Afghanistan. Vendors who intend FOREIGN to participate PURCHASING in DEP aforesaidARTMENT tender are requested during President Obama’s escalation of They will never win their generational Bldg NO 104, Material procurement Management Complex to send their “Resume”and”Tendency Kouy-e-Fadaeian Islam (New Site) Ahvaz,Letter” Iran via postal services the war, as a brigadier general. Now, he war, despite trying everything in the U.S. to the following Tel. addressNo.: +98-61 -not34125010 later fax NO.: than +98- 6114 -3 4457437days after the second is a full general, commanding the longest manual of military tactics, including drop- war in American history. in any traditional sense is nowhere in recent years. ping “the mother of all bombs,” the largest announcement. The applicants Public shouldRelations have relevant background in Like his predecessors, Miller is not sight. The War Party’s efforts to occupy non-nuclear munition in that military’s supplying the required goods and capability to provide and submit Given this seemingly dismal state of WWW.shana.ir going to make any changes. Per usual, insecure and contested areas in Afghan- affairs, you might wonder what Miller arsenal. They can never conquer, sub- a bid bond of 69,019 Euro 3,537,150,000 Rills in favor of NISOC he will follow the historic trend of tak- istan will fail. could possibly do to reverse America’s due, control, pacify, or win the hearts Iranian vendors shall submitwww.nisoc.ir their resume according to Quality ing over, promising a review of policy, After all, according to the Pentagon’s fortune. Not much really. Like his pre- and minds or anything else of enemies http://iets.mporg.ir offering nominal changes and quickly own reports, the Taliban is still contesting decessors, he will be quietly ushered who often fight their trillion-dollar foe Assessment Forms available at:www.shana.ir and www.nisoc.ir falling out of favor, only to be replaced control of or has controlled greater parts using weaponry valued at the price of تهران تایمز : DEPARTMENT نوبت اول 14/6/97 نوبت PURCHASING دوم out of Afghanistan in disgrace – on the FOREIGN 97/6/17 by the next commander. Gen. John of the country, while Afghan government a McDonald cheeseburger! face of it, implicated in the aerial de- Bldg NO 104, Material procurement Management Complex Nicholson followed that trend. After control and influence over districts has Think of it another way. Years from struction and war crimes. He however Kouy-e-Fadaeian Islam (New Site) Ahvaz, Iran leaving, he said it is “time for this war declined. In fact, the Taliban has overrun will provide further justification for the now, don’t be surprised if you heard in Afghanistan to end.” Such a comment government checkpoints and outposts War Party’s incremental occupation on Miller’s son saying the same thing to Tel. No.: +98-61 -34125010 fax NO.: +98-61 -34457437 would have had more impact when he on a near-daily basis. And keep in mind the pretext of fighting terror, pouring his uniformed grandson regarding the Public Relations was actually in charge. Instead, he spent that the Taliban is now only a fraction of billions of dollars, American military longest war in American history, mark- his time in charge talking up how the the story. The U.S. set out to defeat it and know-how, and American lives into edly with some tactical successes but www.shana.ir war was winnable. Al-Qaeda in 2001. Today, Washington a black hole in Afghanistan that is of far greater failures and humanitarian www.nisoc.ir The same will be the case for Miller. even started to make use of Al-Qaeda America’s own creation. sufferings. It’s likely as well that amid Soon he will also leave Afghanistan, all offshoots in Afghanistan - including an In his confirmation, Gen. Miller all that repetition, innocent civilians will http://iets.mporg.ir while urging the War Party to end its imported franchise from the Iraq War once put a spotlight on one of the most still be dying, painfully being ignored, روزنامه : تهران تایمز نوبت اول 14/6/97 نوبت دوم :unwinnable war. He knows that victory front, ISIL - that has grown larger in critical shortcomings of Washington’s uprooted and displaced across the planet. 97/6/17 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 8 ADVERTISEMENTS SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

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How many is too many eggs? Walking tied to lower risk of There is not a specific number of eggs a per- heart failure in older women son can eat as part of a healthful diet. Eggs were once considered to be an unhealthy food Older women who exercise may be less likely to develop heart source in terms of high cholesterol and heart failure, a U.S. study suggests. problem concerns. The fact that the yolk of Researchers examined data on 137,303 postmenopausal wom- an egg contains a high level of cholesterol en, ages 50 to 79 (average age, 63). More than one third had high was the primary cause of this. blood pressure, but few had other risk factors for heart disease Consuming cholesterol was initially like diabetes or a current smoking habit. thought to significantly raise the levels of After an average of 14 years, 2,523 women developed heart cholesterol in the body, which can increase failure. Compared to women who didn’t exercise at all, those who the risk of heart disease. got at least some physical activity were 11 percent less likely to Research has shown, however, that eggs develop heart failure. Participants with the highest activity levels do not increase the chances of heart disease. were 35 percent less likely to develop heart failure. Cholesterol from food has a small impact “Our findings show clearly that higher amounts of self-reported on cholesterol in the body. total physical activity are associated with significantly lower risks Cholesterol is a fatty substance that has of developing overall heart failure and each subtype,” said lead a range of essential bodily functions. study author Michael LaMonte, a researcher at the University Its role includes supporting the production at Buffalo, New York. of new cells and hormones to the formation In heart failure, the heart muscle is too weak to pump enough of fat-dissolving bile acids and helping with blood through the body. Symptoms include fatigue, weight gain from the absorption of vitamins. fluid retention, shortness of breath and coughing or wheezing. Med- Scientists now understand that the ications can help strengthen the heart and minimize fluid buildup. cholesterol people consume in foods only Among the women who developed heart failure, 451 had a has a small impact on cholesterol levels subtype characterized by what’s known as reduced ejection frac- in the body. tion, which typically occurs after a heart attack and has a worse The majority of cholesterol production prognosis. Compared to women who didn’t exercise, those who takes place in the liver. The main influencing got at least a little activity were 19 percent less likely to develop factor for this is not how much cholesterol this kind of heart failure. Women who exercised the most were someone consumes, but other factors, such 32 percent less likely to develop this subtype. as the amount of saturated fat in the diet. Another 734 women with heart failure had a subtype char- In the past, there was also a misunder- acterized by what’s known as preserved ejection fraction. This standing about the role of cholesterol in the is more common in older adults and easier to treat. Compared body, but more recent research has now chal- to sedentary women, participants who got a little exercise were lenged this too. 7 percent less likely to develop this kind of heart failure, and Good and bad cholesterol levels Eating between one and three eggs per day can have several women who got the most exercise were 33 percent less likely to The way cholesterol moves through the health benefits, but this varies from person-to-person. At this develop this subtype. bloodstream is relevant to the impact it Walking - the most common leisure activity among older can have. level of consumption, people can expect minimal changes in adults - appeared to work just as well as more vigorous work- Either low-density lipoproteins (LDL) or their cholesterol levels. outs, LaMonte said by email. high-density lipoproteins (HDL) transport “This is a big finding,” LaMonte said. “Most adults are able the cholesterol. are always unhealthy. Eggs are affordable and easily included in causing concern, they can eat eggs in moderate to perform walking activities throughout the day, and often do HDL is responsible for collecting cho- For example, one recent review of existing a balanced diet. The best way of consuming quantities, and they are unlikely to have any so as part of usual activities of daily living without necessarily lesterol that is no longer needed, and LDL studies found that there was no link between eggs is to boil or poach them without using salt. effects on cholesterol levels. having planned walking as part of an exercise routine.” transports cholesterol to areas where it LDL cholesterol and heart disease. Eggs that have been enriched with omega-3 Takeaway To assess activity levels, researchers examined data from exercise is needed. While this study had several limitations, it and sourced from free-range farms are the Large-scale studies have consistently questionnaires completed by all of the women. Then, they scored Abnormally high levels of LDL choles- demonstrates that the relationship between healthiest eggs. shown that consuming eggs does not increase participants’ exercise levels and intensity based on a measure known terol are typically unhealthy because they cholesterol and health is much less clear than Eating between one and three eggs per the risk of heart disease. Unless under specific as metabolic equivalent of task (MET) hours per week. can build up and cause clogging in the previously thought. day can have several health benefits, but this advice from a doctor, it is not necessary for Women got an average of 13 MET hours per week. Walking arteries. This buildup of cholesterol can Benefits of eggs varies from person-to-person. At this level people with high cholesterol or those at risk was the most common form of exercise, accounting for about 38 increase the risk of heart attacks. Eggs may contain a relatively high amount of consumption, people can expect minimal of heart disease to avoid eggs. percent of participants’ physical activity. HDL cholesterol is considered to be of cholesterol, but they do not have a major changes in their cholesterol levels. It is possible to contact food poisoning Each additional MET hour of activity per week was tied to ‹healthier› than LDL cholesterol, as it plays a impact on cholesterol levels. It is unclear whether there is an upper from consuming raw eggs. Food poisoning a 16 percent lower risk of heart failure overall and a 10 percent role in removing the cholesterol from the body. They are a highly nutritious source of limit on how many eggs a person can eat per is, however, becoming increasingly more un- lower risk of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, the A greater understanding of how choles- protein, containing a range of vitamins and day. More research in this area is needed to likely with the rise in health and food safety researchers report in the Journal of the American College of terol works in the body means that it is now minerals, including: vitamin A, vitamin B and provide clarity. standards in the United States. Cardiology: Heart Failure. unclear whether high levels of cholesterol B-12, vitamin D, iodine, and folate. But when people have no health issues (Source: Medical News Today) (Source: Reuters)

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The world’s use of plastic is costing us, and our oceans, a high price. But thanks to scientists at the University of Swansea, there might be one solution to the waste that kills thousands of sea of solar power creatures every year. Cambridge University researchers use semi-ar- renewable energy because of its dependence The new research, led by Dr. Moritz Kuehnel, would see plastic tificial photosynthesis to develop a new way on expensive and toxic catalysts - meaning it waste turned into hydrogen. If we’re lucky, that could one day to capture the sun’s energy. can’t be used on an industrial scale. be used to fuel hydrogen cars. A new way to capture the power of the sun The study is part of a growing field of “There’s a lot of plastic used every year -- billions of tonnes and successfully split water into hydrogen semi-artificial photosynthesis using enzymes -- and only a fraction of it is being recycled,” Dr. Kuehnel told the and oxygen by altering how plants conduct instead of these catalysts. BBC. “We are trying to find a use for what is not being recycled.” photosynthesis has been invented by scientists. Soko and her colleagues improved on the The process works by cutting the plastic, roughening it up and Plants convert sunlight into energy amount of energy produces and stored, as adding a photo catalyst to it. This is a material that can absorb sunlight through photosynthesis, which releases well as managed to reactivate a process in and transform it into chemical energy. The researchers then put the oxygen into the air when plants split water algae that has been dormant for millennia. plastic into an alkaline solution and shine sunlight or a solar simulator molecules to gain energy. Soko explained: “Hydrogenase is an lamp onto it, producing bubbles on the surface -- hydrogen gas. Almost all of the Earth’s oxygen, which enzyme present in algae that is capable of Gas that could be used to fuel a hydrogen car. animals need to breathe, is produced via reducing protons into hydrogen. A setback for recycling plastic bottles is that they’re commonly photosynthesis - and hydrogen is a poten- “During evolution this process has been made from PET, polyethylene terephthalate, which needs to be tially unlimited source of renewable energy. deactivated because it wasn’t necessary washed to be recycled into new, clear bottles. But the university’s In a study led by researchers at St John’s for survival but we successfully managed process would not require oily or greasy plastic to be cleaned, College, University of Cambridge, scientists to bypass the inactivity to achieve the because it can degrade many kinds of waste. have used semi-artificial photosynthesis to reaction we wanted - splitting water into “Even if there is food or a bit of grease from a margarine tub, it develop new ways to capture the sun’s energy. hydrogen and oxygen.” doesn’t stop the reaction, it makes it better,” Kuehnel told the BBC. The research could revolutionize5 re- The researcher said that she hopes her The process is also cheaper than recycling the plastic, which is newable energy production, and the paper findings will contribute towards new in- often burned or thrown in landfill because of expenses -- it costs published in Nature Energy explains how ventions helping people capture renewable approximately $4,000 to recycle a ton of plastic bags, according the scientists used solar energy to split wa- solar energy. to The Balance Small Business. ter molecules. Erwin Reisner, the head of the Reisner As for progress on hydrogen cars, Toyota, for instance, aims Using biological components and human paper and a PhD student at St John’s, said: needed - around 1-2% of what it could po- Laboratory, and a fellow of St John’s Col- to sell a combined 1 million electric and fuel cell cars worldwide technology, the team used natural sunlight “Natural photosynthesis is not efficient be- tentially convert and store.” lege - as well as one of the paper’s authors by 2030. In Japan, Toyota will launch a fuel cell-powered bus to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. cause it has evolved merely to survive so it Although artificial photosynthesis has - described the research as a “milestone”. called the Sora in 2020, fuel cell stacks being the components Katarzyna Soko, the first author on the makes the bare minimum amount of energy been around for decades, it isn’t used for (Source: news.sky.com) that combine hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity. While the plastic fuel project may take a few years before reach- ing an industrial level, the researchers have received some handy funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research When should startups use non-disclosure Days 81-100: The startup Council out of Swindon and an Austrian petrochemical company. agreements (NDAs)? checklist (Source: cnet.com) SOCIALLY SAFE What is the dark web? A parent’s guide-Part One

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It provides anonymizing National Iranian South Oilfields Companypurchase intends to purchasethe following the following goods goods software which can be accessed via a Google search and then downloaded free of charge. Tor itself is not the dark web but is Description UNIT Quantity. a way to browse both the open and dark web, without anyone being able to identify the user or track their activity. ROCK BITS, JET TYPE, LESS NOZZLES WITH API NO 40 Why do people use Tor to access the dark web? Here are three main reasons why people may use the dark web: Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies prospects just hours before the crash. REGULAR TOOLJOINT PIN CONNECTION 8-1/2IN. X 1. To be anonymous are crashing in a sudden and dramatic However other analysts were quick to 4-1/2IN, MOTOR TYPE, HIGH RPM, MIN. RPM: 250. There are reasons why someone may want to protect their market collapse. say that cryptocurrency investors should be 8-1/2IN I.A.D.C. 5.1.7 M online identity. In some cases, this is because they would be in After weeks of steady gains, bitcoin careful about seeing recent gains as a sign danger if their identity became known. For example, in countries dropped in price by more than $300 in the of things to come, at least in the short-term. where the government forbids a free press, where there is political space of an hour on Wednesday morning, “Bitcoin’s price might be rising but it’s censorship, or where people are concerned about online security. with ethereum, ripple and bitcoin cash all way too early to call this a true resurgence,” Vendors who intend to participate in the A/M tender are requested Tor is mainly used to browse the open web anonymously; only following its lead. By Thursday morning, said Matthew Newton, a market analyst at to sendwww.shana.ir. their resume www.nisoc.ir & ten-dency letter via fax/ mail to the following a very small percentage of its traffic relates to hidden services. bitcoin had fallen $1,000 in just 24 hours. the online trading platform eToro. “We’ve address not later than 14 days after the second an-nouncement. 2. To access ‘hidden services’ The reason for the sudden price crash seen the price yo-yo for several months so The applicants should have relevant background in supplying A hidden service is one where not only the user, but also was not immediately obvious, though some I’d be hesitant to herald this as a new dawn FOREIGN PURCHASING DEPT the website itself, has their anonymity protected by Tor. This analysts have said panic selling could con- just yet... Traders should be cautious.” the required goods and capability to provide a bid bond of Euro means that the IP address of the site cannot be identified, hid- tribute to bitcoin’s fall in value. He added: “Looking ahead, there is plenty Kouy -e-Fadaeian10,433 /Islam Rls 500,000,000(New Site)Bldg NOin favor 104, Ahvaz, of NISOC. Iran Irani-an vendors ing information about its host, location or content. Tor is not a Other factors potentially contributing to be positive about though. There’s lots of shall submitTel.fax No.:their +98 resume-61 -34457437 Acc. to forms Nos. 01, 02 and 03 which hidden service, but the sites it hosts are. Hidden services can be to the crash include a report that Goldman great fundamental news about the devel- used legitimately, for example for remaining unknown when Sachs is dropping plans for a cryptocur- opment of cryptocurrencies right now, but are available at www.shana.ir and www.nisoc.ir whistleblowing (exposing unethical or illegal activity within an rency trading desk. that’s going to take time to filter through organization). Studies suggest that the majority of Tor hidden While bitcoin fell by around 12 per cent, and impact on price.” service activity is illicit. For example, a study in 2014 found that the hardest hit by the market shift has been Bitcoin is still trading higher than it was Public FOREIGN Relations PURCHASING DEPARTMENT nearly 60% of hidden services contain illegal content such as ethereum, ripple, bitcoin cash and EOS, which at this point last year, though it remains a Bldg NO 104, Material procurement Management Complex drugs, weapons and stolen goods. all dropped by around 20 per cent. long way off the highs of December 2017, WWW.shana.irKouy-e-Fadaeian Islam (New Site) Ahvaz, Iran 3. For illegal activity Bitcoin hit a one-month high on Tuesday, when its price reached close to $20,000. Tel.fax No.: +98-61 -34457437 The dark web may be used by people to carry out illegal ac- leading some experts to suggest that more Since then, bitcoin has been on a bumpy www.nisoc.ir tivities online, such as selling weapons or drugs. These kinds of price gains can be expected. slide down to today’s price of around $7,000, Public Relations activities, and the websites offering them, are often referred to “The increased price stability of Bitcoin over though had experienced a period of relative http://iets.mporg.irwww.shana.ir as hidden services, as explained above. the last couple of days has not been witnessed stability in recent months. Using Tor or visiting the dark web are not unlawful activities for a while and I think it should be viewed as a Most significantly, bitcoin has appeared www.nisoc.ir تهران تایمز : نوبت http://iets.mporg.irاول 17/6/97 نوبت دوم in themselves. But it is against the law to carry out illegal acts positive sign with more gains to come, especially to be more immune to negative press in 2018, 97/6/20 such as accessing child abuse images, promoting terrorism or in the coming months,” blockchain investor which has previously had a major impact selling illegal items such as weapons. and advisor Oliver Isaacs told The Independ- on its market movements. روزنامه : تهران تایمز نوبت اول 17/6/97 نوبت دوم :Source: parentinfo.org) ent when asked about the cryptocurrency’s (Source: The Independent) 97/6/20)

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Unravelling the reasons why NASA issues arbitrary deadline to reawaken Mars rover mass extinctions occur The dust storm on Mars is over, but Opportunity has yet to wake back up. Earlier this summer, the rover was forced Scientists from the University of Leicester finite time within an ecosystem. After that into hibernation mode by an extreme Martian dust storm have shed new light on why mass extinctions time, the system would normally experience that darkened the skies of the Red Planet to a level we’ve have occurred through history -- and how a fast evolution or transition to another state literally never seen before. Most of the time, Mars has a tau this knowledge could help in predicting up- which can have very different properties. — a scientific term that refers to the opacity of the Martian coming ecological catastrophes. Such transition would therefore correspond atmosphere — of 1-2. During the largest major dust storm The international team has investigated to a catastrophe or major ecological shift. we’ve previously seen, the tau was roughly 6. This time, the sudden ecological transitions throughout his- ‘Crawl-bys’, on the other hand, exist when tau from the massive storm hit 10.8 — and Opportunity is tory, from mass mortality events in the far changes to the dynamic of an ecosystem hap- solar powered. past to more recent extinctions which have pen slowly over a long period of time. occurred over the last few decades. Ecological catastrophe In a paper published in the journal Science, Professor Petrovskii explained: An “eco- co-authored by Professor Sergei Petrovskii logical catastrophe emerging from a ‘ghost and Dr. Andrew Morozov from the University attractor’ or a ‘crawl-by’ may be a debt that of Leicester’s Department of Mathematics, we have to pay for the actions or mistakes and a group of leading scientists from the -- for example unsustainable use of natural USA and Canada, the team has explored the resources -- made many generations ago. long-standing mystery of why these ecological “Our research shows that a healthy ecosys- transitions occur. tem will not necessarily remain healthy, even Sudden changes in the absence of any significant environmental Ecological systems sometimes experience change. Therefore, better monitoring of the sudden changes in their properties or function state of an ecosystem is required to mitigate which often results in species extinction and potential disasters. including ‘ghost attractors’ and ‘crawl-bys’. where it returns after small perturbations. significant loss of biodiversity. “We also can predict an approaching ca- An attractor is an ‘end-state’ of a given A ‘ghost attractor’ is a special configura- Understanding why these significant tastrophe in the sense that our study advises ecosystem, that is where it expected to be found tion of a dynamical system that exhibits the changes occur remains a challenge, in par- where to look for its signs and what is the NASA has now announced that the window of Opportu- over an infinitely long period of time and/or same behavior as an attractor but only for a ticular because transitions often happen un- relevant time scale: the environmental change nity is remarkably short. In 45 days, if NASA hasn’t heard der apparently steady, constant conditions (whether it is natural or human-made) that from the rover or been able to contact it, it’ll pull the plug on and therefore cannot be directly linked to a An attractor is an ‘end-state’ of a given will finally lead to big changes might have the mission. And that time frame has many engineers and specific environmental change. ecosystem, that is where it expected to happened a very long time ago. scientists upset, given the mechanics of how dust and dust By bringing together empirical data, “These findings create a new paradigm as storms practically work on Mars. insights from ecological theory and math- be found over an infinitely long period of well as a powerful theoretical framework for During the 14 years it’s been on Mars, Opportunity’s power ematical models, the team has revealed that time and/or where it returns after small understanding -- and potentially predicting levels have fluctuated enormously for two primary reasons. abrupt transitions in an ecosystem can occur -- ecological catastrophes and for their effi- First, the rover’s reliance on solar power means that the as a result of long-term transient dynamics, perturbations. cient management.” (Source: Science Daily) amount of energy it receives is dependent on Mars’ position from the Sun. Mars distance from the Sun varies from 1.38 AU to 1.67 AU, and the long Martian winters provide significantly less power overall. Second, the same wind that occasionally Nitrogen fixation engineering in cereal Drought predictive of decrease in covers the rover in dust has also been known to clean and crops moves a step closer, team finds snakebites, Stanford researcher says polish the solar panels, in some cases bringing them up to nearly full power once again. The graph below shows how A new way of engineering nitrogen fixa- Grant Lipman, MD, an emergency medi- Opportunity’s power levels have fluctuated over 2017 – 2018. tion has been discovered by a UK-China cine physician at Stanford Medicine, was On June 3, Opportunity produced 468 Whr of energy. research team, bringing us one step closer running through the brown hills behind By June 6, this had fallen to 133 Whr as the dust storm ap- to realizing the goal of engineering a range the campus a few years ago during a severe proached. On June 10, just 22 Whr of energy were available. of crops to fix their own nitrogen. drought when he came across a 3-foot- (Source: extremetech.com) One of the major factors that limit crop long rattlesnake lying by the trail. When growth is the availability of nitrogen, but a colleague mentioned he’d experienced only bacteria and other single-celled mi- a similar rattlesnake sighting, Lipman got crobes called archaea can take nitrogen to thinking. Are space elevators possible? from the air and fix it into a form that can “I wondered if there are more snakebites Japanese researchers will be used by plants. The process carried out during droughts,” said Lipman, clinical by these microbes is known as biological The new method works by organizing associate professor of emergency medicine this: “Deadly Snakebites Set to Skyrocket look to find out nitrogen fixation. large numbers of genes which are required at the Stanford School of Medicine, who During Record-breaking Drought,” reads Legumes obtain nitrogen from symbiotic for nitrogen fixation into a smaller number routinely treats patients with venomous one in 2018 in the Daily Mail. Another, A Japanese team of researchers will carry out the first test nitrogen-fixing bacteria, but cereal crops of “giant genes”. These are then expressed snakebites. “Snakes Cross Paths with Humans in Bay on the feasibility of space elevators this month, taking the including wheat and maize, rely on the in the host cell as huge proteins known as Lipman launched a study with a team Area Due to Drought,” was reported on futuristic concept from science fiction into reality. availability of fixed nitrogen in the soil. “polyproteins” which are subsequently cut of researchers to investigate the question. ABCNews.com in 2015. The prevailing The space elevator concept was formulated as a possible In many cases the addition of chemical by a specific protease enzyme to release the What they found defies conventional wis- theory goes that snakes wander further alternative to rockets to get people into space, as rocket launches fertilizers is the only way to provide crops individual nitrogen fixation components. dom: The number of snakebites actually to forage for food during times of drought, are expensive and pollute the atmosphere. Will space elevators with enough nitrogen to ensure a good Producing right balance decreases after a drought but goes up af- plus they are simply more active in warmer be the next big thing in space travel? harvest. One innovative part of this method is ter periods of rainy weather. The study weather. The idea of the space elevator was first proposed in 1895 Cereal crop productivity how the group identified the amount of each also reported that the increase in weather In fact, what they found was the exact by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky after the Russian scientist saw The use of nitrogen fertilizers releases component required, and then grouped extremes caused by climate change has a opposite. The researchers collected and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He believed that a similar structure nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas which is 300 these together. This step ensures that the direct influence on snakebite incidence in examined 20 years of snakebite data from could be built high enough to take passengers up to space. times more powerful than carbon dioxide. right balance is produced. California. This could be useful to help every phone call made to the California The concept has since appeared in various science fiction By engineering crops to fix their own nitro- Professor Ray Dixon project leader in guide public health measures, such as de- Poison Control System from 1997 to 2017. books and movies, but it was Russian engineer Yuri Art- gen, we hope to reduce the use of nitrogen molecular microbiology at the John Innes termining the best allocation of antivenom Details included the date and time of the sutanov who first studied the feasibility of space elevators fertilizers, thus mitigating their impact on Centre said: “This is a really exciting de- supplies, the study said. bite; the patient’s age and sex; where the in real life. the environment. A break though like this velopment for synthetic biology because Lipman shares lead authorship with bite occurred on the body; call site; treat- Space elevators, ideally, will need to have a cable tethered could also have worldwide implications it brings nearer the aim of engineering Caleb Phillips, Ph.D., adjunct assistant pro- ment; and medical outcomes. to Earth, likely near the equator to lower the risk of being for cereal crop productivity. nitrogen fixation in cereals.” fessor of computer science at the University A total of 5,365 snakebites were report- damaged by hurricanes or tornadoes, and to a stationary mass In this paper, the research team has The collaborative Peking University of Colorado-Boulder. The senior author ed, all of them from rattlesnakes. Five deaths in space, such as the International Space Station. been able to engineer nitrogen fixation by - John Innes Center team say that this is Derrick Lung, MD, assistant clinical were reported over the 20-year period. The connection will allow electromagnetic vehicles to ride employing a novel strategy, which simplifies exciting method will be useful for trans- professor of medicine at the University The median age of the patients was 37. up to space, taking workers and equipment into orbit. It will the process of engineering multiple genes forming complex systems from prokaryotes of California-San Francisco. They were most likely to be male, and the also be a much cheaper option for space tourists, compared to make sure their expression is balanced such as bacteria to eukaryotic hosts such Little scientific evidence bites most often occurred at home in the to riding on a rocket-powered spacecraft. in their new host. as plants. Little scientific evidence links drought backyard. The majority of bites occurred There are many challenges to making space elevators in real Nitrogen fixation is an intricate and Professor Dixon continues, “In the fu- to an increase in snakebites, and yet every- during the spring or summer and in coun- life though. No material has been found to be strong enough delicate process which requires a balance ture this method may also be applied to one seems to believe there’s a connection, ties dominated by shrub or scrub growth. for the cable, and the effects on the human body of riding an of numerous key components. Until now, engineering metabolic pathways in plants including emergency medicine providers, Mariposa County topped the list with the elevator up into space remains uncertain. achieving the right balance of these com- to produce antifungal and antibacterial since that’s what they’re taught during most bites at 96 bites per 1 million people. (Source: Tech Times) ponents has been a major challenge to the secondary metabolites that provide re- training, Lipman said. In Santa Clara County, where Stanford is engineering of nitrogen fixation in cereal sistance to pathogens.” A quick Internet search of headlines located, there were 4 bites per 1 million crops. (Source: phys.org) from the popular press quickly confirmed people. (Source: eurekalert.org) Cyborg cockroaches could be Scientists figured out the origin of mysterious patterns on the moon’s surface a life-saving device: study If you look at the moon through a telescope, you swirls in a paper published back in 1979. and thus of the swirls themselves, had long lava flows, which also left large, dark basalt Researchers from the University of Connecticut placed tiny might see something curious on the surface. At higher altitudes, the swirls are less been a mystery,” said planetary scientist Sonia plains all over the lunar surface between 3 neuro-controllers on cockroaches to manipulate the in- The bright, undulating patterns are called pronounced and intricate than the ones at Tikoo of Rutgers University-New Brunswick. and 4 billion years ago. sects’ movement inside the buildings. The research, which lunar swirls, and their origins have been an a lower altitude, and while every swirl has a Magnetic fields And this could explain how those under- was presented on Thursday at the Conference on Cognitive ongoing mystery - not least because they are magnetic field, there are magnetic fields on To “solve it, we had to find out what kind ground formations became magnetized. Be- Computational Neuroscience in Philadelphia, shows that the associated with powerful, localized magnetic the moon that don’t have swirls. of geological feature could produce these cause something happens when moon rock scientists developed an easier way to control and monitor fields. On top of that, while the swirls are not new, magnetic fields - and why their magnetism is heated to temperatures around 875 Kelvin the movement of the insect. Now scientists think they may have solved they have the spectral characteristics of new is so powerful.” (600 degrees Celsius, or 1,112 Fahrenheit) in The “use of insects as platforms for small robots has an a part of the puzzle. The surface patterns, their formations; that is, they are less weathered Using computer modelling, the team the presence of a magnetic field, in an anoxic incredible number of useful applications from search and rescue research has found, are caused by subterra- than the surrounding regolith. discovered that each swirl has to be close to environment. to national defense,” Abhishek Dutta, an assistant professor nean lava tubes. The mechanisms at play are unknown, or above a narrow, magnetic object not far It becomes highly magnetized. That’s be- of electrical and computer engineering at the University of The lunar swirls and their strange mag- but one possibility is that the magnetic fields from the lunar surface. And lava tubes, or cause the heat causes some of the minerals to Connecticut who developed the device, said in a statement. netism has been known for decades. The Apollo around the swirls deflect particles blown in vertical lava dikes, which are the result of break down, releasing iron. In the presence of “We believe our microcircuit provides a more sophisticated 15 and 16 missions helped map sources of from the solar wind, causing them to weather long-ceased lunar volcanic activity, fit that a strong enough magnetic field, that iron will and reliable control system that brings us one step closer to magnetism on the moon - which has no global more slowly. description nicely. then become magnetized in the same direc- real-world implementation of this technology.” magnetic field - and these were linked to the “But the cause of those magnetic fields, These formations are the result of basalt tion of the field. (Source: sciencealert.com) The team tested the device on the Madagascar hissing cockroach. According to National Geographic, the cock- roaches are about two to three inches long and can live for two to five years. BMI Wins 1st Rank in Terms of Selling Surplus Real Estates in Banking System The microcircuit is attached to a live cockroach through CEO of Bank Melli Iran (BMI) Dr. Mohammad-Reza Hos- Selling surplus properties and economic enterprises what is essentially a tiny backpack. Developing these devic- seinzadeh revealed that his bank won the first rank in terms available to bank is not the possessed by the bank, rather, es has been difficult historically because of how small they of selling surplus real estates in banking system, the Public bank embarks on selling these properties as one side of have to be. To attach the device, wires from the circuit are Relations Dept. of the bank reported. contract party, Hosseinzadeh opined. connected to the insect’s antennae lobes. With due observance to the said issue, Bank Melli Iran Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei Though similar devices have been developed in the past, (BMI) has transferred about 2,600 billion tomans worth and President Rouhani have placed special emphasis on this circuit is unique because it contains an advanced nine-axis of its companies and additional properties in the past nine exclusion of banks from economic activities, he said, adding, inertial measurement unit which can track the cockroach’s months of Iranian calendar year, he maintained. “Bank Melli Iran (BMI) is determined to implement this rotational and linear acceleration and the direction it’s head- Stock-paneled companies under the management of instruction as reiterated by senior officials of the country.” ing. It can also detect the temperature around the insect. the bank are transferred via Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), According to him, stocks of eight companies includ- By detecting the temperature, the scientists may be able he said, adding, “companies and other properties are sold ing National Iranian steel Group have been transferred Company, most of them have faced critical problem in the to predict how the cockroaches will perform because the through public tender after being advertised in newspapers.” to the bank only due to the liability of Amir Mansour Aria production field. temperature can affect them. (Source: Newsweek) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 SOCIETYANALYSIS & INTERVIEWSEPTEMBER 8, 2018 12

Govt. allots $3.5b to health Hour al-Azim wetland wildfire sector: minister

SOCIETY TEHRAN — The Iranian government has deskallocated $3.5 billion to state-run centers in the health sector to control the adverse effects of currency threatens bird migration fluctuations, Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh-Hashemi ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — Should the said on Thursday. deskwildfire in Hour al-Azim Recent currency fluctuations wetland continues throughout autumn it in the country has urged the would become a threat to bird migration government to allot the sum in the area, head of Khuzestan province’s to the health sector, IRNA department of environment has said. news agency quoted Qaziza- Raging wildfire has been hitting the Iraqi deh-Hashemi as saying. part of Hour al-Azim, a transboundary The government is making body of water shared between Iran and an attempt to decrease the neg- Iraq, since July 2. ative impacts of the currency And now Ahmadreza Lahijanzadeh fluctuations on health sector explained if the fire continues in the re- and the Ministry of Health is gion the number of birds migrating to the also striving to live up to the wetland will certainly decrease. standards in providing health- Migratory birds normally wing their care services despite the hardships, he noted. ways to the wetland since [the Iranian “We wouldn’t let the current conditions to affect healthcare calendar] month of Aban (October 23 to services under no circumstances,” he highlighted. November 21) and the fire would disrupt the process as they may seek habitats which are safer, YJC qouted Lahijanzadeh as saying on Friday. 14.7 million students to What do birds do when wildfires break out? attend schools According to audubon.org, when wild- fires erupt in a habitat birds fly away un- SOCIETY TEHRAN — Iran’s Minster of Education has surprisingly. A fire might kill weak birds deskannounced that some 14.7 million students will or, depending on the time of year, claim attend schools in the new school year starting on September 23, nestlings. Birds evolved alongside fire and IRNA reported on Thursday. flee in the face of conflagrations. “Direct mortality is not a big concern,” U.S. Forest Service research biologist Vicki Saab says. But how do wildfires physically affect birds? Assuming birds escape a fire, smoke Migratory birds in Hour-al Azim wetland in January 2017 (IRNA/ Mohammad Reza Khabbazan) might still affect their health in ways that aren’t very well understood. “We do know found that smoke can damage lung tis- might succumb to smoke inhalation or due to the high temperatures and lack of that exposure to particulate matter, which sue and leave the animals susceptible to exhaustion before they can escape forest water in Iraqi parts of the wetland. of course is of great concern for human potentially lethal respiratory infections. fires, according to the Alberta Institute Despite efforts made by Iran including health, can affect birds as well,” says Olivia In some cases, smoke inhalation might for Wildlife Conservation. aerial firefighting more than 20,000 hec- Sanderfoot, a National Science Foundation make it harder for birds to flee onrushing Hour-al Azim stuck in wildfire tares of the wetland in Iraq has burnt so far. Graduate Research Fellow at the University flames. Thick smoke, for instance, may The fire has caused air pollution and While the wetland has been burning in of Washington Seattle who studies how have contributed to the deaths of 50 breathing difficulties for people of Khuz- fire originated mainly in the Iraqi part of air pollution affects birds. adult White Ibises during a 1999 fire in estan province in southwestern Iran. While the wetland, the Iraqi government seems For example, veterinarians and poultry the Everglades, Sanderfoot reported in a the fire was contained to some extent, sev- to be reluctant to make any moves to put scientists who study captive birds have recent paper. And some low-flying species eral times it ignites every now and then out the fire. The number shows a 6-percent increase year-on-year, Mo- hammad Bat’haei said. Nationwide some 105,000 schools will open and some 8,000 new classes will be added for the new school year, he noted, adding ‘Local communities play a minor part in managing protected areas’ that about 10,000 new classes will be constructed by the end of ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — One of the main draw- for his part, explained that the UNESCO believes in fostering the upcoming school year (May 2019). deskbacks associated with the management dialogue for conflict resolution of natural resource use, Commenting on lack of sufficient education space the of protected areas in the country is that local communities integrating cultural and biological diversity, especially the minster noted that currently per capita education space per play a minor part in preserving these areas, deputy envi- role of traditional knowledge in ecosystem management student is 5 square meters while the standard space must ronment chief for natural environment and biodiversity to both safeguard the biodiversity as well as the cultural be 8 square meters. directorate has said. diversity of the communities. He explained that unfortunately the per capita education Hamid Zohrabi made the remarks in a ceremony held to In order to protect the area people should be stakehold- space is 3 square meters in some provinces and called on celebrate the UNESCO recognition of Kopet Dag in Shirvan ers in these areas to preserve the biodiversity and this will philanthropists to join hands with the government to increase county, northeastern North Khorasan province, as a bio - be achieved through support for innovative industries and educational facilities. sphere reserve on Thursday, Mehr news agency reported. cultural heritage of the locals, Namvar-Motlaq suggested. Since the [Iranian calendar] year 1346 (March 1967-March Kopet Dag is a protected area stretching over 18,000 LEARN ENGLISH 1968) some 17 million hectares of land areas including 281 hectares of land area and is filled with thick forests and sites falling into four categories of national parks, wildlife variety of plant and animal species. refuges, protected areas, and national nature monuments The biosphere reserve covers part of the Kopet Dag Just In Time Strategy have been conserved, Zohrabi said. mountain range, along Iran’s border with Turkmenistan. Kopet Dag has been a protected area for 50 years, but The ecological region of Kopet Dag is an important part of A: I called this meeting today in order to discuss our manu- now that the area has received UNESCO recognition for the Irano-Anatolian biodiversity hotspot, whose primary facturing plan. As I’m sure you’re all aware, with the credit biosphere reserves we will put emphasis on the involve- Kopet Dag in Shirvan county, North Khorasan province function is the conservation of many of the endangered species crunch, and the global financial crisis, we’reobligated to ment of local communities in management of the region, Bahman Namvar-Motlaq, the deputy director of the in this area. The main economic activities are agriculture look for more cost efficient ways of producing our goods. Zohrabi highlighted. 1397 2695Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, and livestock, according to UNESCO website. We don’t want to have to be looking at redundancies. / So, we’ve outlined a brief plan to implement the just-in- time philosophy. Permit No. 1397.2690 B: We have two basic points that we want to focus on. First of WHO EMRO Regional Second Announcement all, we want to reduce our lead time. C: Why would want to do that? I think this is not an area that Invitation For Prequalification N.I.S.O.C really needs to be worked on. director to visit Iran B: Well, we want to reduce production and delivery lead times N.I.S.O.C for better overall efficiency. Invitation For Prequalification A: Right, production lead times can be reduced by moving work stations closer together, reducing queue length, like TENDER NO. : 08-21-9540002TENDER NO. : 08-21-9540002 for example, reducing the number of jobs waiting to be pro- cessed at a given machine, and improving the coordination National Iranian South Oilfields Company intends to purchase and cooperation between successive processes. Delivery lead National Iranian South Oilfields Company intends tothe purchase following the following goods goods times can be reduced through close cooperation with suppliers, possibly by inducing suppliers to locate closer to the factory or working with a faster shipping company. Description Quantity. C: I see. That makes sense. B: The second point is that we want to require supplier quality assurance and implement a zero defects quality CASING 5 IN., 18 PPF ,API GRADE N80 01 Items including 2000 LE. program. We currently have far too many errors that lead to SEAMLESS,"VAM FLUSH JOINT" RANGE 3, defective items and therefore, they must be eliminated. A quality control at the source program must be implemented (MAX LEN:40.5 FT), to give workers the personal responsibility for the quality of the work they do, and the authority to stop production when something goes wrong. Vendors who intend to participate in the A/M tender are requested C: I’m with you on this one. It’s essential that we reduce these Ahmed Al-Mandhari FOREIGN PURCHASING DEPT errors; we’ve got to force our suppliers to reduce their mistakes. to send their resume & ten-dency letter via fax/ mail to the following A: Exactly. Well, let’s look at how we’re going to put this plan Kouy-e-Fadaeianaddress Islam not(New later Site)Bld thang 14 NO days 104, after Ahvaz, the Iransecond an-nouncement. into action. SOCIETY TEHRAN — Ahmed of Health and will be briefed about meas- The applicants should have relevant background in supplying the desk Tel.fax No.: +98-61 -34457437 Key vocabulary Al-Mandhari, World ures taken to combat non-communicable required goods and capability to provide a bid bond of Euro 55,745 / obligate: make a person do some- thing because it is the right Health Organization (WHO) Regional diseases in the country, IRNA news agency thing to do Director for the Eastern Mediterranean quoted Asadi Lari as saying on Friday. RlsTel. 2,671,468,200 No.: +98-61 -3 4124644in favor of NISOC. Iranian vendors shall submit cost efficient:cheap, not expensive Regional Office (EMRO), will visit Iran, He will also visit with high-ranking of- their resume Acc. to forms Nos. 01, 02 and 03 which are available redundancy: layoff, the ending of workers› employment the deputy health minister for interna- ficials at the Ministry of Health to discuss at:www.shana.ir and www.nisoc.ir implement: put a plan into action tional affairs has said. increased cooperation with Iran to boost Public Relations Mohsen Asadi Lari explained that health in other regional countries, Asadi lead time: the time between the beginning of a process and its end FOREIGN PURCHASING DEPT Al-Mandhari will pay visits to healthcare Lari concluded. efficiency: the ability to produce something more quickly Kouy-e-Fadaeian Islam (New Site)Bldg NO 104, Ahvaz, Iran work station: an area where a person works and does his job and research centers and will be informed The deputy health minister for interna- WWW.shana.ir Tel.fax No.: given: used to refer to a specific time, place or thing about the achievements and challenges of tional affairs did not specify the exact date +98-61 -34457437 defect: a mistake or error that makes something not perfect healthcare reform plan. of Al-Mandhari visit to Iran. Tel. No.: +98-61 -34124644 defective: having a mistake or error that makes something The healthcare reform plan, aiming at The WHO is the directing and coordinat- www.nisoc.ir Public Relations decreasing the out-of-pocket expenses for ing authority for public health within the not perfect www.shana.ir Supplementary vocabulary the patients, promoting natural birth, and United Nations system. The WHO Regional http://iets.mporg.ir inventory: supply of goods stored in a place supporting underprivileged patients suf- Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is one www.nisoc.ir fering from rare or incurable diseases, was of WHO’s 6 regional offices around the world. carrying cost: the cost of holding inventory http://iets.mporg.ir warehouse: large building where products or goods are stored launched in the country in May 2014. 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I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 ANALYSIS & INTERVIEW SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 13 WORLD IN FOCUS 13 Iraq: Protesters torch government Hezbollah ‘much stronger’ buildings in Basra despite Israel’s numerous 1 militia and the offices of the Hikma Sadr has called on the parliament to hold attacks Movement (National Wisdom Movement/ an emergency televised session to discuss Tayar al-Hikmah al-Watani) about 100 km the crisis in Basra, a city that he said was An Israeli official says Hezbollah has become stronger despite (60 miles) north of Basra, while storming “without water, electricity or dignity.” many attacks on the movement’s positions, mainly in Syria where the house of the acting head of the provin- The violence has prompted the temporary the resistance group is helping the army fight foreign-backed cial council. head of Iraq’s parliament to call an emergency terrorists. Several other buildings of the provin- session on Saturday. cial government, including the offices of the Legislators would “discuss the problems, state-run Iraqiya TV, were among some of the solutions and the latest situation” in the other places that came under attack. Basra, a statement said on Friday. Protesters also blocked the main roads in The southern city has been the epicenter the city center. of protests that have rocked Iraq since July, Basra’s security officials announced a with anger fuelled by pollution of the water curfew from 10:30 pm local time (1930 GMT) supply that left 30,000 people in hospital. later in the day to help end the protests. Mortars rip through Baghdad’s They had initially planned to announce the Green Zone curfew at 3 pm. Also on Thursday night, Baghdad’s heavily The violence led to clashes with security fortified Green Zone was hit with three mortar guards, killing at least three people. One shells. The attack caused “no casualties or protester died from burns sustained during tive for Iraq urged “the authorities to avoid gion suffered from decades of neglect by physical damage” as the mortars landed on the unrest, sources within Iraq’s health and using disproportionate, lethal force against the central government while producing an “abandoned lot,” the Iraqi military said “If we look backwards to what it was like before, Hezbollah security ministries said. the demonstrators.” the bulk of Iraq’s oil wealth. in a statement. An unnamed source told is much stronger,” Naftali Granot, former deputy of Israel’s spy That brings the total death toll of the The protesters have also managed to The growing anger comes at a time Reuters that the mortars hit an area near agency Mossad, said on Thursday. protests to 10 since they began on Monday. shutter the port of Umm Qasr, Iraq’s main when Iraq’s political parties are trying to the Egyptian embassy. Granot said Hezbollah’s self-confidence was high due to being The Iraqi army on Wednesday blamed “un- seaport and its principle lifeline for importing form a government after an inconclusive No group immediately claimed respon- on the winning side in the Syrian war along with Iran, the Syrian identified gunmen” for the Tuesday death of grain and other commodities. parliamentary election in May, which saw sibility for the attack. government and Russia. six protesters. “The protesters slain yesterday Oil exports not effected powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr win the Rights activists have accused security Hezbollah “got antiaircraft missiles, antitank missiles” and in downtown Basra were killed by unknown Meanwhile, oil exports were not affected most votes and form a coalition with Prime forces of opening fire on the demonstrators, had access to a number of “GPS precision-guided systems that gunmen in a car,” army commander Jamil by the unrest in the city, which accounts for Minister Haider al-Abadi’s party, who only while the government has blamed provoca- will help it to convert some heavy rockets into accurate missiles” al-Shammari said in a statement. some 95 percent of the country’s crude exports. came in third after Popular Mobilization teurs in the crowds and say the troops were despite being repeatedly targeted, he said. The United Nations special representa- The protesters complain that their re- Units (PMU/Hashd al-Shaabi). ordered not to use live rounds. Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz told a conference on Tuesday that Israel had launched more than 200 strikes against various targets inside Syria in the last two years. Israel imposes travel ban on Palestinian resistance icon Tamimi, family On Wednesday, a senior Israeli commander said Hezbollah Israeli authorities have banned Palestinian resistance icon she “has become a global ambassador for humanity,” and has been gaining strength in Lebanon and that Israel would not Ahed al-Tamimi and her family from traveling abroad, nearly “Israel is afraid of the sympathy and unity among its op- distinguish between the group and the Lebanese army in the two months after she was released from Israeli prison after ponents,” Ahed’s father told Press TV. next military confrontation. serving an eight-month sentence for slapping an Israeli On July 29, Tamimi, a resident of Nabi Saleh village “The distinction we made between Hezbollah and Lebanon soldier. that is located 20 kilometers northwest of Ramallah, and during the Second Lebanon War was a mistake,” the unnamed Her father Basim al-Tamimi told Turkey’s official Anadolu her mother, Nariman, were released from an Israeli pris- officer in the Northern Command said about the 2006 Israeli news agency on Friday that the family had planned to travel on after serving an eight-month sentence on assault and war, cited by the Haaretz daily. to Europe via Jordan in order to participate in some events incitement charges and arrived home to a hero’s welcome. “Hezbollah upgraded its capabilities through its fighting in pertaining to the Palestinian protest movement, and the The 17-year-old girl was detained by Israeli forces last Syria,” the officer said. “It gained confidence in the fighting,” Palestinian prisoners’ sufferings in Israeli detention centers. December after a video of the curly-haired teen kicking he added. They were, however, informed by Palestinian officials and slapping two armed Israeli soldiers in protective gear The Syrian army has managed to drive the terrorists out of that Israel had banned them from traveling abroad without went viral on Facebook. Israeli military forces had raided most parts of the country and end Daesh’s territorial rule with providing a reason. her home to arrest her brother. help from Iran, Hezbollah and Russia. He added that they had planned to leave on Friday morning. In March, an Israeli court handed down an eight-month It is now on the verge of fully liberating the southern parts She was also planning a visit to Iran. prison sentence to the Palestinian teenage protester for near the occupied Golan, prompting serious concerns in Tel Aviv, In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Ahed’s father said “attacking” Israeli forces. in Nabi Saleh village in 2012. which supports the terrorists operating there against Damascus. Israel barred her daughter’s trip for fear that she would foil Israeli forces have on occasions arrested members of Her aunt Bassima al-Tamimi was beaten to death by an Syria is now preparing for an operation to liberate Idlib Prov- the Israeli regime’s “schemes for the disintegration of the Tamimi’s family, including brothers and parents, for their Israeli policeman in 1993 while attending her son’s trial ince, the last major militant stronghold. region” by forging close relations with the enemies of Israel. opposition to Israel’s invasion of Palestinian lands. session at the time. (Source: Press TV) Israel prevented Ahed from travelling abroad, because Israeli forces shot dead her uncle Rushdie al-Tamimi (Source: Press TV) Pro-Israel British Labour MP Joan Ryan loses vote of confidence over anti-Semitism row Turkey to open embassy in Paraguay Elsewhere, a leading pro-Israel member of large numbers to vote after a motion of no current Corbyn both at local member meetings government comes to power, they might parliament in Britain’s Labour Party has lost confidence had been called on the rebel MP. and to the press. She regularly votes against force peace on Israel.” Turkey will open an embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay, the South a vote of confidence over her criticism of party After a lengthy meeting which included or abstains from critical policies pushed by Another pro-Corbyn member spoke out American country said on Sept. 7, a day after President Mario leader Jeremy Corbyn in the anti-Semitism six speakers debating either for or against the Corbyn’s party making her a notorious against Ryan: “Comrades, ask yourselves Abdo reversed the previous administration’s decision to move row within Labour. Ryan, the over 100 members in attendance title rebel MP. again, honestly, who is it that has really been its diplomatic mission in Israel to al-Quds (Jerusalem) from Tel Joan Ryan, the chair of Labour Friends cast their votes. When asked “do you support Ryan is also the chair of the Labour Friends sowing division and causing disruption? I’m Aviv, Reuters reported. of Israel, was targeted for de-selection by the motion of no confidence in Joan Ryan?” of Israel lobby group which has put her at afraid to say that it is our very own member Turkey’s ambassador to Paraguay has been operating out of members of her constituency, who said The results given were 95 yes to 92 no. odds with Corbyn who is a lifelong pro-Pal- of parliament (Joan Ryan) who is responsible Buenos Aires. Turkey has a consulate in Asuncion and another she had “smeared” Corbyn’s character and It is being seen as the potential start of a estine campaigner. for precisely that.” in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. “fuelled” the anti-Semitism storm that has formal de-selection process, which ultimately She often uses her platform in the pro-Is- After hearing from the speakers, Ryan By opening the embassy, Turkey is expressing support for engulfed the party this summer. involves a “trigger ballot” by members and rael newspaper, the Jewish Chronicle, to was allowed to address the membership. Paraguay’s stance on Israel, Paraguay’s Foreign Minister Luis Members of Enfield North, a peripheral constituency affiliates. attack the leader. She has been quoted saying She tried to sway the vote in her favor, say- Castiglioni told reporters. Greater London constituency, came out in Ryan has a history of undermining the Corbyn “is not interested in Middle East ing: “I have never called Jeremy Corbyn not Paraguay and Guatemala relocated their embassies in Israel peace - just in meeting terrorists with blood to be our leader, I’ve never called for him to al-Quds (Jerusalem) after Trump recognized the city as the on their hands” and that the Labour leader to stand aside, and I’ve never said he was country’s capital in December 2017. First Announcement Permit No. 1397.2716 “appals” her. anti-Semitic.” Hours after Paraguay’s new government announced on Sept. Her anti-Corbyn stance has created “This idea that I go around attacking 5 it would move its embassy back to Tel Aviv from al-Quds (Jeru- 1397 / 2716 much resentment among many Enfield the leadership, that’s not right,” she added. salem), Israel responded by ordering the closure of its embassy North members who wish to remain loyal Ryan even tried quoting Nelson Mandela in Paraguay.

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Corbyn saying: “All the media has been After the results were announced, mem- Paraguay considers Israel’s decision to close its embassy National Iranian South Oilfieldspurchase Company theintends following to purchase the goods following goods attacking Jeremy Corbyn and I don’t bers were filmed clapping and cheering at hasty and disproportionate, and hopes Israeli authorities will think it is anything to do at all about the news of Ryan’s no confidence defeat. reconsider, Castiglioni said. Description UNIT Quantity. anti-Semitism.” The embattled MP took to Twitter after to Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu spoke She continued: “Jeremy Corbyn is critical vent her frustration at the defeat, slamming LINE PIPE API 5L GRADE B PSL 2 SEAMLESS, BLACK, ACCORDING TO with Castiglioni over the phone on Sept. 7. IPS-M-PI-190(3) SUPPLEMENTED TO API 5L 45TH EDITION 2012, BASIC of Israel oppressing the Palestinians (..) 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Iranian vendors shall “Saudi Arabia has armed and financed and security. announced visit amid the U.S. push for talks with the Taliban which are calling for the withdrawal of foreign troops. submit their resume Acc. to forms Nos. 01, 02 and 03 which are extremist terrorist group like Daesh, Al-Nusra The rising threat of terrorism and violent Tel. No.: +98-61 -34124644 Front and other Takfiri groups and at the extremism across the globe, in particular, in The U.S. President Donald Trump had promised to pull out available at www.shana.ir and www.nisoc.ir same time continues bombing innocent the Middle East is one of the sound effects of troops from Afghanistan but he unveiled a revamped Afghan Public Relations children of Yemen,” Khoshroo said during unilateralism coupled with an interventionist, strategy last August, which increased troop levels. FOREIGN PURCHASING DEPT The Taliban say they will not enter talks unless the U.S. troops WWW.shana.ir a speech at the UN High-Level Forum on flawed and shortsighted policy of a certain Kouy-e-Fadaeian Islam (New Site)Bldg NO 104, Ahvaz, Iran the Culture of Peace. power. It is done through proxies, Saudi leave the country and have pledged to make Afghanistan “another Tel.fax No.: +98-61www.nisoc.ir -34457437 Tel. No.: +98-61 -34124644 Following is an excerpt of his speech: Arabia has armed and financed extremist graveyard” for foreign forces. The militants have overtaken several districts in a spate Public Relations In fact, unilaterally imposed measures, terrorist group like Daesh, Al-Nusra Front http://iets.mporg.ir the use and threat of use of force, pressure, and other Takfiri groups and at the same of brazen attacks in recent months, including Ghazni which www.shana.ir and unilateral coercive sanctions as a means time continues bombing innocent children was briefly overtaken by the militants last month, jolting the 97 6 20 97 6 17 government in Kabul because the central city is close enough to achieving national policy objectives, have of Yemen. It goes without saying that these تهران تایمز : نوبت اول /www.nisoc.ir / نوبت دوم / / a serious adverse impact on the promotion actions run counter to culture of peace. to the capital. Taliban’s five-year rule over at least three quarters of Afghan- http://iets.mporg.ir of a culture of peace. They are fundamental “Me first” policy might work, for one, at impediments to establish a peaceful and first – but at the end it is doomed to failure. istan came to an end following the U.S. invasion in October 2001 prosperous world as well as a just and eq- So, there is a need to shift to a new democratic but the new strategy includes talks with the Taliban which they (uitable world order. and balanced approach. toppled. (Source: agencies روزنامه : تهران تایمز نوبت اول 17/6/97 نوبت دوم :97/6/20

I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 14 WORLD SPORTS SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

There will always be talk ‘It’s really incredible’ - Williams about my future - Pogba powers into ninth US Open final Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba believes “there will always be talk” amid continuing speculation about his future Serena Williams swept past Anastasija Sevastova 6-3 6-0 at Old Trafford. on Thursday and into the final of the U.S. Open to sit one The 25-year-old fell out of favour last season and was linked win away from a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title with a return to Juventus, or Barcelona in the summer. to continue her remarkable return to the top levels of the On Wednesday, Pogba fuelled speculation when he said: “Who game after she almost died while having a baby last year. knows what will happen in the next few months.” Williams walked off Arthur Ashe Stadium court with a However, on Thursday, he said: “It’s not me who’s talking. wave and twirl then waited to find out who she will play in I’m trying to do my job and work on myself physically.” Saturday’s final. The World Cup winner was speaking either side of France’s 0-0 That was also decided quickly as Japan’s Naomi Osaka draw with Germany in their opening Uefa Nations League match. dismissed last year’s losing finalist American Madison Keys When asked if he was “fed up” with all the speculation, he 6-2 6-4. replied: “I got back late [from the World Cup], so I’m trying to Asked if she had message for Williams, Osaka, who beat perform as well as possible.” Williams in their only head-to-head meeting, smiled and Asked about his relationship with United boss Jose Mourin- said, “Serena I love you.” ho, Pogba replied: “We have a pure coach-player relationship, Just seven months and seven tournaments removed from that’s right. returning to competition following the birth of her first child, “One thing I can assure you, I will always give 100% - no Williams was back at her ruthless best and needed just 66 matter which coach I always give everything for United. I cannot minutes to beat the 19th seeded Latvian and reach her 31st say more.” Grand Slam final. The former United youth player returned to the club on a A win on Saturday would also give the 36-year-old Amer- five-year deal after four years with Juventus, signing for a then ican a seventh U.S. Open title, breaking a tie with Chris Evert world record £89m fee in 2016. for the most in the Open era. Last season, he was dropped to the bench by Mourinho for Honestly, it is remarkable. I couldn’t have predicted this at both legs of United’s Champions League last-16 defeat by Sevilla. all,” said Williams. “I got a little emotional out there because But he was made captain for the opening two games of the last year I was literally fighting for my life in the hospital. Premier League season in the absence of Antonio Valencia and “I was on my third surgery. I had one more to go still. has scored twice so far. “To come from that, in the hospital bed, not being able (Source: BBC) to move and walk and do anything, now only a year later I’m actually in these finals, in two in a row. confidence jumped when the 29-year-old broke Williams to night I had to come in.” “Like I said, this is the beginning. I’m not there yet. I’m open the match then held for a 2-0 lead as an uneasy hush Despite her dominant display Williams estimated she on the climb still.” fell over the Arthur Ashe showcourt. But Williams, who had is still only operating at 50-60 percent and then fired an ‘90 percent chance Girona v It will be the second consecutive Grand Slam final for Wil- dropped just one set on way to the last four, quickly restored ominous warning to her fellow players. liams who came agonisingly close to matching Margaret Court’s order as she charged the net one moment and pounded winners “There’s still much more that I plan on doing,” declared Barcelona in U.S.’ - Tebas record of 24 majors at Wimbledon but was beaten by Angelique from the baseline the next that left her opponent stunned as Williams. “I just feel like there’s a lot of growth to still go Kerber. Sevastova arrived at her first Grand Slam semi-final the American won 12 of the next 13 games. in my game. La Liga chief Javier Tebas has said there is a 90 percent chance riding a wave of momentum built from a fourth round win over “I know how to volley, I usually come in just to shake “Even though I’m not a spring chicken I still have a very, the first Spanish top flight game in the United States will be Gi- seventh seed Elina Svitolina and a quarter-final demolition of hands,” said Williams. “But tonight I thought I am playing very bright future.” rona’s ‘home’ match against Barcelona in January and revealed defending champion and third seed Sloane Stephens. That such a good player I knew if I wanted to have a chance to- (Source: Reuters) the league will earn 200 million euros ($232.80 million) for playing games in North America. Tebas added that Girona’s joint majority shareholders Man- France hope for good home show against Cristiano Ronaldo congratulated Luka chester City had encouraged the Catalan side to get involved in the initiative, part of a 15-year deal the league signed with U.S. Dutch after Germany draw Modric on ‘deserved’ UEFA award entertainment company Relevent last month, while stating that no club was obliged to play games in the U.S. “Girona-Barcelona will 90 percent be played in the United States, but the agreement is not about just one game, it’s about a process which is much bigger,” Tebas said in an interview with Spanish radio station Onda Cero broadcast on Friday. “We held a bidding process and various companies got involved. There’s no obligation for teams to play one game a year in the United States, only the clubs who volunteer to go will go. “But this is much more than a game, it’s about strategy and sponsorship.” The game will deprive Girona of a home fixture with Tebas confirming reports that the club’s fans will be offered free flights to the game, set to take place at the Miami Dolphins’ 65,000-ca- pacity Hard Rock Stadium in Florida. Reuters was awaiting a response from Manchester City and Girona after Tebas confirmed the Premier League champions had encouraged the club to get involved in the first U.S. match. “The game is designed to help teams that don’t have a very big fan base,” Tebas added. France manager Didier Deschamps believes the World Cup in Russia, posing no real Luka Modric said Cristiano Ronaldo sent grace that Ronaldo did not win the UEFA “Girona are partly owned by City and together with (Miami they need to sharpen up when they play threat for most of the game. him a text message telling him he deserved award and left during the ceremony, al- Dolphins owner) Stephen Ross, they told us Girona were inter- the Netherlands on Sunday in their first It was unlikely, however, that France to win UEFA’s Player of the Year award. though he claimed he did so to tend to ested in playing this game. home match since winning the World Cup would instantly pick up where they left Modric received the honour last week, transfer business. “He scored 15 goals, and (Source: Goal) in July following their goalless draw away off in July, with their players having had edging out Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah, carried Madrid on his back to win another to Germany. limited pre-season preparation following after winning the Champions League with Champions League,” Mendes said at the The French seemed to be nursing a their lengthy World Cup campaign. Madrid and helping Croatia reach the World time. “It’s just ridiculous -- a disgrace. post-victory hangover when they faced Deschamps’ team can expect days of Cup final. He also joined Ronaldo and Salah There is no doubt about the winner. He Germany in Munich on Thursday in their festivities when they return to Paris but on the shortlist for the FIFA Player of the is the best in his position.” Maradona named coach of first outing since the final, creating only a the players will know they need to pick Year award on Monday. Zlatko Dalic, Croatia’s coach, said earlier few chances in the Nations League game up three points from their next Nations Ronaldo, who did not show up to the this week he would not want Ronaldo on Mexican club Dorados compared to their opponents’ half dozen. League match as well as put on a show for ceremony, was trying to win UEFA’s award his team because of his ego, but clarified The Germans were eager for redemp- the French fans. for the third consecutive year. on Thursday that he did not mean his claim Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, a 1986 World Cup tion after their shock World Cup group “It will be a great feeling because it will be “I have a good relationship with Ronal- to sound negative. winner, has been appointed coach of Mexican second division stage exit while France at times looked our first match in France since we won the do,” Modric told RTP3 after Croatia’s 1-1 “Ronaldo is one of the best players in the team Dorados, the club said on its website on Thursday. content with a draw. “We can do it better,” title,” Giroud said. “But we know we have draw with Portugal on Thursday. “It’s still world, in my opinion,” Dalic said. “This was The club issued a short video on their social media channels Deschamps said. “We are returning home to get the three points against the Dutch to the same. For me, the individual awards part of my answer to the question because with the messages ‘Welcome Diego’, and ‘Make it a 10’, the Ar- (for Sunday’s game in Paris) but we need stay in contention in the Nations League.” are important, but the collective ones are Ronaldo wasn’t at the award ceremony. I gentina great’s shirt number as a player. to be more efficient. “We ran out of steam The Nations League, brainchild of Eu- more important than individual ones. I’m said that it was a little bit selfish, but the Although Dorados, who are based in Sinaloa state in north- towards the end and obviously the entire ropean soccer body UEFA, aims to boost not obsessed with these. We’ve already truth is that I didn’t want to sound negative. west Mexico, gave no further details, Mexican newspapers said squad is not yet at the peak of their form. interest in international football and features spoken. “He sent me a message to con- I was misunderstood.” Maradona had been hired to replace Francisco Gamez. Not at this time of the season.” all 55 of Europe’s national teams divided gratulate me. He said he was happy for Meanwhile, former Juventus striker Dorados fired Gamez earlier on Thursday after a poor start France’s passing was far from accurate into four divisions split into four groups, me and that I deserved it. He also said he David Trezeguet said he believes Ronal- to the season that brought three points out of a possible 15. They and they seemed to lack pace, with forwards with games played between September would like to see me soon. That’s it. We do’s scoring touch will come once he fully are 13th in the 15-team league, joint bottom of the table. Kylian Mbappe, Antoine Griezmann and and November. have a good relationship.” adjusts to life at his new club. The 57-year-old former Barcelona and Napoli forward is con- Olivier Giroud, who were so dynamic at (Source: Eurosport) Agent Jorge Mendes said it was a dis- (Source: ESPN) sidered one of the greatest players of all time after a career that peaked in 1986 when he captained Argentina to their second and last World Cup title. But drug-addiction, overeating and alcoholism put a sharp Thomas Müller: ‘Our heart is still beating’ end to an otherwise glorious career and in 2000 he nearly died Germany’s first game since the World Cup debacle was were all in it together and that made it a lot of fun.” following a cocaine overdose. highly anticipated by both team and fans alike. Against Whistles and applause for Ilkay Gündogan Maradona previously had short stints coaching clubs in Ar- the new world champions, Joachim Löw and his players The relationship between team and fans seems to be gentina and the United Arab Emirates but his longest spell in took positives from a cathartic goalless draw. improving as months of sporting and personal disappoint- charge was with Argentina, who he led at the 2010 World Cup Toni Kroos waved to the remaining fans inside the Allianz ment fade from memory. in South Africa. Arena with a smile. He looked relieved, as did the rest of his Ilkay Gündogan, who was mercilessly booed at Ger- He will presented by Dorados this weekend and will debut as teammates who had already disappeared into the tunnel many’s last game on home soil against Saudia Arabia coach on Sept. 15 when his new club faces Cafetaleros de Tapachula. after their lap of honor. Only Kroos remained to soak up in Leverkusen following his photograph with Turkish (Source: Reuters) the rest of the atmosphere. president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was able to do a spot The goalless draw against the newly crowned world of PR work. A few isolated whistles could still be heard champions France seems to have had an effect. when the 27-year-old came on after an hour, but the “Today was a good first step,” analyzed Leon Goretzka. majority applauded. “It was about showing people that our heart is still beating,” “I’m proud to be part of this team,” said the Manchester El Clasico will be on Sunday, added Thomas Müller. City midfielder, who added that he’d held positive talks Three months after the debacle in Russia, the German with Löw. “The boss told me he’s happy that I’m continuing October 28 national team presented a different face. “That was particu- and that I’m still part of the group, which is exactly how larly important for the coach,” explained Goretzka. “We questions with his tricks, flicks and changes of direction, I see it too.” The date of the first El Clasico has been set, and it will be on wanted to show more commitment and engagement on couldn’t land a decisive blow. The team appears to have pulled closer together and Sunday, October 28, with a kick-off time of 16.15 CET. the pitch and I think we did that.” “He showed once again that he’s a world-class player – or Löw has clearly found the right words to drag his players It comes in the same week as the third matchday of the Cham- Magical Mbappe, defensive Germans at least that he’s on that path,” said Goretzka with a grin. “I out of their post-World Cup slump. The foundation for a pions League, when Real Madrid play Viktoria Plzen at home, Time and time again, with high energy levels and great imagine he was fun to watch from the stands.” rebuild has been laid. and Barcelona entertain Inter at the Camp Nou. concentration, Germany kept France at bay, aggressively The German supporters certainly had fun as chants of “It’s a process,” said Löw. “It would be naïve to think Javier Tebas confirmed the news on the ‘El Transistor’ pro- breaking up the world champions’ build-up play. They often “Deutschland! Deutschland!” echoed around the sold-out we could forget the World Cup with just one game though. gramme which goes out on Onda Cero and Radio MARCA. succeeded, much to the pleasure of the coach, Joachim Löw, arena and every promising move or successful slide tackle We can only really rehabilitate ourselves at Euro 2020.” In the week after the match, Copa del Rey fixtures will be who praised his players for looking to get into tackles and was greeted with applause. But first comes the next step: a friendly against Peru in played, in what will be a very busy time for both teams. winning them. “I need to say a positive word about the fans,” Goretzka Sinsheim on Sunday. (Source: Marca) Even Kylian Mbappe, who asked the German defense said. “Right from the very start we had the feeling that we (Source: DW) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 ANALYSIS & INTERVIEW SEPTEMBER15 8, 2018 SPORTS 15 Iran lose to USA at Ljubljana Iran Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team Runner-up Volleyball Challenge tournament at Thailand Open

SPORTS Iran national volleyball team lost to the Tasnim — The Iranian women’s national wheelchair basketball deskUnited States 3-0 in their first match at team finished runner-up at the Thailand Open on Wednesday. the Ljubljana Volleyball Challenge tournament in Slovenia. The Iranian team lost to host Thailand 40-25 on Wednesday Igor Kolakovic’s men lost in straight sets (25-18, 25-15, and finished in second place. 25-20) to US team. The United States volleyball team had Iran started the campaign with a 64-16 win over Laos. defeated Iran four times in their previous five meetings. The Persians beat Cambodia 71-8 and advanced to the final In the first game of the tournament, the Slovenian na- match after defeating South Korea 51-19. tional team led by former Iran national team coach Slobodan The competition started on September 2 in Bangkok and Kovac defeated Canada 3-1. finished on September Slovenia has taken on three of the world’s best teams, Canada, Iran and the United States at the Ljubljana Vol- leyball Challenge tournament held in the country’s capital from September 6 to 8. The tournament takes place just Iran wins Int’l Greco-Roman before the start of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship in Italy and Bulgaria which opens on Sunday, wrestling competitions and which will feature all four countries. Team Melli held this training camp in Slovenia ahead of the competition. Today, Iran will face Canada in their last match of the Ljubljana tournament. The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship will be held in Italy and Bulgaria from 9 to 30 September 2018. For the first time the tournament will be jointly-hosted by more than one country. The tournament will take place in six Italian cities (Bari, Bologna, Florence, Assago, Rome and Turin) and three Bulgarian cities (Ruse, Varna and Sofia). Iran will compete with Puerto Rico, Bulgaria, Cuba, Poland and Finland in Group D. Iran grabs silver at World IRNA — Iranian wrestling team ranked first at the Interna- tional Greco-Roman wrestling competitions held in Sirjan City, Shooting C’ships Kerman Province. The 4th round of the International Greco-Roman Wrestling MNA- Iran’s mixed junior team gained the sil- and Marco Suppini, edged past Iran with 499.0 Competitions was held with the attendance of Azerbaijan, Ar- ver medal of 10m air rifle at 52nd ISSF World points and claimed the title. The mixed team of menia, Ukraine, Italy and Iran on September 6-7. Shooting Championships, held in South Korea. India comprised of Shreya Agrawal and Divy- During the final match Iran defeated Azerbaijan 10-0 and Iranian mixed team, comprised of Armina ansh Singh Panwar earned the bronze medal stood on the first place. Safeghian and Amir Mohammad Nekounam, with 435.0 points. Meanwhile, the 4th international cadet freestyle wrestling collected a total of 497.7 points in the final of 10m 52nd edition of ISSF World Championships tournament ‘Yadegar Imam Cup’ was held in Arak city in central air rifle mixed team junior and won the silver started on August 31 in Changwon, South Korea Province of Markazi. medal while they were just 1.3 points behind and goes through September 15. Some 1,800 Final ranking of the Intrenational Greco-Roman Wrestling their Italian rivals. shooters from 90 countries have participated competitions in Sirjan: The Italian team, comprised of Sofia Benetti in the event. 1-Iran A , 2- Azerbaijan , 3- Iran B, Iran Toseeh, 5- Ukraine, 6- Armenia 7 – Italy 8 – Iran (Keramn) Highly-successful AFC Elite Club Coaches’ Forum Brazil to face Saudi Arabia, concludes in Shanghai Argentina in October The Third AFC Elite Club Coaches Forum concluded in intelligence. The leadership role of coaches was discussed Shanghai on Thursday after a wide-ranging discussion on including the challenges facing them in the rapidly changing Brazil will go to Saudi Arabia to play the host nation and Argen- the future of football in Asia at what was hailed as a mile- landscape as well as information sharing on training top tina in October friendlies, the Brazilian football confederation stone event. teams at the highest level on the continent. (CBF) said on Thursday. In a new development after the Forum, AFC Technical Much of the information and many of the learnings were The five-times World Cup winners will play the Saudis on Oct. Director Andy Roxburgh also addressed 50 elite coaches shared with the CFA Coaching Forum held at the Shanghai 12 in Riyadh and then meet their South American neighbours from the Chinese Super League and Jia League at a Chinese SIPG stadium which focused on management and leadership north of Jeddah four days later. Football Association Coaching Summit. skills. The coaches, all Pro or A license holders, were part Tite’s side are currently in the United States for friendlies During the Forum sessions, Asia’s top coaches from China of the intensive course to aid the continued development against the home side in New Jersey on Friday and El Salvador PR, Japan, Korea Republic as well as the Islamic Republic of football in China PR. in Maryland on Tuesday. of Iran, looked at the impact of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Andy Roxburgh said: “These have been a crucial few (Source: Reuters) Russia on Asian football. There was appreciation of Japan’s days where coaches from across Asia could share ideas, performance after they reached the Round of 16 and came understand challenges and learn new things from each other close to beating the eventual third-placed team Belgium. in a confidential environment. The group also looked at the structure and timing of the There was a general agreement that the level of the “The top coaches have the confidence to share their Guiao in no hurry to name AFC Champions League as well as the continued improvement competition was improving year on year but there was still experiences and knowledge for the benefit of the game.” of playing standards of Asia’s pinnacle club competition. work required in areas such as physical fitness and game (Source: AFC) PH final 12 vs Iran

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Prayer Times Noon:13:02 Evening: 19:40 Dawn: 5:16 (tomorrow) Sunrise: 6:42 (tomorrow) SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 ART&CULTURE I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y www.tehrantimes.com Managing Director: Ali Asgari Editor-in-Chief: Mohammad Ghaderi France’s “Alone” crowned best Editorial Dept.: Fax: (+98 21) 88808214 — 88808895 [email protected] Switchboard Operator: Tel: (+98 21) 43051000 Advertisements Dept.: Telefax: (+98 21) 43051450 Public Relations Office: Tel: (+98 21) 88805807 Subscription & Distribution Dept.: Tel: (+98 21) 43051603 at Isfahan film festival www.eshterak.ir Distributor: Padideh Novin Co. Tel: 88911433 ARTTEHRAN – French di- Webmaster: [email protected] deskrector David Moreau’s Printed at: Rooztab - ISSN: 1017-94 movie “Alone” has won the award for best No. 18, Bimeh Alley, Nejatollahi St., Tehran, Iran in the international competition of the 31st P.o. Box: 14155-4843 International Film Festival for Children and Zip Code: 1599814713 Youth in Iran. Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Abbas Salehi and a number Iranian cineastes attended a closing ceremony, which was held at the Kowsar Hall in the central Iranian city on Wednesday evening. “Alone” is about five young teens who wake up to find that everyone else has inex- plicably disappeared from their town, which is surrounded by a mysterious fog. Russian critic Alena Sycheva, French filmmaker Gilles Lemounaud, German animator Julia Ocker, Georgian director Movies from Iran line up for Ketevan Janelidze and Iranian animators Vancouver festival Omid Khoshnazar and Ali Nuri Oskui were the members of the jury. ARTTEHRAN – Several Iranian films will be Mohammadreza Hajigholami was picked deskcompeting in the Vancouver International as best director for his movie “Stammer” Film Festival running from September 27 to October 12, the while the film’s star Sajjad Esmaeili was organizers have announced. named best actor. “Hendi and Hormoz” by Abbas Amini that is about the arranged The Golden Butterfly for best screenplay marriage of a 13-year-old girl an a 16-year-old boy is competing went to “The Night I Swam”, a co-production in the Panorama, Contemporary World Cinema section. between Japan and France written and direct- ed by Kohei Igarashi and Damien Manivel. The best feature-length fiction film award was presented to South Korean director Kim Jong-woo for “Home”, which also won the Mohammadreza Hajigholami speaks after accepting the Golden Butterfly for best director for his movie “Stammer” during the 31st CIFEJ best film award which is presented International Film Festival for Children and Youth at Kowsar Hall on September 5, 2018. (Fars/Hamidreza Nikumaram) by a jury of the International Centre of Films for Children and Youth (CIFEJ). The best feature-length fiction film award Rahgozar won the award for best director the Shahnameh who travels into the future The special jury award went to Indonesian was presented to South Korean director Kim for “The Last Fiction”, a story from Persian and comes to Tehran in 2017. director Kamila Andini for her “The Seen and Jong-woo for “Home” while “Just Go!” by poet Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh. “Mission Kathmandu: The Adventures of Unseen”, which is about a young girl who Latvian filmmaker Pavels Gumennikovs won The Golden Butterfly for best short ani- Nelly & Simon”, co-directed by Pierre Greco seeks out imaginative ways to cope with the the Golden Butterfly for best short. mated movie went to “Run Rustam, Run”, and Nancy Florence Savard from Canada, death of her twin brother. In the animated film competition, Ashkan which is about Rustam, a main character of was crowned best animated film.

A scene from “Hendi and Hormoz” by Abbas Amini “Dressage” by Puya Badkubeh, “3 Faces” by Jafar Panahi, Avant-garde artist Mohsen and “Hattrick” by Ramtin Lavvafi will screen in this section. Iranian actor at Venice sends “Dressage” tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who partici- anti-war message to Trump Vaziri-Moqaddam dies at 94 pates in a robbery, gets away with it and then faces unexpected consequences. “3 Faces” is about a relationship between popular Iranian actress Behnaz Jafari and a provincial girl who lives with a dream of being an actress. In “Hattrick”, a quartet of middle class Iranians leave a party together. Farzad and Keivan are old friends. Farzad’s wife Lida and Keivan’s friend Raha make up the foursome. Asghar Farhadi’s “Everybody Knows” will also be screened in the Panorama, Special Presentations section.

Michael Moore hopes his film is ‘beginning of the end’ for Trump

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Provocative filmmaker Michael Moore said on Thursday he hoped his new documentary would mark “the beginning of the end” for the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump. Iranian actor Vahid Raad shows his palm bearing an inscription reading, “I don’t Mohsen Vaziri-Moqaddam poses besides one of his wood sculptures in Tehran on have a gun at my hand Mr. Trump, do you?” during a photocall for his latest movie June 22, 2014. “As I Lay Dying” at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on September 6, 2018. ARTTEHRAN – Mohsen Vaziri-Moqaddam was born in ARTTEHRAN – Iranian that represent the latest aesthetic and ex- deskVaziri-Moqaddam, Tehran. In primary school, he was deskactor Vahid Raad used pressive trends in international cinema. one of the most celebrated figures from fond of geography and music courses. a photocall for his latest movie “As I Lay Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed-Arya the first generation of the Iranian modern He continued his studies at the University Dying” at the 75th Venice International Film is a member of the jury for this category. art movement, died at his home in Rome, of Tehran’s Faculty of Fine Arts. In 1955, Festival on Thursday to convey an anti-war In the Orizzonti Short Films category, Italy on Friday morning. He was 94. he set off for Italy, where he studied at message to U.S. President Donald Trump. “Staircase” by Iranian filmmaker Mohsen “He was always busy creating artworks, the Rome Academy of Fine Arts. During the photocall, Raad showed Banihashemi is competing with 13 other even in his old age,” his elder son, Hamun, In the late 1960s, he showed a his palm bearing an inscription in English movies. told the Persian service of ISNA. tendency toward sculpture, which reading, “I don’t have a gun in my hand “Brick and Mirror”, UK-based Iranian The Italy-based artist was commended constituted the most significant part Mr. Trump, do you?” filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan’s 1964 drama, for his works by the Rome Municipality of his life. “As I Lay Dying” directed by Mostafa is scheduled to go on screen in the Vene- and was presented with the European He created most of his abstract forms Sayyari will be screened in the Orizzonti zia Classic, a section dedicated to restored Artist of the Year 2005 award in Rome and designs using the media of sand, Michael Moore speaks during the “People’s State of the Union” Competition, which is dedicated to films classics from world cinema. on December 14, 2005. metal, plastic and wood. event one day ahead of President Trump’s State of The Union Speech to Congress, in Manhattan, New York, U.S. January 29, 2018. (Reuters/Darren Ornitz) The liberal activist said “Fahrenheit 11/9”, which got its world Intl. Congress of Islamic Eulogists Beethoven Museum House premiere at the Toronto Film Festival later on Thursday, was opens in Tehran “a siren call” to what he called a “despairing, dispirited public.” held in Khorramabad “This film is the moment of truth we’ve all needed for some time, and I believe its release in theaters nationwide on Sept. 21 may well be the real beginning of the end for Donald J. Trump,” Moore wrote on his website. Moore, who won an Oscar in 2003 for his gun violence doc- umentary “Bowling for Columbine”, said the new film looks at the reasons why the United States elected the businessman and former reality TV star to the White House in November 2016 and “also (to) help show us the way out.” He also called the documentary a “story of hope”, and urged voters to turn out for the November midterm congressional elections. A trailer for the provocative, comedic documentary shows television and film clips of school shootings, white nationalist demonstrations, footage of Trump’s public speeches, and inter- views with ordinary Americans. It has the tagline, “This is the movie that will end the insanity.” It follows Moore’s one-man show on Broadway last year in which he used his satirical blend of humor to target Trump and encourage liberals to turn resentment at the Republican political agenda into resistance. Top eulogists pose during the 16th International Congress of Islamic Eulogists at the A view of the Beethoven Music Center (Musicema/Amir Khamene) “Fahrenheit 11/9” takes its title from the early hours of Nov. 9, Falak-ol-Aflak Castle in Khorramabad on September 6, 2018. (Mehr/Mohsen Rezai) ARTTEHRAN – The founder composed by Anushiravan Rohani. 2016, when Republican candidate Trump was officially declared deskof the Beethoven Music “We own a selection of 2000 documents the victor over Democrat Hillary Clinton. It is also a play on CULTURE TEHRAN – The 16th India, Nigeria and several other countries Center in Tehran, Karim Chamanara, inaugurated on music, some of which have been put on Moore’s scathing 2004 “Fahrenheit 9/11” about the Sept. 11 2001 deskInternational Congress attended the congress. the Beethoven Museum House on Wednesday. view and the rest will be documented and attacks on New York and Washington D.C. and the subsequent of Islamic Eulogists was held at the Falak- The organizers also paid tribute Chamanara opened the museum on his displayed later,” he said. U.S. led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. ol-Aflak Castle in Khorramabad last week to the late eulogist Habib Niknam 95th birthday attended by Tehran City Council The museum will also offer various The documentary will premiere in Toronto the same week from Tuesday to Thursday. from Lorestan Province. Niknam was member Mohammad Haqshenas, Tehran cultural services. It has a music shop, a that the New York Times printed an anonymous opinion col- 23 Iranian and foreign eulogists were named the master of eulogists at the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts bookstore, a flower shop and a coffee shop. umn in which the writer described “a quiet resistance” to Trump honored at the meeting, the organizers 16th congress. Department director Delavar Bozorgnia and Online tour of the museum will be within his own administration, and advance excerpts of a new announced. A number of meetings attended by a number of musicians. available in the near future. book by journalist Bob Woodward portraying Trump as prone A large number of foreign eulogists the national and international scholars Chamanara played the old-fashioned The museum is located at No. 69, Mirza to impulsive decision-making. from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, were also organized during the event. gramophone with the Happy Birthday song Shirazi St., off Karim Khan Ave.