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4 2 DOMESTIC 3 DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL 8 SPORTS Zarif Defends Iran CBI to Issue Sri Lankan President Federer, Djokovic Getting Out of New Forex Directive Top the Bill for FATF Blacklist For Exports Calls Snap Election London Finale > SEE PAGE 2 > SEE PAGE 3 > SEE PAGE 4 > SEE PAGE 8 EU Intensifies Efforts U.S. Sanctions Aimed at Tehran to Continue Developing To Keep JCPOA Alive Full National Nuclear Fuel Cycle TEHRAN (PressTV) - The EU says it has stepped up Pressurizing Iranian People TEHRAN (MNA) – Iran will vigorously continue to efforts to preserve a 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement exercise its inalienable right to develop a full national with Iran after the U.S. reinstated sanctions on the Islamic nuclear fuel cycle for peaceful purposes, said Iran’s Republic’s vital oil-exporting and financial sectors. deputy envoy to UN on Friday. Speaking to reporters in Brussels on Friday, Maja Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the Kocijancic, EU spokeswoman for foreign affairs, said United Nations, Eshagh Al Habib, addressed the 73rd the bloc had increased its efforts towards the enactment session of the United Nations General Assembly on of mechanisms, including a so-called special purpose “Agenda Item 92: Report of the International Atomic vehicle (SPV), to bypass the US sanctions and discard Energy Agency” in New York on November 9. the dollar in dealings with Iran. He emphasized the inalienable right of states to research, “The efforts to preserve the Iran nuclear deal and produce and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, as economic and trade relations with Iran have intensified in well as participate in the fullest possible exchange of recent weeks, especially those that are related to the setting equipment, materials and scientific data for peaceful up of the special purpose vehicle,” Kocijancic said. purposes. He stressed the importance of IAEA’s statutory The special purpose vehicle the EU is developing is functions and primary responsibility to assist governments aimed at helping companies avoid the US sanctions and in research on, and the practical application of, nuclear continue doing business with Iran. energy for peaceful purposes. The Agency also is the sole Remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal vow to competent authority for verifying the fulfilment of establish special payment channels to facilitate trade safeguards obligations, he added. See Page 7 with Iran as part of efforts to save the JCPOA. Kocijancic referred to the “blocking statute, which was updated in August” as “one of the key measures” taken by the Europeans to facilitate Iran Remains Compliant trade with Tehran. See Page 7 IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK With 2015 Nuclear Deal Celebrities Launch Petition VIENNA (Dispatches) - The International Atomic TEHRAN - President Hassan Rouhani says U.S. authorities are lying when they say they are not targeting the Energy Agency (IAEA) has once again reaffirmed people of Iran, as Washington’s sanctions are aimed at putting pressure on the Iranian nation Iran’s full compliance with its commitments under the Against U.S. Sanctions “The U.S. claim that it does not seek to put pressure on the [Iranian] people and just wants to pressure the 2015 landmark nuclear deal. government and the Establishment is completely false and untrue, and they (U.S. officials) themselves revealed In a statement to the 73rd Regular Session of the United TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Iranian celebrities including this fact in their actions,” Rouhani said after the meeting of the heads of the three branches on Saturday. Nations General Assembly on Friday, IAEA Director Oscar-winning film director Asghar Farhadi and He said the fresh round of U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran on November 5, 2018, has had no bearing on Iran’s General Yukiya Amano said Iran “is implementing its Grammy winner Kayhan Kalhor have launched a economy, as Washington had already made every effort against Iranian people, and it had nothing new to put nuclear-related commitments under the Joint petition condemning US sanctions on Tehran and forward in the new round of sanctions. Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). It is essential warning of the impact on ordinary people. President Rouhani said the White House intends to launch a war of nerves against Iranian people. that Iran continues to fully implement those commitments.” “Once again, the United States has imposed sanctions He referred to the waivers granted by the U.S. to Iran’s oil clients, and described it as a treat from its earlier positions. “The agency continues to verify the non-diversion of against Iran... Every Iranian will personally pay the He also pointed to the Trump administration’s move to exempt food, medicines and medical equipment from nuclear material declared by Iran under its Safeguards price,” reads the petition, named “Voices Against sanctions, and said the measure was taken under the pressure of public opinion, who harshly criticized the U.S. Agreement. Evaluations regarding the absence of Sanctions” and posted on change.org. A last tranche of for depriving the people from basic supplies. Elsewhere in his remarks, Rouhani said the U.S. has not been able undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran U.S. sanctions were reimposed on Monday following to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero as it claimed it would. continue,” Amano added. the decision by US President Donald Trump to pull out “Recently, the Americans themselves confessed that they could not bring Iran’s oil exports to zero. Their Under the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the of the 2015 nuclear deal earlier this year. argument was that if they brought Iran’s petroleum exports to zero, the oil price would rise to 150 dollars per P5+1 group of countries -- the United States, Britain, “Politicians will come and go, but the fallout from their barrel,” said the president. France, Germany, China and Russia-- in 2015, Iran disastrous decisions will be a nightmare for generations to The U.S. has granted waivers to almost all key clients of Iran’s crude oil for fear of further hikes in oil prices. agreed to put limits on its nuclear program in exchange come,” said the petition, which had picked up nearly The countries exempted from the U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil exports include China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions. 5,000 signatures by Friday. It was signed by Iranian Japan, Turkey and South Korea, which together took in over 80 percent of Iran’s oil exports last year. U.S. President Donald Trump, however, withdrew filmmakers, musicians, activists and lawyers. Farhadi has Addressing the Iranian nation, Rouhani said, “in providing basic goods, we have no problem and our warehouses Washington in May from the landmark agreement, and received two Academy Awards for Best Foreign are ready more than any other time to provide people’s essential needs for many months.” re-imposed unilateral sanctions against Tehran. Language Film, while musician Kalhor, a virtuoso on “Thank God, our current conditions are good and export has risen in the first 7 months of the current year Other signatories to the JCPOA have slammed the kamancheh (spiked fiddle), won a Grammy in 2017. compared to the same period last year, and this means that production has increased and people’s business is Washington’s decision to abandon the agreement, which good,” he added. The President also said, “in the coming months, Americans will understand well that the path has also been endorsed by a UN Security Council they have chosen is wrong. This does not tire the Iranian nation, but makes them ready for more production and resolution, saying they will work to keep the accord alive. having closer relations with neighbours.” The Trump administration, however, announced the Oil Firms in Beirut Ordered “In today’s meeting with the head of the other two branches, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Head of the re-imposition of the “toughest” sanctions ever against Iran Judiciary, we discussed the latest status of the economy and drawing the roadmap for the coming months as the on Monday. To Stop Fueling Iran Airlines Supreme Leader has instructed,” he added. President Rouhani also said, “today, we discussed this roadmap and closer relations with our neighbouring countries, as well as our economic relations.” BEIRUT (Dispatches) - International oil companies operating at Beirut’s airport have been warned against Turkey Granted 25% Waiver fueling airlines that are affected by the recent U.S. sanctions against Iran, Lebanese officials told The Daily Star Friday. On U.S. Iran Oil Sanctions Asked if Iranian airlines would be prohibited from Hudaydah to Be Graveyard for Saudi-Led Militants ANKARA (Dispatches) - Turkey has been granted a stopping at the airport, caretaker Transport Minister waiver of around 25 percent on U.S. oil sanctions against Youssef Fenianos, said, “To stop? No. To refuel? By SANAA (Dispatches) - A senior Houthi official has said Yemen will turn into a “graveyard” for aggressors as Iran, Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Dönmez said, sanctions, yes.” Saudi-backed militants and mercenaries continued with a fresh push to occupy the port city of Hudaydah. amounting to around three million tons of oil annually. A senior airport official said international oil “Our people, with their full-scale defense of Hudaydah, once again have proved that Yemen will be a graveyard Speaking in an interview with broadcaster NTV, companies were notified after Washington reimposed for the aggressors,” Mohammed Abdulsalam said in a tweet late Friday.. Dönmez said oil refiner Tüpras was looking at alternatives sanctions on Iran Monday to force Tehran to renegotiate Saudi-backed militants announced on Friday that they had begun a military operation to take over Hudaydah, to avoid any market difficulties. “The 25 percent figure is the 2015 nuclear agreement and to end what it called claiming that they had advanced towards the northern and the western flanks of the port city. approximate and Ankara has not yet received an exact the sponsoring and financing of terrorist activity. Abdulsalam dismissed the claims, saying the aggressors had already failed to achieve any of their objectives figure,” he said, as quoted by Reuters. These measures mean that bodies dealing with the due to the “exemplary steadfastness” of the Yemeni people. He also said Turkey still had a contract to buy natural gas sanctioned Iranian entities would be penalized. “The American-British-Israeli coalition, along with domestic and foreign mercenaries and terrorists groups, from Iran for five to six years and added that Ankara would The airport official said “some” of the oil providers were including Daesh and al-Qaeda … have failed to achieve any of their objectives after four years of aggression, continue to buy gas from Tehran. Washington has pledged to informed by internal company decisions, but Fenianos due to the exemplary steadfastness of the nation,” he tweeted. eventually halt all purchases of crude oil from Iran globally confirmed that none of the providers would be allowed to Saudi mercenaries have launched a military operation to establish full control over Yemen’s western coastal but for now it said eight countries - China, India, South Korea, refuel the sanctioned carriers. The decision has been made city of Hudaydah. Japan, Italy, Greece, Taiwan and Turkey - can continue “for sure by their companies,” not by the Lebanese A statement by militiamen loyal to Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi claimed that they were imports without penalty for at least another six months. Crude government, Fenianos added. progressing from all fronts. On Saturday, they said they had taken the main hospital in Hudaydah. See Page 7 See Page 7 exports contribute one-third of Iran’s government revenues. 2 IRAN NEWS DOMESTIC SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018

TEHRAN Foreign Ministry condemned a Friday terrorist attack in the Australian city of Melbourne where a man set a car on fire and stabbed three people, killing one. In a statement, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said the “hideous and inhumane” crime in Australia indicates that the Daesh (ISIL) cancerous tumor is more than a terrorist group. Iran Condemns Melbourne Terror Attack “Daesh is a terrorist and inhumane ideology that has spread to many parts of the world and attracted people from various cultures and societies around the globe due to years of intellectual, political, financial, and military support provided by certain countries,” he deplored. Zarif Defends Iran Getting Websites Review National Solidarity Against Out of FATF Blacklist U.S. Sanctions

IRAN NEWS POLITICAL DESK IRNA* - Senior Iranian lawmaker on Friday called for national solidarity as a means to repel TEHRAN - Iran’s top diplomat has once again argued for Tehran’s the US sanctions. Iran can foil the U.S. sanctions through national adoption of standards set by the global anti-money laundering solidarity, domestic potential and Economy of body, saying concerns that FATF accession harms national security Resistance, Spokesman for Iranian Parliament’s interests are baseless and Iran’s failure to get itself out FATF National Security and Foreign Policy Commission blacklist would mean Tehran has shot itself in the leg. Ali Najafi Khoshroudi said. The MP also suggested improvement of Speaking in an interview with the state radio on Saturday, Mohammad Javad Zarif “We should not add to our problems, when Americans are working to create cooperation with neighbors as another mechanism said the Supreme National Security Council has thoroughly examined the four bills obstacles,” he said, citing an old Persian saying which says one should not commit to reduce the effects of the U.S.’ sanctions. proposed by the government to meet conditions set by the Financial Action Task suicide for the fear that he might be killed. Force (FATF) to get the country out of the body’s black list. Asked about arguments that joining the FATF would make the country vulnerable He said that the U.S.’ sanctions are not The SNSC has reached the conclusion that the process is harmless, Zarif noted. to outside meddling and expose various institutions to terrorism accusations and something new, noting that psychological war His defense came as Iran’s adoption of standards set by the G7-created FATF has extraterritorial penalties, Zarif said the US is not responsible for determining against the Iranian nation is the aim of the new faced real obstacles in recent months, mainly over concerns among some officials instances of terrorism under FATF. rounds of sanctions. that the move could endanger Iran’s national security interests. Zarif said the FATF sees the UN Security Council as the sole body in charge of The U.S. President Donald Trump announced Out of the four bills, only the first one has so far went into effect and the fate of determining terrorist groups, and it is highly unlikely that the body declares Iran’s other three is in limbo. military forces and allied groups as terrorists. early May that Washington would pull out of Iran Last Sunday, the Guardian Council spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei said the “This won’t be a possibility if we work at the international level. On the other hand, nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions, which had body had found “flaws and ambiguities” in the Combating the Financing of Terrorism we have no restrictions on exiting international conventions,” he added. been lifted under the accord. (CFT) bill, which is the most important one of the three. This is while the spokesman for the Guardian Council, the legislative watchdog, Meanwhile, the fourth bill, an amendment to the country’s law against financing repeated on Saturday that he believes Iran won’t be able to join the CFT convention. terrorism, was approved by the Parliament and the Guardian Council, and signed into “Our assumption is that the bill is irrevocable and that’s why it is against national law by President Hassan Rouhani earlier this year. interests,” Kadkhodaei said in a regular presser in Tehran on Saturday. London Disappointed With U.S. Proponents of the FATF accession say the measure would smooth the path for Iran’s The FATF announced last month once again it extends the deadline for Iran increased financial transactions with the world. to complete reforms to meet conditions for getting out of the body’s black list IRNA* - British ambassador to the United States Zarif said it is essential for Iran to meet FATF conditions, as Tehran needs to restore until February. Kim Darroch criticized unilateral sanctions against banking connections with the outside world at a time when the U.S. seeks to bully FATF had previously given Tehran until October to bring its laws against money- Iran, and said that London was disappointed with Iran and isolate the country. laundering and funding of terrorism up to its guidelines. the U.S. government. “We are disappointed that the United States Tehran Calls for has withdrawn from Iran nuclear deal and Global Condemnation First VP Lauds FIFA Efforts to Depoliticize Football re-imposed anti-Iran sanctions,’ he said in an TEHRAN (FNA)- First supported all the sports fields, interview with CBS News. Of U.S. Sanctions Vice-President Eshaq especially football for both In another part of his remarks about Donald Jahangiri expressed his men’s and women’s, to promote Trump’s government policies and his specialties, appreciation to the it throughout the country.” including the extreme use of social networks, International Federation of He urged the Asian Football Football Associations for Confederation not to let Darroch said, “We need to work with foreign all efforts of the political issues to affect advisors of the United States and check Twitter.” international body to avoid football and to make more He refrained from answering a question about the political issues in football. efforts to increase integrity impact of Trump’s policies on the European Jahangiri made the between the Asian countries. countries, “What should be seen is how the US-EU remarks in a meeting with Jahangiri hailed the AFC’s President of the Asian supports of Iran, urging the relations will continue.” Football Confederation (AFC) Shaikh Salman bin AFC president to smooth the way for Iranian representatives The European Union has repeatedly blamed the Ebrahim Al Khalifa in Tehran on Saturday hours before to be elected in the directing board of the Asian Football United States for its withdrawal from 2015 IRAN NEWS POLITICAL DESK the football match between Iran’s Persepolis and confederation and its subsidiary committees. Nuclear Deal and rebuffed sanctions against Iran Japanese Kashima Antlers to be held at Azadi Stadium. Shaikh Salman, for his part, said that Iran’s football in recent months. TEHRAN - Iranian Ambassador to the United “World and Asian football lovers will watch today’s plays an important role on both Asian and world scales. Nations Gholamali Khoshroo addresses a UN game and I hope we will see an interesting and fair “Iran’s football has shown shining performance in all Security Council session on “Maintenance of game, so that all the football lovers enjoy,” said the categories, especially in 2018 World Cup. International Peace and Security: Strengthening Iranian official. He also referred to the AFC congress, which was held in Girls Arrested for Multilateralism and the Role of the United He said that Iran has made every effort to be an effective the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur recently, stressing Nations” in New York on November 9, 2018. member of AFC, adding, “The Iranian government has that it displayed the solidarity among the AFC members. Joyriding Luxury Cars Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gholamali Khoshroo, has slammed US ISNA* - Head of a police station in southeastern unilateralism and called on the international Tehran said the girls were arrested after officers became community to condemn Washington’s sanctions Iran Highly Experienced in Countering Sanctions suspicious of a luxury car and checked its record. reimposed on the Islamic Republic. Having checked the records of the Kia Optima, Khoshroo made the remarks in a letter to the UN TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s economy minister highlighted the ineffectiveness of the U.S. sanctions recently the police found out that the car had been stolen Security Council in New York on Friday. re-imposed on the Islamic Republic and said the country has become highly experienced in circumventing the Iran’s UN envoy stressed the necessity of economic embargoes. days ago in northern Tehran. multilateralism for solving global problems, Speaking to reporters in Tehran, Farhad Dejpasand said that “appropriate plans” have been devised to counter The car owner says some days ago he picked describing Washington’s unilateral withdrawal Washington’s economic sanctions against Tehran. up a girl in northeastern Tehran but she stole from international agreements, including the 2015 “We will use all opportunities to counter the enemy in the field of economy,” he said, adding, “We have become the car immediately after he got out of it for Iran nuclear deal, as a challenge to the world order. highly experienced in countering the sanctions since the (victory) of the (1979 Islamic) Revolution.” buying something. “True multilateralism is founded on inclusion He further emphasized that passing through the sanctions era would not be so difficult, adding that the relevant instead of exclusion; cooperation in place of organizations have had “complete planning” in this regard. The police also checked the record of a Hyundai confrontation; equality rather than inequality; rule The second batch of U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic took effect on Monday. Tucson vehicle and found out the vehicle had been of law instead of rule of power; pursuing the stolen one week ago. The police called the owner who common goods and long-term objectives of all said his vehicle had been stolen in the same way. States, not short-sighted goals of only one State; During the investigations, the police came to the and solving differences peacefully and justly, not violently and unfairly,” Khoshroo said. Trump Forced to Retreat From Iran Oil Sanctions conclusion that the two vehicles had been stolen by “We need such an annual forum to discuss emerging TEHRAN (IRNA) - Member of the National Security oil, and they themselves know that if Iran does not sell three young girls between 18 and 20 years of age. challenges to multilateralism; the latest of which is the and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament oil, it will cost more than $ 120, so countries do not So, the police began a massive operation to identity doctrine of ‘withdrawal from international instruments says countries know that if Iran’s oil is not sold, its want sanctions to be implemented,’ he said. and arrest the suspects. and institutions’ of a member of this council,” he said price will rise to more than $ 120, so they do not The MP, emphasizing that the sanctions system During the operation, the police found out that while referring to the United States. want oil sanctions against Iran to be implemented does not affect the economic area of the country in one of the girls lived in the same uptown area “This, among others, has resulted in its withdrawal and, accordingly, they forced the U.S. president the current situation, said, ‘Americans themselves, from the Human Rights Council, UNESCO, Paris Donald Trump to retreat. who talked about universal sanctions and zeroing where the vehicles were stolen. The suspects Agreement, and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Commenting on the U.S.’ sanctions and its withdrawal Iran’s oil purchases, retreated from their position were arrested immediately. Action,” Khoshroo noted. The permanent representative from the sanctions, especially the sanctions of Iranian that this meant the failure of the U.S. sanctions The girls confessed that they stole the vehicles of Iran to the UN also added that the global community oil purchases, Seyyid Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said on policies against Iran.’ only for fun and going for a joy ride to get familiar “should not allow the United States to pursue its Friday that the U.S. sanctions, especially in the ones He added that many countries did not comply with the with more wealthy men on luxury cars. unilateral, arrogant and self-centered policy which concerning Iranian oil purchases, are not feasible and US sanctions on Iran and did not even wait for them to focuses on continuing to reorder the world order to be countries do not adhere to it. be in exemption list of the United States, saying that Judiciary procedures are underway to put the founded on power, not law.” ‘The economies of most countries are dependent on they would not obey and buy oil. girls on trial. 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CBI to Issue New Forex EDBI to Keep on Directive for Exports Serving Exporters IRAN NEWS ECONOMIC DESK

IRAN NEWS ECONOMIC DESK TEHRAN – The CEO of Export Development Bank of Iran underlines support for the non-oil exports by saying that the bank will prioritize its services for non- TEHRAN – Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) oil exports during the sanctions era. Addressing a ceremony for honoring the top exporters in Abdolnaser Hemmati announced that a new foreign exchange the Export Guarantee Fund, Dr. Ali Saleh Abadi said that directive for exports will be introduced in the near future. one should add National Development Fund to EDBI, Export Guarantee Fund and Trade Promotion Organization Necessary terms and conditions have been outlined on the procedure of export as major and influential arms in the exports realm. currency return to the economy of Iran, which will be notified soon, he added. He also called for more cooperation among the Rial-based export is tantamount to the capital outflow from the country, country in the current situation. related bodies in the current condition to boost the role Hemmati reiterated. He said “the coordination among the central bank, Ministry of Industry, Mine and of the National Development Fund in support of Speaking in a local ceremony on Saturday, he placed special emphasis on the Trade, and Ministry of Agriculture Jihad, is necessary for the management of exports exports. Salehabadi reiterated that no excuse like sublime recommendations of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on the significance in the border provinces.” domestic shortage is accepted to hinder exports of endogenous and extraversion in Resistance Economy and said, “effective steps He put Iran’s export of non-oil commodities in the first seven months of the current because it will harm the credit of Iran exports. should be taken in this regard in order to turn sanctions’ threats into opportunity for Iranian year (March 21 – Oct. 21) at $27 billion, showing a considerable 13 percent He noted that in the current condition all related advancing and prospering the country.” hike as compared to the last year’s corresponding period. organs in the exports sector should work together to Pointing to 17 border provinces in the country, CBI governor called the increase in Recent policies of the CBI and the government have brought stability to the forex boost non-oil exports. exports to 15 neighboring countries as the key to economic development of the market despite the recent sanctions which began on November 4. Salehabadi went on to say that one of the advantages of non-oil exports is that by earning $40b from non-oil exports, the country will have no problem to beat the sanctions, adding that some imports which help the Iran Produces exports should be supported, too. He reiterated that EDBI will continue serving the Anti-Cancer Drug to Over €30m Investment in Chabahar Port non-oil exports and it is its priority. CHABAHAR (IRNA) - More than 30m Euros has been in the first phase of Shaheed Beheshti Port in Chabahar invested in Chabahar, Sistan-Baluchestan Province, to construct the infrastructures shows how important Neutralize U.S. Sanctions southeastern Iran, in logistics since the beginning of the the port is, Aqaee said. Iranian year (March 21), said the director general of He said that transiting 110,000 tons of wheat and Khorasan Steel Complex province’s Ports and Maritime Organization and on Saturday. grains to Afghanistan was an instance to show the TEHRAN (IFP) - An Iranian scientist has ‘Chabahar Port has an important role in regional and importance of sea transportation, adding that in the five Sets Record for Exports managed to produce an anti-cancer drug whose international transitions,’ said Behrouz Aqaee. months, Chabahar has transited goods six time what it IRAN NEWS ECONOMIC DESK scarcity, caused by the U.S. sanctions, had created Aqaee added, ‘Chabahar is an important and cheap had transited in the past five years. problems for the country in the recent months. way for landlocked countries, like Afghanistan, to get Saying that Chabahar is known as the Gateway of Iranian Health Ministry earlier announced that connected to open waters.’ Nations, he added being exempted from US sanctions, TEHRAN – Director of the anti-cancer drug called Busulfan cannot be The fact that Iran has invested over one billion dollars it will be internationally promoted. marketing and sales of Khorasan provided for the patients in the country. Steel Complex says the However, Dr Nader Norouzi, a faculty member at company has exported 100 tons the Urmia University of Medical Sciences, has now of steel billet in the first half of succeeded in making the drug with a high degree of the year which is more than the purity using a simple method. Over 380K Tons of Commodities Traded on IME total amount of exports last year According to ISNA, the drug, which is exclusively and it is a record. produced by the United States and France, is one of IRAN NEWS ECONOMIC DESK Eng. Mohammad Hassan the most expensive anti-cancer medications, which Parsa pointed to Iran’s vast steel can now be mass-produced inside Iran. TEHRAN - While 380,303 MT of commodities products market in the Middle “The Ministry of Health asked the academic worth over $476mwere traded last week on Iran East, North Africa and East of Asia, adding that the major centres to produce a total of 160 essential Mercantile Exchange (IME), the volume and destinations for exports of steel billets in the first half of medicines including Busulfan. Thank God after value of trading experienced a growth of 26 and the current year have been Oman and the UAE. months of efforts, the drug, which is used to treat 34 percent, respectively. He went on to say that the total volume of raw steel chronic Leukemia, was successfully produced,” According to the report from IME International exports of the company was 25,000 tons last year but said Dr Norouzi. Affairs and PR, on the domestic and export metal and the volume of the exports in the first half of the Dr Norouzi also said that the price of this drug mineral trading floor of IME, 192,209 MT of various current year has exceeded 100,000 tons. last year was about $150, but now the price can products worth close to $255m were traded last week Parsa reiterated that new policies of the company and drop significantly while it is not just produced On this trading floor, 185,700 MT of steel, 5,330 boosting the quality of the products have been the by some particular countries anymore; therefore, MT of copper, 170 MT of molybdenum concentrates, major factors for the new record set for exports. He also people should not worry about the drug at the 9 MT of precious metal concentrates, 1,000 MT of admitted that the current situation in the forex market time of sanctions. cement as well as 5 kg of gold bullion were traded has been another factor for the boost in exports. The U.S. reinstated sanctions against Iran’s oil by the customers. and banking industry on Monday, following its The report declares that on domestic and export oil and petrochemical trading floors of IME, 154,093 MT of different withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and commodities with the total value of $214m were traded. pledges that Washington will place maximum On this trading floor, 71,796 MT of bitumen, 51,017 MT of polymer products, 30,205 MT of chemical products, 1,075 pressure on Iran. MT of insulation were traded. Construction of Water Reservoir Humanitarian supplies are formally exempted Moreover, on the agricultural trading floor of IME witnessed trading 34,000 MT of wheat, 320 kg of saffron were from sanctions, but the banking sanctions traded by customers. practically deter any kind of trade with Iran. For Supply of Water in Naeen IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK Iranian Culture, Civilization Hamedan Province Pioneer in Solar Energy Production TEHRAN – Water and Waste Water Company of Naeen in Isfahan Province has constructed a HAMEDAN (IRNA) - Austrian investor Gerald 2,000-cubic-meter capacity water reservoir in the town Have No Border There are 218 hectares of Sherer whose company is to supply sustainable drinking water for dwellers of TEHRAN (IRNA)- Iranian lands dedicated to solar engaged in the Iranian solar 1440 units in the Mehr Housing. Minister of Culture and Islamic power plants in Hamedan to power plant projects, said that The CEO of the company Mr. Hassan Miri said that in Guidance Seyed Abbas Salehi turn Iran’s midwestern Hamedan Province has great compliance with the passive defense measures, the urged US politicians to come to province into a pioneer in potentials for a safe investment company constructed a 2,000-cubic-meter capacity water realize that Iranian culture, art producing electricity via in building solar power plants. reservoir for people who live in Mehr Housing region. and civilization have no border clean solar energy, said Meantime, Hamedan He added that the water reservoir has been built and isolation. Deputy of Natural Resources Provincial Director General of traditionally as the people of the town used to utilize Salehi made the remarks Friday in a message and Watershed Management Economic Affairs and Finance such reservoirs in the past. addressing the opening ceremony of the 35th Tehran of Hamedan Province. Nasser Mahmoudi stressed Miri reiterated that the project was carried out International Short Film Festival. The province’s suitable that a solar panel through the grand water supply project of Isfahan, ‘We are living in an era in which a part of the world, sun angle and its 200 manufacturing company is adding that people of Naeen have been struggling for with a neophyte history and government, is trying to annual sunshine days have being constructed by a providing their drinking water due to the recent show as isolated an ancient land with a long-standing made it a suitable place for German investor, making Iran draught in the town. civilization,’ the message reads. solar power plants, said needless of imports. He went on to say that the water consumption per American politicians are trying to disintegrate ties Reza Alvandi. Each megawatts of a solar capita in Naeen is currently 110 liters per day and urged between Iran and the world, he added. The province has provided the investors with financial plant needs an investment of equal to one million the people to consume water efficiently. They pay billions of dollars bribe to cut off trade facilities and exemptions like postponing the rent euroes and 1-1.5 hectares of lands, said Mohammad- Miri noted that the amount of water waste is relations and they threaten and put pressure to damage collection after the utilization of the power plants, Mehdi Shahidi Managing Director of Hamedan 10 percent and by management and renovating the our political-economic ties, Salehi noted. Alvandi said. Province Power Distribution Company. water supply systems, the amount of the water waste The 35th edition of Tehran International Short He added that 20 applications for constructing power Shahidi added that currently there are two solar power has been significantly reduced to 10 percent. Film Festival kicked off on Nov 9 and is planned to plants have been received so far, to half of which plants being built in Hamedan Provicne’s southern city More than 38,000 people live in Naeen and 14,863 end on Nov 13. appropriate lands have been given. of Tuyserkan, each with the capacity of 30 megawatts. subscribers enjoy water supply. 4 IRAN NEWS INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Suicide Car Bombers Kill Melbourne Police See IS At Least 22 in Somalia Inspiration Behind Stabbings

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Suicide attackers set off two car bombs at a hotel MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian man who set fire to a truck laden in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 22 people, police said. with gas cylinders in the centre of Melbourne and stabbed one person to The militant Islamist group al Shabaab, linked to al Qaeda, claimed death was inspired by Islamic State but did not have direct links with the responsibility for the attack on the Hotel Sahafi, which is near the group, police said on Saturday. headquarters of Somalia’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID). Police identified the man responsible for Friday’s attack as Hotel guards and CID officers opened fire after the blasts, police added. Somali-born Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, 30, and said he was radicalised Then, about 20 minutes later, a third explosion from a bomb placed in a and inspired by the militant group’s propaganda. He was shot by three-wheeled “tuk-tuk” vehicle near the hotel hit the busy street, witnesses said. police and died in hospital. Sri Lankan President Indonesia Stops Search for Calls Snap Election Victims of Lion Air Crash COLOMBO (Dispatches) - Sri Lanka parliament. He would now continue as a plunged deeper into crisis Saturday after caretaker premier until a new parliament President Maithripala Sirisena sacked meets on January 17. parliament and called a snap election, A leader of Rajapakse’s party, Susil leaving the country facing a further two Premajayantha, said Sirisena sacked the months of damaging political paralysis. legislature to end the power struggle and Political parties representing a majority allow people to elect a new parliament. of members in the 225-member parliament “Now we have a caretaker closed ranks to denounce the Friday night government with limited functions,” dissolution as illegal and unconstitutional. Premajayantha said. “We will conduct Shortly before sacking the legislature, a free and fair election.” Sirisena took over the police department He accused sacked premier by attaching it to his defense ministry. He Wickremesinghe of causing instability by JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia authorities said on also took control of the state printer, a refusing to vacate his official residence, a Saturday they had stopped the search for victims of a crucial institution that publishes decrees charge rejected by him as well as several plane crash that killed all 189 people on board, but and proclamations. other parties who together command a would keep looking for the Lion Air flight’s second He had already taken control of all majority in parliament. black box, the cockpit voice recorder. state media outlets soon after dismissing Rajapakse and ousted Wickremesinghe “There is nowhere left to search and we have stopped Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have been battling for power for two finding victims’ bodies,” Muhammad Syaugi, the head on October 26. weeks as international concern grew over of the national search and rescue agency (Basarnas) Sirisena set elections for January 5, almost two years ahead of schedule, after it the mounting turmoil in the strategically important island nation. told media. “We will limit our operations to monitoring.” became clear that his designated prime minister -- former president Mahinda Sirisena signed a decree dismissing the legislature in a bid to head off any revolt The nearly new Boeing Co. 737 MAX passenger plane Rajapakse -- could not prove his majority when the assembly was set to reconvene against his actions which included suspending parliament for nearly three weeks. crashed into the sea on Oct. 29 just minutes after taking on Wednesday. Wickremesinghe’s finance minister Mangala Samaraweera described the parliament off from Jakarta en route to Bangka island near Sumatra. Rajapakse, 72, was prime minister for two weeks without ever stepping into sacking as a desperate move by Sirisena. Syaugi said 196 body bags containing human remains had been retrieved and 77 victims identified after forensic examination. Authorities have downloaded data from one of the black boxes found last week, the flight data recorder, Trump Slams Macron’s Saudi Coalition Halts but are still looking for the cockpit voice recorder. Soearjanto Tjahjono, the head of the transportation Insulting EU Army Proposals safety committee (KNKT), said finding the voice recorder Refueling Deal With would be critical to understanding the cause of the crash. “From the black box data, we know about 70-80 percent of what happened but to 100-percent understand the cause U.S. for Yemen War of the accident... we need be able to know the conversation RIYADH (AFP) - A controversial refueling that took place in the plane’s cockpit,” he said, declining to arrangement between the United States and the elaborate on what the flight data recorder had revealed. Saudi-led coalition that is bombing Yemen was KNKT has brought in a pinger locator and a vessel ended on Saturday, halting a key part of Washington’s capable of sucking up mud to help with the search for involvement in the conflict. the voice recorder, in addition to remotely operated The move came as warplanes pounded the key underwater vehicles equipped with cameras. strategic port city of Hodeida and after Washington’s its capability to independently conduct inflight refueling Tjahjono said he was worried the cockpit voice support for the campaign was placed under in Yemen,” the SPA said. recorder may have been damaged on impact because increased scrutiny following the brazen murder of “As a result, in consultation with the United States, KNKT had yet to detect any “ping” sounds that would dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi the coalition has requested cessation of inflight indicate its location, as had happened with the first intelligence team. refueling support for its operations in Yemen.” PARIS (Dispatches ) – U.S. President Donald Trump set black box. a combative tone for a World War I commemorative visit Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said he supported Saudi Mattis said: “We support the decision by the Kingdom to Paris on Saturday when he blasted calls by French Arabia’s “decision” after the official Saudi Press of Saudi Arabia.” President Emmanuel Macron for a European army to Agency said the coalition asked for the “cessation of In August the defense secretary warned that U.S. defend against threats from powers including the U.S. inflight refueling support” from the United States. support for the coalition was “not unconditional,” Nine Die in No sooner had Trump touched down in Paris for a Riyadh’s grinding war in Yemen as caused growing noting it must do “everything humanly possible to weekend of events to mark the end of WWI -- international outcry, particularly after a string of high- avoid any innocent loss of life.” California Wildfires including a meeting with Macron -- than he fired off profile coalition strikes that have killed scores of The Pentagon had provided refueling capabilities LOS ANGELES (Dispatches) - Nine people were a tweet castigating his host over proposals to endow civilians, many of them children. for about 20 percent of coalition planes flying killed and hundreds of thousands ordered to evacuate the EU with its own, joint army. “Recently the Kingdom and the coalition has increased sorties over Yemen. as wildfires raged Saturday across California, with one “President Macron of France has just suggested that rapidly spreading blaze threatening the resort of Europe build its own military in order to protect itself Malibu, home to Hollywood stars. from the US, China and Russia,” the US president The fatalities were reported in a massive late-season tweeted late Friday, referring to remarks made by inferno in the town of Paradise, in Butte County north Macron three days earlier. Johnson Quits UK Gov’t, Urges Referendum of the state capital Sacramento, where some 6,700 “Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay LONDON (Reuters) - Jo Johnson, the younger brother of Boris, resigned from British Prime Minister Theresa structures went up in flames - officially becoming its fair share of NATO, which the US subsidizes May’s government on Friday, calling in a withering critique for another referendum to avoid her Brexit plans California’s most destructive fire on record. greatly!,” he added. unleashing Britain’s greatest crisis since World War Two. The fast-moving blaze, which authorities have named the Trump, who is visiting France with his wife Melania Quitting as a junior transport minister, Johnson called May’s Brexit plans delusional and said he could not vote “Camp Fire”, broke out Thursday morning. Fanned by for the second time since becoming president, was for the deal she is expected to unveil in parliament within weeks. strong winds, it has scorched 90,000 acres (36,400 hectares) referring to a call made by Macron in an interview “Britain stands on the brink of the greatest crisis since the Second World War,” said Johnson, a former Financial and is only five percent contained, the California Fire Tuesday for a “real European army.” Times journalist who voted to stay in the EU in the 2016 referendum. Department (Cal Fire) said late Friday. Macron, an ardent advocate of closer European Johnson, 46, called it the worst failure of statecraft since the 1956 Suez canal crisis, in which Britain was Other large fires raged in southern California, integration, said a joint European Union military humiliatingly forced by the United States to withdraw its troops from Egypt. including one just north of Los Angeles and another in force was needed to wean Europe off American “To present the nation with a choice between two deeply unattractive outcomes, vassalage and chaos, is a failure Ventura County near Thousand Oaks, where a Marine might, not least after Trump announced he was of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis,” he said. Corps veteran shot dead 12 people in a country music pulling out of a Cold War-era nuclear treaty. “Given that the reality of Brexit has turned out to be so far from what was once promised, the democratic thing bar on Wednesday night. “The magnitude of destruction “We have to protect ourselves with respect to China, to do is to give the public the final say,” we have seen is really unbelievable and heartbreaking Russia and even the United States,” he told the he added. and our hearts go to everybody who has been affected Europe 1 broadcaster, suggesting for the first time Johnson’s criticism underscored the by this,” said Mark Ghilarducci, the director of the that Europe might need to defend itself from America. travails that May faces in getting any California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. The French president, who has enacted major Brexit divorce deal, which London and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom declared a state of defence spending hikes to bring France in line with Brussels say is 95 percent done, approved emergency to provide assistance to the fire-hit areas. NATO spending targets, is spearheading the creation by her own fractious party. Late Friday Butte County Sheriff Korey Honea said it was of a nine-country European rapid reaction force, The pound sank to a day’s low his “sad duty” to update the Camp Fire death toll to nine. independent from NATO. beneath $1.30 on the resignation and The force, which would fall far short of an army in also fell against the euro. It was size and scope, would be able to rapidly mount a joint unclear whether others would follow military operation, evacuate civilians from a war zone Johnson out of government. or provide aid after a natural disaster. In the June 2016 referendum, Proposals for a full EU army with a joint command 17.4 million voters, or 51.9 percent, -- a pet project of European federalists -- remain backed leaving the EU while 16.1 million, deeply sensitive, however, among EU members or 48.1 percent, backed staying. anxious to defend their sovereignty. Johnson wants a three-way referendum French officials said Macron’s mooted EU “army” giving the people a choice between remaining was merely a call for closer defence integration. in the EU, May’s deal and no deal. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018 PROMOTIONAL ITEM IRAN NEWS 5 6 IRAN NEWS INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018

ISTANBUL (Dispatches) - Turkey’s current account balance is expected to show a surplus of $1.97 billion on average in September, according to an Anadolu Agency survey done on Friday. The country’s balance of payments figures for September will be released by the Turkey’s Current Account to Show Surplus Turkish Central Bank on Monday, Nov. 12. The current account surplus estimates of a group of 19 economists vary between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion. Global Economic Growth Twitter Cuts Suspect Users From Projected to Decelerate Follower Counts Again, Blames Bug LONDON (Dispatches)- Global economic growth will slow in 2019 and 2020 to a little under 2.9%, from an estimated 3.3% in 2018 and 2017, says Moody’s Investors Service in a new report. The report projects a slowdown in global trade amid rising trade tensions will have an adverse impact not only on growth in the U.S. and China, but also on growth in open economies such as Japan, Korea and Germany. “Growth in advanced economies will slow but remain solid in 2019, while G20 emerging markets growth will remain weak,” said Moody’s Vice President Madhavi Bokil, lead author of the report. “In the U.S., waning fiscal stimulus, the ongoing removal of monetary accommodation and more restrictive trade measures will lower growth. The euro area will also see cyclical moderation to trend growth. Among G-20 emerging market countries, Turkey and Argentina will experience contractions, while SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) China will experience a slowing economy.” Gradual removal of monetary policy made another attempt to make users’ tallies of accommodation by major central banks will continue to have large spillovers outside followers more accurate on Friday, subtracting the currency areas. As major central banks start to rescind forward guidance and millions of suspicious followers which had reappeared withdraw monetary accommodation, financial volatility, term premia and credit on the social media service since a major purge in July. spreads will increase globally. Moody’s baseline forecasts assume this will occur Twitter is under pressure to tackle its problem of fake relatively smoothly, occasionally interrupted by stints of financial market volatility. users, which are a turn-off for investors and advertisers Moody’s expects trade and geopolitical frictions between the US and China will and have led to scrutiny from U.S. Congress. likely persist for some time. This will weigh on global trade growth and will reshape The company made Friday’s move without an trade flows and supply chains. In contrast, the new North American trade agreement, announcement. Pop star Katy Perry lost about 861,000 USMCA, will be ratified in 2019, with agreement on rules of origin, conflict followers, according to social measurement firm Social resolution, agriculture and government procurement. Blade. Twitter’s own account lost 2.4 million followers. In July, Twitter said it would stop counting accounts it “locked” as followers, in an effort to make its user data more accurate. At least seven celebrities lost as many as 2 million followers each. Italy Stands by Main Pillars of Budget By October, however, many of those accounts appeared to have been unlocked - which can happen ROME (Reuters) - Italy stood by the main pillars of its The standoff between Rome and Brussels has spooked after a password reset - and at least two dozen popular 2019 budget on Friday, as a deadline neared for it to financial markets and, after Tria spoke, 10-year Italian users had gained back a third or so of the lost followers, change what Brussels called overly optimistic economic bond yields climbed to 3.46 percent IT10YT=RJR, according to data from Russian ad fraud researcher assumptions or face penalties for breaking EU fiscal rules. their highest in over a week. Social Puncher. Those followers disappeared once Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and Economy That pushed the closely-watched gap over safer again on Friday, Social Puncher said. Minister Giovanni Tria said they were committed to German Bund yields back above 300 basis points. Twitter said on Friday that it “discovered a bug where respecting a maximum budget deficit of 2.4 percent of Italy’s central bank warned that the rise in borrowing some of these accounts were briefly added back, which economic output next year. costs over recent months risked impacting the led to misleading follower counts” for “very few But the European Commission, which has given economy and cancelling out the expansionary effects accounts.” It said in July that follower counts might Rome until Tuesday to present a new budget, has of the budget. change “more regularly” as part of its efforts to forecast a deficit of 2.9 percent and a structural fiscal “I hope for a solution that combines both Italy’s “identify and challenge problematic accounts.” The gap - excluding one-offs and business cycle swings - respect for the rules it must abide with as a ensuing volatility has caught the attention of prominent rising to 3.0 percent. member of the monetary union... and users, including U.S. President Donald Trump and Under EU requirements, Italy should cut its structural The Commission rejected Italy’s 2019 fiscal plan last the government and parliament pursuing their Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk. deficit next year to 1.2 percent and continue reducing it month, saying it flouted a previous commitment to political goals,” Luigi Federico Signorini, the They and other users lost followers in recent days, every year until it reaches a balanced budget. lower the deficit and that it did not guarantee a Bank of Italy’s deputy director general, told a but Friday’s cull was larger for most, according to Tria said the government was “busy drafting an reduction in the country’s debt, the second highest in parliamentary committee. several accounts Reuters reviewed on Social Blade. answer to the European Commission with regards to the the euro zone as a proportion of GDP. Di Maio, whose anti-establishment 5-Star Movement Twitter’s own account fell by 7.8 million followers in most contentious points of the budget”. In Helsinki, Valdis Dombrovskis, the Commission governs in a coalition with the far-right League, said he July but gained back 2.36 million by mid-October. It lost But Rome would confirm its “main pillars”, as an Vice President responsible for the euro, on Friday believed market pressure would ease when investors 2.4 million on Friday, according to Social Blade. economic slowdown had made fiscal expansion even reaffirmed the EU executive was considering realised the government was committed to holding the Some users experienced a similar drop in early more necessary, he told a parliamentary hearing. starting an excessive deficit procedure if Italy did deficit inside its 2.4 percent target. October, before the followers returned days later, The government says it will introduce an income not change the budget. But he gave no indication that the government was Social Puncher said. support program next year to tackle growing poverty, He said Brussels believed Rome’s fiscal calculations willing to change the 2019 budget draft. and reduce the retirement age in an effort to free up were “overly optimistic”. Asked if Italy would pay any fines the EU might levy, the labor market and generate more job opportunities “Basically the assumption is that if they ... increase Di Maio told reporters in Rome “pacts must be UK Economic Growth for the young. public spending, it will stimulate the economy and thus honoured”, but that he did not expect any charges to be It is also promising tax cuts and offering a partial amnesty will help to reduce the budget deficit. We see that this is levied and was confident an agreement with Brussels Hits Two-Year High for citizens who settle tax disputes with the authorities. actually not materializing,” he said. would be reached. LONDON (Dispatches) - The UK economy expanded at the fastest pace in two years during the U.S. Denies China “Cold War” S. Korean President Fires third quarter, but has begun showing signs of a slowdown ahead of Brexit as more business Economic Policy Chiefs investment decisions are put on hold. But Deep Gaps Persist In what is likely to be a peak for the economy this WASHINGTON (Dispatches) - The United States on Friday insisted it was not SEOUL (Dispatches) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in sacked two top year, the latest snapshot from the Office for National pursuing a new “Cold War” with China, but the Pacific powers could only paper over economic officials on Friday to jump-start his income-based growth policy, even as Statistics (ONS) showed GDP growth in the three deep differences during high-level talks. his lofty wage hikes ended up hurting the jobs market amid a lackluster economy. months to the end of September was 0.6% – the The defense chiefs and top foreign affairs officials of the two countries met in The Blue House spokesman announced the removal of Economy and Finance fastest expansion since the final quarter of 2016. Washington for a regular dialogue that had been pushed back amid months of Minister Kim Dong-yeon and chief of staff for policy Jang Ha-sung, the two men who But growth has begun to falter as the boost to the spiraling tensions between the world’s two largest economies. had been at the control tower of Moon’s economic policy. economy from the warm weather over the summer and After President Donald Trump’s barbed comments against China in the runup to this Kim, a pro-growth economic bureaucrat, had spatted with Jang, an academic more England’s performance at the World Cup has fizzled out. week’s congressional elections, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turned conciliatory focused on reducing inequality, leading to speculation that they would be removed GDP growth flatlined in August and September, in tone if not always in substance. “The United States is not pursuing a Cold War or before year-end, upon passage of next fiscal year’s national budget. with signs of weakness in business spending, retail containment policy with China,” Pompeo told a joint news conference. The final nail in the coffin apparently came on Wednesday when Kim told sales and a fall in domestic car purchases. “Rather, we want to ensure that China act responsibly and fairly in support of lawmakers that he did not agree that the economy was in crisis. Kim instead painted City economists had forecast growth of 0.1% in security and prosperity in each of our two countries,” Pompeo said. the situation as a “crisis in political decision-making concerning the economy,” which September, although the UK economy unexpectedly But Pompeo also was upfront about U.S. concerns. While the Trump administration many interpreted as a broadside against Moon’s government. Moon was forced to act stagnated for the second month in a row, as new car has generally been soft-spoken on human rights, at least with allies, Pompeo quickly to contain the political fallout. Hong Nam-ki, most recently minister of the registrations fell by a fifth in the worst September denounced China’s “repression” of religious and minority groups including the Office for Government Policy Coordination, has been named to replace Kim as for the motor trade in a decade. Uighur community, citing a UN report that up to one million members of the mostly economy and finance minister. Hong, also a veteran economic bureaucrat, will Although there are gathering signs of weakness as the Muslim ethnic group have been rounded up in detention camps. officially take office after a parliamentary hearing. country braces for Brexit on 29 March next year, on an And on Taiwan, while assuring his guests that the United States only recognizes Beijing, Jang’s replacement, social policy presidential secretary Kim Soo-hyun, assumes his new post annual basis, the British economy grew by 1.5%. Pompeo was increasingly forthright in advocating for the self-ruling democracy, immediately. As an expert in real estate issues and a policy guru, he is one of Moon’s closest Philip Hammond, the chancellor, said on a visit to criticizing Beijing’s efforts to isolate the island it considers a renegade province. aides. As a staunch liberal, Kim Soo-hyun is expected to advance the “income-driven” growth the Fuller’s brewery in London just two weeks after The United States also took Beijing’s military to task over its assertive posture in the policy that aims to bolster the the budget that the growth rate was “proof of the dispute-rife South China Sea, economy through job growth underlying strength in our economy”. which has witnessed a series and wage increases. There are however mounting signs of underlying of incidents including the But Moon’s redistribution- weakness as Theresa May struggles to agree a Brexit deal buzzing of a US Navy focused policy is far from a with the EU, and business investment dropped at the surveillance aircraft last year success. The economy has fastest rate since early 2016. The latest figures reveal a by a Chinese warplane. decelerated in part because of contraction in corporate spending of 1.2% during the third Defense Secretary Jim the 16.4% minimum-wage quarter, which was the first time business investment has Mattis said the talks were hike implemented in January. slipped for three consecutive quarters since the global “candid” but that the two Such small businesses as financial crisis a decade ago. Azad Zangana, senior militaries looked to improve convenience store franchises European economist at the City fund manager Schroders communication and avoid and eateries have stopped said concerns over Brexit were among the reasons for “miscalculation” at sea. hiring workers in response. businesses delaying investment decisions. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018 WORLD NEWS IRAN NEWS 7

TEHRAN (IFP) - The World Crafts Council is considering registering an Iranian fabric-weaving art known as Tobafi, which is one of the major handicraft skills and traditional arts of South Khorasan province in northeastern Iran. Three experts from the World Crafts Council, an Iranian Art of Tobafi to Be Inscribed by World Crafts Council affiliate of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), recently visited Tobafi workshops in Khorashad village of Birjand in South Khorasan province, eastern Iran, to take a closer look at the traditional art.

EU... Michelle Obama Slams FROM PAGE 1 A blocking statute is a law enacted in 1996 to protect European entities “against the effects of the extra-territorial application of legislation adopted by a third country.” Trump in New Book The law went into effect on August 6, when the first set of U.S. sanctions against Iran took effect. The statute would allow firms to recover damages from American NEW YORK (Dispatches) - Former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama says she can measures and nullify any court ruling against them. “never forgive” Donald Trump for questioning her husband’s American citizenship, “This is one of the measures that have been put in saying the president and other “birthers” put her family at risk, in her hotly place, but it’s the one that’s very relevant for anticipated new memoir. companies because from our point of view, trade with Obama also says she was surprised that so many American women voted for the Iran remains legitimate,” she said. “misogynist” Trump over Hillary Clinton, “an exceptionally qualified female Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on candidate,” in the 2016 election. Friday commended the political stances of the Europeans The book, “Becoming,” hits stores on Tuesday. Obama, 54, will head out on a in supporting the country in face of US sanctions but multi-city arena tour to promote the memoir, with celebrity friends like Oprah criticized “their failure so far to bring about operational Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon tapped to moderate the events. approaches and meet our expectations.” It is one of the most awaited books about US politics in years, and Obama does not “It is a fact that the Europeans moved much slower mince words about her husband’s successor -- and his involvement in promoting the than we expected” in the direction of introducing the idea that Barack Obama was born abroad. system, Araqchi said. “The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed,” she writes, in excerpts of the book published by ABC News and The Washington Post. “But it was also dangerous, Oil Firms... deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks,” she adds. “What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? FROM PAGE 1 What if that person went looking for our girls? Local media reports identified the oil companies that “Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s were notified as Liquigaz, Coral Oil, Total and W-H- safety at risk. And for this I’d never forgive him.” Elfmed. The Daily Star could not independently Obama also said her body “buzzed with fury” after hearing the “Access Hollywood” She revisits the thrill of her romance with Barack, which began when she was his confirm which companies were affected. tape on which Trump bragged about being able to grab women with impunity. advisor at a Chicago law firm, describing it as a “toppling blast of lust, gratitude, According to the airport official, this step is “very Trump did not waste time in responding. “Michelle Obama got paid a lot of money fulfillment, wonder.” small [compared] to what may come.” The source to write a book and they always insist you come up with controversy. I’ll give you But she admits the couple on occasion turned to counseling, where they “learned described the coming sanctions as possibly having an some back,” he told reporters at the White House before heading on a trip to France. how to talk out” problems. effect on “more than just oil” refueling at the airport. “I’ll never forgive him for what he did to our United States military by not funding Upon Trump’s election, the Obamas faded from the spotlight for a time, retreating The airport’s Civil Aviation Authority has not yet it properly. (...) What he did to our military made this country unsafe.” to their mansion in an upscale area of the U.S. capital and refraining from overtly been officially notified of the new sanctions and will In the book, America’s first black first lady goes beyond politics, digging deep into political statements. withhold taking a stance until it is. “This needs to be some personal issues from a miscarriage to using in-vitro fertilization to conceive That silence has now passed, with the former president campaigning actively for studied and a decision needs to make on a national her daughters to marriage counseling. Democratic candidates in the run-up to the midterm elections and the former first level in coordination with the government,” the “I felt lost and alone, and I felt like I failed because I didn’t know how common lady speaking at get-out-the-vote rallies. airport official said. Fenianos confirmed that the miscarriages were because we don’t talk about them,” Obama told ABC News in an Michelle Obama will have more opportunity to speak out as her book tour, which government “didn’t make [its] decision yet” on interview. “We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.” begins in her hometown Chicago, rolls on to New York, Washington, Los Angeles, whether or not to ensure the implementation of the Fertility treatments allowed her to conceive daughters Malia, now 20, and Sasha, 17. Boston and other cities. new sanctions. “It turns out that even two committed go-getters with a deep love and robust work Some are hoping she will eventually decide to enter politics herself, perhaps as The minister said the government is “studying all ethic can’t will themselves into being pregnant,” she writes. soon as 2020, but her comments in “Becoming” make that seem unlikely. the circumstances. It’s not easy at all, we have so “We had to do IVF,” she told ABC, in excerpts of an interview that will air in full “I’ve never been a fan of politics, and my experience over the last 10 years has many points to discuss and lots of opinions.” on Sunday. done little to change that. I continue to be put off by the nastiness,” she writes. However, the airport source denied that airport authorities were ordered to refuse requests to refuel all Iranian planes. “Only the airlines on the Germany Recalls Kristallnacht as Baby Boom for Some Nations, Bust for Others sanctions list are the ones being cautioned against,” the airport source said. LONDON (Dispatches) - “It is down to socioeconomic Anti-Semitism, Nationalism on Rise Soaring birth rates in factors but it’s a function of a BERLIN (Dispatches) - Germany on Friday remembered developing nations are woman’s education,” he said. Tehran to Continue... victims of the Nazi pogrom that heralded the Third Reich’s fuelling a global baby boom “The more a woman is FROM PAGE 1 drive to wipe out Jews, at a time when anti-Semitism and while women in dozens of educated, she is spending nationalism is resurgent in the West. richer countries aren’t more years in school, she is Iran will vigorously continue to exercise its inalienable In a speech at the Bundestag marking the 80th producing enough children to delaying her pregnancies and right to develop a full national nuclear fuel cycle for anniversary of Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of maintain population levels so will have fewer babies.” peaceful purposes. “All accusations against Iran’s Broken Glass, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the there, according to figures The IHME found that nuclear program were baseless from the beginning,” violence on November 9, 1938 marked “the incomparable released Friday. Cyprus was the least he stressed, calling them “a manufactured crisis to break from civilization, Germany’s fall into barbarism”. A global overview of birth, fertile nation on Earth, sustain pressure on Iran.” Germany must never look away again if “some try death and disease rates with the average woman He said such efforts came to an end with the again to speak for the ‘real people’ and seek to exclude” evaluating thousands of datasets on a country-by-country giving birth just once in her life. By contrast, women conclusion of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of those with a different religion or skin color, he said. basis also found that heart disease was now the single in Mali, Chad and Afghanistan have on average Action. However, the current United States In a clear reference to a growing far-right movement leading cause of death worldwide. more than six babies. administration has withdrawn from this agreement in Germany, Steinmeier warned against a “new, The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), The United Nations predicts there will be more than and reimposed its illegal sanctions against Iran. aggressive nationalism” that “conjures up an idyllic set up at the University of Washington by the Bill and 10 billion humans on the planet by the middle of the “All such illegal measures of the United States past that never existed”. Melinda Gates Foundation, used more than 8,000 data century, broadly in line with IHME’s projection. were rejected by the international community, Joining Steinmeier and Jewish leaders at a ceremony sources -- more than 600 of them new -- to compile one of This raises the question of how many people our world including by almost all of its friends and allies,” later at Germany’s biggest synagogue, Chancellor the most detailed looks at global public health. can support, known as Earth’s “carrying capacity”. he said. Angela Merkel underlined that Kristallnacht happened Their sources included in-country investigations, Mokdad said that while populations in developing Urging the international community to remain after a creeping process in which anti-Semitism was social media and open-source material. nations continue to rise, so in general are their vigilant, he warned against being deceived by US first tolerated, and later encouraged. It found that while the world’s population skyrocketed economies growing. This typically has a knock-on fabrications which are rooted in hostility towards Exclusion, racism or anti-Semitism must be stamped from 2.6 billion in 1950 to 7.6 billion last year, that growth effect on fertility rates over time. Iran, and underscored Iran’s commitment to the out from the start, Merkel said. was deeply uneven according to region and income. “In Asia and Africa the population is still increasing accord as long as all other participants honor their “Easy answers, which often go with a coarsening of Ninety-one nations, mainly in Europe and North and and people are moving from poverty to better income obligations. the discourse on the streets and in the Internet, that’s a South America, weren’t producing enough children to -- unless there are wars or unrest,” he said. The agreement outlines that any reimposition of start that we must decisively counter,” she said. sustain their current populations, according to the “Countries are expected to fare better economically and sanctions while Iran remains compliant gives Iran the “We are remembering with the conviction that the IHME study. it’s more likely that fertility there will decline and level right to respond by wholly or partially ceasing from democratic majority must stay vigilant.” But in Africa and Asia fertility rates continued to out.” Not only are there now billions more of us than 70 performing its duties. The remaining participants Eight decades ago on this day, Nazi thugs murdered grow, with the average woman in Niger giving birth to years ago, but we are also living longer than ever before. must hold the U.S. accountable for the consequences at least 90 Jews, torched 1,400 synagogues across seven children during her lifetime. The study, published in The Lancet medical journal, of the new sanctions and must provide guarantees that Germany and Austria and destroyed Jewish-owned Ali Mokdad, professor of Health Metrics Sciences at showed male life expectancy had increased to 71 years Iran is compensated unconditionally through shops and businesses. The pretext for the coordinated IHME, told AFP that the single most important factor in from 48 in 1950. Women are now expected to live to appropriate measures, he added. action was the fatal shooting on November 7, 1938, of determining population growth was education. 76, compared with 53 in 1950. a German diplomat in Paris by a Polish Jewish student. The Nazis rounded up and deported at least 30,000 Jews to concentration camps and made Jews pay Hudaydah... “compensation” for the damage caused to property. FROM PAGE 1 Charlotte Knobloch, former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, recalled walking through Nearly 80 percent of Yemen’s commercial imports and practically all UN-supervised Al-Houthi said, “Trump and his administration clearly prefer to continue this town that day with her father. humanitarian aid pass through Hudaydah’s port. devastating war because of the economic returns it produces — they drool over those “I saw the smouldering synagogue and asked: why Yemeni officials say the extent of Saudi-led military aggression has intensified arms sales profits.” A Yemeni man goes through the wreckage of a building that was aren’t the firemen coming? I got no reply,” she told ever since US President Donald Trump’s administration demanded a ceasefire. destroyed in a Saudi airstrike in the capital Sana’a on September 5, 2018. (Photo by AFP) public broadcaster ZDF. Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen Mohammed Ali Last month, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis called for a ceasefire in Yemen and The brutal rampage marked the point at which local al-Houthi said in an opinion article in The Washington Post on Saturday that the US for all parties to come to the negotiating table within the next 30 days. Al-Houthi said the persecution of Jews became systematic, culminating in call for ceasefire was hollow. “The continued escalation of attacks against the port Saudi-led blockade of Hudaydah is meant to bring the Yemeni people to their knees. the Holocaust that claimed some six million lives. city of Hudaydah in Yemen by the US-Saudi-Emirati coalition confirms that the “The coalition is using famine and cholera as weapons of war. It is also extorting the Like in years past, people knelt on November 9 to polish American calls for a ceasefire are nothing but empty talk,” he said. United Nations by threatening to cut their funds as if it were a charity and not a “Stolpersteine” (stumbling stones) -- coaster-sized brass “The recent statements are trying to mislead the world. Saudi leaders are reckless responsibility required under international law and Security Council resolutions.” plaques embedded in pavements bearing the names of and have no interest in diplomacy. The United States has the clout to bring an end to He further emphasized that Ansarullah was ready to stop the retaliatory missile Jewish victims in front of their former homes. the conflict but it has decided to protect a corrupt ally,” he said. attacks if Saudi Arabia stopped its airstrikes against the impoverished nation. 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8 IRAN NEWS SPORTS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018 Turbo Swap Hands Ricciardo Federer, Djokovic Top the Curry “Day-to-Day” A Grid Penalty in Brazil With Groin Strain EW YORK (Dispatches)- AO PAULO (Reuters) - Australian Daniel Bill for London Finale NThe Golden State SRicciardo will have a five place grid penalty for Warriors won’t take any Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix, the penultimate race chances with star Stephen of the Formula One season, after Red Bull replaced Curry, who will be sidelined the turbocharger on his car’s power unit. for at least a few days with Stewards said the sixth new turbocharger exceeded the a groin strain, coach Steve driver’s permitted allocation, triggering the automatic drop. Kerr said Friday. Team principal Christian Horner told Sky Sports “The MRI looked good television that the problem was a consequence of in terms of not being too Ricciardo’s retirement at the previous race in Mexico serious, but he’s not going and the local marshals’ use of a fire extinguisher. to play tomorrow,” Kerr “You can’t really blame them, the car was obviously said at Warriors practice smoking,” he said. “But they shot foam up the exhaust on Friday. and as it solidifies in the turbo, it’s terminated it. “It’s something that we’re going to evaluate over “He’ll take a five place penalty but hopefully on a the next few days. He’s still sore.” track like this it’s not actually that big a penalty.” “It’s a strained groin, basically, is the injury, but the Ricciardo was first out of the garages in practice at MRI was encouraging. So it will be kind of a day-to-day Interlagos on Friday, waiting for several minutes at thing. Obviously, we won’t do anything crazy. He’s the end of the pits for the session to start. going to be out until he’s healthy and ready to go.” Under Formula One rules, grid penalties are applied The two-time defending NBA champion Warriors take according to the order in which the offences are on the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday, and that game is committed, as registered by the car’s transponder followed by back-to-back games against the Los Angeles leaving the pitlane. That means anyone else who picks Clippers and Atlanta Hawks on Monday and Tuesday. up a penalty will have it applied after Ricciardo’s. Curry was injured in the third quarter of the Warriors’ The Australian, who is joining Renault for next ONDON (Dispatches) - Roger Federer is aiming “I don’t think it matters really where I win my 100th 134-111 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday season, started the previous race in Mexico on pole Lto complete a century of titles at the ATP Finals as long as it’s going to happen at one point,” said night -- Golden State’s first home loss of the season. position before suffering his eighth retirement of the but will likely have to find a way past the irrepressible Federer,who has 99 titles in his illustrious career. season, twice as many as team mate Max Verstappen. Novak Djokovic, who is looking to round off his “I love playing this event. I always have, ever since astonishing season in style. I qualified for the very first time back in 2002.” De Minaur Into The two men, with 34 Grand Slams between them, Federer will have been buoyed by his battling Lopez Wins Maiden LPGA are the twin titans at the season-ending event at performance against Djokovic in the semi-final of the London’s O2 arena. Paris Masters last week but he still lost the match -- Next Gen Final But the tournament, which starts today, lacks an his fourth consecutive defeat against Djokovic, with ONDON (Dispatches) Crown With China Victory element of star power without the injured Rafael the Serb now leading their head-to-head 25-22. L- Australian teenager EXICO CITY (Dispatches) - Mexico’s Nadal and Juan Martin del Potro, both of whom were Djokovic has made an incredible comeback Alex de Minaur reached the M136th-ranked Gaby Lopez celebrated the biggest forced to pull out of the season finale. following elbow surgery early in the year, overcoming Next Gen ATP Finals victory of her career on Saturday when she triumphed Former champion Andy Murray, still making his indifferent form to win Wimbledon and the US Open championship match on at the $2.1 million Blue Bay LPGA in China. way back from injury, and defending champion and haul himself back to the number one spot. Friday with a 3-4 (5/7), 4-1, An emotional Lopez beat off world number one Grigor Dimitrov are other star names missing. The 31-year-old, who slipped to 22nd in the world in 4-1, 3-4 (4/7), 4-2 victory Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand and a late challenge The title is contested by the eight players who have May, admitted that after his surgery it looked improbable over Spain’s Jaume Munar. from France’s Celine Boutier for her maiden victory accumulated the most ranking points over the season that he would finish the year as number one. De Minaur, 19, began the on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. and is in a round-robin format, with the best four “But there was always part of me that believed I could season at number 208 in Lopez carded a final-round 73 to go eight under for players reaching the knockout semi-finals stage. make it back and I never thought it was impossible,” he the world rankings and the tournament on the island of Hainan -- where wind Federer is expected to emerge from Group Lleyton said. “I just thought at the time it might take more time reached a career-high 31 has been a factor all week -- and a one-stroke win. Hewitt, also featuring Kevin Anderson, Dominic than I wished it to be.” “It turned to out to be a perfect five last month. She was drenched in water by her rivals and wiped Thiem and Kei Nishikori, while Djokovic is highly months of the year, with two Grand Slam titles,” he added. He now stands just one win away from capping his away tears at the end. fancied to top Group Guga Kuerten, which also Nadal this week pulled out of the tournament in London breakout season when he takes on top seed Stefanos Lopez had marked her 25th birthday on Friday by includes Alexander Zverev, Marin Cilic and John Isner. -- guaranteeing Djokovic will end the season as the world Tsitsipas or 2017 runner-up Andrey Rublev in the final. hitting a hole-in-one at the 17th hole and grabbing After a stunning 2017 season which saw the Swiss number one. That followed the injury withdrawal of Del De Minaur is now an impressive 28-22 on the year the third-round lead. Jutanugarn finished second on capture seven titles, including Grand Slam crowns at the Potro, who reached a career-high ranking of third this after entering 2018 with just two tour-level match seven under and Boutier, ranked 150th in the world, Australian Open and Wimbledon, Federer was clear that season and reached the final of the London event in 2009. wins to his record. was third, a further shot back, after shooting a his 2018 season has been a success despite a mixed run Zverev, 21, has been touted about as one of the Seeded second, he has not lost a match at the sparkling six-under-par 66. of results in recent months. The 37-year-old has won a leaders of the new generation and has won three tournament this week, winning Group B before There was a tie for fourth between Danielle Kang of record six titles at the ATP Finals -- including two in Masters titles in his short career but he has flattered to battling past Munar in exactly two hours the United States and South Korea’s Kim Sei-young. London -- but has not lifted the trophy since 2011. deceive at the Grand Slams. in the semi-finals. Aussie Bottas Promises Cricketers Improvements After Labor to Win Topping Times YDNEY (Dispatches) - Australia’s cricketers admit they ONDON (Dispatches) - Valtteri Bottas promised he Sare drained from a huge effort to halt a demoralizing Land Mercedes will keep on pushing for more losing streak while dealing with intense scrutiny over their performance after topping the times ahead of poor form and the ball-tampering scandal. team-mate Lewis Hamilton in a ‘Silver Arrows’ one-two They finally snapped their seven-game run of limited in Friday’s second practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix. overs defeats thanks to a gutsy effort from their The Finn, seeking his first victory in nearly a year bowlers in the second one-dayer against South Africa since the 2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, beat new in Adelaide on Friday. Set 232 to win, the Proteas could five-time champion Hamilton by 0.003 seconds in a only manage 224-9 in their 50 overs, leaving the series highly-competitive session at Interlagos. tied at 1-1 with the decider in Hobart on Sunday. “It was a bit of a mixed day,” he said. “Much better in “We’re all bloody tired. All the bowlers are cooked,” said Marcus Stoinis, whose three wickets and run out of the afternoon than the morning, which was quite Aiden Markram were crucial to the team winning after another mediocre performance with the bat. difficult. Then, it was easy to make mistakes and I had a few lockups and aborted laps. “It was a big effort, so really proud of everyone.” “In the afternoon, I managed to find a rhythm and the pace felt good. It is a short track, though, and the margins Before the game, Skipper Aaron Finch conceded the scrutiny of Australian cricket during recent months, including are small – it is very close between the top three teams, “We can’t afford to relax or be satisfied. We know everyone disarray within the sport’s governing body, where a slew of executives have been forced out, was taking a toll. is working hard overnight on their performance so we will keep on pushing as well.” Hamilton said his car felt He urged the players to keep their focus on the field and was proud of the way they pulled through. better than it was in Mexico where he won the drivers title two weekends earlier. “The way we defended was outstanding, The bowlers were relentless. Not sure if it’s relief, but justification for “We are still working through some issues. Rain is forecast, but I love driving in the rain so that’s not a problem… some hard work,” said Finch, who won man-of-the-match after being widely praised for the way he rotated his We need to make sure we are quick enough in the dry.” bowlers and placed the field. Stoinis admitted “it’s been a tough six months or so” and pointed to the team’s The Mercedes drivers are seeking to clinch the team’s fifth consecutive constructors’ championship this weekend, character as helping them deal with the hard times. knowing that Ferrari need to outperform them by 13 points to keep the title race alive.