WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13305 Tuesday JANUARY 15, 2019 Dey 25, 1397 Jumada Al Awwal 8, 1440 Iran to launch Tehran says still Three Iranian Kermanshah exhibit Payam satellite honoring women among top explores history of ties soon 2 nuclear deal 2 Asian scientists 12 between UN, Iran 16 3rd round of offering oil at IRENEX on Jan. 21 See page 2 ECONOMY TEHRAN—National The purchasers can pay both in Iranian deskIranian Oil Company rial and in foreign currencies, the rate of which High-profile (NIOC) will offer one million barrels of would be estimated at CBI’s online Sana system light crude oil at Iran Energy Exchange (accessible at sanarate.ir, a website that records (IRENEX) for the third time on January daily forex trade from across the domestic 21, IRNA reported on Monday. exchange bureaus), the official said. The set price for this round of oil sale Earlier on November 11, NIOC offered is $52.42 per barrel, Saeed Khoshrou, 700,000 barrels of light crude oil at the director of international affairs at NIOC, price of $76.29 per barrel at IRENEX for meetings in Baghdad announced. the second time. 4 Iran talked to Taliban to foil plot by Daesh backers: MP POLITICS TEHRAN — Majlis published on Monday. deskNational Security and He noted that holding talks does not Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Hes- mean recognize a group. hmatollah Falahatpisheh has said that “The Islamic Republic of Iran had dif- Iran held talks with Taliban to foil plots ferences and serious tension with Taliban by Daesh supports in Afghanistan. which have been resolved due to historic “Iran held talks with Taliban in line reasons,” he noted. with maintaining stability in Afghan- The senior lawmaker added that it is istan and foiling Daesh supporters’ a reality that Taliban has gained power plot,” he told ILNA in an interview in Afghanistan. 2 Bomb-packed car blows up near high-security compound in Kabul A bomb-laden car blew up outside a security checkpoints. high-security compound that is home to Police spokesman Basir Mujahid said several international companies and char- that a vehicle full of explosives had det- ities in the Afghan capital Kabul Monday, onated. “The area is cordoned off ... and causing a number of casualties, security search operation underway for suspects officials said. and attackers,” he said. An Afghan government security source “It was a powerful car bomb that mfa.ir said the blast occurred on Jalalabad Road knocked [down] a wall between Green in eastern Kabul near the Green Village Village and the [adjacent] customs office,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) met with Iraqi Presidend Barham Salih in Baghdad on Monday, 14 January, 2019. compound, which has blast walls and a security source told Reuters. 13 EDITORIAL Boeing 707 cargo plane crashes near Tehran, claims 16 lives ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi SOCIETY Hanif Ghaffari Tehran Times editor-in-chief TEHRAN — A According to head of Emergency Political analyst deskBoeing 707 cargo Medical Services Organization Pir @ghaderi62 plane, with 17 people on board, Hossein Kulivand, the residential crashed in Safadasht, near Tehran, complex was vacant. on Monday morning, leaving 16 dead Ambulances and firefighters Iranians will not and one injured, ISNA news agency were sent to the scene immedi- Why is Tony Blair forget treason reported. ately. so angry? The plane took off from Bish- Nasser Charkhsaz, head of Alborz by Poland kek Manas International Airport province Red Crescent Society, ex- he former British Prime Minister in Kyrgyzstan and was planned to plained that the main reason behind doesn’t have a good time! On the n 1939, when World War II be- land at Payam international airport, the crash is unknown yet. one hand, Tony Blair is witnessing however, it was forced to make an Army spokesman Brigadier Gen- T gan, Poland came under attacks by the continuation of the Brexit process, both Nazi Germany and the Soviet emergency landing and crashed into eral Taghi Khani told the IRIB that and on the other hand, He’s in no way I a residential complex about 8.30 a.m. the plane belonged to the Iranian Union. The attacks led to starvation, happy with what has happened inside the displacement, and mass execution of local time. forces. Labor Party! Tony Blair is one of the main Polish people. opponents of the British withdrawal from It was between the years 1941 to 1943 the European Union. that about 150,000 Poles took refuge Turkey responds to Trump Twitter threat He has repeatedly stated that anoth- in Iran. During their three-year stay in U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Tur- places, I assume he is speaking about those kinds to equate Syrian Kurds with the PKK, which is er referendum could be held, and, if the Iran, the Iranians’ hospitality toward key with economic devastation if it attacks a of things, Pompeo said, adding he had not spoken on the US terrorists list, and its Syria branch British citizens vote against the Brexit, the Poles won the praise of the interna- U.S.-allied Kurdish militia in Syria, drawing a with Ankara since Trump’s comment. PYD/YPG,” spokesman Ibrahim Kalin wrote the earlier results of the 2016 referendum tional community, especially the Poles sharp rebuke from Ankara Monday and reviving Trump said Sunday the United States was on Twitter. can be ignored. He’s gone a step further, themselves. fears of another downturn in ties between the starting the military pullout from Syria that he “Terrorists can’t be your partners & al- and mentioned that the Brexit can never At the time, Poland’s officials had said NATO allies. announced in December, saying it was continuing lies. Turkey expects the U.S .to honor our happen, even despite the public’s vote for that the Iranians’ kindness toward the Relations between the United States and Turkey to hit Daesh (ISIL) militants there. strategic partnership and doesn’t want it to leaving the EU! Polish refugees will not be forgotten from have long been strained by Washington’s support “Will attack again from existing nearby base be shadowed by terrorist propaganda,” he Recently, British Prime Minister, The- their memory. for the Kurdish YPG, which Turkey views as an if it reforms. Will devastate Turkey economically said Monday. resa May, expressed her satisfaction with Now, at the beginning of 2019, some extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers if they hit Kurds. Create 20 mile safe zone...Like- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu the positive vote of the House of Commons Poles who spent their childhood in Iran Party (PKK) that is waging a decades-long in- wise, do not want the Kurds to provoke Turkey,” said Ankara was not against the idea of a “secure to her plan for leaving the block. These during the World War II, are still alive. surgency in Turkey. Trump wrote on Twitter. zone” along the border, but added that strategic remarks led to Tony Blair and his entou- They are narrators of a nation that while Speaking in Riyadh, Secretary of State The lira slid more than 1.6 percent to 5.5450 partners and allies should not communicate over rage taking positions against her. The UK themselves were grappling with starvation, Mike Pompeo said he did not think the threat against the dollar and stood at 5.52 at 1122 GMT social media. former Prime Minister intended to use they did whatever they could for their guests would change plans to withdraw troops from Monday. “Nothing can be achieved by threatening Tur- the Brexit to return to power in London who had fled the war and punishment. Syria. Asked what Trump meant by economic Turkey’s presidential spokesperson Ibrahim key economically. We need to look at how we can and the Labor Party. In recent years, he However, today there is an open and secret devastation, he said: “You’ll have to ask the Kalin said Trump should respect Washington’s coordinate together and how we can solve this,” has become the main messenger of the relationship between the Polish and U.S. president.” alliance with Ankara. he said in a news conference with Luxembourg’s falsification of the Brexit. governments aimed against Iran. However, the London-Brussels agree- “We have applied economic sanctions in many “Mr. @realDonaldTrump It is a fatal mistake foreign minister. 13 The point is that Warsaw has not been ment on British exit from the EU can once an independent power player at the in- again defeat Blair to in the country’s politi- ternational scene in the recent decades. cal circles. The truth is that London’s soft or Persons such as Jaroslaw Kaczynski to hard exit from the EU is of no importance Donald Tusk and Mateusz Morawiecki Mountain to Blair, but he’s after the renewal of 2018’s have all been turned into submissive referendum. For the British prime min- politicians who have preferred playing ister, it does not matter that his country at the U.S. court. goats in will leave Europe in the form of a “joint It is not without reason that many agreement” or “disagreement”! analysts view Poland as a country with northwestern UK’s former foreign secretary, limited international influence. Boris Johnson and some other senior Today, at a time when the Iranian nation resort members of the conservative party, is struggling with illegal sanctions by the however, believe that the House of Trump administration, officials in Warsaw A pack of nine goats has recently been Commons shouldn’t agree with Lon- have agreed to host an anti-Iran conference.