Zarif Extensive Dialogue”
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WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13453 Sunday AUGUST 4, 2019 Mordad 13, 1398 Dhul Hijjah 2, 1440 Tehran condemns Sanctioning Zarif Fencer Mojtaba Abedini Iran opens exhibition U.S. sanctions shows U.S. frustration hungry to win gold to showcase historical against Russia 3 3 at 2020 Tokyo 15 objects of children’s life 16 Iran will take next step if obligations not met: Zarif TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Moham- ICANA in an interview published on mad Javad Zarif has said Iran will take the Saturday. Tehran-Baku trade next step in reducing commitments under He noted that Iran’s actions are within the 2015 nuclear deal if the remaining the framework of the JCPOA, the official parties to the agreement do not honor name for the nuclear agreement. their obligations. Paragraph 36 of the JCPOA has “It is the Islamic Republic of Iran provided a mechanism to resolve who should take decision in this respect. disputes and allows one side, under This step will be taken in continuation certain circumstances, to stop com- of previous actions if other sides do plying with the deal if the other side more than doubled not fulfil their obligations,” he told is out of compliance. 2 See page 4 Riyadh welcomes Iran’s condition for resuming Umrah Hajj TEHRAN — Saudi Hajj Minister Muham- He made the remarks during a meeting mad Saleh bin Taher Benten has welcomed with head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Tehran’s condition including guaranteeing Organization Alireza Rashidian. dignity and safety of Iranian pilgrims for During the meeting, Rashidian high- resuming Umrah Hajj. lighted Iran’s condition for resuming Benten also said he will personally Umrah Hajj for Iranian pilgrims, in- pursue the issue of establishing Iran’s cluding guaranteeing the safety and interest section in the Swiss embassy respecting the dignity of Iranian pil- in Riyadh, Mehr reported on Saturday. grims. 3 N. Korea confirms rocket launcher test fire TEHRAN— North Korea has said Kim the guided ordnance rocket.” supervised the first test of the same rocket The report didn’t include any direct artillery system. mention of the United States or South KCNA said Kim expressed “great sat- Korea. isfaction” over yesterday’s tests, which South Korea’s presidential office had Hadi Zand it said confirmed the system’s “altitude said the U.S. and South Korean militar- control level flight performance, track ies shared an assessment that yesterday’s changing capability, accuracy of hitting launches were likely of short-range ballistic ISNA/ a target and warhead explosion power of missiles. 13 ARTICLE Maduro ready for battle after Trump threatens ‘quarantine’ REPORT Morteza Khansari TEHRAN — Venezuelan President Nicolas to oust Maduro and replace him with opposition Fatemeh Salehi Journalist Maduro has lashed out at his American coun- figure Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim Mehr News Agency terpart, Donald Trump, for threatening to im- president earlier this year. journalist pose a blockade or a quarantine on the South The Trump administration has even confis- American country. cated Venezuela’s state oil assets based in the Germany Speaking during a live television interview, U.S. to channel them to Guaido. The rise of Yemeni Maduro said such measures were “illegal” and In its latest move against Caracas, the U.S. on hampering Brexit all Venezuelans were ready to respond in kind. Friday slapped sanctions on two security officials long-range missiles “All of Venezuela, in a civic-military union, for alleged human rights violations. and Johnson’s repudiates and rejects the statements of Donald Maduro denounced the new measures, de- emen army and public groups at- administration Trump about a supposed quarantine, of a sup- scribing them as “Illegal, spurious decisions”. tacked the furthest eastern part of posed blockade,” Maduro said in a state television “Stupid decisions about supposed sanctions,” YEast Saudi Arabia, in Dammam, broadcast on Friday. he said. “Every time there has been a dialogue for the very first time with a long-range hese days, Germany is receiving many “A blockade, why would he announce that?” administration. session, the U.S. government makes bad, perverse ballistic missile. requests from the United States and he asked. “It is clearly illegal.” Asked by a reporter on Thursday whether decisions like it took this week.” Dammam city lies in the banks of the the Britain to join an international T “We are all prepared for battle if anyone tries he was considering a blockade or a quarantine, Maduro was referring to a new round of talks Persian Gulf, in the furthest eastern part coalition to control the Strait of Hormuz to impose a quarantine or blockade on Venezue- Trump said: “Yes, I am.” that was ongoing between his government’s rep- of the Saudi Arabia. The city is home to and take part in joint navy projects in the la,” said Maduro, adding that the threat only shows Washington has already imposed several resentatives and the opposition in the Caribbean major businesses in Saudi Arabia and is Persian Gulf. the “desperation and irritation” of the Trump rounds of sanctions against the oil-rich country country of Barbados. 13 the main export center of Aramco, the This, however, doesn’t seem like the Saudi’s giant oil company. perfect time to make such a request; on In another operation, the resistant one hand, U.S. has lost confidence to con- Yemeni groups used Qasef drones and front Iran one-to-one and is seeking an middle-range ballistic missiles and at- international consensus over the issue; UAE redeploying troops in Yemen’s Hudaydah tacked a military parade organized in Britain, on the other hand, had a passive TEHRAN — The UAE’s Minister of State for limited retreat elsewhere in Yemen. by their desire to exit a war whose cost has Aden by renegade military commander reaction to the seizure of its ships by the Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash says the Persian According to Press TV, a senior UAE official, become too high, even if it means angering Khalifa Haftar. 41 soldiers, including a Islamic Republic; in fact, Britain’s only Gulf country has been redeploying its forces in who was speaking on condition of anonymity, their Saudi allies.” senior officer were killed during the attack. major reaction was taking part in a con- Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah. said the country was moving from a “military On Thursday, the New York Times also revealed The operation was carried out against ference in the headquarters of American Gargash tweeted on Friday that the rede- first” to a “peace first” strategy. that the UAE had had been withdrawing from militia forces deployed in al-Jala’a mil- forces in Florida and announcing that the ployment is “the outcome of extensive dialogue” “We do have troop levels that are down for Yemen because it had come to the conclusion itary camp in the Yemeni southern port problems in the strait of Hormuz is a com- within Saudi Arabia, which has been waging a reasons that are strategic in Hudaydah and that the war was “unwinnable.” city of Aden. The targeted military forces mon issue for both Britain and the U.S. war on Yemen since March 2015. reasons that are tactical” in other parts of Saudi Arabia launched the war on Yemen in were getting ready to attack two regions Mike Pompeo also announced that Britain Saudi Arabia and the UAE are determined to Yemen, he said. March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall a former in Taizz and Zale. should look after of its ships on its own. avoid confrontation with Iran, he said, adding The New York Times reported in July that regime and eliminate the Houthi Ansarullah Zeifullah al-Shami, the spokesperson of German officials also reacted to the the two Arab allies had agreed on a strategy for the UAE had pulled most of its forces from the movement, which has been defending the country Yemen National Liberation Government request of the U.S. and Britain for starting the next phase in Yemen. Yemen “quagmire” in a “face-saving” decision along with Yemen’s armed forces. in Sana’a announced that if the opposing a military coalition to control the shipping The remarks came less than a month after that has deeply upset its Saudi allies. The UAE has provided weapons, funding, side continue the attacks, there will be a in the Strait of Hormuz. the United Arab Emirates announced a “strate- It quoted Western and Arab diplomats as training to at least 5,000 mercenaries in the third operation on the way. German Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz an- gic redeployment” from Hudaydah and a more saying that the Emiratis “are driven mostly bloody war on Yemen. Yemeni resistant groups launched nounced that Germany will not participate these two unprecedented large missile in U.S. coalition for safeguarding shipping in and drone attacks while Saudi-Arabia and the Persian Gulf and added that Germany’s its supporters such as the United Arab stance on this subject has not changed and Homegrown Emirates condemned the resistant groups. its policy has always been clear. He also The media affiliated with Saudi also gave added that forming a military coalition is a 3D printed a biased report of the attacks to start a hasty decision and it means jumping ahead psychological war. in response to the current issues. bones Yemeni’s unique operations were Heiko Maas, German minister for For- launched successively in one day.