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12 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.12610 Thursday JULY 28, 2016 Mordad 7, 1395 Shawwal 23, 1437 Tehran says Iran’s long walk to State Department, OFAC must stop 4-month diplomatic non-oil trade handshake with contradicting each other: Iran stands at $28b POLITICAL TEHRAN — Iran says good albeit at a sluggish pace. “As of the implemen- banking and financial ties,” Majid Takh-Ra- Washington deskprogress has been made tation of the JCPOA, good progress has been vanchi, the deputy foreign minister, told ISNA in ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran’s desk regarding financial and banking interactions, made regarding the removal of Sanctions and an interview published on Wednesday. 2 non-oil trade dur- POLITICAL TEHRAN — The ing the first four months of current deskIranian Foreign Min- Iranian calendar year (March 20- July istry spokesman has put the prospect 21, 2016) stood at $28 billion, accord- of an all-out diplomatic thaw between ing to the latest report published by Washington and Tehran too distant, Protests force Bahrain to delay trial of top cleric Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Ad- citing numerous hurdles on the path ministration (IRICA), Fars news agency to normalization. reported on Wednesday. Bahram Qassemi made the remarks See page 9 The country’s non-oil exports to- on Tuesday when asked by Kyodo taled $16.308 billion in the said period, news agency senior journalist Hiroki rising 21.11 percent compared to sim- Sugita about the possibility that Iran ilar timespan in the previous year. and the U.S. open embassies in Wash- Some 41.161 million tons of goods ington and Tehran. were exported during the period, “Naturally, there may have been showing 36.37 percent rise compared some convergence on regional issues, to similar period last year. but negotiations have been solely on Some 9.958 million tons of goods the nuclear issue,” he said. worth $12.865 billion were imported Tehran and Washington have had recording drop of 12.79 percent and no political exchange since November 7.12 percent respectively in terms of 1979 when the U.S. embassy in Tehran weight and value, compared to similar was stormed by a clutch of students on period last year. revelations it was used by Washington The worth of Iran’s non-oil exports as an “espionage den”. was $4 billion more than that of non- To understand how long it takes for oil imports during the first four months a thaw, the nuclear deal is a good yard- of the current Iranian calendar year. stick, a point referred to by Qassemi. Therefore, Iran’s trade balance regis- “The lengthy nuclear negotiations, tered a positive record. as an example, can show how bumpy According to IRICA, in the past Irani- the path to establishing relations is and an calendar year, which ended on March how long it takes to normalize ties.” 19, 2016, the value of the country’s non- Unlike optimism about closer bonds oil trade reached over $83 billion. in the wake of the successful nuclear In the past year, the Tasnim news deal, it will not be possible to bring down agency reported, Iran exported the wall of mistrust so easily. 2 $42.415 billion worth of goods while its imports reached $41.499 billion, showing a 16.11 percent decrease in HUMAN INTEREST the value of exports and a 22.53 per- By Marjan Golpira cent decline in the value of imports when compared to its previous year. Diplomatic policeman Abbas Syria calls Iran Saraei saves the day Iran sets May 19 for presidential election best friend of difficult days POLITICAL TEHRAN – Iran that it had agreed on a date of announced as the definite date Iranian officials have said TEHRAN — The other day, on the desk way to the gym in the morning, I wit- will hold its next May 19 proposed by the minis- for the 12the presidential and fifth that the election would be held POLITICAL TEHRAN — Syrian nessed a horrifying accident. presidential election on May 19, try, the ministry confirmed late city and village council elections to earlier than usual so as not to deskPrime Minister Imad I had just turned onto the main 2017. Wednesday. the Interior Ministry by the Guard- coincide with the Muslim fast- Khamis said on Wednesday praised road when I heard a man shouting at The Guardian Council said in “The 29th of Ordibehesht of ian Council,” Salman Samani told ing month of Ramadan which Iran’s support for the Syrian people the top of his lungs. a letter to the Interior Ministry 1396 (May 19, 2017) has been IRNA. starts in late May. and government, noting that Iran has Looking closer, I noticed a man be- been the “best supporter” of Syria in ing dragged behind a motorcycle. It Toronto Intel. Film Festival India’s Essar Oil imports from the most difficult times. truly looked like a horror movie except Khamis made the remarks during a that I was living it at far too early of to screen “Salesman” Iran in H1 up 55% y/y meeting in Damascus with Ayatollah an hour. Mohsen Araki, secretary general of the Half awake and baffled, I sought ARTTEHRAN – India’s Essar Oil Company’s desk World Forum for Proximity of Islamic assistance and immediately spotted a Iranian direc- crude imports from Iran rose by Schools of Thought. diplomatic police booth at the south tor and writer Asghar Farhadi’s more than 55 percent in the first gate of the Russian Federation Embas- latest blockbuster “Salesman” six months of 2016 compared to sy. will go on screen in the spe- the same period last year. Fortunately, Neauphle-le-Chateau, cial presentations section of Based on tanker arrival data the street where the accident occurred, the 41st Toronto International obtained from trade sources is sandwiched between the British em- Film Festival, which will be held and ship-tracking services on bassy on the left and Russian embassy in the Canadian city from Sep- the Thomson Reuters terminal, on the right and has diplomatic police tember 8 to 18. the top Indian buyer of Iranian booths in a few areas. The social media scooped crude imported about 154,200 I ran across the street to get the the awards for best screenplay “Salesman” is about Emad barrels of Iranian crude during first six months of 2016 while it diplomatic police officer’s attention, by Farhadi and best actor, won (Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh the mentioned period which is was only 29 percent in the same The prime minister said that the whose name later I discovered was by Shahab Hosseini, at the 69th Alidusti) who move into a new 55,000 barrels more compared period last year. Syrian religious scholars back moder- Abbas Saraei. Cannes Film Festival. flat in the center of Tehran. An to the 99,200 barrels of 2015. In June 2016 the company im- ate Islam and proximity among differ- The diplomatic policemen in Iran Early in July, the film also won incident linked to the previous The data shows that Iran’s ported 178,100 barrels of crude ent Islamic denominations. had never impressed me much, and the ARRI/Osram Award at the Mu- tenant dramatically changes share of Essar’s total import has oil from Iran, the data shows. (Source: Reuters) Iran has been supporting Syria quite frankly, my previous experiences nich International Film Festival. the young couple’s life. reached 44 percent during the against militants especially after the with them were mostly sour. emergence of ISIL which its extreme- I found them to be indifferent to ly horrific crimes have shocked the the accidents around them. Their rea- Iran beats Lebanon at FIBA Asia U18 Basketball Championship world. soning normally is “We are supposed Ayatollah Mohsen Araki also pre- to be protecting the embassy and SPORTS Host Iran defeated Lebanon 86-83 in Group B. dicted that the Syrian government and desk cannot respond to the incidents in our 76-54 at the 2016 FIBA Asia Ehsan Samadi led Iran with 13 points people will win the battle against ter- surroundings.” If you ask me, it is noth- U18 Basketball Championship here at the Azadi and Lebanese Mark Alkhoury scored 14 rorists soon. ing but a lame excuse. Hall on Wednesday. points. A new important chapter, which will Having had that background in The Iranian team, who had already defeat- Iran will play China on Friday. be “promotion of true Islam” will be mind, I approached officer Saraei. Be- ed Indonesia (106-40) and Kazakhstan (90-59) The top three teams from the 24th FIBA opened in the history of Syria after the fore I get to him, he had already taken in its first two matches, suffered two successive Asia U18 Championship will represent Asia at victory over terrorism, the ayatollah the initiative to step out of the booth, defeats against Japan 81-77 and South Korea the 2017 FIBA U19 World Championship. remarked. of course, with a walkie-talkie in his The top cleric said religious scholars hand. shoulder heavy responsibility in present- Desperate, I said please call 911, The Tehran Times new pocket-sized glossary is now available on the ing a true image of Islam to the world. which soon it came back to me that He added, “Syria can take funda- the emergency number in Iran is 110. market. The reader-friendly is a rich source of the most common mental steps in promoting true Islam Officer Saraei, who seemed to journalistic terminology collected by the daily’s retired staff. and Islamic unity and become a role have kept his cool, dialed a number It can benefit a wide range of tastes from students to professional model for the world of Islam in this re- and asked for assistance, as we both spect.” walked toward the scene where the journalists. Ayatollah Araki held a separate motorbike had come to a standstill For more information contact: meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister and a man on the ground was holding Walid Muallem during which he said on to the back of it. (021) 430 51 603-4 that Syria has many capacities to serve 9 the world of Islam. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y NATION 2 JJULYULY 28,28, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/international

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS Tehran, Islamabad stress Free Hajj sign-up is rumor: official counterterrorism co-op in joint statement POLITICAL TEHRAN — Closer as the Islamic world, part of the state- deskties, regional stability ment read. TEHRAN — Claims about free sign-up for the Hajj and peace, and cooperation to fight ter- The two also underscored strong pilgrimage are false and people should not believe rorism are highlights of a joint statement cooperation to battle terrorism and ex- them, the head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organ- by Pakistan and Iran issued on Wednes- tremist groups and saw “guaranteeing ization said on Wednesday. day after meetings between senior offi- regional peace and stability” as one key

ISNA These claims are mere “alluring promises void of cials of the two countries in Tehran. goal of the synergy. truth”, Said Owhadi said, adding that sending pil- On Monday and Tuesday Supreme “Fighting Daesh as a deviant and di- grims to Hajj by means other than those previously National Security Council Secretary Ali visive current in the world of Islam which provided by the ofﬁcial organization is virtually im- Shamkhani held meetings with Nasser is a joint plot hatched by the enemies of possible, ISNA reported. Khan Janjua, the National Security Ad- Islam and Islamic countries against the visor of Pakistan, in Tehran, exchanging unity and cooperation of Islamic coun- views on a range of issues. tries is another issue the two countries Iran able to make While emphasizing “brotherly and agreed on,” the statement said. close ties,” Iran and Pakistan attach im- Iran hopes to make its eastern bor- U.S. leave S. Arabia portance to expansion of ties and dia- ders with Pakistan safer through joint alone: Rezaei logue to address border insecurities and Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Baqeri held talks on protocols to prevent terrorist cells pen- counter instability in the region as well Wednesday with Pakistan’s National Security Chief Nasser Khan Janjua. etrating into the country. TEHRAN — The secretary of Iran’s Expedien- cy Council on Wednesday warned Saudi Arabia against carrying out mischievous acts against Teh- New chapter opening in Iran-Ghana ties: Zarif ran, saying Tehran is able to make Washington POLITICAL TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister President Mahama, for his part, said Accra welcomes leave Riyadh alone. desk

FARS Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tues- business activities of Iranian companies in his country, “Saudi Arabia has taken certain measures day that relations between Iran and Ghana has entered especially in the health sector. (against Iran) in Pakistan and adjacent to Sistan-Ba- a new stage. He suggested that Iran and Ghana can cooperate in louchestan and in northern Iraq and these recent “A new chapter has been opened in relations between areas of education and agriculture as well as oil and gas moves are the result of its full failure in regional Iran and Ghana,” Zarif said during a meeting with Ghanaian industry. projects,” Rezaei was quoted as saying by Fars. President John Dramani Mahama in Accra on Tuesday. Elsewhere, he said that Ghana supports political “Saudi Arabia has pinned hope on U.S. support, Zarif who started a tour of Africa along with 35 rep- moves to settle the crisis in Syria. but we have found a formula and will do something resentatives from 35 the private sector said that relations Zarif also said Iran is ready to expand cooperation so that the U.S. would leave it alone in the battle- between Iran and Ghana are at a “very good level”. with Ghana in fighting terrorism and extremism. field and will create a disastrous situation for it to “The economic delegation that is accompanying me During a meeting with Iranian residents in Ghana on remember forever.” is one of the largest delegations in the recent years; it Monday, Zarif also said, “Iranophobia is being propagat- is ready to expand and deepen cooperation in various ed through large investment by the Zionists and ill-wish- All-out ties with areas with Ghana,” he explained. ers especially the brutal Saudi regime.” Turkey on Iran’s agenda: ambassador Islamic division benefits Islamophobia Iran says it only backs democracy project: Rouhani in Bahrain

TEHRAN — Iran’s ambassador to Ankara has said expansion of comprehensive relations with Turkey is on the agenda. Mohammad Ebrahim Taherianfard made the remarks at a meeting of heads of Iran’s representative ofﬁces in Turkey on Wednesday, Mehr reported. MEHR During the meeting the Iranian diplomats also reviewed acceleration of process of bilateral economic cooperation as well as stability in friendly and neighboring country of Turkey.

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envoy POLITICAL TEHRAN — Irani- The president also said the end of the POLITICAL TEHRAN — The the crisis in Bahrain can be settled politically. deskan President Hassan Iran-Iraq war in the summer of 1988 was deskspecial advisor to Bahraini sources said on Monday Rouhani said on Tuesday that the cur- a glorious milestone in the history of the Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Tues- that Manama will put the 79-year-old TEHRAN — The Iranian ambassador to Baku rent division among the Muslims is in Islamic Republic.The 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq day that Iran does not interfere in Bah- Shia cleric on trial on charges of “ille- on Wednesday described Iran-Baku relations as line with “the Islamophobia project”. war was ended after acceptance of the rain’s affairs, but supports democracy, gal fund collections, money laundering “strategic”. “Divisions that have been created dur- UN Resolution 598 by both countries. freedom of speech, and observation of and helping terrorism”. Talking to IRNA, Mohsen Pakaeen said Presi- IRNA ing the recent years through violence and Iraq used chemical weapons against human rights in the country. The trial was set to be held on dent Hassan Rouhani is slated to take part in a murder in the name of Islam are caused Iranian forces and civilians during the war. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also said Wednesday, July 27. trilateral meeting between Iran, the Republic of by the enemy and are in line with a big Part of the Resolution 598 said the that trial of cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim is In June, the dictatorial regime of Azerbaijan and Russia in the coming weeks when plot named Islamophobia,” Rouhani said UN is “deeply dismayed by the unani- an “audacious” action. Bahrain announced that it had revoked he visits Baku. during a meeting of the Supreme Council mous conclusions of the specialists that “The Bahraini government will be the citizenship of the major ﬁgure due Pakaeen underscored that Iran and Azerbai- of the Cultural Revolution. there has been repeated use of chemical harmed if it does not learn lesson from to what they have called serving “for- jan share close cultural afﬁnities, adding that He said that unity among Shia and Sun- weapons against Iranian forces by Iraqi history and repeats its mistakes,” he eign interest”. The act has been con- there is no limit to the development of com- ni is one of the “fundamental principles” of forces, that civilians in Iran also have been added. demned by the UN and several human prehensive cooperation and strengthening of the Islamic Revolution’s political ideology. injured by chemical weapons.” He reiterated on Tehran’s position that rights bodies. relations with Azerbaijan.

Iranian commandos State Department, OFAC must stop contradicting each other: Iran in Russia to take 1 As an affiliate of the U.S. Department of the ed contacts with internationalernational pplayers,layers, part in International “Partially, part of the problem we are facing now Treasury, OFAC administers and enforces eco- but international bankingnking reregulationsgulations Army Games is related to primary sanctions by the U.S., still nomic and trade sanctions based on the coun- have changed, as well.”ell.” in place. This has been a cause of concern for try’s foreign policy and national security goals Also, anti-money llaunderingaundering anandd TEHRAN — A number of prominent commandos some European financial institutes,” said the dip- against targeted foreign countries. counterterrorism mmeasureseasures hhaveave from the Iranian Army and IRGC are in Russia to lomat who served as a nuclear negotiator with And this dual stance, so to speak, is what Iranian been a hurdle “whichch we have ofof participate in the upcoming International Army great powers. officials have repetitively raised in post-deal meet- course ratified relevantvant bills”, the Games 2016. European banks have given Iran the cold shoul- ings with Americans. top diplomat explained.ed. The annual event is scheduled to be held on Au- der over re-opening channels of communication, In this regard, Takht-Ravanchi said, “In all Having said that,that, gust 1-14, Tasnim reported on Wednesday. fearing falling foul to fines by Washington. sessions we have had at ministerial and depu- OFAC and the U.S. gov-ov- The commandos who consist of seven military TASNIM Particularly, Iran has been critical of an ambig- ty levels with Americans ever since the imple- ernment together haveve teams will compete in various categories, includ- uous Washington over the banking row, accusing mentation day, we have emphasized the point to find a way to soothehe ing Sniper Frontier, Tank Biathlon, Suvorov Attack, U.S. officials of sending incongruous messages. that the messages they are sending are neither a the banking concernsns Elbrus Ring, Airborne Platoon, Seaborne Assault, “We think Washington is sending two mes- message nor even a positive one.” either by issuing a and Depth. sages: one by the Department of State clarifying Of course the Iranian diplomat sees Iranian general license or Military representatives from 17 countries, in- that there is no obstacles to banking and finan- banks to blame as well, as they have not kept separate licenses in cluding Iran, Russia, China, Egypt, Venezuela, Bela- cial interactions with Iran, and the one by the Of- abreast of the international banking system. the shortest time, rus, and Kazakhstan will take part in the contest in fice of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) which con- “We were under sanctions for nearly ten Takht-Ravanchi southwestern Russia. tradicts the first one,” Takht-Ravanchi remarked. years. Not only have our banks been in limit- underscored.

Principlists to start campaign for Tehran says long walk to diplomatic councils in October handshake with Washington If Japanese firms hesitate to compete with European, TEHRAN 1 — Iran’s principlists will start to cam- While Washington says it is open to a more democratic, South Korean and Chinese companies, they will lag behind, paign for the next year’s city council elections in secular Iran which respects human rights, Tehran char- Qassemi remarked, the Foreign Ministry said on its website. October. acterizes the U.S. hostility toward the country as ideo- Since Iran is the most secure country in the Middle Announcing the news, Ahmad Nikfar, a member logical in essence. East, it is a good choice for foreign investors, including of the central council of the Islamic Engineers’ So- Iran calls on Japanese firms to seize post-sanc- Japan, the spokesman said. ciety, told Nasim that the campaign will start way in tion opportunities Iran has a “strategic look” towards the East and it NASIM advance of the elections due to the “extensiveness Qassemi also called on Japanese companies to seize depends on Japanese companies and officials to take a of the elections”. the opportunity to take part in joint ventures with Iran in timely decision, he added. the post-sanctions era. Iran can choose its partners, Qassemi noted. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

http://www.tehrantimes.com/international JJULYULY 28,28, 20162016 INTERNATIONAL 3 Democrats nominate West can’t stand Hillary Clinton for U.S. presidency independent Syria: Assad Syria’s president says Western countries started supporting an- Obama warns Democrats to 'stay worried' about Trump ti-Damascus militants because they could not bear to see the Arab country leading an independent existence. The Democratic Party has made history hack. Bashar al-Assad made the remarks in a meeting with a visit- by nominating Hillary Clinton to run for "Donald Trump has repeatedly ex- ing delegation of Greek parliamentarians in the Syrian capital on U.S. president as the first woman to head pressed admiration for Vladimir Putin," Tuesday, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported. a major party's presidential ticket. Obama said in an excerpt of the inter- “The problem of many Western states’ leaders with Syria is Speaking via video link from New York view that aired earlier. that it has an independent decision, and so they supported ter- after her nomination, Hillary Clinton told "And I think that Trump's gotten pretty rorists to weaken it and make it a satellite state,” Assad said. the Democratic National Convention in favorable coverage back in Russia." He said the U.S.-led campaign in Syria, which purports to Philadelphia that she was honored to Obama praised Clinton as an "out- be targeting ISIL (Daesh), has boomeranged in the face of the have been chosen as the party's nomi- standing secretary of state" who helped nee. make the country safer and defended "I am so happy. It's been a great day her against Republican accusations that and night. What an incredible honor that her use of a private email account while you have given me. And I can't believe in office had compromised national se- that we've just put the biggest crack in curity. that glass ceiling yet. Thanks to you and "What I think is scary is a president everyone who has fought so hard to who doesn't know their stuff and doesn't make this possible," she said. seem to have an interest in learning what "And if there are any little girls out they don't know," he said, referring to there, who have stayed up late to watch, Tr u m p . Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) meets with a member of a Greek let me just say: I may become the first "As somebody who has now been in cratic presidential nominee Tuesday night "I think if you listen to any press con- parliamentary delegation in the Syrian capital, Damascus, July 26, 2016. woman president, but one of you is next." elected office at various levels for about at a star-studded convention in Philadel- ference he has given or any debates, West for sparing the Takfiri terrorist group and striking the Syrian Obama warns about Trump 20 years, I have seen all kinds of crazy phia keynoted by husband and former basic knowledge about the world or people instead. Meanwhile, U.S. President Barack stuff happen, and I think everybody that president Bill Clinton. what a nuclear triad is, or the difference Earlier in the month, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said French Obama warned Democrats Wednesday goes into campaigns not running scared Divisions were on display, however, af- between Sunni and Shia in the Muslim warplanes had targeted the village of Tukhan al-Kubra on the that anything was possible in the U.S. can end up losing. ter leaked emails showed that leaders of world, those are things he doesn't know outskirts of the northern city of Manbij, killing 120 civilians. The elections and to "stay worried until all the "My advice to Democrats – I don't the supposedly neutral Democratic Na- and hasn't seem to spend a lot of time fatalities came a day after a U.S. airstrike killed 20 civilians in votes are counted." have to give this advice to Hillary Clin- tional Committee worked to undermine trying to find out about." Manbij, it said. Both airstrikes were conducted under the U.S.- Obama, who is the keynote speaker ton because she already knows it – is you the candidacy of Clinton primary rival, Obama, who speaks to the conven- led coalition command. Wednesday at the Democratic National stay worried until all the votes are cast Bernie Sanders. tion Wednesday night, said his message “There are many lessons that the region and the world can Convention, was asked in an interview and counted, because one of the dan- The Clinton campaign has blamed the would be that "the president of the Unit- learn from the terrorist war that targets the Syrian people,” the with NBC's Today Show whether Repub- gers in an election like this is that people leak on Russian hackers bent on helping ed States is profoundly optimistic about Syrian head of state said. lican candidate Donald Trump could de- don't take the challenge seriously, they the Trump campaign. The FBI has said it America's future, and is 100% convinced “The proof of that is the wave of terrorism that struck in sev- feat the Democrat's Hillary Clinton, AFP stay home, and we end up getting some- is investigating. that Hillary Clinton can be a great pres- eral states in Europe and the world recently,” Assad said, refer- reported. thing else." "Anything is possible," Obama said ident." (Source: agencies) ring to several attacks across the US and Europe over the past "Anything is possible," he said. Clinton was proclaimed the Demo- when asked in the interview about the two years that have been claimed by Daesh. The U.S.-led coalition has been bombarding Syria since September 2014 without authorization from Damascus or the Syria's war: 50 killed in ISIL attack in Qamishli United Nations. Analysts say the U.S.-led campaign has failed to dislodge the terrorists, who have seized parts of land in Iraq and Two explosions have struck a predominantly Kurdish political talks next month. Syria and are engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas town in northern Syria, killing at least 50 people and Speaking in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday, fol- under their control. (Source: SANA) wounding dozens. lowing a closed-door meeting with U.S. and Russian Syrian state TV said a truck loaded with explosions officials, Staffan de Mistura, UN special envoy to Syr- blew up on the western edge of the town of Qamishli, ia, said Washington and Moscow had been discussing near the Turkish border, on Wednesday. Minutes later, ways to work towards the reintroduction of a ceasefire. a motorcycle packed with explosions blew up in the De Mistura said that a third round of intra-Syrian UN calls for humanitarian same area. peace talks is set for August. truce in Yemen's Taiz The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also "In the context of the bilateral meeting today, it was known as ISIS) terrorist group claimed responsibility for also agreed that we, the UN - the facilitator, the me- province the attack. diator - should continue preparing proposals for ad- The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human dressing difficult issues that are related to the [talks]," The United Nations called for a humanitarian truce in the Yem- Rights said the explosion targeted a center of the local he said. eni province of Taiz after government forces captured a town Kurdish police and a nearby government building. The Syrian Observatory estimates that more than from Houthi movment in heavy fighting that has spurred alle- ISIL has carried out several bombings in Kurdish ar- 280,000 people have been killed throughout the five gations of war crimes. eas in Syria in the past. which is close to the Syrian border. "The death toll years of bloodshed. Efforts to negotiate a lasting The fighting has complicated UN-sponsored peace talks, as The predominantly Kurdish U.S.-backed Syria Dem- could significantly rise throughout the day". ceasefire have collapsed time and again. envoys for the Houthis have delayed responding to UN propos- ocratic Forces have been the main force fighting ISIL in The latest attack comes amid intense fighting in More than 4.8 million Syrians have become refu- als calling for Houthi pullouts from cities they control, including northern Syria and have captured wide areas from the Aleppo, Syria's largest city, where more than 50 people gees displaced from their homeland, while more than the capital Sanaa, and the creation of an inclusive government. hardline fighters. have been killed in recent days. 6.5 million people are internally displaced within the James McGoldrick, the UNHumanitarian Coordinator for "This was a large attack," said Al Jazeera's Moham- As the war drags on towards its sixth year, there is a country's borders. Yemen, voiced alarm at increasing bloodshed in the southwest- med Jamjoom, reporting from Gaziantep in Turkey, renewed international push to restart the stalled Syria (Source: Al Jazeera) ern Taiz Governorate, particularly the al-Sarari area, and the clo- sure of Taiz city, the regional capital. He urged all warring parties to agree immediately to a "humanitarian pause" to protect civilians and cooperate with hu- Turkey detains more journalists in clampdown on cleric's followers manitarian agencies to help treat and evacuate war-wounded and deliver urgently needed medicine into the embattled zone. Turkey ordered another 47 journalists detained Wednes- (YAS) on Thursday after vowing to restructure the armed McGoldrick warned both parties that holding civilian popu- day, part of a large-scale crackdown on suspected sup- forces following the coup. lations hostage and depriving them of humanitarian assistance porters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, The military said 35 planes, including 24 fighter jets, was illegal under international humanitarian law. who is accused by Ankara of masterminding a failed 37 helicopters, 74 tanks and three ships had been used (Source: AP) military coup. by the coup plotters, NTV reported. Turkey has suspended, detained or placed under in- In Greece, authorities on Wednesday postponed vestigation more than 60,000 soldiers, judges, teachers, hearings for eight Turkish soldiers who sought asylum journalists and others suspected of ties to Gulen's move- there after fleeing Turkey. The men - three majors, three ment since the July 15-16 coup, which was staged by a captains and two sergeant majors - deny being involved Climate change risk faction within the military. in the coup but Turkey has branded them "traitors" and threatens 18 U.S. military Turkey's army General Staff Wednesday put the is demanding their extradition. number of soldiers belonging to the Gulen network Erdogan has signaled Turkey might restore the death sites: study who took part in the coup attempt at 8,651, rough- penalty in the wake of the failed coup, citing strong ly about 1.5 percent of the armed forces, broadcaster public support for such a move, though the European Rising sea levels due to hurricanes and tidal flooding intensi- NTV reported. been issued for 42 other journalists, 16 of whom have so Union has made clear this would scupper Ankara's dec- fied by climate change will put military bases along the U.S. Gulen has denied any involvement in the failed coup. far been taken into custody. ades-old bid to join the bloc. East Coast and Gulf Coast at risk, according to a report re- Turkey's capital markets board said on Tuesday it had Alpay is a former official of Turkey's left-leaning, sec- Pivot to moscow leased on Wednesday. revoked the licence of the head of research at brokerage ularist main opposition CHP party. The Dogan news Turkish officials have complained of what they per- Nonprofit group the Union of Concerned Scientists analyz- AK Investment and called for him to face charges over a agency said police raided his home in Istanbul early on ceive as a lack of support from the EU over the coup, ed 18 military installations that represent more than 120 coastal report he wrote to investors analyzing the July 15 coup. Wednesday and detained him after a 2-1/2 hour search while European leaders have urged Ankara to show re- bases nationwide to weigh the impact of climate change on Western governments and human rights groups, of the property. straint and a sense of proportion in bringing those re- their operations. while condemning the abortive coup in which at least Spirit of unity sponsible to justice. Faster rates of sea level rises in the second half of this cen- 246 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured, Erdogan's ruling Islamic-rooted AK Party and opposi- The attempted coup has also tested Turkey's ties with tury could mean that tidal flooding will become a daily occur- have expressed alarm over the extent of the crackdown, tion parties, usually bitterly divided, have demonstrated its NATO ally the United States, where Gulen has lived in rence for some installations, pushing useable land needed for suggesting President Tayyip Erdogan may be using it to a rare spirit of unity since the abortive coup and are self-imposed exile since 1999. Responding to Turkey's re- military training and testing into tidal zones, said the report stifle dissent and tighten his grip on power. seeking consensus on constitutional amendments part- quest for Gulen's swift extradition, Washington has said titled "The U.S. Military on the Front Lines of Rising Seas." The detention of journalists ordered on Wednesday ly aimed at "cleansing" the state apparatus of Gulenist Ankara must first provide clear evidence of his involve- By 2050, most of these sites will be hit by more than 10 involved columnists and other staff of the now defunct supporters. ment in the coup. times the number of floods than at present, the report said, Zaman newspaper, a government official said. Authori- A senior AK Party official said on Wednesday they The strains with the EU and the United States have and at least half of them will experience daily floods. ties in March shut down Zaman, widely seen as the Gu- were discussing plans to increase parliamentary control coincided with Turkey's renewed push to repair ties with Four of those - including the Naval Air Station in Key West, len movement's flagship media organisation. of a key state body that appoints judges and prosecu- Russia, badly hurt last November by the Turkish down- Florida, and the Marine Corps recruit depot in South Carolina "The prosecutors aren't interested in what individual tors. ing of a Russian jet near Syria and Moscow's subsequent - could lose between 75 and 95 percent of their land in this columnists wrote or said," said the official, who request- Also on Wednesday a government official said Turk- imposition of trade sanctions. century. ed anonymity. "At this point, the reasoning is that prom- ish special forces were still hunting in hills around the On Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet The report said the Pentagon already recognizes the threat inent employees of Zaman are likely to have intimate Mediterranean resort of Marmaris for a group of 11 com- Simsek said his talks with Russian officials this week on of climate change on its military installations but warned that knowledge of the Gulen network and as such could ben- mandos thought to have tried to capture or kill Erdogan improving bilateral relations had taken place "in a very more resources and monitoring systems are needed to boost efit the investigation." on the night of the coup. positive atmosphere". preparedness. However, the list includes journalists, such as Sahin Erdogan was holidaying in Marmaris at the time and Simsek, respected by Western investors as a safe pair But last month, the U.S. House appropriations committee Alpay, known for their leftist activism who do not share only narrowly avoided capture before flying to Istanbul of hands in guiding the Turkish economy, also said he passed an amendment that blocked funding for the Penta- the religious world view of the Gulenist movement. This where he rallied his supporters who helped to defeat the saw no reason to downgrade Turkey's credit rating fol- gon's climate adaptation strategy. has fueled concerns that the investigation may be turn- coup plotters. lowing the coup. Standard & Poor's recently downgrad- "Our defense leadership has a special responsibility to ing into a witch-hunt of the president's political oppo- Erdogan, a popular but polarizing figure who has ed the sovereign debt outlook to negative from stable protect the sites that hundreds of thousands of Americans nents. dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade, will and Moody's has said it will review the rating for a pos- depend on for their livelihoods and millions depend on for On Monday, media reported that arrest warrants had chair an annual meeting of the Supreme Military Council sible downgrade. (Source: Reuters) national security," the report said. (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY JJULYULY 28,28, 22016016 http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy

NEWS IN BRIEF Iranian private sector calls for development Mohammadi appointed new head of international insurance ties of Iran’s SEO EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW 80 million consumers. By Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh He also admitted that to soothe SMEs cooperation with their foreign counter- ECONOMY TEHRAN — Shapour he Secretary of Iran’s National parts, Iran Chamber of Commerce, In- deskMohammadi has been appointed Productivity Celebration Farshid dustries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), as the new head of Iran’s Securities and Exchange T Shokr-Khodaie called for interna- as the body heading Iranian private sec- Organization (SEO), replacing Mohammad Fatanat. tional insurance companies to make co- tor enterprises, is on the process of pre- Mohammadi, who was previously the deputy operation agreements with Iranian insur- paring a list of the Iranian SMEs as well as Iranian finance minister for economic affairs, was ance ones on the way to facilitate a more their profiles to offer to applicant foreign appointed to the new post for a term of five years, rapid and effective resumption of trade companies for future cooperation. Tasnim news agency reported. and investment ties between the Islamic ‘Future of Iranian industry in While his appointment was on Wednesday, he country and the world. hands of world leading powers’ will be introduced formally as the new head of SEO In an exclusive interview with the Teh- The other conference lecturer, Mehdi by Iranian Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Ali ran Times on the sidelines of the Con- Poorghazi, the head of Industry and Mine Tayyebnia in a ceremony next week. ference on Industrial Competitiveness in Commission of the TCCIMA, told the Teh- Meanwhile, Fatanat, who was the head of SEO Iran, held in Tehran Chamber of Com- ran Times that considering the measures since 2014, has been appointed as the advisor to merce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture taken by President Rouhani’s administra- Tayyebnia. (TCCIMA) on Tuesday, Shokr-Khodaie, Secretary of National Productivity Celebration Head of Industry and Mine Commission of tion during the past three years in gen- who was one of the lecturers of the con- Farshid Shokr-Khodaie the TCCIMA Mehdi Poorghazi eral and as of the implementation of the Iran Air discussing ference, blamed the insufficiency of in- major Iranian private banks, Bank Pasar- Shokr-Khodaie, elsewhere, referred to nuclear agreement in particular, it can be aircraft deal ternational insurance coverage for busi- gad, Bank Parsian and Saman Bank, in the essential role of the Iranian private said that Iran has achieved a relative sta- follow-up with ATR ness activities and foreign investments November 2015 and said “as well as the sector in attraction of foreign invest- bility in its economy. in Iran as the main challenge of Iranian Iranian banks which are improving their ments into domestic economic projects, “Inflation rate has been tamed and private sector activists and their foreign connections with international financial specifically after the execution of the fluctuations of exchange rate have been counterparts who want to invest or start institutes and banks in post-sanction era, country’s nuclear deal with the six world controlled,” he said, “the current stable ECONOMY TEHRAN — A team of ATR air- a business in Iran. it is crucial for Iranian insurance compa- powers and invited foreign investors to economic situation can be the good deskcraft manufacturer representa- Underscoring the role of insurance nies to expand their ties with prominent pay a specific attention to Iranian SMEs news for foreign investors.” tives are visiting Tehran to hold technical talks with coverage as the developer of business insurance institutes across the globe to (small-to-medium enterprises) active in “However, what will happen to our Iran’s flag carrier, Iran Air, Fars news agency quoted activities, he exemplified the Italian in- assure foreign investors about the safety the fields of foodstuff, pharmaceutical, economy and industry highly relies on Farhad Parvaresh, the managing director of Iran Air, surance company, SACE, who signed of their investments and business with chemical and etc. regarding the available international political affairs and what as saying on Tuesday. three collaboration agreements with the Iranians.” untapped market of the country with its leading power will do.” According to Fars, Parvaresh noted that negotiations about financing, technical follow-up on the contracts and selection of the aircraft parts are among the subjects of ongoing negotiations Inflation rate hits 9.2% in Iran: CBI with Airbus and ATR. “None of the projects are ECONOMY TEHRAN — Cen- pared to the same period of time last month and 8.1 percent compared with ended in the last day of Tir hit 9 per- stopped,” he added. desktral Bank of Iran (CBI) year. the same month in the previous year, cent. announced the inflation rate for the The goods and services consum- the Mehr news agency reported. Meanwhile, the center put the point- Seoul ready to 12-month period ended in the last day er price index for urban areas in the Earlier on July 23, the Statistical to-point inflation rate at 6.5 percent in of the fourth Iranian calendar month of fourth month was 242.8, increasing 0.8 Center of Iran (SCI) announced that the this month, increasing from 6.1 percent take part in Iran’s Tir (July 21) stands at 9.2 percent, com- percent compared with its preceding inflation rate for the 12-month period in its previous month. development projects Democratic congressman slams resistance to Boeing-Iran deal ECONOMY TEHRAN — South Korean offi- deskcial expressed his country’s readi- A Democratic lawmaker criticized opponents of a multi- Blumenauer stressed the "profound opportunities" ness to participate in road and urban development billion dollar deal between Boeing and Iran Air and urged available for "economic linkage" with Iran. projects in Iran, IRNA reported on Wednesday. economic engagement with the Islamic Republic Tuesday. "We've got an election coming up in Iran," he said. According to the report, South Korean Vice "I think it's appalling that people are marching a cru- "These will be positive signals, that, you know, this is a Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kim sade against selling Boeing airplanes to Iran," said Oregon different era." Kyung-hwan made the remarks in a meeting with Congressman Earl Blumenauer during a panel hosted The congressman said that "the odds are very strong Iran’s Deputy Head of Minister of Transport and by the progressive advocacy group J Street. "That order that there will be change" in Iran and lamented that the Urban Development Mohammad Saeed Izadi on would create about 100,000 American jobs over the next U.S. opened up to Cuba too late. the sidelines of the third session of the Preparatory ten years." (Source: Weekly Standard) Committee for Habitat III on Wednesday. In the event, Kim called for Iran's support for Ko- rean companies. Iran’s post-sanction economy is on the mend A jump in oil exports, business deals cal discipline, prices are rising slower than with Boeing Co. worth $17.6 billion. Sie- Stocks get real 17 intl. shipping lines signed with global companies and infla- at any point in the past quarter-century. mens AG in March signed a preliminary The value of the Tehran Stock Ex- dock in Iranian ports: tion tamed: One year since Iranian nego- Inflation slowed into single digits in June, rail accord worth as much as $2.3 billion. change has jumped as investment deals transport min tiators gathered with the world’s top dip- meeting the central bank’s stated goal and Foreign direct investment rose to $4.5 favoring local manufacturers such as car lomats to unveil their nuclear accord and delivering on a Rouhani commitment. billion in the first quarter of this year, with company Iran Khodro were announced. Iran’s economy is on the mend. That’s the While authorities expect Iran’s econ- 26 projects, the highest uptick in over But the mood has since turned more sub- good news for President Hassan Rouhani omy to expand as much as 4.5 percent a decade in Iran, according to fDi Intel- dued. ECONOMY TEHRAN — 17 international desk in the final year of his first term. in the year to March, Rouhani’s target of ligence, a division of the Financial Times “There was euphoria all the way to shipping lines directly commute Six months after oil sanctions were 8-percent annual expansion would require Ltd. That’s still way below the govern- March and then a reality check. What’s to the Iranian ports including Shahid Rajaee port lifted, Iran’s producing 3.8 million barrels major changes, according to Robert Pow- ment’s hopes of drawing $30 billion to $50 happening today is in line with the fun- and Chabahar port in south, Iranian Transport and a day, 2 million of which are exported. ell, Middle East and Africa regional man- billion in foreign financial resources a year. damentals of the economy,” says Reza Urban Development Minister Abbas Akhoundi an- Holding out against efforts by some OPEC ager at the Economist Intelligence Unit. “Real inflows will happen when senti- Soltanzadeh, chief executive of Iran In- nounced, the semi-official Khabar Online news members to freeze bloc output and lift Executive air miles ment toward investing into the Iranian dustries Investment Co. website reported on Wednesday. prices, it has regained 80 percent of mar- Iran’s 80 million people are a mouth- economy improves among global banks The benchmark TEDPIX index slipped Akhoundi who made the remarks during his visit ket share held before the U.S. and Euro- watering prospect for major companies and institutional investors,” says Payam 2.8 percent in June. Commodities repre- to the western Iranian province of Chaharmahal- pean Union tightened crude sanctions in battling sluggish growth at home. So fol- Afzali, head of investment banking at Kian sent more than 50 percent of market cap- Bakhtiari added that the international shipping lines 2012, says Mohsen Ghamsari, National lowing the July accord, dozens of chief Capital in Tehran. “When Iran’s risk is effi- italization, so falling oil and metal prices enjoy low transportation costs and tariffs in Iranian Iranian Oil Co.’s director of international executives booked flights to Tehran. The ciently priced in international debt mar- have hit stocks, says Florence Eid-Oak- ports and that will improve the volume of Iran’s affairs. deals have built up: a $27 billion order for kets, we can expect a more fluid move- den, chief economist of Arabia Monitor. trade transactions. Helped by greater monetary and fis- 118 Airbus Group SE planes and a contract ment of capital.” (Source: Bloomberg)

NEWS Nigeria, Iran to forge trade ties The Nigerian Export Promotion Coun- ria, Morteza Rahimi Zarchi in his office in through ownership of plantations in areas expertise. Italian companies to cil (NEPC) and Iran have agreed to forge Abuja. like rice and cocoa. Ambassador Zarchi who confirmed his stronger trade partnership that would pro- Awolowo acknowledged the cordial re- He pointed out that such investments visit as the first since assumption of office exhibit latest textile mote bilateral ties between both countries. lationship that existed between the Council will help to scale up production, improve expressed that Iranian mission attaches im- machinery at Irantex This was disclosed recently by the Ex- and his predecessor HE Saeed Koozechi quality and increase exportation of Nigeria portance to Nigeria and hopes to attract ecutive Director/Chief Executive Officer of adding that it was on this premise that goods particularly in areas such as real es- significant development to the country and NEPC, Olusegun Awolowo while receiv- he urged Zarchi to assist in attracting Ira- tate, petrochemical, automobile and trans- draw symbiotic benefits to both nations. The Irantex 2016 is a comprehensive international trade ing the new Iranian Ambassador to Nige- nian investors to help industrialize Nigeria portation where Iran has high degree of (Source: guardian.ng) fair for textile machinery and textile products. Because of its range of products and depth of range, this exhibition is, for both exhibitors and visitors, an informative platform for Škoda Auto plans Apple sells more Volkswagen's $14.7b the latest trends in the industry. Italian companies will exhibit their latest textile machinery at the Italian pavilion at expansion to Iran, iPhones than diesel U.S. emissions the forthcoming 2016 edition of Irantex, aiming to further South Korea, eyes expected, shares jump settlement clears enhance the relationship between the local textile industry U.S. after hours hurdle and the Italian textile machinery sector. The upcoming Irantex will feature the usual significant Carmaker Škoda Auto plans to expand to Apple Inc. sold more iPhones than Wall Volkswagen AG's $14.7 billion settlement of its contingent of Italian textile machinery manufacturers, with Iran, which the firm sees as a market with high Street expected in the third quarter and U.S. diesel emissions cheating scandal cleared 25 Italian companies exhibiting in the Italian pavilion, the growth potential. estimated its revenue in the current period another legal hurdle on Tuesday, as a federal common area set up by the Italian Trade Agency and ACIMIT. The brand also plans expansion to South Ko- would top many analysts' targets, soothing judge gave the automaker preliminary approval The international sanctions of the past years delayed the rea. The spokesperson for Škoda Auto, Tomas fears that demand for the company's most to buy back up to 475,000 vehicles. modernization process necessary for the Iranian industry to Kubík, has told CIANEWS that the firm is analyz- important product had hit a wall. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San continue to be competitive within a global context, the Asso- ing the situation in many markets and regions Its shares rose 7 percent in after-hours Francisco set an October 18 hearing for final ap- ciation of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers reported. that could become lucrative in the long run. trading. proval. Preliminary approval means Volkswagen In 2004, Iran was ranked among the top ten markets for These markets include also North America, The world's most valuable publicly traded will soon enable owners of the 2.0 liter diesel- Italian exports in the sector. After years of stagnation, Italian including the U.S. No specific decision has been company said it sold 40.4 million iPhones powered vehicles to access a website to learn sales to Iran registered a recovery. In 2016 first quarter the made yet, though. Škoda Auto is now active on in the third quarter, down 15 percent from how much they are eligible to receive. Italian sales to Iranian market totaled a value of €2 million, more than 100 markets around the world. The the year-ago quarter but slightly more The settlement, announced in June, centers while 2015 sales were worth €8 million. Iranian demand is brand’s global sales in first five months of 2016 than the average analyst forecast of 40.02 around the largest-ever automotive buy-back spread out over all types of production, but Italian finishing grew 4.6% y/y to 470,600 vehicles, a new all- million, according to research firm FactSet offer in the United States.

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ward to North Africa, Spain and Sicily. By H. E. Wulff In the Sahara region a number of oasis traveller flying over Iran can see The Qanats of Iran: settlements are irrigated by the qanat NEWS Aplainly that the country has an method, and some of the peoples still China tourism: Driving-in tourist arid climate. The Iranian plateau call the underground conduits “Persian is largely desert. Most of Iran (except- How it works? works.” In the Middle East several par- numbers plunge after ban ing areas in the north-western prov- ticularly interesting qanats constructed inces and along the southern shores of Eleven Persian Qantas were registered on UNESCO Heritage by Arab rulers of early medieval times A ban on inbound motorists driving deeper into Thailand the Caspian Sea) receives only six to 10 have been excavated. In A.D. 728 the List last week. These Qantas are located in different parts of may have been too effective, with the number of vehicles inches of rainfall a year. Other regions caliph of Damascus built a small qanat entering Chiang Mai from China plunging from about 600 a of the world with so little rainfall (for Iran. But what is qanat and how does it work? to supply water for a palace in the coun- day to only 10. example the dry heart of Australia) are try. A century later the caliph Mutawak- Vehicles entering Chiang Mai from China plunge from 600 barren of attempts at agriculture. Yet kil in Iraq likewise constructed a qanat a day to only 10, ban on inbound tourists driving car deeper Iran is a farming country that not only system, presumably with the aid of Per- into Thailand too effective. grows its own food but also manages to sian engineers, that brought water to his The number of vehicles from China to Chiang Mai prov- produce crops for export, such as cot- residence at Samarra from the upper ince has plummeted by 98% to 10 vehicles from 600 vehicles ton, dried fruits, oilseeds and so on. It Tigris River 300 miles away. daily following a ban on inbound motorists from China driv- has achieved this remarkable accom- Thanks to detailed descriptions by ing deeper into Thailand. plishment by developing an ingenious several early writers, we have a good The much lighter inbound tourism traffic obviously re- system for tapping underground water. idea of the techniques used by the sulted from the Land Transport Department’s ban on visit- The system, called qanat (from a Semitic original qanat builders. Vitruvius, the ing motorists from driving beyond the province of entry. The word meaning “to dig”), was invented in first systematic historian of technology, measure took effect on June 27. Iran thousands of years ago, and it is so gave an account of the qanat system in The Fourth Friendship Bridge between Laos and Thailand simple and effective that it was adopted technical detail in his historic work De located in Chiang Khong. in many other and regions of the Middle Architectura (about 80 B.C.). In the ninth The measure affected the number of driving Chinese East and around the Mediterranean. century A.D., at the request of a Persian tourists who normally arrived in caravans through the R3A The qanat system consists of under- provincial governor, Abdullah ibn-Tahir, highway route from southern China via Laos and Chiang Rai’s ground channels that convey water from a group of writers compiled a treatise Chiang Khong district to Chiang Mai. aquifers in highlands to the surface at on the subject titled Kitab-e Quniy. And These Chinese tourists travelling in caravans are said to lower levels by gravity. The qanat works about A.D. 1000 Hasan al-Hasib, an have high purchasing power. of Iran were built on a scale that rivaled Arabian authority on engineering, wrote Before the ban, most of these visitors went to Chiang Mai the great aqueducts of the Roman Em- however, that ancient Iran (Persia) was conqueror and their bestowal of the title a technical work that fortunately is still and other destinations deeper in the country including Bangkok. pire. Whereas the Roman aqueducts its actual birthplace. As early as the sev- of Pharaoh on Darius. available and gives surprisingly good Previously, each visiting vehicle from southern China car- now are only a historical curiosity, the enth century B.C. the Assyrian king Sar- References to qanat systems, known details of the construction and mainte- ried three or more tourists who spent at least 5,000 baht each Iranian system is still in use after 3,000 gon II reported that during a campaign by various names, are fairly common in nance of the ancient qanats. per day, tourism industry groups claim. years and has continually been expand- in Persia he had found an underground the literature of ancient and medieval The methods used in Iran today are The declining arrivals are estimated to cost Chiang Mai ed. There are some 22,000 qanat units system for tapping water in operation times. The Greek historian Polybius in not greatly different from the system one million a day in tourism income. in Iran, comprising more than 170,000 near Lake Urmia. His son, King Sennach- the second century B.C. described a devised thousands of years ago, and I Tourism authorities in Chiang Mai would call for a re- miles of underground channels. The erib, applied the “secret” of using under- qanat that had been built in an Iranian shall describe the system as it can now view of the ban and oppose other future conditions that system supplies 75 percent of all the ground conduits in building an irrigation desert “during the Persian ascendancy.” It be observed. The project begins with a would add inconveniences to visiting motorists, said Boon- water used in that country, providing system around Nineveh, and he con- had been constructed underground, he careful survey of the terrain by an expert tha Chailert, president of the Chiang Mai Tourism Business water not only for irrigation but also for structed a qanat on the Persian model remarked, “at infinite toil and expense engaged by the prospective builders. A Association. house-hold consumption. Until recently to supply water for the city of Arbela. ... through a large tract of country” and qanat system is usually dug in the slope He cited requirements for them to seek entry permission at (before the building of the Karaj Dam) Egyptian inscriptions disclose that the brought water to the desert from sourc- of a mountain or hillside where material least 30 days in advance and exit the country through the same the million inhabitants of the city of Teh- Persians donated the idea to Egypt after es that were mysterious to “the people washed down the slope has been de- border checkpoint. Up to 3,000-5,000 workers in the tourism ran depended on a qanat system tap- Darius I conquered that country in 518 who use the water now.” posited in alluvial fans. The surveyor ex- sector in the northern province could lose their jobs in three ping the foothills of the Elburz Moun- B.C. Scylax, a captain in Darius’ navy, Qanats have been found throughout amines these fans closely, generally dur- months, so the ban should be reviewed according to Boontha. tains for their entire water supply. built a qanat that brought water to the the regions that came within the cultural ing the fall, looking for traces of seepage The Land Transport Department imposed the rule after an Discoveries of underground con- oasis of Karg, apparently from the un- sphere of ancient Persia: in Pakistan, in to the surface or slight variations in the influx of visiting motorists resulted in a spike in road accidents duits in a number of ancient Roman derground water table of the Nile River Chinese oasis settlements of Turkistan, vegetation that may suggest the pres- and waste management problems. sites led some modern archaeologists 100 miles away. Remnants of the qanat in southern areas of the U.S.S.R., in Iraq, ence of water sources buried in the hill- Besides, the merits of this group of tourists were questioned to suppose the Romans had invented are still in operation. This contribution Syria, Arabia and Yemen. During the side. On locating a promising spot, lie since many of them did not stay at hotels, but in motorhomes the qanat system. Written records and may well have been partly responsible periods of Roman and then Arabian arranges for the digging of a trial well. (campers, camping vehicles) traveling in caravans instead. recent excavations leave no doubt, for the Egyptians’ friendliness to their domination the system spread west- (Source: bart.nl) (Source: Bangkok Post)

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6 INTERNATIONAL JULY 28, 2016 http://www.tehrantimes.com Mercy for the corrupt who come clean?

The U.S. and Tunisia are each testing ily disclose any violation of the Foreign ment of Justice and the Securities and preempt this process by proposing a whether leniency toward individuals or Corrupt Practices Act, such as paying Exchange Commission. The program, law that requires much less transpar- businesses that are open about their bribes to a foreign official. If a firm however, does not prevent prosecu- ency for individuals about their ill-got- corruption might lead to less corrup- fesses up on its own, it may see up to a tion of individuals who committed ten wealth. tion. Confession can be a shorter path 50 percent reduction in penalties and bribery. Only a firm receives official The ousted dictator to reconciliation. be free of independent monitoring of mercy. Passage of the law has been de- To expose and punish corrup- their businesses. If this technique continues to work, layed by large protests demanding tion, governments have long relied Preventing further corruption it will not only save government re- the truth about corruption under the on tough tools, from wiretaps to time It would also need to fully cooper- sources but achieve the same results ousted dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben in prison. But what if a business vol- ate with federal investigators and fix of deterrence and the rehabilitation of Ali. The protesters see the proposed unteers that it committed bribery? internal practices to prevent further corrupt companies. law as a way to protect those still prac- Should the confession lead to mercy if corruption. Confession is a far better and ticing corruption. the company also mends its ways and So far, the program has worked in quicker way to justice than the long These experiments show the diffi- makes amends? two cases of U.S.-based companies process of a trial and a guilty verdict. culty of finding the right balance be- The issue is front-and-center self-reporting their foreign bribery Arab Spring tween justice and mercy in cases when for two countries, Tunisia and the and quickly settling with the Depart- In Tunisia, where protests against individuals or businesses come clean United States that are highly fo- Tunisians celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring last January in Tunis. (file on past wrongdoing. cused on curbing corruption. They Those who confess must first be Passage of the law has been delayed by photo) are each in the midst of an experi- totally open and honest and then be ment to find out if judicial leniency, large protests demanding the truth about ready to make some amends in return granted in return for truth-telling, corruption under the ousted dictator, Zine the corruption of a dictatorship trig- The process is an attempt to en- for some forgiveness. gered the Arab Spring in 2011, a truth courage former officials to fully reveal can be a major tool against corrup- El Abidine Ben Ali. The protesters see the If done right, the process can lead tion. commission is expected to soon de- past corruption in exchange for some to reconciliation and renewal. For that In April, the U.S. Justice Depart- proposed law as a way to protect those still cide on how to mediate in cases in leniency. end alone, these experiments bear ment started a pilot program aimed practicing corruption. which individuals were harmed by cor- The government of President Beji watching. at motivating companies to voluntar- ruption and economic crimes. Caid Essebsi, however, has sought to (Source: The CSM)

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Bank capital ﬁght makes Japan, NEWS IN BRIEF China June industrial proﬁts rise but investment EU allies against U.S. push challenges grow

Bank regulators from Tokyo to Frankfurt considering setting higher requirements Profits earned by China's industrial firms grew at their fastest are joining forces to resist a U.S.-backed for the world’s most systemically impor- pace in three months in June, indicating government spending push for stiffer capital rules that could tant banks, including Japan’s Mitsubishi is supporting the corporate sector though uneven growth and heap billions of dollars of new require- UFJ Financial Group Inc. soft investment pose headwinds. ments on lenders. Leverage ratio Profits in June rose 5.1 percent to 616.31 billion Yuan ($92.40 Highlighting the stakes, top regula- “We think that the 3 percent is suit- billion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednes- tors from Europe, Japan and India are able and there is no need to go a lot day, the fastest growth since March. pressing their case in public, shedding higher,” Shirakawa said. If Basel Commit- "The bottom line is that the worst has gone in terms of light on divisions in the Basel Commit- tee members insist on an increase, then industrial profits," said Raymond Yeung, an economist at ANZ tee on Banking Supervision as it races to a bucketing approach, whereby charges in Hong Kong. wrap up work this year on the post-crisis increase along with the global impor- He said the improvement in China's upstream prices, as capital framework. They want the global tance of the bank, would be preferable, seen in the recent moderation in producer price index declines, standard-setter to soften key proposals he said. points to a pickup in profits in the second half of the year. for how banks calculate the capital they Shirakawa said the risk-blind leverage Total profits for the first half stood at 3.0 trillion Yuan, up 6.2 need to finance lending and trading. ratio is intended as a backstop for the percent from the same period a year ago and compared with The proposals now on the table could risk-weighted capital rules, and is useful a 6.4 percent gain in the January to May period. result in an overall increase of as much when banks can’t reliably measure risk. "June profits accelerated from May but unfavorable con- as 70 percent in the capital banks must “If the backstop is always binding, that is ditions for companies continue to exist," NBS official He Ping have, said Shunsuke Shirakawa, vice abnormal,” he said. said in a statement accompanying the data. commissioner for international affairs He has an ally in Daniele Nouy, head (Source: Reuters) at Japan’s Financial Services Agency, a of the ECB’s oversight arm, who has member of the Basel Committee. Disa- also called for risk-sensitivity in the new greement also exists on how much banks standardized approaches to measuring should be allowed to borrow against risk. Deutsche Bank's second- their assets and how far to limit their including Japan’s FSA, the ECB, the U.S. global banks. Sovereign debt holdings of government bonds. Federal Reserve, the People’s Bank of Too conservative Japan is also wary of bank regulators quarter net income plunges “If you add together all the propos- China and the Brazil’s central bank. The That contrasts with the prevailing view imposing restrictions on lenders’ hold- nearly 100% year-on-year als that have been made, it’s a significant committee reports to the Group of Gov- in Japan and Europe. Shirakawa said ings of sovereign debt. That puts it in increase no matter how you look at it, ernors and Heads of Supervision, chaired an increasing reliance on the standard- line with India, which opposes potential and that is a fact,” Shirakawa said in an by ECB President Mario Draghi. ized approaches could hamper effective restrictions. The Basel Committee has Deutsche Bank, the German bank which is an important part interview late last month. “So there is a The Basel Committee’s attempts to risk-management by the industry and moved more slowly on such curbs. Ra- of the global financial system, announced revenue and in- need to make adjustments by the end of restrict banks’ use of internal models for may provide banks with a “perverse in- ghuram Rajan, governor of the Reserve come falls Wednesday which could add further concerns for the year.” risk-assessment, in favor of prescribed centive” to take too much risk in some Bank of India -- another Basel Commit- investors made jittery by a combination of Brexit and previ- One voice formulas, has proven particularly divisive. cases. Elements in the regulator’s main tee member -- said his country is push- ous issues at the bank. The industry’s concerns are now The clampdown is in line with U.S. proposals are “too conservative,” he said. ing back hard on the restrictions. Its second-quarter net income was down 98 percent from shared by the regulators, and Shirakawa views. The Fed’s Tarullo has said regu- Another battle ground is the leverage While the sovereign-debt issue is like- the same period in the previous year, to 20 million euro ($22 isn’t alone in his insistence that the Ba- lators should consider “discarding” the ratio, promoted by the U.S. and viewed ly to run for years, the work on Basel III is million), while revenues were down 20 percent to 7.4 billion sel Committee keep its word. European internal-model approach to risk-weight- more skeptically in Europe and Japan. supposed to be done by December. euro. Union finance ministers have made clear ed capital requirements altogether in fa- The Basel Committee has already agreed That leaves Shirakawa and his allies Deutsche's ratio - a key measure of financial strength - they expect the rules to come in as ad- vor of a one-size-fits-all standard for all on a 3 percent minimum level, and is with a lot to do in a very short time. improved slightly to 10.8 percent. vertised. Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU’s fi- Nouy said last month that an “over- The bank, one of Germany's largest lenders, has lost nancial-services chief, said Europe needs Top regulators from Europe, Japan and whelming majority around the table” in around 40 percent of its market value this year as concerns to “speak with one voice” to influence Basel supports minimizing any increase mount about its capital position and $14 billion in fines over decisions at Basel, where nine EU coun- India are pressing their case in public asking in capital charges as a result of the latest past misconduct. tries, as well as the European Central the global standard-setter to soften key plans. Shirakawa shares that objective. John Cryan, the bank's co-chief executive has embarked Bank, have seats at the table. proposals for how banks calculate the capital “There’s half a year left, so there’s suf- on a drastic plan to meet its capital targets, including scrap- The Basel Committee brings togeth- ficient time,” he said. ping dividend payments to shareholders, thousands of job er regulators from nearly 30 countries, they need to finance lending and trading. (Source: Bloomberg) cuts and asset sales. (Source: CNBC) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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EAT YOUR HERB World’s deepest underwater sinkhole Dill in the South China Sea discovered The health benefits of dill are derived from its organic com- pounds, vitamins, and minerals. These include powerful As local fishermen tell it, the deep blue Research Institute for Coral Protection began monoterpenes like limonene, carvone, and anethofuran, as well “Dragon Hole” in the Paracel Islands, called exploring Dragon Hole, known as Longdong, as flavonoids like vicenin and kaempferol. As for vitamins and the “eye” of the South China Sea, is where in August 2015 and completed the project minerals, dill has a significant amount of vitamin A and vitamin the Monkey King in “Journey to the West” last month, Xinhua reported. It measures C, as well as trace amounts of acquired his famous golden cudgel. about 426 feet wide and is almost deep folate, iron, and manganese. The mythical tale was published in the 16th enough to hold the entire Eiffel Tower. Let’s explore some of other century and is among the four great classical The research team used a Video Ray potential health benefits of dill: novels of Chinese literature. Last week, the Pro 4 underwater robot to explore the sink- 1. Aids in digestion Dragon Hole earned a new claim to fame. hole, reported CCTV News, where they dis- 2. Reduces risk of cancer After nearly a year of exploration, Chi- covered more than 20 species of fish and 3. Helps reduce inflamma- nese researchers have determined that the marine life near the surface of the vertical tion underwater sinkhole is likely the world’s cave. Researchers told the television station 4. Improves immune sys- deepest, reaching about 987 feet below that after about 330 feet, the water is oxy- tem the surface and surpassing the previous gen free and likely unable to support life. 5. Cures respiratory disor- record holder, Dean’s Blue Hole near the Across the globe, blue holes have been ders Bahamas, by more than 300 feet, Xinhua the source of magnificent discovery. Last 6. Helps maintain menstru- News Agency reported. year, the Guardian reported that a study al cycles Blue holes are named as such for their rich, conducted by scientists from Rice. 7. Provides relief from diar- dark blue coloring, a stark contrast to the oth- University and Louisiana State University rhea & dysentery erwise aqua waters that surround them. Best found that sediment samples from the an- 8. Calms down hiccups due to allergies described as underwater caves, these strik- cient Great Blue Hole in Belize confirmed 9. Beneficial for bones ing and beautiful formations open up with After nearly a year of exploration, Chinese the theory that “drought and climate con- 10. Helps control diabetes underwater entrances and extend below sea researchers have determined that the underwater ditions pushed the Mayans from a regional 11. Prevents excessive gas level, mirroring the appearance of a sinkhole. power to a smattering of rival survivors and 12. Arthritis Exploring Dragon Hole sinkhole is likely the world’s deepest, reaching about finally a virtually lost civilization.” Researchers with the Sansha Ship Course 987 feet below the surface. (Source: The Washington Post) NEWS IN BRIEF Protein rich, this insect milk may someday serve as a human superfood Belgian scientists make A little cockroach milk with those cookies? Chock full of planet; it can live for a month without food. novel water-from-urine protein, the insect milk may someday be transformed into The "interest here was, what is it really made of?" said machine a food supplement worthy of human consumption, new Chavas, one of the authors of the research, published in research indicates. July in the journal International Union of Crystallography. Scientists have found that the Pacific Beetle Cockroach Chavas and his colleagues examined the species, also A team of scientists at a Belgian university say they have created feeds its bug babies a formula which is remarkably rich in known as Diploptera punctata, which is the only species a machine that turns urine into drinkable water and fertilizer us- protein, fat and sugar. of cockroach known to be viviparous -- able to bring ing solar energy, a technique which could be applied in rural Don't expect to find it next to the regular milk in the forth live babies that have developed within the moth- areas and developing countries. dairy section, however, at least not for now. er's body, instead of the mother laying eggs to develop While there are other options for treating waste water, the "Any liquid harvested from a cockroach is not true milk. outside her body. system applied at the Univer- At least not as we think of it," said Becky Facer, director Like other viviparous creatures, this species of roach sity of Ghent uses a special of school and educator programs at Fernbank Museum of nourishes its growing embryos with a protein-rich liquid membrane, is said to be ener- Natural History in Atlanta. explained the crystals have a whopping three times the en- secreted by its brood sac -- the roach version of a uterus. gy-efficient and to be applica- Most people would agree. After all, the insect liquid ergy of an equivalent mass of buffalo milk, about four times Soon after the embryo ingests the liquid, protein crys- ble in areas off the electricity takes the form of protein crystals in the guts of baby the equivalent of cow's milk. tals develop within its midgut. Chavas and his colleagues grid. cockroaches. The cockroach is one of the hardiest creatures on the extracted one of these crystals to learn more about it and "We're able to recover fer- The "protein crystals are milk for the cockroach infant. planet; it can live for a month without food. its potential nutrition. Following tests and even genome se- tilizer and drinking water from It is important for its growth and development," said Leon- One of hardiest creatures quencing, they discovered it was a complete food. urine using just a simple pro- ard Chavas, one of the scientists behind the research. He The cockroach is one of the hardiest creatures on the (Source: CNN) cess and solar energy," said University of Ghent researcher Sebastiaan Derese. Spinning Milky Way galaxy's halo A sniff test for Alzheimer's checks for the The urine is collected in discovered ability to identify odors a big tank, heated in a solar- powered boiler before passing through the membrane where the water is recovered and nutrients such as potassium, nitrogen and phosphorus are separated. Under the slogan #peeforscience, the team recently deployed the machine at a 10-day music and theater festival in central Ghent, recovering 1,000 liters of water from the urine of revelers. The aim is to install larger versions of the machine in sports venues or airports but also to take it to a rural community in the developing world where fertilizers and reliable drinking water are short in supply, Derese said. As was the case with previous projects the research team was engaged in, the water recovered from the city festival will be used to make one of Belgium's most coveted specialties - beer. (Source: StreetInsider) Astronomers from the University of Michi- Momentous feat Parkinson's disease, smoking, certain head Currently, any tests that are able to spot gan's College of Literature, Science and This is the process responsible for dis- injuries and even normal aging can influ- people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's the Arts (LSA) discovered the spinning covering a momentous feat when they ence our sense of smell. But certain patterns are costly and difficult. They include PET of the halo and it is expected to add sig- found out that the halo was spinning of loss in the ability to identify odors seem scans, which can detect sticky plaques in Did oxygen jumpstart the nificant information on how stars, planets, based on its patterns. The halo is said to pronounced in Alzheimer's, researchers say. the brain, and spinal taps that measure the rise of animals? galaxies and other celestial bodies form spin at about 400,000 mph while the disk Two studies released at an internation- levels of certain proteins in spinal fluid. through assembly of atoms. spins at 540,000 mph. al Alzheimer's meeting Tuesday suggest Anne Jones, 62, and Robin Jones, 73, "This flies in the face of expectations," Because motion produces a shift in the doctors may eventually be able to screen at their home in Menlo Park, Calif. He Life likely didn't arise on Earth and then immediately evolve into Edmund Hodges-Kluck, assistant research wavelength of light, the U-M researchers people for this form of dementia by test- took a test that revealed proteins typical the complex organisms we call animals. Instead, the fossil record scientist said in a statement. "People just as- measured such shifts around the sky using ing the ability to identify familiar odors, of Alzheimer's disease. suggests that simpler organisms ruled the Earth for billions of sumed that the disk of the Milky Way spins lines of very hot oxygen. like smoke, coffee and raspberry. Oder detection years before animals started to take over around 600 million while this enormous reservoir of hot gas is What they found was groundbreaking: In both studies, people who were in The idea of an odor detection test years ago. But why did it happen that way? stationary - but that is wrong. This hot gas The line shifts measured by the research- their 60s and older took a standard odor arose, in part, from something doctors Scientists have long puzzled over what changed, or what reservoir is rotating as well, just not quite as ers show that the galaxy's halo spins in the detection test. And in both cases, those have observed for many years in patients was lacking, in the early Earth's environment to cause such stag- fast as the disk," Hodges-Kluck added. same direction as the disk of the Milky Way who did poorly on the test were more likely with Alzheimer's, Kreisl says. gered evolution. Some scien- The research was published in the As- and at a similar speed--about 400,000 mph to already have — or go on to develop -- "Patients will tell us that food does not tists proposed that an increase trophysical Journal and was funded by for the halo versus 540,000 mph for the disk. problems with memory and thinking. taste as good," he says. The reason is of- in atmospheric oxygen helped NASA using the European Space Agency's The "rotation of the hot halo is an incred- Creating tests ten that these patients have lost the abil- kick-start animal evolution, but (ESA) telescope. The study focused on the ible clue to how the Milky Way formed," said The "whole idea is to create tests that a ity to smell what they eat. the story might not be that Milky Way hot gaseous halo that is a few Hodges Kluck in a statement. general clinician can use in an office setting," That's not surprising, Kreisl says, given simple. times larger that the galaxy disk made up This is an important discovery in under- says Dr. William Kreisl, a neurologist at Colum- that odor signals from the nose have to In sorting out whether a of ionized plasma. To arrive on their find- standing the origin of galaxies such as the bia University, where both studies were done. be processed in areas of the brain that are change in oxygen could have ings, the astronomers studied the shift in Milky Way. Experts believe that the hot gas on The research was presented at the among the first to be affected by Alzhei- triggered animal evolution, the wavelength of light around the sky by the halo is vital in the formation of galaxies. Alzheimer's Association International mer's disease. scientists are trying to figure using lines of hot oxygen. (Source: Nature World Report) Conference in Toronto. (Source: NPR) out what exact oxygen levels and distribution might have been hundreds of millions of Marine carbon sinking rates confirm importance of polar oceans years ago. One complexity of the About the same amount of atmospheric carbon that goes the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uses a This sink is a literal one. Carbon-rich plankton detritus model is that the life that did into creating plants on land goes into the bodies of tiny new approach to get a global picture of the fate of marine clumps together to form marine snow that drifts down exist in the middle Proterozoic was in the world's oceans, so marine plants known as plankton. When these plants die carbon. It finds that the polar seas export organic carbon to through the water and provides food for deeper-dwelling scientists wanted to pin down how a change in atmospheric and sink, bacteria feed on their sinking corpses and return the deep sea, where it can no longer trap heat from the sun, organisms. The continual supply of organic carbon in par- oxygen levels would affect concentration in ocean waters. their carbon to the seawater. When plankton sink deep about five times as efficiently as in other parts of the ocean. ticles from the surface to the deep sea is known as the And a new study published Monday in the journal Proceed- enough before being eaten, this carbon is taken out of High latitude "biological pump." ings of the National Academy of Sciences takes a swing at circulation as a greenhouse gas to remain trapped in the The "high latitudes are much more efficient at transfer- This pump had been thought to operate at similar just that challenge. deep ocean for centuries. ring carbon into the deep ocean," said first author Thomas strength throughout the oceans, but the new study finds Christopher Reinhard, a biogeochemist at Georgia Institute of How much of this happens in different regions of the Weber, who did the work as a postdoctoral researcher at a strong regional pattern. The authors find that about 25 Technology in Atlanta, and his team ran simulations to see how oxy- ocean would seem like an academic question, except dur- the UW and is now an assistant professor at the University percent of organic particles sinking from the surface in the gen would be distributed in the ocean at different atmospheric oxy- ing an era when humanity is spewing carbon dioxide into of Rochester in New York. polar oceans reach at least 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) -- the gen levels in a computer model. They also simulated how oxygen the air at record-high levels and wondering where all that The planet has many carbon sinks, or routes that trans- depth required for long-term storage in deep waters or levels change in different parts of the ocean over time. carbon will go in the future. fer heat-trapping carbon from the atmosphere into other the seafloor. (Source: The CSM) A University of Washington study published on July 25 in parts of the Earth system. 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A court in Bahrain has adjourned the trial of seeking regime change and collabo- of top Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim amid rating with foreign powers, which he has widespread protests against the move. Protests force Bahrain denied. The tribunal on Wednesday held a Sheikh Salman was the secretary gen- NEWS session which lasted only 10 minutes eral of the al-Wefaq National Islamic So- without the cleric’s presence, deciding to to delay trial of top cleric ciety, which was Bahrain’s main opposi- Russia beefs up military put off the trial until August 14. tion bloc before being dissolved by the on southwestern flank as The Bahraini regime has pressed regime earlier this month. charges of “illegal fund collections, mon- Both the trial of Sheikh Qassim and NATO approaches ey laundering and helping terrorism” Sheikh Salman are viewed as part of against Sheikh Qassim. He has rejected Bahrain’s crackdown on political dis- Russia has strengthened its southwestern flank as NATO the accusations. sent. builds up its military presence near its borders and next-door Manama has also revoked the cleric’s Since February 14, 2011, thousands of Ukraine remains unstable, Russian Defense Minister Sergei citizenship. anti-regime protesters have held numer- Shoigu said on Wednesday. The court session on Wednesday last- ous demonstrations in Bahrain on an al- Moscow has deployed more air defense systems in the ed a mere ten minutes and adjourned most daily basis, calling on the Al Khalifah southwest and has also deployed a “self-sufficient” contin- until August 14. Sheikh Qassim was not rulers to relinquish power. gent of troops in Crimea, Shoigu told a meeting at the De- present at the session. In March that year, troops from Sau- fense Ministry broadcast on state television. Meanwhile, hundreds of people di Arabia and the United Arab Emirates “Since 2013 ... we have formed four divisions, nine bri- have taken to the streets in Bahrain were deployed to the country to assist gades and 22 regiments,” he said. “They include two missile to express solidarity with prominent the Bahraini regime in cracking down on brigades armed with Iskander missile complexes, which has Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Issa Qas- the protests. allowed to boost fire power to destroy the potential adver- sim, whom the regime has recent- On the eve of Sheikh Qassim’s trial, sary.” ly stripped of his nationality and is hundreds of people rallied in Bahrain to Shoigu said “terrorist” groups were also active in the North shortly to put on trial. express solidarity with him. Shop owners Caucasus. (Source: RT) On Tuesday evening, protesters also closed their stores on the streets and marched along the streets in the capital, at various shopping malls. Manama, as well as its suburbs, to de- Additionally, local residents switched Diplomatic policeman nounce measures against the 79-year-old off the lights of their houses in response Abbas Saraei saves the day cleric, who is the spiritual leader of Bah- to calls by opposition groups and chant- rain’s main opposition bloc, the al-Wefaq that Sheikh Qassim has the support Bahrain has already sentenced Sheikh ed slogans on rooftops in condemnation National Islamic Society. of the majority of the Bahraini pop- Ali Salman, another revered opposition of Sheikh Qassim’s trial. 1 To my surprise, the motorbike rider was being beat- They declared during the rallies ulation. cleric, to nine years in prison on charges (Source: agencies) en by some other motorbike riders, passing by the scene, for dragging the other guy to the ground. A few punches and kicks the bike rider received, as I was thinking how on earth beating a bad guy up is justified to Kremlin denies interfering in U.S. election campaign some people. All I had in my power at that time was to scream out The Kremlin on Wednesday denied Moscow was inter- meant to help Republican presidential candidate Trump has made no secret of his admiration for Pres- ‘STOP’ a couple of times, which frankly did make a difference fering in the U.S. election campaign after President Ba- Trump as “absurd”. ident Vladimir Putin, leading some to suggest the Krem- since it came out in English. rack Obama refused to rule out that Russia could be “If you talk about some suspicions regarding our lin strongman was working to help propel the real estate Officer Saraei pulled aside the bike rider and the victim, trying to sway the vote in favor of Donald Trump. country, then you need at the very least to be precise billionaire into the White House. whose pants were pulled down and had scars and blood all “President Putin has repeatedly said that Russia has and concrete,” Peskov said Wednesday. In December last year, Putin praised Trump as “a very over his legs, as another passerby handed over the officer never interfered and does not interfere in internal affairs, In an interview with NBC News set to air Wednes- striking man, unquestionably talented”. some money and a wallet. especially in the electoral processes of other countries,” day, Obama said that “anything was possible” follow- “It’s not up to us to judge his virtues, that is up to U.S. Without inquiring more about the accident, I left the scene, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters as he ing suggestions that Russia could have been behind voters, but he is the absolute leader of the presidential knowing full well everything would be alright as diplomatic denied Russia was involved in a hack of Democratic Na- the hack. race,” Putin said. police officer Saraei saved the day by improving the situation tional Committee emails. Obama told NBC he could not speak about the pre- Trump responded by hailing Putin as a “strong leader, and helping relieve some of that tension while everyone was “Moscow has carefully avoided any actions, any cise motive for the hack or subsequent leak but was a powerful leader”. waiting patiently for the police to arrive. words that could be interpreted as direct or indirect in- aware of Trump’s positive comments about the Russian Peskov said Wednesday the Kremlin regretted that Thank you officer Abbas Saraei. You were Tehran’s district fluence on the electoral process.” leadership. politicians in Washington were playing the “Russian 11 hero on Wednesday. The Kremlin had already shrugged off accusa- “What we do know is that the Russians hack our card,” adding that it had become “the main card of their tions by the Hillary Clinton campaign that Russia systems. Not just government systems, but private sys- game.” was involved in the embarrassing leak of emails tems,” Obama said. (Source: AFP) Assange promises to leak ‘a lot more’ materials on Wife’s bomb hoax caused security scare at Geneva airport U.S. presidential elections A woman who wanted to stop her husband boarding ing normally, despite the delays. a plane at Geneva has admitted making a false bomb “We have received information that is serious enough WikiLeaks possesses “a lot more” documents to surprise threat, prosecutors said on Wednesday, after hours of to put in place preventive controls here at Geneva air- American voters ahead of the upcoming presidential elec- tightened security that caused traffic chaos around the port. We cannot give details of staffing numbers, nor on tions - and will not hesitate to make them public. airport on the French-Swiss border. the information we have received, for obvious reasons The leak of 20,000 internal emails from the Democratic “Yesterday in the evening, a woman called Swiss cus- of security,” a Geneva canton police spokeswoman said National Committee (DNC), published by the whistleblow- toms at Geneva airport. She said that today a person before the alert was lifted. ing website on July 22 “is having so much political impact in carrying a bomb would be in the French sector of the Airport spokesman Bertrand Staempfli advised the United States,” Julian Assange acknowledged to CNN in a airport,” the Geneva prosecutor’s office said in a state- passengers to arrive early because of the extra Skype interview. ment. checks but said there were no serious problems Speaking to America’s pri- The Swiss authorities traced the number to Annecy in with access. mary media outlet from the France, some 45 kms from Geneva, where French police Security was also heightened on the French side safety of Ecuadorian embas- raided an address. of the border. France itself is on high alert after a sy in London, the WikiLeaks “They found a woman who admitted to having which straddles the border. series of Islamist militant attacks, including the kill- founder refused to disclose made the call and explained that she wanted there- Officers armed with machine guns were on duty ing on Tuesday of a Catholic priest during a church the source of the leaked by to prevent her husband from leaving,” the state- around the airport, and vehicles were stopped on ap- service in northern France by knife-wielding assail- batch of DNC emails, par- ment said. proach roads so that police could check people’s pa- ants. ticularly avoiding denial or Criminal proceedings have been opened against pers, causing long tailbacks. The Tribune de Geneve paper said one of the assail- to confirmation of alleged the woman, who was not identified, in both France and Most entrances to the airport were closed. Passen- ants in that case was arrested at Geneva airport last year Russian involvement, much Switzerland, it said. gers were channeled through a few doors where heavily while trying to travel to Syria and was later extradited talked about by Hillary Clin- The hoax call caused French and Swiss police to armed police again checked identity documents. But to France. ton’s campaign headquar- massively scale up security at Geneva’s Cointrin airport, airport officials said the airport was open and function- (Source: Reuters) ters. He explained his lack of responsiveness by an obliga- tion to protect WikiLeaks’ information sources. Over 55k Americans injured, killed by U.S. police in just 1 yr.: study “Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment. Some people may More than 55,000 Americans were ei- lion arrests or stop-and-search incidents. whites, and youth more often than the to the deadliest single incident for U.S. have egg on their faces,” Assange said. “But to exclude cer- ther killed or injured by U.S. police in just On average, nearly 34 people were elderly.” law enforcement since September 11, tain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources one year, a new study has revealed. Most killed or had to seek hospital treatment However, the study found that when 2001. are. So we never do it.” of the deaths were from fatal firearm for injuries sustained from police per black people are stopped or arrested by Earlier this month, black behavioral The famous whistleblower said that Hillary Clinton’s aides wounds or excessive use of Taser devices. 10,000 stops or arrests. U.S police, they are “no more likely” than therapist Charles Kinsey was wounded are focusing public’s attention on the unsubstantiated “Rus- The study, titled ‘Perils of police action: The research found that the numbers white people to be killed during that in- in the leg while lying on the ground in sian trail” in the delicate situation they had found themselves a cautionary tale from U.S. data sets,’ aren’t distributed evenly when it comes cident. a car park, his arms raised, after at- in. This is instead of trying to address the principle issue of covers the year 2012 and offers greater to race, ethnicity, or age. In 2015, there were 1,207 people tempting to calm one of his autistic the DNC email scandal: roughly plotting against rival Demo- context to the issue of police brutality, “Blacks, Native Americans and His- killed by police across the U.S., according patients. cratic candidate Bernie Sanders. The hacked letters cover the which has only grown bigger in the four panics had higher stop/arrest rates per to Killed By Police resource data. When police were asked why they period from January to late May this year. years since the research. 10,000 population than white non-His- It comes on the backdrop of the latest shot the man, one of the officers simply What we have right now is the Hillary Clinton campaign Published in the peer-reviewed Brit- panics and Asians,” the study’s authors chilling events of the kind - the killings of said, “I don’t know.” using a speculative allegation about hacks that have occurred ish medical journal Injury Prevention, the stated. Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, both However, the most high-profile po- in the past to try and divert attention from our emails, anoth- study found that a total of 55,400 people “Given a national history of racism, African-American, in Louisiana and Min- lice violence case was when a white of- er separate issue that WikiLeaks has published,” Assange said. were victims of police officers’ “abuse of the excess per capita death rate of blacks nesota. News of the events spurred mas- ficer killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael “I think this raises a very serious question, which is that the power” or “loss of control out of anger or from U.S. police action rightly concerns sive protests nationwide. Brown almost two years ago in Ferguson, natural instincts of Hillary Clinton and the people around her, fear” in 2012. policy analysts, advocates and the press,” One such protest in Dallas, initial- Missouri. The incident sparked weeks of that when confronted with a serious domestic political scan- Among them, 1,063 people were ei- the study added. ly peaceful, became violent when five violent unrest across the U.S. and around dal, that she tries to blame the Russians, blame the Chinese, ther shot or tasered to death by law en- “The excess appears to reflect expo- police officers were killed and seven the world. etc.,” Assange noted. forcement, out of an estimated 12.3 mil- sure. Blacks are arrested more often than others wounded by a shooter, leading (Source: RT) “If she does that when she’s in government, that’s a political, managerial style that can lead to conflict,” he concluded. Mir Business Bank expanding ties in post-sanctions era (Source: Tass) TEHRAN TIMES ECONOMY Member of Board of easing the banking transactions and ing business with Iran,” he said, adding: Iran’s regulations.” Iran’s Leading International Daily deskDirectors and Deputy transferring money among economic ac- “Iranian companies doing business with Iranian banks can also open LCs Currency and Intl. Affairs of Bank Mel- tivists and traders of the two countries, Russian and Central Asian companies through MBB for transactions in ruble li Iran (BMI) Gholam-Reza Panahi an- he said: “Issuance of domestic and for- can refer to Russian Embassy in Tehran to or use BMI’s Hamburg branch for euro nounced the above statement and said: eign drafts, registration of transaction open accounts in MBB and have access transactions. “Lenders are also offered all Advertising Dept “Russian companies as contract party passport with the Islamic Republic of Iran, to the above-mentioned services.”. common banking services.” with Iranian companies, including export- opening Letter of Credits ((L/Cs), issuance “Traders can receive money in their Mir Business Bank is the only Irani- 021 - 430 51 450 ers or importers of goods and services, of banking guarantee letter and also pay- accounts in Iranian banks,” Panahi said an-founded bank operating in Russia. Te l : can open account with Russia’s Mir Busi- ing trade facilities, etc. are considered as noting that the open market rate would Prior to its establishment, Bank Melli Iran ness Bank against presentation of require salient services of Mir Business Bank to be used for changing money. was operating in Moscow. The bank is documents within the framework of rules the Russian companies. MBB also transfers money in euro or 100% owned by the Iranian government and regulations.” “We also offer payment orders, bank ruble to their foreign exchange accounts and has a central office in Moscow and Turning to the growing trend of trade guarantees, letters of credit and business in Iranian banks. “They can later use the another in Russia’s Caspian Sea city of www.tehrantimes.com exchanges with Russia with regard to loans to Russian companies that are do- money based on the Central Bank of Astrakhan. 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NEWS IN BRIEF Water crisis: Wake-up call for the country

Full air rescue service SOCIETY TEHRAN — Supplying deskpotable water to people coverage nationwide: nationwide has been turned into a predic- ament for the country, Energy Minister Ha- official mid Chitchian warned. TEHRAN Currently, 86 percent of renewable water SOCIETY — Iran is fully provided with resources are being exploited in the coun- desk air rescue service coverage, chief of try, while using up to 40 percent of these the Rescue and Relief Organization, Nasser Charkhsaz, resources in the world is deemed as a water has said, IRNA reported on Wednesday. crisis, Chitchian said on Tuesday in a nation- Mentioning the number of the helicopters for air al conference on water economics, IRNA rescue services Charkhsaz noted that since last year the news agency reported. number of the helicopters have increased by three be- “Despite numerous dams being built coming 20 over the last four months. in various places we are experiencing dif- “We were planning allocating one helicopter to each ficulties in supplying drinking water, there- province by the end of the [current Iranian calendar] year fore we have to come up with big water (March 20, 2017) but we might not be able to do that as transferring projects which are extremely a result of insufficient funds,” he lamented. costly,” he explained. Precipitations in Iran is one third of the 3 costly cancer drugs world average which results in two cen- tigrade rise in the temperature and the produced in Iran heat would consequently drives greater evaporation, he added. Emphasizing on the significance of cutting back on water consumption to TEHRAN SOCIETY — Iran succeeded in pro- achieve sustainable development in water desk ducing three of the 10 most expensive sector he regretted that low water prices Supplying potable water is a top pri- evaporation. ture rise is twice in speed in this region. drugs in the world, Food and Drug Administration direc- would not motivate any investors to put ority but unfortunately the budget which This week many media outlets have re- According to a report by World Re- tor Rasoul Dinarvand said on Wednesday. money into this sector. must be spent on the projects are yet to ported records of the highest temperature sources Institute Iran holds the 13th place Rituximab, Cantuzumab, and Bevacizumab, are “We are so short of water that we have be allocated, he highlighted. in the Middle East and according to the among top 33 water-stressed countries the three monoclonal antibodies designed for treat- to halt some profitable projects in the Climate change leads to higher tem- researches done by Max Planck Society for and 14 of the countries in this list are lo- ing cancers or autoimmune diseases, IRNA quoted country,” the minister said. perature and accordingly higher level of the Advancement of Science the tempera- cated in the Middle East. Dinarvand as saying. He explained that the first two drugs are now available in the market and the last one will be by the end of the current year (March 20, 2017). California wildfire displaces exotic animals, horses, cats and dogs, too The production of the drugs would save millions of dollars for the country and they would cost 50 to 60 per- A virtual Noah’s Ark of wild beasts and livestock has been The fire also forced ranch and farm owners in the recent less than foreign-made ones, he highlighted. relocated to save them from a massive wildfire burning gion to evacuate their livestock by trailer to a number of north of Los Angeles in a region that is home to exotic facilities. More than 300 horses, 165 goats, 33 pigs and animal sanctuaries and horse ranches. two Brahman bulls were displaced by the fire, according Italian marathon Officials and volunteers at the Wildlife Waystation to the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care in the northern Los Angeles suburb of Sylmar moved and Control. runner to explore Iran’s about three-quarters of the sprawling facility’s 400 an- About 10 miles (16 km) north of the Wildlife Way- imals on Saturday, including dozens of large animals station, officials at the Lange Foundation’s St. Bonnie’s Lut Desert such as tigers, lions, bears and cougars, founder Mar- Sanctuary in Canyon Country on Saturday evacuated tine Colette said in a telephone interview. more than 40 dogs, over 60 cats and 14 horses, a board TEHRAN SOCIETY — Italian marathon runner The animals were coaxed into cages by voice command member with the organization, Diane Nelson, said in a deskMax Calderan also known as ‘Son of and meat for bait, and then loaded onto trucks, vans and telephone interview. the Desert’ is planning on running Lut Desert, south-east trailers, Colette said. Most of them were taken by car and van to one of the of Iran, Mehr news agency reported. The so-called Sand Fire has charred 59 square miles foundation’s centers in Los Angeles. The foundation saves Calderan is also a desert explorer with an ability to (153 sq km) since it broke out on Friday in a mostly rural other wild animal sanctuaries in Southern California, have animals from being euthanized at shelters. survive alone in the desert without food or medical area around the community of Acton on the northwestern been stressed by the move, Colette said. “They absolutely Officials from two animal sanctuaries in the northern help for unusually long periods of time. His dream is fringes of the Angeles National Forest. hate it, and it will take them several days, maybe as long Los Angeles County region, the Gibbon Conservation to cross some of the world’s most dangerous and un- Wildlife Waystation said it expects to return the animals as a week, to settle down when they finally come home.” Center that is home to arboreal apes, and the Shambala explored deserts on foot. to the Sylmar facility on Wednesday, since firefighters have Most of the animals evacuated from the facility are Preserve for big cats, said they were able to avoid mov- This time he is going to run through the Lut Desert in made progress containing the blaze. small, including birds and lizards that could easily be ing their animals. the current Iranian calendar month of Mordad (July 22 to The creatures great and small, which were taken to harmed by smoke she said. (Source: Reuters) August 21) which can also lead to setting a record in the Guinness World Records. Ali Heidarifar, Calderan’s agent, explained that some IN FOCUS IRNA/ Mojtaba Mohammadi of the money made by this project would be spent on Asiatic Cheetah protection scheme.

LEARN ENGLISH Wanting Peace and Quiet

After three days of travel and meetings, I returned to my hotel room ready for some downtime. All I wanted was some peace and quiet so I could get a good night’s sleep. [phone rings] Carl: Hello. Hotel staff: Hello, Mr. Mendez. I’m calling to welcome you to our hotel. I hope you’re finding everything to your satisfaction. Carl: Yes, yes. Everything’s fine. I just want to get some rest right now. Hotel staff: Of course, Mr. Mendez. If there’s anything we can do for you, don’t hesitate to ask. I hung up the phone and turned off the ringer. I didn’t want any more unsolicited phone calls. But then, there was a knock on the door. turn down your bed Hotel staff: Hello, sir. I’m here to . May With mid-summer approaching, farmers are harvesting rice straws from paddy fields in Gilan province. I come in? Carl: I don’t need the bed turned down, thanks. Before I closed the door, I put the do-not-disturb sign on my door. I wanted no more interruptions. ENGLISH IN USE All of a sudden, a loud alarm went off. I opened my door and a hotel employee was explaining that there was a small fire in the LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION kitchen and that the guests were being evacuated. We would have to leave the building immediately. 72 ﺩﺭﺻﺪ ﺟﻤﻌﻴﺖ ﻛﺸﻮﺭ ﺩﺭﮔﻴﺮ ﺧﺸﻜﺴﺎﻟﻰ ﺑﻠﻨﺪﻣﺪﺕ I left my hotel room and wondered if there was a vast conspiracy 72% of Iran’s population struggling with long-term drought to rob me of my sleep or if I’m just the unluckiest guy in the world! (Source: eslpod.com) ﺭﺋﻴﺲ ﻣﺮﻛﺰ ﻣﻠﻰ ﺧﺸﻜﺴﺎﻟﻰ ﻭ ﻣﺪﻳﺮﻳﺖ ﺑﺤﺮﺍﻥ ﺳﺎﺯﻣﺎﻥ ﻫﻮﺍﺷﻨﺎﺳﻰ ﺍﺯ ﺩﺭﮔﻴﺮﻯ 72 ﺩﺭﺻﺪ ﺟﻤﻌﻴﺖ Words & phrases 72 percent of people in Iran are withstanding prolonged drought, the director for drought ﻛﺸﻮﺭ ﺑﺎ ﭘﺪﻳﺪﻩ ﺧﺸﻜﺴﺎﻟﻰ ﺧﺒﺮ ﺩﺍﺩ. .downtime: a period of time when you have finished what you and crisis management department of Iran’s Meteorological Organization said ﺷﺎﻫﺮﺥ ﻓﺎﺗﺢ ﺍﻇﻬﺎﺭ ﻛﺮﺩ: ﺍﺯ ﺍﺑﺘﺪﺍﻯ ﺳﺎﻝ ﺯﺭﺍﻋﻰ ﺟﺎﺭﻯ ﻭ ﺑﺮ ﻣﺒﻨﺎﻯ ﺷﺎﺧﺺ 9 ﻣﺎﻫﻪ ﻣﻨﺘﻬﻰ ﺑﻪ ﺧﺮﺩﺍﺩ ﻣﺎﻩ were doing, and you can relax or do something that you had not Since the beginning of the current crop year in Iran and based on the indices 95، ﺑﺨﺶﻫﺎﻳﻰ ﺍﺯ ﺍﺳﺘﺎﻥ ﻫﺎﻯ ﺍﺻﻔﻬﺎﻥ، ﻳﺰﺩ، ﭼﻬﺎﺭﻣﺤﺎﻝ ﻭ ﺑﺨﺘﻴﺎﺭﻯ، ﺧﺮﺍﺳﺎﻥ ﺟﻨﻮﺑﻰ، ﺟﻨﻮﺏ ﺧﺮﺍﺳﺎﻥ originally planned to do of the past nine months (September 23, 2015-June 20, 2016) periods of drought to somebody’s satisfaction: ﺭﺿﻮﻯ، ﻓﺎﺭﺱ، ﻛﺮﻣﺎﻥ، ﺳﻤﻨﺎﻥ، ﺳﻴﺴﺘﺎﻥ ﻭ ﺑﻠﻮﭼﺴﺘﺎﻥ، ﻗﻢ، ﻣﺮﻛﺰﻯ، ﮔﻴﻼﻥ ﻭ ﻣﺎﺯﻧﺪﺭﺍﻥ ﺩﺭﺟﺎﺗﻰ ﺍﺯ ,if something is done to someone's have affected parts of Isfahan, Yazd, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, South Khorasan satisfaction, it is done as well or as completely as they want, so Khorasan Razavi, Fars, Kerman, Semnan, Sistan-Baluchestan, Qom, Markazi, Gi- ﺧﺸﻜﺴﺎﻟﻰ ﺧﻔﻴﻒ ﺗﺎ ﺷﺪﻳﺪ ﻭﺟﻮﺩ ﺩﺍﺭﺩ. they are pleased lan, and Mazandaran to different extents, Shahrokh Fateh said. ﻓﺎﺗﺢ ﺩﺭ ﮔﻔﺖ ﻭ ﮔﻮ ﺑﺎ ﺍﻳﺴﻨﺎ ﮔﻔﺖ: ﺑﺮ ﺍﺳﺎﺱ ﺁﻣﺎﺭ 31 ﺩﺭﺻﺪ ﻣﺴﺎﺣﺖ ﻛﻞ ﻛﺸﻮﺭ ﺍﺯ ﺧﺸﻜﺴﺎﻟﻰ ﺧﻔﻴﻒ، unsolicited: not asked for and often not wanted According to statistics, 31 percent of the country’s total land area is suffering mild drought, turn down the bed: refers to the process of turning down the 29 ﺩﺭﺻﺪ ﺧﺸﻜﺴﺎﻟﻰ ﻣﺘﻮﺳﻂ، 12 ﺩﺭﺻﺪ ﺧﺸﻜﺴﺎﻟﻰ ﺷﺪﻳﺪ ﻭ ﻳﻚ ﺩﺭﺻﺪ ﻧﻴﺰ ﺑﺎ ﺧﺸﻜﺴﺎﻟﻰ ﺑﺴﻴﺎﺭ ,percent is facing moderate drought, 12 percent is being plagued by severe drought 29 ﺷﺪﻳﺪ ﺩﺭﮔﻴﺮ ﻫﺴﺘﻨﺪ. bed covers to prepare the bed to be slept in; turndown service is typically offered at high-end hotels and usually includes a brief and one percent is struggling with extreme drought, Fateh told ISNA news agency. cleaning and refreshing of the room. do-not-disturb sign: Used to indicate that somebody does not wish to be disturbed, e.g. a sign on a hotel room door interruption: the act of stopping the continuous progress of (an ENGLISH PROVERB QUIZ OF THE DAY PHRASAL VERB activity or process) 190) Choose if the sentence is true or false. go off: If two ride a horse, one Wolf down if an alarm goes off, it makes a noise to warn you about something The joke fell flatly. evacuate: to send people away from a dangerous place to a safe place must ride behind a) True conspiracy: a secret plan made by two or more people to do Meaning: eat greedily and quickly something that is harmful or illegal Explanation: b) False For example: The boys wolfed down the whole rob somebody of something: when two people do something together, (Quiz No. 189 answer: a) to take away an important qual- one will be the leader and the other will be the subordinate cake in no time! ity, ability etc. from someone or something I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

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RRioio OOlympiclympic wwillill FOOTBALL Zinedine Zidane suggests Real Madrid still in race for bbee bbetteretter fforor meme Juventus’ Paul Pogba Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane is not giving up on signing Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba this summer, saying “anything can happen” before the transfer deadline. tthanhan LLondon:ondon: Manchester United appear best placed to sign Pogba, 23, although sources close to Juventus have told ESPN FC that the Italian champions will not accept less than €120 million for the France international and also want the Premier League club LLeylaeyla RajabiRajabi to pay the €25m fee for agent Mino Raiola, with the Old SPORTS Iran’s Leyla Rajabi believes “I have no chance of winning medalmeedal and I Trafford hierarchy reluctant to deskthat the Rio Olympics will don’t think about that. I just want too getget better meet those demands. be better for her than London in 2012. result at Rio Olympics. The Iranian oofficialsfficials have Ex-France star Zidane has With just days to go until the start of the made clear that just weightlifters, wrestlersrestlers and spoken regularly, if guardedly, 2016 Games, the shot putter feels she can get taekwondokas could win medal,” shehee added. through the summer on his ad- a better result in the upcoming event. Rajabi acquired Iranian citizenshipennship and miration for his compatriot, and Rajabi competes in the women’s shot put converted to Islam after she marriedried Iranian Pogba himself has also chosen qualification during the London 2012 Olympic athlete Peiman Rajabi. his words carefully when asked Games and came 10th by throwing 17.55 meters. She changed her name to “Leylaeyyla Rajabi” if he would prefer to return to “I am in good condition at the moment and and decided to represent Iran insteadteead of her former club United or join the I am doing my best to show a better perfor- birthplace Belarus. European champions. mance in Rio. However, sport is not predictable Rajabi immediately broke Iranann national Speaking at a news conference in Ohio ahead of Madrid’s and I don’t know what will be my result in Rio,” record in shot put, improving it aboutboout 3 me- first preseason outing this summer against Paris Saint-Germain, Rajabi told ISNA news agency. ters and currently is the record holder.older. Zidane was asked if there was now any chance of Pogba moving to the Bernabeu before the transfer deadline on Aug. 31. “I don’t know. At the moment we are here working,” he re- plied. “Until [Aug. 31] anything can happen. He is not yet a Ma- I'm happy to pay back coach's trust, Azmoun signs two-year drid player. We cannot talk about what will happen.” says Saeid Ezatolahi contract with Rostov Madrid appear unlikely to pay anything like the €120m asking price unless they could first raise funds by selling squad players such as James Rodriguez or Alvaro Morata for significant sums. Pressed as to whether this meant he had asked club president Florentino Perez to sign Pogba, he said: “Now is not the moment to talk about this. “Everyone is interested in Pogba. He is a great player and when you are at Madrid, you always want the best. Now we must respect some things -- he is a Juve player. Today I can say nothing.” Zidane added that it was difficult but not impossible for a club in Madrid’s position, having won two of the last three Champions Leagues, to sign players to keep improving. “It is difficult to improve Madrid’s squad. We won [the Cham- pions League] with this squad,” he said. “There are good players elsewhere too. You can always improve things and it will always be like that here. There are always players who can improve the team.” (Source: Soccernet)

SPORTS Iranian internation- pions League group stage. We conceded SPORTS Iranian international club until the end of 2017-18 season,” deskal midfielder Saeid two goals on two mistakes but I don’t think deskstriker Sardar Az- Chairman of the FC Rostov Board of Di- Ezatolahi who scored FC Rostov’s first a 2-2 draw at home will be considered as moun has finally signed a two-year rectors Ali Uzdenov said. Most Brazilians expect Rio official goal against Anderlecht in the a bad result. We will try our best for a win contract with Russian club FC Rostov. Azmoun who came as a substi- Olympics to hurt Brazil: poll UEFA Champions League third qualifying in Belgium for a place in the Champions Azmoun, who spent 2015-16 sea- tute in the 2-2 draw against Ander- round match, stated that he is glad to re- League group stages,” he added. son at Rostov on loan from Rubin Ka- lecht in the UEFA Champions League pay Kurban Berdyev’s trust. Ezatolahi is the first scorer of the club zan, was supposed to return to Tatars third qualifying round match finished Most Brazilians are pessimistic about impact on their country of “Last season I had ITC problem in the in the European match and also the at the end of the season; however seventh in 2015-16 Russian Premier the Olympic Games, scheduled to begin Aug. 5 in Rio de Janeiro, first six month and in the second half of youngest ever Iranian player to score at Rostov triggered the buyout clause in League top scorer list scoring nine according to a study by polling group Ibope published in the the season the team was doing great and the Champions League. Azmoun’s contract. Rubin denied this goals in 23 appearances, despite get- Estado de S.Paulo daily newspaper. Berdyev preferred not to make changes He also scored the first goal by Irani- clause and claimed Sardar is the player ting half as much playing time as some According to the survey, 60 percent of Brazilians believe the in the squad. But in the pre-season camp an player at an UEFA Champions League of the team but Azmoun’s lawyer ap- other top scorers. games, expected to cost about 40 billion reais ($12.2 billion), will bring I worked hard to reach the starting lineup official match after more than ten years. pealed the case to CAS. He was also voted as the fifth most more harm than good to Brazil, while 32 percent believe the games and now I’m glad to repay the trust of Last goal scored at an UEFA Champions Finally CAS ruled in favor of Azmoun valuable player of the league, narrowly will bring more benefits to the country than losses, the paper reported. Berdyev,” Ezatolahi said. League official match by former Bayern and he is currently a FC Rostov player. behind players such as Fyodor Smolov, Concern about the games has grown in Brazil as the coun- “Anderlecht is a well-known club in Eu- Munich player Ali Karimi in the 4-0 win “Sardar has signed a two-year con- Moussa Doumbia, and Brazilian super- try falls deeper into its worst recession in decades, Olympic rope and they regularly play in the Cham- against Rapid Wien in November 2005. tract with us and will remain at the star Hulk. preparations have been delayed or scaled back, and evidence of widespread corruption in construction contracts for Olympic infrastructure has been uncovered by police and the courts. A similar study ahead of the soccer World Cup, held in Brazil Iran to participate at Football 7 Worlds Qualification in 2014, found that 43 percent of Brazilians were optimistic before the event, compared with 40 percent who were pessimistic. will compete in the 2017 IFCPF World Championships. Spain The poll surveyed 2,002 people in all of Brazil between July The competition will bring about 250 athletes from 13 Group B 14 and 18. (Source: Reuters) countries, namely Denmark, Iran, Australia, Canada, Fin- Portugal land, Germany, Japan, Northern Ireland, Portugal, South Venezuela Korea, Scotland, Spain and Venezuela together. Republic of South Korea It is the first time a qualification tournament is being Group C Putin: Olympic ban on held without the top eight teams (all competing at the Rio Iran 2016 Paralympic Games) taking part, Paralympic.org wrote. Northern Ireland Russian athletes result of The teams have been divided into four groups. Germany political campaign Iran traveled to Denmark on Tuesday to take part at the The Iranian team has been drawn into Group C along Group D 2016 International Federation for Cerebral Palsy Football with Germany and Northern Ireland. Canada (IFCPF) World Championship Qualification Tournament. Group A Japan President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday blamed a shadowy cam- The tournament will kick off on Friday in Vejen, Denmark. Scotland Denmark paign for unfairly stripping some Russian sports people of the A qualification tournament is being held to decide who Australia Finland (Source: Paralympic) right to compete at the Rio Olympics over doping allegations, hitting out at what he called short-sighted political schemers. Putin, addressing members of Russia’s Olympic team in the Gonzalo Higuain transfer to Juventus Roger Federer to miss Rio 2016 Olympics Kremlin, said that the decision by international sporting organiza- tions to ban some Russian athletes from the games, flew in the face ‘full of betrayal’ - Napoli’s De Laurentiis and rest of season with knee injury of common sense and legality. “The deliberate campaign Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis Swiss tennis great Roger Federer will miss targeting our athletes was char- believes that the word “betrayal” is the the Olympics and the rest of the season acterized by so-called double best way of describing Gonzalo Higuain’s with a knee injury. standards and opted for the transfer to Juventus. The 17-time Grand Slam champion idea of collective responsibility, Higuain arrived in Turin on Wednes- said he needs “more extensive rehabili- which is not compatible with day for his first day as a Juve player after tation” if he wants to prolong his career. sport, justice in general, or the the Turin-based club agreed to pay the Federer, 34, had knee surgery in Feb- basic norms of law,” said Putin. €90-million release clause in his contract ruary before missing May’s French Open The Russian leader said the with the Azzurri. with a back problem. scandal, which centers on alle- Not only did De Laurentiis not expect Federer said on his Facebook page he gations that the Russian gov- the Bianconeri to pay the fee required to was “extremely disappointed” to not be ernment and the FSB security release the forward from his contract with representing Switzerland in Rio and it was service systematically covered them, he admitted to his shock at Higuain’s “tough” to miss the rest of 2016. up doping for years, had unfair- decision to leave Napoli after signing for “I am as motivated as ever and plan to ly targeted many Russian sports A’s record transfer, De Laurentiis added: “I a “silver lining” in his injury-troubled year. the club from Real Madrid in 2013. put all my energy towards coming back people who had not even faced specific and proven accusations. would have expected a different kind of “This experience has made me realise “People say that talking about betrayal strong, healthy and in shape to play at- “This is a blow to the entire sporting world and to the Olym- behaviour. how lucky I have been throughout my is exaggerated, but I think the opposite,” tacking tennis in 2017,” he added. pic Games,” said Putin. “It is obvious that the absence of Russian “It’s true, there was this clause and career with very few injuries,” he said. De Laurentiis told Il Corriere dello Sport. Federer won doubles gold at Beijing sports people -- leaders in many sporting disciplines -- will sig- nothing was formally incorrect, unless we “The doctors advised that if I want to “This decision is full of betrayal, and in 2008, but has never won an Olympic nificantly affect the intensity of the competition and diminish the want to consider their late-night medical play on the ATP World Tour injury free it even includes ingratitude. I never seri- singles title and lost to Britain’s Andy spectator value of the forthcoming events.” as such, but in this unscrupulous world for another few years, as I intend to do, ously thought he would leave, nor that he Murray in the final at London 2012. Putin said any medal won in Rio in the absence of Russian of football, there is not even respect of I must give both my knee and body the would cancel three years in Naples with Federer twice required treatment during athletes would be worth much less than otherwise and that such feelings.” proper time to fully recover.” one throw of the sponge.” a five-set semi-final defeat by Canada’s Milos victories would have a completely different taste. (Source: Soccernet) (Source: BBC) Of the negotiations surrounding Serie Raonic at Wimbledon this month, but found (Source: Reuters) b

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VIEW Parvin Etesami “Barcode” warns of over-reliance on social media Literary Awards By Manijeh Rezapoor ostafa Kiai’s “Barcode” lit a light in my head and gave announce Mme a warning as a mother of two sons on how social networks can threaten the lives of the youth if they are not fully aware of the very serious consequences. “Barcode”, starring Bahram Radan and Pejman Bazeghi seeks to demonstrate how certain social factors can shape the fate of nominees citizens as it tells the story of two young simple-minded friends who turn into dangerous criminals. ARTTEHRAN — The Vadivar and “We the Living” (Ayn Rand) You take a group photo once, but the picture is modified with desknominees of Parvin by Jila Farhangi are the top translations. Photoshop and the result gets you into trouble. Etesami Literary Awards, which are Moreover, in the children’s literature You join Facebook to keep in touch with friends all over the awarded for works by female literati with section, the collection of poetry “Ab-o- world, but you also meet people who are operating under false outstanding achievements in Persian Tab” by Saeideh Musavizadeh, “Bird of identities to make friends with different individuals, leading to literature, have been announced in the Rain” by Mahdieh Nazari and “Impatient tragic outcomes. two sections of translation and children’s Poetry” by Afsaneh Shabannejad are I am not an expert on film and cinema, but as an observer literature. among the nominees. who has watched the film with my two children, I realized that Five top translations have been selected The prize was named after Persian I must take social networks seriously, and be aware of what is as the nominees in this section, the Iranian poet Parvin Etesami (1907-1940), one going on around me in society and how poverty or greed can Poetry and Fiction Foundation announced of the most prominent Persian poets of cause a young person to drown in a sea of corruption. in a press release on Wednesday. the 20th century. Her poetry is based The young generation seeks excitement; they need to release “My Dad’s A Birdman” (David upon themes of social, humanitarian their high energy and strength, but they should also be guided Almond) translated by Reyhaneh Jafari, and mystical concepts, and contains no towards appropriate amusements, and more intelligent activities “Out of My Mind” (Sharon M. Draper) allusions to romantic love or feminine need to be substituted. by Anita Yarmohammadi, “Dunger”(Joy sentiment. Care racing on highways is an activity shown in the film to Cowley) by Masuemh Rostamzad, “A The winners are due to be announced illustrate the high energy of youths and one dangerous way they Concise Chinese-English Dictionary during a ceremony to be held in Tehran in choose to increase their excitement. for Lovers” (Xiaolu Guo) by Reyhaneh less than two weeks. A portrait of Persian poet Parvin Etesami Young people also seek excitement through addiction. Aimless friendship is also seen among those youth who only seek happy moments in life, despite frequent unhappy endings to these sorts of relationships. Top Iranian musicians to raise funds for children with cancer To add to this bewildering array of difficulties for youths, ARTTEHRAN — A number of top Iranian give a piano recital of his hits for the opening night while a embezzlement seems to be a major factor hidden behind these deskmusicians, composers and conductors duet by Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Sohrab Purnazeri and problems and unpleasant consequences their families suffer are slated to hold charity concerts to raise funds for children Spanish flamenco guitarist Antonio Rey Navas is slated to from according to this film. with cancer during Barana Music Nights, which will be bring the event to end. The screenwriters (Mahyar Shahrokhi and Mostafa Kiai) have held from August 10 to 19 in the lavish Golestan Palace, a Among the highlights are concerts by an Iranian string beautifully set the events one after another, going back in the UNESCO World Heritage Site in downtown Tehran. orchestra under the baton of maestro Loris Tjeknavorian story taking the audience from the end to the beginning step Seven concerts are on the schedule for the event that is as well as Shams Ensemble led by veteran tambur virtuoso by step. being organized by Barana Institute of Art in collaboration Keykhoro Purnazeri. Humorous words and actions are also heard and seen with the Mahak Charity Society, a Tehran-based major Barana Music Nights also includes performances by the here and there to keep the audience engaged with moments medical center for safeguarding children with cancer. pop band Pallet and the Kamkars, Iran’s leading Kurdish of happiness, which clashes with the bitter reality buried in the World-renowned maestro Shahrdad Rohani plans to family music ensemble. meanings of the words. PICTURE OF THE DAY Honaronline/Saeid Rabiei Egyptian NEWS IN BRIEF filmmaker Se-tar virtuoso Hamid Motabassem Mohamed Khan to tour Iran has died at 73

ARTTEHRAN – Se-tar virtuoso Hamid CAIRO (AP) — One of Egypt’s best- deskMotabassem plans to embark on known film directors, Mohammed a tour of Iran, which will start with a performance in Khan, whose realism shed light on the Isfahan on August 3. country’s urban landscape since the Vocalist Hossein Alishapur will accompany him on 1980s, has died. He was 73. the tour. Filmmakers and friends from his Abadeh in Fars province and the central Iranian city generation, including Said Shimi and of Yazd will be the next stops for the duo on August 11 Yousry Nasrallah, said on social media and 12. Next, they will leave Yazd to perform in Ahvaz that he died on Tuesday morning. A on August 17. funeral was due later in the day. The tour will come to an end in Tehran with two Educated in Britain before returning performances at Rudaki Hall on August 19 and 20. to Egypt in the 1960s, Khan’s work focused on social realities and often had Iranian filmmaker on prominent women protagonists. He rose to fame with the 1983 story of a troubled Portuguese festival soccer player, “El-Harrif”, and his 2013 panel “Factory Girl” addressed Egypt’s rigid class society. State-run Al-Ahram daily says Khan ARTTEHRAN – Iranian director Amir- was born in Cairo in 1942 to an Egyptian deskMasud Soheili has been selected mother and a Pakistani father. He Dariush Arjmand waves to his colleagues and friends who came together at Tehran’s Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum on July 26, 2016 to celebrate acquired Egyptian nationality through a for the jury of the short film section of the 20th Avanca the veteran actor’s 72nd birthday. Film Festival, which will be held in the Portuguese city presidential decree in 2014. from July 27 to 31. Soheili is the director of several short films, UK producers guilty over Harrison Ford’s “Magnificent Seven” remake to be including “Blue-Eyed Boy”, which has been acclaimed at several Iranian and international events. broken leg on Star Wars set featured at Toronto Film Fest In addition, Iranian director Faezeh-Sadat Alavi’s “There Is Nothing New Under the Sun” will compete LONDON (Reuters) — A production and proportionate way for all actors TORONTO (Reuters) — Director Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung- at the international short film section of the festival. company involved in making “Star and staff -- regardless of their celebrity Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 1960s Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Wars: The Force Awakens” has status -- is vital to protecting both on- Western “The Magnificent Seven” Sensmeier, Haley Bennett and Peter Joint album by pleaded guilty in a British court to screen and off-screen talent, as well is expected to kick off the Toronto Sarsgaard. failing to protect actors and workers as protecting the reputation of the International Film Festival on Sept. Fuqua’s remake of the 1960 original Iranian, Azerbaijani after an incident in which Harrison industry,” he said. 8, which will include movies about tells the story of the town of Rose Creek musicians Ford’s leg was broken, officials said on The production firm, London- whistleblower Edward Snowden under the deadly control of industrialist Tuesday. based Foodles Production (UK) Ltd, and former U.S. President Lyndon Bartholomew Bogue, played by “Banafsheh” released The star, who plays the much-loved could not immediately be reached B. Johnson among the usual Oscar Sarsgaard, and the mercenaries hired CULTURE TEHRAN – “Banafsheh”, a joint character Han Solo, was injured after for comment. Representatives of the hopefuls. to protect the townspeople. deskalbum by Iranian and Azerbaijani he became trapped under a rapidly firm entered the guilty plea during The 10-day festival, now in its 41st The festival will close with the musicians, has recently been released by the closing metal-framed door during a hearing earlier at Milton Keynes year, has become a launching pad for world premiere of Kelly Fremon Craig’s Rahgozar-e Haft Eqlim Art and Cultural Institute in filming in June 2014 at Pinewood Magistrates Court. Hollywood’s award season, with films “The Edge of Seventeen”, which tells Tehran. Studios, near London. Ford, who was 71 at the time, was such as “12 Years a Slave”, “The King’s the tale of an awkward high school Pianist Jeyhoun Dadashev and tar virtuoso Firouz The power of the door’s drive airlifted to a hospital in Oxford after Speech” and “Slumdog Millionaire” all student, played by Hailee Steinfeld, Aliyev, the two musicians from Azerbaijan Republic, system was comparable to the weight the incident and later had surgery on gaining critical momentum in Toronto who gains the unexpected friendship have cooperated with master of naqareh Vahid of a small car, said Britain’s Health and his left leg. before going on to win the Academy of a thoughtful boy played by Hayden Asadollahi in this album, director of the institute Safety Executive (HSE), a state agency With global ticket sales worth well Awards for best picture. Szeto. The film also stars Woody Sepehr Saeidi said in a press release on Wednesday. which enforces workplace safety over $2 billion, “The Force Awakens”, Organizers said in a statement on Harrelson. He added that the institute, which is active in music regulations. the seventh installment of the Star Tuesday that the festival is expected Biographical films feature productions, does not have plans to hold a concert “This was a foreseeable incident,” a Wars saga, is the third highest-grossing to start with the world premiere of prominently in the festival’s high- for the Azeri musicians in Iran. spokesman for HSE said in a statement. movie in Hollywood history, behind “The Magnificent Seven”. The film stars profile gala and special presentation “Managing on-set risks in a sensible “Avatar” and “Titanic”. Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan programs.