WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13526 Tuesday NOVEMBER 12, 2019 Aban 21, 1398 Rabi’ Al awwal 14, 1441 Arms embargo U.S. operation I believe and hope I Kurdish writer Mastureh on Iran will expire a trick, Baghdadi will be one who will Ardalan subject of next year 2 may be hiding 13 pray in Al-Quds 13 Iranian docudrama 16 Iran hosting 7th UIC Next Stations Conference TEHRAN — Islamic Republic of Iran participants from 25 countries including Railways (known as RAI) is hosting the 14 European ones. 7th UIC Next Stations Conference in Addressing the first day of the confer- American Tehran from November 11 to 13, IRNA ence, the official said, “Railway develop- reported. ment is one of the main objectives of the It is the first time that this conference Iranian government and in this due we of the International Union of Railways have implanted some joint projects with (UIC) is held in an Asian country. the neighboring countries for improving As announced by RAI Head Saeid Ra- passenger and cargo transportation via fascism souli, the conference is hosting 70 foreign railway.” 4 Iran to spend $100 million to seal southeastern borders: governor TEHRAN — Ahmad Ali Mohebati, gov- cannot seal the borders unilaterally ernor of southeastern border province of and has reached agreements with Pa- Sistan-Balouchestan, said on Sunday that kistan in this respect and this country against the government has decided to withdraw [Pakistan] has also started sealing the 100 million dollars from the National De- borders.” velopment Fund (NDF) to seal borders “Pakistan has sealed 50 kilometers of with Pakistan the borders by constructing barbed wire “This amount of money will speed up and fences,” he said. the work but will not be enough,” Mohe- He also said that sealing the borders bati told IRNA. will not cause any trouble to those residing Bolivia The provincial governor added, “Iran in the area. 2 Corbyn condemns White Helmets founder discovered dead days after Russia claimed he was a spy A former British Army officer who tanbul’s Beyoglu district. ‘appalling coup’ co-founded the White Helmets volun- It is believed that Le Mesurier fell See page 13 teer force in Syria has been found dead from the balcony of his home office in a in Istanbul. suspected suicide, a security source told Last week, James Le Mesurier was the Reuters news agency. accused of being a spy in a tweet from His wife told police that she and the Russian foreign ministry. her husband went to bed at about 4am A neighbor said his body was found after taking sleeping pills, the source File photo on Monday near his home in central Is- added. 13 EDITORIAL Houthi Ansarullah movement will have role in Yemen’s future: UAE ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement will have the legitimate aspirations of all parts of Yemeni ernment of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hamed Khani Tehran Times editor-in-chief a role in their country’s future, a UAE minister society. That includes the Huthis,” Gargash said Hadi back to power and crushing Ansarullah. Lawyer and member of the @ghaderi62 said, voicing optimism that a recent peace deal at a political conference in Abu Dhabi. The US-based Armed Conflict Location and International Bar Association between the government and Houthis could lead “Huthis have wreaked havoc on the country, Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit con- to a wider solution. The comments were the latest but they are a part of Yemeni society and they flict-research organization, estimates that the war Supreme Shiite conciliatory move in the long-running Yemen will have a role in its future.” has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the Consequences of conflict, after Huthis offered in September to But Gargash said he was hopeful that a pow- past four and a half years. authority’s strategy halt attacks on Saudi Arabia. er-sharing deal between the government and The war has also taken a heavy toll on the U.S. formal exit Anwar Gargash, minister of state for foreign the secessionist Southern Transitional Council, country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, to lead Iraq out affairs in the United Arab Emirates -- a key mem- inked in Riyadh last week, could pave the way schools, and factories. The UN says over 24 mil- from Paris climate ber in the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s for a wider peace deal. lion Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian of crisis fugitive government -- urged all sides to maintain Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme pact: More isolation momentum for a political solution. launched a devastating campaign against Yemen levels of hunger. he latest statement issued by Iraq’s “Such an agreement must take account of in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the gov- (Source: AFP) globally supreme Shiite authority, Ayatollah TSeyed Ali Hosseini Sistani, on the he U.S. has formally begun to exit current developments in Iraq is undoubt- the Paris climate agreement. Re- edly an indicator of his intelligent and War will continue until U.S. withdraws completely from Afghanistan: Taliban Tgardless of whether or not the Paris comprehensive monitoring of the situa- Agreement is legally binding, the U.S. has tion in the country. The grand ayatollah’s Taliban spokesman responded to a statement by the withdrawal of U.S. and other foreign forces Lu said China supported Afghans resolving committed to cut 26-28% of its greenhouse efforts are intended to put a real end to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff that Afghanistan in exchange for guarantees that Afghanistan will their problems themselves through talks and gas emissions by 2025 from 2005 levels, the current crisis engulfing the country. would continue to deploy troops, saying the Af- not be used as a base for militant attacks. that the visit was an important part of China and donate three billion dollars to poor The act of issuing such a statement ghans would never tolerate the presence of any Taliban negotiators have also met senior promoting such peace talks. countries by 2020. The U.S. is now the by Ayatollah Sistani in a situation in foreign country on their territory. Afghan politicians and civil society represent- “Both sides believe that this exchange was world’s second-largest emitter of green- which Iraq’s regional and trans-regional Meanwhile, China, seeking to play a greater atives, including in Moscow recently, as part of a beneficial and agreed to keep in touch about and house gases after China. In other words, foes have been using their maximum role in the Afghan peace process, on Mon- so-called intra-Afghan dialogue to discuss their cooperate on continuing to seek a political reso- U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2015 energy to abuse the legitimate demands day said it is making efforts to host a rare country’s future. lution for Afghanistan and fighting terrorism.” were about 7000 million metric tones, of the protestors to create insecurity meeting between the Afghanistan officials Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang Beijing has long worried about links between which is more than total emissions of the and destabilize the country can in fact and the Taliban. told a daily news briefing that Abdul Ghani Baradar, militant groups and what it says are Islamist entire EU countries. However, the U.S. help realize the people’s real demands China recently played host to a Taliban del- the Taliban representative in Qatar, and some of extremists operating in Xinjiang, home to the president claimed that he has decided to through peaceful means free from any egation as part of efforts to promote peace and his colleagues had recently visited China, though mostly Muslim Uygur people, who speak a Turkic pull his country out of the Paris climate form of violence. reconciliation in Afghanistan, Beijing said on he did not say exactly when. language. pact because his job is to “protect America In fact, the propagandistic, security Thursday. Chinese officials met them to discuss the China, a close ally of Pakistan, has been deep- and its citizens”. and political plots orchestrated by the Representatives of the fundamentalist move- Afghan peace process and counterterror issues, ening its economic and political ties with Kabul Commenting on the reason for with- U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia have been ment, which has been fighting for years to expel Lu said, without saying who met the delegation. and is also using its influence to try to bring the drawing from the agreement, the U.S. aimed at perpetuating political crisis and foreign forces and defeat the U.S.-backed gov- “China has paid great attention to the evolving two uneasy neighbours closer. president said that the pact is favorable security problems in Baghdad and other ernment in Kabul, have been holding talks with situation in Afghanistan in recent years. We have Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited for other countries not the United States, cities. In this way, they want to push the U.S. diplomats for months. always played a positive role in the Afghan peace Kabul in December. because it puts the country at a very big country toward violence and insecurity The focus has been the Taliban’s demand for and reconciliation process,” he said. (Source: agencies) economic disadvantage. Trump also so that the real demands of Iraqis are put presented statistics showing that im- into oblivion.