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.13505 Thursday OCTOBER 10, 2019 Mehr 18, 1398 Safar 11, 1441 Khan to visit Iran in Only Syrian army is able Beating Cambodia “Castle of Dreams” mediation efforts between to provide security at is our goal: director Mirkarimi named Tehran and Riyadh 2 border with Turkey 2 Marc Wilmots 15 best at Slemani festival 16 Iran’s economy won’t wait for Europe: TCCIMA head Iran was able to build TEHRAN — Head of Tehran Chamber this financial mechanism can no longer of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Ag- be trusted to work. The Iranian economy riculture (TCCIMA) warned Europeans has no choice but to turn from the West that competitors would replace them in and look for eastern partners,” Masoud the Iranian market if they procrastinate Khansari said in an Iran-Germany business any further. forum in Tehran on Tuesday. atomic bomb but it didn’t “INSTEX, which was set to open a The business forum was attended channel for financial interactions between by officials from the two sides as well as European and Iranian companies, hasn’t representatives of Iranian and German See page 2 started operating yet and it seems that companies. 4 Economic war targeting public health, Zarif laments TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Mohammad “There was a time when such war- Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that the fare was used to simply limit activi- United States’ sanctions and economic ties of some countries. However, new war on Iran have targeted the ordinary warfare of the United States and what people’s health and livelihood. Trump has called the ‘economic war’ During a speech at an international have targeted the ordinary people’s conference on global economy and sanc- livelihood and health,” the chief dip- tions held at Alzahra University in Tehran, lomat lamented. the foreign minister said that the United He said the U.S. is abusing its economic States have turned “economy and dollar” power and dollar as a tool to exert pressure into tools of warfare. against other countries. 2 Erdogan says operation in northeast Syria has started TEHRAN — Turkey launched a mili- northeast Syria since U.S. troops began tary operation against Kurdish fighters vacating the area in an abrupt policy shift in northeast Syria on Wednesday, with by U.S. President Donald Trump, widely air strikes hitting the border town of Ras criticized in Washington as a betrayal of al Ain. America’s Kurdish militia allies. President Tayyip Erdogan, announc- A Turkish security source told Reu- ing the start of the action, said the aim ters the military operation into Syr- was to eliminate what he called a “terror ia has been launched with air strikes corridor” on Turkey’s southern border. and will be supported by artillery and khamenei.ir Turkey had been poised to advance into howitzer fire. 13 ARTICLE EU evading JCPOA responsibility ARTICLE Mahnaz Abdi By Hamid Bayati Shireen Hunter, a professor of Georgetown complicated than Cuba because it is linked Martin Love Head of the TehranTimes TEHRAN — The opportunity to save the University, has said, “The current laws are not to other Middle East -related issues. Eu- Political analyst from Economy Desk JCPOA (the nuclear deal concluded between very effective in countering American sanc- rope has very little economic relations with North Carolina Iran and the 5+1 group in 2015) is narrowing tions. Moreover, the real issue is that Europe Cuba. Moreover, America was not so keen down, but the European signatories of the does not want to escalate confrontation with in getting European cooperation regarding Banking system international deal, known as EU3 (Britain, America for the sake of Iran.” Cuba than it has been vis a vis Iran. The Reasons to be France and Germany), are not daring enough The European countries’ refusal to fulfill main issue is that Europe does not want to reform: improving to counter the U.S. and accept the expenses of their commitments to the nuclear deal is endanger its economic interests in America optimistic and their resistance against Washington’s illegal mostly different from their resistance ap- for Iran’s sake.” or interrupting? withdrawal from the JCPOA. proach against the U.S. pressure in 1996 Bloomberg news network’s analyst Jan- steadfast in Iran The European countries are evading their when Washington imposed sanctions against othan Tirone also believes that the Euro- ast week, Iranian Finance and Eco- o, Donald Trump is abandoning the responsibility to fulfill their commitments under Cuba without companionship of its Europe- pean Union’s reactions towards the U.S. nomic Affairs Minister Farhad De- Kurds in northeastern Syria and al- the pretext that companies are private, claiming an partners. In 1996, the European nations measures against Iran and the JCPOA is jpasand announced that a plan for legedly pulling out U.S. troops, giving L that due to the companies’ non-governmental managed to resist against the U.S. via ratifying mostly summarized in political gestures, S reforming the country’s banking system Turkey a green light to try to ensure that status they are not able to force them to trade new laws. Now there is a question whether holding meetings and issuing statements has been prepared by the ministry and a Kurdish state will not threaten Turkey’s with or invest in Iran. Europe is currently able to resist against the in support of the nuclear deal. The analyst handed over to President Rouhani in late eastern Anatolia. But the fear is that ISIS Based on evidence, the EU3 can grant legal U.S. pressure and unilateralism as they did says Europe has been very slow in applying September. will be resurrected somehow, and on it guarantee to their companies to protect them in case of Cuba? policies to decrease the U.S. sanction pres- And on Monday, the minister an- goes in a kaleidoscope of sectarian and against the U.S. sanctions. Professor Hunter says, “Iran issue is more sure on Iran. 6 nounced the start of the mentioned plan political confrontations in the Middle East in the government-owned banks. where the sands beneath one’s feet seem He said, “Following the president’s to shift on a weekly basis. order and considering the fact that reform- But in the U.S., Trump’s move this week, ing the banking system has become a top White House refuses cooperation in impeachment probe which some Democrat and Republican “he- priority for the government, we set up a TEHRAN — The White House said it would not chosen,” Cipollone wrote. “Mr President, you are not above the law. gemonic” devotees are already squealing working group and by analyzing the past cooperate with an impeachment investigation into “Your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitu- You will be held accountable,” she said, warn- about, seems to underscore what he originally experiences we developed a plan which President Donald Trump, labelling the process tional foundation, any pretence of fairness, or ing that “continued efforts to hide the truth promised on the campaign trail in 2016 – is more focused on practicality.” partisan, illegitimate and unconstitutional as it even the most elementary due process protec- of the president’s abuse of power from the to get the U.S. out of fruitless, unwinnable According to the minister, the plan blocked an ambassador from giving evidence to tions,” he said of the inquiry, which is weighing American people will be regarded as further and costly wars, even if this is just the first covers many areas including banks’ pri- the inquiry in the United States. whether Trump abused his office by seeking evidence of obstruction.” instance of his doing what he promised vatization, private and public sector’s In a fiery eight-page letter, White House a corruption investigation in Ukraine of his According to Al Jazeera, Pelosi formally and the move comes well into his first and deferred debts to banks, increasing counsel Pat Cipollone claimed House Speaker rival Joe Biden. launched the impeachment inquiry last month maybe last term as President. banks’ capital and adequacy, corpo- Nancy Pelosi and the chairmen of three con- “President Trump cannot permit his ad- after revelations that Trump pressured Ukraine’s Trump indeed has made many errors, rate governance, easing banks’ frozen gressional panels leading the inquiry simply ministration to participate in this partisan President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 25 with the canning of the JCPOA being error assets, and reforming the banks’ internal wanted to remove Trump from office. inquiry under these circumstances.” phone call. number one, but he has not started a fresh management. “Put simply, you seek to overturn the results Pelosi fired back, calling the letter “man- The standoff risks a constitutional crisis, big war in the Mideast and for that he must It could be said that the banking sys- of the 2016 election and deprive the Ameri- ifestly wrong” and describing it as “another with the potential for a court showdown just get some credit. He has, for one thing, tem reform requires some changes or can people of the president they have freely unlawful attempt to hide the facts.” as the U.S. gears up for the 2020 election. stuffed John Bolton, and now Bolton in amendments in the banking strategy of a revenge move may be attempting to get the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), which is Trump in deeper straits over the matter the major governing body of the country of trying to deck Joe Biden with regard to in monetary sector.