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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 14 Sport | 21 SEC selects Taxes hiked as Johnson leads 831 universities Greece prepares Australia to for Qataris on to reboot 405-run rout of scholarships. economy. England. MONDAY 20 JULY 2015 • 4 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6497 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 OPINION Vegetable, fruit PM attends first ship ceremony at Hamad Port After the Iran nuclear deal supplies to be he TIran nuclear deal has given hit after fire us more questions than Kilo Market shut over ‘toxic fumes’ answers. Will our fears and Dr Khalid Al-Jaber BY SATISH KANADY shops store soaps, detergents and concerns other chemical agents in large end or escalate further after DOHA: Supply of fruits and quantities. the deal? Will the pact help vegetables in Doha will be hit “Chances of toxic fumes affect- the US and the West to in a big way today as authori- ing the quality of food items are come out of its conflict with ties sealed wholesale outlets very high,” said a witness. the theocratic regime? We and cleared the entire stocks A retail merchant at Kilo Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, Minister of Transport would also like to know if of commodities stored at retail Market said officials, including and Hamad Port Project Steering Committee Chairman H E Jassim Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti and other officials our region is being left alone shops in the Kilo Market, after health experts, arrived at the attend the welcome ceremony for the Zhen Hua 10, one of the largest heavy load carriers in the world, at Hamad to face its many conflicts, several wholesale shops next market shortly after the fire- Port yesterday. Report on page 3 wars and escalating crises. to the market were gutted in a fighters controlled the blaze. Is the Iranian regime going major fire yesterday. They sealed wholesale outlets to change overnight, forget- Kilo Market and the neigh- and removed entire stocks from ting all its practices and poli- bouring wholesale outlets retail outlets. cies of over 30 years to raise meet an estimated 90 percent Nearly half a dozen truckloads a white flag and send pigeons of Qatar’s fruit and vegetable of ‘contaminated’ vegetables and Iran N-deal sent to US Congress of peace to the neighbouring demand. fruits were removed from the countries? Sources told this daily market, after crushing them in WASHINGTON: The US State economic sanctions. Netanyahu on the Sunday morn- Shortly after signing the that health authorities at the public, sources said. Department yesterday trans- But critics, including Israeli ing US talk shows, Secretary of nuclear pact, the supreme Ministry of Municipal Affairs “Fruit and vegetable sup- ferred to lawmakers the complex Prime Minister Benjamin State John Kerry and Energy leader, Ali Khamenei, said and Urban Planning have also ply is certainly going to be hit, text of an Iran nuclear deal, fir- Netanyahu, say it still gives Secretary Ernest Moniz defended that “this will not change closed down another market at least for the next two days. ing the starting gun on what is Tehran ample chance to cheat the accord they helped negotiate. our country’s policy to con- nearby, leaving consumers to With two major markets closing set to be a bitter Congress battle. and find a covert way to arm itself “We’d love to see the Congress front the US administra- depend on the market in Abu down, consumers will be forced Top US administration officials with a nuclear bomb. listen carefully,” Kerry said on tion’s arrogance, and our Hamour. to depend on the only market are girding for a fight with the “This regime has just received CBS, as he prepares to face a support to our friends in the According to sources, officials in Abu Hamour,” said another Republican-controlled Congress, the dream deal,” Netanyahu said Senate panel on Thursday. region, including the peoples from the ministry sealed over retail vendor, who didn’t want which, while it cannot modify the on CBS’s “Face the Nation”. “We’re going to do our utmost of Palestine, Syria, Yemen, 20 wholesale and more than 130 to disclose his name. terms of the historic deal, can The deal, hammered out with to persuade people,” he added, Iraq and Bahrain”. Does this retail outlets at Kilo Market Regular customers of Kilo vote to approve or disapprove Tehran and six world powers over insisting that “the deal will mean that after the lifting of shortly after firefighters doused Market include labour camps, the accord. almost two years, “may block or stand ultimately on the fact that sanctions and the release of the blaze that ravaged nearly a supermarkets, eateries, cafete- “Day One of the 60-day review delay Iran’s path to one or two there’s unprecedented inspection, frozen billions, Iran will buy dozen wholesale shops. rias and wedding halls. period begins tomorrow, Monday, bombs for the next few years, unprecedented access, unprec- weapons and equipment to Witnesses said thick smoke As directed by authorities, July 20,” State Department assuming they don’t cheat, but edented restraint in their pro- re-export them to its allies from the site had enveloped the retailers washed their outlets spokesman John Kirby said, after paves their way to many, many gramme, which they’ve agreed to.” in the region? At the same vegetable market for hours. and kept the space clean and revealing the bureau had “trans- bombs after a decade or so,” he Kerry warned on CNN’s “State time, GCC states, Israel and Officials suspected the smoke tidy last night. mitted to Congress the Joint added. He insisted on ABC’s “This of the Nation” that the “real Turkey will arm themselves emanated from grocery shops They expect authorities will let Comprehensive Plan of Action, its Week” that it was “a bad deal” fear” of the Middle East “should more, bringing a new phase was toxic and did not rule out them resume business tomorrow. annexes and related materials.” and said he would tell visiting US be that you don’t have the deal. in hostilities that can result the possibility of vegetables and A wholesale dealer said Under the July 14 agreement, Defence Secretary Ash Carter If Congress doesn’t pass this, if in a redrawing of the map and fruits getting contaminated and authorities had asked traders Iran has agreed to dismantle that Washington and the other Congress were to kill this, then borders after the Sykes-Picot. becoming unfit for consumption. to meet officials at Kilo Market or mothball much of its nuclear powers should “hold out for a bet- we have no inspections, we have Continued on page 3 “We heard frequent explo- today. industry in return for an eas- ter deal.” no sanctions, we have no ability sions at the site. Most grocery THE PENINSULA ing and eventual lifting of biting In duelling appearances with to negotiate.” AGENCIES BBC could be Eid: Hospitals receive part-funded by 1,469 new cases subscriptions DOHA: Hamad Medical two fire incidents in Abu Hamour LONDON: The BBC could be Corporation (HMC) hospitals and in Industrial Area. In both part-funded by subscriptions on received 1,469 patients on the cases, people sustained minor top of a licence fee in the future, third day of Eid, up by 200 from injuries and were treated. the culture secretary has said, the first day. Air Ambulance responded stressing that every option A total of 531 patients were to six cases, said Hussain would be open to discussion in treated at Hamad General Mohamed Kharmous, Assistant the government’s forthcoming Hospital (HGH) and 438 at Al Director, Ambulances Services, review of the corporation. Wakrah Hospital, mainly for HMC. Ambulance Service also John Whittingdale said such a injuries caused by road accidents, responded to 12 cases in Sealine, funding model could not be intro- chest pains and stomach disor- and transferred three cases of duced at present because there ders, including indigestion, Al injuries to HGH. Ambulance were no mechanisms to switch off Sharq reports. Al Wakrah Hospital Service has deployed four emer- certain BBC channels to people admitted 15 for further treatment gency response units in the area, who had not subscribed to them. and one at the intensive care unit with two SUVs to reach patients He told a BBC show: “It may due to a cardiac problem. fast. It has also provided 13 bicy- come in time and, at that time, Dr Nasser Huweidi, a consult- cles in crowded areas to provide it is possible that we could adopt ant at emergency department, first aid in case of an emergency. a part-funded by a compulsory said 30 cases were into various In Al Shamal, Ambulance fee and part-funded by subscrip- sections of HGH. Majority of Service received many calls and tion [system], but we’re not there patients were treated for prob- transferred one patient to Al yet. But we think it’s right that, lems related to overeating and Khor Hospital. Smoke billowing from a fire that broke out at Kilo Market in Wholesale Market in Abu Hamour yesterday. ABDUL BASIT at least, we should begin to think stomach disorders. Emergency service units about that question and whether Ambulance Service responded are also deployed at Hamad or not that’s a direction we may to 515 calls, mostly from Doha International Airport, Katara Abu Hamour fire damages about 12 shops wish to move in 10 years’ time.” area.