‘Iran will follow up Kish Island to Iran-Netherlands Trade Afghan-Iranian joint 2516on rights of Mina 4 host intl. food exhibit and Cultural Center production reprepresents NATION crush victims’ ECONOMY in late Sept. & HERITAGE TOURISM opened ART& CULTURE AAfghanistanfghanistan aatt Oscars WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Iran’s Javanmardi wins gold at shooting 15 16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.12647 Sunday SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 Shahrivar 21, 1395 Dhul Hijjah 9, 1437 Iran is a ‘vital link’ Non-oil on Silk Road: expert Tehran, Moscow ties get decade- export to EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW 5 northern By Javad Heirannia long boost with two nuclear plants countries TEHRAN — Gautam Adhikari, a senior fellow at the Center POLITICS TEHRAN — After a coasts of the Persian Gulf more than one of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corpo- for American Progress in Washington DC, tells the Tehran desksuccessful anti-ter- year after the landmark nuclear deal. ration (Rosatom),” Iranian nuclear chief Times that Iran is “a vital link” on Chia’s new Silk Road initi- stands at $2b rorism synergy, Tehran and Moscow “According to the timetable envis- Ali Akbar Salehi said while attending a ative, also known as “One Belt, One Road” program. on Saturday capped off relations with a aged, the first and second units will groundbreaking ceremony to mark the Under the program, announced by President Xi Jin- ECONOMY decade-long cooperation to construct be constructed respectively over 108 launch of construction of the two new TEHRAN — Iran ping in 2013, China aims to invest in infrastructure projects desk two new nuclear power plants on the and 126 months with the cooperation nuclear power plants. exported $2 billion including railways and power grids in Central, West and of non-oil goods to Russia, Turkey, Southern Asia, as well as Africa and Europe. Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan Adhikari, who also served as a senior consultant of the See page 2 in the past Iranian calendar year World Bank, says Iran’s “strategic location and its capacity (ended on March 19, 2016), Trade to supply oil and gas to China are important reasons why Promotion Organization Director Iran is a key point of the OBOR.” Mojtaba Khosrotaj said on Satur- Following is the full text of the interview: day. China is trying to revive the Silk Road. Why? “In the first four months of the cur- A: The Silk Road project is a key part of China's ambi- rent Iranian calendar year (March 20- tion to make itself a leader in the world. China wants to July 21), Iran’s exports to the named create close ties with Asia, Europe, the Middle East as well countries reached $900 million and as Africa. The Silk Road is really two 'roads'. The Chinese the figure can possibly hit $3 billion by have named the initiative "One Belt, One Road' or OBOR. the yearend,” ISNA quoted Khosrotaj The 'belt' refers to a land route linking China with Europe as saying. through Central Asia and the Middle East and this section According to Iran’s Customs Ad- in a loose sense runs along the lines of the Silk Road of ministration, the country exported medieval times. The 'road' part is actually a maritime route $42.415 billion of non-oil goods in that would extend from China's ports through East Asian the past Iranian calendar year, show- ports, and the Indian Ocean to Africa and southern Eu- ing a 16.11 percent decrease from its ropean nations. TTogether,ogether, ththee iinitiativenitiative preceding year. is called the Silk Roadoad strategy, which Iran had set a target of $77.5 billion aims to make Chinana a ggloballobal power- in non-oil exports for the past year, ac- house. The initiativeve will also pproviderovide cording to Khosrotaj. outlets for surplusus Chinese man- The country is expected to reach ufactured products,cts, like $50 billion worth of non-oil exports steel of which therere iiss a by the end of this calendar year, glut in China, throughough IRNA quoted Valiollah Afkhamirad, large scale infrastruc-ruc- Mohammad Babaei the previous head of TPO as saying ture projects in var-ar- on August 9. ious countries. IRNA/ See page 13 EDITORIAL Ayyubi to give report on cinema to Supreme Leader PERSPECTIVE By Hassan Lasjerdi By Yuram Abdullah Weiler ART Tehran Times editor-in-chief TEHRAN — Cinema are being screened,” he stated. Analyst and journalist deskOrganization of Iran Ayyubi also added that he will be (COI) Director Hojatollah Ayyubi said on sending the report to the Ulema as the Saturday that he is preparing a report respected religious society to say how on Iranian cinema that will be sent to many films with what themes have been What happened to 9/11? Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolu- produced so far and how the tastes of Reclaiming the Hajj: Did the House of Saud get off tion Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. filmgoers have changed over the past Time for true Muslim scot-free from 9/11? He made the remarks in an interview few years. he had with the Persian service of ISNA, “I will also mention the number of management ahead of Iran’s National Day of Cinema, ward his concerns during the past three films produced with the central theme .S. President Barack Obama on Saturday honored the which falls on September 11 this year. years,” Ayyubi said. of religion hope and Sacred Defense nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11 attacks. “Those who have reduced hajj to a U “In this report, which I am planning “I think it is the time to do what I have in the report, since I believe the cine- religious-tourist trip and have hidden In a weekly radio and internet address, Obama to submit to the Leader as the strong long planned to do, that is to present a ma of Iran is a frontrunner against the hailed the bravery of survivors and the emergency personnel their enmity and malevolence towards supporter of Iranian cinema, I will ex- report detailing what films were best- cultural invasion of the West in Iran,” he who responded to the heart- breaking incident, and the work the faithful and revolutionary people plain how this cinema has moved to- sellers and what films with what quality remarked. of others who have worked since to keep the United States 16 of Iran under the name of ‘politicizing safe, saying: The attackers' goal was to frighten Americans hajj’, are themselves small and puny into changing how they live. ‘MKO was expelled from Iraq in disgrace’ satans who tremble for fear of jeopard- He went on say: “Americans will never give in to fear.” izing the interests of the Great Satan, POLITICS TEHRAN — Majed of attacks against the United States the U.S.” “It's our diversity, our welcoming of all talent, our treating deskGhamas, the repre- soldiers stationed in Iran and then it Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei of everybody fairly - no matter their race, gender, ethnicity, or sentative of the Supreme Iraqi Islam- was put on the U.S. State Department faith - that's part of what makes our country great. It's what ic Council in Tehran, has said that the terrorist list. makes us resilient,” said Obama. he Hajj: a symbol of the pride Iraqi nation disgraced the Mojahe- After the 1979 Islamic Revolution and unity of the Muslim Um- As Obama’s term is nearing an end, the 2016 presidential din-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) by ex- in Iran, the group resorted to bomb- T mah. A bold demonstration of race for the White House is getting hot. The two presiden- pelling their remaining members from ings and assassinations. It then sided tial nominees, the Republican and Democratic frontrunners the classlessness and universality of Iraq, Tasnim reported on Saturday. with the Saddam Hussein army the war Islam that has been commandeered Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton talked on how they would The top Iraqi envoy described the against Iran in the 1980s. handle the affairs of the country if they become president. and subsequently mismanaged by the MKO as one of the shadowy groups that “Saddam, as the key sponsor of the Backed by the Saddam regime, the descendants of Wahhabi warlords who 13 sought to launch a new wave of terrorist MKO, was ousted and then the Iraqi gov- MKO launched a military attack on Iran feign Islamic piety while seeking the activities in the region. ernment attempted to expel the terrorist in 1987, one week after UN Resolution favor of the Great Satan and its Zionist He said the MKO must stop their group from Iraq, and today, with the Iraqi 598 brought the war between the Iraq- accomplice, the Little Satan. terrorist activities as they want to enter people’s support, the MKO has been ex- Iran to a halt. Last year’s Hajj confirmed the PERSPECTIVE other countries. pelled from the country,” he added. Iran accuses the group of being re- By Harun Yahya negligent nature and administrative “The MKO reminds Iraqi people of The MKO has existed as an Isla- sponsible for 17,000 deaths. political expert incompetence of the Riyadh regime. very painful memories. This is a mutu- mist-Marxist group in Iran since 1965, Saddam also used the group against To begin with, a construction crane al feeling between Iraqis and Iranians,” when it fought against the former Shias in the south and Kurds in the near the Grand Mosque collapsed Ghamas said.