WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13246 Saturday NOVEMBER 3, 2018 Aban 12, 1397 Safar 24, 1440 U.S. won’t reach ‘Tehran-Baghdad Persepolis set to “The Dark Room” political goals through ties not based on make history named best at sanctions 2 tribalism’ 2 against Kashima 15 HANIFF 16 Chronology of Mossad program to kill JCPOA POLITICS TEHRAN — Irani- 5/08: Trump withdraws from the deskan Foreign Minister JCPOA. Trump’s Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif has outlined 6/03: President Rouhani begins state what he calls the chronology of a Mossad visits to Switzerland and Austria; program to kill the 2015 nuclear deal, 6/03: MOSSAD assists in “foiling Ira- known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan nian bomb plot” in France. of Action. 9/26: Trump chairs disastrous anti-Iran “2018 show at UN Security Council. 4/30: Netanyahu claims MOSSAD 9/27: Netanyahu claims MOSSAD “Iran zero oil plan “Iran nuke file discovery”; nuclear site discovery.” 2 Europe should work with Iran to See page 4 counter U.S. unilateralism hits snag By Hassan Rouhani international relations. The world faces a myriad of challenges, We see U.S. complicity in the daily including economic issues, social crises, atrocities in Yemen and in the humiliation the predicament of refugees, xenophobia, and gradual perishing of the great nation terrorism and extremism. of Palestine, which has daily inflamed Europe has not been exempt, and has the emotions of one-and-a-half billion been confronted by these problems al- Muslims. most daily. Over the past two years, U.S. We believe the American government has foreign policy has emerged as a new and explicitly supported criminal groups like Isis, complicated problem, as America creates who value no human principles, exacerbating new challenges on a variety of fronts in the problems of our region. 2 Saudi regime response to peace calls: Heavy bombing of Sana’a The House of Saud regime has respond- The House of Saud regime and the Unit- ed to calls for a ceasefire in its war on ed Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday Yemen with a heavy bombing of the capital massed thousands of additional troops Sana’a with more than 30 airstrikes. near the city which is a gateway to the U.S. reimposes Iran sanctions Yemen’s al-Masirah TV said the air- capital, and the lifeline for imports and strikes early on Friday targeted al-Dulaimi relief supplies into Yemen. Witnesses Air Base in Sana’a and the surrounding in Hudaydah said fighting was heard in 2 areas as the Saudi regime-backed troops areas near the airport and the university, launched new attacks further west in the and Apache helicopters were spotted in File photo lifted under JCPOA country’s main port city of Hudaydah. the sky. 13 EDITORIAL Iran’s joint oil fields could resolve regional tensions REPORT Ramin Hossein Abadian Mohammad Ghaderi By Omid Shokri Kalehsar the South Pars, in the Persian Gulf – the Rouhani was able to produce a mere 130,000 bpd in the Tehran Times editor-in-chief It is common for oil and gas fields to be joint-owned Administration has failed to acquire the capital same period. Iraq also managed to sign agree- Mehr News Agency @ghaderi62 by two or more countries, which often presents and foreign technology needed to compete with, ments with major international oil companies Journalist various challenges. There is a particular fervour let alone acquire an edge over, neighbours in to increase its share from joint fields with Iran. over the need to focus on extracting from such terms of procurements. Iraq revised oil contracts and added new condi- West and Saudi’s fields, with international energy companies often The majority of Iran’s joint oil fields are located tions in order to attract oil companies, offering Probing Erdogan’s invited to vie for generous extraction contracts. on the Iraqi border – Iran shares at least five oil increased benefits in return for technological Petro Dollars Iran shares 26 oil and gas fields with its fields with Iraq. Iraq, for its part, has a seven-year know-how and investment. Iraq’s new contracts threat against Kurds neighbours yet, due to a lack of technological plan to increase oil production capacity and reach are more attractive for oil companies, while the lthough Western countries have and financial investment over the past years, 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd). Its focus has been fields themselves are geologically favourable for amid Khashoggi’s case condemned the murder of Jamal Iran has been unable to extract a competitive on those fields it shares with Iran and, in 2010, procurement. Iraq has a program to increase oil AKhashoggi by Mohammad bin amount of oil from such fields. This has led to the Iraqi government invited Iran to invest in production from joint areas shared with Iran. he east of Euphrates has the larg- Salman, they are simultaneously try- their exploitation by Iran’s neighbours. Studies joint fields with the aim of increasing production Iran has no production capacity in its fields est oil fields in terms of area and ing to cover the unimaginable crime of show that around 20 per cent of Iran’s recognised and developing an equal production capacity. in the Caspian Sea, where it has two oil fields Tproduction. It is about one-third of the Saudis. oil reserves and 30 per cent of its natural gas However, Iran was unable to invest more in shared with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Both Syria’s land and is regarded as the food Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian jour- reserves are in joint fields. these joint fields due to a lack of financial resources. countries plan to increase production from these and economy source of Syria. It accounts nalist and author, entered the Saudi Ara- So far, Iran has only been able to procure During the period in which heavy sanctions were fields and Iran will be not able to attract the foreign for 90% of Syria’s oil and gas revenues and bian consulate in Istanbul on 2 October from ten of these 26 fields. Despite an increase placed on the Iranian energy sector, Iraq produced technology and capital needed to benefit due to more than half of Syria’s wheat and cotton. 2018, but did not leave the building. in productivity in these fields – most notably in 295,000 bpd from joint fields with Iran, yet Iran US sanctions. 7 The east of the Euphrates River in Syria Amid news reports claiming that he had has become the focal point of the parties been killed and dismembered inside, involved in Syria, including Turkey. The an inspection of the consulate, by Sau- Assad scolds Europe as Polish delegation visits Syria area is controlled by Kurdish fighters which Turkey regards as a threat to its national di Arabian and Turkish officials, took Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has urged the interests of their people and contribute to In turn, the Polish delegation headed by MP security. Turkey emphasizes the overcoming place on 15 October. Initially the Saudi European countries to come and take a closer their protection, the official Syrian Arab News (Member of Parliament) Pavel Skutitsky stressed of Kurdish threat, but it knows that this will Arabian government denied the death, look at the developments in his country as their Agency (SANA) reported. that the main purpose of their visit to Syria was lead to a confrontation with the Americans claiming Khashoggi had left the consulate approaches to Syria are totally “divorced from He briefed the Polish delegation on the war, to take a closer look at the latest developments. that Ankara will not be able to withstand. alive, but on 20 October admitted that reality.” which Syrians have been facing for more than They said the war and the achievements made But in this region, apart from the Wash- Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, “One of the biggest mistakes made by many seven years, and explained that the tools of the by Syria against terrorist organizations have con- ington-backed Kurdish fighters and Ameri- claiming he had been strangled to death European countries is separation from reality,” conflict have ranged from terrorism, direct ag- tributed to staving off terrorism that could have can’s forces, there are also Takfiri terrorists after a fight had broken out. This was Assad said in a Thursday meeting with a Polish gression, and economic sanctions to attempts been transported to the neighboring countries (ISIS/Daesh), which have started new moves. later contradicted when, on 25 October, delegation visiting the country. to intervene in the country’s internal affairs and and to Europe later. They also expressed hope Recent speeches by Turkish President Saudi Arabia’s attorney general stated He hailed the European delegation’s visit to imposing isolation and siege. that the Syrian state would fully eradicate ter- Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his last warn- that the murder was premeditated. Damascus and said making such visits to gain The Syrian president also welcomed the Polish rorism and regain control over all of its territory. ing to those who endanger the Turkish Although Western governments tried a closer knowledge is the most important step delegation’s idea of establishing a joint parlia- The European delegation’s visit to Syria border and its security have once again to show that they’re severely against for foreign governments to build a correct and mentary committee and expansion of bilateral came a couple of days after the country strong- shown that Ankara looks to the Kurds in this brutal act by bin Salman, sending realistic policy.