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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.13556 Tuesday DECEMBER 17, 2019 Azar 26, 1398 Rabi’ Al thani 20, 1441 Tehran criticizes Sanctions are a Maryam Toosi’s Olympic “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha”, Italy’s ban on modern alternate dream faces the U.S. product of Iran’s help: Mahan Air 2 to genocide: Iran 2 immigration hurdle 15 Afghan director 16 Amending constitution possible if See page 3 Article 59 fails to solve problems Armed democracy: TEHRAN — The spokesman for the request to appeal to public votes must Guardian Council said on Sunday that be approved by two-thirds of the entire reviewing and amending the constitution representatives of the Assembly. is possible provided that the constitution Addressing a meeting on constitution itself, including its Article 59, could not review on Sunday night, Abbas Ali Kad- NATO greatest help the country get rid of a probable khoda’ei said, “The review (of constitution) problem. is not an impossible issue but at first we Article 59 states: In considering vital must utilize the entire capacities of the economic, political, social, and cultural constitution, including the Article 59, and issues, it is possible that the legislative if the mentioned article could not solve achievement for Europe power be exercised through referendum the problem we would resort to amending or reference to direct public vote. The the constitution.” 3 EU chief diplomat: Iran has not violated JCPOA TEHRAN — Josep Borrell, the new EU cording to a translation of his remarks foreign policy chief, has said Iran is mov- He noted that the European Union ing within the framework of the JCPOA supports the JCPOA and seek to preserve it. and has not violated it, IRNA reported on “Definitely, preserving the JCPOA Monday. Borrell also said the 2015 nuclear has many benefits for us and it is a deal has benefits for Europe and efforts common foreign policy of the Europe- must be made to preserve it. an Union’s member states. Common “The JCPOA is still alive and we make foreign policy means that the majority efforts to keep it alive,” Borrell said ac- agree with that, 2 Iraq Abdul-Mahdi warns U.S. about weakening of the Iraqi government Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi military official warned last week that in a telephone conversation with the U.S. attacks by Iranian-backed groups on Secretary of Defense warned of weakening bases hosting U.S. forces in Iraq were of the Iraqi government. pushing all sides closer to an uncontrol- U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on lable escalation, NY Times reported. Monday urged Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Rocket strikes targeting Iraqi bases Abdul Mahdi to take steps to prevent bases where members of the U.S.-led coalition housing U.S. troops from being shelled, a are also stationed have increased in past File photo statement from the premier’s office said. weeks with no claim of responsibility from Esper’s call came after a senior U.S. any party. 13 ARTICLE ARTICLE Hana Saada Future Party will attract some voters of AKP: Logoglu Zahra Hadavand Mirzaei Journalist from Algeria By Payman Yazdani toglu’s resignation from the premiership, effective to Dr. Osman Faruk Logoglu, a senior member Journalist TEHRAN (MNA) — Referring to the launching from 22 May 2016. He opposed the latter’s moves of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP). of the new Future Party by Ahmet Davutoglu, to transform Turkey’s form of government from Here is the full text of our interview with him: a senior member of CHP says the new Future a parliamentary to a presidential system. What are the reasons behind their decision Iran eyes strong ties Party will have an impact on AKP as it will attract Davutoglu resigned from the AKP in Sep- to form this party? Sanders’s poll some voters from. tember, claiming it was failing to address the A: The broad reason for the formation of the with Algeria under Turkish former Prime Minister Ahmet Davu- country’s problems. Another former AKP cabinet new party is disaffection with the increasingly growing again toglu and former ally of Turkish President Recep member, Ali Babacan, quit two months earlier authoritarian direction, one-man rule of Presi- new president Tayyip Erdogan has launched a new political party and is expected to announce his own rival party dent Erdogan. Davutoglu calls for participatory anders ‘leading in the Democratic in a challenge to the 17-year rule of Erdogan’s within weeks. democracy and favors a parliamentary system of intra-party election is bad news Tebboune Justice and Development Party (AKP). The Future Party immediately published a government. A more specific reason is the earli- Sfor Donald Trump and Sanders’ Davutoglu, who served as prime minister and list of 154 founding members, which included er impromptu dismissal of Davutoglu as AKP’s opponents in the Democratic Party. The he Iranian Foreign Ministry expressed AKP chairman from 2014 to 2016, announced numerous former AKP officials and affiliates. It chair-person and as Prime Minister. Davutoglu results of recent Democratic camp polls congratulations on the successful on Friday that he was creating Gelecek Partisi or also published a manifesto in which it outlined and Erdogan have exchanged harsh words since have heightened the party’s concern over Tholding of the crucial presidential Future Party, a move dismissed as a non-threat its general political objectives, though without then and in a sense, this is Davutoglu’s answer to Bernie Sanders’ victory in the intra-party election in Algeria, voicing hope that the by the president’s supporters. defining its political ideology. what he regards as unfair treatment by President election race. According to a recent poll by newly-elected president would chart a His conflict with Erdogan culminated in Davu- To know more about this issue, we reached Erdogan. 11 US Berkeley, Bernie Sanders has outpaced new era for the Iranian-Algerian deep- other Democratic candidates in the key ly-rooted ties. state of California. Sanders has been able In a statement on Saturday, Iranian to garner 24 percent of the state’s Dem- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Seyed Ab- Protests in Hudaydah to condemn continued violations of ceasefire ocratic voters in a recent poll, published bas Mousavi dubbed Algeria’s presidential Many districts of Al-Hudaydah province or- attitudes of the sons of the province in facing the by bombing civilians in the districts of Tuhaita, in the Los Angeles Times. After Sanders, election as an important step toward the ganized mass tribal stands to denounce the aggression, their steadfastness, and their sta- Duraihmi, Beit Al-Faqih, Al-Hali, Al-Hawk and Elizabeth Warren won with 22 percent realization of democracy, development continuation of the violations of the ceasefire bility, for nearly 5 years despite the continued kilo Seta’sh (16). of the vote. In September poll released and prosperity in a calm atmosphere. and their disavowal from the implementation aggression and the siege. The protesters denounced the United Nations’ by the institute about two months ago, He offered his congratulation to the of the Sweden Agreement and the continuation Protesters called on the United Nations, human collusion with the aggression and its silence re- Warren won with 29 percent of the vote. president-elect, wishing him every success of the siege on the city of Duraihmi for more rights and legal organizations to take human garding the crimes committed against the Yem- Joe Biden, with 14 percent, is the third- and further advancement and prosperity, than a year. and legal responsibility towards the aggression eni people, especially children and women, as choice for California’s Democrats. The reasserting keenness to promote and en- Sons of al-Meena district organized for a pro- and genocide that the Yemeni people have been well as the aggression forces’ denial of entry to results of the poll are a disaster for Biden hance bilateral relations binding the two test, to denounce the continuation of the viola- subjected to for nearly five years under suspicious ships of oil derivatives and foodstuffs, the ports and to some extent for Warren. Polls show brotherly countries in all fields. tions of the ceasefire, and its disavowal from the international and UN silence. of Al-Hudaydah, despite obtaining permits by that they have largely lost popularity with Iran and Algeria brotherly relations are implementation of the Stockholm Agreement, A statement issued at the vigil, protesters the United Nations. their respective party supporters over the deeply rooted and go back to the 1960s. continuing the siege of Duraihmi district, Yemen condemned the continued aggression in spilling Ansarullah slams Riyadh for past two months. Soon after Algeria’s independence from Press reported. the blood of civilians, destroying their homes, violating Stockholm Agreement Sanders is the first choice of students France in 1962, Iran was among the first In the protest, the acting governor, Mohamed blockading the Yemeni people, preventing the Meanwhile, on Sunday, Yemeni officials re- The story does not end there. According countries to recognize it as an independent Ayash Quhim, and the head of the provincial entry of food and medicine to starve them, and jected reports about secret talks between the to a report published by Newsweek, Bernie nation, opening the Iranian embassy in services committee, Suleiman Halisi, praised the continuing violations of the Stockholm Agreement Ansarullah movement and Saudi Arabia. 13 Sanders has become the first choice of autumn of 1964, in Algiers.