WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13415 Wednesday JUNE 19, 2019 Khordad 29, 1398 Shawwal 15, 1440 Today’s war is ‘battle Deal of century Pejman Montazeri Swedish author Asa of wills’ is ‘illegitimate’ announces retirement Lind to meet her Persian 2 2 form Iran duty 15 readers in Tehran 16 Iran, Russia ink 8 co-op MOUs Sovereignty of countries TEHRAN —Iran and Russia signed eight dakanian and his Russian counterpart memorandums of understanding (MOUs) Alexander Novak, Mehr news agency in the last day of the 15th Iran-Russia Joint reported. Economic Committee meeting which was Other signed documents include wrapped up on Tuesday in Isfahan. the concluding statements of the third In the closing ceremony, the final doc- Iran-Russia joint provincial cooperation targeted by U.S. ument of the two countries’ 15th Joint working group, the 10th joint transporta- Economic Committee meeting was signed tion working group, the sixth joint water by the Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ar- working group. 4 See page 2 Iran deals heavy blow to U.S. spy network TEHRAN — The Intelligence Ministry The official further said more details says its forces have inflicted a “heavy blow” of the new attack on the hostile network on the United States by disbanding two will be released in the near future. sophisticated cyber espionage networks In another operation in recent months, affiliated with the CIA. Iranian intelligence forces dealt a blow The director general of the Intelligence to a new network of U.S. spies, according Ministry’s counterespionage department to the official. said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic A detailed description of the operations has dealt a severe blow to the American and the evidence of activities of the CIA spies espionage network in the cyber-space, in foreign countries will be published after Tasnim reported. judicial processes, the official said. 3 Muslim Brotherhood brands Morsi’s death ‘murder’ TEHRAN — The Muslim Brotherhood the Brotherhood who was elected pres- said the death of former Egyptian Presi- ident following the ouster of long-time dent Mohammed Morsi was “full-fledged ruler Hosni Mubarak in 2011. He died murder,” and called for a nationwide event suddenly of a heart attack during a court to mark his passing. The group also called appearance on Monday. for mass demonstrations at Egyptian em- In a statement on its website, the Broth- bassies around the world in a statement erhood also called for crowds to gather File photo published to its website. outside Egyptian embassies around the Morsi was a prominent member of world. 13 ARTICLE ARTICLE Yuram Abdullah Weiler By staffRussia and agency urges U.S. to drop Middle East troop plan andto provokestop war,”provoking Ryabkov was citedIran as saying. Martin Love Analyst and journalist Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov If Washington did not want war it had to Political analyst from urged the U.S. on Tuesday to drop “provocative” show it, he said. North Carolina plans to deploy more troops to the Middle East “If that’s really how it is then the U.S. should and to cease actions that looked like a conscious step back from reinforcing its military presence,” Pompeo’s plot: attempt to provoke war with Iran. said Ryabkov. Iran is wisest not to According to Reuters, he told reporters that Pentagon announced on Monday that the U.S. U.S. stages Gulf of Moscow had repeatedly warned Washington and its will send 1,000 additional forces and more mili- damage burgeoning regional allies about the “unthinking and reckless tary resources to the Middle East amid tensions favorable opinion Tonkin revival in pumping up of tensions in an explosive region.” with Iran. “Now what we see are unending and sustained President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday as the current American gov- Gulf of Oman a provocative way. They (these actions) cannot U.S. attempts to crank up political, psychological, that Iran would not wage war against any nation ernment become so sanguine be assessed as anything but a conscious course It is the assessment of the United States economic and yes military pressure on Iran in quite and the Kremlin called for restraint from all sides. Has to assume the American government that Iran is responsible people believe dubious charges that “for the attacks that occurred in the Iran attacked ships near the Straits of Gulf of Oman today.” Hormuz? Well, maybe it has, and the —U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo TEHRAN — A detailed reportsBritain published doing by launched much their of illegal the war killing on Yemen inin March Yemen: It said report the Britain’s biggest arms company American people have become or remain On June 6, 2019 two tankers, one Jap- the Guardian newspaper has shown how Brit- 2015 in an attempt to restore power to a resigned BAE Systems has played an even larger role that blind or ignorant to believe what anese and the other Norwegian, were at- ain is massively contributing to Saudi Arabia’s and fugitive president. in the Saudi-led war on Yemen as it has been the Trump gang tells them. tacked by unknown assailants in the Gulf devastating war on Yemen as it suggests that Rights campaigners have repeatedly criticized subcontracted by London to provide weapons, But at least many Americans are of Oman. The incident occurred less than London is not only supplying the bombs that Britain for its role in helping the killing of civilians maintenance and engineers inside Saudi Arabia. pushing back against one major me- a month after a series of acts of sabotage fall on Yemenis, but it provides the personnel in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world “The Saudi bosses absolutely depend on BAE dium of ill reputation for beating on four tankers, two Saudi, one UAE and and expertise that keep the war going. which has suffered from a major humanitarian Systems ...They couldn’t do it without us,” said war drums, the New York Times. one Norwegian, anchored off the coast of The comprehensive report by Arron Merat crisis as a result of the Saudi-led war. John Deverell, a former British defense attaché And this comes at a time where, if the United Arab Emirates near the port published on Tuesday showed that Britain was According to Press TV, the report by the to Saudi Arabia and Yemen. the U.S. were to launch a military of Fujairah. doing much of the killing in Yemen as the country Guardian showed that it is effectively the United A BAE employee also said recently that if it attack on Iran, it seems that aside The Norwegian tanker, the Front Al- continues to provide Saudi Arabia with everything States and Britain who are leading the massive was not for the British support, the Saudis would from the Saudis, and the UAE and tair, was flying the flag of the Marshall it needs to turn its southern impoverished neigh- onslaught in Yemen as Saudi Arabia contracted have not been able to continue the war on Yemen Israelis, and maybe the Brits, it would Islands and was loaded with ethanol bor into a graveyard. out the vital parts of the war to the two military for a single week. be alone and therefore condemned from Qatar, while the Japanese tanker, “Every day Yemen is hit by British bombs powers from the very beginning of the conflict. “If we weren’t there, in seven to 14 days there widely for doing so. the Kokuka Courageous, was flying the – dropped by British planes that are flown by “Britain does not merely supply weapons for wouldn’t be a jet in the sky,” said the employee Last week the NYT editorial board flag of Panama and was carrying crude British-trained pilots and maintained and pre- this war: it provides the personnel and expertise in an interview with the Channel 4 in early April. published a weak and unsupported oil from the Saudi port of Jubail on the pared inside Saudi Arabia by thousands of British required to keep the war going,” said the report, Reports last year also suggested that Britain piece (with many omissions) about Persian Gulf. The attacks, which occurred contractors,” said Merat in the report. adding that the Royal Air Force personnel have had even sent its troops to Yemen to help Sau- Iran to which almost 500 readers wrote at the time of a high-level visit by Japan’s Tens of thousands of people have been killed been deployed to Saudi Arabia to work as engineers dis in their fight against fighters from the ruling comments before the comments section Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Ayatollah since Saudi Arabia and a number of Arab allies and trainers over the past four years. Houthi Ansarullah movement. at the newspaper was closed. There Khamenei, may have been intended to was not a single response support- embarrass the Islamic Republic or to ive of war on Iran and even of U.S. thwart Japanese efforts towards the efforts to continue pressuring Iran de-escalation of tension. with sanctions. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pom- Granted that the readership of peo was quick to lay the blame on the the NYT does not comprise “average” Islamic Republic of Iran, as was National people but rather the far better edu- Security Adviser and Iranophobe, John cated, and these readers seem to have Bolton, who, following the first series of IRGC Qods Force dropped any illusions that the U.S.