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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 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13303 Sunday JANUARY 13, 2019 Dey 23, 1397 Jumada Al Awwal 6, 1440 Leader urges students New submarine to Iran on New York Times Azmoun nets brace to work on Iran’s total join Navy soon “Places to Go” against Vietnam to send independence 2 2 list for 2019 10 Iran to Round of 16 15 Polish meeting means opponents have lost Iran case: Shamkhani Mosaic by Farmanfarmaian POLITICS TEHRAN — Ali in reaction to reports that Poland is going deskShamkhani, secre- to host an anti-Iran summit next month. tary of Iran’s Supreme National Security U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Council, says for enemies looking forward told Fox News in an interview aired on to an anti-Iran summit means that they Friday that Washington will jointly host leads Tehran Auction have lost their case against the country. a global summit focused on Iran and the “Someone who [used to] talk about Middle East next month in Poland. See page 16 strongest sanctions, when they resort to The gathering will take place in Warsaw seminars and congresses it means they have from February 13 to 14, the U.S. State lost the case,” Shamkhani said on Saturday Department said in a statement. 2 Iran home to largest cord blood bank in Middle East HEALTH TEHRAN — Iran blood and immune system related genetic deskhas the largest store diseases, cancers, and blood disorders. of cord blood samples in Middle East According to Dr. Morteza Zarrabi, by having collected 110,000 samples, Iran is now among the top ten contain- announced the Managing Director of ers of hematopoietic stem cells, IRNA Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology. reported on Thursday. A cord blood bank is a facility which Zarrabi added that storing cord blood stores umbilical cord blood for future samples have started in the country since use. Cord blood contains hematopoietic 2005 and currently 400 hospitals are con- stem cells and are currently used to treat tributing to the collection process. 9 Syria shoots downs ‘most of Israeli missiles’ fired towards Damascus Syrian air defenses have managed to de- aggression occurred at 11:15 p.m. stroy most of the missiles fired by Israeli local time on Friday, adding, “Eight Asghar Khamseh warplanes toward the capital Damascus, enemy targets spotted in the skies of Syrian state media say. Damascus exploded.” “The results of the aggression so far According to the military source, the were limited to a strike on one of the ware- Syrian air defenses were “immediately” houses at Damascus airport,” the country’s engaged overnight after a number of Is- SANA news agency reported, quoting an raeli fighter jets came “from the direction Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ unnamed military source as saying. of the Galilee (and) fired several missiles Untitled mirror mosaic by Monir Farmanfarmaian was the first top seller, fetching over $950,000, at the 10th Tehran Auction. The source further said that the towards the vicinity of Damascus.” 13 PERSPECTIVE Not all EU members favor SPV: Shireen Hunter ARTICLE M.A.Saki the agreement,” Hunter tells the Tehran Times. commercial dealings between Iran and Europe Mahdi Pourhasani Deputy editor-in-chief EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Journalist By Javad Heirannia She adds that “I think Iran relied too much would not be easy. American opposition is one on Federica Mogherini’s assurances, but her element in this picture. In general, bypassing TEHRAN — Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a pro- influence is limited.” the established global channels of commer- fessor of political science at Georgetown Uni- Following is the text the interview: cial and financial exchanges is not easy even EU credibility at versity, tells the Tehran Times that “It was clear Due to U.S. is opposed to the financial with the best of intentions. Meanwhile, not Quantum from the beginning that establishing a special mechanism between Europe and Iran and pushes all EU members favor such measures. Many serious stake and separate channel for commercial dealings European countries to prevent the implemen- of them believe that pressure on Iran would computing and between Iran and Europe would not be easy.” tation of the financial channel as called SPV, do lead to desired result in other areas beyond t has repeatedly been said that the “Not all EU members favor such measures. you think this financial mechanism(SPV) will be JCPOA, although they still pay lip service to geopolitics European Union is adamant in its Many of them believe that pressure on Iran implemented between Iran and Europe? the agreement. I think Iran relied too much competition Idetermination to safeguard the 2015 would lead to desired result in other areas be- A: It was clear from the beginning that es- on Federica Mogherini’s assurances, but her nuclear agreement with Iran, officially yond JCPOA, although they still pay lip service to tablishing a special and separate channel for influence is limited. 7 called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of between China and Action (JCPOA). These words of assurance to protect U.S. in cyber space the JCPOA without the United States ‘Gadkari effect’ on growing Iran-India relations have been frequently uttered by the EU, By M K Bhadrakumar has created a series of concentric, alternating ri’s watch resulted in the agreement over a new uantum computing is the area of especially by its chief diplomat Federica TEHRAN — If the ‘Newton Effect’ in physics rings centered at the point of contact between payment mechanism that dispenses with the study that focuses on developing Mogherini. has an equivalent in international diplomacy, the Indian and Iranian economies. use of American dollar in India-Iran economic Qcomputer technology based on In her latest remarks posted on the we can describe what is happening to India-Iran ‘Gadkari’s rings’ around the Chabahar Port transactions. quantum theory. In information and European Council on Foreign Relations relations as the ‘Gadkari Effect’. in the remote province of Sistan-Baluchistan in Prime facie, it was a riposte to the use of communication technology it more fo- website, Mogherini said, “We Europeans Like in the case of the 18th century English southeastern Iran are phenomenally transforming sanctions (‘weaponization of dollar’) as a cuses on the speed of computers. Quantum cannot accept that a foreign power – even scientist Isaac Newton’s optical property of phys- the India-Iran relationship. foreign policy tool to interfere in Iran’s oil computing could make opportunities to our closest friend and ally – makes de- ics, the minister in the Indian government Nitin The first definitive signs of this appeared in trade with third countries such as India. (See advanced interests in cyberspace and out cisions over our legitimate trade with Gadkari – arguably, by far the best performing December when the quiet, intense discussions my blog India sequesters Iran ties from US of cyberspace. another country.” colleague of Prime Minister Narendra Modi – between New Delhi and Tehran under Gadka- predatory strike.) 6 In Digital area this technology has been Europeans were promising to present well-documented in machine learning, their own mechanism, the so-called special cryptography and Internet of thing, Big purpose vehicle (SPV) by the start of 2019 ‘Level of mass-rigging in Bangladesh polls unprecedented in history of the country’ data and in out of cyberspace this tech- nology has a positive effect in emerging to circumvent the Trump administration’s By Syed Zafar Mehdi election results as “farcical”, amid clashes between In an interview to Tehran Times, Bang- sanctions against Iran. technology like Artificial intelligence and TEHRAN — Last week, Bangladesh Prime Minister rival supporters that killed at least 17 people. ladeshi blogger and human rights activ- transport section, for this reason IT com- As a journalist I don’t know what Euro- Sheikh Hasina retained power with a landslide Following the announcement of results, ist Pinaki Bhattacharya, said the level of peans, especially the E3 – Germany, France, panies in USA such as Google, IBM, INTEL victory in general elections that were marred by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights mass-rigging is perhaps unprecedented in and in China companies like Alibaba and and Britain which are signatory the JCPOA incidents of violence and allegations of rigging. (UNHCR) urged the Bangladesh authorities the history of the country. He said the irreg- – are still doing, but one thing is clear: the Baidu are focusing on developing these The main opposition Bangladesh National “to carry out prompt, independent, impartial ularities in this case must be investigated technologies In 2018. Iranian people are losing their confidence Party (BNP) led by Khaleda Zia slammed the and effective investigations”. by an independent body. 6 of Europe and think that Europe either has Google has quantum machines can run no power or will to withstand the U.S. illegal some algorithms 100 million times faster demands to do business with Iran. than conventional processors. In out of cy- EU officials say that the SPV is a com- berspace volks wagon is working on quantum computing powered traffic management plicated mechanism to prepare. However, Volunteer system that helps to predict traffic pattern, eight months have passed since Trump This technology will be able to simulate large has withdrawn the U.S. from the UN-en- doctors chemical reactions, leading to new materials dorsed nuclear agreement and declared and medicines, First quantum computers the reimposition of sanctions against Iran. dispatched to have already been developed and sold by Some argue that protests in France, a the Canadian company D-Wave.