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IRGC, Army Denounce U.S. Sanctions on Zarif 3 Saudi Mercenaries Killed As Yemeni Missiles Hit Najran 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.13452 Saturday AUGUST 3, 2019 Mordad 12, 1398 Dhul Hijjah 1, 1440 Jihadi discourse should White House Iran freestyle team Donald Trump to become the public wobbling in runners-up at appear in Iranian discourse 2 political chaos 2 Cadet World 15 musical “City of Cats” 16 Development projects worth $2.38b See page 2 come on stream TEHRAN — Some 518 development culture and mining projects. projects worth over 100 trillion rials Development of Tabriz Refinery (about $2.38 billion) were inaugurated One of the major projects which was during President Rouhani’s visit to East inaugurated during the president’s visit to Azarbaijan Province on Thursday. the province was the development project As reported by IRNA, the inaugurat- of Tabriz Refinery in which the refinery’s ed projects include four major power gasoline and gasoil quality were upgraded plant, water and dam projects as well to Euro 5 and production units for base as 370 construction and infrastructure and lubricating oils were added to the projects plus several economic, agri- refinery complex. 4 Tehran, Abu Dhabi sign MOU on maritime security cooperation TEHRAN — The United Arab Emirates mad Ali Mosleh al-Ahbabi. and Iran on Thursday signed a mem- This was the first time in six years when orandum of understanding (MOU) to senior officials from Iran and the UAE met enhance maritime border security co- in the Iranian capital to discuss ways of operation. boosting maritime security. The document was signed during a Following the meeting, the Iranian meeting in Tehran by the commander border police chief said the document of Iran’s Border Police Brigadier General was designed to boost border cooperation Qassem Rezaie and the UAE Coastguard and interaction between the two Persian Sanctions on Commander Brigadier General Moham- Gulf states. 2 U.S. formally abandons INF, Moscow announces missile treaty’s demise TEHRAN — The United States has of- “With the full support of our NATO ficially withdrawn from the Intermedi- allies, the United States has determined Mohammadreza Abbasi diplomacy ate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Russia to be in material breach of the blaming Russia for the Cold War-era treaty, and has subsequently suspend- IRGC, Army denounce U.S. sanctions on Zarif 3 treaty’s collapse. ed our obligations under the treaty,” “Russia is solely responsible for the he said. treaty’s demise,” Secretary of State Mike Following the U.S. announcement, Pompeo said in a statement on Friday, Moscow also declared the formal end of Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ announcing Washington’s withdrawal. the arms control treaty. 13 PERSPECTIVE Belgian globetrotters share us their new perception of Iran ARTICLE M.A.Saki By Afshin Majlesi, Mehdi Sepahvand The couple also showed us various parts are so friendly. And at that time we said we Somayyeh Khomarbaqi Deputy editor-in-chief TEHRAN — Last Monday, a Belgian couple, of their camper van, which was like a well- definitely want to go [come] back and then Mehr News Agency who are on an overland journey to China, paid made miniature home equipped with almost maybe all the different countries around Iran, journalist a visit to The Tehran Times, where they let us everything including a bed, a dining table, maybe they’re beautiful too. And European share their views, experiences and feelings about chairs, a stove, sets of closets, cabinets, a toilet, people usually don’t get to see them so that’s Zarif’s intelligence Iran in a cozy chat with the daily. a shower, a sink, electronic equipment and why we decided to go on a trip along the Silk The scenarios ahead Ciara Reid and Lennart Gheysens in particular other amenities! There were powerful solar Road so it was really our trip in Iran in 2016 cannot be noted that the hospitality of Iranian people was panels to charge the batteries that powered that sparked the idea of our current trip. of the Deal of the beyond their expectations, saying “One of the their moving home. Please tell us more about the itinerary of sanctioned reasons that we love Iran so much is the hospi- The transcript of the interview is given below: your trip. Century tality and kindness of the people.” Is this the first time you’re visiting Iran? Lennart: We drove from Belgium quite fast n line with its “maximum pressure” cam- he fate of the deal of the century “I think that is what a lot of other nationali- Lennart: No, the second time. We visited through all the European countries like the Neth- paign against Iran, the U.S. on Wednesday is unknown as the deal continuous ties can take as an example and learn from it,” in 2016 and that was only Iran that we visited erlands, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and imposed sanctions on Foreign Minister running into problems. The West I Ciara said. [during that trip]. Bosnia because we want to focus on the Caucasus T Mohammad Javad Zarif. struggles with new plans to put the deal When it came to driving in Iran, Lennart, Ciara: We visited Iran in 2016 in a trip that region and then central Asia. We drove from While the Trump administration claims into operation, but these plans can be however, didn’t give a good score, saying he had was recommended by a friend of ours. And Croatia to Albania, Montenegro, and then Greece it is seeking diplomacy with Iran, sanction- easily derailed if the right strategies are heard that Georgian people had earned a bad when we were here we really fell in love with to Turkey, where actually the real trip started for ing Zarif is closing the door to diplomacy. adopted. reputation for driving carelessly, but he thinks the country. We never had that [experience] us. We started to take things slower. So we are It is pure hypocrisy. The action is being The deal, initially proposed by the that the situation is even worse in Iran! before. Everything is so beautiful and people driving from Belgium to China. 10 opposed by France, Britain and Germany, United States President Donald Trump three Washington’s allies which are party and his allies, targets the conflict between to the 2015 nuclear deal. Dianne Feinstein, Palestine and the Zionist regimes, but a California Democratic senator, has also instead of solving the problem, it aims criticized the move, saying, “This doesn’t Saudi mercenaries killed as Yemeni missiles hit Najran to delete it by trying to remove Palestine move us closer to peace, it further escalates Several Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen’s a number of Saudi-paid militiamen killed and camp in Aden altogether. The deal was first suggested an already tense situation.” former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, have injured. Meanwhile, Yemeni armed forces have around a year ago, but to the Washing- Trump and his Iran hawks such as John been killed when Yemeni army forces and their Earlier in the day, scores of Saudi mercenaries launched missile and drone attacks on a camp ton’s surprise, it has not yet come to any Bolton and Mike Pompeo are envious of allies launched a missile strike against their camps were killed and injured when Yemeni troopers of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to the coun- conclusion. Zarif’s competence in exposing the illegal in Saudi Arabia’s southern province of Najran. and fighters from allied Popular Committees try’s ex-government in the port city of Aden, The deal has been designed based on moves of the U.S. against Iran. They are The media bureau of the Houthi Ansarul- struck their positions in Moraba’a al-Shaja’a killing dozens of them, including a commander. Trump’s business outlook to everything angry that Zarif, a professor of international lah movement announced in a statement that area of the same Saudi region. The Yemeni forces — led by the Houthi An- and seeks to solve the issue by luring in law, has succeeded to isolate the hardliners Yemeni missile defense units fired five domes- Separately, Yemeni forces and their allies sarullah movement — said they hit the Jala’a the Palestinians with offering economic in Washington through his logic. tically-manufactured Zelzal-1 (Earthquake-1) launched a barrage of artillery rounds at the camp west of the city while the mercenaries were rewards. In fact, the deal has regard- Zarif dropped the bombshell when in missiles and artillery rounds at positions of strongholds of Saudi mercenaries in the Qa’atabah holding a military parade on Thursday, Yemen’s ed one of the most important issues in an interview with the Fox News on April Saudi mercenaries in al-Sadis area of the region, district of the southern Yemeni province of Dhale, al-Masirah TV reported. the world as a commodity that can be 27 he publicly revealed that the B-Team, located 844 kilometers (524 miles) south of leaving a number of the Riyadh-backed militia- They said a Qasef K2 (Striker K2) drone and traded and has paid no attention to the including Bolton and bibi Netanyahu, are the Saudi capital Riyadh. men dead and injured. a medium-range ballistic missile were used in humanitarian side of the problem and trying to lure Trump into a war with Iran. The statement added that the missiles hit the Dozens of Saudi mercenaries the joint operation with the aim of destroying coming up with a just solution that re- Also, remarks by Zarif that it is the first designated targets with great precision, leaving killed as Yemeni retaliatory attacks hit the enemy forces.
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