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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 10,000 Rials 39th year No.13171 Tuesday JULY 31, 2018 Mordad 9, 1397 Dhi Al Qaeda 17, 1439 ‘U.S. not as crazy 23 percent of mobile Alireza Jahanbakhsh Iran, Algeria to co- as going to war app developers in ‘feels good’ at produce film on Algiers’ with Iran’ 2 Iran are women 12 Brighton 15 last Ottoman ruler 16 TSE index hits a new record ECONOMY TEHRAN — Teh- were traded through 124,748 deals in the deskran Stock Exchange stock market. (TSE)’s main index (TEDPIX) gained Also, IFX, the main index of Iran’s 2,903 points to hit the highest-ever re- over-the-counter (OTC) market known cord of 116,756 points on Monday, IRNA also as Iran Fara Bourse (IFB), rose 42 American or reported. points to 1,337 on Monday, as 968 million As reported, 2.083 billion shares worth securities worth 3.519 trillion rials (about 5.44 trillion rials (about $122.2 million) $79.7 million) were traded. 4 See page 7 Jaberi Ansari represents Iran in Arab NATO? Sochi talks on Syria POLITICS TEHRAN — Hossein special envoy for Syria Steffano de Mistura. deskJaberi Ansari, top aide Russia, Iran and Turkey are partici- to Iran’s foreign minister, traveled to So- pating as guarantors to preserve a truce chi, Russia, to represent Tehran in talks in Syria which has been in force since on Syria. December 2016. The talks were also attended by Russia, The meeting counts as a preliminary Turkey, the Syrian government and the session for a next version of the Astana opposition. talks, whose first round took place in Sochi Also present at the meeting was UN in January 2017. UAE too weak to start war against even one Yemeni village: Ansarullah The spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarul- questions about their capability to launch lah (Houthi) movement has dismissed a war against the entire Yemeni people,” the recent belligerent remarks by the Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister television network quoted Mohammed of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Abdul-Salam as saying. Mohammed Gargash, saying Abu He added, “The United States dragged Dhabi is too feeble to fight in a bat- the UAE into the Yemeni quagmire. The tle against the residents of a single ongoing military aggression on Yemen fully village in Yemen let alone the entire exposed the type of relationship between Yemeni nation. a colonial power and one of its pawns. “The Emirati regime is notoriously too This war plainly showed that the Emirati weak to wage an armed assault on a Yem- regime is nothing without the support of Reuters eni village. Therefore, there are serious the U.S.” 13 ARTICLE Forming alliance among PGCC member states is an illusory idea: Entessar A look at the general Syed Zafar Mehdi gional economic and diplomatic ties. the Persian Gulf and beyond. policy of Pakistani Journalist By Payman Yazdani To know more about the issue we reached Considering the differences among these from New Delhi TEHRAN — Professor of political science Entessar Insaf Party says the “Arab world” today is a patchwork of out to Professor Entessar, who is the Chair of Persian Gulf Arab states, to what extent you think By Banafsheh Esmaeili competing countries and forming an enduring Department of Political Science and Criminal these states will be able to form such an alliance? U.S. anti-narcotics alliance among the Arab states of the Persian Justice at the University of South Alabama. A: The Arab world, in general, and the Arab TEHRAN — Imran Khan will make Gulf is an illusory idea concocted by the U.S. Here is the full text of our interview with him: states of the Persian Gulf, in particular, are more major changes in the domestic arena, campaign in The United States is quietly pushing ahead with Why is the U.S. trying to form such an fractious today than they have been in decades. but because the army plays a decisive a bid to create a new security and political alliance alliance? What used to be called the “Arab consensus” does role, it is unlikely that we will see a Afghanistan a big with six Persian Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan A: The United States is manically obsessed not exist today. What is euphemistically referred tangible change in Pakistan’s foreign in part to counter Iran’s expansion in the region. with Iran and is throwing darts in different di- to as the “Arab world” today is a patchwork of policy. disaster The White House wants to see deeper co- rections with the hope of undermining Iran and competing countries. Forming an enduring The Pakistani Election Observation operation between the countries on missile its national security. We have to see the idea of alliance among the Arab states of the Persian Mission has officially announced the he protracted war in Afghanistan has defense, military training, counterterrorism, forming a broad anti-Iran alliance against Tehran Gulf is an illusory idea concocted by the West, results of the four constituencies in the many convoluted dimensions and and other issues such as strengthening re- in the context of Washington’s overall policy in especially the United States. 13 country, according to which the Tehreek- Tneedless to say the foreign invaders e-Insaf (PTI) party led by Imran Khan, have failed in almost every way. Their surpassed other parties and won the 2018 engagement in the war-ravaged country Pakistan election by gaining 115 seats in has only wreaked havoc, brought misery ‘America’s destructive policies in Af-Pak region’ the National Assembly. to the people and emboldened insurgent By Syed Zafar Mehdi dimensions in the ongoing war in my country. should if Washington engages with major regional The Pakistan Muslim League (PML) groups to carry out deadly strikes across TEHRAN — Aimal Faizi is a senior Afghan Any Afghan government in Kabul under the U.S. powers, in particular, Moscow and Tehran. It of Nawaz Sharif, the party with the 63 the country. journalist and political analyst, who served as occupation cannot fix the problem of terrorism is crystal clear that any U.S. effort to eliminate seats of the National Assembly of Paki- More than 17 years after invading the the spokesperson of former Afghan President alone. As regional powers, it is imperative for the Taliban militarily will be of no effect. stan, won second place in the elections, country, the U.S.-led international coa- Hamid Karzai between 2011 and 2014. In this China, Russia, Iran and India to work with The general elections are approaching in and the Pakistan People’s Party, PPP, lition has reluctantly conceded defeat to interview with Tehran Times, he spoke about the Afghans and the international community to Afghanistan but political dynamics have changed led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, won insurgent groups, after miserably failing in security situation in Afghanistan, peace process design a long-term political strategy to address with many powerful political figures defecting and the third place in Pakistan’s election counter-terrorism efforts. Today, security and recent political developments. Following the political dimensions of war and insecurity switching ends. Do you think President Ghani with 42 seats. Thus, the future govern- situation remains volatile, government are the excerpts. in Afghanistan. is in a position to retain power? ment of Pakistan will be in the hands of is in tatters, terrorists strike at will, and The situation in Afghanistan continues Taliban has offered to talk directly with A. The national unity government (NUG) in Imran Khan and the Tehreek-e-Insaf people continue to live in fear. It pret- to deteriorate with alarming rise in civilian the U.S. as they don’t recognize the legitimacy Afghanistan is the product of foreign interference (PTI) party. ty much sums up the horrible legacy of casualties. Do you see this war ending any- of government in Kabul. And according to re- in our national processes such as the last presi- Imran Khan is of Pashtun ethnicity. America in Afghanistan. time soon? ports, there have been secret parleys between dential election. Ashraf Ghani’s government is a He is a politician and former cricketer The much-hyped rebuilding and A. Unfortunately, the war in Afghanistan im- the insurgent group and the U.S. government U.S. design imposed on the Afghan people. It has who was educated in Oxford and his reconstruction projects of the U.S.-led posed by foreigners is not going to end anytime officials recently. Do you think these talks would been unconstitutional and illegitimate and does party also leads a coalition government coalition have also turned into a farce. It soon. Sadly, terrorism has become an enduring work out? not represent Afghanistan. It is a foreign-imposed in north-western province of Khyber has only contributed to destruction and phenomenon in our region and we will all (re- A. The U.S. government has been talking with body based on lies. Therefore, there is no reason Pakhtunkhwa. Thus, outside of the tra- devastation post-2001. gional countries) continue to remain vulnerable. the Taliban since the establishment of their move- to believe that Mr. Ghani will be able to retain ditional circle, family power climbed to One area where the international There are old and new regional and trans-regional ment in early 1990s. Talks can work out and power. 6 the highest levels of power, but he, con- partners of the Afghan government have trary to popular belief, is not a Pashtun particularly been disastrous is counter-nar- nationalist.