Turkish Troops Occupy Syria's Afrin
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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 38th year No.13076 Monday MARCH 19, 2018 Esfand 28, 1396 Rajab 1, 1439 Rouhani raises concern I will return to Iran after IRIB launches iFilm 2 Happy New Year with humanitarian Noruz: Marco Octavio to entertain Persian- crisis in Yemen 2 15 speaking nations 16 Rouhani: We won’t make concessions on national interests Turkish troops POLITICS TEHRAN — The stability in the region as an important deskIranian president has goal and we hope to gain good success underlined his country’s determination in establishing stability and security in to continue efforts to establish regional the region and our relations with the stability and have constructive interaction world next year,” Hassan Rouhani told with the world, saying the U.S. and its reporters in Tehran on Sunday after a occupy Syria’s Afrin allies are not able to prevent Tehran from cabinet meeting. meeting its national interests. Iran’s next calendar year starts on “We will continue efforts to establish March 21. 2 Iran’s mineral exports up 6% in See page 13 11 months yr/yr ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran of minerals exported in the said time fell deskexported $8.4 billion three percent to 58.099 million tons, IRIB of minerals during the 11-month period news reported on Sunday. ended on February 19, with six percent Iran is one of the top 10 mineral-rich rise from the figure of the same period countries where 68 types of minerals have of time in the previous year, according been identified so far, including the world’s to Iranian Mines and Mining Industries largest deposits of copper, zinc and iron ore, Development and Renovation Organi- which are tempting international inves- zation (IMIDRO). tors after the lifting of West-led sanctions As IMIDRO announced, the weight against the country in January 2016. Putin on track for win in Russia polls INTERNATIONAL Russians voted in a Another term will take him to nearly deskpresidential election on a quarter century in power - a longevity Sunday that was expected to give Vladimir among Kremlin leaders second only to Putin an easy victory, but his opponents Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. alleged officials were compelling people Many voters credit Putin, a 65-year- to come to the polls so that a low turnout old former KGB (Komitet gosudarst- does not tarnish the win. vennoy bezopasnosti/Committee for Opinion polls give Putin, the incumbent, State Security) spy, with standing up support of around 70 percent, or nearly 10 for Russia’s interests in what they view times the backing of his nearest challenger. as a hostile outside world. 13 ARTICLE Deteriorating environment is waiting for the right decisions PERSPECTIVE By Masoud Asadollahi By M.A.Saki Political analyst By Maryam Qarehgozlou hotter than the last, right up until today. If you’re er, but it would be unfair to ignore the role of Deputy editor-in-chief in your teens, almost every year of your life has human interference as well as mismanagement TEHRAN — Did you know if you’re 41 or young- been one of the hottest years ever recorded. 17 and shortsighted policy making in exacerbating er you’ve never experienced a normal climate, of the 18 hottest years on record have occurred the current condition. not even once? This was shared on Years of since 2001. This is just the beginning. What may Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE) is De Mistura sports a Living Dangerously, an American documentary seem “normal” today will soon feel anything but. the main organization in charge of environment End the crazy war television series focusing on global warming, These are #climatefacts share widely. protection by overseeing and supervising other big double standard Instagram page on March 6. In Iran, things are no different than the other bodies and the way they are treating it. on Yemen The last time it was cooler than the 20th cen- parts of the world, the truth is that the climate It may not be wise to hold one single organiza- wo months after the onset of the tury average was in 1976 when Gerald Ford was change is affecting the whole world to different tion guilty of all the environmental predicaments, n March 26, 215, a coalition of Turkish military invasion of the Afrin President of the United States. The first Star Wars extent and in some cases to the extremes. but the organization must be accountable for the Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, Tdistrict in northwestern Syria which movie had just started filming and Steve Jobs However, climate change is most certainly detrimental effects of the flawed policies which are Olaunched a military air campaign has left many Kurds wounded and many had just founded Apple computer in his garage. not the only reason for the looming environmen- endangering human health and the environment. against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. displaced from their towns, villages and If you were born in the 1980’s, you grew up in tal crises in Iran. Water shortage, air pollution, Below is the DOE’s chief answers to some Exactly seven days from now marks farms, all of the sudden Staffan De Mistura, the warmest decade ever recorded. That is until sand and dust storms, wetlands’ drainage, the controversial environmental issues which has three years since the Saudis started Special Envoy of the Secretary-General the 1990’s, where every year was warmer than threatened biodiversity are all to some extent concerned the environmental activists and pounding Yemen. on Syria, has decided to show up but not the 1980’s average. And each decade has been connected to climate change one way or anoth- the public over the past years. 12 The military operation, codenamed to support Syrians, but to back terrorist “Storm of Resolve”, was expected to armed groups in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta. immediately restore the government The Syrian envoy has brought up the New American-Russian conflict: A confrontation beyond Cold War of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi armed group’s request for talks with the which had been toppled by the Houthis. U.S. ally to surrender. Then, the dialogue between and Nuclear Disarmament: to reduce the total Russian forces and his agreement over By Jack Anderson When I saw the films of the Saudi Georgia (U.S.) and Russia began at two levels. On number nuclear devices in existence, ideally withdrawal of Takfiri terrorists from Jab- first air attacks on the Yemenis, I was the surface, were the North Atlantic Treaty Organi- down to zero,” are clear examples of the conflict. hat al-Nusra and the Eastern Ghouta and MODERN DIPLOMACY — The conflict between thinking that these poor people need zation’s (NATO) special moves for expansion to the NATO plays a pivotal role in the recent dispute called on the Syrian government to bow the White House and Grand Kremlin Palace, which economic help not a foreign invasion. East and the adoption of military configurations between the two states. In the summer of 2017, down to the terrorist groups and put a by far is more dangerous and intense than that of Even in peacetime the country faced in the Baltics. However, the underlying agenda NATO troops held a large scale defensive drill, halt to the attacks on the armed groups. the Cold War era, seems to have reached its peak. huge challenges. Before the war only for the U.S. was to bring down Russia’s political “Iron Wolf 2017”, on the border separating Po- What’s pitiful is that De Mistura forgets The 2008 Russo-Georgian War was a clear four percent of the land was arable. It system through its neighbors like Ukraine. land and Lithuania, to deter Russian aggression. the Kurds in Afrin and didn’t call on the instance of Russian military confrontation with faces extreme water shortages. Today, we are witnessing the power strug- In response, Russia conducted Zapad 2017 Turkish army to cease its aggression and one of the allies of the United States. Now after three years, the result of the gle between Russia and the U.S. that has military drills with Belarus in September of invasion of the region. The Russo-Georgian War was a war between war has been nothing but indescribable certain properties. the same year in Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad De Mistura’s double standard and Georgia, Russia and the Russian-backed self-pro- famine, disease, destruction, death, etc. The tension between Moscow and Wash- bordering Poland and Lithuania. It was Rus- discriminatory stance on supporting the claimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The civilian casualties and the suf- ington, as mentioned, is rising, and both states sia’s largest exercise since the Cold War with Eastern Ghouta’s terrorist armed forces Russia and Georgia were both formerly constituent ferings of the entire Yemeni nation more than ever before have been boasting their 12,700 troops in the drills. and turning a blind eye to the Afrin region republics of the Soviet Union. are a testimony to this bitter fact that power to the extent of elimination of the other. In 2017, Russia tested its new hypersonic has to do with the Syrian’s army advances During the battle, Russians troops drew very human life has no value in the Saudi Failed plans such as “Anti-Proliferation: to limit missile, 3M22 Zircon, an anti-ship missile with in the Eastern Ghouta and the liberation close to Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, forcing Mikheil politics.