Endless Suffering in Yemen Europe’S Crisis in 2018 by Ramin Hossein Abadian Tantly ‘Cluster Bombs’
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
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.13028 Saturday JANUARY 20, 2018 Dey 30, 1396 Jumada Al Awwal 2, 1439 Nasrallah: IAU plans to Iran beat Uzbekistan at Farhad Hassanzadeh Security impossible establish universities Asian Men’s Handball nominated for Hans without martyrs 3 in Iraq, Syria 12 Championships 15 Christian Andersen Award 16 Haniyeh writes to Leader to praise Iran’s stance on Quds POLITICS Ismail Haniyeh, head as the capital of Israel and ordered the Endless suffering desk of the political bureau relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Aviv to al-Quds. Movement (Hamas), on Thursday sent “All the enduring people of Palestine a letter to Leader of the Islamic Rev- appreciate the Islamic Republic’s stand- olution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khame- ing and worthy positions in regards to nei praising Iran’s stance on al-Quds Palestine, Quds, and support of the Pal- in Yemen (Jerusalem). estinian people’s resistance with different See page 7 On December 6 U.S. President Donald types of aid,” Haniyeh wrote, according Trump declared that he recognizes al-Quds to khamenei.ir. 2 HRW says Trump is ‘disaster’ for human rights U.S. President Donald Trump’s record Brexit, and the United States which was on human rights in his first year in office largely absent from the rights’ landscape. has been a “disaster”, the head of Human “Trump has been a disaster for the Rights Watch said in an interview. human rights movement, in part because Kenneth Roth was speaking ahead of he seems to have this insatiable desire HRW’s annual report launch in Paris, to embrace people who have been able where he said French President Emmanuel to govern without the checks and bal- Macron needed to fill a void with coun- ances of democracy.” Roth said in an tries like Britain, which was distracted by interview. 13 CBI files $4.9b complaint against Deutsche Boerse subsidiary Deutsche Boerse AG said Thursday that Clearstream and Italian bank Banca UBAE Iran’s Bank Markazi has filed a complaint SpA at a court in Luxembourg, where the against the German stock-exchange op- subsidiary is based, Deutsche Boerse said. erator’s subsidiary Clearstream, seeking The complaint seeks restitution for restitution of assets worth about $4.9 the Iranian bank’s assets, which are al- billion. legedly held on accounts of UBAE and The Iranian central bank filed the com- Bank Markazi with Clearstream and total AFP plaint against post-trade services provider around $4.9 billion plus interest. 4 ARTICLE Turkey: Operation in Syria’s Afrin has started ‘de facto’ ARTICLE By Martin Love BY staff & agencies Hulusi Akar traveled to Moscow for negotiations. Cavusoglu had earlier said the planned Syria By Maryam Qarehgozlou Political analyst from Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli says no Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Akar’s operation may expand beyond Afrin to the nearby Tehran Times journalist North Carolina troops have gone into Syria’s Kurdish-controlled trip was part of boarder efforts by Ankara to co- city of Manbij. Washington angered Ankara Afrin region but the operation has started “de ordinate the campaign with Russia. earlier this week when it announced a plan facto” with cross-border shelling. He said the presence of Russian observers to work with U.S.-backed militants of the so- Ibn Khaldun’s Canikli said in an interview with broadcast- in Afrin was an issue that has to be discussed called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to set Air pollution: not er AHaber Friday that Turkey was developing ahead of the operation. up a new 30,000-strong “border security” force insight centuries weapons systems against anti-tank missiles used “When we carry out an intervention, we need near the Turkish border. this again by U.S.-backed YPG militants. to coordinate on this, it should not impact the The force would operate along the Turkish ago applies today He said the planned military operations in Russian observers,” said Cavusoglu, adding that border with Iraq and within Syria along the Eu- ou wake up in the morning and set the northwestern Syrian region should be carried the coordination will also cover the situation in phrates River. for another working day. You may r. Franz Rosenthal, was a Jewish out with no delay to purge the territories of what Idlib, a militant-controlled region northwest of Cavusoglu further reiterated Turkish con- take a quick shower, have a breakfast, he called terrorist elements. Syria where Turkey backs an array of anti-Da- cerns over Kurdish militant activities near its Y man and scholar of great wisdom get dressed and head out. D and repute. I happened to take a Amid its rising tensions with the U.S., Turkey mascus groups. borders and said, “Our response to this is our Once you step out of the house you feel couple classes of his at Yale University said Thursday it would seek Russia’s approval “We are meeting the Russians and Iran on the legitimate right to retaliate. We told the United a strong urge to fill your lungs with some in the U.S. in the early 1970s. Though for the operation as the country’s Chief of Staff use of air space,” the top Turkish diplomat added. States this.” 13 fresh air… don’t, it will kill you, maybe deceased now, he was the top Western not right now, but wait, it will. scholar of Islam, Islamic history and According to World Health Or- Semitic languages in his day, and also Killing the Iran nuclear deal will be bad for the U.S. ganization (WHO) more 90 percent one lucky Jew who as a young man By Seyed Hossein Mousavian In the event that Congress or American allies International Atomic Energy Agency’s “Addi- of the population lives in places with before World War 2 managed to exit higher pollution than what’s consid- After months of threatening to undo the Iran in Europe fail to support the so-called supple- tional Protocol” safeguards. As noted by more Nazi Germany, but many of his elder ered healthy. nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Compre- mental agreement, Trump proclaimed, he would than 90 nuclear scientists in an October 2017 relatives who never escaped in the As estimated by Ecology Global Net- hensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Donald Trump unilaterally “terminate” the JCPOA. This is a letter supporting the JCPOA, these represent the 1930s died. work some 55 million die every year once again opted to extend the deal by waiving shocking attitude towards the European Union “strongest set of generally applicable safeguards Rosenthal knew what caused the rise worldwide. And again WHO estimates economic sanctions on Iran. This was the “last member countries, among others. implemented by the IAEA.” and fall of Islamic (or most any) polity. that 4.6 million people die each year chance,” he declared in a Jan. 12 statement, “to The reality is that the JCPOA’s text stipulates Trump’s conditions seemingly seek to make He was a translator in to English, for from causes directly attributable to air either fix the deal’s disastrous flaws, or the United the highest standards on nuclear transparency permanent the JCPOA’s major restrictions on one thing, of Ibn Khaldun’s magnifi- pollution. Worldwide more deaths per States will withdraw.” and inspections ever negotiated and provides Iran’s nuclear program and connect the Iranian cent and groundbreaking 14th century year are linked to air pollution than to The U.S. president provided four conditions verifiable assurances that Iran’s nuclear program nuclear program to its missile program, despite historical theories about the rise and automobile accidents. for a “supplemental agreement” to the JCPOA and cannot be diverted towards developing nuclear the opposition of other world powers to any re- fall of political dynasties summarized The number could be higher or lower, called on Congress to ordain them into law. These weapons. These measures already meet the first negotiation of the deal and the conditions repre- in the famous work called the “Muqa- and no one can easily claim that their include: Iran allowing “immediate” inspections of two of Trump’s conditions and surpass anything senting an egregious violation of the NPT. Indeed, ddimah”. Rosenthal laid out Islamic loved ones are directly died of air pol- “all sites requested by international inspectors,” agreed to by a member of the nuclear non-pro- Iran has a sovereign right to enrich uranium for history and Islam itself for his students lution, deaths can be ‘linked’ to air Iran never coming “close to possessing a nuclear liferation treaty (NPT). peaceful purposes under the treaty, which states at Yale in great detail, and lovingly. pollution. weapon,” that there be “no expiration date” for Furthermore, while the JCPOA’s major re- that there should be no discrimination in the right He considered Islam, as Muslims do, In Iran around 33,000 people die these provisions, and finally, that the legislation strictions are temporary, with expiration dates of signatories to benefit from peaceful nuclear the “final” revelation of the monothe- each year because they are exposed to explicitly state that Iran’s “long-range missile ranging from eight to 25 years, after the deal technologies and in no way limits states’ abilities istic tradition earlier established by unhealthy environment. In Tehran, the and nuclear weapons programs are inseparable.” expires, Iran returns to monitoring under the to develop conventional weapons.