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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.13316 Monday JANUARY 28, 2019 Bahman 8, 1397 Jumada Al Awwal 21, 1440 Religious Iran may adopt offensive Carlos Queiroz Book Toon receives enlightenment approach to protect to mark 100th match submissions from 73 should be cherished 2 national interests 2 as Iran coach 15 countries 16 VP: Without Iran, terrorists would have formed govt. in Mideast POLITICS TEHRAN — First swathes of land in Iraq and Syria. Iran deskVice-President Es’haq deterred their rapid advances toward Jahangiri said on Sunday that terrorists Baghdad and the Iraqi Kurdistan. would have formed a government in the “The terrorist groups which sought Middle East region if Iran had not rushed to portray a new and violent image of to confront them. Islam were in the region, especially in The vice president was openly referring Iraq and Syria, and they would have had to the Islamic State (Daesh) which fought a government in the region if Iran had hard to establish a caliphate in parts of not helped and countered them,” he said Syria and Iraq. during remarks at the closing ceremony In 2014, IS militants occupied large of the Farabi International Award. 3 First Iranian accelerator for IVD launched TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — The first used alone or in combination with other deskIranian accelerator for diagnostic goods for in vitro use. In Vitro Diagnostic Device (IVD) was in- An Iranian knowledge-based compa- augurated by a knowledge-based company ny established the accelerator with the during a ceremony on Saturday, Mehr support of vice presidency for science and reported. technology. A medical device is an IVD if it is a The accelerator aims to cover different reagent, calibrator, control material, kit, technologies for manufacturing IVDs as specimen receptacle, software, instrument, well as importing and exporting techno- apparatus, equipment or system, whether logical products and services. 10 Iran, Turkey consider preferential Maduro denounces election trade, bartering to develop trade ECONOMY TEHRAN — Head trade including preferential trade and deskof Iran Chamber of bartering. Commerce, Industries, Mines and In the meeting, ICCIMA Head Gho- Agriculture (ICCIMA) and president lam-Hossein Shafeie and TOBB President call but says ready to talk of the Union of Chambers and Com- Rifat Hisarciklioglu also discussed issues modity Exchanges of Turkey (known and problems in the way of the two coun- See page 13 File photo as TOBB) met on Saturday to discuss tries mutual trade, the portal of ICCIMA various ways of developing bilateral reported. 4 ARTICLE REPORT Hanif Ghaffari Sanctions ‘blessing in disguise’ for Iran to unlock potentials Ramin Hossein Abadian Political analyst By Morteza Rahmani sider its ties with domestic experts to use their ried out surveys on the same projects. Some had Mehr News Agency TEHRAN (MNA) — Months have passed since expertise so as not to let the strategic sector lag even won the bid to start operation, but, the mere journalist U.S. President Donald Trump started his hawkish behind the envisaged production plans. threat of sanctions deterred them from doing game against the Islamic Republic, but Tehran Most recently, subsidiaries of the National business with Iran. Trump is afraid of is still finding ways to sidestep the effects of the Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) signed $6 bil- At the signing ceremony for the deals to boost MBS’s leap towards sanctions and push its plans forward in the oil lion-worth deals with domestic companies to Iranian production capacity, Iran’s Oil Minister the Sanders name and gas sector. develop nine oilfields. Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said, “We wanted to realization of a Trump administration wished to choke off The agreements are part of a wider plan to create projects only for Iranian contractors.” nnouncement of Barnie Sanders’ Iran’s strategic energy sector by scaring off the have 33 projects for enhancing the production The veteran minister said the initiatives would nuclear dream candidacy in the 2020 presidential international investors and customers of Iran’s capacity at Iranian oil and gas fields. generate some $20 billion of revenues to the oil Aelection is the worst possible news oil and gas, however, the pressure seems to have The nine deals are expected to add nearly 90,000 and gas field. he Washington Post recently re- for Donald Trump and his entourage at the opened up new horizons for Iran to unlock own bpd to Iran’s production capacity within the next This could be a positive view, since lean- vealed the existence of the possible White House. Many American analysts potentials in the industry. three years, while the 33 projects are designed to ing on own capabilities could help run bigger Tproduction of ballistic missiles in believe that Sanders could be a serious Keeping production goals grounded raise Iran’s production capacity by 281,000 bpd. projects like that in the South Pars Gas Field’s Saudi Arabia. The newspaper added: rival for Trump in the upcoming presi- Departure of international giants from Iran’s This is while, before the new sanctions went Phase 11, which was abandoned by France’s “Satellite images suggest that Saudi dential election. energy projects has made the Oil Ministry recon- into effect, several international giants had car- Total late last year. 7 Arabia has constructed its first known Three years after fighting a surpris- ballistic missile factory, according to ingly competitive Democratic primary weapons experts and image analysts, a race against Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie development that raises questions about Sanders, the Vermont independent, is the kingdom’s increasing military and making another run for the White House. UN ‘shocked’ at ‘terror’ waged by Israeli settlers nuclear ambitions under its 33-year-old Two sources with direct knowledge of his The United Nations has voiced “shock” at the to terror,” the envoy added. from the Israeli army, “terrorizing the defenseless crown prince.” plans told Yahoo News that Sanders, an “terror” carried out by Israeli settlers that killed a Thirty eight-year-old Hamdi Taleb Na’san residents and wreaking havoc.” The facility is said to be located independent and self-described “demo- Palestinian father of four in the Israeli-occupied was killed and 30 others were wounded after Na’san is the fourth Palestinian killed by Is- at the same remote Al-Watah missile cratic socialist,” plans to announce his West Bank. Israeli “settler volunteer security teams” and raeli violence across the Palestinian territories base about 200 km southwest of Riyadh presidential bid imminently. “Today’s violence in al-Mughayer is shocking regime troops stormed al-Mughayer, located over three days. which houses foreign-bought missiles While Sanders has been considering and unacceptable!” UN Special Coordinator 27 kilometers northeast of the city of Ramallah On Saturday, Israeli forces killed a Pales- in Saudi Arabia’s arsenal. A spokesman a bid for months, one of the sources said for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay in the occupied territories on Sunday. tinian in the city of al-Quds (Jerusalem) after for the Saudi Embassy in Washington he was emboldened by early polls of the Mladenov tweeted on Sunday, referring to a Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post claimed that he reportedly failed to heed their call to stop declined to comment on the nature race that have consistently showed him Palestinian village that was violently stormed the settlers were trying to find the “suspects” his car. of the facility at the missile base. The as one of the top candidates in a crowded by Israeli settlers and where they killed one behind an alleged non-fatal stabbing of an Is- And on Friday, Israeli forces fatally shot a Pentagon, State Department and CIA Democratic primary field. In particular, the Palestinian. raeli hiker, and were joined by the military after Palestinian while targeting stone-throwing also declined to comment. source said Sanders was heartened to see “Israel must put an end to settler violence attacking the village. “suspects” along a central highway in the West Also, the Associated Press said in a numbers indicating he is one of the leading and bring those responsible to justice,” he Hanan Ashrawi, the Palestine Liberation Or- Bank. The military killed another Palestinian report that a military base deep inside candidates among African American and said. “My thoughts and prayers go out to the ganization’s executive committee member, has when they fired at people protesting in favor of Saudi Arabia appears to be testing and Latino voters, two groups he was perceived family of the Palestinian man killed and those called the settler groups “militias” and said they their right to return to their occupied homeland possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles, as struggling with in 2016. injured. All must condemn violence, stand up “raided” al-Mughayer Village under protection in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip. 13 experts and satellite images suggest. Bernie Sanders, the old American This is evidence of the type of weapons senator, continues to oppose U.S. Presi- program it has long criticized Iran for dent Donald Trump. This confrontation possessing. started at the time Trump entered the Farabi History of Saudi Arabia White House (by early 2017). Sanders, in missile program one of his most recent positions against International The Saudi Strategic Missile Force the White House, called for an end to dates to the 1980s, when Prince Khalid Washington’s support for Riyadh in the Award closing bin Sultan — then commander of the Yemeni war. Sanders also condemned ceremony held Air Defense Force — traveled to China Trump’s stance on the murder of Jamal to purchase Dongfeng (DF-3) ballis- Khashoggi.