Iran Vows to Confront US After Trump Nixes Strikes
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SHAWWAL 20, 1440 AH SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2019 28 Pages Max 45º Min 32º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17863 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Iran vows to confront US after Trump nixes strikes Trump: Let’s make Iran great again • Tehran executes ‘CIA spy’ • Airlines halt Hormuz flights TEHRAN: Tehran warned Washington yesterday that Op-Ed any attack would see its interests across the Middle East go up in flames after US President Donald Trump said he called off a strike at the 11th hour. The aborted 2019 Trafficking military action was to have been in response to Iran’s downing of a US reconnaissance drone, which has seen tensions between the two countries soar after a series in Persons Report of attacks on oil tankers the US has blamed on Iran. “Firing one bullet towards Iran will set fire to the interests of America and its allies” in the region, armed forces general staff spokesman Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi told the Tasnim news agency. “If the enemy - especially America and its allies in the region - make the military mistake of shooting the powder keg on which America’s interests lie, the region will be set By Lawrence Silverman, on fire,” Shekarchi warned. US Ambassador to Kuwait Hours after his comments, Iran said it had executed a man convicted of spying for the US. “The execution SEE PAGE 5 FOR FULL REPORT ON KUWAIT sentence was carried out for Jalal Haji Zavar, a contrac- tor for the defense ministry’s aerospace organization arlier this week, Kuwait and the international who spied for the CIA and the American government,” community marked International Domestic semi-official ISNA news agency reported, quoting the EWorkers’ Day, recognizing the important Iranian military. contributions domestic workers make to the lives The United States was “cocked & loaded” to strike of millions of families worldwide. The violence and Iran late Thursday, US President Donald Trump said abuse domestic workers and other vulnerable peo- while announcing he had pulled back at the last minute ple suffer at the hands of some human traffickers as it would not have been a “proportionate” response TEHRAN: General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Iran’s Head of the Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace division, looks at debris are painful reminders that nations must act to elim- to Tehran’s shooting down of an unmanned drone. from a downed US drone reportedly recovered within Iran’s territorial waters and put on display by the inate human trafficking and guarantee safe and Continued on Page 24 Revolutionary Guard in the capital on Friday. — AFP humane working conditions for all. Each year the United States Department of State issues its Trafficking in Persons Report as The paper said late Friday Johnson’s partner Carrie part of a worldwide effort to eliminate trafficking. Johnson domestic Symonds could be heard telling the former London This year’s report, released on June 20, reflects the mayor to “get off me” and “get out of my flat”. London’s US government’s commitment to leadership on this Metropolitan Police said it responded to a call from a issue and the government of Kuwait’s increasing ‘row’ rocks UK local resident but that “all occupants of the address... effort to fight this scourge. As a humanitarian were all safe and well”. Johnson, who is the runaway leader, Kuwait has made important strides to pre- leadership race favorite to beat Jeremy Hunt, refused to answer ques- vent exploitation and eliminate trafficking. A tions on the issue during the first date of a month-long national committee is carrying out the govern- LONDON: Britain’s leadership contest was rocked nationwide tour he is conducting with Hunt to win over ment’s anti-trafficking strategy; it is beginning to yesterday by reports that police were called to a late- Conservative members, who have the final say. implement a national referral mechanism that will night “row” between frontrunner Boris Johnson and his “I don’t think people want to hear about that kind of assist victims. partner, just hours before campaigning opened to win thing,” he told interviewer Iain Dale, to cheers from a Using the anti-trafficking law, in some cases for over grassroots Conservatives. The Guardian said offi- friendly crowd at the first of 16 “hustings” - where can- the first time, government agencies expanded tar- cers were alerted early on Friday after a neighbor said didates field audience questions. He instead tried to geting of human traffickers, visa traders, and abu- there had been a loud altercation involving screams, focus on his policies, saying “we need to get Brexit sive employers - resulting in an increase in prose- shouts and bangs at the south London property, shortly done” and promising to prepare Britain for a no deal BIRMINGHAM: Conservative MP Boris Johnson gestures cutions and convictions. after Johnson had secured his place in the final run-off exit from the EU, if a deal cannot be reached. as he takes part in a Conservative Party leadership hus- Continued on Page 24 to become prime minister. Continued on Page 24 tings event yesterday. — AFP US plans to raise $50bn, create 1m US writer says Palestinian jobs Trump sexually WASHINGTON: The United assaulted her States said yesterday that its Middle East peace plan to be WASHINGTON: An advice columnist presented next week in Bahrain for Elle fashion magazine said Friday aims to raise more than $50 bil- that Donald Trump sexually assaulted lion for the Palestinians and dou- her in the dressing room of a New ble their GDP within a decade. York department store more than two decades ago, an accusation swiftly KHARTOUM: Sudanese protesters burn tyres as demonstrations against the military coun- Unveiling details for the first time, President Donald Trump’s admin- denied by the US president. According cil continue in Bahri on the northern outskirts of the capital late on June 20, 2019. —AFP to E Jean Carroll, the rape occurred in istration said the initiative will Jared Kushner look at reforming the Palestinian either 1995 or 1996, when Trump was a E Jean Carroll economy and linking it to those prominent real estate developer and Sudan protesters hold night of its neighbors, seeking to generate major interna- she was a well-known magazine writer department store in Manhattan while tional investment. and host of a television show. they were both shopping. gatherings to rekindle movement The conference Tuesday and Wednesday in Bahrain, The account, revealed in an excerpt She says that in an initially friendly led by Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, is of Carroll’s latest book and published encounter, Trump asked her for advice on buying a piece of lingerie for an KHARTOUM: As night fell, residents of organise the meeting which drew dozens the opening of a long-awaited Middle East peace ini- Friday by New York magazine, makes unnamed woman. Then jokingly, they a southern district in Khartoum briskly from the neighborhood. Within a few tiative that officials say will later include a political her at least the 16th woman to have each suggested that the other should moved to set the stage for Sudanese hours, power generators were fetched, component. But the Palestinian Authority is boycotting accused Trump of sexual misconduct try it on. “The moment the dressing- protest leaders giving a brief on the loud speakers set up, plastic chairs lined the so-called Peace to Prosperity workshop, charging before he became president. Trump room door is closed, he lunges at me, movement’s latest updates. Grappling up and cars blazed their headlights on that the unabashedly pro-Israel Trump is seeking to reacted with a statement saying he’d pushes me against the wall, hitting my with a power outage, blocked internet the podium where protest leaders were buy off the Palestinians and deprive them of an inde- never met Carroll, and that the incident head quite badly, and puts his mouth access and heightened security, people to give their speech. pendent state. “never happened”. Carroll, 75, says she Continued on Page 24 from the Jabra district had few means to Continued on Page 24 Continued on Page 24 ran into Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman 2 Established 1961 Local Sunday, June 23, 2019 Kuwait urges immediate halt of Israeli settlement expansion on occupied land Illegal settlements ‘huge obstacle’ to peace process: Kuwait NEW YORK: Kuwait on Friday called for the immedi- ate halt of Israel’s illegal settlement activities on occu- pied Palestinian land, saying these breaches of interna- tional law were a ‘huge obstacle’ to the peace process. “Israel, an occupational power, continues its illegal set- tlement activities in full violation of its obligations under Security Council resolutions and international conven- tions and treaties,” Kuwait’s permanent UN representa- tive Mansour Al-Otaibi told the Security Council. “Israel’s establishment of settlements in the Palestinian territories, occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law,” he added. Ambassador Otaibi underlined that these measures rep- resent a ‘huge obstacle’ to the two-state solution and attaining comprehensive and permanent peace. “We First Secretary Jawaher Al-Sabah during the meeting of a UN Security Council team tasked with exploring therefore call upon Israel to cease immediately and NEW YORK: Kuwait’s permanent UN representative Mansour Al-Otaibi speaks during a Security Council on Friday. — KUNA completely all settlement activities on occupied means to prevent and solve conflicts in Africa. Palestinian land, to fully honor all of its legal obligations and to cease its forceful annexation policies,” he said.