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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 8 Pages Price 50,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 42nd year No.13801 Saturday NOVEMBER 7, 2020 Aban 17, 1399 Rabi’ Al awwal 21, 1442 Russia, Iran, Turkey Holders Persepolis HRW: Sudanese workers Ramparts of ancient working on next Astana held by Saipa in IPL in UAE hired to fight in fort unearthed in meeting: Moscow 2 opener 3 Libya’s civil war 5 northeast Iran 6 Major water desalination, transfer project inaugurated in Iran Trumpism, beyond election TEHRAN — President Hassan Rouhani across the country. on Thursday inaugurated the first phase Some 163 trillion rials (about $3.88 See page 3 of a major water desalination and transfer billion) has been invested in the mentioned project which is aimed at supplying Per- project which is being implemented by sian Gulf waters to central Iran through the Energy Ministry in collaboration with a pipeline, IRNA reported. the Industry, Mining, and Trade Ministry. The project was inaugurated through This project is aimed at transmitting video conference as part of a govern- Persian Gulf water to Hormozgan and ment program based on which, every Kerman provinces after being desalinated week a major project will be inaugurated in a modern desalination plant. 4 Rouhani: Next U.S. admin to succumb to Iranian nation TEHRAN — President Hassan Rou- water supply project. hani says the next U.S. administration He shrugged off the outcome of the will succumb in the face of the Iranian November 3 presidential elections in nation’s resilience. the United States, saying Iran moves “Undoubtedly, the next U.S. admin- forward irrespective of who runs the istration will succumb in the face of the White House. Iranian nation,” Rouhani said on Thursday, “I’m sure that the Iranian nation will adding that the U.S. has no option but to emerge victorious in the end,” he added. submit to the rule of law and the Iranian Tensions soared between Tehran and nation’s patience and resistance. Washington since U.S. President Donald He made the remarks while address- Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from ing an inauguration ceremony on major the nuclear deal on May 8, 2018. 2 Doc chronicles fuel shipments by Iranian tankers to Venezuela TEHRAN – The Owj Arts and Media as a sign of defiance by Iran and Venezuela Organization has produced a documentary against the United States’ sanctions on recounting the story of fuel shipments by both countries. Shealah Craighead Iranian tankers to Venezuela. Former Iranian oil minister Rostam Qasemi “Blood and Petroleum” directed by Mo- and Iran’s former ambassador to Venezuela stafa Shoqi was reviewed during a meeting Ahmad Sobhani attended the meeting. at the organization on Wednesday evening. Iran sent oil tankers to Venezuela amid The documentary depicts how Iranian the United States sanctions against both White House/ fuel tankers entered Venezuela’s waters, countries. 8 By Mahnaz Abdi Upending Trump’s tumultuous Protests over ballot tallies sweep Head of Economy Desk legacy through U.S. cities Rural development, By Mahmood Monshipouri 2020) and that “America under Trump has lost Calling on election officials to “count every At several points, protesters contended a major priority of Trump’s legacy and his failed policies, including the credibility and legitimacy that were corner- vote,” protesters marched through the streets that Adrian Fontes, the county official who failure to contain the spread of the COVID-19 stones of its influence” (Roger Cohen, The New of several American cities on Wednesday in oversees elections in Maricopa County, government pandemic, were on ballot in the recent U.S. York Times, November 1, 2020). response to President Trump’s aggressive was improperly failing to count some bal- presidential election. Lifting the ban on Muslims’ entry into the effort to challenge the vote count in Tuesday’s lots and costing Trump votes in Arizona’s illages are often mentioned The significance of Biden’s victory cannot United States, revising immigration policies, presidential election. most populous county — although there was as some keys to the devel- be emphasized enough both in terms of its do- and ending the dehumanizing policies of sepa- In Minneapolis, protesters blocked a free- no evidence that any ballots had been im- opment of countries, and mestic and global implications. That said, let rating children from their parents at the border way, prompting arrests. In Portland, hun- properly tossed. V us be clear about one larger point: the undoing appear to be a manageable task in the short dreds gathered on the waterfront to protest Keely Varvel,. Fontes’s chief deputy, said the allocation of a proper amount of budget to rural development al- of the damage done by Trump is no mean feat term, just as forgoing the obsession with the president’s attempted interventions in there were no plans to halt counting of the ways brings fruitful economic re- by any metrics and may take much longer than building walls around the country’s southern the vote count as a separate group protesting ballots because of the protest in front of the sults. expected. The irreversible damage to the U.S. borders. There are, however, limits to what the police and urging racial justice surged building. “We are still planning to finish up our In Iran, where villages account for standing in the world cannot be undone by Biden can do to unravel Trump’s destructive through downtown, smashing shop windows scheduled ballot processing work and report generating 20-23 percent of the value Biden’s presidency any time soon, in large policies that have debilitated U.S. global stand- and confronting police officers and National out more results tonight,” Ms. Varvel said. added in the country, development of part due to the lost trust resulting from the ing. The populist and protectionist policies Guard troops, NY Times reported. In Detroit, another group of pro-Trump rural areas has been always a top agenda confusion and disorderliness of the Trump advocated by the Trump administration may In Phoenix, about 150 pro-Trump protest- poll watchers gathered earlier in the day out- of the governments’ activities. administration. not be easily reversed to resume the kind of ers, some of them armed, gathered outside the side a ballot-counting center, demanding that Sustainable economic, social, and Experts remind us that “It will take decades trust and commitment that for seven decades county recorder’s office where a closely watched officials “stop the count” of ballots after the cultural development of the villages is if not generations to regain the lost trust” (Paul had characterized U.S. foreign policy as the count of votes that could help determine the Trump campaign filed suit to halt the count one of the major priorities of the current Krugman, The New York Times, November 1, leader of the free world. 5 outcome of the election was being conducted. in Michigan. government, and many projects imple- mented and underway in this regard have led to outstanding development in the War footprint never fades away from nature Trump’s ‘maximum rural regions. It is while the sanctions have created By Faranak Bakhtiari homelessness, and death. forests cut down, soils poisoned, and animals pressure’ campaign many limitations and difficulties for the TEHRAN – When a war occurs, casualties and These are the obvious signs of war, but in the killed to gain military advantage. Iranian economy in the recent years. destruction come to mind first, while one of the meantime, the part that has been out of sight and Statistics show that in the late twentieth cen- against Iran absolutely One of the sectors with noticeable main victims of this human phenomenon is the mind for years is the extent of the damage it does tury alone, there were 118 armed conflicts around achievements in this field is gas supplying, environment because the effects of war on nature to nature, the environment and everything in it, the world that displaced 6 million people and failed: Harvard while the number of villages supplied with never fade away and can be seen in the food cycle from animals to plants, perhaps the catastrophe imposed devastating consequences on people researcher natural gas has doubled during the past and nature for a long time. of human-caused war is so great that is no longer and the environment. By Mohammad Mazhari seven years, since the current government War always brings to mind the destruction possible to address, while the long-term effects of According to Rio Declaration on Environ- started its activity. of houses, deserted villages, smoky cities, and environmental degradation on the quality of hu- ment and Development 1992, articles 24 and 25, TEHRAN – Stephen Herzog, a research fellow Based on the statistics, 18,000 vil- streets littered with war weapons and barricades, man life are determined and manifested over time. warfare is inherently destructive of sustainable at the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard lages (each week 50 villages on average) massive explosions, and, ultimately, misery, Water wells have been polluted, crops torched, development. 7 University, says Donald Trump’s “maximum pres- have been connected to the national gas sure” strategy to strangulate Iran economically network over the past seven years, and has failed as the Islamic Republic has “improved now about 4.8 million families in 32,000 economic ties with China, Venezuela, and other villages enjoy natural gas in the country. Sympathy states.” It means that 82 percent of the villages The research fellow at the Project on Managing are connected to the gas network.