All-Out Efforts Underway to Help Flood-Hit Sistan-Baluchestan
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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 12 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13581 Wednesday JANUARY 15, 2020 Dey 25, 1398 Jumada Al Awwal 19, 1441 E3 has bowed Iran won’t allow Iran volleyball learn Agaverdi Pashayev to to U.S. diktat enemy exploit group opponents perform Hossein Dehlavi’s 2 plane incident 3 at Tokyo 2020 11 compositions in Azerbaijan 12 ‘CBI to facilitate private sector’s All-out efforts underway to help foreign trade’ TEHRAN — The governor of the Central of foreign trade significantly,” Abdolnas- Bank of Iran (CBI) says the bank is going ser Hemmati said in a meeting with the to take necessary measures in order to heads of the country’s joint chambers of flood-hit Sistan-Baluchestan facilitate the private sector’s foreign trade, commerce on Monday. IRIB reported. Stressing the important role of the See page 9 “To facilitate the private sector’s trade private sector in the country’s foreign with other countries, we try to consider trade, the official said, “A big part of the a fund or intermediary channel for cash country’s exports is being done by the settlement. This could increase the volume private companies.” 4 Iran warns to take firm, decisive response if E3 takes unconstructive steps TEHRAN — The Iranian Foreign Ministry “Iran, as always, is prepared to deal spokesman, in a statement on Tuesday, with any constructive effort to save the reacted to a decision by the European sig- important international agreement,” he natories to the 2015 nuclear deal to activate said, adding that his country will take “firm, the “trigger mechanism”, noting that the decisive and proportional response” to move will not serve nobody’s interests. any “unconstructive” moves. “I have to mention that the three France, Germany and the United King- European nations (Britain, France and dom issued a joint statement on Tuesday, Germany) have taken a passive measure three parties to the JCPOA, announcing from a weak position,” Abbas Mousavi they have formally triggered the dispute said. mechanism in the nuclear deal. 2 Baghdad will not sign agreement keeping U.S. forces in Iraq: government Spokesman for the Iraqi Prime Minister ment is committed to implementing the William Warda said that his country decision of the Iraqi parliament, which will not sign an agreement to keep the stipulates that all foreign forces should U.S. forces in Iraq to continue fighting withdraw from Iraq. Foreign forces do against ISIL (Daesh) terrorists, Sky News not only mean the presence of American reported. forces. But all other foreign forces are in He stressed that the Iraqi govern- Iraq,” the spokesman added. Alireza Masoumi ment will support the parliament’s vote On 5 Jan 2020, Iraq’s parliament passed on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from a resolution that asks the government to the country. end the presence of foreign troops in the ISNA/ “Up to this point, the Iraqi govern- country. 10 EDITORIAL Assassination of Major General Soleimani in the light of international law ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi By Mohammadreza Farahzadi unless they are in conflict and war. the necessity of defense are essential and political Ebrahim Fallahi Tehran Times editor-in-chief TEHRAN — “Assassination” is a form of ex- The theory of targeted killing has many op- conflicts and baseless accusations cannot be a Tehran Times journalist @ghaderi62 trajudicial execution that is carried out illegally ponents, even with the assumption of the killing good reason for assassinating the other party. and arbitrarily by a state and is contrary to the of official terrorists. The UN Special Rapporteur There are some significant points regarding When the liar and principles of human rights under Article 6 of the on Extra-Judicial summary or arbitrary Execu- the assassination of commander Soleimani: International Covenant on Civil and Political tions believes that even in the event of armed Iran and the U.S. have not been at war when How U.S.-China the honest person Rights. conflict, the proper requirements of the law must commander Soleimani was assassinated. In Many states that carry out assassinations be observed and that a person may not be killed definition of armed conflict, Article 2 of the trade deal is going are replaced! refer to the term “targeted killing” to justify without a fair trial. Geneva Conventions reads: the present Con- their actions. Targeted killing is the targeting Some also state the theory of self-defense vention shall apply to all cases of declared war to impact Iranian oil to justify targeted killing. Following the 9/11 or of any other armed conflict which may arise he U.S. is gradually opening the doors of terrorist forces even far from a war situation. attacks, the exercise of the right to self-defense between two or more of the High Contracting exports? of the Ain al-Asad air base to some In the alleged targeted killing, the targeted against nongovernmental terrorist groups was Parties, even if the state of war is not recognized selected reporters and media while five individuals must be formally charged with T debated and emphasized in Resolutions 1373 by one of them. The International Criminal oday, the U.S. and China are going to days have passed since the missile strikes by terrorism, and naturally members of the lib- and 1386. Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sign a trade deal, which is expected the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ Aerospace eration movement and the official personnel In this regard, it should be noted that in the also describes the armed conflict as the use to ease the tensions between the two Force. Therefore, the U.S. practically had of the armed forces of a country cannot be T case of self-defense the existence of hostility and of armed forces by two states. 3 economic rivals and push the global econ- enough time to clear the evidence of the the legitimate targets of the assassination omy out of recession and bring markets damages caused by the attacks and hide back to life. them from the media. The deal, which is labeled as the “Phase On the other hand, the Islamic Republic The End of Impunity 1 trade deal”, is going to be signed by U.S. of Iran, in a continuous effort to investigate President Donald Trump and China’s Vice “extremists”, “terrorists”, “insurgents” – the control of regional security are portrayed as different scenarios, bravely and honestly By M. A. Saeed Premier Liu He, at the White House. list of adjectives grows. This imperialist ad- threats to the very security they are trying announced the cause of Ukrainian airliner MUSCAT — On December 17th 1998 Americans Despite the undeniable positive impact venturism is supported by an army of lobbyists to protect! crash less than 3 days, immediately after the woke up to a NY Times headline “Impeachment of the deal on the global markets, the con- and think-tanks armed with studies and data Country after country are being attacked if operator’s human error has been determined vote in House delayed as Clinton launches Iraq sequences of this deal for the Iranian oil intended to prove that drone strikes, arms sales, they do not accept colonial subjugation. Iran is (regardless of whether the error was caused air strike”. market could be a little complicated. Since, and extra judicial killings will bring peace to the current target. Count the number of military by a cyber-attack or something else). Fast forward on January 4th 2020, CNN quoted on one side, the increase in oil prices as our region. bases surrounding Iran. Iran is not the first. It The utmost attempt by the Western me- a Washington Post report that “Some Democrats the result of the trade deal would benefit Of course, the peace is conditional to our total certainly will not be the last. There is Turkey, dia outlets for reversing the truth is the other privately worried about sending impeachment Iranian oil industry like all others, but on subjugation. In their view, we who belong to this another regional superpower unwilling to sur- side of coin. The outlets intended to downplay articles to senate amid Iran tensions“. the other side, it could force China to take region do not have the right to govern our region. render to colonial subjugation. Turkey is still the humiliation of the Americans in the Ain Deja vu with a very bitter taste. Regional lives some reassuring actions in order to show Only those coming from thousands miles away the continuous target of political and economic al-Asad air base in public opinion and inflame are again sacrificed at the altar of American its determination for ending the trade war. onboard warships and other killing machines attempts to blackmail. the hearts of the Iranian people, whose pain domestic politics. For more than 200 years our That means, under U.S. pressures, are entitled to govern us. Others, especially in the oil producing dicta- had been alleviated by the hard revenge for region has been the victimized arena where and to cement the agreement with the Security of our region is not the affair of torships, have succumbed in the belief that they the assassination of commander Soleimani. Western domestic political fights and imperi- Americans, China could probably cut or those indigenous to our region but those for- will be protected. In reality, the protection is the Regardless of the commotion by the alistic misadventures play out. They invented even end its oil imports from Iran.