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12 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 37th year No.12329 Saturday AUGUST 1, 2015 Mordad 10, 1394 Shawwal 15, 1436 There’s BP, Shell, sufficient Rouhani calls on FTZs Eni say look support in to return Congress for to focus on exports to Iran TEHRAN — After the lift- turn into hubs for exports, President Hassan a meeting held to coordinate policies on TEHRAN — Glob- nuclear deal: Political Desk ing of sanctions a situa- Rouhani said on Friday. resistance economy. Economic Desk al oil majors, Roy- tion should be created for free trade zones The FTZs should also turn into centers The president also stressed the need for al Dutch Shell, BP and Eni say they expert (FTZs) to immediately move toward attract- for production of goods for which there reforms and closing loopholes for favoritism are looking to return to projects in ‘Some congressmen ing domestic and foreign investment and are demands for export, Rouhani said in and corruption in FTZs. Contd. on P. 11 Iran’s upstream oil and gas sectors. oppose nuclear agreement “For us, (Iran) is a huge gas prov- because they dislike Obama’ ince so it would be good to be there -- in conventional gas -- at the right INTERVIEW terms,” Shell’s financial chief Simon By Javad Heirannia Henry said in London. Iran’s Siamand Rahman The company has a history of TEHRAN — Daryl Kimball, execu-cu- activities in Iran’s upstream projects, tive director of the Arms Controlrol king of powerlifters including in South Pars, but the firm Association in Washington, saysys pulled out of the world’s largest “there is sufficient support in gas field’s Phase 13 development in Congress” for the nuclear agree-ee- at Almaty 2015 2008. ment between Iran and the 55+1+1 The world’s strongest maty,maty, Kazakhstan.K Shell also operated Iran’s Soroush group and a “diplomatic victoryry Sports Desk and Nowruz oilfields in the Persian for both sides.” Paralympian,Paralympian, Iran’s SiSi-- WWorldorl and Paralympic champion Rahman amand Rahman, showed his strength and hashas nowno broken his own world record Gulf at a capacity of 200,000 barrels “There will be a sufficientent per day. An outstanding debt to the number of members in the U.S..S. prowessprowess once again on Thursday, lifting eight ttimes in the space of 15 months, 295kg to take gold in the men’s over 107kg includingincludin three times each at the World tune of $2.3 billion remains unpaid House of Representatives and thehe by the company to Iran since 2012. Senate who will lend their supportort worldworld record at the 2015 IPC Powerlifting ChampionshipsChampi in April 2014 and October’s AAsiansian Open Championships in Al-Al- IncheonIncheon 2014 Asian Para Games. The energy news provider Platts and allow for the implementationon quoted Henry as saying Thursday of the PP5+15+1 andnd HHee continuesc to edge ever closer to his ultimateultimate goal of 300kg, which he may save that Shell was interested in Iran nuclearnu ear returning to Iran “in the fullness of deal,”deal,” KimballKim all for the biggest stage of all – the Rio 2016 ParalympicParalym Games. time” but did not expect any quick, tellstells thehe easy deals. TehranTehran TimesT es RRahmanahm warmed up at the Baluan Sholak SportsSport Palace with a 270kg first lift, before “Anybody who thinks that we inin an exclusiveexclu ve are going to suddenly swan in and interview.interview. settingsett about breaking the record in theth second round by adding 1kg onto end up with great contracts that 2 hish former 292kg best, Paralympic. make a difference within 12 months, orgor wrote. I think is a little naive. It’s not going Contd. on P. 9 to be easy, it will take time,” he was quoted as saying. Contd. on P. 4

8th Educational Robots Olympiad kicked off in Tehran NEWS tions in the robotic fields, is after making a robot PERSPECTIVE REPORT placed in human body to treat gout. When y Marjan Golpira Russia upgrading B asked why he was after such an invention, he Iran nuclear responded, “My father suffers from it.” S-300 missile TEHRAN — The 8th Educational Robots Ol- Gout is a form of complex arthritis charac- deal: A system for Iran ympiad organized by Hushmad Afzar was terized by severe pain, redness, and tender- victory held at the national level at Allameh Tabat- ness in joints which mostly affects men. A Kremlin official says that Russia is aba’i University sports center on Friday in Another very young contestant in the of diplomacy working to upgrade air defense mis- Tehran. competition who spoke English with the By Harun Yahya siles intended for Iran. Students from all three educational daily paper was Shahrokh Ostadnejad. Vladimir Kozhin, a presiden- stages including primary school, junior high The 9-year-old boy from the city of Yazd t is not very common to hear some tial adviser for arms trade, said and high school, participated in the annual The Tehran Times journalist speaks to the top prize had made a rescue robot, capable of going up Igood news lately. When we turn on Thursday according to the RIA national competition from across Iran as winner in the humanoid league, Kiarash Lotfi (R). and down the hill to detect civilians in case of on the TV or the radio to have an Novosti news agency that the S-300 well as the city of Herat, Afghanistan, to put natural disasters. Shahroukh hoped that one idea about what is going on in our air defense missile systems are to their handmade robots to test. leagues including humanoid, carrier, ware- day soon, he’ll be able to develop a good-sized region, and around the world, all we undergo an upgrade before being In addition to students, another group house, intelligent rescue, step climbing, and robot to save humans trapped in buildings hear is bloodshed, accidents, sui- delivered to Iran, since the original titled Creative Minds, from all age groups explorer robots as well as a rally of intelli- and under rubbles in case a disaster strikes. cide bombings, corruption, suicides, contract was signed a long time ago. and walks of life, took part in the competi- gent cars. The event organizer will announce the and the oppression of Muslims. We He wouldn’t offer specifics or say tion to present their custom-built robots to The Tehran Times spoke to the top prize names of the remaining top prize winners have been longing to hear some- when the delivery would take place. the public and jury. The competition was winner in the humanoid league, Kiarash in two weeks’ time on its website at www. thing good about this world. Russia in 2010 froze a deal to held in two segments: morning for higher Lotfi, an 8th grader from Karaj who became pishrobot.com, after the jury gets to thor- Finally on July 14th we received supply S-300 missile systems to Iran, and advanced level contestants i.e. pupils interested in developing robots ever since oughly evaluate each team’s performance. the good news that many people linking the decision to UN sanctions. in secondary schools, and evening for lower he was in the second grade. Hushmand Afzar is a company that have been longing for: Iran’s nuclear President Vladimir Putin lifted the level students in elementary schools. Humanoid robot is built to be a fighter arranges robotic competitions and fairs deal. Iran signed the agreement suspension in April after a framework A total of 250 teams registered to flex able to perform several martial art moves. in order to evaluate the organizations with the P5+1 (the five permanent Iran nuclear agreement, which earlier their muscles against rivals in various Lotfi, who has already had over 100 crea- conducting Hushmand Afzar’s system. members of the UN Security Council this month was followed by the final and Germany) countries with which deal, which curbed Iran’s nuclear they have been negotiating for a program in exchange for relief from Obama urges supporters to lobby for Iran deal long time. sanctions stifling its economy. U.S. President Barack Obama said. conflict,” Obama said. ated with Iran to limit its nuclear It was welcomed with great joy on Thursday told groups that “They start getting squishy If upheld, the deal is certain capabilities in exchange for a in many parts of the world espe- support the Iran nuclear deal because they’re feeling the to shape Obama’s legacy as he relief of sanctions. cially in Iran. Iranians flooded into EU starts to make their voices heard to political heat,” Obama said of prepares to leave office. He said Four Democratic represent- the streets to show their enthu- implementing Congress to counter the mil- members of Congressg he has h e has never been more atives voiced their support for siasm with the hope of having a lions of dollars in lobbying by met withth in rrecentecent wweeks.eeks. ccertainertain of a policpolicyy tthehe deal on Thursday, including brighter future without the burden Iran nuclear those who want to derail the He drewdrew comparisons to the dedecision.cision. SeSenatenate candidate Chris Van of sanctions. This deal is considered agreement. lead upp to the Iraq war, notinnotingg CCongressong ress Hollen aand Dan Kildee, who a great success of diplomacy, as it agreement “Right now the opponents that groupsroups who opposed it iiss currentcurrentlyly represrepresentsen the district of Amir often seems that these days states of this deal have been flooding were notot vocalvocal untiluntil iitt wawass totooo reviewinreviewingg the HekmatHekmati,i who is being held in do not seem to solve their conflicts BRUSSELS (Xinhua) -— The Euro- Congressional offices,” Obama late. dedealal that ththee IIran.ran. through diplomacy but with arms. pean Council here on Friday said it said on a call with groups “In the absence of yyourour UUnitednited SStatestates The WWhite House said its How Iran’s nuclear program adopted the first legal acts imple- including the Washington-based voices, you are goinggoing to see and ootherther wworldorld supporsupporterste so far have contrib- got started menting the latest Iran nuclear deal, think tank Center for American the sameme arraarrayy of voices that ppowersowers uutedted ttoo 70,704 emails and I’m pretty sure many of you are not which would allow for certain relief Progress. got us into the Iraq war, nnegoti-egoti- 663,8623,862 calls to members of aware of the fact that Iran’s nuclear of sanctions against Iran. 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It is quite surprising to July 14 in Vienna, and the United in TV ads to put pressure on on thee path ooff tthehe ccall.all. see that it was the U.S. who encour- Nations Security Council adopted members of Congress, Obama potentialial military (Source: Reuters) aged Iran to start such a program, a resolution endorsing the JCPOA which they would then try to block on July 20. for years until the negotiations began. “This resolution provides for EU’s Mogherini seeks talks with Iran on energy, trade by early 2016 After signing a deal with the certain derogations from restric- U.S. government in 1957 for the tions currently in place so as to BRUSSELS, July 31 (Reuters) - The Europe- The day after a deal on Iran’s nuclear Commission it should “provide support for nuclear program, the first reactor allow the shipment of certain nucle- an Union should start high-level talks with program was sealed this month, Mogherini preparing the resumption of economic and came online in 1967 and Iran ar-related equipment out of Iran, Iran on energy and trade by the beginning told the European Commission to start trade relations with Iran following the lifting became a party of the Nuclear the modification of two cascades in of 2016, EU foreign policy chief Federica preparing for renewed economic links with of the international sanctions, once the agree- Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) the Fordow and the modernization of Mogherini told a closed-door meeting of EU Iran, according to minutes of the meeting on ment (has) entered into force,” the minutes following year. the Arak reactor; Contd. on P. 11 policymakers. July 15, seen by Reuters. Mogherini told the said. Contd. on P. 11 Contd. on P. 11 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y NATION 2 AUGUST 1, 2015 http://www.tehrantimes.com/international

MEDIA MONITOR Iran rejects Bahrain blast accusation Iran’s TEHRAN — The Iranian Su- TEHRAN — Iran’s Deputy Foreign He also called on the Bahraini foreign minister to Supreme preme National Security Po l i t i c a l D e s k Minister for Arab and African Af- play “a positive and constructive role regarding the Council has started to re- fairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has rejected claims collective security in the region and national recon- National IRAN view Tehran’s recent nuclear by a Bahraini minister that Iran was involved in a re- ciliation between the Bahraini government and its Security agreement with world powers cent deadly terrorist attack in the country. people instead of stoking religious strife in Bahrain Council dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Amir-Abdollahian also condemned the July 28 and the region,” said. Plan of Action (JCPOA). bomb explosion in Bahrain’s eastern island of Sitra, The Iranian official added Iran only supports a mulling over The announcement was made by situated 12 kilometers southeast of the capital, Ma- political solution to the crisis Bahrain, stressing that nuclear pact Keyvan Khosravi, spokesman of the nama, which killed two police officers. Manama’s systematic human rights abuses and secu- council, Iran daily reported on Thursday. He dismissed Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh rity crackdown will further complicate the situation Khosravi stressed that the coun- Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa’s claim about Tehran’s in Bahrain. cil will not be affected by unhelpful involvement in the bombing as totally “untrue.” Bahrain claimed on Saturday that it had foiled controversy raised by groups op- He said the accusation was deliberate as it was “Unfortunately, the tribal behavior of some radi- an arms and explosives smuggling plot by two Bah- posed to the nuclear deal. made to undermine the Iranian Foreign Minister Mo- cal elements within the Bahraini government, and rainis with ties to Iran. Later, Manama also claimed He said further notice will be hamed Javad Zarif’s recent tour of regional courtiers. their deliberate insult to Muslims’ religious beliefs that the explosives used in the Sitra bombing were given later about the council’s pro- Zarif paid a three day visit to Qatar, Iraq and Ku- have caused a deep gap between the government similar to those allegedly seized after being smug- gress in considering the deal. wait this week. and the people in Bahrain,” Amir-Abdollahian said. gled from Iran. The JCPOA was reached be- tween Iran and the P5+1 group (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus 4 Democrats get behind Obama's Iran nuclear deal Germany). The Iranian government Four Democrats, including one who represents an Democrat, also announced their support for the agree- has enough Democratic votes to sustain the veto. needs endorsement by the parlia- American hostage in Iran, said Thursday they would ment, a boost for Obama amid a week of furious lobby- Obama has aggressively courted Democrats, holding ment and the Supreme National support the Iran nuclear deal in a major boost for Presi- ing on Capitol Hill. sessions at the White House and sending Cabinet mem- Security Council before it can enact dent Barack Obama. "We have a choice between this deal or no deal", bers to Capitol Hill for briefings and hearings. the requirements of the deal. "It's very clear to me that the agreement is the best Udall said from the Senate floor. "I do not believe we Vice President Joe Biden held a working breakfast path forward," Rep. Dan Kildee, who counts hostage will get another chance." Thursday with members of the House Democratic Caucus. Iran drafts TEHRAN — Head of the Depart- Amir Hekmati as a constituent, told The Associated Their statements come after multiple White House Supporters and opponents are urging members to de- National ment of Environment of Iran Press in an interview. meetings this week between Obama and House Demo- cide and announce their positions, in the hopes that those Document Masoumeh Ebtekar has said Hekmati, an American, has been held in Iran since crats, intended to counter an intense lobbying effort who have gone public will inspire others to follow. Rep. ARYA her department has drafted a 2011. Kildee said he has told Obama and Hekmati's rela- by AIPAC, which is behind a multimillion-dollar ad cam- Sander Levin, a Democrat, announced this week that he'd on document to devise strategies tives about his decision to back the international agree- paign. The pro-Israel lobby argues that Iran cannot be support the deal. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, said he Environment for protection of environment. ment, which calls on Iran to curb its nuclear program in trusted. Obama and his allies say there is no alternative is leaning toward supporting the deal. Rep. Grace Meng, a The text dubbed the National exchange for billions of dollars in sanctions relief. to the deal other than to let Iran proceed unsupervised. Democrat, said she opposes it. Document on Environment has Iran’s Supreme Leader has declared the production, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Repub- At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing been now referred to the Supreme stockpiling and use of weapons of mass destruction, lican, who has criticized the accord, reiterated his de- Thursday, the chairman and top Democrat said they had Council for Cultural Revolution, including nuclear arms, as forbidden. The UN nuclear mand that the Obama administration turn over docu- requested a classified or open briefing with the top official Ebtekar said, Arya news agency re- watchdog has also found no evidence that Iran suggest ments related to agreements between the IAEA and of the International Atomic Energy Agency to better un- ported on Friday. has been seeking to produce nuclear weapons. Iran that he described as "side agreements." Secretary derstand its role in verifying that Iran doesn't cheat. She said the document defines Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the top Democrat on the House of State John Kerry has said there are no side agree- Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat, said the IAEA official various strategies for relevant organ- Budget Committee and a Senate candidate, said he ments relevant to the accord. declined the invitation "because he did not want to be izations to better cooperate with the would support the agreement, calling it "the best path The Republican-led Congress is in the midst of a 60- seen as interfering in our legislative process." department of environment. to achieve our goal of ensuring that Iran never obtains a day review of the deal and is expected to vote in Sep- Coons said he wants to know more about the IAEA's It also involves cultural meas- nuclear weapon." tember on a resolution of disapproval that Obama has role. "If you read the agreement, they are absolutely ures for promoting environmental Democratic Sen. Tom Udall and Rep. David Price, a vowed to veto. The administration's goal is to ensure it critical to its success," he said. awareness, she said. Approaches to preserve wet- lands, forests, and biodiversity are among the major topics addressed Zarif calls for world’s nuclear weapons states to disarm in the National Document on Envi- By staff and agency “The Cold War-era asymmetry be- gotiations to begin on a nuclear weap- ronment, Ebtekar noted. tween states that possess nuclear ons elimination treaty; that this should She said the document assigns ranian Foreign Minister Mohammad weapons and those that don’t is no lead initially to nuclear arsenals being a special role to local non-govern- IJavad Zarif has called on Israel and longer tolerable,” the minister writes, taken off high alert readiness (for ex- mental organizations for tackling the world’s eight other states with nu- saying Iran had “walked the walk” on ample, by removing warheads from mis- environmental problems. clear weapons to begin disarming, in non-proliferation. siles); and for the creation of a zone in Senior cleric TEHRAN — Tehran interim Fri- response to his country’s acceptance of “Meanwhile, states actually pos- the Middle East free of weapons of mass strict curbs on its nuclear program in an sessing these destructive weapons destruction. thanks day prayers leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami has agreement reached earlier this month. have hardly even talked the talk, while However, efforts to agree on further Iranian expressed gratitude to Presi- Writing in the Guardian, Zarif argues completely brushing off their disarma- steps towards disarmament and the nuclear MEHR dent Hassan Rouhani and his that by agreeing to the Vienna deal, ment obligations under NPT and cus- creation of a WMD-free zone in the re- buke to the five permanent members nuclear negotiation team for their titled the Joint Comprehensive Plan tomary international law. That is to say gion failed at a global conference in May negotiators of the UN security council, all armed efforts during the course of the of Action, Iran was honoring the spirit nothing of countries outside the NPT, to reinvigorate the NPT, which ended in with nuclear weapons – the U.S., Russia, talks with world powers that cul- of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or Israel, with an undeclared nuclear acrimony. France, the UK and China – as well as the minated in the July 14 agreement. (NPT), in which states without nuclear arsenal and a declared disdain towards Zarif says the campaign “will prob- three other nuclear-armed states which, “These dear people set out weapons promise not to acquire them. non-proliferation, notwithstanding its ably run into many hurdles raised by like Israel, are not NPT signatories: India, with good will and started a dif- But he says the nuclear weapons absurd and alarmist campaign against the skeptics of peace and diplomacy. Pakistan, and North Korea. ficult task. They are fighters in states are not keeping their side of the the Iranian nuclear deal.” But we must endeavor to convince and Zarif makes three proposals: for ne- the diplomatic front,” Ayatollah bargain by disarming. Zarif’s remarks also represent a re- persist, as we did in Vienna”. Khatami said Friday, Mehr news agency reported. The ayatollah echoed Supreme There’s sufficient support in Congress for nuclear deal: expert Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s re- marks urging all Iranians to refrain Contd. from P. 1 2016 presidential election, they will find it difficult to from hasty judgements and wait Following is the full of the interview: Daryl G. Kimball says “the necessary “walk away” from the agreement and will likely come for the nuclear deal to be evaluated Will the U.S. Congress revoke the nuclear deal international support for Iran- to recognize that the agreement is in the U.S. nation- through legal procedures. with Iran? related sanctions would melt away” al security interest, if only because “walking away” A: First, it is important to underscore that the P5+1 would bring very negative consequences for the Unit- No one hurt TEHRAN — Everyone on and Iran nuclear agreement is a diplomatic victory for if Congress rejects the nuclear pact. ed States and international security. in Ankara- board the Ankara-Tehran both sides. It provides the means to assure the inter- On July 20 the U.N. Security Council unani- Tehran train IRIB train is safe, public relations national community that Iran’s ongoing nuclear pro- understand this. mously endorsed the Iran nuclear deal. What are director of the Iranian Raja gram is peaceful and is commensurate with, but does What would be the reactions at home and the legal implications of the resolution for both incident Rail Transportation Co. Ramezan not exceed, its practical nuclear energy and medical abroad if Congress annuls the deal? And how can it sides of the deal? Qoli-Nejad said. isotope needs and it provides a clear pathway for the affect the Republicans’ bid for the White House? A: The adoption of a new UN Security Council resolu- Heading to capital Tehran in removal of international nuclear-related sanctions A: We, along with the administration of President tion codifying the P5+1 and Iran agreement is important Iran, the train ran over a land mine on Iran, which can help Iran’s economic and social Barack Obama, are confident that there will a suffi- because it will replace and suspend the previous six UN near Lake Van in Turkey, the Islam- development in the years ahead. It strengthens the cient number of members in the U.S. House of Repre- Security Council resolutions which were imposed in re- ic Republic of Iran Broadcasting global effort to avoid the further proliferation of nu- sentatives and the Senate who will lend their support sponse to concerns about the nature of Iran’s nuclear (IRIB) quoted Qoli-Nejad as saying clear weapons and opens the way to new possibili- and allow for the implementation of the P5+1 and Iran program and which were designed to bring about a fair on Thursday. ties for Iran, its people and the region. nuclear deal. Over the next several weeks, members diplomatic solution. This resolution will be binding on A number of wagons were dam- The sanctions relief that Iran will receive in return of Congress will carefully examine the details of this all parties, including the United States, and it will clarify aged lightly, but the luggage wagon as it meets its key nuclear restrictions and nonpro- agreement, get answers to their many questions about how disputes about the implementation of the deal are suffered major damage, he added. liferation commitments also serves as an incentive the details, and they will consider its value and they will resolved and what the consequences of serious non- No one has yet claimed respon- for Tehran to follow through on its obligations in also consider the unpleasant alternatives. When these compliance with its terms would be. sibility for the incident. the long term. We hope the government of Iran will members of Congress review the details, we believe What will happen to the deal if Congress re- they will come to understand that it is a balanced and TEHRAN — An earthquake use the economic benefits to advance the welfare vokes it? 5.5-Magnitude fair deal that addresses their concerns and is sustain- with a magnitude of 5.5 de- and health of its people rather than spend it on the A: If Congress somehow blocks implementation quake hits able because it is fair to Iran. It also provides the means grees on the Richter scale weapons of war. of this hard-won, balanced and effective multilat- for both sides to ensure the other meets their respec- southeastern jolted an area near the town Here in the United States, there is popular support eral deal, the United States will have broken from tive obligations in the years ahead. Iran of Sirch in Iran’s southeastern from the American people for this diplomatic solution, its European allies, the necessary international

TASNIM How it affects the presidential election is yet to province of Kerman on Friday. but there is an intense debate in the U.S. Congress on support for Iran-related sanctions would melt be determined. For now, the Democratic candidates, There was no immediate the P5+1 and Iran nuclear deal. This debate will last sev- away, Iran would be able to rapidly and signifi- including Hillary Clinton, strongly support the agree- word on the casualties of the tremor. eral weeks and into September, but in the end we are cantly expand its capacity to produce bomb-grade ment. The Republican presidential candidates do not. According to the Iranian Seismo- confident there will not be enough opposition to pre- material; we would lose out on securing enhanced Even if one of the Republican candidates wins the logical Center, the earthquake hit the vent U.S implementation of the agreement. inspections needed to detect a clandestine weap- area at 14:36 local time (1006 GMT), Some in the U.S. Congress will be critical be- ons effort. The future of the agreement would be Tasnim news agency reported. cause they would like to have seen a better deal, Even if one of the Republican in serious jeopardy. The epicenter, with a depth of some would prefer no deal, and some simply can- candidates wins the 2016 However, I want to emphasize that this is a very 8 km, was initially determined to not contemplate an agreement with a country with unlikely outcome because at this time, there is be at 30.06 degrees north latitude which we have had such a troubled history. Some presidential election, they will sufficient support in Congress for the agreement and 57.64 degrees east longitude. will oppose it because they dislike President Barack find it difficult to “walk away” and not enough support to block implementation Iran is one of the most seismically Obama. Neither side got everything they wanted, steps that will be taken by the United States. My active countries in the world, being but each compromised enough to get to “yes” and from the agreement and will organization and many others will be working to crossed by several major fault lines still achieve their core goals and national objectives. likely come to recognize that the ensure this win-win agreement moves forward in that cover at least 90% of the coun- That is how diplomacy works and that is why it is a agreement is in the U.S. national the months and years ahead and we hope and ex- try. As a result, earthquakes in Iran win-win deal. Many members of our Congress, just pect that responsible Iranian leaders and citizens occur often and are destructive. like some opponents to the agreement in Iran, don’t security interest. will do the same. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

http://www.tehrantimes.com/international AUGUST 1, 2015 INTERNATIONAL 3 Turkey: 5 killed in clashes Afghan Taliban release statement praising new between authorities and PKK leader Kurdish rebels raided a Turkish police station and fired on railway workers in two separate attacks that The Afghan Taliban Friday praised their new leader, saying he left five dead, officials said Friday, amid renewed was one of the most “trusted” associates of the late Mullah conflict between the security forces and insurgents Mohammad Omar, a statement likely meant to rally follow- that has wrecked the fragile peace process. ers behind the leadership at a time of a deeply fractured in- Violence has sharply increased in Turkey in the surgency. past week, with the government launching aerial The statement, sent to The Associated Press, said the new strikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, leader, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansoor, had also been bases in northern Iraq, and the rebels escalating at- given the title of “Commander of the Faithful,” conferring on tacks against Turkey’s security forces. Some 20 peo- him the supreme status held by Mullah Omar. ple, most of them soldiers, have died in the renewed Mansoor has been an “active director” of the jihad, or holy violence. war, for some years, it added. The statement did not give any The PKK militants raided the police station in the details of when Mullah Omar died or from what illness. town of Pozanti, in southern Adana province, late The Taliban Thursday confirmed that Mullah Omar died of Thursday, killing two policemen and touching off a an illness some time ago and said they elected Mansoor as his gunfight that also killed two rebels, said Gov. Musta- successor. The Afghan government announced Wednesday fa Buyuk. He said the rebels were armed with auto- that the reclusive mullah had been dead since April 2013. matic rifles and hand grenades. The Taliban reacted by pulling out of peace talks that were In the eastern province of Kars, the rebels deto- scheduled to take place Friday. The Pakistani government, which nated a bomb they placed on rail tracks and later was to host the meeting, postponed the negotiations indefinitely. fired on rail workers sent to repair the line, the re- Afghanistan’s government said it regretted the postpone- gion’s deputy governor, Adem Unal, told the state- ment of the second formal face-to-face meeting with the Tali- run Anadolu Agency. One of the workers was killed. ban. In a statement, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Afghani- Turkey last week conducted air assaults stan “as always, is committed to the peace negotiations with on ISIL targets and also opened its air bases for the Afghan Taliban movement and hopes that the aforemen- sorties by the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group. chairman renewed Thursday. new elections will be called. tioned meeting will be held in the near future.” But it shifted focus to the PKK following an attack “The dialogue - slow as it was - must The PKK, considered a terror organization by Tur- While the future of the peace process, which is a priority claimed by the rebels that killed two policemen. That resume,”Selahattin Demirtas said in televised com- key and its western allies, launched its armed cam- for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, is uncertain, the ministry is complicating the U.S. war on ISIL militants, which ments. “Fingers must be removed from the trigger.” paign for autonomy in Turkey’s southeast in 1984. added that “Afghanistan believes that in the current situa- has relied heavily on Syrian Kurdish fighters affiliated Kurdish activists and government critics say Tur- The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people tion, peace negotiations are (more) possible than any time with Turkey’s Kurdish rebels. key’s toughened stance against the PKK is a tactic since then. before.” The new leader of the Taliban is seen as close to Pa- Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said aimed at strengthening the ruling party and attract- The Kurds declared a cease-fire in 2013 as part of kistan, which is believed to have sheltered and supported the Turkey’s onslaught against the PKK will continue ing nationalist votes ahead of possible new elections the peace efforts, but halted a planned withdrawal insurgents through the war, now in its 14th year. This may put until its fighters lay down arms, despite calls from in November. Davutoglu’s Justice and Development of fighters from Turkish territory, accusing the gov- him in a position to revive the peace talks. Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish political party for the lost its parliamentary majority in June and has until ernment of not keeping promises. According to the Taliban, as Mullah Omar’s deputy, Man- resumption of peace efforts - a plea the party’s co- Aug. 24 to form a coalition government, otherwise (Source: AFP) soor has been effectively running the insurgency for the past three years and is said to have the loyalty of battlefield com- manders who have intensified and spread their insurgency against Kabul in recent months. U.S. imposes more Russian and Ukrainian sanctions Taliban attacks against Afghan officials and forces have in- The United States imposed further Russia and Ukraine- It also targeted two entities it said were providing Director John Smith said in a statement. tensified with their warm-weather annual offensive and since related sanctions, adding associates of a billionaire support to Boris Rotenberg, a Russian businessman The United States on Thursday also sanctioned four NATO’s combat troops pulled out of the country at the end Russian gas trader, Crimean port operators and former and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. former Ukrainian officials and their close associates of last year, leaving Afghan forces in charge of the security situation in their country. Ukrainian officials to its list of those it is penalizing in The measures are meant to compel Russia to com- linked to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovy- (Source: AP) response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. ply with peacekeeping commitments signed this year ch, who fled to Russia last year after being toppled by The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign in Minsk that would end fighting in eastern Ukraine, in months of street protests. Assets Control (OFAC) imposed measures against eight which separatists are battling Ukrainian forces. Five Crimean port operators and one ferry operator entities and people it said were providing support to “Today’s action underscores our resolve to maintain were sanctioned for operating in the Crimea region of Gennady Timchenko, a prominent gas trader previously pressure on Russia for violating international law and Ukraine, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. MH370 debris predicted to sanctioned. fueling the conflict in eastern Ukraine,” Acting OFAC (Source: Reuters) arrive in Madagascar

Malaysian official has confirmed that the number on the air- Police ‘foil 1,000 bids’ from Calais Saudi Arabia and Egypt sign ‘Cairo craft part found on La Reunion Island belongs to a Boeing 777, Agence France-Presse migrants to reach Britain Declaration’ reports. So far, however, French authorities faced more than Egypt and Saudi Arabia have signed a there is no information that 1,000 attempts by migrants camped pact in Cairo aimed at boosting military it belongs to the missing Ma- out in the port of Calais to reach and economic ties between the two laysia Airlines flight MH370. the Channel tunnel overnight, police Arab allies. The two-meter long sources told AFP Friday. In a statement released after a piece of debris was found “More than 1,000 attempts were meeting between President Abdel Fat- Wednesday by people clear- thwarted last night, with around 30 tah el-Sisi and Saudi defense minister ing trails along the coastline arrests,” the source said, adding there and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed of La Reunion, an island in were no reports of migrants injured in bin Salman, el-Sisi’s office said the two the Indian Ocean off the their bid to enter the undersea tunnel leaders also will work to create a joint southeastern African coast. linking France and Britain. Arab military force. The island of Reunion is Another police source spoke of Arab defense and foreign ministers a French territory and the “1,400 incursions” between 10:00 p.m. with.” However, this source said there are to gather in Cairo to discuss the mo- said it would also be prepared to com- found element is being sent local time Thursday (2000 GMT) and had been far fewer migrants managing dalities of the force on August 27. mit ground troops if required. to France’s Toulouse to be 7:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) Friday. to get onto the Eurotunnel platforms “The two sides stressed the need Riyadh has emerged as a key sup- inspected at the DGA facility, Europe’s leading center for air- While being unable to confirm the and clamber on the train shuttles going to exert all efforts to boost security porter of Sisi since the then-army chief craft wreckage analysis working under the French Defense figures, a spokesman for Eurotun- to England. and stability in the region, and to work ousted Morsi two years ago, offering Ministry, AP reports. nel said there had been “much less dis- The situation appears to have together to protect Arab national secu- $4bn to help kick-start an economy bat- On Thursday, Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Ab- ruption” since an extra 120 riot police calmed in the past two days, after mi- rity,” Egypt’s presidential office said. tered by years of political turmoil. dul Aziz Kaprawi said: “It is almost certain that the flaperon poured into Calais this week to bolster grants made more than 2,000 daily at- In what they called a “Cairo Declara- Sisi has strongly advocated such is from a Boeing 777 aircraft. Our chief investigator here the 300-strong police contingent al- tempts to breach the defenses earlier tion,” they pledged to enhance coop- a force to fight armed groups in the told me this.” Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai ready stationed in the city. in the week. eration and investments in the energy region after the Islamic State in Iraq told reporters at the United Nations that he has dispatched At least four coaches of riot police One man died in the early hours of and transport sectors. and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group a team to investigate the wreckage. “Whatever wreckage were Friday morning guarding the en- Wednesday, apparently crushed by a Relations between the two coun- claimed in February the beheading in found needs to be further verified before we can ever con- trance to the tunnel, where the situa- lorry as he tried to make it into the tun- tries have warmed since the 2013 Libya of 21 Coptic Christians, all but one firm that it is belonged to MH370,” he said. tion was calm. nel. The crisis has strained relations be- ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, of them Egyptian. Meanwhile, an unnamed U.S. official quoted by AP stat- A police source said that, while the tween Paris and London. with Saudi Arabia offering billions in The Saudi delegation led by Salman ed that air safety investigators have a “high degree of con- reinforcements had helped, “the pres- The British government hold emer- aid to Egypt. In return, Cairo has partici- also attended a military parade with fidence” that the debris is from a Boeing 777, which is the sure of the migrants is still there” and gency talks later Friday on the issue. pated in a Saudi-led bombing campaign President Sisi. same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane. the “situation remains difficult to deal (Source: AFP) against Yemen. Cairo had previously (Source: Al CJazeera) According to the official, air safety investigators, includ- ing a Boeing investigator, identified the two-meter piece as a “flaperon” from the trailing edge of a wing. U.S. marines flying with unlicensed arms to Ukraine detained in Vienna, sent home (Source: RT) Nine American marines have been arrested in Vienna’s “By unintentional oversight, the necessary clear- they arrived in Ukraine without arms, Kwiatkowski said. airport for carrying assault rifles and handguns on ances required for transiting Austria were not prop- She said that, alternatively, “they figured that they board a commercial airliner without proper clearance. erly processed prior to their departure. The Austrian will be refused and would not be able to get there any- Syria army, Hezbollah make They were on their way to Ukraine to take part in Exer- authorities were very helpful in resolving this issue,” way.” major advances in Zabadani cise Saber Guardian that began July 20. spokesman said, adding that the marines have since re- Kwiatkowski added: “Technically, this is a violation The incident took place on July 19, but was only re- turned to their home duty station in Alaska. of not just the airline policy but international law.” The Syrian armed forces backed by fighters of Leba- ported to the media a fortnight later. “US European Command and the US Embassy in Vi- The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said earlier in July non’s resistance movement Hezbollah have gained more The servicemen, traveling from Alaska, reportedly enna are grateful for the support of the Austrian Gov- that the international military exercises Saber Guard- ground on the battlefield against Takfiri militants in the had problems with a connecting flight at Vienna’s ernment to coordinate the onward movement of nine ian/Rapid Trident-2015 the US soldiers were going to strategic border city of Zabadani. Schwechat Airport and had to leave the transit area to US marines last week,” Westover said. take part in began July 20 and were planned to last According to Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV, the Syrian army rebook, Austrian Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired US Air Force Lieuten- through July 31. and allied Hezbollah resistance fighters managed to take Michael Bauer said. They were traveling on commercial ant Colonel, told RT that the soldiers had not declared They are the biggest military war games to be held control of Barada Mosque and the neighboring buildings flights. them on purpose. in Ukraine in 2015, with over 1,800 troops from 18 coun- in southwestern part of Zabadani on Thursday. While they were having their luggage scanned, air- The fact that the US State Department attempted to tries participating. The report added that the forces also made more ad- port security spotted M16 assault rifles and pistols in get permits retrospectively immediately after the inci- The drills are being held at the Yavoriv training cent- vances toward the western neighborhood of the city, kill- their travel bags. The servicemen had no permits allow- dent indicates that “this is not how it is supposed to be er, Europe’s largest of its kind, in Ukraine’s Lvov Region, ing and injuring scores of terrorists. ing them to carry arms. done,” Kwiatkowski said. near the border with Poland. Takfiri elements have reportedly dug several un- Austrian police arrested the marines, who were then A passenger on US domestic flights has to declare Moscow has repeatedly warned NATO that the se- derground tunnels in Zabadani and use them in battle expelled from the country along with their weapons on any weapons in his luggage, she pointed out, so the sol- ries of military drills in Ukraine could undermine the against Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters. The Syrian a return flight bound for Washington. diers “probably did not declare [weapons] on purpose, fragile peace agreement between Kiev and the rebels military is said to have destroyed four of the tunnels, The incident took place accidentally, US European thinking they could get away with it,” because they in the southeast of the country. through which ISIL terrorist imported arms to the town. Command spokesperson David Westover told Sputnik. needed their weapons and could “get in trouble” if (Source: RT) (Source: Press TV) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY AUGUST 1, 2015 http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy

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Frontier markets specialist Sturgeon Capital is planning to VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran needs around $100 launch a new fund to invest directly into Iranian equities, one billion to bring its oil industry back to the level of the first such dedicated vehicles to appear following the it was five years ago, the country's Industry signing of a landmark nuclear accord between Iran, the P5+1 Minister Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh told group of world powers and the EU. Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung in an interview The London-based investment manager believes the fund published on Thursday. can take advantage of the lifting of international sanctions At a business conference in Vienna last week, the on the country later this year. Largely as a result of those first such event since this month's deal between sanctions, there are very few ways to invest directly into Iran Tehran and world powers on its nuclear program, or for American and European companies to do business Iran outlined a pro-market economic policy package there. designed to win foreign investment. Although the removal of U.S. sanctions remains hotly Asked about Western estimates that Iran needed debated and is unlikely to occur quickly even assuming $300 billion to get its oil industry back to the level the Iran nuclear agreement is ratified by the U.S. Congress, it had before sanctions crippled its economy, the potential removal of international sanctions has multi- Nematzadeh was quoted as saying: national corporations and money managers salivating. "This number is far too high, according to my Indeed, the day after the accord was signed, Germany’s knowledge. I think that we can make do with economy minister flew to Tehran to explore boosting trade around a third of that sum." between the two countries, which historically had strong Iranian officials last week said the country, a import and export relations prior to the sanctions. member of the oil producer group OPEC, was Sturgeon’s new fund could start trading as early as August targeting oil and gas projects worth $185 billion by with internal capital and officially launch in September with 2020. as much as $30 million, according to Bloomberg. Once Nematzadeh reiterated that he expected Iran international sanctions are lifted, Sturgeon believes capacity to rejoin the international electronic payment for the fund will reach $500 million. system SWIFT three months from the moment that The fund, which will be based in Bermuda and named the sanctions, which were imposed to push Iran to Sturgeon Medes Fund, will be long-biased and plans to invest curtail its nuclear program, are "loosened". deal on July 14 and, if the U.N. atomic watchdog curb its nuclear activity, sanctions could begin to be in Iranian equities, primarily in the consumer pharmaceuticals, Iran and the six powers struck the nuclear confirms Tehran is complying with provisions to removed later this year. consumer discretionary and financial sectors – all areas where the removal of sanctions could have material impact. It will be launched in partnership with Iran’s Mofid Securities. Sturgeon’s CEO, Clemente Cappello, has reportedly Oman, Iran close in on $60 billion Pakistan eyeing to boost trade long eyed Iran as a potential investment target, visiting the gas plan with Iran country three years ago and since arguing for a curtailment of the sanctions regime. An Omani delegation was in Tehran Iranian gas to Oman for a period of Pakistan is eyeing huge opportunities and would accordingly try to evolve a Cappello founded Sturgeon in 2005 and launched its for the finalization of the operational 15 years. in Iran after deal with six major powers roadmap to further deepening of eco- Central Asia fund a year later. The firm’s approximately $75 plan for transfer of the Iranian gas The two countries signed anoth- over its nuclear program. nomic cooperation between the two million in AUM is deployed across listed equities, private to the sultanate via a pipeline across er deal in 2007 to build a liquefied Islamabad and Tehran would dis- countries. equity, special situations, credit and fixed income, primarily the Persian Gulf, a top energy official natural gas (LNG) plant in Oman to cuss prospects of a Free Trade Agree- “Islamabad and Tehran will discuss in Central Asian markets such as Kazakhstan, Georgia and says. process the Iranian gas. ment (FTA) and investment next week the issues under the new scenario in Russia. (Source: finalternatives.com) “Currently, the Iranian adviser Oman has undertaken to pay the at ministerial level meetings in order to the region and would try to exploit for studying (the subsea section of) entire cost of the pipeline and the capitalize on new opportunities once them for the mutual benefits”, the the pipeline for 200 kilometers from related infrastructure, according to economic sanctions against Iran are sources said, adding it would be too Kuh-e Mubarak to Oman’s Sohar Iran’s Minister of Petroleum Bijan lifted by the international community. early to predict how developments un- BP, Shell, Eni say look to port has been chosen,” head of the Zangeneh. Sources in the Foreign Office con- fold towards a way forward. National Petrochemical Company “Gas exports to Oman and entry fided to The Nation that a high level In April this year Commerce Minis- return to Iran (NPC) Alireza Kameli said. into its retail market will make it pos- Iranian delegation led by Commerce ter Khuram Dastgir had led a high level Contd. from P. 1 The onshore section of the sible to sell the Iranian natural gas to Minister is due to visit Pakistan in the delegation to Iran where both the sides pipeline in Iran will be built for an- the region, especially Asian coun- first week of August. Iran wants to unveil its new energy contracts at a confer- had agreed to evolve a five-year facili- other 200 km from Rudan to Kuh-e tries,” he has said. The Iranian delegation would meet ence planned for December in London. tation plan to increase bilateral trade Mubarak, he added. On Wednesday, Kameli said the ministers including Khurram Dastgir, Deputy Oil Minister Amir Hossein Zamaninia told a Vien- from the current level of $1 billion to $5 “According to the plan, engineer- Persian Gulf littoral states are Iran’s Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ishaq Dar to na conference last week that Iran has identified nearly 50 oil billion. ing studies in both the offshore and top priority for gas exports in the discuss issues of mutual interest. and gas projects worth $185 billion up for grab. The sources are of the view that onshore sections will be carried out face of requests by European com- The sources said a number of issues Shell and other European energy giants such as France’s apart from economic sanctions on Iran, simultaneously so that the imple- panies. including deliberations on prospects of Total, Italy’s Eni and BP had built strong relationships with other major bottlenecks towards en- mentation of the two lines does not “Currently, many countries have FTA, Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline project Iran through work in the country’s oil and gas fields as well hancing bilateral trade and investment hit a snag,” Kameli added. voiced readiness to invest in our and investment in mutually beneficial as crude oil purchases before halting them under sanctions. in the two countries are smuggling, The $60 billion deal was conclud- upstream and downstream gas sec- fields. Shell was Iran’s second biggest corporate client along non-availability of banking channels, ed during President Hassan Rouha- tor and are seriously pushing for im- Both the sides would take stock of with Total in 2012 when the Anglo-Dutch company lifted custom duties, non-operational system ni’s visit to Muscat in 2013 to ship 10 ports of the Iranian gas. the post nuclear situation and lifting 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day. of barter trade as well as transport-re- million cubic meters per day of the (Source: Press TV) of economic sanctions against Iran (Source: The Nation) Executives from Eni and Shell traveled to Tehran in June lated issues. and May to discuss new opportunities in the resource-rich country and outstanding debts. On Thursday, Eni’s Chief Executive Officer Claudio Des- Iran car suppliers eye western joint ventures as thaw starts calzi said his company was interested in returning to Iran Iran's component producer association says joint President Barack Obama has dropped heavy hints once the sanctions ended. ventures will form a key plank of its plan to re- he may use his ultimate executive power of veto to “Iran in terms of oil and gas is a huge and big country, establish ties with western companies. railroad the agreement through. very interesting, but we need to wait,” he said in a Bloomb- Tehran is looking to come in from the cold after Iranian suppliers have had to make do and mend erg Television interview. decades of being shunned by western powers keen in terms of component production for domestic Meanwhile, BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley said his com- to dissuade it from any chance of developing nuclear giants, IKCO and Saipa but, despite maintaining they pany was looking for opportunities in Iran’s upstream oil weapons. have enough 'hardware', are nonetheless keen to industry. Capitals from London to Paris and Washington to tap into western 'software' skills which will add the Dudley said he is also planning to look for upstream op- Brussels imposed harsh economic sanctions on Iran necessary level of sophistication. portunities in Iran after sanctions are lifted, but is unclear as a jittery west refused to believe Tehran's assertion "For Iranian parts producers, [a] key point is what Tehran’s intentions are for its new oil contracts. it was researching power for peaceful energy needs working in joint ventures," Iranian Auto Parts “If the sanctions are relaxed in a way that allows us to but the recent agreement in Vienna between both Manufacturing Association (IAPMA) general go work there, obviously we would explore opportunities in sides could see a rapid thaw in relations. permanent Security Council member, Germany, and secretary, Sasan Ghorbani told just-auto from Tehran. Iran,” Dudley told reporters in London. The deal, thrashed out by the P5+1 negotiation Iran, must now pass a painfully exhaustive line by "We are looking for the right partners to come here “As a company that works all over the globe it would be group: UK, France, Russia, U.S., China plus the non- line analysis by the American congress, although and work here. (Source: just-auto.com) natural for us” to work in Iran, he added. Last week, an official said Iran has marked out as many as 50 oil and gas projects worth $185 billion for presentation to Lufthansa's prospective investors within 2-3 months along with the new contract models. Austrian ready to Iran plans to present its opportunities in upstream oil and expand services to Iran First Announcement gas at a London conference later this year. 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The good and bad Taliban COMMENT After the deaths of Mullah Omar and Malik Ishaq, new questions arise about the Taliban talks. Avant-garde option not beyond Europe hat started as mere An integrated Europe is best route Wmurmurings a few days towards stability — but there’s room for ago about Taliban leader Mullah Omar's death, was confirmed France and Germany to innovate on Wednesday when the Afghan By Natalie Nougayrede government went on record to say the reports were true. f Europe wants to pull out of the doldrums, it will have Throughout the day a steady Ito integrate more, not less. Of course, that motto has stream of unnamed Afghan, been heard before. The old federalist’s credo, some may Pakistan, and even some Taliban say, is what got us into the present mess in the first place. officials suggested Mullah Omar In the light of attacks on the EU from both right and left, was no more. it’s harder than ever to defend the integrationist view. With the confirmation, the Yet it remains the only way out of Europe’s many travails. obvious question that popped Of course, there is the up into many minds was what option of discarding what impact this development will has been achieved since have on the recently initiated the 1957 Treaty of Rome peace talks between the Ashraf because the present Ghani government and Taliban outcome doesn’t fully live representatives in Pakistan, backed up to the expectations by the country's powerful military. of whatever politics you There were fears of Mullah subscribe to (not enough Omar's death leading to a power social protection for the struggle within the Afghan militant left, too much regulation movement and even leading to for the right). But the fragmentation. constructive way out Until the new hierarchy is not of the crisis would be demonstrably in place, the situation to forge ahead towards would cast a shadow over any talks. mechanisms for deeper But because [Mullah Omar] cooperation. It is a road that ultimately leads to a had evaded capture or death, he common economic policy for the Eurozone, and a multi- acquired a mythical status and was Afghanistan triggered a chain- a mortuary in southern Punjab may former chief of army staff retired layered Europe. seen as the inspiration behind all reaction of events that would have represented the adage live by General Pervez Ashfaq Kayani: Recently France and Germany have, to varying militant activity directed against change the world beyond anybody's the sword, die by the sword. "General, Sir, we are like your degrees, indicated that they are interested in such the foreign troops present in recognition, was dead. But it was wholly inadequate children but we can't do as you a way forward. Britain will not be part of it because, Afghanistan, for a very long period. He may not have been hunted to tell the story of the terror say." historically, its mindset and political culture set it apart However, all major players, with the same fervor as Osama perpetrated by the man who was In a meeting, Kayani had from the other large European states. Others, such as particularly Pakistan's all-pervasive bin Laden, a guest of the Taliban lying dead there in the company reportedly asked him to stop the Poland, who are not part of the Eurozone will eventually security services, the Inter-Services emirate when he owned up to of his two sons and about a dozen murder of Shia Muslims. have to make a strategic choice. As always with the Intelligence Directorate (ISI), directing the 9/11 attacks on the other comrades. This incident was never denied European project, it is likely that fear of the abyss will reputed to enjoy huge influence United States, was but the Taliban Malik Ishaq, who by his own by the military, which has been be the main driving force for progress. The Greek crisis with the Afghan Taliban, would "emir" hosted the man and refused admission, was responsible for blamed in the past for nurturing has given everyone a timely reminder what the abyss have known of this development to hand him over to the U.S. and its the murder of more than 100 Shia such terrorists and their groups for looks like. and prepared for it. allies. Muslims in Pakistan, was the head use in Indian-administered Kashmir It is interesting that the recent gruelling events in Admittedly, it is too early to say if The military action that followed of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - and Afghanistan. Europe have fired up such old debates again making Mullah Omar's death public the 9/11 attacks saw him dislodged a terrorist organization committed Such was the villainous record With this in mind, it’s hardly surprisingly to hear the at this stage, when it supposedly from power in Kabul. to the "extermination" of Shia of the man that even the usually name of Jacques Delors cited more frequently these happened in April 2013, was aimed But because he had evaded Muslims. vocal human rights activists did days. Whenever Europe flounders, the rule seems to at making the militant movement capture or death, he acquired a Despite spending a decade and a not question whether the "shoot- be to call upon the founding fathers to consolidate the more amenable to negotiations or mythical status and was seen as half in prison on charges relating to out" between his comrades and the project once more. Delors, a French socialist who headed to thwart the talks. the inspiration behind all militant the murder of 70 Shia Muslims, he police escorting him to a weapons the European Commission from 1985 to 1995, evidently For example, if it is the latter, activity directed against the foreign was never convicted. cache was actually what happened: feels comfortable in his role as a sage: recently he called and there are influential sections troops present in Afghanistan, for a Witnesses were intimidated. Was it an attempt to spring him from for urgent repair work to the EU’s architecture. within Afghanistan's delicate very long period. Those who refused to withdraw custody, or a staged extrajudicial The Eurozone, he said, simply could not continue to power structure who are hostile The news will have a telling were killed. Prosecutors were killing as had become the wont of be governed the way it is currently: “The economic and to these talks - in fact, they are effect on the region, including reminded of the fate of the others the security forces when they can't monetary union needs to be recast,” he said. “Will they hostile towards having much to do Pakistan, even though the country who did not oblige. secure court convictions? do this? There was an error in the construct to start with. with Pakistan - then the news will had woken up to equally dramatic A judge trying him was said to More significantly, as the day There have also been stupidities, and there has been bring into question the efficacy of but different news - the killing of have buried his face in his hands ended, many people in Punjab were the incapacity of the Eurozone to put an end to these.” any talks where the representative Malik Ishaq. before leaving the court in a rush nervous and bracing for possible Now the time had come to address those mistakes. The status of Taliban interlocutors is Following Ishaq's death, a when Malik Ishaq got up and retaliation by Malik Ishaq's group problem wasn’t the common currency in itself, but the questionable itself. photograph, released to the media, started to rattle off the names of as he enjoyed a considerable fact that it had remained an incomplete project. If the whole idea was to make of his bullet-riddled, bloodied his children. Ishaq had been freed following in the southern part Last week Francois Hollande came out of what will the announcement so the new corpse with one glazed eye by the Lahore High Court in 2014, of the country's most populated possibly be remembered as the most harrowing summit leadership is quickly in place and seemingly staring at nothingness in but was recently rearrested. province. in decades with that same conclusion. The French so an embarrassing situation - like disbelief on the cold, tiled floor of He is quoted to have told the Most also wanted to know if president called for the creation of an “avant-garde” the one when the Taliban Qatar his death finally meant an end to for European states in favor of deeper integration. office representatives decried the the military's use of proxies and if Mentioning Delors as a reference, he called for the talks while those still claiming to Malik Ishaq, who by his own admission, was it was now committed to crushing creation of a “Eurozone government”, which would hold a brief for Mullah Omar were responsible for the murder of more than 100 Shia all terror groups as the army chief have its own budget as well as a parliament to ensure engaging in these - would not has publicly pledged. Perhaps the democratic oversight. His prime minister, Manuel Valls, happen again. Muslims in Pakistan, was the head of the outlawed distinction between the so-called has suggested that this avant-garde should be made up Nonetheless, the international Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - a terrorist organization good and bad Taliban has now been of the three founding states of the European project: media had its top story. abandoned. France, Germany and Italy. Mullah Omar, whose rule in committed to the “extermination” of Shia Muslims. (Source: Aljazeera) Contd. on P. 11 30 Years Experience in Rental Properties ( Mr.King ) Delta Home Real Estate

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IN THE NEWS Braille smartwatch Dot allows the Scientists develop new, faster method to produce graphene blind to read texts and e-books

Scientists have found a new, faster and scalable meth- People with visual impairments hours, lasting an average of five od to develop few-layer graphene for use in energy can use mobile features like days on a single charge. storage and other mate- Siri to speak their commands, While the smartwatch market – rial applications. and they can utilize the text-to- thanks to the Apple Watch – con- Graphene is a thin speech functionality to send mes- tinues to expand, this is the first atomic layer of graphite sages — but touch screens on option suited for the blind. (used in pencils) with nu- smartphones and watches do not According to the World Health merous properties that cater to this demographic. That Organization (WHO), 285 million could be valuable in a is, until now. people are living with severe visual variety of applications, A South Korean start-up has impairments globally, with 39 mil- including medicine, elec- developed Dot, lion qualifying as legally blind. tronics and energy. Dot has the first affordable Smart Braille devices are pretty Discovered only 11 the goal of Braille smartwatch pricey, costing upwards of $3,000, years ago, graphene is that allows the blind but this wearable is set to cost less one of the strongest ma- offering a more to read their texts than $300. terials in the world, highly affordable and even e-books. Dot has the goal of offering a conductive, flexible, and device to “Until now, if you more affordable device to increase transparent. got a message on iOS literacy among the blind. However, current methods for production currently increase from your girlfriend, According to the start-up, 95 require toxic chemicals and lengthy and cumbersome literacy among for example, you percent of visually impaired peo- processes that result in low yield that is not scalable had to listen to Siri ple cannot read, due in part to for commercial applications. the blind. read it to you in that the price of Braille readers, along The study describing the new one-step, high-yield voice, which is imper- with the fact that only 1 percent of generation was published by a collaborative team sonal,” Dot CEO Eric Ju Yoon Kim normal books are translated into that included Jeffrey Gordon of the Ben-Gurion told Tech in Asia. “Wouldn’t you Braille. University of the Negev (BGU) and Hui Tong Chua’s rather read it yourself and hear Dot’s investors have also tested group at the University of Western Australia (UWA, your girlfriend’s voice saying it in Haptic technology texts from apps such as iMessage Braille screen modules at ATMs Perth). your head?” The smartwatch uses haptic into Braille letters. This means and train stations in South Korea Their ultra-bright lamp-ablation method surmounts Dot is a wearable that has four technology to provide information blind users can also read e-books, that are updated in real-time, fur- the shortcomings and has succeeded in synthesizing “cells,” with six actively shifting in real time via touch. The user or utilize the device to get direc- ther working to include this demo- four to five layer graphene in higher yields. dots that rise and fall to make connects the smartwatch to Blue- tions. graphic in the technology age. (Source: Tech Times) It involves a novel optical system (originally in- four letters at a time. tooth 4.0, which then converts Dot has a battery life of 10 vented by Daniel Feuermann and Jeffrey Gordon from BGU) that reconstitutes the immense brightness with- in the plasma of high-power xenon discharge lamps at a remote reactor, where a transparent tube filled with New energy cell can store up solar Google equips ‘Street View’ cars with simple, inexpensive graphite is irradiated. The process is relatively faster, safer and green – de- energy for release at night sensors to monitor air pollution void of any toxic substances (just graphite plus con- centrated light), the researchers said. (Source: focusnews.com)

Study proves that coffee helps prevent dementia

Coffee has been receiving a lot of attention lately as brain enhancer. Some scientists don’t agree on the merits discussed sur- rounding coffee; some believe that long term coffee drinking brings a A photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) is a colleagues have created a PEC cell Google is mapping urban air quality creasingly important to quality of life.” lot of risks to the drinker special type of solar cell that gathers that includes a specially designed with a goal of making the data collect- The first pilot project was con- while others believe cof- the Sun’s energy and transforms it into photoelectrode (the component that ed available to the public. ducted in Denver, Colo., where three fee has a positive effect, either electricity or chemical energy converts incoming photons into elec- From checking out various cities of Google’s Street View cars were both are according to a used to split water and produce hy- trons). to taking a virtual vacation, Google’s equipped with Aclima’s sensors as Forbes report. The cur- drogen for use in fuel cells. In an ad- The system also includes a vana- Street View – a technology featured in they cruised around on city streets, rent study is on the lat- vance that could help this clean energy dium redox-flow battery (VRB). This is Google Maps and Google Earth – has collecting information about the ter’s side. source play a stronger role within the an already established type of energy provided 360-degree views from posi- particles floating in the air for over a Utilizing records from smart grid, researchers at the Univer- storage cell that is very well-suited for tions along many streets in the world. month. a former Italian Longi- sity of Texas, Arlington have found a the needs of the electrical grid as it Now, instead of taking panoramic “They measured for chemicals that tudinal Study involving way to store the electricity generated can stay idle for very long times with- pictures of everything it can, Google are hazardous to breathe, like nitrogen aging, a survey on 1,445 by a PEC cell for extended periods of out losing charge, is much safer than Street View is now mapping that dioxide, nitric oxide, ozone, carbon Italian citizens between time and allow electricity to be deliv- a lithium-ion cell (though less energy- which the eye cannot see. monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, the ages 65 and 84 was conducted; scientists inter- ered around the clock. dense), is nearly immune to tempera- Google has partnered with tech black carbon, particulate matter, and viewed people asking them questions concerning their Currently, the electricity generated ture extremes, and can be scaled up startup Aclima to equip Street View Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs),” health, which included how many cups of coffee they by a PEC cell could not be stored effec- very easily, simply by increasing the cars with a mobile sensor platform Tech Crunch reports. consumed. tively, as the electrons would quickly size of its electrolyte tanks. to map urban air quality in a project To assess if air quality is meeting The study discovered that people who drank coffee “disappear” into a lower-energy state. According to the researchers, the conducted with the US Environmental – or exceeding – public-health stand- consistently were more mentally active compared to This meant that these cells were not a vanadium flow battery works espe- Protection Agency (EPA) and NASA. ards, the EPA relies on an extensive those who didn’t. Those who increased their coffee in- viable solution for a clean-energy grid, cially well with their hybrid electrode, “We have a profound opportu- network of stationary equipment, take in a gradual manner were also at twice the risk of as the electricity had to be used very allowing them to boost the electric nity to understand how cities live and placed in urban areas that measure developing Mild Cognitive Impairment or MCI. The rate shortly after being produced. That is, current, offering great reversibility breathe in an entirely new way,” Acli- carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, of MCI in persons who take their coffee in a gradual on sunny days, at a time when stand- (with 95 percent Faradaic efficiency) ma CEO Davida Herzl said in a state- sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, hy- fashion was 1.5 times more compared to those who ard PV panels would already be pro- and allowing for high-capacity energy ment. “With more than half of the drocarbons, and photochemical oxi- consumed coffee once daily. ducing energy at full tilt. storage. world’s population now living in cities, dants. (Source: Weekly Observer) Now, researchers Fuqiang Liu and (Source: Gizmag) environmental health is becoming in- (Source: The Christian Science Monitor)

Mehr Petrochemical Company – an international company, active in producing HDPE and located in Assalouye area, seeks a finance manager Trees take longer to recover from droughts A new study has debunked the don’t take up the excess carbon di- percent slower in the second year. with extensive experience in corporate finance: generally held notion that forests oxide, then climate change would Long-lasting effects of drought and other vegetation can quickly speed up. were most prevalent in dry ecosys- Reporting to Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director, you will be responsible for the following duties: recover from extreme drought and For the study, Anderegg and tems, and among pines and tree Leading the corporate finance team has revealed that trees that outlive colleagues carefully measured the species with low hydraulic safety Managing strategic projects and building, developing and maintaining strong working relationships with the drought take up to four years to recovery of tree stem growth after margins. “These are the species key stakeholders completely recover from the stress severe droughts since 1948 at more that take risks – they tend to keep Playing a key role in the budgeting, forecasting and planning process and resume normal growth rates. than 1,300 forest sites globally us- using water at a high rate even as Financial modeling, analysis and presentation of findings to senior stakeholders and executive team Researchers say that the find- ing records from the International drought progresses,” Anderegg Preparation and review of the monthly business performance report and rolling 12-month forecasts ing is particularly important as Tree Ring Data Bank. Tree rings pro- says. Overseeing annual tax processes droughts are expected to be a com- vide a convenient history of wood How drought causes such long- Development and refinement of management accounting and reporting, including KPIs and enhanced mon occurrence owing to human- growth and track carbon uptake lasting harm remains unknown, but business analysis induced climate change. The find- of the ecosystem in which the tree Implementing the business strategy plan the researchers offered three possi- Completion of statutory financial accounts for Australian group entities ing that drought stress sets back grew. ble answers: Loss of foliage and car- Ensuring adherence with group policies and procedures tree growth for years suggests that The researchers found that a bohydrate reserves during drought Earth’s forests are capable of stor- few forests showed positive effects may impair growth in subsequent The successful candidate will possess the following qualifications: ing less carbon than climate models that is, observed growth was higher years. Pests and diseases may ac- B.A. or M.A. in Accounting, Financial Management have calculated. than predicted after drought, most cumulate in drought-stressed trees. Fluent in English Language “This really matters because in prominently in parts of California Lasting damage to vascular tissues Being Familiar with ERP ( Enterprise Resource Planning ) systems the future droughts are expected and the Mediterranean region. But could impair water transport. 20 years experience ( at least 10 years to be in management level) to increase in frequency and sever- in the majority of the world’s for- While it remains difficult to pre- Experience in Petrochemical Complex ity due to climate change,” says ests, trees struggled for years after dict changes in precipitation, the CA/PA qualification lead author William R.L. Anderegg, experiencing drought. impact of higher temperatures is Strong leadership and motivational skills an assistant professor of biology at On average, trunk growth took certain. “Drought, especially the the University of Utah. “Some for- 2 to 4 years to return to normal. type that matters to forests, is Eligible candidates are invited to send their CV to the following address; ests could be in a race to recover Growth was about 9 percent slow- about the balance between precipi- [email protected] before the next drought strikes.” er than expected during the first tation and evaporation. Anderegg added that if forests year of recovery, and remained 5 (Source: Techie News) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y

http://www.tehrantimes.com/sports AUGUST 1, 2015 SPORTSS P O R 9

Iran’s Siamand BASKETBALL Sahakian - It's full steam Siamand ahead for Iran Rahman Rahman king of proved his TEHRAN (2015 FIBA Asia Championship) - Oshin Saha- worth as kian has experienced it all with Iran’s national team. one of the The good and the bad. strongest Since 2007, when he made his FIBA Asia Champion- powerlifters at Paralympians ship bow and Iran captured the title for the first time, by lifting Sahakian and the national team have had mostly highs. 285.5kg in That triumph qualified the team for the Beijing the men's Olympics and in 2009 +107kg to they defended their Asian Almaty 2015 beat team title and clinched a spot mate and at the 2010 FIBA Basket- Contd. form P. 1 2015, China topped the medalsmedals tabletable withwith 19 world record ball World Cup in Turkey. medals, including eight ggold,old, seven sisilverlver and holder Iran captured their Sensing the crowd wanted more, Rahman third FIBA Asia Champi- decided to go for broke in the third and final four bronze. Nigeria cameme second with six Mansour round, successful pushing 295kg to write his golds and four silver medals,edals, whilst Iran fin-fin- Pourmirzaei onship crown in 2013. name into the history books once again. ished third with three titlesles and four silverssilvers.. at the “Of course our first ti- tle in Asia was the sweet- His teammate Ahmad Aminzadeh (228kg) The Almaty 2015 IPCC Powerlifting Asian 2014 IPC took silver whilst South Korean Keun Bae Open Championships featuredeatured more than est,” Sahakian said. Powerlifting “Then the repeat and Chun (228kg) rounded-off the podium. 220 athletes from 32 countriesuntries in one of the World At the end of the competition at Almaty biggest Asian Championshipsships everever.. then the third one. Championships. The Olympic Games experience was unforget- table, too. Ex-president of Iran National Olympic Iran’s KIA Academy runner-up at 2015 “Every athlete’s dream is to be an Olympian one day and walk in the Opening Ceremony and compete Committee Davoudi laid to rest Norway Cup with the best in the world,” Sahakian said. “And the greatest feeling was walking in the [Olym- pic] village and meeting and greeting other athletes. “The moment I walked in the Opening Ceremony, it was a huge and sweet feeling and one of the most memorable nights of my life. “That is actually one of my motivations, to be able to experience that in Brazil also alongside my team- mates.” To make it to Rio de Janeiro for next year’s Olym- pics, Iran must win the FIBA Asia Championship in Changsha, China, a tournament that will be staged from 23 September-3 October. A second- or third-place finish would put Iran in the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT). TEHRAN - Former of the Iran’s Physical Education Or- TEHRAN –KIA al youth football tournament which Sport D e s k “The mindset for us is always the gold medal and Sport D e s k President of the Iran ganization as well. Football Academy has been held annually since 1972 qualifying directly for the Olympics,” Sahakian said. National Olympic Committee Mostafa Da- Davoudi also was president of football team finished runner-up at (except 1976) in Oslo, Norway. “After our close loss to Korea in Asian Games in voudi died at the age of 76 on Thursday. Iran Deaf Sports Federation for sev- the 2015 Norway Cup. It is the world’s largest football Incheon [in 2014], we still think we have some unfin- Davoudi, who passed away after eral years. The Iranian football team was de- tournament and sees a typical 1400 ished business we need to take care of. a long battle of illness, was laid to Iranian Minister of Youth Affairs feated against Emblem IL 4-1 in the to 1700 participating teams per year. “Another thing that motivates us is that this may be rest on Friday in Tehran’s Behesht-e and Sports Mahmoud Goudarzi ex- final match of the Boys U-13s - 7-a- The Norway Cup consists of tourna- Zahra cemetery. pressed grief over death of Nemati. side category. ments for ages 10 through 19 for both our last chance to play together with the teammates I Davoudi served as President of The Tehran Times staff also offers KIA’s Meysam Rezaei was chosen genders, with 43,141 teams having partic- grew up and played with the past 20 years. the National Olympic Committee its heartfelt condolences to his be- as the best player of the tournament. ipated between 1972 and 2009. The tour- “So all these reasons keep us motivated for the up- from 1980 to 1984. He was President reaved family. The Norway Cup is an internation- nament takes place at Ekebergsletta. coming Asian Championship.” This summer, Iran have a new coach. Dirk Bauermann was recently put in charge and so far, Sahakian says, everything has gone well. Guardiola: I have not made any decision on future He is excited to play for the former Germany and Poland coach. Pep Guardiola has no offers from other clubs and has la told a news conference on Friday. “I have not yet However, Guardiola dismissed both claims. “We learned a lot also from our previous coaches not made any decision on his future beyond the end decided what is best for this club -- and I want to do “Maybe Effenberg knows more than me,” he said, [Rajko Toroman, Veselin Matic and Memi Becirovic]. of the season, the Bayern Munich boss has insisted. the best for this club. I have not made a decision yet. adding: “I have not received an offer from any other “Each one brought something new to our basket- Guardiola, 44, has entered the final year of the “When I have made a decision, I will inform [for- club in this world.” ball and coach Bauermann in these past weeks, it has contract he signed in 2013, and there was fresh spec- mer president] Uli Hoeness, [CEO] Karl-Heinz Rum- There had been suggestions last season that Guar- been very comfortable. He is a straight to the point ulation at the weekend that he has already agreed menigge and [sporting executive] Matthias Sammer. diola’s time should be brought to an early end after person with good teamwork and a defensive oriented terms with Manchester City for the 2016-17 season. That’s the situation.” the club suffered a heavy defeat in the Champions philosophy. However, speaking ahead of Saturday’s German Su- Former Bayern captain Stefan Effenberg said in League semifinals for a second year in succession. “As a player, I can’t say much about my coaches, my percup clash with Wolfsburg, the former Barcelona coach German tabloid Bild on Friday that Guardiola was set There have also been concerns about his influence job is to listen and do whatever any coach tells me and said he has not made any decision about his next move. to leave, and Qatar-based network beIN Sports has on transfers given the uncertainty over his future. try to be the best at it.” “This will be the last time I talk about it,” Guardio- twice reported that he is set to join City. (Source: Soccernet) As for having to make adjustments to a new coach, Sahakian said: “I don’t think changes affect us much. “As I said, we got different things from each Lausanne chosen as host city of Beijing awarded 2022 one of them and increased our level of basketball, had great time and memories with them so I thank 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Winter Olympics them all.” There seems to be universal agreement that Iran were much better than their 1-4 record at last year’s FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain suggests. The team lost to two sides that reached the podium in Serbia and France, and also fell to hosts Spain and Brazil - powerhouses in the game. “I can say that we played well against all teams, es- pecially against Serbia and France. “The France game became close and we had the chance also to go to the next round. “Maybe with more experience and a bit of luck, we would have won that game. The experience we got from the World Cup also was great and most definitely we will bring that to the Asian Championship.” Lausanne, the Swiss city where the Jacques Rogge to encourage more Beijing was chosen by the Interna- promised,” the Beijing Bid Commit- Iran will not have it easy at the FIBA Asia Champion- International Olympic Committee young people to stay in sport. tional Olympic Committee (IOC) to tee said in a statement. ship. (IOC) is based, was chosen on Fri- The first Winter Youth Games host the 2022 Winter Olympics on “This will be a memorable event There will be some tough opponents. day to host the 2020 Winter Youth were held at Innsbruck, Austria in Friday, becoming the first city to be at the foot of the Great Wall for the “If we want to be champion, we have to beat all the Olympics. 2012 and Lillehammer, Norway will awarded both the summer and win- whole Olympic Family, the athletes teams,” Sahakian said. Lausanne easily won a secret bal- host the second edition next year. ter Games. and the spectators that will further “It doesn’t matter if we face them in the First Round, lot of IOC members at a convention As part of their proposal, Laus- The Chinese capital beat Kazakh- enhance the tremendous potential the Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals or Finals.” center in downtown Kuala Lumpur, anne’s bidders said they planned stan’s Almaty in a secret ballot of 85 to grow winter sports in our country, Iran will encounter great players like Andray Blatche beating the only other candidate, to stage some skiing events in IOC members held at a convention in Asia and around the world.” of the Philippines. the Romanian city of Brasov, which neighboring France, embracing the center in downtown Kuala Lumpur Despite concerns about a lack “Andray is great player,” Sahakian said. hosted the 2013 European Youth IOC’s new Agenda 2020 propos- in a decision that drew immediate of natural snow in the city’s distant “I have seen him playing in the NBA and saw his Olympic Winter Festival. als encouraging bidding cities to criticism from human rights activists. mountains, and protests from hu- games playing in China’s CBA. Lausanne won the ballot in a land- adopt more flexible and cheaper The ballot was conducted twice, man rights groups, Beijing had been “Don’t forget also that we have the best players in slide, collecting 71 votes to 10. strategies. first electronically and then by paper the clear favorite to win the vote af- Asia also like Samad Nikkhah Bahrami, Hamed Haddadi, “This year we are celebrating the Lausanne has bid for the Summer after it was discovered the electron- ter it successfully hosted the 2008 Mehdi Kamrani, Hamed Afagh and a young generation 100-year anniversary of the IOC’s Olympics three times but lost out on ic system had malfunctioned. Summer Olympics. of high level players like [Mohammad] Jamshidi, [Saj- presence in Lausanne,” IOC presi- each occasion. The IOC said Beijing won a surpris- The high-powered Chinese del- jad] Mashayekhi, [Arsalan] Kazemi, [Arman] Zangeneh dent Thomas Bach told reporters. Swiss officials hinted that Laus- ingly close vote, 44-40, with one ab- egation assured IOC members that and [Behnam] Yakhchali and we will be ready to play “It is great we will now be able to anne could possibly bid the for fu- stention. Beijing was the safe choice because against all those teams. continue this until 2020.” ture Winter Olympics. Switzerland “Just as with the Beijing 2008 it had already proved it could stage “We look forward to play against all the teams and Summer Games, the Olympic Fam- the Games and said it would take The Youth Olympics are restricted has hosted the Winter Olympics I am sure we will see great games and very good Asian to athletes aged between 14-18, and twice before, in 1928 and 1948, both ily has put its faith in Beijing again to winter sports into the backyard of Championship this year.” 2020 will be the third edition of the in St. Moritz. deliver the athlete-centered, sustain- the world’s most populated country. (Source: FIBA.com) initiative from former IOC president (Source: Reuters) able and economical Games we have (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 10 SOCIETY AUGUST 1, 2015 http://www.tehrantimes.com/society

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Iran to up medicine exports to $500 million

TEHRAN — Gener- have had similar domestically-pro- lents, adding that the policy which is cessful in exporting drugs. One Social Desk al Director of Iran duced equivalents. going to continue in the same year of these companies has exported Food and Drugs Administration Mahdi “Therefore pharmaceutical com- succeeded to reduce the imports to about $30 million of medicines to Pirsalehi has said that the Ministry of panies are worried that the import- one billion dollars. Russia, though, it is a small figure Health is planning to increase medi- ed medicines may become a rival for He also said that Iran’s pharma- compared with one billion dollar im- cine exports to at least $500 million in their products; however, about 97 ceutical market in the last year was ports, he added. the next three years. percent of pharma products are now worth 11 thousand billion tomans ($ He said that companies involved “Very good meetings have been supplied domestically,” he added. 3.3 billion), 67 percent of which was in pharma importing were paying 10 held with the Iraqi health minister to Pirsalehi said that Iran Food and supplied domestically and 33 import- to 15 percent extra to intermediate meet the target,” IRNA quoted Pir- Drug Administration adopted a pol- ed from overseas. banks during the sanctions and added salehi as saying on Fraiday. icy last year to limit the importing He also noted that some science- that if sanctions are lifted, the margin A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair Iraq, according to Pirsalehi, is a of the medicines based companies with new activities profits will increase accordingly. weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost good untapped pharmaceutical mar- which have simi- have joined pharma industry over There are currently about 100 phar- ket where Iran has not entered yet. lar domestically- the last few years which maceutical manufactures active in He also noted that about $1.300 produced equiva- have been very Iran, he concluded. billion of medicine was imported into Iran from March 2013 to March LEARN ENGLISH 2014, 50 percent of which suc- Resembling One’s Parents

Khaled: Hi, what are you looking at? Susanna: Your photo albums. Your roommate let me in and said I could make myself comfortable while I wait- ed for you. Khaled: There are some really incriminating pictures in there. You’d better give those back to me. Susanna: Not yet! I’m looking at your baby pic- tures and your family portraits. You’re the spitting im- age of your mother. Khaled: That’s not my mother. That was our neighbor. 50 percent of Iranians are overweight: health minister Susanna: Oh, now that I look a little closer, I can see that you resemble your father. You’re a chip off the old TEHRAN — Iranian Health Min- pressure in the Iranian society. he added. block. Social Desk ister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi “More than 50 percent of deaths in Iran are The health minister expressed concern that Khaled: That’s not my father. That’s my father’s friend. warned on Friday that half of Iranians are over- caused by strokes out of which around 35 percent youngsters are overeating fast foods, saying that Now, why don’t I take those... weight, IRNA reported. happen due to cardiac arrest and 15 percent due to people must be cautious and choose the proper Susanna: Wait! These candids of your birthday parties Qazizadeh Hashemi, who was making the remarks brain stroke,” Qazizadeh Hashemi said. food. are so cute! You were so adorable! during a conference on Sport for All in Khorshid Park “Salt consumption in Iran is three to four times He noted that about 36 years ago, the aver- Khaled: Right. When I was a kid, I had a face only a in the city of Mashahd, also said that five millions of more than in neighboring countries; this issue will in- age life expectancy in the country was about 55 mother could love. Iranians suffer from diabetes. crease strokes in the country. People play a key role years, but it has risen to 73 now. He added the Susanna: That’s not true! You have a great profile. I’d He noted that low engagement in physical ac- in the development of the countries, if they are not average life expectancy without disability is now expect to see your likeness in paintings and on statues. tivities has given rise to diseases such as high blood healthy, then, the development won’t be achieved,” 62 year. Khaled: Okay, enough with the brown-nosing. What do you really want? Susanna: I don’t want anything...okay, just one little thing. My cousin is in town. I want to go out with Rick Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 154 degrees, near world record tonight and I thought we could double date. Me, Rick, my In the city of Bandar Mahshahr with a population ter. cousin...and you. What do you say? of about 110,000 as of 2010, the air felt like a sear- The highest known heat index ever to be re- Khaled: I knew it had to be something. Does she look ing 154 degrees (67.8 Celsius) on Thursday, factor- corded, according to weather historian Christo- like you? ing in the humidity. pher Burt, is in the 155-160 degree range. In his Susanna: We are like two peas in a pod. Its actual air temperature was 109 degrees (42.8 book Extreme Weather, Burt says Dharhan, Saudi Khaled: Then, forget it! Celsius) with an astonishing dew point tempera- Arabia, also on the Persian Gulf, logged a heat in- Susanna: Hmph! (Source: .eslpod.com) ture of 90 (32.2 Celsius). dex of around 155-160 degrees on July 8, 2003. Its Bandar Mahshahr sits adjacent to the Persian air temperature was 108 degrees, with a dew point Words & Phrases Gulf in southwest Iran where water tempera- of 95. photo album: a type of book in which you keep pho- tures are in the 90s. Such high temperatures This week, on top of the humidity, a punishing tos. lead to some of the most oppressive humidity heat wave has engulfed the Middle East. incriminate: to make someone seem guilty, especial- levels in the world when winds blow off the wa- (Source: The Washington Post) ly of a crime. be the spitting image of somebody: to look extreme- ly similar to someone. resemble : to look like or be like someone or some- Facebook’s first intern just landed $50 million from Peter Thiel and other investors thing. a chip off the old block: someone who is very simi- By Eugene Kim The company saw good traction early on, and in day, it announced a fresh $50 million round led by Pe- lar in character to their father or mother. 2011, even got a $35 million acquisition offer from Goog- ter Thiel’s Founders Fund, joined by Jerry Yang’s AME candid: a candid photograph is a photograph cap- arian Shirazi started his career at 15 years old, when le. Most 24-year olds would have taken the money in a Cloud Ventures, Formation 8, and Salesforce Ventures. tured through motion mostly, without creating a posed Dhe made his name reselling computer components beat, but Shirazi saw a bigger opportunity there. Shirazi declined to disclose the valuation of his com- appearance. This is achieved by avoiding prior prepara- on eBay. His sales were so impressive that eBay ended “I felt as though if [Fwix] was good enough for pany, only saying it’s between $500 million and $1 bil- tion of the subject and by either surprising the subject or up offering him an internship for the next two sum- Google, it’s probably good enough to build something lion. He did say Radius’s revenue has grown 400% in the by not distracting the subject during the process of tak- mers. independent,” Shirazi told Business Insider. “Of course, past 12 months, doubling its valuation, which explains ing photos. Soon, Shirazi was able to build some strong connec- I was afraid [to decline the offer] but it was worth the why the company was able to raise again just 10 months adorable: extremely charming. tions in the Valley, and got himself hired as Facebook’s risk. The juice was worth the squeeze.” after its $54 million Series C round in September. Radius a face only a mother could love: a very ugly face. first-ever intern when there were just about 12 total em- After turning down Google, Shirazi pivoted his com- has raised a total of $125 million to date. profile: a side view of a person’s face. ployees. He worked directly under Facebook CEO Mark pany to target all kinds of businesses instead of just Shirazi said most of the money will be spent on ramp- likeness: the fact of being similar in appearance. Zuckerberg for nearly two years before pulling himself media companies, turning it into a predictive marketing ing up his sales team, as he plans to make a stronger statue: an object made from a hard material, especial- out to go to college. software company called Radius. Its software looks at push towards more Fortune 500 companies to use his ly stone or metal, to look like a person or animal. His time at Facebook landed him more money than millions of data signals to identify potential custom- product. Shirazi hopes these efforts will lead to a wider brown-nose: to try too hard to please someone, es- most 20-somethings could ever imagine, but Shirazi didn’t ers, while helping run marketing campaigns to acquire deployment, and ultimately a bigger company. pecially someone in a position of authority, in a way that stop there. He went on to launch a startup called Fwix, a them and analyze their performance. “We want to become the de facto marketing plat- other people find unpleasant. hyperlocal news aggregator that crawled the web for lo- In the three years since its pivot, Radius has grown form for CMOs,” he said. “I want to build a company what do you say: used for making a suggestion. cal news and related content, building up a database that into one of the more popular marketing software com- that’s going to be here forever.” like two peas in a pod: very similar, especially in ap- media companies could use to generate leads. panies, drawing top Valley investors. And on Wednes- (Source: Business Insider) pearance. Man sentenced to death for murder of 5 neighbors in Yamaguchi 101WAYS The Yamaguchi District Court has sen- Wednesday. A haiku poem was found stuck to to Homi, a shirt and a pair of pants that tenced a 65-year-old man to death The five victims represented a third the window of Homi’s house. It read: belonged to him in the mountains. To transform your life for killing five of his neighbors in the of the population of the hamlet. Three “Setting a fire—smoke gives delight— Homi had a reputation in the village Work at being content with who you are rather mountain hamlet of Shunan, Yamagu- corpses were found after two houses to a country fellow.” as a troublemaker, local media report- chi Prefecture, in July 2013. were burned to the ground, while Homi had left his house, two cars ed, adding that he had once boasted than pleasing others by being unauthentic. Say 12 Kosei Homi had pleaded not guilty the bodies of two more people were and his dog behind. And when he was to neighbors that he would be immune to yourself:”I am what I am, and that is okay as long as to charges of murder and arson at his found in their homes. All five were in found on a little-used mountain trail, from prosecution if he killed people I’m not hurting anybody in the process”. You have the trial which began last month and end- their 70s or 80s and all had been bat- he was barefoot and in his underwear. because he is on medication. right to be who you are, and the only morality that you ed Tuesday afternoon, Fuji TV reported tered or stabbed to death. Police found a mobile phone registered (Source: Japan Today) have to be concerned with is whether somebody else is being hurt by you being who you are. You don’t have to apologize for anything or anyone; you don’t have LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION to apologize to anyone for anything that you are. It is a wonderful affirmation: “I am what I am”, say it over آﻳﺖ اﻟﻠﻪ ﺟﻨﺘﻲ ﺑﻪ ﻋﻨﻮان دﺑري ﺷﻮراي ﻧﮕﻬﺒﺎن اﺑﻘﺎ ﺷﺪ and over again today. Jannati reinstated as Guardian Council secretary

ﭘﺎﯾﮕﺎه ﺧﱪی ﺗﺤﻠﯿﻠﯽ اﻧﺘﺨﺎب (Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati has been reinstated as the secretary of the Guard- : (Entekhab.ir اﻧﺘﺨﺎﺑﺎت ﻫﻴﺎت رﻳﻴﺴﻪ ﺷﻮراي ﻧﮕﻬﺒﺎن ﺻﺒﺢ ﭼﻬﺎرﺷﻨﺒﻪ ﺑﺮﮔﺰار ﺷﺪ ﮐﻪ ﻃﻲ آن، دﺑريي آﻳﺖ اﻟﻠﻪ اﺣﻤﺪ ﺟﻨﺘﻲ ﺑﺮ اﻳﻦ ﺷﻮرا متﺪﻳﺪ ﺷﺪ. .When you ian Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran ﺑﻪ ﮔﺰارش ه ادارﮐﻞ رواﺑﻂ ﻋﻤﻮﻣﻲ ﺷﻮراي ﻧﮕﻬﺒﺎن، ﻫﻤﭽﻨني در اﻳﻦ ﺟﻠﺴﻪ ﻣﺤﻤﺪ رﺿﺎ ﻋﻠﻴﺰاده ﺑﻪ ﻋﻨﻮان ﻗﺎﺋﻢ ﻣﻘﺎم دﺑري The Guardian Council presiding board convened on Wednesday morning save water, to elect the council’s secretary, deputy secretary, and spokesman, Entekhab وﻧﺠﺎت اﻟﻠﻪ اﺑﺮاﻫﻴﻤﻴﺎن ﺑﻪ ﻋﻨﻮان ﺳﺨﻨﮕﻮي ﺷﻮراي ﻧﮕﻬﺒﺎن اﻧﺘﺨﺎب ﺷﺪﻧﺪ. .news website reported ﻋﻠﻴﺰاده و اﺑﺮاﻫﻴﻤﻴﺎن ﭘﻴﺶ از اﻳﻦ ﻧﻴﺰ ﻗﺎﺋﻢ ﻣﻘﺎم و ﺳﺨﻨﮕﻮي ﺷﻮراي ﻧﮕﻬﺒﺎن ﺑﻮدﻧﺪ. -it saves Mohammad Reza Alizadeh and Nejatollah Ebrahimian were elected as dep uty secretary and spokesman of the council respectively. you back. The two also used to hold the same positions before the elections as after. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y http://www.tehrantimes.com/international AUGUST 1, 2015 WORLD IN FOCUS 11

China and Russia will hold joint mili- claimed by China, though both sides tary drills in the waters and airspace of China, Russia to hold have made efforts to cool tensions the Sea of Japan, Beijing said, the lat- through dialogue, including meet- est defense cooperation between the ings between Xi and Japanese Prime JUMP countries. joint naval, air drill Minister Shinzo Abe. The exercises will take place Aug. The Japanese government last week Rouhani calls on FTZs 20-28 in the Peter the Great Gulf and claimed that China has put 16 drilling rigs other areas off the Russian coast, close to its de facto maritime border to focus on exports Defense Ministry spokesman Yang with Japan, claiming China could exploit Contd. from P. 1 Yujun told reporters. undersea reserves over which the two A key purpose of the drills was to countries are at loggerheads. “Free trade zones in the country, instead of focusing “further enhance their capabilities Yang dismissed Tokyo’s claims. on imports, should get closer to their original goal which of jointly coping with maritime secu- ‘The purpose of the Japanese accu- is promoting exports,” Rouhani noted. rity threats,” Yang said, adding they sation against China is to create and To do so the best commercial services commensurate will include training in air defense, play up the China threat theory,” he to international standards in banking, insurance, and anti-submarine and surface warfare, and said, adding it provided Japan “an transportation should be provided, the president said, landings. excuse” for new defense legislation. adding that the ground should be prepared to produce China will send seven naval Japan’s lower house of parliament value-added commodities through employing advanced ships including a destroyer and a this month approved controversial laws technology with the least amount of red tape. frigate, along with fighter jets and to allow Japanese troops to fight along- other aircraft, Yang said. Russia’s side allies when under attack, which contingent will include surface vessels, has raised concerns in China that Tokyo submarines and fixed wing will take a more robust military stance. Avant-garde option aircraft, he said, adding that both sides Mediterranean. It was China’s farthest divisive China is planning a huge mili- will dispatch ship-borne helicopters ever naval issues such as the conflict in Syria. tary parade in early September to not beyond Europe and marines. exercise from its home waters. The waters of the Peter the Great commemorate victory over Japanese The drills come as Beijing and Chinese President Xi Jinping and Gulf, south of Vladivostok, are close forces as well as the broader defeat Contd. from P. 7 Moscow intensify cooperation in mili- his Russian counterpart Vladimir to where the borders of Russia, China of the Axis powers in World War Key factor tary, political and economic spheres. Putin hold frequent summits and their and North Korea come together. II. Russian troops will participate. Of course, this could turn out to be little more In May they conducted their first countries, both permanent members Beijing and Tokyo are at odds China’s military took part in a march in than utopianism. But it is interesting that the recent joint naval exercises in European of the United Nations Security Council, over islands in the East China Sea Moscow in May also marking the end grueling events in Europe have opened up such a waters in the Black Sea and often take similar stances there on farther south controlled by Japan but of the conflict. (Source: Defense News) debate. No doubt the obstacles are numerous. One obvious key factor will be Germany’s reaction to the French proposals. Now regularly vilified as Europe’s U.S. spied on Japan Russia says deal reached with hegemon, Germany will have to map out the advan- tages — for itself and for the continent as a whole companies, govt.: WikiLeaks France on warship compensation — of turning the crisis of the euro into an opportunity The U.S. spied on Japanese poli- Washington, it said. Russia has reached a compensation whether or not to scrap the conten- for change. This is another test for Angela Merkel: will ticians, its top central banker and The group also pointed to inter- deal with France for the non-de- tious contract to supply the two the damage done to Europe’s image in many minds, major firms including conglomerate cepts about “sensitive climate livery of two Mistral warships, warships to Russia. and to that of Germany in the role of dominant power, Mitsubishi, according to documents change strategy” and the “content a Kremlin aide has said, but Par- A French presidency source Friday lead to a reckoning? released by WikiLeaks Friday, in the of a confidential prime ministerial is on Friday refused to confirm an refused to confirm that any agree- I wouldn’t bet against it. There is no doubt that in latest revelation about Washington’s briefing that took place at [Prime agreement. ment had been reached. recent years Germany’s insistence on strict fiscal disci- snooping on allies. Minister] Shinzo Abe’s official resi- “The negotiations are completely Hollande had said earlier this pline has determined much of what has happened in the The intercepts exposing U.S. dence.” finished, everything has already year that the conditions for the Eurozone. But it is also worth remembering that Merkel National Security Agency espionage There is no specific mention of been decided, both the time-frame delivery were “still not right” and has previously taken a stand in favor of deeper, more follow other documents that showed wiretapping Abe but senior politi- and the amount,” President Vladimir suggested that only the full imple- comprehensive and political integration — one that no spying on allies including Germany cians were targeted, including Trade Putin’s adviser for military and tech- mentation of a tenuous cease-fire longer gives the impression that one European state is and France, straining relations with Minister Yoichi Miyazawa, while nical cooperation, Vladimir Kozhin, in eastern Ukraine could make Paris more equal than others. them. Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko told state news agency RIA Novosti revisit the situation. In a 2012 speech in front of the EU parliament Japan is one of Washington’s key Kuroda was also in the sights of U.S. Thursday evening. The first ship was due for delivery she called for a stability union that would involve allies in the Asia-Pacific region and intelligence, WikiLeaks said. “I hope we will sign the agreement in 2014, while the second was to be not only a common fiscal policy but also a common they regularly consult on defense, There was no immediate reaction on the termination of the contract as delivered this year. economic policy and more democratic authority economic and trade issues. from Tokyo. soon as possible,” he added. The compensation could amount and control. In this plan, different countries would “The reports demonstrate the The claims of spying on trade offi- The fate of the two Mistral heli- to some 1.16 billion euros ($1.27 move at different speeds. Some would agree to depth of U.S. surveillance of the cials come at a particularly sensitive copter carriers has plagued France- billion) and a deal definitively inked in wider cooperation, others wouldn’t. Behind the Japanese government, indicating time after high-profile talks kicked Russia ties for more than a year, the first ten days of August, Russia’s scenes, her advisers enthusiastically paid tribute to that intelligence was gathered and off this week in Hawaii aimed at following Paris’ decision in November business daily Kommersant reported, Delors’ original vision. processed from numerous Japanese hammering out a vast free-trade to put the 1.2-billion-euro ($1.3-billion) citing unnamed sources. Political dimension government ministries and offices,” bloc encompassing 40 percent of the deal on ice as the West slapped sanc- In April, Russian President Vladimir The flaws in the make-up of the Eurozone that have WikiLeaks said. world’s economy. tions on Moscow over its annexation Putin downplayed the importance been laid bare during the current crisis are not much of “The documents demonstrate inti- The United States, Japan, and of Crimea and alleged backing for of the ships but insisted that the a surprise. Though a passionate proponent of a common mate knowledge of internal Japanese 10 other Pacific Rim countries are separatist rebels in Ukraine. French side reimburse Moscow “all currency, he had already warned back in 1989 that it deliberations” on trade issues, looking to finalize the most ambitious French President Francois expenses” if the contract were to be would require “a high degree of consensus on economic nuclear and climate change policy, trade deal in decades. Hollande said Monday that he would terminated. policy as well as in a number of political areas”. In any and Tokyo’s diplomatic relations with (Source: Reuters) decide “in the coming weeks” (Source: AP) democratic entity, monetary policies need a political dimension and legitimacy. Citizens need to feel that there is oversight from elected representatives. This is MH17 crash: Russia vetoes UN resolution for international tribunal the whole point behind the idea of setting up something resembling a Eurozone parliament, which is currently Russia has used its veto at the UN to block a draft try those responsible. The move was backed by the being put forward. resolution to set up an international tribunal into the Netherlands - which had 196 nationals on board - Europe’s currency was created mainly because France MH17 air disaster in July 2014. Ukraine, Belgium and Australia. felt the need to overcome its anxiety about German It was the only nation at the 15-member UN Moscow has blamed the government in Kiev for reunification by harnessing the new Germany to an ever Security Council to oppose the move, triggering the disaster. denser mesh of European agreements. The euro was widespread condemnation. Speaking earlier this month, Russian President meant as an important step towards tighter political The Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Vladimir Putin said that the establishment of a tribunal rapprochement. It seems therefore fitting that France Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine, killing all would be “premature” and “counter-productive”. should now come out with proposals to make that 298 people on board. Russia exercised its veto at the Security Council project more complete. Because of its political signifi- Rebels in the area have denied shooting down session in New York during a vote on Wednesday, cance, and because of the uncertain geopolitical environ- the aircraft. Western nations and Ukraine say there while 11 other members backed the draft resolution. ment that Europe finds itself in, the euro is more than a is evidence it was hit by a Russian-supplied Buk Angola, China and Venezuela abstained. product with a design flaw that can be shelved or whose anti-aircraft missile - a claim also denied by Russia. “Russia has callously disregarded the public outcry production can simply be stopped. The avant-garde ’Callous disregard’ in the grieving nations,” said Samantha Power, the US formula should be explored. No one would be forced to Malaysia pushed for an international tribunal to ambassador to the UN (Source: BBC) join in, and decisions wouldn’t be taken behind closed doors, but through a legislative body. That perspective alone could go a long way towards neutralizing the popu- lists who have thrived on this crisis. Iran nuclear deal: A victory of diplomacy (Source: The Guardian) Contd. from P. 1 ries that PM Davutoglu, who was then Turkey and the region projects we are carrying out. Iran continued its activities until the Turkey’s foreign minister, developed Turkey is very pleased with the deal A brotherly union that will bring revolution of 1979, which brought an an initiative with Brazil to create a reached by Iran and the West. Turkey, peace to the Middle East end to the cooperation between the reconciliation between Iran and the as a strong ally and old friend of Iran, Iran re-entering the international EU’s Mogherini seeks talks U.S. and Iran. West vis a vis the nuclear program. has been very sensitive on the strict system will definitely give rise to In 2003, Iran notified the Even though this initiative did not sanctions imposed on the Iranians and competition in the region. However, with Iran on energy, trade International Atomic Energy arrive at that conclusion, as it was never partaken in any of them. it is not something that will have a by early 2016 Agency (IAEA) that it was ready to rejected by the Vienna Group in 2010, Turkey is very cognizant that negative impact for Turkey as some suspend its uranium enrichment facil- Turkey nonetheless managed to bring imposing sanctions on people is very journalists claim. Since Turkey has Contd. from P. 1 ities and ratified additional protocols Iran and the P5+1 to the negotiating damaging politically, socially and proved its loyalty to Iran as a brother The Commission expects the nuclear deal to take that would allow the IAEA to have table in Istanbul the next year. Turkey economically as well as psychologi- and a neighbor, both countries will effect “towards the end of the year”. broader inspections in the nuclear has always stood by Iran’s side during cally: It is never right to compel a state very likely maintain their current With this calendar in mind, Mogherini proposed “an facilities within the borders of Iran. its time of difficulties as both countries into doing something by punishing projects and find new ways of coop- official visit to Iran by several members of the Commission However, the IAEA insisted it was possess many commonalities in terms its people. It is not right that its eration to improve their bilateral at the end of the year or at the start of 2016 to discuss a not able to affirm that the nuclear of culture and the mutual respect they people are unable to breathe fresh air relations. number of subjects of common interest with the Iranian program was solely for peaceful have for one another. because of the air pollution caused by Turkey has a profound love for the authorities, such as trade, research, energy and culture,” purposes and this resulted in some It is not only the deal that indi- industrial plants without being able to Iranian nation and has a strong bond the minutes say. (Source: Reuters) Western countries trying to force Iran cates the success of Iran; the whole use foreign filters for the chimneys. with its people, something that cannot to stop enriching uranium. process of negotiations, which began Turkey and Iran have a broad trade be calculated by mere economics or Consequently, the deal was under President Obama’s tenure was relationship where we see that Turkey geopolitics. They are both two strong annulled in 2005 during the tenure of a great success of diplomacy for all is purchasing most of its consumed oil nations which possess the faith that EU starts implementing former Iranian President Mahmoud sides. It is entirely accurate to say that and a significant amount of natural gas will turn the Middle East into a most Ahmedinejad. It was then Russia who Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif from Iran. peaceful place, one never been seen Iran nuclear agreement agreed to cooperate with Iran on its was the architect of this process and Being a great pillar of support and a before in history. There are no prob- program and they signed a deal the he showed great efforts to give the friend during hard times will never be lems that cannot be solved by these Contd. from P. 1 very same year for the maintenance Iranian people a hope for a better forgotten is the mindset that Turkey two nations working together in transfers and activities necessary to implement certain and revival of the Bushehr nuclear future. He was patient, understanding, will always hold. Finance Minister friendship and love. nuclear-related commitments specified in the JCPOA or The writer has authored more than plant that had been damaged during compassionate and above all deter- Mehmet Simsek and Energy Minister required for the preparation for the implementation of 300 books translated in 73 languages on the Iran-Iraq War. mined; he believed in his people and Taner Y?ld?z stated their gratification the JCPOA,” said the press release. politics, religion and science. He may be Since then, the U.S. and the UN stated that it was his people’s perse- regarding the deal and added that this It said the legal acts adopted by the Council translate followed at @Harun_Yahya and www. began to impose ever-increasing sanc- verance that made this happen. will be beneficial for our mutual rela- into EU law these provisions. And the legal acts are avail- harunyahya.com tions on Iranians. It is still in our memo- What this new deal will bring to tions and help to grow the existing able in the Official Journal dated August 1. b

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WHAT’S IN ART GALLERIES Aussies praise “Track 143” Painting TEHRAN — Iranian filmmaker Leila Rakhshi-Qaziani’s collection of paintings Art Desk Narges Abyar’s acclaimed on the theme of birds and flowers are on display at drama “Track 143” has won the audience choice Shelman Gallery. award for feature films at the 1st Reel Sydney The exhibit will run until August 4 at the gallery Festival of World Cinema (RSFWC). located at 27, Kavusi Alley, West Rudbar St., Mir The audience choice award for best short film Damad Blvd. went to Over 60 works by the late Iranian painter “Lightheaded” directed by Steve Parys from Mohammad-Ali Taraqqijah are on show at Shokuh the U.S. Gallery. “Lilet Never Happened” by Jacco Groen from The exhibit will run until August 21 at the gallery the Netherlands was named the best feature film, located at 19 Amir Nuri Alley, off North Salimi St., near and the best short film award went to “Salomea’s Andarzgu Blvd. Nose” by German director Susan Korda. Paintings by Hossein Zenderudi, Mohammad Based on a book of the same title written by Ehsai, Farideh Lashai, Rana Farnud and Sadeq Tabrizi Abyar, “Track 143” is about a great maternal are on display in an exhibition at Mah Gallery. sacrifice during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. It The exhibit will be running until August 7 at the tells the story of Olfat, a woman who is waiting gallery located at 26 Golestan Blvd., off Africa Ave. for her son, who has been missing in action, to An exhibition of paintings by Amin Shojaei is return home. currently underway at O Gallery. The movie earned acclaim at the 32nd Fajr The exhibition runs until August 10 at the gallery International Film Festival in February 2014 as located at 46 Khosro Alley, off Villa St. Merila Zarei won the Crystal Simorgh for best actress for her portrayal of Olfat. Merila Zarei Multimedia It also won the Simorgh for Audience Favorite acts in a Laleh Gallery is playing host to an exhibition of Film and Abyar received the special jury prize at scene from works by Masud Jazani, Hamed Hakimi, Ali Yahyai, the festival. “Track 143” Negin Firuzi, Nilufar Taqipur, Maryam Rushanfekr and Mehran Ahmadi, Gelareh Abbasi, Yadollah movie. Entertainment Centre in the Australian city on several others visual artists. Shademani and Javad Ezzati also star in the The RSFWC was held at the Sutherland July 24 and 25. The exhibit named “My Fourth Exhibition, Roots” will come to an end on August 6 at the gallery, which can be found on Fatemi St., near Laleh Park. Serbian artist carries on his “Conversation” series at Tehran gallery Photo The Niavaran Cultural Center is showcasing a TEHRAN — children from different countries. that predetermines identity for collection of photos on the theme of music, which were Art Desk Tehran’s Ab The children range from 7 to 10 years children,” he said. previously displayed at in the 4th Rojan International Anbar Gallery is playing host to an old, and come from different ethnic, He also added that each project Photography Festival. exhibition of installation works by social and cultural backgrounds,” he is made specifically for that The exhibition runs until August 6 at the Serbian artist Dejan Kaludjerovic explained. country and is displayed in the center located on Pasdaran Ave., in the Niavaran under the title of “Conversations – The children are from Russia, same country. However they might neighborhood. Iran”. Serbia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Austria, be displayed in the museums or Works by photographer Hannaneh Parvin are The artist’s first solo exhibition Italy, Romania and several other the art centers in other countries currently being shown in an exhibit at Ehsan Gallery. in Iran presents six channel sounds countries. too. The exhibit named “The Glass City” runs until in addition to the site specific “The children are interviewed Dejan Kaludjerovic was born in August 5 at the gallery, which can be found at No. 22, installation of “Sand Box” selected individually and then put into Belgrade, ex-Yugoslavia. He has East 14th St. in the Ajudanieh neighborhood. from the series “Conversations: conversation with one another gained an MA in visual arts at the Hula-hoops, Elastics, Marbles and “Sand Box” by Serbian artist Dejan Kaludjerovic through the editing process, Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade Sculpture Sand”. suggesting what other people reacting to one another’s stances on in 2004. He has attended numerous The Gallery 26 will playing host to an exhibition of “The site-specific installation of think about Iran. The sand has a political issues such as social topics, solo and group shows in Europe, sculptures by Mohammad Foruzandeh. ‘Sand Box’ has a geometric shape poetic and free form, which is the foreigners, language, colonization, USA, Australia and Asia. He lives The collection will be on display until August 10 at revealing a part of the picturesque symbol of freedom for me. It can war, money, poverty, etc.,” he and works in Vienna. the gallery located at 26 Salmanpur-Zahir St., in the culture of Iran and is filled with the also be moved by the wind,” he added. The exhibit which opened on July Farmanieh neighborhood. sand from Iran,” Kaludjerovic told added. “Through the world of children, 24 will be running until August 13, at the Persian service of Honaronline “The ‘Conversations’ series of the I aim to observe the world of the gallery which can be found at 2 Caricature on Friday. site-specific installations is based adults and the models of social Roshanmanesh Alley, Khaqani St., Aqili Gallery is playing host to an exhibition of “The box has a closed frame on research and interviews with construction and codification off Enqelab Ave. cartoons by Shahbaz Mohajer. The exhibit will continue until August 5 at the gallery located at 12 Simay-e Iran St., in the Shahrak-e Iranian illustrators to y Gharb neighborhood. PICTURE OF THE DAY B Meisam Manei/Mehr draw childhood dreams Illustration for Moscow show Behnam Daheshpur Gallery is playing host to an TEHRAN — Iranian exhibition of illustrations by Saeideh Vasheqani and Art Desk Sara Rezvani. illustrators will The exhibit will be running until August 4 at the create works to represent their own or gallery situated at 13 Marmari Alley, off Masjedi Alley, any other Iranian person’s childhood Jabbarian St. in the Farmanieh neighborhood. dreams for display at an exhibition, which will be held during the 28th Moscow International Book Fair. The exhibition entitled “A World of Childhood Dreams” will be organized Three more “Game of by the Iran Cultural Fairs Institute, the Thrones” seasons likely, exhibition’s manager Ali Mohammadpur told the Persian service of MNA on HBO says Thursday. “The dreams can be a wish or BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) — HBO’s most-watched prayer,” he added. series, the medieval fantasy drama “Game of Thrones,” Mohammadpur asked illustrators will likely continue through three more seasons, a network to send their works on this theme with executive said on Thursday, as he defended the show’s gritty a description for their illustrations violence. to [email protected] until The sixth season is currently being filmed. Executives have August 11. planned to run at least seven seasons and are discussing with A team of prominent illustrators the show’s creators how much longer the show will extend will assess all submissions to select a beyond that, said Michael Lombardo, president of HBO collection, which will be published in a programming. book in English and Russian. “They are feeling two more years after six,” Lombardo The book will be release at the said at a Television Critics Association meeting. Moscow International Book Fair, which Lombardo said he’d like to have more beyond that and is scheduled to be held from September would also be open to a prequel to the story of the epic battle 2 to 6. for the Iron Throne in the fictional kingdom of Westeros, As the guest of honor, Iran is based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books. preparing a vast array of cultural This year, “Game of Thrones” hit 20 million viewers meetings, art exhibitions and musical on average for its fifth season, which received 24 Emmy Vocalist Shahram Nazeri speaks during a ceremony that literati held in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah on July 30, 2015 to pay tribute to poet and calligrapher Yadollah Behzad Kermanshahi (1924-2006). performances for the book fair this nominations including a best drama nod. year. “This show has had violence as part of its many threads from first episode,” he said. “There are no two showrunners more careful about not overstepping what they think the line is.” Iranian musicians win awards at Italian composing competition “2 Agosto” The fifth season also ended by killing off one of its lead TEHRAN — use a text of his/her own choice Jalali Jafari won the third prize for in Bologna on August 2 with Italian characters and fan favorite, Jon Snow, but viewers have been Art Desk Young Iranian inspired by beliefs and feelings “The Red Apple of the Sun”, the musician Moni Ovadia acting as the speculating that the character will return - not that Lombardo musicians Vahid Jahandari and of solidarity and peace, and the text of which is by poet Sohrab narrator. Vito Clemente will conduct was giving away anything on Thursday. Alvand Jalali Jafari have won the winning scores will be performed Sepheri. the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale in “Everything I’ve seen, heard and read, Jon Snow is dead,” first and third awards respectively at the final concert on August 2, Italian composer Paolo Cognetti performing the winning scores. he said. at the 21st International Composing the organizers have announced on was awarded with the second prize, As usual, the concert in “Game of Thrones” this year also helped launch HBO’s Competition -- “2 Agosto” held its website. while another Italian composer, Piazza Maggiore closes the standalone streaming service HBO Now, where viewers annually in Bologna, Italy. Jahandari received the first Matteo Maria Salvo, received the commemorative events on the 35th can watch HBO programming at any time without a cable “2 Agosto” is dedicated to prize for “The Checkered City”, Special Mention of the Jury. Anniversary of the massacre at subscription, as television continues to move toward on- scores for the narrator and the the text of which belongs to The final concert of “2 Agosto” Bologna Railway Station on August demand viewing. orchestra. The composer should Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlu, and is due to be held in Piazza Maggiore 2, 1980.