SAFAR 26,1440 AH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2018 30º 28 Pages Max 150 Fils Established 1961 Min 16º ISSUE NO: 17674 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Khamenei rages at Trump as renewed US sanctions loom Washington to give 8 countries waivers • Iran starts producing local fighter jet TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali not be so religious but they are sensitive towards domi- Khamenei said yesterday that President Donald Trump nation by foreigners.” has “disgraced” US prestige and would be the ultimate On Friday, the US said it would add 700 individuals loser from renewing sanctions on the Islamic republic. and entities to its Iran blacklist and push the SWIFT “This new US president... has disgraced the remnant of global banking network to cut off Tehran as Washington America’s prestige and that of liberal democracy. applies “maximum pressure” to cripple the country’s America’s hard power, that is to say their economic and economy. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said eight military power, is declining too,” he said on his Persian countries - believed to include India, Japan and possibly Twitter account, quoting a speech in Tehran. China - would be given waivers to continue importing A defiant Khamenei dismissed the renewed US sanc- Iranian oil in order to avoid upsetting the global crude tions - including an oil embargo - that take effect market, but only on condition they slow their purchases. tomorrow. “The challenge between the US and Iran has Iran is the world’s No. 3 oil exporter. China, India, lasted for 40 years so far and the US has made various South Korea, Turkey, Italy, the United Arab Emirates and efforts against us: Military, economic and media war- Japan have been top importers of Iran’s oil, while Taiwan fare,” he said. “There’s a key fact here: In this 40-year occasionally buys cargoes of Iranian crude but is not a challenge, the defeated is the US and the victorious is major buyer. Turkey has been told it will temporarily be the Islamic republic.” allowed to keep buying Iranian oil, its energy minister Trump announced in May he was withdrawing from told reporters, as has Iraq, as long as it does not pay the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposing sanctions, spark- Iran in US dollars, three Iraqi officials said. India and ing outrage among world powers who say Iran has been South Korea were also on the list, said a source familiar complying with commitments to restrict its atomic pro- with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. gram. Washington says it wants a new deal with Iran, Under US law, exceptions can be granted for up to curtailing its regional interventions and missile program 180 days. India’s Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan yes- - demands which have been flatly rejected by Tehran. terday said India and other leading oil buyers would The renewed sanctions are designed “to paralyze benefit from the US waiver they have been granted. “In (Iran’s) economy and keep it backward. However, it has the current geopolitically challenging scenario, India has resulted in encouraging a movement towards self-suffi- managed to convince international leaders,” Pradhan TEHRAN: A handout picture released yesterday shows the production line of the “Kowsar” domestic fighter jet, a ciency in the country,” Khamenei added. “Our youth, told reporters in New Delhi. fourth-generation fighter with “advanced avionics” and multipurpose radar. — AFP across the country, support independence. Some may Continued on Page 24 tral Egyptian city of Minya. Angry Copts Under heavy guard by masked secu- Husband jumps rity personnel yesterday, hundreds of angry Copts gathered in and around to death after mourn bus Minya’s Prince Tadros church from dawn for the funeral of six victims. The seventh attack victims victim, an Anglican, was buried Friday stabbing wife evening in a village outside Minya. After MINYA, Egypt: Angry Coptic yesterday’s prayers, the bodies were car- By Meshaal Al-Enezi Christians yesterday buried relatives ried out in white coffins bearing wreaths shot dead on a bus carrying pilgrims of white flowers, amid shouts of “with KUWAIT: Following a fierce fight with his wife dur- south of the Egyptian capital, as security our souls, with our blood, we will defend ing which he stabbed her several times, a Sri Lankan was tightened after the second such the cross!” They were being buried in a jumped from his ninth-floor apartment in Hawally to attack on the country’s main religious nearby Coptic cemetery. his death yesterday. Security sources said neighbors minority in as many years. The Islamic HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah reported hearing the fight, and when the couple’s State (IS) group said it was behind Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Friday voices died down, they thought that they had Friday’s attack, which killed seven sent a cable to Egyptian President stopped fighting, until they heard a loud thud result- Christians returning from a visit to the Abdelfattah Al-Sisi expressing profound ing from the man’s body hitting the ground. The hus- desert cemetery of Saint Samuel that condolences and solace over the killing band died instantly, but the wife was found alive and was also targeted in 2017. A security of citizens in the blatant terrorist attack was rushed to Mubarak Hospital in critical condition. source said another seven people were on Coptics. MINYA, Egypt: Coptic Christians carry the coffins of victims killed in an attack a day wounded in the shootings near the cen- Continued on Page 24 earlier, following a mourning ceremony at the Prince Tadros church yesterday. — AFP Thousands of carp week with no visible signs of trauma, No indication dressed all in black, with fur-trimmed coat collars, and bound together at die in mysterious the ankles and waist by duct tape. Saudi sisters It has since emerged that the sis- circumstances in Iraq ters were Saudi nationals, and had run found dead in away several times from their family’s SADDAT AL-HINDIYAH, Iraq: Iraqi fish farmers home in Virginia where they had not south of Baghdad have been left reeling after finding lived since the end of 2017. They had thousands of dead carp mysteriously floating in their NY were killed been placed in a shelter but left cages or washed up on the banks of the Euphrates. Fairfax County in August and set out Piles of the dead silvery fish, along with a few car tyres NEW YORK: New York police on for New York. They stayed in several and plastic bags, could be seen on Friday lying under a Friday said they had no evidence indi- different upscale hotels in the city and massive concrete bridge. They covered the surface of cating that two sisters whose bodies maxed out a credit card, according to deeper water nearby, providing rich pickings for birds were found duct-taped together in a NYPD spokesman quoted by US circling above. Manhattan had been killed. “There is media. A witness reportedly saw the And in the fish farms of Saddat Al-Hindiyah in nothing pointing to a crime as of yet,” two girls early on Oct 24 on a play- Babylon province, about 80 km south of Baghdad, the said a New York Police Department ground near the Hudson, where they lifeless carp floated together in small clumps. Farmer spokesman, adding that “it is still very appeared to be praying. Hussein Faraj frantically scooped dead fish out of his much a live investigation” without Police said the two sisters were enclosure in a red plastic crate, fearing they were poi- providing details of any probable alive when they entered the river that soned. “Some are saying it’s because of a sickness, cause of death. The two young separates New York from New Jersey. others say it’s because of chemicals,” said Faraj, his women, identified as Rotana Farea, 22, Suicide is among the hypotheses as to SADDAT AL-HINDIYAH, Iraq: Iraqi men sail past scores of dead fish from nearby thick black hair standing on end and his eyebrows fur- and her sister Tala, 16, were found on the cause of their deaths. farms floating on the Euphrates River near this town north of the central Iraqi city of rowed in worry. the banks of the Hudson River last Continued on Page 24 Hilla on Friday. — AFP Continued on Page 24 2 Established 1961 Local Sunday, November 4, 2018 Kuwait strongly condemns violations of human rights, international law Kuwait calls for maintaining support to Libyan government NEW YORK: Kuwait has strongly condemned all viola- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabil- tions of human rights and international law by all parties ities, Sabah added. She also stressed important steps to conflicts in various regions of the world. This came in being taken towards ensuring accountability in address- a speech by Kuwait’s permanent delegation to the ing the situation in Myanmar and said Israeli security United Nations delivered by delegation member Munira forces are violating the human rights of Palestinians. Al-Duaij Al-Sabah at the UN General Assembly during the discussion of the Human Rights Report on Friday. Libyan government In her speech, Sabah stressed Kuwait’s strong con- In other news, Kuwait called on the international com- demnation of attacks that targeted civilians in addition to munity to continue supporting the Libyan government hostilities, child recruitment, and its efforts to develop a sexual and ethnic violence, comprehensive strategy to murder and mutilation. This address crime and flagrant vio- discussions related to the lations of international humani- Council require close follow- Kuwait laments tarian law.