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WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13528 Thursday NOVEMBER 14, 2019 Aban 23, 1398 Rabi’ Al awwal 16, 1441 Iran reiterates Marc Wilmots says Iranian, Russian Congratulations peaceful settlement Iran ‘focused’ on cultural officials meet on birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) of crisis in Yemen 2 match against Iraq 15 in Tehran 16 and Imam Jafar Sadiq (AS) Steel exports by Iran’s major producers up 8% in 7 months on year In absence of JCPOA TEHRAN — Exports of steel by ten major [March 19, 2020],” according to deputy producers in Iran hit 4.049 million tons industry, mining and trade minister. in the first seven months of the current The value of the exports of such commodities Iranian calendar year (March 21-Octo- is expected to reach $9 billion by the yearend, ber 22), up eight percent compared to Jafar Sarqini has previously announced. the same period of time in the past year, Iran plans to reach steel production of IRNA reported on Wednesday. 55 million tons by the Iranian calendar “Industry ministry is planning to in- year of 1404 (March 2025-March 2026), benefits others will lose too crease the exports of steel products to 12 of which about 40 percent is planned million tons by the end of the current year to be exported. 4 See page 2 Honest taxi driver returns €70,000 to Polish couple TEHRAN — A Polish couple who had left the owner, he could finally find them and a bag containing 70,000 euros in cash in returned the money. a taxi in Tehran have been reunited with Following his efforts, Tehran May- their money thanks to the honest driver. or Pirouz Hanachi awarded him with Ali Hassan Zafari, the driver, handed a medal and cash prize on Wednesday the bag to the Polish embassy in Tehran morning, and also announced that the on November 3, after he realized it had driver will receive financial assistance to been left behind. go on a pilgrimage trip to Mashhad city After spending much time to track down with his family. Hundreds of rockets target Israel, 21 Palestinians killed Gaza factions launched massive rocket the Islamist Jihad movement, said on barrages at Israel for the second straight Wednesday that a member of the resist- day on Wednesday, a day after Israel assas- ance group, Khalid Mavaz, 38, had lost his sinated a top Islamic Jihad commander. life in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza. Eight more Palestinians have been The Israeli military said its forces killed in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli targeted Mavaz as he was preparing to military renews its air raids against the launch rockets into the Israeli-occupied besieged coastal enclave for a second day, territories, a day after the regime assassi- prompting retaliatory rocket fire into the nated senior Islamic Jihad commander mfa.ir occupied territories. Baha Abu al-Ata, along with his wife, in Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of a targeted strike. 13 EDITORIAL Adel Abdul Mahdi, Barzani discuss Iraq protests ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi The president of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish Salih: Reforms in Iraq natl. decision, sions within the framework of the constitution Mahnaz Abdi Tehran Times editor-in-chief region has headed to Baghdad for discussions won’t be influenced by foreign diktats and based on national interests and respect for Head of the TehranTimes @ghaderi62 with top officials, just hours before Parliament Iraqi President Barham Salih says reforms the will of the supreme religious authority. Economy Desk was due to convene to discuss demands after that the government of embattled Prime Minister The statement comes as influential Iraqi weeks of anti-establishment protests. Adel Abdul Mahdi has pledged to implement Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has lashed out at Why countries are Barzani made an unannounced visit to in the wake of anti-government protests are a the United States for its interference in Iraq’s Tax exemptions in reluctant to join Baghdad on Wednesday to meet Iraq’s prime domestic Iraqi issue par excellence and will not internal affairs, threatening to take millions of FTZs under debate minister, president, and parliament speaker be influenced by foreign diktats. demonstrators to streets if Washington keeps to discuss Erbil-Baghdad relations and the meddling in the Arab country. U.S.-led maritime Salih, in a statement released on Tuesday, evelopment of existing free trade month-long protests that have engulfed Iraq’s In a statement on Monday, al-Sadr said that announced that the expected reforms in Iraq are zones (FTZs) and establishment south and center. the Iraqi people want an early election free from coalition merely an Iraqi decision and will be implemented of new FTZs is currently one of the Meetings with Iraqi Prime Minister Adil in response to the national will of the Iraqi people, the US intervention, as the country does not need D major economic approaches of Iran and Abdul-Mahdi in Baghdad on Wednesday arrogant countries and the the help of others. he U.S.-led naval coalition to and will be untouched by outside influences. in a bid to attract more investments to morning, then with Speaker of Parliament Protesters in Iraq have directed their rage protect shipping in the Persian The statement added that the Iraqi president these zones Iranian government offers Mohammed al-Halbousi, were followed by at a class of elite leaders, whom they accuse of Gulf formally was launched in opposes any foreign interference in Iraq’s internal various incentives to the investors. T discussions with President Barham Salih at pillaging the oil-rich country’s wealth while the Bahrain on Thursday. But the nota- affairs, and will not accept it. Tax exemption is one of those incentives Salam Palace. population grows poorer. ble point is that countries have not It further noted that Iraqi people make deci- 13 which has been offered for more than a welcomed this plan. Only a few coun- decade to the investors in the free zones. tries with ineffective naval power have This incentive has been recently crit- joined the coalition. Bolivian Senate head assumes interim presidency; Morales’ loyalists object icized by some officials and economists, On July 2019, the U.S. proposed a The head of Bolivia’s Senate, Jeanine Anez, took the presidency as foreseen in the constitutional The official said Mexico had notified the United while there are still many supporters of coalition plan to protect shipping in the office as interim president on Tuesday as former order,” Anez, a right-wing opponent of Morales, States of its intention to offer Morales asylum this exemption. Persian Gulf. Mike Pompeo, the U.S. leader Evo Morales pledged to keep up his po- said to applause from opposition lawmakers. and Washington had offered to help with logistics Mohammad-Ali Dehqan Dehnavi, the secretary of state, invited U.S. allies such litical fight from exile in Mexico after resigning It was unclear if the move would quell un- as necessary. deputy minister of finance and economic as Britain, France, Germany, Japan, in what he has alleged was a coup. rest in the highland capital, La Paz, and other Mexican Foreign Minister Marcel Ebrard ear- affairs, is one of the leading opponents South Korea and Australia to join the Anez, 52, assumed leadership before other cities unleashed by Morales’ disputed bid for a lier said Mexico had not discussed the question in this due. coalition. Although the U.S. has per- lawmakers in Congress, invoking a constitutional fourth term. Video footage on Tuesday showed of asylum with the United States. He says, “At the moment, we are facing suaded its allies in various occasions clause that dictates that she would be next in police battling supporters of Morales in the city The United States on Tuesday ordered family many criticisms about the non-effective and even applied pressure on them to line to rule after Morales and his vice president, of Cochabamba and masked protesters calling members of U.S. government employees to leave exemptions; so we should change the way join the coalition, it was not warmly Alvaro Garcia, resigned on Sunday. for civil war. Bolivia due to the unrest, and warned American and improve our approach through omit- welcomed. In August, Britain joined A parliamentary session scheduled to formally A senator with Morales’ party called for protests citizens against traveling there, the U.S. State ting the exemptions.” the U.S. military coalition in the wake appoint her was boycotted by lawmakers from starting on Tuesday until he returns to finish his Department said. Among the tax exemptions offered of a conflict with Iran over oil tanker Morales’ leftist MAS party, who said it would mandate in January. Morales’ resignation came after the Organi- in the free zones, value added tax (VAT) seizures first in Gibraltar and later in be illegitimate. In Washington, a senior Trump administra- zation of American States (OAS) declared there exemption is the most criticized one. the Strait of Hormuz. Later the Zionist “Before the definitive absence of the pres- tion official said: “Morales’ departure is indeed were serious irregularities during the Oct. 20 Most of those opposing the tax exemp- regime and Australia joined the coalition. ident and vice president ... as the president of a positive step to begin calming the situation on election, prompting political allies to quit and tion believe that it reduces the govern- Launch of the U.S.-led the Chamber of Senators, I immediately assume the ground in Bolivia.” the army to urge him to step down.