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Zarif says a multilateral agreement cannot be implemented unilaterally TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister France, Germany, UK, Russia and China) Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that Iran observe the deal,” Zarif said in an email Piracy in will be committed to the 2015 nuclear interview with The New York Times pub- deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of lished on Thursday. Action, as long as the remaining parties Zarif said, “Survival or collapse of observe the deal, noting that a multilat- the JCPOA depends on the ability and eral agreement cannot be implemented willingness of all parties to invest in this unilaterally. undertaking. In a nutshell, a multilateral “We will remain committed to the deal agreement cannot be implemented uni- Gibraltar as long as the remaining participants (EU, laterally.” 2 British envoy in Tehran Iran’s Hyrcanian Forest named UNESCO World Heritage site summoned over “illegal” UNESCO on Friday designated Iran’s vast UNESCO Hojjatollah Ayoubi as saying Hyrcanian Forest as a World Heritage on Friday. tanker seizure site, making it the second such Iranian Ayoubi along with Moham- natural site after Lut Desert, which was mad-Hassan Talebian who is the dep- See page 2 granted the tag in 2016. uty director of the Cultural Heritage, The inclusion was unanimously ap- Handicrafts and Tourism Organiza- proved by experts at the 43rd session of tion, and several other officials are the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, attending the session, which is running IRNA quoted acting Secretary General through July 10 in the Azerbaijani of the Iranian National Commission for capital Baku. 10

Hamas unfazed by the threats made by Netanyahu TEHRAN— Khalil al-Hayya, a member Binyamin Netanyahu and are adhering of the Hamas political bureau, said that to the path of resistance that will lead to the Palestinian “resistance organizations” the liberation of Jerusalem. had recently increased their strength and “The attempts of the Israeli occupation are preparing to expand the conflict with to strike at the resistance organizations, Israel. threaten them, dry up their (financial) Speaking at the closing ceremony of an sources and persecute their activists will Islamic Jihad summer camp in Gaza, al- only add determination to the resistance

File photo Hayya said the organizations are unfazed organizations on the path of truth and by the threats made by Prime Minister liberation,” he said. 13

EDITORIAL ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi Martin Love By Yuram AbdullahDichotomy Weiler from of U.S. days:Vincennes Reflections shot down an Iranian on civilianremembrance airliner, space over Hormozganof a tragedy Province near the village Tehran Times editor-in-chief killing all 290 passengers on board, including of Kuhmobarak. Before blowing the intruder to Political analyst from @ghaderi62 “There is little doubt that even before the deal’s 66 children. The trigger-happy skipper of the smithereens, the IRGC issued multiple warnings North Carolina existence, Iran was violating its terms.” Vincennes, who was awarded with a medal of to U.S. forces, which ignored them all, the last of —White House Press Statement, July 1, 2019 honor a year later, was neither brought to justice which was a full ten minutes before engagement Seizing Grace 1 July third is a very somber day of heartbreak- nor expressed either remorse or regret for this in order to allow time for the Americans to cor- Iran will have the ing remembrance for the Islamic Republic of sanguinary slaughter. Describing the unimaginable rect their blunder. Furthermore, the IRGC chose tanker: An outright Iran, which stands accused of not living up to carnage displayed in a makeshift morgue in a cold not to engage a Boeing P-8 Poseidon plane that world’s respect, and the terms of an agreement that was scuttled by storage warehouse in Bandar Abbas hastily set was pacing the drone, thereby compassionately theft with no legal the mercurial Washington regime. In jarring up in the aftermath of the U.S. missile assault, sparing the 35-member crew onboard. prevail contrast, July fourth for the United States is a justification Robert Fisk writes, “There are fifty-eight intact U.S. officials were understandably shaken by the n outsider with just some knowledge raucous day of celebration, which includes a gaudy corpses here, fringed by a row of human remains downing of their spy drone, particularly if initial military parade in Washington and ubiquitous about Iran can be easily whipsawed eizing the oil tanker Grace 1 is a new so terrible that they could only be described in a reports claiming the aircraft to be an MQ-4C are by the horrible dilemma the U.S. fireworks to mark America’s independence day. doctor’s report or a medical journal.” correct, since it flies at extremely high altitudes A event that has heated up the tension For me personally, contemplating the dichotomy has dumped on the country over the past between Iran and the United States, Recently, the Pasdaran, the Islamic Revo- in the range of 18,000 km. In any case, even if 14 months. Yes, Iran must do all it can to S between the two days results in didactic tension lutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that now is also the aircraft was the older RQ-4A, the targeting but it can also be related to the current that is almost indescribable. defend itself, if it is attacked military, and disagreements between United Kingdom on the Washington regime’s terrorist list, shot by the IRGC was quite an accomplishment, since Mainstream western media still scarcely ac- meanwhile must do all it can to circum- and the European Union. down a U.S. RQ-4A Global hawk, or possibly a this drone has similar capabilities. In retaliation, knowledge the horrible tragedy that occurred in vent, with assistance, the draconian U.S. British Royal Marines seized the Ira- more sophisticated and brand new MQ-4C, spy an attack on three Iranian targets, presumably the Persian Gulf thirty one years ago when the USS economic sanctions. nian oil supertanker, Grace 1, in Gibraltar drone, which had violated Iran’s territorial air military facilities, 3 The most remarkable aspect of on Thursday, saying that the tanker was the current impasse is the posture of taking oil to Syria that is in violation of Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State. EU sanctions. Pompeo maintains that Iran’s pending UK is supposed to leave the European Trump hits George W. Bush, McCain in new book decision to enrich uranium to a higher Union within four months and in Britain, TEHRAN— U.S. President Trump in a new book death and tremendous monetary loss” during his news outlet. “And then he just gave up on an level of toxicity, and yet still far from the top conservative party members seem reportedly takes aim at Republican leaders in- presidency by focusing on foreign operations entire section of the country.” anything constituting weapons grade, is inclined to get closer to U.S. and drift apart cluding former President George W. Bush and instead of boosting the domestic economy. Trump has previously said he was “never a “proof” that Iran aims to or has already from other European countries. the late Sen. John McCain(Ariz.). Trump also told Alberta that McCain, who fan of John McCain, and I never will be.” broken the terms of the JCPOA. But In addition, Boris Johnson and Jer- In the book, “American Carnage: On the Front died of brain cancer last August and repeatedly In the book, Alberta argues that Trump won everyone in the world knows that it was emy Hunt, who are likely to replace Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of feuded with the president during his time in the the presidency in 2016 by “channeling anxious the U.S. that broke or is breaking the Teresa May as Britain’s next prime President Trump,” by Politico Magazine chief cor- White House, hurt his 2008 presidential cam- Americans’ indignation and darker impuls- JCPOA (and also imposed economic minister, both have taken a quite ag- respondent Tim Alberta, Trump said he “brought paign when he told laid-off Midwestern workers es,” Axios reports. sanctions). gressive stand against Iran, a policy the [Republican] Party back” after it was in “big that some of them wouldn’t get their jobs back, “Nobody gave them hope,” Trump reportedly Pompeo’s is such a bald face lie that that seems closer to that of Donald trouble,” Axios reported early Wednesday. Axios reports. told Alberta during an interview in the Oval Office. it boggles the mind, and yet the demoni- Trump’s rather than to the leaders of Trump reportedly attributed the party’s previ- “I gave him money — believe it or not, because “I gave them hope.” zation of Iran continues unabated by the other European countries. ous failures to his predecessors, including Bush, I wasn’t a huge fan, then or now, but I raised Now, “the Republican Party is strong,” he U.S. and Pompeo reminds one of the Nazi It would have made much more sense who “caused tremendous division … tremendous money for him,” Trump said, according to the added. “They’ve got to remain faithful. And loyal.” propagandists who well knew that if one if UK had seized the ship for carrying tells a lie often enough, too many people weapons, but it was merely carrying oil sometimes believe it. Moreover, Pompeo for the 17 million Syrians who are having tells other lies repeatedly: the whopper a fuel crisis and have to stand in fuel lie is that Iran is the world’s biggest state stations for several hours before getting sponsor of terrorism, and getting one’s a little fuel. Blocking transportation of head around that is impossible. Let’s break oil to Syria is an obvious violation of it down and dispel it: human rights and is against all moral Iran objects to Israeli warmongering values; specially because the sanctions and apartheid. Iran may to some degree against transferring oil to Syria are uni- have assisted the Houthis in Yemen to lateral ones and are not approved by the try to fend off the Saudi-led attacks on United Nations. that country. Iran has some troops or On the other hand, it is quite surprising proxies in Iraq, a country ostensibly allied that U.S. and other western countries who with Iran in the fight against ISIS and send their fighter jets to Syria and Iraq as other terrorists. Iran, on invitation by part of their so called “coalition against the Syrian government, has bolstered terrorism” can spot a fly in Syria’s sky but the fight against terrorists in Syria aim- they never seem to notice the tons of oil ing to destroy the Assad government, that ISIS is moving around. another Iranian ally of sorts. Iran has The Syrian nation have to suffer under supported the Lebanese government, a cruel siege conducted by Europeans. insofar as Hezbollah is a big part of that Posing these sanctions on Syria and pre- Iran urges ICRC to form fact finding committee to examine issue of diplomats abducted in 1982 government, where the primary effort venting the fuel from getting into the TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Friday urging the International Committee of the Red Cross to form a fact finding has been to force the Israelis to think country shows the depth of Europeans’ committee to investigate issue of four Iranian diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon on July 5, 1982. twice (at least) about attacking or occu- hypocrisy and unveils the true face be- Friday was the 37th anniversary of the abduction of four Iranian diplomats - Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, Ahmad Motevasselian, Kazem Akhavan pying parts of Lebanon (and Syria) as hind all their seemingly humanitarian it has done on several occasions since and Taqi Rastegar Moqaddam - in Barbara checkpoint in northern Lebanon in 1982. 2 gestures. 13 the 1980s. 7 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y POLITICS JULY 6, 2019

We will respond as much as Piracy in Gibraltar Europe does: Velayati POLITICAL TEHRAN — After U.S. unilateral British envoy in Tehran summoned over “illegal” tanker seizure deskwithdrawal from the JCPOA (The Joint Comprehensive Plan of POLITICAL TEHRAN – An Iranian the tanker was stopped by British authorities desk Action/ Iran Nuclear Deal) oil tanker was seized by after a request from the United States. Iran gave a long-standing Gibraltar police, aided by a detachment of In Madrid, Borrell told reporters that chance to EU to take action British Royal Marines, on Thursday. Spain was assessing the implications of the to fulfill its obligations, Grace 1, a supertanker, was boarded and operation because the detention took place senior adviser to the Supreme impounded by Gibraltar police following U.S. in waters it considers its own. Leader in international affairs request in the Strait of Gibraltar, sources Britain insists Gibraltar is part of the Ali Akbar Velayati said on reported. United Kingdom but Spain says it is not, Friday. Following the seizure, the British Am- and the tanker operation risks offending “So far, the EU have step bassador to Tehran, Robert Macaire, was the Spanish. by step and U.S. directly and summoned to the Foreign Ministry in the “We’re looking into how this (operation) EU indirectly violate JCPOA, evening of Thursday in protest over the “il- affects our sovereignty,” said Borrell. so we will react in the same legal” seizure. A spokesman for British Prime Minister vein; that is, if they reduce The Foreign Ministry described the move Theresa May said she welcomed the “firm their obligations, we will as “unacceptable” and called for an immediate action” by the authorities in Gibraltar. reduce too” he added. release of the tanker, given that it has been “We have reason to believe that the Grace seized at the request of the U.S. based on the 1 was carrying its shipment of crude oil to the information currently available, the ministry Banyas Refinery in Syria,” Gibraltar’s chief said in a report on its website. minister, Fabian Picardo, said in a statement. Iran urges ICRC to form Pointing to the fact that the oil tanker was about which the European countries have its rights. John Bolton, White House national sailing in international waters, Iran called the been always protesting, the ministry said. The UK ambassador said he will security adviser, applauded the interception fact finding committee to UK Navy’s move “tantamount to maritime The ambassador was provided with the immediately convey the protest to London, of the supertanker. examine issue of diplomats banditry”, and stressed that Britain has no document about the oil tanker and its cargo stressing that his country does not follow “Excellent news: UK has detained the right to impose its own unilateral sanctions indicating the ship’s completely legal passage. the unilateral U.S. sanctions against Iran. supertanker Grace I laden with Iranian oil abducted in 1982 or those of the European Union in an extra- It was also emphasized that Iran will be Spain’s caretaker foreign minister, Josep bound for Syria in violation of EU sanctions,” territorial manner against other countries. using all its political and legal capacities to Borrell, who was nominated this week to Bolton said on Twitter, according to Al 1 “Given the fact that Lebanon was under the U.S.- This is the very bullying policy of the U.S., secure the release of the vessel and uphold become the EU’s foreign policy chief, said Jazeera. backed Israeli occupation at that time, the Islamic Republic of Iran holds the Zionist regime and its supporters legally and politically responsible for the abduction and the terrorist move,” the statement added. The statement also praised the Lebanese government’s ac- EU to consult with nuclear deal partners as Iran warns of new steps tions