WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13357 Saturday APRIL 6, 2019 Farvardin 17, 1397 Rajab 30, 1440 Leader calls for Blocking foreign aid Iran move up Fajr film festival ‘pick-up in production’ to flood victims is an one place in to spotlight in New Year 2 ‘unprecedented crime’ 2 FIFA rankings 15 Chinese cinema 16 South Pars annual gas Volunteers join forces to output up 12% TEHRAN —Production of gas in South The rise came as the result of putting Pars gas field (Iran shares with Qatar in new development phases of the giant the Persian Gulf) rose 12 percent in the gas field into operation which also let past Iranian calendar year 1397 (ended on Iran to overtake Qatar in gas extraction March 20, 2019) from its previous year, from the joint field, the official further according to the managing director of highlighted. help flood victims South Pars Gas Company. He said South Pars has 14 trillion cubic Hadi Hashemzadeh Farhang said it is meters of natural gas and 19 billion barrels while annual gas production in the field had of gas condensate, which is equivalent to See page 12 experienced just seven percent rise in 1397 50% of the country’s overall reserves and from its preceding year, IRNA reported. 8% of the world’s gas reserves. 4 EU trio seeking to appease Trump, Iran laments TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister of JCPOA, Europe can’t muster political Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday will to defy US’ #EconomicTERRORISM. strongly criticized the European Union Not even by setting up a single banking trio of Britain, France and Germany for channel for humanitarian aid,” Zarif failing to counter Washington’s “eco- tweeted. nomic terrorism” against Iran, saying In May last year President Donald the trio are instead turning the spot- Trump ordered U.S. withdrawal from light on the Islamic Republic’s defensive the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known missile program to appease the Trump as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Ac- administration. tion (JCPOA), and reimposed sanctions “A year after US’ unlawful abrogation against Iran. 2 Iraqi PM to visit Iran on Saturday TEHRAN — Iraqi Prime Minister Adel and the convergence of views between Abdel Mahdi will travel to Iran on Satur- Iran and Arab countries,” the official said. day, a member of his office said, Arab News Iran is the second-largest supplier of reported on April 3. imported goods to Iraq and also enjoys Abdel Mahdi would spend two days vast political influence in the country, Farzad Alizadeh in the Islamic republic. particularly among Iraq’s Shiite parties. He was expected to discuss “the issue of Iraqis credit Iran for helping their armed trade outside the framework of sanctions” forces defeat Daesh in a fierce three-year IRNA/ on Iran in addition to “the rapprochement battle that ravaged much of the country. PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE Hanif Ghaffari Will recent floods ease Iran’s water bankruptcy? Martin Love Political analyst By Maryam Qarehgozlou Province of Fars with 21 deaths and province rential rains quench water tension in arid and Political analyst from TEHRAN — Since the beginning of the current of Lorestan with 15 deaths are among the areas semi-arid Iran? North Carolina Iranian calendar year on March 21 some provinces with highest fatalities reported so far, Mehr Precipitations set the records high across the country, in northern, northeastern, news agency quoted Iran’s Forensics Organ- Director of National Drought Warning and Trump is still afraid western and southwestern Iran were hit hard ization director Ahmad Shojaei as saying on Monitoring Center (NDWMC) Sadeq Ziaeian Pity any nation by devastating floods incurring a dramatic loss. Wednesday. told the Tehran Times on Friday that since the of Mueller report According to the latest statistics announced In addition to the casualties, the catastrophic beginning of the current water year (starting that has veered by Iran’s Forensics Organization since the New floods have caused major damage to properties, on September 23, 2018) the whole country has t is unclear whether the publication of Year, some 67 lost their lives in floods in provinces destruction of crops, and loss of livestock in many received 256 millimeters of precipitation on from the moral the full and uncensored Inspector-Gen- of Fars, Lorestan, North Khorasan, Golestan, provinces, especially in Mazandaran, Golestan, average and this is while the average precipita- eral Mueller would have consequences Mazandaran, Hamedan, Khuzestan, Kerman- and Lorestan. tion the country received over the last water year messages of Islam I shah, Semnan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad But despite the serious loss, many have al- (September 2017-September 2018) amounts to for Donald Trump, President of the United States and his entourage. Many officials in and Khorasan Razavi. ready come to a burning question: will the tor- 232 milliliters. 12 or Christianity the Trump government are worried about the full publication of this report and its awrence Ferlinghetti, 99, and ap- impact on the 2020 presidential election. parently still alive, is an American Zarif rejects Pompeo’s flood remarks as ‘demagogic’ poet and publisher of books who However, Trump in recent days, cit- L ing the words of his Minister of Justice! TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad “It seems that the U.S. secretary of state “Apparently Mr. Pompeo has forgotten that got his start as an undergraduate at the Believes that there is no ambiguity in this Javad Zarif said on Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State is unaware of the mismanagement of natural the U.S. federal government itself has shown to University of North Carolina, where he regard, and Mueller has acquitted him of Mike Pompeo’s remarks on devastating floods in Iran disasters in the U.S. over the past two years, be incapable of providing sufficient relief in many majored in journalism and went on to the charge of collusion with the Russians are “unprofessional, interventionist and demagogic”. and hence opines—in an unprofessional, inter- regions affected by natural disasters, which have a notable career as both a writer and in the presidential election of 2016. Pompeo claimed on Tuesday that Tehran’s ventionist and demagogic manner—on Iran’s claimed the lives of thousands of Americans, cut painter. A recent report from the New York response to the floods showed the level of “mis- management of the horrific and unprecedent- off electricity and other services in affected areas His heyday as a poet was in the 1960s Times clearly shows that the controversy management in urban planning and in emergency ed floods which simultaneously afflicted 24 for days and even weeks, and forced hundreds of and 70s during the Vietnam War, which over the report of the Mueller Inspector preparedness”. provinces,” Zarif tweeted. thousands to flee their homes,” he added. 2 he was radically opposed to as he was to General in the United States has just begun! so much about the developing state of New York Times recently reported American polity and mores. Some of his that Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s in- work was prophetic. vestigators have told associates that At- Saudi Wahhabism helping to spread Islamophobia: Australian prof. A part of one poem in particular from torney General William P. Barr failed to TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior professor and with the Tasnim News Agency. self-determination in the Asia-Pacific, Latin America decades ago stands out, and is even more adequately portray the findings of their political analyst based in Australia described Saudi “In this respect, the Saud family, serving as and the Middle East. In 2014, he was awarded Cu- relevant today than it was when it was inquiry and that they were more troubling Arabia as a “client state” for the U.S. and said a ‘cat’s paw’ or client state for Washington, has ba’s medal of friendship. He is Australia and Pacific penned. It’s worth quoting because while for President Trump than Mr. Barr indi- Wahhabism, which is “a cult built around the done tremendous harm to the image of Islam in representative for the Latin America based Network Ferlinghetti applied the words to the U.S., cated, according to government officials Riyadh regime”, is helping in spreading hatred the world,” he added. in Defence of Humanity. His most recent books are: it could be well applied to most any nation and others familiar with their simmering against Muslim communities in the world. Professor Tim Anderson is a distinguished author Land and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea (2015), that, to use an Arabic term that appears in frustrations. “Certainly, Wahhabism is a key tool at the and Director of the Sydney-based Centre for Counter The Dirty War on Syria (2016), now published in the Holy Qu’ran, has veered off the “Siraat At stake in the dispute — the first evi- root of divisions in the Middle East, helping to Hegemonic Studies. He has worked at Australian uni- ten languages; and Countering War Propaganda of al-Mustaqim”. dence of tension between Mr. Barr and the spread hatred against Muslim communities,” versities for more than 30 years, teaching, researching the Dirty War on Syria (2017). His next book Axis of “Pity the nation whose people are special counsel’s office — is who shapes Professor Tim Anderson said in an interview and publishing on development, human rights and Resistance is due out in 2019. 7 sheep the public’s initial understanding of one And whose shepherds mislead them of the most consequential government Pity the nation whose leaders are liars investigations in American history.