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1953 Coup Marks Beginning of U.S. Hostility Toward Iran 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.13521 Monday NOVEMBER 4, 2019 Aban 13, 1398 Rabi’ Al awwal 6, 1441 Iran has made most Putt human rights Iran take bronze Turkish publisher Dogu efforts to counter violators worldwide at FISU 3x3 releases anthology of money laundering 2 on trial 2 World Cup 15 Persian stories 16 Energy, labor ministries team up for $4.5b job creation plans 1953 coup TEHRAN — The Ministry of Energy and Social Welfare Minister Mohammad and the Ministry of Cooperatives, La- Shariatmadari on Saturday, IRIB reported. bor, and Social Welfare have signed a As reported by the news portal of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) energy ministry (Paven), the projects for implementing projects worth 192.81 will be carried out in cooperation with trillion rials (about $4.59 billion) aimed Tose’e Ta’avon Bank and Water and marks to create 23,600 job opportunities Wastewater Engineering Company as across the country. representatives of the two ministries. The MOU was signed by Energy Minister The projects are mainly focused on Reza Ardakanian and Cooperatives, Labor water and electricity management. 4 beginning of Cuban diplomat calls U.S. sanctions ‘insult to international community’ TEHRAN — Cuban Ambassador to Teh- is required to fight this war. ran Alexis Bandrich Vega said on Sunday President Hassan Rouhani said on that the United States’ sanctions are an October 15 that the U.S. has committed U.S. hostility “insult to the international community” “crime against humanity” by its “economic and crime against humanity. terrorism” against the Iranians. During a press conference, the ambassador “Undoubtedly, the United States’ ad- said that the economic sanctions by the U.S. ministration has committed a crime against have made it necessary to form an interna- humanity. The United States’ action is eco- tional front to counter U.S. unilateralism. nomic terrorism,” he said during a speech toward Iran He described sanctions as “economic at a meeting of the health ministers from war” and noted that international action the Eastern Mediterranean region. See page 2 2 Thousands rally in Lebanon in show of support for President Aoun TEHRAN— Thousands of Lebanese have “We are here, General. We won’t rallied near the presidential palace in abandon you as long as we live,” one a major show of support for President poster at the rally read, responding to Michel Aoun, after more than two weeks the protest movement calling for his of huge nationwide protests against the departure, among other demands. country’s ruling elite. Some Aoun supporters held up portraits Aoun’s supporters on Sunday filled of the 84-year-old president, while others up a two-kilometre-long (one-mile-long) waved Lebanese flags and orange-coloured road leading to the palace in Baabda, banners of the political party he founded, leader.ir outside Beirut. the Free Patriotic Movement. 13 ARTICLE U.S. current political rancor is widely viewed as equal to civil war: Tillerson U.S. troops back Fatemeh Salehi TEHRAN— Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex received the Wyoming-based organization’s Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry at military bases Mehr News Agency Tillerson said that Republicans and Democrats inaugural Award for Visionary Leadership. in September after a whistleblower alleged the journalist need to work together for the good of the United More Republican senators consider Republican president pressured Ukraine to in northeast Syria States, while avoiding a direct reference to acknowledging Trump’s quid pro quo investigate Biden and his son Hunter, who the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry of on Ukraine had served as a director for Ukrainian energy TEHRAN — U.S. troops are reportedly Roadmap by President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, a growing number of Republican company Burisma. back in military bases in northeastern Tillerson, whom Trump fired in a tweet in senators in the U.S. Congress are ready to The House of Representatives passed a Syria which they had previously evac- religious authority March 2018 amid friction between the two acknowledge that President Donald Trump resolution on Thursday to formally proceed uated ahead of Turkey’s military action over North Korea, Iran and Russia policies, used American military aid as leverage to with the impeachment inquiry and open the against Kurdish forces in the area. for Iraq’s political has largely refrained from discussing politics force Ukraine to investigate former U.S. Vice closed-door investigation to the public. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency has re- publicly since leaving Washington. President Joe Biden and his son, even as Trump The House resolution ushered in a new phase ported that American forces arrived in future Speaking in Houston at a fundraiser for repeatedly denies quid pro quo accusations of the investigation that poses the greatest threat the west of Syria’s northern province the UCross Foundation, an artists and writers by Democrats that triggered an impeachment to Trump’s presidency to date. of Raqqa on Saturday to rebuild their yatollah Ali Sistani’s last statement residency program, Tillerson urged a “civil and inquiry against him. Republicans in the upper chamber of military base. on Friday about recent developments thoughtful discourse,” saying that the current The shift among Senate Republicans could Congress are insisting that the president’s action A U.S. military convoy, including a in Iraq sends several messages. The A political rancor is widely viewed as equal to complicate the message coming from Trump was not illegal and does not rise to the level of personnel carrier armored vehicle, a grand ayatollah warned in his statement that during the Civil War, Reuters reported. as he furiously fights the claim that he had an impeachable offense, even as an increasing mine flail and a utility vehicle, arrived that the current situation in Iraq may drag “Perhaps the arts can help the American withheld U.S. aid from Ukraine to pressure the number of these Republicans wonder how long in Jazira base located west of Raqqa the country into chaos. people reconnect with their country and Eastern European nation to dig up dirt on one they can continue to argue that no quid pro via Syria’s northeastern province of In his statement, the ayatollah stated remember how precious this Republic is,” he of his main political rivals, The Washington quo was at play in the matter, the Post said in Hasakah, Press TV reported. that the lost lives on both sides - protesters said to an audience of about 250 people. Tillerson Post said in a report on Saturday. its report. 13 Nearly 30 U.S. soldiers were report- and security forces - are valuable to the edly seen in the convoy. religious authority, and that the country Also on Friday, U.S. forces began must not degenerate into chaos. rebuilding a military base in northern The religious authority has always Israeli forces detain Palestinian minister of Jerusalem al-Quds affairs Syria’s Sarrin village, south of Kobani, respected the will of the Iraqi people TEHRAN— Israeli military forces have time that Hadami has been arrested by Israeli The Palestine Liberation Organization officially known as Ayn al-Arab. to determine their political and arrested Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem al- authorities since taking up his post as part of (PLO) condemned the arrest then, describing The U.S. military bases in Sarrin and administrative system through holding Quds Affairs, Fadi al-Hadami, during an overnight Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh’s new it part of the Israeli regime’s plans to Judaize Sabit, nearly 30 kilometers south of the referendums on the constitution and operation in the Israeli-occupied city. government in April. Jerusalem al-Quds. Turkey-Syria border, were previously regular parliamentary elections. Since the A local source, speaking on condition of Back on September 25, Israeli soldiers stormed Adnan al-Husseini, a member of PLO evacuated and destroyed during Turkey’s toppling of the former regime, the religious anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the Hadami’s house, and violently ransacked it for Executive Committee, also said the Tel Aviv offensive last month. authority has constantly emphasized that media, said Israeli police forces and intelligence hours before taking the Palestinian minister away regime’s continued arrests of Palestinian figures U.S. troops also resumed patrols near reforms are a necessity. agents raided Fadi al-Hadami’s home in the East Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfled said in Jerusalem al-Quds is unjustified and part of oil fields in northeastern Syria on Fri- “No person or group, no side with Jerusalem al-Quds neighborhood of Silwan at at the time that Hadami had been detained on “violations against civil.” day, after an intermission prompted by a particular view, no regional or Sunday dawn, and conducted searches before charges of allegedly breaking a law prohibiting Hadami was also arrested in late June, a few Turkey’s military incursion. international actor may seize the will arresting him and taking him in for questioning. political activity in Jerusalem al-Quds by the days after accompanying the Chilean ambassador Turkey launched the offensive on Oc- of the Iraqi people and impose its will The grounds for Hadami’s detainment remain Palestinian Authority, which is based in the on a visit to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which tober 9 in a declared attempt to push the on them,” Ayatollah Sistani said. unclear. There was no comment from Israeli occupied central West Bank city of Ramallah, had angered the Israeli regime. People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants After the statement was issued, Iraqi authorities on the report.
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